Thread: Lucid Dares

Originally Posted by Maxis

Everyone:

Spoiler for Fancy backstory:

here has obviously taken an interest in lucid dreaming by signing up to this website. In fact, it's not unheard of that sometimes people are so interested in lucid dreaming, they dream about lucid dreaming! But what about taking this to the next level?
Yeah, it can be weird and even frustrating when we dream about lucid dreaming, but it's a much different story when we lucid dream about lucid dreaming. To some people, the dream scene will only change--to others, your subconscious can seriously throw you off as to what's going on, and can make for a much more interesting dream.
Your (yes, I'm looking at you, reader) job is to induce a lucid dream while lucid dreaming using any means necessary--Inception-style. You can attempt a proper WILD, you can invent a whole new lucid dreaming technique within the dream, or you can simply just go into bed and hope for the best.
You're welcome to go 'more layers' down and to experiment, but you're successful if you managed to at least basically simulate lucid dreaming within a lucid dream.

TL;DR: Inception.

Again, let me know if those are too hard, otherwise, good luck!

You might find this very interesting. Someone dared me this, but to have it done five times (five layers of dreams) and I succeeded, it is a very interesting read

Of course, I am not giving myself credit, as this was done a few years ago, but this could motivate other challengers. I will pass on this one as I have done it already:

The moon wipes me out from a LD induced within a LD induced within aLD induced within a LD with WILD - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Originally Posted by ~ Dreamer ~

Well done for facing your fear of bees, Percy! I'm so pleased to hear the bee was friendly!

Oh boy, I should have seen the doctor coming... Time for me to face my own fear! You have an annoyingly good memory, haha.
I will definitely take on this challenge!

Oooooooooooooh yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees indeeeeeeeeeeeeeed. I sure remembered I helped you with that recurring nightmare years ago.

Like I didn't have enough that now living in a village there are like a million bees (yesterday a huge bee came into the room... scared the jesus out of me... smaller than the one in the dream, but awake... ) that I got dared to deal with bees in dream too, LOL So I called the doctor to make an appointment for you with him, enjoy!

Originally Posted by ~ Dreamer ~

Atras: Take lucid mushrooms and describe the effects.

Interesting, I've done this once (non lucid) and it is weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeird, but cool!!!


And with that being said, with what I am SURE giving myself credit, is that last night I completed another dare. No one dared me after Dreamer, so I took one of the Anyone dares.

Originally Posted by ~ Dreamer ~

Anyone: Eat a food you hate in waking life. How did it taste?

I had no idea this was your challenge also!!! LOL. But I did it last night... I just recalled the task, so here it goes:

Eating flowers on a mountain after a chain of False Awakenings - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

So I get now I am entitled to dare three more people, so these are the lucky winners:

Sensei: Such a good lucid dream teacher you are, right? Do you know the "un-birthday" from Alice in wonderland. Well, that is your task... You must turn un-lucid. You cannot just lose lucidity randomly, you must, while lucid, request yourself to lose lucidity and hold the dream (and recall it) for a while, where you have no lucidity at all!

StephL: More about cats -or rabbits- and more about Alice for you my friend. You must find a huge chain watch (such as the one the rabbit has) and visit a busy town in rush hour. Start running like a maniac screaming, "I am late, I am late!!" and trample over other DCs. What happened?

lucidmats: No alice for you, but other type of more... adult movie kind of thing. You must make a bi-sexual porno with orgasms (both sexes) as well as a lot of playing time... but as you well know, males have a harder time to have multiple orgasms, so you must be a female in the dream!

Everybody : You must do something in order to draw to you as much police as you can and become a major threat to them. Then go ahead an eat a Star (from Mario) and start running through the policemen, getting shot, hit, tazed and you cannot die nor feel the hits, and if you can kill the cops just running by them, better!

LOL. I hereby accept your dares, Dreamer and PercyLucid!

Let's quickly review my list so far:

Do a 'super advanced fart' from Ginsan's challenge
Morph into Arale Norimaki (checkup the Wikipedia if you do not know who this is) and fly like her (farting.) You must fly using only farts.
Take your exploration of lucid bodily functions to the next level and do a Super Advanced Poo... mousse style!

I am developing quite the reputation!

Originally Posted by ~ Dreamer ~

Can't wait to build a couch fort and blast it away with my thunderous butt trumpet!

I love both your spirited reply and your poetic language! I have prepared myself for the trumpet's blast... let's hope that the world has done the same! This is gonna be awesome.

