I'm pretty new to lucid dreaming, but I think giving the TOTM a try will be good practice for my dream control. I never got a chance to try last month's because I wanted to get other fun things done first (flying, shapeshifting).

So I tried the advanced task last night during a DEILD and failed. But I gave it a good shot!

The patterns on my eyelids became an intricate carpet sitting in front of me on a table. I reached out and touched the carpet to hold onto the dreamscape, then looked around at the room. I rubbed my hands together to stabilize and it worked pretty well. I still drifted in and out of SP and dream for a while until I found myself in the back of a car listening to the driver tell a really boring story. I said, "you know, this is my dream, so just shut up," and I got out of the car.

I was in a junkyard. There were big piles of junk around me. I remembered I wanted to try pyrokenesis. So I focused on a pile of junk in front of me, built up some heat in my hands, and pushed it out toward the garbage. Nothing happened. I tried a couple more times with nothing more than a tiny bit of smoke.

I wondered if there was a pill I could take that would make me able to create fire. Of course! Dragon bone would work. At this point I was in a house looking through a medicine cabinet. No dragon bone. But I knew there was a dragon skull on display in one of the back rooms! So I got a glass of water and started looking for the back room. I found what seemed like a promising room- it was sunlit and set up like a museum with things in glass cases. I found the skull in one of the cases, but as I went to open the case, the dream faded.

I got back into the dream a couple of times but never succeeded in opening the case. Then I got distracted by more important things like dream sex ;-P

So no success at the pyrokenesis. Any suggestions from advanced pyros out there? Maybe I should find a plasmid vending machine from Bioshock.