Thread: Lucid Task of the Month for February 2008

Here's my excerpt for the second task, its actually the same dream but continued off.

As we watched the waves crash on the shore a groundhog suddenly popped out of the ground.

"What the hell?!"

"Hey, you need me don't you?"

"Get out of here!"

The groundhog was levitated and flung off into the distance. I convered the hole up and closed my eyes again.

Completed the Basic Task, last night!

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Originally Posted by Albert Reakle

It actually made me feel alot happier, lately I had been getting into despair. I had been believing horrible things about myself. And i would refuse to believe anything good about me until that dream. It helped to realize what my problem was.

thats brilliant! I am glad the task helped you, it was the intention of the question to learn something about yourself Nice one that it had a positive effect on you

okay about this Basic Task: Ask a Dream Character something about yourself that you don't know

i was at my nanas when i felt really drowsy! and then i found myself drifting in and out of a dream...
so there i was in a pallace surounded by snowy white forests (my dream character is my bestest friend who lives in a pallace) i was walking in the hall when charlotte (my dc) came up to me and asked me if i was staying for the night i said okay then... hey i need to ask you a question but she had already started walking down the hall hey wait i cried out to her but she didnt stop... i thought aww man now what when suddenly i heard a scream (which turned out to be a whistle in a footy game on tv) i flew out the window and got to the yard and saw charlotte hanging on for her life in a whirlwind so natraully i ran to save her the dream gets blurry and i find myself in her room so i ask her again what do you know about me that i dont she replyed i know that in a year you will fall in love with a girl named claire... suddenly i was in my nanas spare bed where i went to sleep!! finally (oh god i love charlotte)!! task complete!

Basic Task: Ask a Dream Character something about yourself that you don't know

3 Feb 08 ( The Night before my BDAY )
(unknown trigger, random DILD)

I was at my diningroom table which looked quite irregular and I realised I was dreaming, I look about the kitchen and my mother walked in on me, quite off the chance I asked "Mum, what can you tell me about myself that I do not know". her reply was "you ... are sitting ...on my...seat"

I feel pretty amused at her reply and I walk into my room and I play LoTR BFME II on PC and start clicking on Shelob and the little spiders.

I am not sure if this counts in the strictest sense as the task as sure enough...I was sitting in her seat that she occupies during dinner, but no one, and I mean NO ONE can beat mum for random one liners!

Rolling on the floor laughing ~ Smee

I tried the advanced task, but it doesn't count because I can't remember the actual groundhog levitation. I think I did the basic task, although I'm going to try again to get a clearer answer.

I went to sleep (in the dream) and WILDed into a lucid dream. The descent was a bit shorter than usual. At the beginning of the falling feeling, I remembered that one of the tasks of the month was to levitate a groundhog. I was glad that I had remembered so quickly, and planned on doing the task once I landed. As the descent continued, I was briefly worried about winding up in a negative dream. I decided to counter this by thinking of something else...Groundhogs!! I thought. I could vaguely see little groundhog faces swirling before me. This was amusing, and put me in a good mood for a while. What happened right after I landed was very vague, but my dream self seemed to think that I had completed the groundhog task and was bored, looking for something else to do.

I eventually remembered the basic task, and there were some vague dream characters nearby. I sort of loudly thought the words "Tell me something about myself that I do not know" and this was apparently enough for a response. There were lots of words, which made sense at first, only they just kept coming. As I had feared, there was so much complicated information that I couldn't remember all of it. As I tried to hear the words that were being spoken right then, I forgot the first words. I now had a book open, and I was reading the words. For some reason, it was a solid fact that this book was by Vernor Vinge (no idea why). Reading seemed to make the words a bit clearer, although still hard to remember. After reading about a page and a half, I suddenly realized that the book had the same information as the words! My logic started to become muddled, and I reasoned that I could just read the book while awake...only I thought that there were some slight differences. How would I be sure I translated everything correctly? I decided to read/listen to the words and try to get at least some of the message. All I can remember from the whole thing was a reference to a dream I had a long time ago about having a sort of mutated brother (I'm an only child) and what this meant. Not long after this I became obsessed with trying to write everything down and then there was a lot of confusion about getting my post to show up on Dream Views (lol).

wow, I just woke up from a crazy WILD. I'll post the full in the Subliminal Lucid 3.0 thread in Lucid Aids since I was listening to that. Here is the part about the task. I was so excited because this is the first time I've remembered to do it, but I tried really hard to get it in my head and to do it so it payed off!


"I then found myself in a house with some relatives and found my cousin and remembered the lucid task. I asked her something about myself that I didn't know and she looked at me weird and said I don't know. I felt like she was hiding something."

