Thread: Task for the Month of July 2008

Basic Task

i was on holiday in some middle-eastern country with my parents and we were in a city beside the desert when i became lucid. this was my second lucid of the night so i remebered to say outloud "I am dreaming" because i have had doubts in the past whether i was dreaming or not. I ran out past some palm trees towards the desert and jumped into the air. i had trouble flying at the beginning , as in random movements and had no real control i decided to imagine a force of energy was propelling me in a certain direction and hey presto i began flying brilliantly! i went up high into the clouds and then skimmed the sand dunes with my hands, as i did this i slowed down on purpose and began thinking about the TOTM, i knew what both of them were but i decided just to do the beach one because i would like to visit a beach as the fireworks task was a bit crap seeing as i had already done a kamehameha in my previous lucid that night. so i imagined a small lake with a beautiful golden sandy beach lined with pes-pod shaped canoes and little umbrellas. As i flew a little higher to avoid a larger sand dune i saw the scene i had imagined and flew down to it and landed on the beach. I spent a little while there and decided to take off to a little village. i lost lucidty a few moments after this.

I completed the advanced task of the month last night. My dream started in school. In was the first day of school, and my French teacher is going over what we're going to do this year. I'm sitting next to a guy I know, and we start making small talk. He asks "How was your summer?" and I say, "Way too short, I thought there was more of it left." Then that little light bulb went on, and I did the nose reality check. It didn't work at first, but after a second or two, I was lucid.

I left the school, and decided to focus on my own task instead of the task of the month at first, which was to swing through a city like Spider-Man. I didn't have much trouble spinning the webs, but I did have a problem getting myself to a city with high enough buildings! After swinging for a while, I remembered the advanced task, and held out my palms and said, "Fireworks!" They flew out of my hands, and exploded about 5 meters away. I finished up the dream by climbing up the walls and standing upside down on ceilings. And webswinging a lot more.

Nice job, wings are on their way.

cool...how long do wings take cause i wana see the secret section of the forum again =P

I think I'm ready to start trying the monthly tasks. I have less than 2 weeks for this months task but I'm pretty confident that I can nail at least one of them. This should be fun.

im confident that tonight im going to get these down, i had a lucid last night but forgot about the tasks, that wont happen again tonight

This was my first day trying the task, I got one and kind of got the other. I was very pleased because I almost gave up on trying this morning due to enteruptions.
I've never typed out any of my dreams before so bare with me here. I'll also start by saying that I'm off work today, so I had all morning to experiment.

I started off in a standard dream, I'll spare the details. I ended up under water then immediately became lucid. The dream faded but I went straight into a DEILD. I had muliple DEILDs during a period between 9:45 am and 11:00am. I can't remember the details to them all, at least not enough to type.
Anyway, I flew to a beach. It was cool because there was a beach and a bay area right next to each other. I spent a short time flying, I didn't want to mis out on flying this time becasue I had so much control. I landed on a sea wall next to some people and a cop car. I ran up and punched the car window and pissed the cops off. They were yelling at me and of course I just flew away taunting them a little. I flew up and over the bay where there were more boats and people swiming. I flew down to a boat and took a guys girlfriend off and droped her in the water, then I flew over to some girls standing/swiming in the water. The dream got even better at this point for me, I'll spare the details. Afterward I started to awake, then went into another DEILD.
This time, I was in a shady area still near a beach. I was in some sort of gazebo. I remembered the fireworks task and begain to try. (I've never made anything shoot out of my hand before). First I was able to shoot a blue energy out, then it was more like electicity. So I got a little side tracked and started shooting random DCs with the electricity. I got focussed more on the task again and started to try the fireworks. I was able to get smoke to come out, then and I could even get the noise of a bottle rockets to sound, but I never got a visual explosion. I then awoke from this dream and went into another DEILD were I was able to complete one of my own personal tasks that I've been trying to do for a while, among many other things.

Thats a very short summary of my lucid dreams this morning. I had many DEILDs this morning but I don't know many of the details. I believe this is a sign of good things to come with my new dreaming hobby.
I relize that I didn't spend much time on the actual beach itself, but I was there. I also relize that I didn't get a good "whole" firework to shoot out of my hand. I'm still going to try both of these tasks more, this was only my first attempt and it went very well.
Overall, I'm extremely happy with my success. I was able to control many things with little problems. Actually, I should say that there were problems, but I was able to overcome most of them.

