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    Snowman D

    by , 12-27-2013 at 01:40 AM (863 Views)
    Date: 25 Dec

    Wbtb: sleepy so only 5-10min with 35-40 mg caffeine (Red Bull)

    Dream quality: vivid, shifty items, recall evading

    The ld part is preceded by a short non-ld FA fragment I barely recall.

    LD Frag: In the next scene, I am walking down the street lucid. There was something going on here, not sure what. I decide I want to have some fun (part habit part task) climbing up a building. The dream is already very shifty. I go up climbing this building where I easily place my hands even though the distance between the frames of each window fitting my left and right hand separately is out of day life proportion. I keep on climbing but when I reach the end of the building, last floor, another one appears, I climb it, this repeats two more times, then I think about the roof and finally reach it. Some thoughts about having to draw the wall of china, looking for a place to do it. Evading recall at this point but I want to go down and the whole thing happens quite quickly. I descend but at the same time am still holding on to the building with one hand. As I almost reach the ground I stop and look to see what's going on - my hand has stretched all the way down to where I am. I have some more thoughts about this and as far as I can remember the dream soon ends.

    Not sure if I touched on my body to deild or chained in dream. Don't remember.

    LD: In an office building now, want to cross over to next building, very distracted as something is going on in the building, announcement to all employees which are going somewhere. Between the two buildings are a few red wires and I am confident that I will be able to walk on them. As I try to adjust them for an easier use, they change so that there are two additional wires I could eventually hold on to with my hands.

    Not sure if I cross the entire distance or just a part of it, memory is hazy, in the next moment I also do some vertical climbing. This time I have the realization that there are invisible horizontal lines that have been helping me with my climbings all along, therefore it should be easy to climb even on empty space. I touch the air above me, trying to feel an edge or something to hold on to. Initially there's nothing, then I hold on to something, although I also summon some sort of intangible wall/building part as well. I climb a bit upwards in the air.

    I finally recall the snowman task. It's dark and there is already some snow on the street but it's not enough. I scan the area, looking for a place with more snow. Initially see these kids that are playing with the snow, in the process of building a snowman. I have a mix of real and false memories, where I remember that this is how Steph completed the TOTM, she built the snowman together with some kids. I don't want the task execution to be exactly the same, therefore I go to another place.

    Here there's also lots of snow on the ground, cars and there are two snowmen in progress. I'm also thinking about journalling at this point and whether it is ok to use the half-ready snowmen. I decide to add the finishing touches on one of them and decorate the head. Conveniently, there are a number of items right next to the snowmen, so I just pick up the carrot nose and also put a woolen blue hat on it. I get some sort of dream memory from the hat and remark that the snowman looks very much like D (a schoolmate, who also makes lots of appearances in my dreams, come to think about it he does wear a blue hat). Two other classmates are now here and we are discussing this, while I am also thinking about how to journal this dream.

    Without much effort and while I am not looking at him, the snowman turns into the real D and looks kind of pissed off. We irritate him more by making laughing noises behind his back. Can't recall the conversations. Another classmate appears, D is now friendlier I address them both to help me draw the wall of China. Me and the other classmate turn to look at what's across the street where I want to make the wall of China appear. He tells me he doesn't quite know how to draw it but will try.

    With no further involvement (apart from comments I can't recall) from his side, I find a spot in the distance and make a few predetermined moves with my hand. Immediately, I get a sort of a large long rocky structure, obviously not what I want. I look away, say something to my classmate then try again in another place. This time the result is better, it is a close match to the Great Wall, although its existence is uncertain/shifty. Some thought processes going on again, do not draw it again or you will change it, do not lose it out of sight, now I need to get there. It shortly disappears, after couple more thoughts and looking appears again. Now it is on a much more convenient place.

    We are are at the bottom of an overcrowded with items hill and the wall of China, which has a middle age touch to it, slightly lighter stone color, is stretching from the bottom of the hill to the very top. I enter and get on top of the structure, which is made of small steps in the middle. Some task confusion, I take a couple of steps to make it count (even though this wasn't part of the task). Then remember what I was supposed to do - vandalize.

    I look around, the two walls to the side are made of lots of lined statues and I take a heavy metal statue and use it to start breaking the rest. Then I come across a miniature with one of the Sumerian gods/guardians wondering what's that doing here. I don't want to break it. In the meantime, next to the wall the surroundings have changed and I am now in some sort of open air Asian temple, where they honor the ancestors. There is also a creepy dark female deity statue near the part with the wall of China. I feel bad for recking havoc in this place. It surely is enough for the task. What was next - apologize? (I truly think this is part of the task). No, I have to fight the authorities. But then, let's apologize anyways, I do so. Ok, now I have to find some Chinese to fight, I try to summon them, but the dream thins out and I wake up.

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    Comments

    1. Xanous's Avatar
      Did the Snowman one count if it turns to a human? That's an interesting thing that happened.
      I love the Great Wall attempt too. That's about as far as I got myself. Just not enough dream juice. It's really awesome you fit all that in though.
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    2. NyxCC's Avatar
      Thanks! I'm really happy I got to at least see the Great Wall, although it could have been better had I nailed the task. Well, I still had a great time with the ToTYs. Hope this year's will be cool too.
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    3. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Ah, in the first one you had the idea of drawing the Great Wall just like we've tried drawing the Pyramids in the past, huh? Cool! Yep, I see that's exactly what you're doing in the 2nd dream too. And it worked amazingly well! I'll need to study this process more and get it really embedded in my brain. Looks super effective!

      I love that you were turning in seriously good attempts like this on Task of the Year right up to the end of 2013! I was too caught up in the holidays to do any dream work of any kind much less anything this good. I'm impressed!

      You really got through a ton of it AND through a ton of false tasks that you'd remembered for yourself as well. I loved that you added in both running around on the Great Wall as well as "apologize".

      Not to mention having all of this done on top of the snowman task, well done!
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    4. NyxCC's Avatar
      I'll need to study this process more and get it really embedded in my brain. Looks super effective!
      Thanks for opening up that tech! I totally love it and look forward to practicing it again. So far we've done it with large objects in the distance but perhaps it can be nicely applied to smaller objects as well. Imagine an all powerful finger that can draw and mold objects at will.

      Also, once again, thanks for coming up with those awesome tasks, it was real fun trying to get them done and very enjoyable to read all your adventures. I liked them so much, I still want to do some sort of private task world tour at some point in the future. Maybe I'll leave some of the complex parts out (sharks, authorities) and just wander around.
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    5. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      That's great, I'm glad you like it! I can't wait to try it out more, too. My toughest challenge is remembering what I'm supposed to do, especially after being a bit off of my game for a couple of weeks. The last two lucids I really didn't try to remember any goals. It was more like trying to reacquaint myself with how crazy it feels to be lucid!

      I'm with you on the idea of a private task world tour. Like you said, just to walk by and peacefully observe the sites where I didn't manage to pull off a complete success. Or maybe at least the places I never even reached! I actually managed to at least spot most of them, but never did even see the South Pole or the Great Barrier Reef.

      Ha ha, okay, now I need to check and see whether TotY 2014 is posted!
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    6. Highlander's Avatar
      Well done on the dream chain and your task attempts.
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    7. NyxCC's Avatar
      @ CL

      Yeah, I have noticed some sort of really cool unstructured subcon craziness in my task-free lds. Now, I want to read those entries even more!

      @ Highlander

      Thanks!
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