Partial control

So had a lucid dream last night.
Looked at my hands, became lucid, floated in the air.
Then I noticed that it was dark a rainy out so I colsed my eyes and pictured a bright and blue beach, but when I opened my eyes nothing had changed.

Is this normal for beginning lucid dreamers, only having partial control?

Sometimes things happen, sometimes they don't.

If you are only semi-lucid, then "taking something for granted" is often a good way to gain more 'control'. What I mean by that is if you are assuming that something you want to happen will happen, it will more likely happen.
Doubt is something that drags control down a lot.

Much greater control comes when you deliberately break free of the reality for your own conscious creating. In other words, you take control of your subconscious, by being very conscious and aware and removing any constructs, then rebuilding (what I do at times).

Whatever you get is normal, just take it and go with it, awareness is the key for real control instead of suggestions.

Yeah it's normal, even though you know you're dreaming the mind doesn't find it easy to make reality defying changes at first.

Build up to it, and get your mind used to the fact that anything is possible first, flight and telekinises where the first things I managed. Also it would probably be easier to step through a door to another location, as it seems less unreal. If you close your eyes you expect to see the same thing when you open them, but you expect there to be something different on the other side of a door.

Alright.
Thanks for the advice!

I asked my teacher about it and he said it could mean that the dream did not want me to leave
(which was the back yard of my old house)
suggesting that I had "unfinished business" there.