Thread: Lucid Dares

I made an attempt at my dare last night and thought I had a pretty good plan, but woke up before I could get to the forest! Still, it was a cool experience overall because I was trying out a new EILD method using a silent vibrating alarm.

Spoiler for Excerpt related to the dare::

I decided to try StephL's lucid dare (enter an enchanted forest, look for an elven gathering and learn a new song from them), which I thought would pair well with the October bonus TOTM (create a song on a musical instrument that doesn't exist in waking life). No sooner did my thoughts turn to the bonus task than I could actually hear ambient music in the air around me, like notes plucked from a stringed instrument. Perhaps I should have paused and investigated—I could probably have found a suitable instrument to fulfill the task—but I already had a plan in mind for getting to the enchanted forest, so I walked out of the house through the front door.

Traveling to a forest on foot hasn't been working well for me in my TOTY attempts (I tried it in Hansel and Gretel a couple times), so I had been pondering alternate strategies. One possibility simply involved growing trees around me in the house until the environment around me transforms into a forest, but another approach I found appealing was to try to use the little fir tree growing outside the front door as a portal.

It was three or four years ago that I bought this little tree at the grocery store one December and that year used it as a miniature Christmas tree (at the time it was only about two feet tall). Afterwards I put it outside in the front yard. Improbably it thrived, more than doubling in size, and apparently seemed to be doing well with no care other than being watered by the automatic sprinklers that went on briefly every morning, so I left it alone. Then one day I went to move it and discovered the secret reason it was flourishing: its roots had apparently gone right through the bottom of the pot and grown directly into the ground! I am impressed by the resourcefulness of this sapling, so I had the idea of approaching it in a dream and asking it to transport me to the enchanted forest.

When I opened the front door, I was surprised to see snow on the ground. This is probably because last night I was looking up pictures based on the search term "winter forest" to incubate appropriate visual impressions. However, since I live in a climate where snow is impossible (it has been in the nineties the last couple days!), I immediately recognized that this was more evidence of the dream state, so I added a new line to my song: "If there's snow on the ground, it's a dream." Looking over at my little tree, I saw that it was also covered in snow, and added another line, "If there's snow in the branches, it's a dream." Since I was already singing, I saw no reason to stop. I walked over to the tree, grasped its narrow trunk, and requested in song, "Take me to the enchanted forest, the enchanted forest of dream!"

Unfortunately, I promptly woke up.

Full DJ entry: October 5, 2014: "If there's water near the house, it's a dream"

Hello there, just like FryingMan I wasn't very active the last days. Too much stuff going on in WL.
But somehow I managed to have some lucids the last two days. The almost forgot about the one I just woke from. I attempted Percys dare and maybe succeeded with Dreamers...

I am in a building complex with yellowish walls and tiles on the floor. It looks very sterile. The girls' bathrooms are on the right, the boys' on the left. I walk past an open door of one of the men's bathrooms and see some girls in there. I stop and think that's weird, do a nose RC and realize I am dreaming. When the dream start fading like always I get grumpy because I want to keep dreaming and it stabilizes a bit. I speak to one of the 4 girls but she says she is a guy. I remember the dare and begin to gather them. I start the thing but I think I loose lucidity along the way

I will post the whole dream later..

So Dreamer, kissing a guy was your dare, does that include a DC which looks like a girl but claims he/she's a guy??
Hope that makes sense, I am still super tired!

I did quite a few dares, two personal and two anyone... so here is the dream and I will dare people later when I have some time.

Dreamer, you need to update the front page, as even my personal dare for the zoo is not even posted there and I have already completed it. Sorry I give you so much work hahahaha.

Spoiler for Carving pumpkins, playing made up instruments, fighting a dragon, visiting the zoo and finding Dreamer after several secret theaters:

07.10.2014

Carving pumpkins, playing made up instruments, fighting a dragon, visiting the zoo and finding Dreamer after several secret theaters (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

This is probably one of the longest lucids in my life (well, I cannot remember when I was a children, but as a grown up probably it is, plus I made so many challenges tonight that I can feel them vanishing from my memories, so I got into my PC, giving up my last hour to sleep to write this whole thing down. I have been through a minor dry spell of lucids and good recall as I had some very busy days. Yesyterday, Monday the 6th of October 2014 I had the day starting pretty bad, but it had a great ending and I felt today was gonna be a good day, so I wanted to start the day awesomely with a nice lucid. I woke up at 5am and I had memories of a dream (now, with this mega-dream is totally forgotten) and I felt too tired to write it down. I went to the bathroom and then it was very hard for me to fall back asleep (this is not normal, I usually fall asleep fast.) I layed on my back to meditate (since I could not sleep) and I ended up falling asleep. I believe this lucid might have lasted about 1h 30 minutes, as I woke up from it at 7am.

I do not even recall very well the non lucid part with this dream. I have vague memories of being with a friend, who was male and I believe we either were going to meditate or we were going to look for our wives. It was afternoon and it was sunny. We were in a park somewhere and we were about to go to an apartment and have a couple drinks, I believe until our wives met with us. As we were talking, I told him that I felt weird like if I was in a dream, like I did not feel awake. He started to laugh and I rose my hands.

