I think this has already sort of been said, but it seems like clarifying just one more thing might help:
When you are lucid, it is important to remember that your dreaming mind/unconscious* is just another part of you. There really isn't some other force in your head working against you; instead it's just the regular dreaming machinery going about its regular dream-creation business -- which it normally does without any apparent conscious input. When you are lucid, your unconscious will continue to manufacture imagery as it always does, regardless of your presence (hence the frustration). However, once you can work those controls (and Sivason's instructions will be very helpful toward this, BTW) your unconscious will step right into line with its new instructions and the machinery will reflect your desires.
In my mind the first step in all of this self-awareness: if you are fully aware in the dream that everything in the dream is you, and not coming from somewhere else, you will find those controls fairly easy to access.
Of course, if you find yourself in a dream where everything and everyone is strange, and you can't change a thing no matter how lucid you are, that might be something else altogether, but that doesn't matter here, I think!
* I've pretty much given up this battle, but what the hell: the term you might want to use here is "unconscious," rather than "subconscious." The subconscious mind was a specific term that Freud used to, I think, describe the part of your mind that stores stuff you use every day (i.e. how to brush your teeth, habits, phone numbers, feelings, etc.). The unconscious mind, however, is that part of you that is essentially the foundation of that which is You -- your memories, your personality traits, your fears, your joys, and, of course, your dreams (lots of other things, too). Your unconscious is not easily accessible by your conscious mind, while your subconscious is basically an open file cabinet... and since lucid dreaming and dream control are acts of accessing your unconscious, you can see why many aspects of LD'ing can be annoyingly difficult. At any rate, pop culture seems to have long ago redefined subconscious to mean exactly what unconscious means, and I get that, but if you can come to understand the difference between the terms -- and also understand that the unconscious and subconscious minds are both part of your mind, and not separate entities, and that your subconscious really has nothing to do with dreaming, your LD'ing journey might pass a bit more easily.
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