The thing is I've never actually made the concious decision to have lucid dreams, sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't.
I usually have NO dreams on nights I smoke, so I'm trying to cut back even though I think it will always be apart of me are they red? heh
anyways, as a kid I used to get what is refered to as "night terror"(I think?), instead of nightmares. These are reaccuring nightmares, for example I would wake up and be screaming, then be afraid to fall back asleep because I knew I would be back in the same situation (at the time I hadn't the thought of attemping to control my dreams). Also, a couple times my parents told me I would wake them up screaming, they would come into my room and I would be laying down screaming, they would shake me to what seemed "awake", where I would be sitting upright and eyes open, except I would still be dreaming (for example, dont remember specifics but I saw people coming down my hallway, which was long and directly infront of my door). Weird stuff eh? I think they just went away though... I'm not sure, think I'll ask them tonight what ever happened with that.

As far as complete control over my dreams, I've never had that experience, but certain situations in my dreams seem to invoke my conciousness to take control. Like if I'm in a state of extreme fear where I feel there is no way to change it, I force myself awake (not sure if that counts as control over my dream tho ). One time I had a dream that I knew there was danger and threat to myself, I told myself I needed a weapon, and then I reached into my pocket and I pulled out a gun. I woke up and remembered that and proud for some reason?

Lemmie know what you think