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I walked around a bit, through the house. No stabilization was necessary. I hadn't done anything odd yet as I felt I'd wake up if I tried. Finally, I remembered the 'task of the month', to make a portal appear, go to hell and meet Satan. I looked at the ground and tried imagining a portal being there. When that didn't work at all, I tried seeing other objects already there as portals, but then the whole dream scene started fading. Desperate to hold on, I tried stabilizing the world again and found myself in front of a large propane tank, like the one at my old elementary school. I tried imagining the propane tank to be a portal, as it was sort of portal shaped. It distorted for a bit and started fading. I regretted this now, and remembered the easier task of the month, to ask someone the meaning of life. I realized I'd been stupid to start out with such a difficult task when I've had virtually no dream control experience. I wanted to go back and ask a person but the dream was fading and there were no DCs around. I remembered all the people in that house before, how stable that dream had been, and realized it would have been so easy to ask someone that question, but now it was too late.
The dream stabilized completely but my memory partially went with it. For some reason I forgot about the tasks now, and believed I'd woken up from that dream and that this was real life. I wondered if I was still dreaming, but there was an overwhelming 'sense' that this was real life and a pressure not to even think about it.