I know the most obvious answer would be to have an LD then take control from inside the dream but Ive had problems with LDs lately but what I wanted to know was if anyone had any advice on making your self dream about a specific person or thing? Ie. say you wanna have a dream about snowboarding or about some girl you met ect? Ive tried putting a picture under my pillow and it helped a bit the first day but apart from that didn’t do much. Does anyone have any other advice or methods ect.?
Do you mean like VILD? Thats aparently done wonders for many people. Never worked for me, so far.
Hmm Ive never heard of that, might try it some time but right now what I actually wanted was to have some control over my normal dreams. LDs are nice but for me I actually prefer normal dreams when they are about something good, problem is they never are 
Try to autosuggest yourself when you go to sleep that tonight you will see this and that in your dream. And yes, visualizing what you want to see in your dreams, might help too. If those things don’t work, then try to spend all your evening thinking, or reading about the situation, or the person you want to meet in dreams. Although it does not guarantee that your dream about things you wanted to see, is vivid, but it’s pretty sure that you see at least SOMETHING related to the things your brain has worked on during whole evening.
Good luck 
Mostly,the content of your dreams depends on what has been outstanding/memorable during the day.
To avoid this randomness try clearing your mind off it…i.e by relaxing,little meditation.
Another step you take is to think of what you want to dreram about during the day(best if in connection with rcs- i.e. if you wannna dream about snowboarding do your rcs everytime you see a shop with skis or snow,or mountain…etc)
Also make notes -during the day and before sleep- what do you want to do htere?why you want it?what exites you about it?so on.
Put a picture next to your bed so you see it before falling asleep.
Pray to your SG to have one.
Keep the intention alive
good luck:)
my roommate says she can & does this. she said she can create dreamscapes with whoever she wants! interestingly enough, she told me she sometimes has nightmares and does not take control of those dreams
Well, so often when I think about something before sleeping, I usually have dreams about it too. So I dont see why this shouldnt work.
I never tried it on purpose though, but I know that I should think about good things before sleeping, else the dream sucks 
I remember once I was really angry about my Ex before sleep, and then had a dream of him right away. BUT!!! it turned into a LD, so I cancelled all the dream about him(including him) and dreamt of something/someone else instead… 
That was pretty cool. (Also felt like a good revange hehe). 
I kinda had something like that, I just kept telling myself i’m dreaming before i went to sleep and sure enough I had a dream involving dreaming but not exactly what I wanted. I was dreaming about myself doing a WILD while in the dream and getting closer and closer to LDing in my dream which is just weird. I can’t believe I missed that one but i’ll be ready next time I guess… I really couldn’t believe I missed the opportunity it was so obvious, my health teacher was getting a piggy back ride of barb wire in the auditorium while me and other people attempted to WILD in recliners that aren’t in the auditorium.
try a wild and just keep thinking about the person or make a list of the things you wanna do in your dream…