Hey Letaali! Welcome to the wonderful world of DreamViews! Fantastic avatar, by the way

I've liked chatting with you in DV Chat. Didn't realize you were Finnish, cool!

I totally understand about waking life getting in the way too, often happens to me. I've been planning on making it a habit to do some LD practice that's not too time consuming. As for dream control, you may just need to practice at it more. Dream control is sometimes like a skill or a power you need to work with to get better. Some people speculate that it may be because we're not used to being able to do supernatural or magical things in waking life, so we have doubts of it working when we're in a dream and those doubts can affect your dream control.

Those dream control examples you gave sound great, by the way