Originally Posted by CanisLucidus

I am developing quite the reputation!

Haha, and apparently Mats is developing a rep for getting it on with dudes.

Originally Posted by PercyLucid

And with that being said, with what I am SURE giving myself credit, is that last night I completed another dare. No one dared me after Dreamer, so I took one of the Anyone dares.

Nice work, Percy!
I will be sure to assign you another personal dare in the future. I just have to complete one of my own dares first!

I have updated the original post with a list of everyone's current and completed dares.
The archive is alphabetised so you can find your dares easily.

Thank you guys for daring me, too - now I'll really get my act together - toniiight!!

Will be working on a couple anyone dare meanwhile! Here comes the third dare done

Originally Posted by ~ Dreamer ~

SammyTheSnake: Unleash your inner (dare-induced) sleaze on the nearest female DC. Do everything obnoxious that springs to mind - winking, wolf whistling, boobie honking, the whole shebang! How does she react?

I think I have a feeling I know how she might react, if my subconscious behaves the same way as usual...

So, if I'm going to make this an *interesting* dare, rather than yet another humpfest, I'm going to see how genuinely obnoxious I can be

SammyTheSnake

At least you can have a girl Sammy

Soo - finally lucid again, and thanks to the dares!!

:pillowfight:

I started out with trying to get my lightning storm conjured up, but only made it to a medium-intensity rain and twilight, the bolts just didn't want to show up this time. Maybe because I've tried incubating them too extremely with this picture Box77 posted a while ago:



So then - giving up on the big drama, I thought of Percy's dare and I went on my knees and tried to convince myself of a huge watch on a chain being hidden in the shrubbery. What I found instead was a chocolate bunny in pink-golden wrapping and with a little bell around the neck, it looked like these classical Lindt ones, well here in Germany they are famous. But it was alive and hopped away. So I followed, crawling through wet bushes, but couldn't find it and then - my classical problem - it felt as if I needed to go to the loo soo urgently. And while the last two times I've been just lucidly going for it and good was - this time fear for the bedding took over and I woke myself up.
And like usual - it really wasn't needed - I've been talking with my husband and making coffee and starting the computer etc. before I eventually went. Sorry for these details - but I've been reading about other people with similar problems, and so I thought, I wouldn't hold back on that.

Buut - it's been a really long time - and I'm very, very happy about it!!
Thanks everybody for this lovely thread - esp. Dreamer of course and Maxis, Percy and Xanous for giving me something to be motivated for!



Such a one.

That happens all the time! Awesome try. You will get lucid more often now since you broke the dry spell

Originally Posted by ~ Dreamer ~

I created a purple world, but I forgot I had to stay there for the entire duration of the dream... I did DEILD halfway though, so technically one dream ended! Let me know if this is acceptable... I had to work pretty hard to perfect this one!

Full dream: Purple Palace



I'm going to post my dares now, but if Maxis would like me to redo the dare without leaving the purple world, I'll give it another go!

I DARE:

CanisLucidus: Take your exploration of lucid bodily functions to the next level and do a Super Advanced Poo... mousse style!
(You had to know this was coming!)

lucidmats: Passionately make out with a male DC.

SammyTheSnake: Unleash your inner (dare-induced) sleaze on the nearest female DC. Do everything obnoxious that springs to mind - winking, wolf whistling, boobie honking, the whole shebang! How does she react?

Anyone: Do a 'trust fall' (free fall backwards) into the arms of the nearest DC. Did they catch you?

I will try to think of a return dare for Maxis in the future. Hopefully with a fancy back-story!
I've got a dare up my sleeve for dutchraptor next time, too. So hard to choose only 3 people!

Sweet dream, awesome read as well! I'll count that one given you put a lot of effort into perfecting it. I find it pretty cool how you basically painted yourself, that's an interesting way of going about things.

I may try that trust fall dare--would be rather interesting considering I never trust my DCs LOL. Shame I didn't check this thread earlier, got pretty lucky with some DEILDs this morning, but I'll go for some lucids this weekend and see what happens.

