Thread: Lucid Dares

Did 2 dares last night:
• Cause your visual field to slowly rotate 180 degrees, (do this by floating in air and causing your body to rotate to a fully upside down position while changing the visuals to be upside down) (Sivason)
• Change night to day. (Sivason)

I didn't even think about the second one, lol, but I was rereading through my dares and saw that.

Spoiler for Dream:

So all during the night I kept being interrupted and not being able to have any dreams, I would approach a dream and then I would wake up due to the kids or noises etc. I finally start approaching a dream and start getting excited. I calm myself and start my mantra, I am dreaming, I am dreaming. I end up in Disney World/My Work. I don't know why they were connected or where Disney World came from, but I looked at all the rides and calmed myself. I remembered the dare to rotate my vision 180 degrees. I see the brick wall of my work and decide I should do this higher up. I am losing the dream a bit, so I rub my hands together and decide to climb the wall and keep my mind on the dream substance. I lean back so that It looks like the wall of the store is the floor and I set my knee down, then my other knee and then both hands. I crawl up the wall like Spiderman and when I get to the to I put my hands over and crawl like you normally would over a ledge. I look down and notice that I am not standing on the roof. I float down and rub my hands together more since the dream still seems a bit unstable. I look at the sky and see that only one part has anything in it. Some clouds and the moon are to the west. I lift my feet up (as if there was something that was holding the rest of my body up and start rotating). I notice that as I rotate counterclockwise my whole vision rotates the other way. Not quite right. I spin the rest of the way and land. I notice that I landed in the building somehow. I look out the window and decide to make it daytime. I reach to the sky and imagine it being connected to my hands. I pull it up and try to change the night to day. Nothing. :/ I look back inside and try to remember it being daytime, I spin back to the window and the sun is rising. I then realize that I am outside the window and back on the roof again (somehow the same exact place). I don't remember going back to flying, but I decide to try again with the rotating and it works this time. The sky on the ground and the ground the sky I start falling down towards the sky. I decide to keep flying to the sun. I am facing east this time (you know, towards the rising sun), and towards Disney Land. I start the rotating continually and feeling gravity and my viewpoint shift over and over. For some reason I find this hilarious and start laughing like a madman. I notice that I must be a weird site. A rotating flying man slowly flying about 10 meters up laughing like a maniac. I decide to land and notice some friends of mine. I want to see what they are doing... (the rest of the dream had a lot of hanging out)

Originally Posted by Sensei

Did 2 dares last night:
• Cause your visual field to slowly rotate 180 degrees, (do this by floating in air and causing your body to rotate to a fully upside down position while changing the visuals to be upside down) (Sivason)
• Change night to day. (Sivason)

I didn't even think about the second one, lol, but I was rereading through my dares and saw that.

Spoiler for Dream:

So all during the night I kept being interrupted and not being able to have any dreams, I would approach a dream and then I would wake up due to the kids or noises etc. I finally start approaching a dream and start getting excited. I calm myself and start my mantra, I am dreaming, I am dreaming. I end up in Disney World/My Work. I don't know why they were connected or where Disney World came from, but I looked at all the rides and calmed myself. I remembered the dare to rotate my vision 180 degrees. I see the brick wall of my work and decide I should do this higher up. I am losing the dream a bit, so I rub my hands together and decide to climb the wall and keep my mind on the dream substance. I lean back so that It looks like the wall of the store is the floor and I set my knee down, then my other knee and then both hands. I crawl up the wall like Spiderman and when I get to the to I put my hands over and crawl like you normally would over a ledge. I look down and notice that I am not standing on the roof. I float down and rub my hands together more since the dream still seems a bit unstable. I look at the sky and see that only one part has anything in it. Some clouds and the moon are to the west. I lift my feet up (as if there was something that was holding the rest of my body up and start rotating). I notice that as I rotate counterclockwise my whole vision rotates the other way. Not quite right. I spin the rest of the way and land. I notice that I landed in the building somehow. I look out the window and decide to make it daytime. I reach to the sky and imagine it being connected to my hands. I pull it up and try to change the night to day. Nothing. :/ I look back inside and try to remember it being daytime, I spin back to the window and the sun is rising. I then realize that I am outside the window and back on the roof again (somehow the same exact place). I don't remember going back to flying, but I decide to try again with the rotating and it works this time. The sky on the ground and the ground the sky I start falling down towards the sky. I decide to keep flying to the sun. I am facing east this time (you know, towards the rising sun), and towards Disney Land. I start the rotating continually and feeling gravity and my viewpoint shift over and over. For some reason I find this hilarious and start laughing like a madman. I notice that I must be a weird site. A rotating flying man slowly flying about 10 meters up laughing like a maniac. I decide to land and notice some friends of mine. I want to see what they are doing... (the rest of the dream had a lot of hanging out)