Not much, and I wish I could have got a cool answer, but I tried I'm going to try again tonight though, hopefully I get a better response.

I had an extremely long lucid this morning. It was very strange. It was like I was aware of my body in bed from start to finish, but that did not at all interfere with the dream's stability or length. The dream appeared from me imagining the scene in HI, and never really felt like it evolved to a full dream. I was on a bunch of cold medicine, so maybe that has something to do with it.

I am at my old house from college, hanging out with my old roommates. We are getting ready to go to a party. For some reason we are all drinking in the laundry room. I realize I am still wearing my work / office clothes, and that this will not do at all. I strip down to my boxers, and all the girls start making cat calls. I joke around with them, then head upstairs to get dressed. 'E' yells to me to wear a suit as a joke. It will be highly inappropriate for the party we are going to. I agree that that would be a funny joke, and put on a 1970s brown Double Cleaveland with a bolo tie. The room I change in is my old bedroom from my childhood home. I notice its all screwed up, with furniture in the wrong places and the room is covered in green and red picture frames with gold bows on them. I am reminded that this is a dream, although I never really forgot. I can barely move, like I am so sore from weightlifting that none of my muscles work anymore. While getting dressed, 'E' is telling me how hes bringing cherry bombs, so when we go to Roys (a very nice restaurant in Hawaii) after the party, we can flush them down the toilets as a joke. I agree that this will be a riot!

I wrongly remember that the task of the month was to go to a DV party, so I am excited that this is going to work out so well. As I walk out of the room, I notice that everyone from DV is in my living room. They are all played by actors, so I figure I will have to ask them who they all are.

I talk to a couple people, but they are all very cold and mean towards me. I wonder if its because I wore the suit. Suddenly I feel like an ass hole. I walk up to Steve Buschemi in the kitchen, and ask him who he's playing. He is in the middle of a conversation with someone about how he hates Architects because they don't know anything about construction. I feel a little akward, because I'm an Architect. I try to defend myself, but I soon realize he is only saying all this to piss me off & provoke me. I don't want to ruin this fun dream with violence, so I move on to the next person.

As I approach Claire Daynes, I remember the real task of the month, and feel like an idiot. Maybe this is why everyone was being cold to me. I ask her, "Can you tell me something about myself that I don't already know?" She thinks I am hitting on her, and makes a comment about what a bad pickup line that was. I tell her this is all a dream, and to prove it to her, I jump off the top of the stairs. Right before I hit the ground, I do a little float-bounce so I am lying horizontally on my belly, floating inches from the ground. I reach out and touch the ground, walking along on my hands with my feet in the air at a 45 degree angle. Like swimming along the bottom of a pool. I float up to the ceiling, back down again, then back to where Claire Daynes was standing. I ask her again, and she replies, "I will tell you something you already do know. You're an ass-hole!"

I think there must be some confusion. What did I do? I turn to another girl at the party to ask her, "Can you please tell me something about myself that I don't already know?" As I'm talking to her, her fat girl friend is telling me to get lost because she has a boyfriend. I turn to tell her friend that I'm not trying to hit on her. I'm very frustrated now. When I turn back to the gal I was talking to, she is gone, and her boyfriend is there in her place. He looks aweful, like a corpse. He is wearing a hooded sweat shirt, and his face is yellow, and covered in pockmarks or real bad acne scars. As I am looking at him, I realize he is made of Malt-O-Meal (that terrible Cream of Wheat/porridge stuff). He suddenly explodes / melts into a puddle of porridge and clothes. This is so unexpected for such a normal dream, that I decide I better leave. People are too hostile, and this is getting weird.

I figure I'll go see whats going on upstairs. When I get there, All my old roommates are hanging out. Its like a dance club, with people partying in the middle of the room, and a few people asleep/ passed out in the corners. I decide I am done with this dream, and want to try to have another one. I reason, that if I go to sleep, I can have another dream. I lie down next to my old roommate 'V', put my arms around her, and spoon her. I fall asleep thinking of how much I miss all these old friends.

I transition directly into another lucid dream that was even more vivid and longer than this one. I would post it here, since it's technically part of this dream, with many similarities and synergies. It is very long and sexually explicit, so I think I will spare you. All together, these two back to back lucids lasted over 2 hours! I wonder if the cold medicine screwed up my REM cycles or something.

Im so tired, and i dont have the time to type my dream in full, but i manged to complete the basic task First real lucid aswell.

So i was in my street, there were superheros flying around. One of them lands infront of me. He is wearing a full silver suit and has bug eyes and antenna. As he lands, words flsh up infront of me, they said something like;

"DreamCatcher: He Makes the Dream More Ambient" Lolwtfux...