I had six fingers on each hand and no thumbs. Where the thumb was supposed to be I had a very long finger (over than one feet long) and told him, "See! I am dreaming!" I right away started to fly away from him. The dream quality was very high and I realized I was in the suburbs of some town. It was day and the air felt very clean. There was not a single cloud on the sky and I felt happy to have broken the dry spell I had. I immediately recalled I needed to get the ToTM done and so I would collect my wings, and then, I planned to get as many dares as I could also, I wanted to break my record.

I recalled the first one opening a pumpkin and finding what was inside (which ended up being one of the tasks) so I saw a big house with a massive backyard (it was about 30 yards wide) and a lot of pumpkins (also pretty big.) So I floated and landed in the garden. I glided towards the pumpkins and pulled a carving knife out from my pocket (lucky me!)







The pumpkin looked better than this, pretty much perfect and it was standing. As I approached it and carved the top of it, it was loaded with sour strips, different sour candy, some chewing gum and I believe I saw a mithrill vest from the lord of the rings. Even though I saw that, I felt that opening the pumpkin was good enough and wanted to get done other tasks (I did not remember that trying on a costume was another ToTM.) I heard some voices approaching at me and I figured I could do another ToTM, which it was doing trick or treat to the people living in that house (which ended up not being one of the ToTM.) So, I glided silently behind one old woman that was looking where the noise came from and I roared like a vampire. I believe I might had even vamp teeth as she freaked out for a few seconds, but then I announced "Trick or treat!" as I landed again on the ground. The lady started to laugh and to look at me with a smile and she started walking to her house. I followed her, now walking, to collect my treat. There was also an old man at the house asking what was going on.

As she collected the treats (some similar candies as I found inside the pumpkin earlier) I was able to spot a goblet sitting on an altar with two candles:







I figured it would have blood and I would accomplish one of the Advanced tasks of the month (which ended up being another basic task.) I found funny that my dream put that inside this house and if I would not be lucid, I would find these old couple to be very weird, lol. So I just entered the house, and I believe that this old couple was outside, they were okay with me entering the house. I approached at the Goblet and looked inside. Yep, it was blood indeed and I found also some blood over the altar. I just took a sip and it tasted pretty much like blood taste. I did not feel any effects and I was glad about it, but since it was another ToTM I went ahead and celebrated I succeeded at it.

From here, I recalled that I needed to confront my greatest fear through summoning a boggart. I did not feel like doing this, for some reason I felt this could threaten my dream and provide premature awakening, so I passed on this. Since I felt I did accomplish already one advanced task, I was happy (lucky me I completed the bonus, or I would be wearing only one pair of wings...) and I focused on the last ToTM. I recalled it was a bonus tasks to play a made up instrument that does not exist in waking life. I saw laying on the ground like a large semi-transparent stick, made out of plastic. I grabbed it and pretended it was a flute, but the noise it made it was like when you try to blow air through a stick! I figured that was way too lame for a bonus task and I could do better, so I went ahead to the old man and asking him, "Can you please show me an instrument that does not exist in waking life, please?" He smiled and said, sure thing!

He walked me towards the front deck of the house where he had a small portable kitchen. He turned on the fire and placed a brass bowl on the fire, filling it up with water. From here, he got some of these lab tubs and placed them inside the bowl.







All the tubes were standing (despite they were placed in a bowl) and the tubes had different heights. Suddenly, after a small while, vapor started to come out from the tubes, but some tubes would release a denser vapor than others and all these had different tones of white and gray. The old man told me to start blowing through one of the handles on the brass bowl. I figured I would not burn myself. As I started blowing, I could hear some music, but it was a mix of the noises that a boat makes (just not as loud) plus the noise from a harmonica and then I believe from a bag pipe. It was some instrument alright, weird indeed but I was able to pull it off!!

I still had a huge quality of the dream, so I wanted to get some dares also and hit the jackpot. First of all, I wanted to get an easy one done, since I did it on the past, so I went ahead and laid down in bed to WILD within a lucid dream in order to accomplish (Induce a dream within a dream, Inception style (Maxis) ) As I laid down, I felt the dream fading fast, but I focused in just going into a deeper layer of a lucid dream, which I successfully did. I heard some nature sounds but I had no vision, so I demanded for vision. After a while, it came back successfully completing one dare. With this dare done, I recalled that I wanted to look for the blue room that I visited back in 2011 with Dreamer. (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! (Dreamer) ) So I started to look for a way to do this, I noticed I was with my wife and she was acting like hypnotized, she was pretty much motionless and not talking. So I told her to wake up and give me some conversation. We were now in downtown, probably appeared there after from inducing a dream within a dream, so I started to look for a portal or maybe attempt to make one and see where it took me. I heard people crying and screaming and I saw a huge red dragon:







I also recalled that I had to defeat a dragon for one of the anyone lucid dares (which ended up not being one neither) so I glided to the dragon and landed in front of me. He appeared to call down for some reason. I had no clue how was I going to defeat the dragon, so I hopped I had kinetic powers in my dream. I just pointed at him with the palm of my hands and he crashed in another building, roaring in pain and falling to the ground. From there, I believe it either vanished or turned into ashes... some dragon that was... what a disappointment!

I told my wife that the dragon was lame and that I wanted to visit the zoo (Visit a zoo and describe the kinds of animals you come across. (That should be easy but I'm hoping you stumble across interesting or new species ~ NyxCC) I started to walk around downtown and got inside a shopping mall, as for some reason, I felt that I could find a zoo in there. The shopping mall was deserted and there were no people around. I saw a small white building that had a big panel on the top of it that was decorated like if it was a rainforest and I hopped for it to be a zoo. Tough luck, it was not. It was a pet food store that had the appearance of a zoo in order to attract customers. So big bum!

