Originally posted by BeautifulDreamer
So, If I tell myself "I have complete control over my dreams" I will have a better chance of it working? Does this also apply to rc's?

I don't know why I couldn't move. I moved alot in the dream. But when I was sitting in the back of the truck and realized I was dreaming, It's like I just.. stopped. I didn't move at all for the rest of the dream.

My thinking of why that was happening was that, I was inbetween full lucid and regular dream. I was lucid enough to know I was dreaming and try to move, yet the dream still had enough control over me to keep me from moving.
That's exactly what I'm talking about. The only reason you were having trouble moving is because you assume dreams work that way. That is, you think that in order to control your dream, you have to defeat the dream's control over you.
A dream never really controls you though. You just act, unaware of what you're doing, like when blinking (for example) in waking life. As soon as you break the unawareness, you can stop blinking, stop breathing, whatever it is you're doing unconciously (at least you can for a while).
Lucid dreams work the same way. You break the unawareness so you can control the dream, just like you'd control your breath, with the exception that you don't need to release control over the dream in order to survive, and so you can do it for as long as you're lucid.
The reason you couldn't move was, therefore, caused by your idea of the dream "still controlling you". This would be equivalent to not being able to hold your breath because you think that, even though you're aware that you're breathing, you can't stop doing it because you're normally always breathing like you are.

I'm sorry if that didn't make much sense or if it was hard to understand. I'm trying to explain the best I can, but apparently, it can be hard to put into words.