I love it! Great job.

Originally Posted by sivason

I love it! Great job.

Thanks. it was loads of fun. I have been focusing on a different part of dreams lately and it was nice to just have some fun messing with things instead of forcing some dream control that isn't coming easily (my inventory).

There was another attempt at my dare last night (find and interact with a red panda). I had been lucidly climbing down a tall apartment building which was pretty fun. When I reached the ground, I remembered I needed to find a temple so I asked a bird flying by to bring me there (see, I decided I would find the red panda in a temple). So at first, I could only remember needing to find a temple. The dream started transitioning, it was all dark. I remembered the reason why I wanted to go to a temple. I wanted to find a red panda. So I asked for that. I said to the darkness "I need to find a red panda." The answer was: "How can it be found if it is a panda?" I just repeated that the panda was red and then, I was walking on all fours on an invisible floor of polished wood until a theater appeared. The theater only appeared as a picture at first. Next time, I need to remember it's not about what I say I want. I have to use focused attention and imagination. So, I should have disregarded the theater picture and tried to imagine the temple instead. I am always too much on a rush to get back to a dream.

Originally Posted by Occipitalred

Next time, I need to remember it's not about what I say I want. I have to use focused attention and imagination. So, I should have disregarded the theater picture and tried to imagine the temple instead. I am always too much on a rush to get back to a dream.

Want a tip on mind set?

Do not disregard the theater. Use this mind set:

"It is interesting that this temple has a theatre in it. Oh, well that makes lots of sense. It is obvious that a temple needs a central area where cerimonies take place. Nice! I am here in the theatre of the temple. I think the temple garden where the panda is was just outside of the theatre/cermony room. Yes, I remember that from last time (insert false memory, yep panda, theater, garden, yep that is how it was) so I am here! Lets go see the panda just out side that gate (turn knowing you remember the garden gate is just to the left)

Thanks, I like that false memory technique.

I'll think about it before going to bed, see if I pick up on it in the dreamworld. I don't think I would have had the opportunity last night because I lost lucidity about then. I don't know if I was focusing too much on the dream environment and not enough on myself. This could follow with Sageous' philosophy that self-awareness is primordial. I should also have kept thinking about how I fitted in the whole thing. I was only looking for visual clues.

Originally Posted by ~Dreamer~

I DARE Box77:
Enter a room full of DCs and freeze time to pause them all. Move someone into an awkward/incriminating position, stand back, and unfreeze. Describe the DCs' reactions.

Thank you so much!!! I just hope to get lucid around a bunch of distracted DC's to have some fun...

I completed a DARE!!!!

Spoiler for Super Exciting AMAZING DARE!:

It was telekinesis.

Use telekinesis. (PercyLucid)

I saw a group of chairs that were outside a cafe and I used telekinesis to do one easy dare. I made a chair fly into the air with my mind powers and then I made it fly off into the distance at super speed.

I also attempted Jenkees' Dare:

Explore a light-painted forest/jungle with glowing plants and animals (could be similar to the night time scenes of Pandora in Avatar) (Jenkees)

Spoiler for Light Painted Forest Attempt:

I walked down a dirt path and I came to a small group of trees. I tried to illuminate the various plant life with a multicoloured glow. It wasn't working very well and there were only maybe 8 trees so I decided to try that dare another time.

Does anyone want to be dared?

Fart Cream

Originally Posted by AnotherDreamer

Does anyone want to be dared?