Thanks for reading.

I finally completed the task while I was at 10KFL.

This is an excerpt from my dream journal.

I remembered the basic task in mid-flight. Looking around below me I saw a lake. Flying closer I saw a beach hidden in tall pine trees. After examining the rest of the lake I saw a beach that went through the middle of the lake dividing it in half. Flying towards the odd beach I started losing the dream. I waited for it to become totally black and I re visualized myself hovering above the beach. After I landed scattered bits of crabgrass started to grow around me and I flew off.

Before I became lucid my friend was listing off stuff that was wrong in the dream. I must have really wanted a lucid dream.

oh man! I had a crazy awesome WILD this morning and I was like "man I wish I knew what this month's task is" I already read this, but I thought it was for June not July.

Tried and failed last night:

I had a DILD, which immediately began to fall apart, as per usual. I was on an open top bus (which was, incidentally, right next to a beach - but the basic task didn't really interest me this month), and decided to try the advanced task. I was in a rush, so I sort of just thrust my hand up a few times, but all I achieved were these weird visuals of firework explosions, where they were simultaneously sort of in my 'mind's eye', as if I were imagining them, and sort of actually there to see. I was definitely not satisfied, so I thought I'd be a wiseass and try to 'shoot a firework out of my hand' by impaling my palm on a small firework, and then firing it out by lighting it with a match. I pulled a small rocket out of my pocket, but then I got the feeling that the dream was just about to collapse entirely, so I dropped everything and flew up, fast. I only got about 30 meters out before awakening fully, however.

Now I know why it's the advanced task...

Last night I had my first WILD and I was in control of most things. After drawing some chalk doors and talking to a dream character in my backyard, I walked onto the grass and looked up at the twilight sky. I imagined energy building in my hands and could feel a sort of vibrating energy, which I released out of my palms, but instead of a sparkling firework, it was an orange cloud that flew upwards and exploded like a firework would - only releasing heaps and heaps of colourful balloons instead of sparks. I tried to make the clouds I was releasing turn into fireworks, but some woman came along and started trying to poke me. By the time I got rid of her, I gave up trying to change my "fireworks" and checked to see how my chalk-drawings were doing.
It was a pretty awesome attempt in my opinion, with some pretty aweosme results ^_^

I *think* I may have completed the basic task. I remember a few fragments of a dream where I was lucid with more control than I have ever had before. I was teleporting all over the place, seeing as many different places as I could. One such place was the beach. I had to park my car away from the shoreline and pass under a bridge to get there. On my way, I lost lucidity. Even though I got to the beach while lucid, I was not lucid at the beach. Does this still count?

But anyway:

I walked under the bridge and saw the shoreline. It was packed with people. I saw the water, and I charged toward it. My friend Sean with with me. We end up passing through a small area with tables, covered with a shade. It might have been a restaurant. We run past lots of people, mostly families, on beach blankets, playing games, building sandcastles, etc. A huge wave is crashing as we approach. I race toward it, trying to dive into it before the water recedes. I miss it - and fall about 3 feet. The waves have cut a ledge into the sand that I did not see. I laugh and say to Sean: "We missed the wave, thanks to our good friends, the Navy!"(I don't get it either).

Another wave breaks as I notice that no one is swimming. The water brushes my feet, and it is warm. Not warm for the ocean, I mean warm like a glass of water that has been sitting out for a while. I see a transparent jellyfish in the water. Then I see more. Lots more. I panic and run out of the water, recalling a memory that was part of the dream. It was a newspaper artice saying that warm water made jellyfish eat each other, get aggressive, and grow bigger.

Then my cell phone started vibrating, waking me up for a WBTB.

Originally Posted by Licity

Even though I got to the beach while lucid, I was not lucid at the beach. Does this still count?

I vote for it counting . You decided to go to the beach while lucid, and did get there and remember it.

I am going to try to complete these tasks in my next lucid dreams. I'll start with the basic task first, then maybe try the advanced.

Edit: Just realized it's august now haha, guess I'll do next months instead.