Thread: Lucid Task for the Month of July 2007

Extracted from my dream journal:

I was in bed, and somehow I knew I was dreaming. I remembered the basic lucid task for some reason. I have no idea what anybody here looks like, so it would be interesting. I walked down these stairs which were all misted up, calling for tekkendreams, who was the only member I could remember. At the bottom of the stairs, several people went past, and I found tekkendreams. He was wearing blue, and had this thcik but patchy black beard and black hair. He also had white dragon horns. I'm no good at describing faces however. I told him he was dreaming, and then the dream collapsed.

Congratulations lseadragon.. well done!
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another of those failed stories. sorry for the long post.

i was doing something when i started to come out of the dream. i stopped it, and came back into the dream, and realised it was an ld. i was in this old bungalow french house thing that was in this coastal town place, right by the sea. i went outside and met my parents and a pizza guy. the pizza guy went into my house, with my parents. i kneel down and try to look at my hand, but i cant because its too dark. i look int the sky across the bay, and shout 'more vivid!' and 'brighter' and things like that, but in doesnt work. nothing really happens, and i end up in a restaurant with my parents (i cant remember the in between bit). my dad sais he has something for me, and i ask if its a portal gun. he sais yes, but pulls out this little pieca of plastic with a few switches on it. it lookes like something you would get from mcdonalds, and it does nothing when i try to use it. i decide to go have fun, and start running around the dream, and i see a group of people standing around havin a smoke, so a grab this girls smoke, but throw it away afteer one drag. i come out into a main road, and i am in a dunlaoghaire place (place from where i live). there are people shoughting a me so i run superfast down the road, where i come to this glasthule place. there is this guy near me who ask if he has a genie (i thought one of the tasks was summon a genie. dont know why).
he says yes and i say ill give you a bag of gold for your genie, and reach into my jacket expecting to find a bag of gold, but there is only an old packet of rolos.
i eat one, and give him the other two, and he gives me this old beat up blue tin thing, that sort of looks like a metal lava lamp. its blue and dented a bit, and has pictures and cartoons of genies and things on it. he seems really dissapointed, and starts muttering about ' a bad deal' and 'people these days'. i try to rub it to get the genie, but nothing happened, so he was right to just get some old rolos. i then woke up.

Well lucky me I managed to make 3 portals last night.

Portal Number 1: I was in like "The Underworld" or "The River Styx" something like that and I was pretty much trapped down there nothing seemed to be working dream scene change, spinning, etc.

I flew and hovered above the river and held my right hand out and placed my left hand over the wrist trying desperately to make one appear but not much was happening. I then remembered a energy training FAQ I read about breathing in and as you absorb the energy around you and when you breathe out to send it into a part of your body.

So as I breathed in the River or lake as it was was green and had a light green mist on top of it swirled like a whirl pool and I sent the energy into my right hand and repeated this over and over when I felt I was ready I shot the portal from my hand into the whirlpool and it grew bigger.

I then flew down into the portal I had created and I was back in the "Upper World."

Portal Number 2: In another dream I was having after I did a DEILD I decided to give the portal again although this time I was in the sky above a school and did the same breathing in and sending energy to hand technique and created another portal. When I went into this time I was a modified version of my new neighborhood.

Portal Number 3: After speaking with Gothlark and his method of time dilation I decided to give it a go by specifying how long I would dream for after I entered the portal. I created a portal and said I would dream for 97 years got this idea in my head and entered. Now what happened next I was completely not expecting. When I entered everything around me warped and shot past me as if I was traveling through a very long warped tunnel at tremendous speed.

A 3rd party voice around me said "Initiating 97 Year Time Dilation" and at this I became confused. Suddenly a screen appeared in front of me said "97 Year Time Dilation Failed" and I woke up. I'm going to have to speak with Gothlark about this and get some clarification.

Oh well at least I finally got around to completing the advanced task now I have done both of them .

Not sure if this counts as summoning.