Originally Posted by PercyLucid

You might find this very interesting. Someone dared me this, but to have it done five times (five layers of dreams) and I succeeded, it is a very interesting read

Of course, I am not giving myself credit, as this was done a few years ago, but this could motivate other challengers. I will pass on this one as I have done it already:

The moon wipes me out from a LD induced within a LD induced within aLD induced within a LD with WILD - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Awesome dream, that's exactly the kind of stuff I'm talking about! I had a very similar experience last October (around the time I joined DV) which is what inspired me to think of this dare. Never journaled it publically, but the gist of it was I went down 4 layers and each one was a completely different scenario. It was a WILD and I was merely intentionally experimenting with how Inception-style dreams worked, but it actually ended up being one of the longest, most vivid, and best dreams I've ever had.

I do plan to journal it publically at some point (and many other of my favorite dreams)--I just write really sloppily in my private journal and I get way too lazy to rewrite it out properly. Eventually, though.

Well, well, well.... Did some dares last night!!! Three of them!!! Hattrick!



And here is the result of the dream!!

Lucid Hattrick!!! Three dares completed in one shot!! - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Sooooooooooooooooooo.... I guess that I can make nine dares, plus three anyone dares, right??

Let's see if this thread gets busy again, it is a little slow lately... so here it goes:

For the first dare I completed, I dare:

Dreamer: Enter the enchanted forest and beat whatever mystical creatures are protecting it. Then find me waiting at the Crystal cave at the bottom of the forest. Let's explore the cave!
FryingMan: Find an Earth Elemental or a Stone Gollem. Obliterate it using only fire (engulf it.)
KristaNicole07: Ask for your Dream Guide to teach you a dream technique that you have a hard time mastering.
Anyone: Batman VS Superman. Who wins? That is up to you, but you must become either Batman or Superman and defeat your opponent.

Fer the second dare I completed, I dare:

Xanous: Dive into the sea and find the Rod of Earth. Use it to master the Earth Element.
Hukif: Make that the entire world turns into a videogame. Be the villain and defeat the Hero.
Atras: Visit the Amazons and find an undiscovered "magic" plant. Then summon me and we make a tea out of it.
Anyone: Following the steps from Skull Kid, command the moon to crash on Earth.

For the third dare I completed, I dare:

anotherdreamer: Fly through the Bermuda Triangle. Where does it take you?
NyxCC: Explore the hidden chambers of Machu Picchu and reveal its secrets.
Sensei: Visit Andromeda, where is believed to be Cat alike humanoid ET beings. Ask them to share their wisdom to you.
Anyone: Visit a stadium full of people and by all means convince them that you are a God. You can use powers but they should adore you.

So... there ya go!! Get your butt in bed and start lucid dreaming!

Hey - wooohooo - hammer dreaming Percy - congratulation!!

And - dear Xanous - I have your mission accomplished!! "Slap someone you care about!" Done!



I got lucid standing in front of a shop window which displayed little antique knick-knacks - determined to let out my hidden violent side. So I convinced myself, that one of my ex-partners, whom I do still care about platonically and whom I meet much too rarely in real life would be inside.
And yeah!! He sits behind the counter - fully lifelike and realistic! First I say hello and talk a little bit, telling him I dream of him at the very moment, to which he nods wisely and with a lopsided smile... But when I feel the optic quality getting a bit less - I walk up to him and slap him on the cheek. His totally flabbergasted expression with glasses askew lingers a bit - and then he vanishes. Just like that. I find this a bit sad, but head out to see, what else I might accomplish - attempting to change the weather was first. It gets dark and rainy - I'm really good at that meanwhile - but I wake up before the heavenly conditions get any more interesting.

Now I'll have to have a good think on whom to dare with what - I'll update with this, once I've made up my mind. But ThreeCat - brace your three selves - you're one of my darees - that's planned already, my dear fellow ex-McCoy!

Andromeda. Will look up some info about that. Lol. Dares is going to be a full time job for me soon. Oh, and that anyone dare to command the moon to crash to earth is similar to what I am planning to do in a LD next time I see it. Most nights if I look up I will see the earth in the sky. I want to crash it into wherever I am and watch the havoc. What if 4 giants come and stop it? Lol.

Ookay - so now I'm out to dare you guys and gal!!
I wonder, how hard to make them...

Something difficult for ~Dreamer~:

• Grow a pair of proper wings - with feathers, or membranes like a bat or a dragon, or like an insect if you like - and fly about with them! Bonus if you soar high in the sky and look at the clouds from above! That's one of my own dream-dreams to maybe be dreamt one day with more experience - but you can do it, I'm sure!!

Also not so easy, I'm afraid for Box77:

• Find a Romanesco and shrink yourself to a size, or enlarge the vegetable to such a size, that you can climb about on it - bonus if you change it's colour!