Anyway, i then become lucid because of the word 'dream'. The bug dude then sprays something on my from one of his antenna. But i fly up onto my house roof. As im about to land on it, my power starts to fade, i begin to float down to the ground. I then remeber to 'free my mind' and beleive i can do it, i am master of my own head. I am then able to fly perfectly and i take a seat on the roof of my house.

It was so good, i was able to 'think', i could choose exactly what i wanted to do. I was able to remember things. I remebered the basic task, and asked the nearest DC, who happened to be a floating super hero in a long red gown. I flew over to him and asked him "tell me something i dont know about myself".

He mumbled something but i didnt catch it. I asked him to repeat it, and he did. It took a few attemps of him saying it and me attempting to say it back. Normally if it had of been a typical dream, he would have said something different each time, but he didnt.

Anyway, what he said didn't seem to make any sense at all. Here it is:

"Away off in France, Away you off and sit on my ruler"

LOL,

One task done. Yay

So last night I had a MILD. I ran up to a DC, someone i know in RL, and asked him to tell me something about myself I didnt know, he said "When you wake up you will be hungry, but won't eat for a while."

I said, "thats it? Nothing better:

He replied, "Umm, not really, you know yourself better than I do."

O well, if only I could remember the advanced task, I thought.

I went to ask someone the meaning of life, three DCs gave me equally nonsensical answers.

Btw, I had two additional DILDs that night, one from an FA, most I've had in one night.

alright, last night.. rather interesting.

I was already into my LD when I remember the task i needed to do. I was lying down on the floor, with my boyfriend beside me, covered in blankets. i was kinda falling asleep and I said to him "tell me something I dont know about myself" and he picks me up and carries me upstairs saying "You miss your lollypop." (What lollypop hes talking about I really have no clue) So I cuddle closer to him and fall asleep in my dream. Which is where I pull out of LD and into another dream

Finally broke my dry spell and cracked at the basic task. I did two tries, because the first try I didn't remember what the person said.

First shot: I attained lucidity after thinking of doing some reality checks. Just thinking of the need for them was enough to make me realize I was dreaming. I went up to my dad, and asked him what I don't know about myself. First he whispered some nonsense words, mostly vowel sounds, into my ear. Then he said something more substantial, but I forgot what it was. I don't think it made much sense as an answer anyway, though, even if I'd remember it.

(I also took a shot at the advanced task afterwards, with no luck - I found only "regular" squirrels in the forests I flew around in, not groundhogs, and I couldn't levitate any of them.)

Second dream: I don't remember how I got lucid enough to try the task again. I talked to some children and asked them what I didn't know about myself, but I didn't know. Later, while in a bathroom or someplace like that, I heard voices off to my right. I floated down the hall and into the second of two small auditoriums, in which I met a familiar-looking woman, a middle-aged teacher with short blond hair. I asked her what I don't know about herself. Her answer was, paraphrased (don't remember her exact words), what my real strengths are. She said that the things I want to do are not necessarily the things I'm naturally good at.

Originally Posted by Barns

Dammit! I was in a lucid about 5 minutes ago and I couldn't remember what the task was!

Ah! Dam*. that's anoying. this happend to me before. i was in a lucid and i stood there and thought for a long time. "what was a suppose to do " then after a while i got it. but it's very anoying =P

A quick funny story. I accomplished the basic LD task from a few months ago ...

I'm dreaming. I'm at a gym and I walk by a woman who's checking me out. She then disappears in thin air. I realize I'm dreaming. I enter a room looking for her. I find her asleep on the floor. I figure I'll wake her, get the basic task done and move on to more physical goals. I wake her, she pushes me down and sits on top of me. She obviously has no panties on under her skirt.

I ask her "What's my dream name". She replies "James" - my actual name. Yes - I know that was from a few months ago, I got distracted.

Anyway, she pulls down my pants, licks her hand, reaches around ... well, you get the point.

Now I'm a little pissed. Just a little.

I finally did a task!
I accomplished the basic task last night.
I was going to try the advanced too, but couldn't remember what it was.

Here's an excerpt from my journal.

I then flew over the fence with ease and landed a fair way away in a crowd of people. Most of them were dressed like prison guards, North Koreans. Then it occurred to me that I can do the monthly task.
I tapped a guy on the shoulder and said to him "Tell me something about myself that I don't know."
His response was, "You should visit the four seasons". But he said it with a really bad Asian accent. More like "You sooud visit fa four feasons."