I floated high as I figured I could see the zoo from the high and just fly to it. I found no zoo and I realize this whole downtown was just an island. I also saw that the waves were extremely strong, hitting the beaches entirely and creating small Tsunamis. I felt that something was very wrong with this island and felt I was loosing control of my dream. I saw the waves getting bigger until a massive wave covered my head to the point of seeing the light of the sun to vanish. A few seconds later, I saw all darkness and I could hear some noises of people, but did not see a thing. I also felt my body in bed and I knew I was on the verge of waking up. I started to focus on the dream itself and focus on the sound that people was making in order to anchor back in the dream. I then tried very hard to open my eyes, monitoring if the sounds vanished or got louder (waking vs going deeper in the dream) and I started to see day light, so I was happy as I was still dreaming.

I was standing in the middle of the road and right behind me, there was a white bus, which was parked. I had a good feeling and I walked behind the bus to find this:



I was like, "Awesomeness." That tile wave ported me there. I entered the zoo and recalled I would have no problems at all since it was free (it is the Chicago one that is free, I mixed both) I saw some people monitoring the entrance and we needed to walk through a small machine with a ton of LED lights and a small monochrome screen. I could see a lot of data being stored in there, including my weight and psychic gifts. I figured that since it was free, we were going to get spammed big time on our e-mails at a later time.

The zoo here was indoors and I found mainly lizards. But these lizards looked weird, as they were purple and they had several legs. I also noticed some hens walking around where other people was and I could spot feathers and poop on the floor. There were a lot of people selling stuff and trying to get my attention, but I just keep focusing on the zoo to finish my task properly. I also saw a sheep, but instead of its white fuzzy appearance, it had the skin of an elephant. What a twisted blend my mind was making. I felt that was good enough of a zoo visit (I am not a huge fan of zoos in waking life, but this dream was fun and worth it, thanks for the dare!) so I really wanted to get to meet dreamer and that would accomplish all my current personal dares also.

I wanted to teleport but I was not successful, so I figured I would look for some aid to be able to do this. I started to look for the color blue, and to find a blue room. I found a somewhat blue room so I entered it hopping it would be the room. But it was not, it was a movie theater. They were showing a movie, I believe it was the Fantastic Four, but I did not get distracted. I heard a noise coming from one of the walls. On the walls, I could see different pictures, all art and I found a huge Mona Lisa:







But it was a bit distorted and the vividness of the paint was way more vivid than the real thing. I recalled this was another dare (Jump inside a picture of your choice, what happens? (Hukif) ) So I got excited as I was accomplishing another dare more. I just jump into it and hopped to find the blue world behind this paint. But instead, I have found another theater. I saw a small board that said, "A Secret Theater." I found that mysterious and funny. There were some people watching a different movie. I believe it was either a classic black and white movie or a documentary. But I did not want to focus on that so I kept exploring this room.

On the same corner where the Mona Lisa was on the previous room I saw a small hole on the wall and like someone crossing it. You had to crawl to go through. I started to get more excited and I crossed this hole. I saw some stairs, but these were broken and it was impossible to cross, but since I was dreaming, I just glided through the stairs and walked through a door to reach... yes, you guessed, another theater... and another board that said, "An even more secret theater." There were also people inside, but the people here looked in pretty bad shape, like if they were sitting there for hours or even days, as they were dirty also. I was already getting tired of this theaters, but once again, I saw an even more tiny hole on the whole, and I somehow shrunk myself to go throught it.

I got into a futuristic room, said room had like futuristic tubes that were elevators. I wondered what was going on and that I really wanted to find dreamer. I also found another board here that said, "Magic proof elevators." I was a bit worried that my dream control would not work here for some reason and I figured I could not go further. But a voice said, "You are in the elevator and you will be trapped here." I tried to break free without being successful and the voice announced me that I was going to be tossed in the huge can pools and I had to stay there. I saw four cans on the ground, but these cans were each like a 20 story building, they were massive as I could see hundreds of people swimming on each of them.

Also, the entire room was blue, including the cans and there were blue crystals on the walls and there was a blue mist around. I was tossed in a can with only four-five people. I tried to fly away to look for dreamer but I was not able to do so. I felt bummed as I figured that on the can right in front of us, I would find her because it was loaded with people. While I was looking around, I heard a sweet voice saying, "Percy?" As I looked back, I realized it was Dreamer however, she did not look at all like she is on waking life, she had brown here, blue eyes and two pony tails. She also had very cheeky chicks and was smiling. She wore a brown and green swimsuit. She had a lot of curves and she approached at me. Dreamer told me, "I am glad you finally came." She looked into my eyes and hugged me, giving me a sweet kiss. I felt happy I finally accomplished this one, but my subconscious ended the task for me because Dreamer said, let's open a portal now. I figured it would not work as we were in a magic-proof place (my lucidity was fading fast) Dreamer rose her hand and a small vortex appeared on the edge of the can we were swimming at:







She grabbed my hand and said, "Lets go together through it." As we traveled through it, I reached the crystal cave where I first met with her and she gave me another hug and said she was very happy. I started to look around the cave but suddenly, it became very bright until I woke up.

