Thread: Improvement...I hope!

Last night I was dreaming, having a bit of a bad dream. Then i realised I was dreaming. It usually just stops here, but it carried on. The dream started fading a few times so I did the spinning round thing. The whole dream changed into ths dream where I was a wizard, learning new things. And I actually controlled things! There was a teddy bear sitting on a table, and i managed to make it float. I had a trainer guy saying well done and everything. I tried to make myself float but i couldnt But to get it to work i had to close my eyes and think! does anyone else do that?? I kept doing reality checks- reading text, noticing that it was changing etc. But I couldn't control everything, because I was still part of this storyline, and after a while I think I lost the control. I have one main question, and that is- when you are in a lucid dream do you have absolute freedom of thought? For example, can you think "I wonder what time it is REALLY?" Or "Oh, It's monday tomorrow." Looking back, i probably would have walked straight out of the door of the house i was in when i was dreaming, or jumped out of the window or something. But i didn't think of it. And when I woke up, I didnt remember the dream till a few minutes later and it didnt seem that significant at all! Now i'm confused whether or not I was actually controlling my dream or if i was just dreaming that i could because i wanted to be able to do it. Anyone help me work it out?