Aand for ThreeCat:

• Find an egg, and watch an unearthly creature hatch from it - bonus if it's friendly and has a little chat with you!

For anybody:

• Find a mirror and talk with your reflection - bonus if it answers you a question, you care about!

Hehehehe, be a villain! I really, really like your dare percy. Better get my lazy ass to work then!

Hehe Long ago I got to find a beanstalk and climb it to get somewhere for some TOTM I wasn't able to accomplish... I like the idea, thanks!! Perhaps that's what I was lacking... great thread and let's see what I get!!

I hope, you'll be in for a marvellous fractal show, Box! I'd say, it's also okay if you summon the landscape. The real meaning of my dare is for you to climb about in a 3D fractal! Or into it - so find such a structure in the scale of landscape and engage with it - and it's mission accomplished!
It's also "stolen" from my own list of dream-dreams - they all are. May your mind be blown in natural mathematical beauty - or something.

By the way - I believe to remember "Romanesco" the vegetable is simply a cross between cauliflower and broccoli and nobody had expected it to come out like this, when they created it. Bit more expensive, but it tastes excellent. It feels kind of sad to eat it out of existence, though.
Highly recommended - especially for surprising people!

Steph, I accept your dare--though I will say I've had a time remembering goals lately.

By the way - I believe to remember "Romanesco" the vegetable is simply a cross between cauliflower and broccoli and nobody had expected it to come out like this, when they created it. Bit more expensive, but it tastes excellent. It feels kind of sad to eat it out of existence, though.

This is really good steamed and mashed with salt, garlic, vegan butter(lol), and a little bit of soy milk. Yum

Originally Posted by StephL

I hope, you'll be in for a marvellous fractal show, Box! I'd say, it's also okay if you summon the landscape. The real meaning of my dare is for you to climb about in a 3D fractal! Or into it - so find such a structure in the scale of landscape and engage with it - and it's mission accomplished!
It's also "stolen" from my own list of dream-dreams - they all are. May your mind be blown in natural mathematical beauty - or something.

By the way - I believe to remember "Romanesco" the vegetable is simply a cross between cauliflower and broccoli and nobody had expected it to come out like this, when they created it. Bit more expensive, but it tastes excellent. It feels kind of sad to eat it out of existence, though.
Highly recommended - especially for surprising people!

Before you mentioned it, I thought it was a bad fractal design trying to represent a broccoli !! I never saw a Romanesco for real (or perhaps I didn't pay much attention to it-as usual) but I surfed on some Google and Youtube search results and I found It's a pretty interesting vegetable to navigate . I just hope it's not so 'complicated' like the Artichoke to eat (That's my new WL goal: find a Romanesco, prepare it and eat it ).

I can use some of my personal lucid goals to achieve the lucid dare by the way: Get into a picture and move around it, Zoom into things to molecular levels and Zoom out of things...

I almost scored my six dare done, but I failed:

Flight to the Sun: Cancelled. - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

The White House AND the Pentagon?

That's a tall order there, Mr. P. Lucid.

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

The White House AND the Pentagon?

That's a tall order there, Mr. P. Lucid.

Nah, no biggie But it will count if you visit just one of the two

Woah Percy, you are a dream machine! Looks like I have some updates to make to the archive!

Originally Posted by PercyLucid

Dreamer: Enter the enchanted forest and beat whatever mystical creatures are protecting it. Then find me waiting at the Crystal cave at the bottom of the forest. Let's explore the cave!

Originally Posted by StephL

Something difficult for ~Dreamer~:
Grow a pair of proper wings - with feathers, or membranes like a bat or a dragon, or like an insect if you like - and fly about with them! Bonus if you soar high in the sky and look at the clouds from above! That's one of my own dream-dreams to maybe be dreamt one day with more experience - but you can do it, I'm sure!!

Thank you both for your dares! And I love that you even purpled my name, Steph!
I look forward to completing these (although I already have a couple of other dares that I need to try first.)
I have been interested in growing wings since you suggested it in the Lucid Task Club, Steph, so this is a great dare for me!
And Percy, I was hoping to revisit the enchanted forest - it was so beautiful! I'd love you to join me there.


I finally completed Sensei's dare to fight him. I'm not usually interested in fighting, but this one was a lot of fun!