Yes dare please! I'm addicted lmao

I would like dares as well.

Originally Posted by AnotherDreamer

Does anyone want to be dared?

Me too, although I still have one I haven't completed (your dare of befriending a mythical, mystical or nonexistent animal, which I attempted but all I got was a werewolf with bright purple eyes and a long skinny body with light grey hair and it was instantly my friend but as it wasn't necessarily a werewolf, it could've been just a wolf, I'm gonna try again).

I Dare:

blobularwindmil: Get sucked up into a tornado... made of jelly beans!
dolphin: Be pampered by a large team of servants that will do anything you ask of them.
littlepooky04: Go on a hot date with a celebrity of your choice.

Originally Posted by littlepooky04

Me too, although I still have one I haven't completed (your dare of befriending a mythical, mystical or nonexistent animal, which I attempted but all I got was a werewolf with bright purple eyes and a long skinny body with light grey hair and it was instantly my friend but as it wasn't necessarily a werewolf, it could've been just a wolf, I'm gonna try again).

That wolf sounds pretty mythical to me! I would say that counts, unless you really want to try again.
Man, a werewolf with bright, purple eyes, that must have been awesome. :canislucidus:

Originally Posted by AnotherDreamer

blobularwindmil: Get sucked up into a tornado... made of jelly beans!

Omg, taste the rainbow!! tornado!! (I know that's Skittles' thing but whatever.. lol)

Does anyone want dares? I have 6 to give away from my aforementioned dream.

Originally Posted by Sensei

Does anyone want dares? I have 6 to give away from my aforementioned dream.

Sure!

May I have another dare as well? Pleeeeeeeze???

Here. I'm great at coming up with dares. Sure you can dare me back. It will only take me about 6 months to complete your dare.

Dolphin find Amelia Earheart and ask her why she disappeared.

Thanks AnotherDreamer and JadeGreen for the dares! Motivation ^^^

I'll try to summon a large team of Barbie doll servants to help me find Amelia Earheart.

Blobularwindmil
Get on DV and then on this thread in a dream and then read the dream that you put up as completing this dare. Haha.

Dolphin.
Go to your first... Lucid. Not the first lucid, but the lucid dream that made you look up dreaming. Then make everything happen the way it happened the first time, but to a different version of you (the version of you back then). Make sense? I can explain better if not.

Everyone Dare
Play your favorite video game in a dream. Teleport there, or just play it on a console, whichever way you feel comfortable (I generally do both at the same time).

Thanks for the dare, Sensei! It makes sense to me; basically I'm trying to create the lucid that made me look up dreaming as accurately as possible, down to my thoughts back then. I don't remember the lucid clearly as I never wrote it down but I know what made me look up dreaming was to find out how to summon a certain crush in my dreams.

I completed 2 lucid dares!

• Summon ~Dreamer~ and ask her to give you a dare. Fulfill whatever she requests. (Dolphin)
• Get naked in front of a DC (Dreamer)

I haven't decided who I'll dare/what the dares will be yet, but I will soon, probably.

Naked Burrito

I'm still so hung up on my first dare ("Walk into a deep enchanted forest and find an elven jollification - join in with their ethereal singing and elaborate dancing!") that I haven't made any progress on the others. StephL kindly even gave me a completion based on an earlier attempt, but I was annoyed that I never saw the elves who were singing, so I've kept stubbornly trying to work on it. Well, it turns out elves are extremely elusive! I made another attempt last night and had an extraordinary dream, but still no elves! (I should get started on my newer dares from PercyLucid and see if mermaids or dwarves are more obliging!)

What I most enjoyed about last night's dream was how I managed to stay lucid and focused on my task even while being caught up in whatever bizarre plot I had stumbled into. I almost wish I had spent less time looking for elves and more time trying to figure out what the hell was actually going on!