I was in my dream when everything went dark, my dream eyes opened and i was in a jeep it was dark out and the ground was all muddy, we were all wearing helmets, and i realized there was someone staring at me screaming at me to get lucid, so i became lucid and i asked who he was and he said Gothlark, then i said something about stabilizing the dream before i woke up, it all lasted around 10-20 seconds. the dream gothlark had brown shaggy hair hanging out from the helmet, and white skin, but not too pale. and looked about 18. (btw this is when we were experimenting with dream sharing earyler this week)

Thanks Clairity! Thanks to some of your advice I've been on fire with the most vivid lucid dreams ever lately. Yeah at some point I lost lucidity and the only thing I remember is driving around inside a local bowling alley and being chased by Tony Soprano who took the form of Chuck E. Cheese. Idunno what was wrong with me that night.

In the meantime I tried to summon a DV member. Again with no success. I didn't have that much control over the dream even though in some odd way I fully understood that I was dreaming. I tried to make Clairity appear but all that happened was my friend Steve appeared and threw a lemon at me. I got mad and tried to use "the force" to make the lemon attack him, but instead i lost lucidity again and was trying to take shelter from a tornado (which is a frequent dreamsign of mine that i didn't catch).

Idunno why but the portal one was a lot easier for me than conjuring up a DV member. I still haven't done it. But at least my LD's are picking up!

First I would like to say I'm new to the forums. I have had lucid dreams all my life, but I would now like to start having more control over what I "decide to do" once in lucid state. Also please don't make fun of me unless its really funny what you say lol. This is taken straight from the dream journal I am writing as I type this. I would also like to ask if my version of a portal isn't the right kind for you all... Well you'll see what I mean if You read it. Also, hey is lucid dreaming still lucid dreaming if you never conciously say "I am dreaming" Cause, I grew very tired of having to think this in my dreams a long time ago, and now I realy dont think about it, I merely know that it isn't normal reality, and that I am in total control of all things. Although one thing I do always remember is that I have to be careful to "not wake up". lol.

The underling had very little to say to me. In fact his only purpose it seemed was to have a pressence, and in this pressence it was meant to make me keep to the story line of my dream, but I dismissed him myself, by this I mean I ignored him, I did not have the thought to actually banish him from the dream by making him dissapear. <<<<<<<Challenge>>>>>>>> At this point I remembered the challenge that the dream forums initiated for this month. Interesting actually I had never believed that I could actually MAKE a portal bud by god damn I did it! Well so to speak. I summoned a door from the ground, (an accomplishment I have done before and therefor understood why my portal didn't work the first time I did it, long before I ever visisted the forums.) the only problem is that every door I summon from the ground in my dreams is just that, only a door sadly, it leads to no where other than blank space that already existed in the dream. Fortunately for me, long ago I realized how to accomplish the task but never put it to use. But I am getting ahead of myself, I should describe my creation of the door. Unfortunately when creating the door, I had problems. In creation, once it was formed I could not seem to stop changing its form...but to say change is the wrong word, it was the same shape...only....the top would move and then the sides would move, and it would get shorter, taller, or fatter/skinnier. I took quite a bit of focus to stop making the door grow and ungrow. I should mention, for those of you trying to visualize, that this door seemed like an ancient greek pillar with a top and bottom, more than a door. Which unlike the one I tried to summon very long ago(looked like a broken down shed door lol), was very hard to control its general shap and form. Now that the door was created I had to make the empty space it encompassed into a portal (I.E. the part I figured out how to do a long time ago but never put to use). Using my hand I created an orb of pink energy. From this hand I projected the energy unto the door's empty space. Sadly I stopped short of the very bottom of the door, and I could very plainly see where the portal lead, however I would have to jump to keep my feet from falling off. I will cover where the portal lead further on ahead but for now, as I will be posting this in the challenge section, all you need know is that it lead to an Arabian market of some sort. <<<<OTHER CHALLENGE>>>>> (Sadly I can not remember the order of time that I had done the second challange, I truly would like to believe I did them at the same time cause then I would feel uber, so I am writing as if I had. However in all honesty, all I remember about the second challenge is that it happened in the same dreamscape, and that the underling guy I spoke of was still there.) Now that the portal was created, before jumping into it I wanted to accomplish the other task, which was to summon a DV forum member to my dream. I accomplished this task sortof. Unfortunately for me a charector at dream forums (Alex) I had thought was a woman is actually a man. Even though I knew it was a man before I went to sleep it was still so hard driven into my mind the image of a woman that I summoned a woman to my dream instead of a man. I'm really sorry Alex I don't think of you as a woman I promise!!! She had black hair, it was rather long, but shor as well. Rather anime style honestly She was wearing a white top and had...um large breasts...not that I was noticing haha. She also was wearing a....well I would like to say thong but it was a rather odd thong to say the least. It had two handles, they were leather, they went along her thigh...like this. \_/ The slashing being the leather, and the line merely being a space between them. Connecting (and covering up her...uh lack of giblets) was a pink lace along her womenly area. At this point of looking at her (oh dear god I just realized as I was writing that when I summoned her, I sat down and started looking at her so I could detail her for this forum, the sad part is I only remember her thong, since that was all I looked at. lol), I suddenly thought of my own vanity, and peered to the left. <<<<<End challenge>>>>


