Lucid Task for the Year of 2008

**ninja9578** · 06-01-2008 08:26 AM

The Challenge
Visit all the planets of our solar system.
Find life on at least one of them.
Draw what the aliens looked like and post the pictures.

The Rules
You must visit different planets in different dreams, you can't do this all in one. Each planet has to have it's own dream. You should post your dreams in this thread, they will get added to the running checklist in the following posts.

Your drawings don't have to be masterpieces, but should get across what you saw. If you don't have a scanner or camera or feel more adept at using a digital drawing medium you can do that. Upload all images to a host imageshack is a popular one.

No one expects your dream planet to scientifically represent the real planet, however you should be able to tell which one that you are on by some means, perhaps the way you got their or by how the planet looks. (Descriptions of the planets are below).

Because most of us were alive when Pluto was considered a planet, you may substitute one of these planets for Pluto.

Additional Information
Mercury - The smallest and closest to the sun. It is dry and has no atmosphere and is covered in craters. The surface facing the sun can reach six hundred degrees and on the dark side it can plummet to a hundred below zero.

Venus - Beneath thick clouds of sulfuric acid the surface is glowing red and lead flows on it's surface like rivers. Due to massive amounts of greenhouse gases it is the hottest planet in the solar system with a surface temperature over 700 degrees.

*Don't need to visit Earth*

Mars - It's red surface has some of the most outstanding features in the solar system, featuring the longest and deepest canyon and the largest volcano. At both poles are large deposits of ice which is a mix of carbon dioxide and water.

Jupiter - The largest planet in the solar system, 1,100 times the size of earth it is well known for it's four Jovian moons, one of which (Europa) has a liquid water ocean. If you want, you can explore one of more of these moons instead. It's signature stripes along the tops of the clouds are storms many times the size of the earth.

Saturn - The second largest planet in the solar system, this one sports it's incredible rings. The rings are made of ice and dust, it has a massive moon Titan which has deep oceans of liquid methane. You may explore this moon instead if you'd like.

Uranus - A cold blue planet, is best known for being on it's side. The entire planet spins in a north-south direction, not in a side to side motion and has faint rings that are also sideways.

Neptune - The coldest planet in the solar system it is primarily an ocean of liquid and gaseous methane. It has the fiercest winds in the solar system at nearly a thousand miles an hour.

**ninja9578** · 06-01-2008 08:27 AM

Those who have completed the task

Pheonixfire: Uranus, Find Life, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, Venus, Mercury
ray: Neptune, Find Life, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Mars, Uranus, Saturn
apachama: Mars, Find Life, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto
C911 - Mars, Neptune, Find Life, Mercury, Saturn, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter
iadr: Mars, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Find Life, Pluto, Sun

**ninja9578** · 06-01-2008 08:27 AM

Checklist of partially completed task

fannyaliff101: Mars
ninja9578: Mars
AlexLou: Saturn, Find Life, Mars, Jupiter, Neptune, Venus, Uranus
goldentheponygirl: Venus, Jupiter, Mercury
Thornweaver: Neptune
Mr Pig: Mercury

**ninja9578** · 06-01-2008 08:29 AM

I'm trying to figure out a fitting rewards for doing this, but I'm sure it will be a while before anyone completes this so I've got time. There are six planets to visit because there is only 6 months left in the year, the 2009 task will be longer.

**Wavefunction** · 06-01-2008 10:44 AM

I count seven.

**kingofclutch** · 06-01-2008 10:53 AM

You said that we can't visit them all in one dream, but can we visit more than one in one dream?

**Stefan** · 06-01-2008 11:14 AM

Yes! I've been looking foreward to one of these tasks ever since I heard about them! I'm excited to try this out!

**ninja9578** · 06-01-2008 11:28 AM

Originally Posted by Wavefunction

I count seven.

You're right

Originally Posted by kingofclutch

You said that we can't visit them all in one dream, but can we visit more than one in one dream?

No, each planet requires it's own dream. I've reworded the rules to make that more clear.

Originally Posted by Stefan

Yes! I've been looking foreward to one of these tasks ever since I heard about them! I'm excited to try this out!

When did you hear about them? I was the only one who knew before today

**Wavefunction** · 06-01-2008 11:50 AM

Originally Posted by ninja9578

When did you hear about them? I was the only one who knew before today

He can see into your soul, ninja...

**Dizko** · 06-02-2008 02:09 PM

Awesome. Can't wait to get started. Exams are stressing me and dreams have been limited, but after they are finished, im soooo doing this task.

