Can you control your dreams?

I've read some books on dream explanation. It has been a mystery to people for long. Ancient people used to account for it quite differently from the way we use today. As Frued pointed, which i believe is the most perfect one than the rest, dream is the realization of desire. As to whether people have the ability, i am not quite sure. But when i am dreaming, i know that i'm controling it towards my will. let's say, no matter how dangerous we are in our dreams, we never die and escape danger somehow. So better say, dream is like a play, and dreamers are the director who stages it.

Controllable dreams are called lucid dreams. All dreams are the play of subconscious - by that I mean our subconscious is tossing answers for our deep seated questions. Many of our unresolved problems of the conscious mind get pushed into the subconscious, and it plays the games we call dreams. Dreams of flying are very good. They augur well. They symbolize a free spirit, that is at its creative best. I will share a dream of flying. I was in my sixth grade, then. One night I dreamed that I was I was climbing up a high bridge and with some kind od glider tied to me, I was using this perch as a springboard and flying higher and higher, whereas in hang-gliding you can rise higher only if you have a wind in the opposite direction. But with little or no wind I was gliding higher and with some mechanization I am able to steer myself in the desired direction to land wherever it is want. The significant part of the dream was I was able to control my flight, and wherever I begin to fly from I land only where I want to. The other interesting thing was that I was able to mathematically explain this theory of flight, with least propulsive power, to an audience who are applauding me for discovering a cost effective means of personal transport! The Equations and diagrams I drew on the board explaining to the august assembly were looking so damned [B]real[/B] that after getting up in the morning try as I may I wasn't able to remember anything! I felt very forlorn and lost for the next few days. My childhood dreams were to become an Aeronautical Engineer!!!