Soooooooo.... time to make account for all of these from my last dream:

• Two basic tasks of the month... CHECK!
  
  • Open a pumpkin. What do you find inside? - PercyLucid
  • Acquire a cup of blood and drink it. Bonus Wings if the blood is from something supernatural and it changes you (report the effects). - dolphin/OpheliaBlue
• Bonus task of the month... CHECK!
  
  • Create a new song on an instrument that doesn't exist in waking life. - ~ Dreamer ~
• My two personal dares... CHECK!
  
  • 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! (Dreamer)
  • Visit a zoo and describe the kinds of animals you come across. (That should be easy but I'm hoping you stumble across interesting or new species ~ NyxCC
• Two "Anyone" dares... CHECK!
  
  • Induce a dream within a dream, Inception style (Maxis)
  • Jump inside a picture of your choice, what happens? (Hukif)

So... now is time to make new dares... A total of 4 sets of dares... meaning 12vpeople and 4 anyone I'll make 4 easy anyone... so people can get motivated.

spellbee2: The human being believes they have the will do call your home, Pluto, a planet or just a rock. It is time to show to those Earthlings that Pluto is indeed a planet... and that Earth will cease to be one!
Antoia: You are Medusa. Challenge your curser (Athena) and turn her into stone. Then claim her throne.
fogelbise: Travel to the future and report your findings.
Anyone: Take a nice flight at night and enjoy the beauty of downtown.


greendrive: A world ruled by ninjas you say? So be it! Make sure it happens, by all means!
Hyu: Turn into a maniac and obliterate all your enemies... vent off well
JoannaB: Jump into the 2012 movie and stop the Earthquakes.
Anyone: Dive deep into the ocean and report your findings.


SammyTheSnake: Make out with the Queen of England!! (note, she has to look like the real one!)
FryingMan: Create the ultimate beast. Fire, Wind, Water, Lightning, Darkness and Light... the ruler of the elements. Bring mayhem with it.
Hukif: Summon Freddy Kruger and ask him to teach you how to harvest a sleeping soul.
Anyone: Have a nice dialogue (or a fist fight, up to you) with a random Dream Character.


Dreamer: I did not want to load you more... but running out of people here! So my dare is simple (and teorically will not add more workload to you!) You must complete a minimum of three dares (personal, anyone or a mix of both) in a single lucid. You are more than skilled to do this, that way we get these dares done... you guys are slaking
CanisLucidus: Friend? Foe? Traitor? You realize that Dreamer is leeching your dream powers... coming as a friendly DC to your dreams... you must fight her on the ultimate dream battle.. but unfortunately, you perish.
Oneironaut Zero: Stop the Silver Surfer from destroying earth, battle is the only solution. Powers are okay, but no one shot kill... make it a cool epic battle.
Anyone: Steal a car and create a major accident at the freeway.

And that is all folks... Update when you have a chance, Dreamer, sorry I keep you so busy... at least, killing the dragon was not a dare, and kissing you (a DC) was someones else personal dare, so did not count neither hahaha.

As many of you, lately I got too much stress in my WL. So, last night I attempted to do StephL's dare but failed to remember almost everything . Anyway, I'm posting both attempts here, PercyLucid's dare which I consider to be completed although I'll let it to Percy's judgment to decide if it was properly done, and my attempt to find the big broccoli in the temple of fractals Hope it's somehow understandable:

Spoiler for - Asked a DC to help me to put on my shoes:

I see our shoes on the floor, when it comes to my mind PercyLucid's dare! I find the perfect pair of shoes for this task, my beloved shoes from the old days. I take them and go to the balcony to look for my wife to ask her to help me. I know she's there because of it's summer like dreamscape and she uses to study there during those days. She's there, I give her the shoes and ask her to help me to put them on. She looks to me very tender. I sit on the chair, and she put my first shoe on. It's a little bit difficult to put, but finally I have it nicely adjusted to my right foot. Now the another one, I see some laces are inside of it, but I don't care. The same, it takes a little until I have it perfectly adjusted to my foot.

Spoiler for - Attempt to find the big broccoli in the temple of fractals:

I don't remember about the TotM but the lucid dares in stead. I try to remember StephL's dare this time. It was something about taking a walk on a giant broccoli or something related to fractals, but where can I find it? I turn to my right to see there's sort of a temple carved in the stone of a mountain. Of course, I can look for it in the temple of fractals. I go there to get into a huge gate. It's a long corridor flanked by columns, it seems the interior of an abbey.

I look out of the corner of my eye a couple of pictures of fractals at the entrance of this temple. They seem to be a pretty simple structure. It's like they're made of an ECG graph. It's not what I'm looking for. There are a lot of altars between the columns. I think perhaps I can find a picture of the sort of broccoli I was dared to look for. I don't remember its name nor its shape. I see an altar in the style of a colonial cathedral, with pictures around it, and some carvings of people here and there like some Mesopotamian ancient artwork. There's a tiny window with a colorful cathedral glass in the middle. I turn my view to change the shape of the image that forms looking to form the image of the vegetable I'm looking for, although I cannot reconstruct a mental image of how it looked like. I just remember it was something like a raspberry. And that's the pattern that appears on the glass. I don't remember the exact figure as well. I try a couple of times but I cannot reconstruct the image with my movements. Then I decide to turn the whole thing with a single movement. There's a door behind the circular altar. I jump there. It looks like a short hallway, it's all made of wood. There's some stairs at the end. I decide to go there, and cross in front of a door of a room. There's a huge book on a table. I stop to see it. I remember I saw a similar scene in one of my old 'non-induced' lucids, although back then, the room was dark and there were candles next to the book. I want to see what's there. I got to take a look although I forget what it was...