So what yuh think? =) go ahead and ignore my misspellings and retarded questioning also if you like hehe.

I tried the portal task again, and managed to accomplish it the way I wanted.

I became lucid on a dark road. I remembered that I was going to try the portals task again, but the environment around me seemed too unreal, and I felt as if I was really walking around in my room. So, I focused on being in my room, and found myself there.

Once in my room, I started on creating the portal. I held out my hand, and tried to make the portal form in front of me. After about 30 seconds, the portal snapped into existence.

The portal seemed to be made of black stone, and was built in a manner reminiscent of roman architecture. The top was triangular, and held up by several pillars. Behind the pillars was a creature resembling a giant sloth, which was remaining motionless. The whole thing had an almost cartoony look to it.

I stepped into the portal, and was pulled through it. Passing the sloth, I noticed that it was completely two-dimensional, as I was pulled past it, into a featureless blue area. The blue area didn't have any sort of ground, walls, or celing, and as I passed through it, I noticed that breathing inside of it felt the same as beathing underwater feels in a LD. After being pulled through about ten feet of the blue area, I found myself in a desert, much like the ones in Wyoming. The ground was flat, and there was a small lake about a hundred feet in front of me. A couple of seconds after appearing there, I woke up.

Originally Posted by Rainman

Thanks Clairity! Thanks to some of your advice I've been on fire with the most vivid lucid dreams ever lately. Yeah at some point I lost lucidity and the only thing I remember is driving around inside a local bowling alley and being chased by Tony Soprano who took the form of Chuck E. Cheese. Idunno what was wrong with me that night.

In the meantime I tried to summon a DV member. Again with no success. I didn't have that much control over the dream even though in some odd way I fully understood that I was dreaming. I tried to make Clairity appear but all that happened was my friend Steve appeared and threw a lemon at me. I got mad and tried to use "the force" to make the lemon attack him, but instead i lost lucidity again and was trying to take shelter from a tornado (which is a frequent dreamsign of mine that i didn't catch).

Idunno why but the portal one was a lot easier for me than conjuring up a DV member. I still haven't done it. But at least my LD's are picking up!

Rainman, I'm glad your LDs are picking up (and it I had some small hand in that.. you're so very welcome)!

You know I had my first DILD in YEARS this morning.. perhaps I knew you were trying to find me and I was trying to be found!

Uhm.. what's with your "friend" Steve and the lemon attack?

Derb, good attempt.. you can still do it.. the month's still young!

Volcon, congratulations on completing the basic task (I think it counts)!

Brandon Heat and Serith, ok.. you two are just showing off now! :p (don't mind me.. I'm just jealous).

Sandform, congratulations to you on completing both tasks! How freaky that the door kept changing shape!
And now.. for your viewing pleasure.. Alex with large breasts in a leather handled thong!
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eh...a couple of days ago I got lucid and was thinking about the TOM and the only thing that came in my head was the fire/talk to an animal one...so yeah...failed

Met some supposed Dreamviews oneironauts last night for part one of the task. Below is the extracted portion of my journal. The full entry is here.

"...I then remembered the July task of meeting other people from dreamviews. I called out "Is there anyone from dreamviews here?" I tried my best to conjure someone, including digging through a barrel of clothes, drawing a picture of a person to animate, and other crazy things. At one point I found a little doll head of Popeye the Sailor, and started building a little doll that I thought would be a dreamviews user for some reason. While I was doing that, I looked up, and saw through a glass wall about eight people having a little gathering on an outdoor terrace. I knew immediately that it was a group of dreamviews oneironauts!!