I remembered my lucid dare to fight Sensei. I looked around around the hall and realised that the items scattered on the floor were all pillows and cushions! I was so excited that the dream was presenting me with my weapons of choice so easily!
I turned around and saw 3 DCs standing against a wall in a line. They all looked like teenagers and were not people I recognised. I decided I was going to work with these DCs and morph them into the characters I wanted.
"Okay, you guys stay there!" I said.
I walked around the room and picked up pillows of different sizes and weights. Some felt like memory foam pillows, but I thought they would be too heavy to carry around for a pillow fight. I decided it would be funny if all the Jedis had normal sized pillows, but Sensei had a tiny square cushion, like the style you might use on a sofa for decoration. I was delighted that my dream gave me the option to make it such an uneven match.
I picked up 3 pillows and Sensei's miniature cushion, and turned back to the guys. They still didn't look like themselves, so I looked away and looked back to change their appearances one by one:
"You're... Sensei!" I exclaimed, as I chucked the mini cushion his way. I looked away again.
"You're... [CanisLucidus]!" (I used his real name in the dream.) I threw him his pillow and looked back away.
"You're... anotherdreamer!" He caught his pillow as his body transformed.
The characters had all morphed to their correct ages, but their appearances were still somewhat incorrect. I felt like their personalities matched now though, so I didn't mind too much about their appearances - I figured they might correct themselves later anyway.
I looked around and saw that the hall was still cluttered. I decided I wanted to clear the space for the fight. I walked into the middle of the hall and floated into the air. I think I was inspired by this scene with Taz from Space Jam for the next part: Space jam clip - YouTube
I spun around on the spot until I became a blur, and affirmed that the hall would be totally clear when I slowed down, leaving only my Jedi teammates and my arch nemesis Sith in the room. I slowed my spinning and gently returned to the ground. The clutter was gone and the hall was sparkling clean! The guys were still standing where I left them, holding their pillows, and I felt like it was finally time for the big event.
I said, "Alright, let the fight begin!"
:pillowfight:
The guys sprung into action and we chased each other around the hall for a while. Sensei ran outside the hall and we all followed him out. The guys all had their correct appearances now and their personalities were very lifelike.
I ran up to Sensei and started bashing the shit out of him with my pillow. The other guys were a little way over, and for a moment, I thought it was every man for himself and considered attacking anotherdreamer. I remembered it was meant to be Jedis vs. Sith, so I grouped together with my Jedi brethren and we all charged towards Sensei, and a massive pillow beat down ensued.
Sensei had this really determined look in his eye and was bashing me back with his little cushion. I was worried for a minute, wondering if my mind had created Sensei as a really strong fighter based on my memories of his dream journals. He had this evil look on his face and he seemed unstoppable for a minute. Before psyching myself out too much, I reminded myself that this was my dream, and there's no way that one dude with a wimpy cushion could outmatch 3 powerful Jedis.
We got on with the beat down!
Sensei was now on the floor, curling into a fetal position. He seemed to have submitted, but we kept on hitting him with the pillows.
anotherdreamer said, "Oh... maybe we should go easy on him..."
I guess I had been thinking that something would happen to signify the end of the battle... I wondered how I would know when it was over. As soon as I had that thought, Sensei shrunk and became the size of a baby, but still with his adult appearance. I picked him up and cradled baby Sensei in my arms. As I held him, be became even smaller, and his body stiffened and took on a plastic appearance like a toy. I was holding the toy Sensei in my hand and inspecting it close up.
I looked at my fellow Jedis and said, "Well, I guess that's game over!"
I felt a little bit bad that Sensei was trapped in this toy. His eyes were looking up at me and blinking. I decided that I could break the curse by throwing the toy at the ground like a magician's smoke bomb. I threw the toy and the life-sized Sensei reappeared from a puff of smoke.
The four of us came together and had a laugh about the fight.

Full dream: Return of the Jedi


I DARE:

Hukif: Back atcha! Find a DV member and kiss them!

PercyLucid: Revisit the blue room where you first met me in your dream (early 2011.) Get me to show you how I draw portals with my finger, then jump through with me and see where it takes us!

dutchraptor: Play a song that doesn't exist, on an instrument that doesn't exist in waking life.
It will be super cool if you can recreate the melody when you wake, but just describing the instrument/sound will be interesting!

Anyone: Make a vocal sound that isn't possible in waking life - either take on the sound of an animal/machine, or create a completely new sound with your voice.

Happy to hear Dreamer! I was half fearing, that you might have done this already before!
Fantastic fight - now we know, what proper submission looks like!!