* I don't think there was something related to what I was looking for because of I decided to explore somewhere else, although the dream faded when I was going downstairs.

Romanesco, its name was romanesco!!

Yup, perfectly valid! Great job! You can post your dares

Holy locomotive, Batman! PercyLucid, that may have been the busiest and most productive dream that anyone has ever had...

I love what you found in your pumpkin (mithril vest from LOTR is a big score!) and the musical instrument your DC showed you!

I made some more progress on my own dare last night, though fell short of full success. I had already put on a witch costume for the TOTM, and then found in myself in a suitable forest...

Full DJ entry: October 7, 2014, "Indecisive Witch, Invisible Song"

Spoiler for Enchanted forest:

When people were contributing suggestions for the October TOTMs, I had really liked the one about flying on a broomstick to a witches' gathering, so this was something I had planned to do once I got in costume. But now I wasn't sure. Maybe it would be fun to work on my lucid dare instead, and go startle some elves with my witch costume! I felt indecisive. And in either case I'll have to leave the house, so which door should I use? I've let myself get into the bad habit of being paranoid that leaving the house might destabilize the dream, so I wondered if leaving by a door I don't often use would help bypass this impression. I know that this worry is a wholly self-imposed obstacle—and moreover that it is not supported by the evidence—yet I also know that even letting myself worry about destabilization can have a destabilizing effect!

While I'm standing there trying to make up my mind, I notice that the scenery outside the kitchen door has already begun to change. Replacing the back patio is now a beautiful summer forest, with green leaves, mossy trunks and a clear limpid pool of water on the ground, like a natural spring. The water is only a few inches deep and appears completely transparent and pure. The scene is so lovely that I immediately let go of my pointless worries and go outside to enjoy it, kneeling in the water and running my hands through it, lifting it in my palms and letting it splash back into the pool. I find myself wondering if these surroundings will transform my costume from that of an ugly old green witch into a young beautiful forest witch. And what do we mean by "witch," anyway? I start pondering the question: aren't those two archetypes (ugly old witch and young beautiful witch) from the same tradition? Don't they both imply a woman with an unusually strong connection to the natural world?

I still haven't decided if I want to look for a witch gathering or an elven gathering in this forest, as I think both could conceivably be taking place here. Would the elves resent my presence if I'm still a Halloween-style witch? But if this pool has transformed me into a beautiful forest witch, maybe I would blend right in. (I regret now that it never occurred to me to check my reflection again in the pool! Though I still had the impression that I was wearing the same black dress.)

Once again the dream distracted me from my thoughts, this time by the sound of a voice singing. It was an attractive male voice, a low tenor, drifting from somewhere up above. The pool where I knelt was at the foot of a rocky ledge, at least ten feet high, and it seemed like the main part of the forest was up there. I flew up (I can't recall if I used a broomstick or just levitated as usual) to see if I could locate the singer. I followed the voice and soon found myself in a green mossy glade. I could not see anyone but I could hear the voice distinctly, so I took note of the words:

On the new sensation lying within,
One can ride a stream of water, straight and thin.

There was another half line of verse after this but on waking it faded before I could record it. I think it had something to do with the feeling or awareness produced by the "new sensation" mentioned in the first line. I woke up before I could listen to any more of the song or continue to look for the singer.

Originally Posted by PercyLucid

CanisLucidus: Friend? Foe? Traitor? You realize that Dreamer is leeching your dream powers... coming as a friendly DC to your dreams... you must fight her on the ultimate dream battle.. but unfortunately, you perish.

Sorry, but I'm uncomfortable with both the premise and the task in this dare.

I'm going to have to decline this one. No hard feelings I hope!

Originally Posted by CanisLucidus

Sorry, but I'm uncomfortable with both the premise and the task in this dare.

I'm going to have to decline this one. No hard feelings I hope!

Man... come on!!!! It could have been an amazing task and a fun one! Fighting with your dream partner is also good, helps develop dream skills and won't break your connection with Dreamer!

What if I change "Dreamer" for "PercyLucid" then? Will that be better? Just pick up any DV's member and I will change it. Or if you prefer a different dare altogether, please let me know! Maybe you AND Dreamer vs something else?

Originally Posted by Box77

As many of you, lately I got too much stress in my WL. So, last night I attempted to do StephL's dare but failed to remember almost everything . Anyway, I'm posting both attempts here, PercyLucid's dare which I consider to be completed although I'll let it to Percy's judgment to decide if it was properly done, and my attempt to find the big broccoli in the temple of fractals Hope it's somehow understandable:

Spoiler for - Asked a DC to help me to put on my shoes:

I see our shoes on the floor, when it comes to my mind PercyLucid's dare! I find the perfect pair of shoes for this task, my beloved shoes from the old days. I take them and go to the balcony to look for my wife to ask her to help me. I know she's there because of it's summer like dreamscape and she uses to study there during those days. She's there, I give her the shoes and ask her to help me to put them on. She looks to me very tender. I sit on the chair, and she put my first shoe on. It's a little bit difficult to put, but finally I have it nicely adjusted to my right foot. Now the another one, I see some laces are inside of it, but I don't care. The same, it takes a little until I have it perfectly adjusted to my foot.