I thought I'd make a classy entry and walk through the glass wall. I felt certain I could pass through it, though when I bumped against it, a door instantly appeared where I was, and opened to let me out. Not what I was going for, but a cool enough entry!

I tried to get some names, but couldn't understand or remember who I was talking to. I remember quite clearly what two of the people looked like, but I don't think I've seen them before. One of them did look a little like EvanEvanEvan in the top picture there, but he was wearing nerdy black glasses, and a nerdy green and white checkered shirt.

I said to Nerd-Evan "Wow! I'm very lucid now! Everything is extremely clear!" I reached out and felt his shirt against my fingers. Everything was so concrete. I asked him "Are you super lucid right now too?" and he just sort of shrugged. Then I said "I guess everyone here would have to be about the same as lucid, otherwise we couldn't meet!

I talked to another woman there who told me how she had to conjure up an important "doctor" to impress the guard to let her into the party without a reservation. Very clever of her!"

Originally Posted by skysaw

I thought I'd make a classy entry and walk through the glass wall. I felt certain I could pass through it, though when I bumped against it, a door instantly appeared where I was, and opened to let me out. Not what I was going for, but a cool enough entry!

Open Sesame!! Very cool and congratulations on completing the task!

And Psylis, keep trying.. you can do it!
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By the way, I made a face of my nerdy dream guy using the software posted at the beginning of this thread. If you want to see it, go to http://flashface.ctapt.de/ , choose "load face" and search for author "skysaw."

Wow...I just had a long lucid dream in which I did the Task of the Month again, plus several old ones.

I had awakened at 5:00 I laid in bed about 20 minutes. Then I got on DV for about 45 minutes (looked at old Task of the month) and then went back to bed. I laid there for a little bit wondering if I would go back to sleep. As I felt myself started getting really tired, I made myself open my eyes and glance at the time--6:32.

The first part of the dream that I remember is being with my two little neices. They had had a birthday party, and things were still decorated. I was talking to one of the neices (K) and she was telling me about how the party theme was Pirates and how fun it had been.

I then remember picking her up and jumpin with her, and at the top throwing her up a bit and catching her, then both of us would land on the floor. She loved it and I remember noticing how I could keep doing this and not get tired (Missed the dream sign this first time).

Then I set her down and started doing back flips. I remember being amazed that I was doing such good backflips and I wasn't even on a trampoline. Then I started doing front flips and I noticed how good they made me feel to do them

Then it hit me. This was a dream-- I loved doing dream flips because they make me feel so good.

As soon as I realised that I was dreaming I decided I wanted to do the DV Member Task again to see if I could get more DV members to show up.

This first transistion is a bit fuzzy. I think I started looking through the house for DV members. I didn't find any. I then decided to head out into the backyard so I could try the "Pet" task from last month that I had never gotten a chance to try.

I walked through the back room next to a sick looking Vietnamese guy huddled in a yellow blanket. I opened the door and went into the yard. It was my yard form my LA house.

I saw both my current dog and cat there. I started with my dog. "Hey boy, what do you think of me, huh? I need you to talk to me. DO you like me? Tell me what you think." But he kept sniffing at something in the grass and wouldn't even acknowlege my presence.

I looked and now saw my cat just a few feet away. I asked her the same questions. But like my dog, she seemed more interested in something in the grass than in answering my questions. So I thought about trying another Task before I woke up.

The Fire Task. I had to do the fire task. I looked around for a fire. There wasn't a fire in my yard. But as I looked over the fence toward my neighbors' yard, I could see smoke and I knew that there was a fire there.

I flew up and over the fence into my neighbors' yard. I landed on the grass. The yard looked just like I remember the Franko's yard to look. They had been the neighbors that I grew up by. I walked under their big tree. I could see the Frankos on the patio. I told them I needed to borrow their fire for a moment.

As I got to the far side of the yard I could see a small campfire. It wasn't very big, and I didn't know if it would actually count as walking "through" fire. but I was just doing this for fun anyway since it was now a new month with a new task.

