Control Competition For Beginning LDers

**Sensei** · 11-29-2012 07:37 PM

This is the in-between competition. Not just trying to LD, but not trying to do an extremely advanced task.

I am wanting this to be for people with less than 50 LDs, and for people having about 1 LD each week on average.

I will give 50 points to the first person to get each of these. (I don't have very many points

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Talk out loud
Some people struggle with this, if you have done it many times then don't do this task.

Eat something off the ground.
Doesn't have to be food, it can be a sock, rock, or stick, it just has to come off the ground. Remember that there are no germs in dreams

Why these goals? Because they are not something with much dream control, you don't have to bend to the rules of the universe in order to do this. So you are getting normal dream control, just able to move your dream body around. Can't walk until you can stand.

I will let it go for 2 weeks. If you are second to complete any of these tasks you will get 25 points, if you are third I give you a pat on the back.

If these are too easy then go to:
http://www.dreamviews.com/f14/compet...eamers-138388/

**dutchraptor** · 11-30-2012 07:14 PM

Nice

good luck to anyone trying.

**neuralswarm** · 11-30-2012 08:25 PM

Any tips for how to believe I can eat a sock?

**Sensei** · 11-30-2012 09:37 PM

Just remember that socks are magical and they always taste like your favorite food.

Thanks dutchraptor. Worst case scenario I keep all my points.

**Oceandrop** · 11-30-2012 09:42 PM

Bah you bet BrandonBoss! I have under 50lds so I will also try to participate here, lets see which Competition I first remember in my dreams, maybe I will end as Omnipotent creature eating a sock from the ground! Hopefully I can get a lucid dream tonight, wish me luck!

**Sensei** · 11-30-2012 09:45 PM

Good luck! Remember that both of these can be done from a FA. So you don't have to run outside like most people do.

**neuralswarm** · 12-04-2012 03:58 AM

Had another lucid dream last night, after a wake-back-to-bed. I was in my bathroom floating and realized I was dreaming, because that's a common dream sign for me. There were gorgeous multicolored aquariums all around. I floated over to the window and opened it up, saw my neighbor's house just as it usually looks, but it was dark out. I floated out the window and toward the front of the house and my right eye was dark, receiving no visual stimulation. I had something like half a pingpong in my left hand and pressed it on my eye and said "This is my night vision goggle so I can see in the dark." I heard a few clicks and opened my eyes and realized I had closed my dream eyes and woken up.

I didn't remember to look for things on the ground, unfortunately.

Any tips for how to walk normally? I was in a house so I probably could have found a sock.

**Sensei** · 12-04-2012 04:28 AM

Nice job! When I started LDing I had trouble flying. Try a pill in your pocket to make gravity effect you. Or flick a light switch that makes gravity apply.

**CharlesD** · 12-04-2012 05:36 AM

Well, I probably have over 50 in my lifetime, so someone else can take the points, but this is kind of up my alley. Getting there isn't much of a problem, but I'm kind of like a dog chasing cars; I don't know what to do with one once I catch it.

Talking has never been much of a problem, since I will often tell DCs that I'm dreaming, which is kind of like talking to yourself if you're lucid, but I'll try the other thing, along with the task of the month if I can manage. I'd like to get better at control.

**CharlesD** · 12-04-2012 05:40 AM

Do you get extra points for turning a sock into a piece if bacon before eating it?

**Sensei** · 12-04-2012 06:17 AM

As long as it comes off the ground.

I don't think I can give you extra points though I have precious few.

You can join though. 50 was kind of a limiter since that is around what I have. I have no problem with control though. I practiced some dream control before LDing. I use fire and telekinesis in normal dreams all the time. I actually did both yesterday while I was at Hogwarts! That was a great dream.

The main thing about this is to remember your task. If you don't ever remember then you should join. Eating things is a great thing in LDs. It is something that isn't done in very many dreams, so it makes the experience so real!

**CharlesD** · 12-04-2012 02:14 PM

Well, pretty epic success here. I managed both of these and two of the tasks of the month within 5 minutes of becoming lucid. Like I said though, I really don't know how many lucids I've had in my lifetime, probably quite a bit more than 50, although most were without a whole lot of control. Anyway, here's what happened. I just woke up from this, so it's rather fresh.

At 6:00 this morning I was awoken by the telephone, a customer calling wanting a position update on one of our trucks. I grabbed my ipad and looked up the info, gave him the update, and then rolled over to go back to sleep. As I was drifting off a thought went through my head that I could remember 3 dreams but I hadn't been lucid in any of them. I ended up in a dream where I was flying some sort of spacecraft around and I came up on what looked like a large space station and I decided I would go in there for a bit. I flew close and a door opened and I flew through the door, down a corridor, and landed in an area with other small craft around and a bunch of people milling about.

I got out and found out that the whole thing was a science fiction movie set and I was part of the movie. People are saying that a scene had just been shot and then I walked around a corner and a guy was poking his head into an oven and looking around for something. A random DC looked at me and said, "What is that oven doing here and why the hell is the director sticking his head in it? It doesn't make any sense." I then said to the DC, "That's because I'm dreaming all of this." Then I became pretty aware and walked away for a few seconds to just think about what I wanted to do, and I remembered the tasks from this forum. I turned around and started singing Hark the Herald Angels Sing and the entire cast started singing along with me. We sang a couple verses of the carole and I decided I wanted to go back to earth, which since this was really a movie set, was a short elevator ride.

I stepped off the elevator and found myself outside of a large house sitting off a dirt road with a horse carriage parked in front and it was raining. I said out loud that I wish it was snowing and nothing happened. So I said it again more forcefully and the rain just turned to a gentle snow. Then I spotted something red in the grass and bent down and picked up three extremely tasty strawberries. After eating them I decided to go off flying and had an epic flying session, starting in Jerusalem of all places. I was up close to cloud level and I crossed the Middle East and most of Europe before waking up.

**neuralswarm** · 12-08-2012 04:10 PM

Awesome, Charles.

I did eventually manage to eat a sock this morning, but strawberries are a hell of a lot better. The sock was gold tipped and became a potato chip. I also took a bite of a leather shoe and it tasted like goat. Never tried that before!

Thanks for the goal, Brandon!

**Kholdstare** · 12-10-2012 08:57 PM

I haven't had any opportunities for eating dirt or socks, but in my last LD I did say something; one single thing.

FUS RO DAH!

(Oh, yeah, and it worked. Not to an extreme level, though, but my friend was blown off his feet and landed a few feet away.)

Next time, i'll try to eat a bunch of socks. I'll take a bunch of socks from my closet and throw them on the floor and eat them. And it will taste great.