Full dream: Castle Infiltration

Portion relevant to lucid dare:

Spoiler for No elves:

I wondered if I should leave the house to perform my next task. I'm still working on my lucid dare, which requires me to find an camp of elves in the forest and join them in making music. My initial impulse was to leave my house and look for the forest, but that hasn't worked well before, so this time I thought I would to try a different approach and transform the environment around me rather than bodily leaving it. I looked around the room for another plant suitable for my experiment and was pleased to discover a spindly sapling with lots of thin twigs tipped with narrow yellow flowers growing in a pot. I went over to it and commanded "Rego herbam," commanding it to grow into a tall tree. Nothing happened at first, but eyeing its numerous twigs I had another idea for how to use it.

The sapling was slightly taller than I was, so I backed up against it and pulled its flexible branches around me to create the visual impression that I was surrounded by a thicket, once again commanding "Rego herbam." The trick worked! The twigs filling my field of vision became a real thicket in which I found myself hiding on a hillside, trying to remain unseen as I peered down at a large camp of about two dozen people occupying a cleared basin just below me. I hoped they were elves! But they didn't seem merry, and I didn't hear any music. They were dressed in muted earthtones and went about their business grimly.

I can't remember if I actually observed the camp being raided, but by some means I understood that this was a camp of rebels whose people were being oppressed and frequently captured and sold into slavery by the inhabitants of a nearby castle. I was aware that had several been taken away recently, and decided that the best way to ingratiate myself with the camp would be to rescue them. So I transported myself into the castle dungeon and began to search for the captives.

The first door I opened led to an empty room, though it definitely looked like a classic dungeon, with rough-hewn and filthy stone floor and walls. Returning to the corridor, I saw that there were lots of identical doors, and I didn't think I had time to try them all, so I let instinct guide me to another door across the hall. At first this seemed promising: there was very little light filtering in through the tiny windows high in the wall, and in the shadows I thought I saw four figures manacled to the walls around the room. As I walked in, planning to free them, I found that either my eyes had decieved me, or the dream had shifted: the manacles were there, but this room was just as empty as the last. It made me wonder if what I had seen were the ghosts of past prisoners.

As I went to leave the room, I was startled to discover that the door was now half-blocked by a chest-high mound of stone rubble. I started to climb over but it was too steep, and afterward the blockade looked even higher, taller than I was. If I didn't act soon I would be completely walled in! So I mustered my concentration and simply pushed through the pile of rocks. The stone felt very resistant and I had to use all my strength, but finally burst through into the hallway. I was surprised how exhausted I felt after this feat. Given that it was a dream, it shouldn't be any harder to move "rocks" than anything else, but I felt completely spent. While I paused to regain my strength, I heard people approaching from around a corner to my left. There was no time to get away, so I simply held very still in the doorway and concentrated on being invisible to them.

There were three people in all. One person passed by without giving any sign of seeing me. Two others followed, walking together, and to my consternation they stopped at the door, right in front of me. Although they didn't seem to see me, something appeared to have caught their attention (the dislodged rocks?) because one of them pulled out a handheld device and started waving it in my direction as though scanning something. I wondered what would happen if they tried to walk through the doorway. I still seemed to be invisible, but would they be able to pass right through my body? Or would they bump into me? I decided not to risk it, and I was also a little worried that the scanner might detect my presence, so I reached out and grabbed one of the people with each hand. I willed them both to fall unconscious, and they slumped to the ground. The one to the left was a woman dressed in "business casual," while the guy to the right appeared to be a uniformed security guard. I immediately knelt down and hastily stripped the latter of all the tech I could find on his body: earpiece, cellphone, and a few other little widgets that I didn't recognize. I thought I heard another person coming down the hall, so I transformed into a bird and flew out one of the small barred windows high up on the walls.

The castle was on a gently sloping hillside, and I was now flying over a wide rural landscape. At the base of the hill was a wooded region, and far beyond that I could see the curve of the ocean shore. I figured I would still be able to find my way back to the camp, since I had just come from there, so I let memory or instinct guide me. Meanwhile I focused on making sure I was flying properly, since I haven't spent much time in bird form. I alternated between flapping my wings and holding them stiff and outstretched so that I could glide on the wind. I felt like a large bird of prey, and I was clutching the tech I had just stolen in my talons.