I then started thinking about the advanced task. At the time I didn't remember it was to find and levitate a groundhog, For some reason I thought it was last months task of reaching another planet. I didn't get to try that though either, as I suddenly could feel my legs moving in bed and thought "crap, I'm waking up". A few seconds later and I woke up properly.

Originally Posted by DrTechnical

I accomplished the basic LD task from a few months ago ...

I'm dreaming. I'm at a gym and I walk by a woman who's checking me out. She then disappears in thin air. I realize I'm dreaming. I enter a room looking for her. I find her asleep on the floor. I figure I'll wake her, get the basic task done and move on to more physical goals. I wake her, she pushes me down and sits on top of me. She obviously has no panties on under her skirt.

I ask her "What's my dream name". She replies "James" - my actual name. Yes - I know that was from a few months ago, I got distracted.

Yes, I think that would have distracted almost anyone DrTechnical.

I've mentioned this before, but I still think it would be worthwhile to award some kind of wings, possiblly the same sort of wings for whatever the task is with a P in the middle of them, to someone who accomplishes a task from a previous month.

Completing a task from a previous month is still a worthwhile accomplishment which in my opinion should be rewarded.

Would anyone object to awarding someone who accomplishes a previous months task with a pair of wings with a P in the middle of them?

Comments? Suggestions?

We could also create a Super Badge for anyone who is able to complete all of the basic and advanced tasks that have ever been used, which would give some of the more advanced dreamers something to strive for.

I've had two lucid dreams in the past couple of days!
And they've both been the same , where I have a device that can summon anyone I want just by having their name appear on the screen.
No luck on the lucid tasks though. Hopefully at this lucid rate it will be soon. Oh yes... it will be soon.

Oops, forgot to post my basic task completion here...

The completion (or attempt) of tasks often causes me to wake up. Maybe it's because I don't want to forget the outcome, but maybe there's another reason. Anyone experience with this?


In the end of this long series of lucids, I met a lady on the street, she was with my mother (who shows up a lot recently, but in a positive way now). I asked her 'tell me something I don't know about myself'. She said something with 'donkey' (the real word was in Dutch and it doesn't have a meaning, so I can't translate it) I ask "what?" Her reply "you know, donkey-ing".

I don't know if I'm happy with the answer
But at least she replied my question

I'm new to this whole task of the month thing so I am sorry if this is a bit long .

I think I completed the simple task of the month. I am unsure this counts because of the nature of answer I got but here is what happened:

It starts out with another FA (I had three) in which I am laying down telling my self I should really do a RC since I like to have a lot of FAs. Some how I make my self do a RC, but the nose plug method I am using does not seem to work as I can not get my nose plugged right, so I deiced to do a clock check and sure enough I was Lucid. Almost eminently I remember this task and say to my self ‘when I open the door my husband will be on the other side’, (he was). He seems happy so see me and tries to talk, but before he can I blurt out "Tell me something about my self I don't already know."

He thinks for a second and then gets this really big smile on his face then says "You mean like putting a toothbrush on a pen?" He is really happy with himself for have given me this answer.

Since I was expecting more of an answer then this I just look at him funny and ask him what he means. He takes my hand and leads me into our living room (which looks different then the one we actually have) and points to a pen on the TV stand and repeats again "Put the tooth brush on the pen."

At this point I start to look around for the front door (that I noticed was not in its proper place when we first entered the living room) so I could go out side while I was still lucid and maybe ask another person the question, but I woke up before I could do this.

Because of the nature of the answer I plan on doing this task again to see if I can get something a little different as I did not feel like he actually answered the question, but this is my first try at this. On a side note I actually completed the task for last month (flying to another planet) last week thinking it was the task for this month lol.

Take Care,
Anna

So I am kinda new at this but i have had a few lucid dreams in the past couple months now.. so i thought i would give it a shot.. Here goes...

I have had some pretty weird dreams lately so being able to recongize that i am dreaming was becoming pretty easy. This one started out me at my old grandmas house. I was dreaming that the house was being overrun with demons when i became lucid. (good timing huh) So as soon as this happened.. I forced the situation into a better setting for completing the task. thought the demons and other DC's away to start fresh. I tried to imagine myself at a mall but for some reason i ended up on my ship(in the navy) As soon as this happened, some fellow shipmates walked up to me asking for a cigarette. But i promptly asked "What is something that i dont know about myself?" And one replied... "Your too all over the place. Just give me a dang cigarette douche." Then i felt kinda dishearted.. and lost my lucidity.. but the rest of the dream spiraled into a crazy sci-fi/fantasy dream on my ship.. Kinda nuts..

But i tried.. and failed.. Oh well.. there is always next time right?

