Have you ever thought about other methods of communicating your requests to your dreamspace? For example, if you wanted to meet up with a particular person, conjure something meaningful that belongs to them as an item to "attract them" to you. Those sort of abstract ideas can work well for me.
I am still quite new to the "task oriented" approach to LD, so don't have much experience. I will definitely try luring someone with things important for them, thanks for the advice!!
By the way, your dream tasks....do you use the exact words "I want to..." ? I know this may sound silly but sometimes the wording can actually help in a dream. For example, maybe a more direct command like "Disappear from my sight!" or "Show me tomorrow's weather!" might work? Maybe give it a try next time and see what happens. 
Yes, this is great advice, it did feel awkward to say "I want to..." so next time I will prepare better.
Remember, remember. 31 July 2014
Clarity 3/5 Lucidity 3/5 Interesting 5/5Afternoon nap. Little boy asks me to help him find a cat. We are in my summer house village at the end of a street next to the house where a very dangerous dog used to live. Now this house and a land around it looks empty and abandoned. I pull myself up on the fence, although there is no need for this - on the right there is no fence at all. No sign of a cat. I hear mew from the bushes, go there and call the cat. It walks in the high grass so I can only see grass moving away from us towards a small trail, and sits on a trail. It is a white fluffy cat. I tell the boy to wait a while, not to go to the cat straigh away.
I go to another abandoned house, enter and in one room find two beds with clean beddings. I inspect one blanket, it is big and warm. I feel content and want to move a pillow to the other side of the bed.
Suddenly
I remember (!) that i am dreaming and looking at the wall say out loud "I want to see something important.... please show me." - my dream task for today. Everything goes dark, I rub my hands and mentally sing a tune to keep aware. In the dark I see phosphenes, little blurry dots of light. Slowly I FA in my parents flat, go to the bathroom. The light switch is on the different spot on the wall. I flip it and it does not work. My sister comes out of the shower smiling a little embarrassed. She lacks a couple of front teeth, which makes the smile creepy. She says "So, we won't do like that anymore?" I ask "Like what?" She says "Knock knock". And I suddenly remember or false remember previous dream when she woke me up and frightened awfully. I lose the power of speech, everything goes dark, my body collapses in the corner and I wisper "Oooohhh, I was scared nearly to death....."
