Lucid Task for the Year of 2009

[John11]

Here's the Colossus Lucid I said I'd post when I got to it. Failure: Search for the Colossus: I was on a street and I was letting cars run over me. I was moving my body in different ways to make the cars fly in different directions as they ran over me. I realized I was dreaming and I started looking around for the Colossus of Rhodes. I walked around trying to ask anyone I saw where the Colossus was. I was having trouble speaking though, so I couldn’t ask everyone. I went through some tunnel. There was a huge guy on the other end of it. He was probably about twice the size of a normally large person in all dimensions. I said, “You’re huge!” He didn’t say anything, but he pointed me in some direction. There was a large city hall type building where he pointed and a fairly large golden statue that resembled the Colossus, but I decided that wasn’t it. It just didn’t seem big enough and it wasn’t near any water. I felt like I had a fairly good idea of where the city harbor was and where the Colossus would be, but I woke up. I was about to record my dream, but I realized I had two popsicles in my hand and I needed to put them down first. I had a false memory of having to put them down before I went to sleep, so I wasn’t surprised that I had them in my hands again. I decided I must have dreamt that I had put them down. I was impressed that I had slept with them in my hands. Then I realized it was still a dream. I got up and went into the bathroom. The dream visuals had already formed by the time I got to the bathroom. This made getting through the mirror a bit harder than last time, but I still managed to do so. I was hoping to find the Colossus in there like I did the great pyramid, but this time It was just a very small room that resembled the enormous room that contained the great pyramid. It only had two tables in it. I walked around them. I yelled out, “Help me!” It sounded really demonic (like I had also said it in real life). Still there wasn’t anything else in there except the way back through the mirror. I went back through the mirror. There was a chubby lady with a white shirt there. She didn’t look very happy, but I asked her if she could help me find the Colossus. She seemed to ponder it for a second and then said, “Sure.” I started following her. I don’t recall the path we took now. Somehow we got to this busy area with a bunch of people. I was following her down some stairs. For awhile now I had been trying to thank her, but my voice wasn’t working. Finally I got my voice and I said, “That you very much for doing this.” She said, “Oh. No problem.” We then entered this really big room which I concluded was her place where she got her lucid dreaming materials so that she could lucid dream and help me out more. I followed her out toward the center of the room and then she went off to the right. She was pretty fast and I was unable to keep up with her. She went into some sort of one of those multi colored cube puzzle jungle gyms. It was really big though. I decided it must be her place. I went over to it and I couldn’t find her. I wasn’t sure what to do now. Then I saw her at one of the other exits to the big room. I started running over there and I woke up. Success! The Colossus of Rhodes: There was some secret laboratory. There was some lady working there. She was trying to sneak in, but some guy noticed her. It was a friend of hers. He asked, “Are you doing ______?” She said, “Yeah, but why are you so against it? Don’t I deserve this?” He said, “Yeah you do, but it’s against the rules.” I’m now her. I’m cleaning up the glass from trying to break in. Then I realized it is a dream and I don’t need to do that. I walk down the hallway thinking, “Where’s the Colossus? Where’s the Colossus?” There was nothing in the first room I checked. The second room I looked into looked like a shack and it had a wooden door on the other side. The door had a top and a bottom. I opened the top and I saw the sea. It was the first time I saw the sea in my dreams that I can recall. There were some small waves rolling onto the shore. There were some people off to the left on the shore. They were all looking at something. It looked like a desert over there where they were. I couldn’t seem to open the bottom half of the wooden door. I figured out that was because the bottom half you had to pull (the top half you had to push). Then I could look to the right where everyone else was looking and there was a city which I knew to be Rhodes. At first I was very disappointed because it looked like there were feet on each side of the harbor, but not Colossus straddling it. Then I looked further back into the harbor and I saw the Colossus. It was standing with its legs together and its hands behind its back. It was green like the statue of liberty. Then I woke up. I've tried to get to the Hanging Gardens a few times now since this, but no luck yet.