I flew over the forest until I saw a clearing below that looked familiar. Descending felt very realistic, because I was circling just like a raptor would, wide at first and then in a narrowing spiral until I landed. To get the attention of the people in the camp, I decided that I should not be an ordinary brown eagle, but a white eagle. Apparently this drew a little too much attention, because on the way down I discovered that someone was shooting arrows at me. I decided I could use this to make my entrance particularly impressive, so at the very moment that I touched the ground I not only turned back into a woman, I also grabbed an arrow that was about to hit me right out of the air.

Earlier I had not made sure whether or not the people in the camp actually were elves, and now that I look around at closer range, I see only round human ears. I approach a couple people who are talking authoritatively, like leaders of the group. One is a capable looking woman with short, dirty-blonde hair. I ask her if there are any elves in the camp, thinking to myself that if I do find some, I'll give them the tech I stole as a friendly gesture. No one can specifically point to any elves, so I ask, well, who was shooting at me? I figure that if there is an elf, it might well have been the one lobbing arrows. The woman points across the camp. Following her gesture, I notice a slight figure huddled on a bench, completely wrapped in a dark grey blanket.

I walk over and lean down in front of the figure, trying to gently tug the blanket aside to reveal its face. It seems shy, hiding its face under the blanket like this, but I soon discover the reason. As I begin to reveal its features, they are the last thing I would have expected. The head is made of molded transparent plastic, with a suggestion of human features on the outside and circuitboards within. It is an android!

The android has a high, almost childish voice, and evidently feels very bashful about its unusual appearance. It tries to prevent me from pulling back the blanket, protesting, "I look repulsive."

I completely disagree, and tell it so: "No you don't. You look amazing." It reluctantly lets me tease aside the blanket to reveal its whole head.

At this point a man walks up to us. He looks to be in his forties, balding, a bit stocky in build, and with rounded features, kind of resembling Rob Corddry. From his dress and demeanor, I immediately intuit that he is the creator of this android. I realize that he would be the ideal person to give the tech I stole from the castle guard.

"I have something for you," I say without preamble, and fill his hands with the little pile of objects.

He looks delighted. "This will be really useful."

We start chatting a bit about the android, and I ask if he knows where to find any elves. He's not aware of any in the camp, but I overhear a snippet of conversation from people standing nearby that I think might be relevant to my question; one of them mentions a place called "Junkyard Bay" and I resolve to check it out.

"What's your name?" I ask the inventor. I feel a bit silly always asking this of DCs, but I like to know.

"Dira," he says. That's how I assumed it was spelled, but from the pronunciation it could just as easily be "Deera." He asks mine, and I tell him.

Dira is looking at me like he finds me really familiar, but can't figure out where he knows me from. "We haven't spoken before this? No beer? No comfort?"

I am perplexed by his laconic queries until I realize that he's asking if he might have met me in a bar or a brothel. I might have been offended at the implications if I weren't so fascinated by his distinctive manner of speaking, so unlike my own speech patterns. How could a DC, a projection of my own mind, demonstrate linguistic traits so utterly unlike my own, to the point where it took me a moment to make sense of what he was saying? It was one of those moments that make me wonder if my reductionist assumptions are correct, but I'm not ready to go down the path of madness without better evidence than this.

I shake my head, since I'm pretty sure I've never met him in either dream or waking life. He asks my name another time, and I repeat it. I've been using my WL name, having forgotten my former resolution to use an alias with DCs.

Dira starts explaining something about the locals: "What's particularly important for the native Ukaran communities is the..." there was more, but it was complicated, and I was still trying to figure out what was going on.

"Ukaran?" I ask, to make sure I heard correctly.

"Yes, the Ukaran and the Utankaran."

I had the impression that he was implying that the Ukarans were the people in this camp, and I'd already seen the problems that they were facing—oppression and human trafficking on the part of the people in the castle. I wondered if the oppressors were the Utankarans. The similarity in their names suggested that they were closely related but (in the manner of such things) probably deeply opposed social groups.

I completed my dare of bringing Barbie dolls to life and seeing them interact with each other.

Barbie doll dare - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

I completed my dare of being pampered by a large team of servants. They only fulfilled one of my three demands, though. DC control is not one of my strengths. It was fun, though!

Servants dare - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views