Spoiler for - Attempt to find the big broccoli in the temple of fractals:

I don't remember about the TotM but the lucid dares in stead. I try to remember StephL's dare this time. It was something about taking a walk on a giant broccoli or something related to fractals, but where can I find it? I turn to my right to see there's sort of a temple carved in the stone of a mountain. Of course, I can look for it in the temple of fractals. I go there to get into a huge gate. It's a long corridor flanked by columns, it seems the interior of an abbey.

I look out of the corner of my eye a couple of pictures of fractals at the entrance of this temple. They seem to be a pretty simple structure. It's like they're made of an ECG graph. It's not what I'm looking for. There are a lot of altars between the columns. I think perhaps I can find a picture of the sort of broccoli I was dared to look for. I don't remember its name nor its shape. I see an altar in the style of a colonial cathedral, with pictures around it, and some carvings of people here and there like some Mesopotamian ancient artwork. There's a tiny window with a colorful cathedral glass in the middle. I turn my view to change the shape of the image that forms looking to form the image of the vegetable I'm looking for, although I cannot reconstruct a mental image of how it looked like. I just remember it was something like a raspberry. And that's the pattern that appears on the glass. I don't remember the exact figure as well. I try a couple of times but I cannot reconstruct the image with my movements. Then I decide to turn the whole thing with a single movement. There's a door behind the circular altar. I jump there. It looks like a short hallway, it's all made of wood. There's some stairs at the end. I decide to go there, and cross in front of a door of a room. There's a huge book on a table. I stop to see it. I remember I saw a similar scene in one of my old 'non-induced' lucids, although back then, the room was dark and there were candles next to the book. I want to see what's there. I got to take a look although I forget what it was...

* I don't think there was something related to what I was looking for because of I decided to explore somewhere else, although the dream faded when I was going downstairs.

Romanesco, its name was romanesco!!

Well done! I was wondering if it's difficult to dream fractals, but you've been doing it already. Maybe I should give it to you - but I'm nasty - I guess you could also manage to find something fractal-like in 3D and so big as to be able to climb onto. As I said, it need not be a huge Romanesco - you could also find a big fractalic structure from stone - for example in your cathedral. Maybe as the top of a tower? I hope the dream was a bit enjoyable, I remember a quite similar cathedral dream of my own which definitively was.

Originally Posted by Verre

I made an attempt at my dare last night and thought I had a pretty good plan, but woke up before I could get to the forest! Still, it was a cool experience overall because I was trying out a new EILD method using a silent vibrating alarm.

Spoiler for Excerpt related to the dare::

I decided to try StephL's lucid dare (enter an enchanted forest, look for an elven gathering and learn a new song from them), which I thought would pair well with the October bonus TOTM (create a song on a musical instrument that doesn't exist in waking life). No sooner did my thoughts turn to the bonus task than I could actually hear ambient music in the air around me, like notes plucked from a stringed instrument. Perhaps I should have paused and investigated—I could probably have found a suitable instrument to fulfill the task—but I already had a plan in mind for getting to the enchanted forest, so I walked out of the house through the front door.

Traveling to a forest on foot hasn't been working well for me in my TOTY attempts (I tried it in Hansel and Gretel a couple times), so I had been pondering alternate strategies. One possibility simply involved growing trees around me in the house until the environment around me transforms into a forest, but another approach I found appealing was to try to use the little fir tree growing outside the front door as a portal.

It was three or four years ago that I bought this little tree at the grocery store one December and that year used it as a miniature Christmas tree (at the time it was only about two feet tall). Afterwards I put it outside in the front yard. Improbably it thrived, more than doubling in size, and apparently seemed to be doing well with no care other than being watered by the automatic sprinklers that went on briefly every morning, so I left it alone. Then one day I went to move it and discovered the secret reason it was flourishing: its roots had apparently gone right through the bottom of the pot and grown directly into the ground! I am impressed by the resourcefulness of this sapling, so I had the idea of approaching it in a dream and asking it to transport me to the enchanted forest.

When I opened the front door, I was surprised to see snow on the ground. This is probably because last night I was looking up pictures based on the search term "winter forest" to incubate appropriate visual impressions. However, since I live in a climate where snow is impossible (it has been in the nineties the last couple days!), I immediately recognized that this was more evidence of the dream state, so I added a new line to my song: "If there's snow on the ground, it's a dream." Looking over at my little tree, I saw that it was also covered in snow, and added another line, "If there's snow in the branches, it's a dream." Since I was already singing, I saw no reason to stop. I walked over to the tree, grasped its narrow trunk, and requested in song, "Take me to the enchanted forest, the enchanted forest of dream!"

Unfortunately, I promptly woke up.

Full DJ entry: October 5, 2014: "If there's water near the house, it's a dream"

Loving your tree story! Oh actually I loved to read both these dreams in general! Also reminds me of my childhood - when I was born my grandmother planted a pygmy fir tree, but something went wrong with "pygmy" and it was twice my grown-up height when it went under and down with all house and garden. I dream a lot of the place and once explicitly of this fir tree, it's got something symbolic for me - or did at least...

Originally Posted by Verre

Holy locomotive, Batman! PercyLucid, that may have been the busiest and most productive dream that anyone has ever had...

