Lucid or Conscious Dreaming: the more one connects with the conscious during the dream, the less one can consciously control the dream's short-term and without falling back more into the subconscious, presumably the long term outcome[s] of the dream's progress as well.

Dream interpretation using psychoanalytic methodology. #LucidDreaming has worked for me, but as one realizes one is awake, then, like the Apostle Peter on the water, we sink and the dream took an unexpected dead end I couldn't reactivate the lucidity, or direct the dream any longer. http://learntointerpretyourdreams.com/how-i-interpret-dreams-revised-for-use-of-modern-technology/