I looked down at the fire and took small step and and walked over the fire. Since it was only about 2 feet across, I could only step twice--once with each foot.

I had wondered if the fire would feel hot...or if it would just seem like I was walking on normal ground. Well, as soon as I put my bare foot on the coals, I relalised that this was going to be harder than I thought because the coals were actually very hot and burning the bottom of my foot.

Still, I walked though. Even though it hurt, it seemed a bit anticlimatic. So I turned around and did it again. It still hurt. I decided that I would keep trying until I could control it and make it so it didn't feel hot to me anymore. On about the fifth time through the fire, I felt that I had achieved that.

I started walking across the yard back toward my own yard again. Suddenly the neighbors dog ran up to me not looking very friendly [the real Frankos had a dog that scared me as a child]. I decided that this time to fly.

I remember wondering what the Frankos must be thinking of my strange visit to their backyard, but then remembered that they were my dream characters and weren't actually thinking anything.

In my own backyard I saw two large white and brown dogs. I chased them out the side gate.

I was still not satisfied with my attempt to find DV members so I tried again. I walked around (somewhere near the yard I think) calling out for DV members. I saw this group of people. I asked again if there were any DV memberd present.

Finally this teenage guy walks toward me from the crowd with his arm up. He said, "I'm a DV member.

I said, "Great, what's your username?"

He answered, "T-Arizona"

I said, "Cool, I think I'll remember that one."

Then two more guys walked out. One of the boys had two heads, one looked normal, the other had no neck. He told me his username. It was something cool sounding with two words and started with an "S".

Then the third boy told me his name...which I have also forgotten by now.

After that I decided to go look some more. I really wanted to find DV members that I knew. I walked inside a building and decided to call out for certain members. I decided to start with Oneironaut.

So I walked through this crowded building calling out for Onieronaut. Several times I could see black guys that from a distance looked like the right guy. But each time as I got close I could see that I had the wrong guy.

I finally decided to try another name. This time I called out for CoLd BlooDed. I walked through what now looked like a school building. I called and called, but still got no matches. I even tried CB's real name to see if that made a difference. But it didn't.

I finally ended up in a hallway by the doors to the outside. There was a group of students there waiting for the bell to ring and for school to get out. There was some teacher by the doors reminding the students to wear their bicycle helmets. The students all repeated a chant about helmets.

Finally the doors opened. At this point I decided that I wasn't having any luck with finding DV members, so I decided to try another of the older Tasks that I had never gotten done. I decided to do the "Snowman" Task.

As luck would have it, I walked out of the school and into a snow covered park. There were at least five snowmen in the park. At this point I was also suddenly with my childhood best friend M. I looked at the snowmen and wondered how hard it would be to bring them to life. I decided just to look at them with the expectation that they would just start moving. And sure enough, the one closest to me started twitching. Then it turned so it was facing me, and then started moving toward me. It was smiling, and I felt no fear that it would suddenly become evil and attack me.

I looked around and saw at least four other snowmen now moving in my direction. When the closest one got to me, I decided that I wanted to go flying with it. I told it to turn around so I could climb on its back.

After I was on its back I told it to fly. As we took off in the air, I remembered my friend that I had left behind. I knew she was only a DC, but I just felt the need to be polite, so I called back to her to get on the next snowman and to follow me.

At first I felt cold being on the snowman and flying through a winter sky. But I remembered how I had been successful in changing the temperature in past LDs. I told myself that I would no longer feel the cold since it was just my good imagination making it cold in the first place.

Gradually the snowman started feeling warm beneath me, and the air became just cool and not cold. It was perfect.

Then suddenly it was night. We were flying low and past buildings that were all covered with Christmas lights. I remember a building that looked like a City Hall that was just beautiful. We flew so close I could almost touch the lights.


There is a transition here that I don't remember.

But the next thing I remember is that I am back in a building looking for DV members. I believe it was an arcade. I could see out the window that it was still dark outside and I could see Christmas lights.

There were no DV members in the arcade, so I walked into the next room. There was a long skinny swimming pool there, the kind that makes a current that people can just stay in the same spot and swim against it..