I love what you found in your pumpkin (mithril vest from LOTR is a big score!) and the musical instrument your DC showed you!

I made some more progress on my own dare last night, though fell short of full success. I had already put on a witch costume for the TOTM, and then found in myself in a suitable forest...

Full DJ entry: October 7, 2014, "Indecisive Witch, Invisible Song"

Spoiler for Enchanted forest:

When people were contributing suggestions for the October TOTMs, I had really liked the one about flying on a broomstick to a witches' gathering, so this was something I had planned to do once I got in costume. But now I wasn't sure. Maybe it would be fun to work on my lucid dare instead, and go startle some elves with my witch costume! I felt indecisive. And in either case I'll have to leave the house, so which door should I use? I've let myself get into the bad habit of being paranoid that leaving the house might destabilize the dream, so I wondered if leaving by a door I don't often use would help bypass this impression. I know that this worry is a wholly self-imposed obstacle—and moreover that it is not supported by the evidence—yet I also know that even letting myself worry about destabilization can have a destabilizing effect!

While I'm standing there trying to make up my mind, I notice that the scenery outside the kitchen door has already begun to change. Replacing the back patio is now a beautiful summer forest, with green leaves, mossy trunks and a clear limpid pool of water on the ground, like a natural spring. The water is only a few inches deep and appears completely transparent and pure. The scene is so lovely that I immediately let go of my pointless worries and go outside to enjoy it, kneeling in the water and running my hands through it, lifting it in my palms and letting it splash back into the pool. I find myself wondering if these surroundings will transform my costume from that of an ugly old green witch into a young beautiful forest witch. And what do we mean by "witch," anyway? I start pondering the question: aren't those two archetypes (ugly old witch and young beautiful witch) from the same tradition? Don't they both imply a woman with an unusually strong connection to the natural world?

I still haven't decided if I want to look for a witch gathering or an elven gathering in this forest, as I think both could conceivably be taking place here. Would the elves resent my presence if I'm still a Halloween-style witch? But if this pool has transformed me into a beautiful forest witch, maybe I would blend right in. (I regret now that it never occurred to me to check my reflection again in the pool! Though I still had the impression that I was wearing the same black dress.)

Once again the dream distracted me from my thoughts, this time by the sound of a voice singing. It was an attractive male voice, a low tenor, drifting from somewhere up above. The pool where I knelt was at the foot of a rocky ledge, at least ten feet high, and it seemed like the main part of the forest was up there. I flew up (I can't recall if I used a broomstick or just levitated as usual) to see if I could locate the singer. I followed the voice and soon found myself in a green mossy glade. I could not see anyone but I could hear the voice distinctly, so I took note of the words:

On the new sensation lying within,
One can ride a stream of water, straight and thin.

There was another half line of verse after this but on waking it faded before I could record it. I think it had something to do with the feeling or awareness produced by the "new sensation" mentioned in the first line. I woke up before I could listen to any more of the song or continue to look for the singer.

Whoohoo! Now that's very, very well done! How great that your dream music even comes with actual rhymes - and sensical ones, interpretable ones, beautiful ones!
I could and maybe should give it to you I guess, but since you seem to be a really talented dreamer - I'll be hard on you and wish you good luck to glimpse and maybe interact with your ethereal musicians the next time! But please tell me, if you want to rather move on - it would be quite deserved, if so!




Percy - you're an animal!!
My sincerest admiration! I'm especially fond of your non-existing musical instrument!

Just an update, I've made 4 or 5 attempts at my dare but I haven't been able get my dolphins to destroy anything. This morning I got my dolphin to spit out a good sized fireball at a building but it did no damage whatsoever. Losing hope here...

Well, that sounds like you are close

Did you command that Dolphin and were one/or more under your command? I am very flexible at giving validation to the dares. Making a dolphin throw a fireball is quite a success... despite it destroyed or not a building. I once in a dream made a huge Energy bomb, dragon ball style and it just vanished while touching the ground (despite being huge) so, if you are lucid and you get to start a rebellion, I could give it for valid

And thanks a ton, StephL.

I am very happy from it too, especially because my Patronus spell from last month was lame hahaha. I think from now on, I might ask DCs to help me when I need to make something up like that while hopping they do not go dumb lol.

I told the dolphin to "destroy the city" and immediately afterward it spit out the fireball. Also, a couple of attempts previous to my last, I got one to spit out a laser at a building on command to the same effect.

The attempt before the one last night was actually the closest. I had a whole swarm of dolphins flying in a coastal city after I told them to destroy it. I didn't see any destruction though. I don't know if they were rebelling or just flying around. All I know is there was a time skipping scene change and my dolphin got really tired. I got off it and summoned another one to ride. It was aggressive and bit my arm when I tried to get on it's back to ride it.

Originally Posted by dolphin

I told the dolphin to "destroy the city" and immediately afterward it spit out the fireball. Also, a couple of attempts previous to my last, I got one to spit out a laser at a building on command to the same effect.

The attempt before the one last night was actually the closest. I had a whole swarm of dolphins flying in a coastal city after I told them to destroy it. I didn't see any destruction though. I don't know if they were rebelling or just flying around. All I know is there was a time skipping scene change and my dolphin got really tired. I got off it and summoned another one to ride. It was aggressive and bit my arm when I tried to get on it's back to ride it.

It is interesting trying to get the DCs to do LDer things. It might help to tell them that they are dreaming.