Originally Posted by DreamingGhost

I'm new to this whole task of the month thing so I am sorry if this is a bit long .

I think I completed the simple task of the month. I am unsure this counts because of the nature of answer I got but here is what happened:

It starts out with another FA (I had three) in which I am laying down telling my self I should really do a RC since I like to have a lot of FAs. Some how I make my self do a RC, but the nose plug method I am using does not seem to work as I can not get my nose plugged right, so I deiced to do a clock check and sure enough I was Lucid. Almost eminently I remember this task and say to my self ‘when I open the door my husband will be on the other side’, (he was). He seems happy so see me and tries to talk, but before he can I blurt out "Tell me something about my self I don't already know."

He thinks for a second and then gets this really big smile on his face then says "You mean like putting a toothbrush on a pen?" He is really happy with himself for have given me this answer.

Since I was expecting more of an answer then this I just look at him funny and ask him what he means. He takes my hand and leads me into our living room (which looks different then the one we actually have) and points to a pen on the TV stand and repeats again "Put the tooth brush on the pen."

At this point I start to look around for the front door (that I noticed was not in its proper place when we first entered the living room) so I could go out side while I was still lucid and maybe ask another person the question, but I woke up before I could do this.

Because of the nature of the answer I plan on doing this task again to see if I can get something a little different as I did not feel like he actually answered the question, but this is my first try at this. On a side note I actually completed the task for last month (flying to another planet) last week thinking it was the task for this month lol.

Take Care,
Anna

LOL... "Put the toothbrush on the pen".. this made me laugh out loud I think you should have followed his advice and put the toothbrush on the pen, just to see what would have happened.

Originally Posted by urokusaki69

some fellow shipmates walked up to me asking for a cigarette. But i promptly asked "What is something that i dont know about myself?" And one replied... "Your too all over the place. Just give me a dang cigarette douche." Then i felt kinda dishearted.. and lost my lucidity.. but the rest of the dream spiraled into a crazy sci-fi/fantasy dream on my ship.. Kinda nuts..

But i tried.. and failed.. Oh well.. there is always next time right?

urokusaki69, the task is to "ask" a DC to tell you something about yourself that you don't know.. which you did. Therefore I think you should get "winged" and I'll let an Admin know.

I had a lucid dream last night and I was in my dorm and I became lucid and remembered the lucid task. Luckily my friend was there so I asked him to tell me something about myself that I didn't know. At first he was confused, then he said, "Oh yeah, I remember that now." I remember I had told him IRL about the lucid task and it seems my brain didn't want to tell me anything. I got impatient and decided to go look for a girl to have some fun with.

Advanced and Basic tasks completed ...

I had two lengthy lucids last night, I'll touch on the relevant highlights.

My first was a WILD. After the 2nd wave of vibrations stopped I found myself as always, right where I started, on the couch. I actually have groundhogs living in my yard, under my shed. I make my way to the porch which leads to the backyard. I flip on the light hoping to find a groundhog eating the birdseed on the porch. I visualize warm air hitting me and open the door (it's actually about 10F, which sucks). I enter the porch and it's a balmy 60F or so. However no groundhog. I figure I'll try the direct approach. I go out to the shed, reach under the hole they have burrowed and try to flip the shed over. I lift it a foot or two and see a groundhog but lose control and drop it. I get a better angle and try again. I lift the shed up and over (it's about 1000 lbs I would guess). Sure enough, one groundhog is hiberating, it's chest slowly coming up and down while it breaths. I put out my hand and try to levitate it (much like Yoda would). He lifts up about an inch off the floor but I lose it. I realize I'm wearing a glove and that's the problem. I take it off to try a more substantial levitation but wake.

Lucid number 2:

I wake and get off the couch. Passing the microwave in the kitchen, I see the dispaly is red which catches my eye. I look again and notice the time is "V". Oh, a false awakening - great. I figure I'll try the basic task. My wife is up early working in her office. I go over and ask her "what can you tell me about myself that I don't already know". She thinks about this for a while and proudly repsonds "you would be embarrased if you were educated and your mom didn't come". I said "what the hell does that mean?". She didn't elaborate. I then tried to convince her that one of her hot friends from the gym was upstairs and that we should join her. She wasn't interested so I didn't push. I decided to redo the groundhog task. I go out again and the shed is gone completely. The groundhog is still there. He sees my and sits up. I levitate him about 3 feet. I look at my hand and back at him and he's now a weird cartoonish looking groundhog/lion creature with strange bright orange and black stripes. I continue levitating him and put in on a branch on the adjacent tree. I then go for a nice fly ...