Thread: Lucid Task for the Month of April 2008

There you go, Seeker. Let's hear those dreams, I think there should be some really interesting one's this month

My Advanced Task:
I landed on it and floated for a while, I moved along the surface, trying to summon a tsunami behind me. It didn't work, but I got a few waves, each got bigger. The creek suddenly became a ocean and I was now riding much larger waves, still only a few feet high, but I got to ride a few. Then I flew out a bit further and got on top of a huge wave, maybe ten feet high, it was as big as I could make it I rode it all the way to shore and let it crash, it was fun. I tried to get back out, but waves kept coming and not letting me.

My Basic Task:
I opened the closet and fell into it. There were my clothes all over the hangers and I mirror in the back. I looked at the mirror and noticed that I was wearing a blue striped shirt.

I watched my reflection and saw that it did do everything that I did perfectly. I don't recall ever actually seeing my face, but I think it was more chiseled than it really is. I crawled out, by body wasn't behaving very well. I pulled all of the clothes with me and I wondered if I might actually be performing these things in real life and it would be cool to see all my clothes thrown all over the place when I woke up.

I also noticed that under my bed there was just my dresser, nothing special

Aaarghhh! You didn't give me time to reset last month's winners profiles yet!!

congrats Ninja, you lucid task glutton.

I like the under the bed/in closet thing. Looking forward to trying that one.
That makes me wonder what might be lurking in other places in my lucid dream house. I wonder what might be lurking in my fridge or in the toilet.

*edit*

I'm not ready to give up my wings.

Originally Posted by Seeker

Aaarghhh! You didn't give me time to reset last month's winners profiles yet!!

LOL! Ninja updated your post as I think he was a tad anxious to get started.

Originally Posted by Vex Kitten

I wonder what might be lurking in my fridge or in the toilet.

I worry about that when I'm AWAKE!!!

[EDIT: It's lunch time, will take me about 20 minutes to reset the wings.]

Clairity... PMs go to me, I'm going to do my best to keep up with this (my favorite forum) from now on.

Originally Posted by Seeker

Clairity... PMs go to me, I'm going to do my best to keep up with this (my favorite forum) from now on.

Gotcha!!

Can i get in on this? Kept short ofc.

I had a successful WILD where I did just so happen to FA and found myself in my room. I knew there were tasks for this month and I had to stand there a ponder for a little to remember what they were then I remembered the basic one. Since my closets always wide open I decided to go for my bed. I hunch over and I just start pullin out mounds of clothes (some I had double of) and eventually some magazines (not dirty ones). I never found anything interesting under there :/.

I don't often have dreams that take place in my own house. Can we look under any bed or closet, or does it have to be our own?

Originally Posted by goldentheponygirl

I don't often have dreams that take place in my own house. Can we look under any bed or closet, or does it have to be our own?

Hmmm.. good question! What do you think Seeker and ninja?

Does it count if you look under any bed or in any closet (not just your own)?

I'll vote that it does.

Basic Task accomplished:

Since the basic task was pretty easy, I thought I would add an extra challenge. I planned to WILD, open my closet door and find cyclon number 6 from battlestar galactica (you're either gonna get that one or not!).

I had a non-lucid dream and found myself in my childhood home. I went upstairs to WILD (still non-lucid). I felt my usual waves of vibrations and realized I was dreaming. So I'm now lucid but for some reason not 100% aware. That's a weird state for me but that's kind of a weird sequence of events.

I look in the closet, just clothes and shoes. I look under the bed ... nope, the cute cyclon is not there. The only thing which is there is 1970's style burnt orange carpet with black and yellow highlights. My awareness fully hits now ... "Oh, I'm in my childhood home".

Fortunately, I grew up on the long island sound. I go downstairs, ignore some chatter from my dad in the kitchen and go outside. I figure I'll fly to the beach which is easier. My intention was to get to the shore, summon a Tsunami and swim out to it and ride it.

As fate would have it, the flight was so blissful that I sort of lost myself in that action and the dream scene changed.

I'll try to pick off the advanced task too, as I think it's a really cool one.

Originally Posted by goldentheponygirl

I don't often have dreams that take place in my own house. Can we look under any bed or closet, or does it have to be our own?

If Clairity says it's okay then that's good enough for me.

Flying to the beach is fun

I had a non-lucid a few days ago where I was cleaning out my walk in closet. I found a rat living in a box that ended up becoming a tentacled jelly fish looking, man eating alien!

Edit: I'm taking a break from tasks for a while, to pursue some goals of my own. But I'll get back into before to long.

Originally Posted by Clairity

Hmmm.. good question! What do you think Seeker and ninja?

Does it count if you look under any bed or in any closet (not just your own)?

