Hi and welcome to DreamViews, Adalin! (^o^)/

I really like your name, it's pretty and cool sounding. Your avatar is cute too, I'm a big Zelda fan ^^

I'm also an anime and video game fan! That's really cool that you're a natural lucid dreamer, it sounds like you've had a lot of fun adventures.

Sorry to hear that you're under a lot of stress, I hope this gets better soon

I sometimes have dreams where I'm another person or the opposite gender, I always find these types of dreams neat. For me I don't think there's any meaning or reason behind it but there could be one for you, the one you gave sounds pretty good.

As for the light switches not working, If you read around on the forums you'll see that this sometimes happens, just on a lesser degree than what's happening with you. Like the lights will take a few seconds to turn on or they're dim or don't turn on at all. But for you it could be because you're expecting them not to work. You said that it was scary when it first started happening, so you worried that it might happen again and then once it kept happening you started to expect it to happen. Dreams have a lot to do with expectation, so if you start expecting them to work and think "Lights/light switches almost always work in waking life, it'll be the same in my dreams" it should get rid of that negative expectation.

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Questions

1) Is there truly a way to interpret dreams? Or is every meaning different depending on the person? (For example, underwater dreams are sometimes interpreted as something troubling you and is often a nightmare resulting in downing. However, I really enjoy underwater dreams and are one of my favorites.)
There may be some meanings that are correct for the majority but I think it depends on the person.

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2) Have you had something in your dream that is recurring and you cannot control? (My example is how I cannot turn on lights in my dreams but I am able to control other things.) And if you learned how to control it, do you have any tips for me?
In the handful of lucid dreams I've had so far I can't think of anything that is recurring and uncontrollable, other than my dream control not being as good as I'd like

As for tips, like I said, just expect and believe that they will work


Have fun on DreamViews, I hope to see you around!