Originally Posted by dolphin

I told the dolphin to "destroy the city" and immediately afterward it spit out the fireball. Also, a couple of attempts previous to my last, I got one to spit out a laser at a building on command to the same effect.

The attempt before the one last night was actually the closest. I had a whole swarm of dolphins flying in a coastal city after I told them to destroy it. I didn't see any destruction though. I don't know if they were rebelling or just flying around. All I know is there was a time skipping scene change and my dolphin got really tired. I got off it and summoned another one to ride. It was aggressive and bit my arm when I tried to get on it's back to ride it.

Well, the big question is. Are you satisfied with these? The focus of this thread is to have fun and sometimes it is hard to adjust a dare to each person. I, in my honest opinion, very satisfied with what you are sharing here, the fireball thing is very cool, same for the whole swarm of dolphins, that is amazing. I personally would give this dare for valid, but please, post the entire dream, I wanna read it! And awesome job mate! Only destruction is missing, the hardest part you've done it! So all valid

I'm way behind on offering my sets of dares. I've done two so I have two sets to offer. This first set is along the theme of "take your lucid medicine, this is good for you!"

OK, PercyLucid, my dare to you: Defeat the "you must move your eyes" schema! Stare deeply and close up into the eyes of a DC for one full minute, count to 60 to be sure you make it. Do not look away! You can make out if you want to (with open eyes). You can move (like "dancing") if you want to.

Sensei: enough stalling now, either: 1) find me in a LD and hold a lightsaber duel, or 2) call me via my amber trump and bring me through to you (or come to me). Bonus Goodness if then we both trump to Amber or call another Amberite and bring them to us or travel to them. Extra bonus points if it's Fiona or Flora, describe what she looks like (infinite bonus points if both, and we go on a "double date" . P.s. I call Fiona, I have a thing for short redheads).

Nfri: Have a long, awesome, vivid LD (20 minutes +) without any supplements in your system.

Everybody: In your next LD, pick one spot pleasing to you and *really*, *deeply* look all around at the dream environment. Do not transform the dream or lay expectation on it, let the dream reveal itself to you. Give it your full attention for as long as you can, spend at least 5 minutes on this spot, or as long as you can. In your DJ describe at least 20 different objects you saw, or fewer things but in great detail. I want to see around a full page of DJ describing your findings.

Originally Posted by FryingMan

Nfri: Have a long, awesome, vivid LD (20 minutes +) without any supplements in your system.

Challenge accepted! Even though my usual supplement-free lucids last roughly 15 minutes I will do my best.

Hahahaha I knew it

I will definitely try that

Originally Posted by Nfri

Challenge accepted! Even though my usual supplement-free lucids last roughly 15 minutes I will do my best.

Yup, I guess he is the Terminator of Schemas. Whether is a believe on REM, on pills or who knows what

Good luck to you also!

I'm satisfied with this:Dolphin Dare - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

I'll try to think of some dares.

Edit:Here's my dares

Ophelia Blue:Go into a DC's home and break a glass object with a high note.
Sensei:Go to the temple of a Tibetan monk and get some tips for lucid dreaming.
PercyLucid:Go into a DC's brain and find a DC representing an emotion.
Anyone:Ride a dolphin while it's jumping out of the water.

Originally Posted by FryingMan

Sensei: enough stalling now, either: 1) find me in a LD and hold a lightsaber duel, or 2) call me via my amber trump and bring me through to you (or come to me). Bonus Goodness if then we both trump to Amber or call another Amberite and bring them to us or travel to them. Extra bonus points if it's Fiona or Flora, describe what she looks like (infinite bonus points if both, and we go on a "double date" . P.s. I call Fiona, I have a thing for short redheads).

Haha, an Amber double date. I am totally gonna duel the crap out of you. It is gonna be awesome. I haven't gotten lucid yet this month, but I am gonna get back on the saddle. I got lots of dreams and I am excited still (good dreams all the time get some).

Originally Posted by dolphin

Sensei:Go to the temple of a Tibetan monk and get some tips for lucid dreaming.

That sounds awesome. Tibet is easy to find too.

Originally Posted by dolphin

I'm satisfied with this:Dolphin Dare - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

I'll try to think of some dares.

Edit:Here's my dares

Ophelia Blue:Go into a DC's home and break a glass object with a high note.
Sensei:Go to the temple of a Tibetan monk and get some tips for lucid dreaming.
PercyLucid:Go into a DC's brain and find a DC representing an emotion.
Anyone:Ride a dolphin while it's jumping out of the water.

I accept and very interesting task!! Looks very challenging Let's see if I pull it off!

Also, I will edit the OP since Dreamer is having some net issues, that way is updated. I am heading now to bed, so I will do it tomorrow. thinking about how the heck I am going to get inside a brain hahaha... Maybe after staring at her for over one minute... we will see!

Okay, so the first post is updated since Dreamer is busy now

- Check it out and let me know if I screwed up.
- I will keep updating it daily, if there are changes of course, otherwise it takes ages if too many dares get done without updating!
- CanisLucidus: I have not heard from you mate, so I posted the dare but I replaced "Dreamer" for "Choose a DV member" Let me know if its fine now.

And well... It is already dig in my subconscious the next dares I need to complete Last night I had some non lucids that they were somewhat related to the newest dares I need to complete! But did not succeed last night hheheh.

Oh shart I forgot about this. Where do I jump in now?