I'll vote that it does.

I'd prefer looking under your own bed, that makes it more personal and perhaps helps you gain some insight about yourself. I'll let this one slide though since I've already given out the wings.

What if you don't have a closet or a bed you can go under?

Just kidding. I have a closet ;D

Seeker, I understand what you're saying and I agree that would be the ideal scenario, but as mentioned, some lucids don't start in your own bedroom. Thanks for letting it slide!

Yeah, I was leaning towards you have to do it in your own bedroom too. Are we letting all slide, or just the one?

Basic Task:
I am going someplace like the Florida Keys with my wife on vacation, where we have to take several boat rides to get there.

At first we are on a large boat like a ship that drops us off at another station where we have a catch a smaller boat.

While on the boats, I am carrying some kind of small pet in my hand like a lizard or a frog.

While on the first boat I am less concerned about my pet than I am after we board the second boat, as the second boat is much smaller and has holes in it where if I drop my pet I could lose it in the water.

For this reason I am holding onto my pet with both hands while on the second boat to make sure and not drop it in the water.

When a small kid asks if he can hold my pet I tell him no, because I am concerned that he might drop him.

He is upset about this until his dad explains to him why I refused to let him hold my pet.

When we get off of the first boat we are on something like a large dock where boats are arriving on both sides of.

We are looking for our next boat on the right side of the dock where 2 or 3 boats have just arrived when I see the boat we need, which had a number 69 on it, arrive on the left side of the dock.

We walk over and get on our boat on the left side of the dock.

This boat is much smaller than the ship we just got off of and is going a lot faster.

I watch the water as we go blazing through it, holding onto my pet with both hands to make sure and not drop it in the water.

After a while our boat slows down as we approach a dock where we get off at.

We seem to be on some sort of island where some actors who are all dressed up are putting on a play.

When I look at a map that I have in my hands I realize that we must have taken the wrong boat, so are now at the wrong place, as it seems like we should have taken boat 35 instead of boat 69.

I am trying to find someone who can give us directions on how to catch the correct boat, but everyone is so busy that no one has time to talk to me.

When we go into some kind of business I see a gal that I have known for several years working the cash register.

When I ask her if she could help give us directions she says she would be happy to since I have always been one of her mothers favorite people.

Before she is able to help us though, a bunch more people come into the business that she has to help.

People just keep coming in and waiting in line, keeping her too busy to help us.

I wait patiently hoping that people will stop coming into the business so that she will have time to help us, but it never happens.

She then has to leave, so apologizes that she was unable to help us.

At this point, because of all of the difficulty I am having, I question my dream state and try floating.

To my surprise I am able to float, so now realize that I am dreaming.

When someone makes fun of me floating, I tell them to try it themselves if they think it is so easy.

I then remember a task I had wanted to do, that of looking in my closet to see what is there.

I must have been a long ways from home because it took me a while to get back to my house.

Once inside my house I purposely avoid my own bedroom to keep from being pulled back into my body and float to an upstairs bedroom to take a look inside the closet.

To my surprise, everything was in place exactly like it is in the physical.

I then lapse into another vivid dream.



Advanced Task:
I feel myself lying in bed with a young lady on top of me having sex with me.

When I hear a voice warn us that someone is coming I try to pull the covers up over her, but am having a difficult time pulling them up, until I realize that they are already pulled up all the way, after which I just lay there and stay quiet.

I then realize that I have allowed myself to be distracted and that if I concentrate on floating I can probably float out of my body.

So I concentrate on floating and find myself floating out of my body sitting in something like a lawn chair while I float all around about 20 feet above the ground.

It is nighttime and a beautiful clear night with stars all over the sky.

As I raise my arms over my head and concentrate on one of the brightest stars I find myself flying toward it.

I fly past several other stars on my way to this star, which become blurs as I fly by them.

There are two other bright stars close to this star, but I continue concentrating on the star I had picked out.

When I fly past the other two stars they appear to be something like flying toasters as I fly past them on the way to the star I had picked out.

When I fly past the star I had picked out, it also appears to be something else when I fly past it.

I then concentrate on a task I had wanted to try of riding a tsunami.

As I concentrate on finding a tsunami, I find myself by several lakes and streams, all of which are very calm at this time.

I am still floating around in my lawn chair.

As I am floating along a stream I notice several men walking in what looks like a creek with their dogs.

I then concentrate on finding an ocean, and going back in time to a previous tsunami since there are obvious none happening at this moment.

When I do this, I find myself sitting on top of a tsunami in my lawn chair being tossed around, but mostly being rotated in a counter clockwise motion.

I decide that it might be more exciting to be standing up in my lawn chair while riding the tsunami, so stand up which makes me feel like I am surfing.