I looked down in the pool to see if anyone I recognised that there. But I saw this man--he was bald and scarred and was very white. It disturbed me, and I suddenly felt myself start to wake up. Instead of fighting against that and staying in my dream, I suddenly realised that I had dreamed such a long LD that it would actually be a really good idea to wake up at this point and see if I could remember all of it.

So I let myself wake up.

Cool dream, shadows!

Originally Posted by Twoshadows

He told me his username. It was something cool sounding with two words and started with an "S".

I'm going to pretend this was me! Even if I have to have two heads, I just want someone to dream about me.

Originally Posted by skysaw

Cool dream, shadows!



I'm going to pretend this was me! Even if I have to have two heads, I just want someone to dream about me.

Thanks!

For some reason your comment really made me laugh. A deformed two headed DV member.....we can call him "Skysaw" if you'd like....:p.

Originally Posted by Twoshadows

Thanks!

For some reason your comment really made me laugh. A deformed two headed DV member.....we can call him "Skysaw" if you'd like....:p.

Just for the record, "Sky" was on the left... "Saw" was on the right. :p

Originally Posted by skysaw

Just for the record, "Sky" was on the left... "Saw" was on the right. :p

LOL!

EXCELLENT dream Twoshadows!! The duration of the dream and the control you had was fantastic! I bow to your lucidity!
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Originally Posted by skysaw

Just for the record, "Sky" was on the left... "Saw" was on the right. :p

Then "Sky" was the one with no neck...

Originally Posted by Clairity

LOL!

EXCELLENT dream Twoshadows!! The duration of the dream and the control you had was fantastic! I bow to your lucidity!
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Well, thank you. I am always amazed when I wake up from these dreeams and I realise what I've done.

On the other hand I don't have them as often as I would like. But they are worth waiting for....even if I have to do several months worth of missed Tasks all in one dream...

Originally Posted by skysaw

Just for the record, "Sky" was on the left... "Saw" was on the right. :p

Originally Posted by Twoshadows

Then "Sky" was the one with no neck...

The irony is not lost on me.

Originally Posted by Clairity

LOL!

EXCELLENT dream Twoshadows!! The duration of the dream and the control you had was fantastic! I bow to your lucidity!
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Yeah I agree with Clairity sounds like you had a very good LD not to mention the amount of control that you possessed, the things that you did, and the things that you remembered to do very good ^_^.

Okay so I had two LDs last night, which broke a ridiculously long dry spell. I can't wait to type them up in my DJ but thought I'd come here first to see if I got credit.

At one point in my LD I was standing around outside in some sort of arboretum, filled with dark green trees and plants and yadda yadda.. I was standing there having a really long conversation with a DC. The only thing I remember there is telling him that this is a dream, expecting him to not believe me or react strangely like DCs usually do. Instead he just agreed and we kept talking.

Suddenly another DC came in and announced the arrival of Snooze. I got really excited because this was the first time I had a DV member in a LD. I waited anxiously and finally saw a man escort a 40 year old woman who I KNEW to be Snooze. I finally understood that this person was only pretending to be an 18 year old guy on DV and was now revealing his true form. She had short blonde hair and wore very fancy clothes, complete with one of those large old-style hats. We stood around and chatted for a while, after which I somehow got transported to a completely different dream.

Do I get credit, do I do I?

Originally Posted by Mes Tarrant

Suddenly another DC came in and announced the arrival of Snooze. I got really excited because this was the first time I had a DV member in a LD. I waited anxiously and finally saw a man escort a 40 year old woman who I KNEW to be Snooze. I finally understood that this person was only pretending to be an 18 year old guy on DV and was now revealing his true form. She had short blonde hair and wore very fancy clothes, complete with one of those large old-style hats. We stood around and chatted for a while, after which I somehow got transported to a completely different dream.

Do I get credit, do I do I?

That's so funny..

I think you should get credit. After all, we don't really know what the other DV member look like.......

Originally Posted by Brandon Heat

Yeah I agree with Clairity sounds like you had a very good LD not to mention the amount of control that you possessed, the things that you did, and the things that you remembered to do very good ^_^.

Thank you...I appreciate comments like this. It helps me have more confidence in future LDs....