I'v been finding myself able to change things I don't like in my dreams lastly. For instance, in my last dream an insect sat on my palm and stang me. The venom began to dissolve my hand like some kind of acid and it burned out a small hole.
I was scared at first but then it occurred to me that it doesn't have to be that way and I can stop and undo it with the force of my mind. So I "shook it off" and the wound healed quickly. It's worth noting that I never got lucid. I continued to dream the regular, non-lucid dream. Some time later I was posing for pics of me with 4 naked girls and the camera with the pics got stolen. Then again I somehow undid the theft. Can't remember how I did it but it was like I convinced myself that the theft hadn't happened.
Another trick was that the girls were not too resistant. I thought it would be interesting to make them relatively submissive without robbing them of all their free will, and made them so. I could get them to get naked for the pics but couldn't have sex with them. Had they been so easy it would have been boring, lol.

I'm getting more and more able to do those tricks and it's way cool, even better than lucid dreaming which I haven't had much luck with.
I don't have to control every bit of the scene, just let everything go naturally and only intervene when needed.
The most fun is when you create a character to your liking and let them act their way, say a girl who is into you but doesn't give up easily and teases you and stuff.
The invervention is kind of uncomfortable, it detracts from the pleasure of dreaming, makes the dream less of a live experience and more of a technical, emotionless thing. That's a good protection against abuse.