I then decide I would like to find my dog that we had put to sleep a couple of weeks ago.

As I concentrate on finding my dog I feel myself zooming down toward the ground in what appears to be a playground for dogs, as there are dogs everywhere of all sizes.

A large white dog with black spots notices me and is trying to play with me as I float down onto the playground.

As I continue to concentrate on finding my dog I am drawn to a doghouse that has a bunch of small puppies in it.

They almost seem like hamsters though because they are so small.

There I find my dog, although she is much smaller than she was in the physical, taking care of these puppies.

When I notice that their water dish is dirty, I find a faucet and clean their water dish out and fill it with fresh water for them.

Overtaken with joy from having found my dog and seeing how happy she is on the other side, I begin crying which brings me too much back into the physical and wakes me up.

Ninja... wow, that was fast!

My personal goal for this month is to get at least those silver wings... I WILL do it!

Well those of us who did the last ones get to see them early.

You WILL get those silver wings

Man... I looked into a closet last month... oh well. I would do the advanced task to get over my fear of big bodies of water. I planned on surfing anyway.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Well those of us who did the last ones get to see them early.

Not that it helped me! I don't think I've had a lucid since the tasks were announced.

I miss my wings!
I must get lucid tonight... *repeats to self*

oh man how ironic!! The first month I decide to try doing the task of the month (with the idea of possibly going for the advanced task) this is what I get! I know it sounds stupid, but being in a tsunami has always been one of my worst fears... I always have recurring nightmares about them... yet can never seem to get lucid. I think I'm gonna go for that one.

AWW you guys just had to pick something related to tsunamis. I just recently got over my fear of my dream ocean (I don't fear the real thing at all, strangely) so it doesn't appear anymore, but even though I'm not afraid of it...but riding a tsunami? Gah.

Oh well...I'll still try. lol. This might be interesting.

Closet's going to be a piece of cake though.

I don't remember the first half of the dream, or how I became lucid. The furthest back I can remember is walking on a sidewalk in a residential suburban neighborhood, and coming across a group of people sitting on a low stone wall. As I passed, one of them called my name to get my attention. I stopped to say hi, and recognized him as an old friend from 20 years ago. He was thrilled to see me, and shook my hand vigorously. I then recognized the other people with him. They too were long lost acquaintances.

The house down the street was having a great party, so I walked over to check it out. One of my best friends from high school was on the lawn to greet me. We embraced, and he invited me inside. The whole house was filled with people I haven't even thought about in 10 years, 20 years, or more. There were some friends who I knew are now dead, and some friends whose names I couldn't even remember. It was some sort of surprise party just for me.

I was lucid, and felt very sad that this all was not real. It was so emotional to see all these old people again. All these people that used to be meaningful in my life, but are now lost to me. The feelings of loss and regret made me so depressed, I started to cry. Everyone was having such a good time, and I was having such a terrible time. I didn't want to be at this party. I was in the garage, and everyone was yelling greetings to me, hugging me, patting me on the back, and shaking my hand. All I could do was cry, knowing none of this was real.

I wanted to escape, so I pushed everyone away, and flew up to a large storage shelf hanging from the roof. It was full of all my old toys from when I was a kid. This made me even more sad, and I started to become angry at myself for creating all this. Just as my sadness began to turn to anger, I heard my mother's voice in the crowd below. By now, the garage had grown to the size of an airplane hanger. I was a hundred feet or more above the ground.

My mother's voice floated up to me. She was saying, "He's always been like this. Always over-thinks everything. He can't just have fun. What mother could be proud of a child like that? We've only recently felt any love for him at all. You should have seen him when he was a kid...."

I was really angry now, and decided I was through with this dream. I looked down to see water trickling under the closed door below. Just as the crowd started to notice, the door blew off its hinges in a forceful jet of water. High pressure water began spraying into the room from the doorway. People started screaming and pushing to get away. I heard a horrible moaning coming from the wall, then the entire wall gave away, like a dam, to the flood of water. From my vantage point above, I watched the whole building get washed away in a violent flood with everyone in it.

The water level quickly rose to my height, and I felt the strong current pulling at my feet as I struggled to hold on. I heard a roar, and looked up to see a wall of water a hundred feet high rushing towards me. I only now remembered that this was the task of the month. I laughed at the thrilling feeling, and let go of the platform as the wave approached. I felt the swell as I was pulled up to the crest of the tsunami. It was an incredible rush, but I timed it wrong. The wave curled and crashed down on me. I felt my spine snap, and was whipped around under the water, totally disoriented.

I was not afraid, and I did not wake up right away. I laughed in excitement as I was thrown around like a rag doll.