**Stefan** · 06-02-2008 05:08 PM

Haha, I saw a very similar idea posted by someone in the completed monthly task forum.

**ninja9578** · 06-02-2008 08:13 PM

Yeah, I got the idea from there. It was something that I had been planning for a while.

**juroara** · 06-02-2008 08:54 PM

I can see right through you! you must be some new age conspirator trying to get us to communicate with alien life on the astral! I knew it I knew it!

I hear venus is pretty

**Bethany** · 06-04-2008 10:35 PM

Yayyy! This is SO cool!

**Abra** · 06-05-2008 10:59 AM

Too strict for my tastes~

**icebird3** · 06-05-2008 11:53 PM

wow I just noticed this thread. Has anyone got even close? I'll try to get to at least one planet in my next LD. I made the mistake of not having something pre-planned last time I had a LD and it was really random and didn't last long.

**Mrs. Jones** · 06-07-2008 06:43 PM

this sounds so fun!

**Ivi942** · 06-08-2008 11:49 AM

I'll surely try doing this the next time I'm Lucid dreaming!

Just as soon as my dryspell ends

**iadr** · 06-08-2008 12:18 PM

Originally Posted by icebird3

wow I just noticed this thread. Has anyone got even close?

I've been to the Moon and to Mars, and although going to the Moon was an awesome experience, my trip to Mars was ended prematurely when I heard some voices and then felt something like a blanket being laid over the top of me which brought me right back into my body.

Someone must have thought I was a little too far away from home for my own good I guess.

The interesting thing about my visit to Mars was that I was through a lot of mist and could see some rocks that looked like they had a housing project built into it, which I dismissed as maybe just being an illusional trip that just took place in my head, that is until someone from another site showed me a link of someone else who had been to Mars, and the pictures that they gave of what they saw, which just happened to look exactly like what I had seen.

Here's an account of my trip to Mars:

My Trip To Mars - 1/6/08
As I concentrate on floating I find my dream body trying to float out of my physical body, although it appears to be stuck, as it is unable to get all of the way out.

I try every which way I can think of to get out of my body, turning first this way, then that way, but nothing works, until I imagine myself flying, after which I find myself flying up through some trees and into what seems like the twilight zone.

As I am flying through what feels like the twilight zone, I remember the task I had wanted to accomplish, that of going to Mars.

So I think about going to Mars, while at the same time giving my subconscious mind permission to take me to whatever planet it thinks would be best to go to.

Almost immediately I feel myself descending and find myself flying in a place that is both dark and foggy, making it very difficult to see anything, although I do see some buildings that look like housing projects on the side of one of the roads I am flying along.

As I am flying along I begin to hear some male voices which seem to be approaching me as they are getting louder and louder.

I relax as in the past when I have encountered these voices they usually don't seem to know I even there.

This time they seem to know I am there though, because I very shortly feel myself completely covered by something like a blanket which forces me back into my body and causes me to wake up, putting an end to a perfectly fun adventure.

**ninja9578** · 06-08-2008 12:43 PM

Yay, iadr is on his way

Since I miscounted the number of planets

I removed the part about finding intelligent life and changed it so that you only have to find life on one of the planets

As soon as I can end this stupid dryspell I want to visit Saturn first. It's so gorgeous.

**Fenghuang** · 06-09-2008 02:36 AM

Mars i can do but the rest may take some research. there are alot of scientifically correct images of the surface of these planets so if i do this one at a time it may work... but I dunno

never left Earth before that i can remember, been to other worlds but never just taken off into space mabye a good old-fashioned teleport will do a better job.

**Hazel** · 06-09-2008 04:46 AM

Wow, this one looks fun! *anxiously awaiting my next LD*

**Abra** · 06-09-2008 08:58 PM

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Yay, iadr is on his way

Since I miscounted the number of planets

I removed the part about finding intelligent life and changed it so that you only have to find life on one of the planets

As soon as I can end this stupid dryspell I want to visit Saturn first. It's so gorgeous.

One more question: do moons count? Because I so want to explore Io and Europa. o 3 o

**ninja9578** · 06-09-2008 09:06 PM

I thought about that too. Yeah, you can explore the Jovian moons of Jupiter or Titan of Saturn instead of the planets themselves.

I'm actually planning to explore Io too

**Budster** · 06-10-2008 04:29 PM

Can we substitute one of the planets for Pluto?

I miss Pluto...

XD

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