I agree wholehearted with this.

For me, this has been an important thing to learn, and one that even so many years later, I still find myself making mistakes against. It's just so easy to let your negative expectations get the upper hand.

Its funny Fogelbise mentioned flying. In my lucid dreams, I often had trouble flying. Or rather, controlling my flight. Getting off the ground was always easy, but going where I wanted to go was a lot harder. This started with a few difficulties during my earliest lucid dreams, and developed into an expectation that I would have 'difficulty controlling my flight' whenever I got off the ground. The expectation or the anxiety that I wouldn't be able to fly straight was creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I eventually realized this and learned to just focus on where I want to go, and not on how straight or bend my flight actually is (which ironically gave me complete flight control). But it took quite a while and I still have dreams in which my flight would get off to a 'wonky' start

-Redrivertears-