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Task of the month for May.

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Basic Task: Give someone a flower.
Advanced Task: Skydive from a skyscraper.

I am having a non-lucid dream. I dreamed that I was a runaway from a prison, with a dead-or-alive demand for me. Cops are running behind me. I don't have any weapons. I run up near a military vehicle, which suddenly switches itself on. It is a tank. The barrel of the tank aims at me. The cops catch up. They grab my arms and force me to stand there, waiting for the fatal bomb. It fires. In slow motion, I see it coming. It is more like a rocket launcher rocket. It hits my middle. A deafening explosion, an extreme pain, and everything is gone.


I wake up. I think, "Thank goodness, it was just a dream. How the heck didn't I become lucid?" I look around. I am in my room. Out of habit, I pinch my nose. I can still breathe! No, wait a minute! I look at my hands. There is no palm, just my wrist and a dozen fingers floating in air. So it is a dream. I get up, and concentrate on the environment. My vision sharpens. I can not see anything, because it's all dark. Usually, I sleep with so much darkness that I can sometimes not tell the difference when I open my eyes and close them. That make me more comfortable, though. I start out of the room, open the door, and find myself on the roof of a building.

I was at the top of the World Trade Center. Remembering the task of the month, I summoned some parachutes for me and some of my friends, who somehow happened to be there. We all run far back, and I see that my shoes have now become roller blades. All for the better, I thought. We speed towards the end, but there was a fence type barrier, almost two meters high, that protected people from falling. At the last moment, I do a back flip, flawlessly avoiding it.
I am in mid-air, and rushing toward the ground. The wind was holding me up, slowing my fall. It was amazing, with the wind against my face and through my clothes. I decide to try some acrobatic tricks, but I find that it is quite hard to move about. All I manage is to roll about a bit.
Somehow, the ground was still far away. Then one of my friends comes over to help me with tricks in mid-air. She looks like a pro, doing back flips and all kinda weird stuff that I would only manage in a lucid and on the ground. She teaches me the basics of using the air resistance and adjusting angles and such, and pretty soon I am able to do some quite impressive moves. I thank her for that, and suddenly the basic task clicks on in my mind. I look for a flower in my pocket, but all I find is a doll of a clown. I look desperately for a flower elsewhere, and spot one little decoration rose in the breast pocket of my tuxedo. I take it out, and it's still fresh. I give her the flower, telling her that it was a token of appreciation. She looks delighted by it, and thanks me. Now that I have no more tasks, I look around. I am still falling, but somehow we are at the Mount Everest. In fact, I am right on top of it. I am about to hit the ground, but I turn gravity off quickly, slowing my fall to a graceful landing.

I love being at the top of the mountain. It is so cold out here, but I am enjoying it. It feels like the top of the world. I summon a snowboard made out of pure, white ice. What a beautiful scene! Though I have never snowboarded IRL, I jump on the snowboard and start sliding. Soon, I gather a lot of speed. I am skating down the mountain, with all the white snow and the frosted trees and even a frozen lake surrounding me. The beauty of it takes my breath away. I skate for a long time, perhaps 30 or so minutes worth of lucid dreaming, enjoying the scenery. The dream becomes unstable soon after that, and I wake up.