Thread: Personal Lucid Task Club

Had 2 LDs this night.

Both collapsed within 3 seconds of becoming lucid, even though I was calm, and paid lots of attention to the enviroment.

So.. Still no progress..

Originally Posted by JussiKala

Had 2 LDs this night.

Both collapsed within 3 seconds of becoming lucid, even though I was calm, and paid lots of attention to the enviroment.

So.. Still no progress..

But you're getting there at least. 2 short lucids > none at all good luck

Yea, don't get too frustrated. Experienced people may become lucid, acknowledge their lucidity in their dream, and then wake up. I've read it
more than once. The thing about categorizing your lucid dreams as lucid is that you can see exactly how many times a month you go lucid...on average.

Remember that intention is a major part of going lucid. I know someone who practices all day awareness. Think about lucidity every 10 minutes.
Do an RC every 10 minutes or imagine yourself flying, or proclaim, "Hey, I'm dreaming," every 10 minutes.

There are other things you can do if that is too intense. Talk to a dream guide--but whatever you do, appreciate the lucid moments. They are important.

I've had 7 seconds of lucidity within the past 2 months.

It's hard to appreciate that, but I appreciate my progress anyhow. 2 years ago, I could remember one dream per 2 months. Now I'm remembering 2 dreams per night.

Let's see where this takes me. I'm the complete opposite of a natural dreamer, but I'm getting better.

Originally Posted by JussiKala

I've had 7 seconds of lucidity within the past 2 months.

It's hard to appreciate that, but I appreciate my progress anyhow. 2 years ago, I could remember one dream per 2 months. Now I'm remembering 2 dreams per night.

Let's see where this takes me. I'm the complete opposite of a natural dreamer, but I'm getting better.

I understand completely. Play games. Turn lights off--then "shoot fireballs" from your
hand as you turn on the light. The important thing here is active intent. It didn't even
work for me, but it did effect a dream, and it will be better than nothing. Plus, you should
repeat this many times--this or other exercises. Do reality checks. Personally, I think it is better to look up in waking life and say, "Hey, I'm dreaming!" than to say, "Am I dreaming?"

Either way, have active intention.

I just had a dream where I saw a picture of a young lady holding up a hand with 6 fingers. I knew it had to do with lucidity. I did not become lucid. I have been averaging 2 lucids a month, but am dry this month.

Keep intending. That is the best this non-dream-guide can offer.

OK. What do I exactly have to do here?

JussiKala

Besides of what was told by Rman.
My best advice... Keep focused on dreaming. Keep focused on your goal and the reward of such goal. Keep goals accordingly with your abilities... if you are in the position of seconds of lucidity... make sure your goal is have short fly... or something very basic. That way, you will have a do-able goal and you will not get frustrated.

With your recall, having short LDs and with your positivism, you are closer than you imagine.

Perlinfalcon
You call it... Something inspirational, maybe?

Originally Posted by Rman

I understand completely. Play games. Turn lights off--then "shoot fireballs" from your
hand as you turn on the light. The important thing here is active intent. It didn't even
work for me, but it did effect a dream, and it will be better than nothing. Plus, you should
repeat this many times--this or other exercises. Do reality checks. Personally, I think it is better to look up in waking life and say, "Hey, I'm dreaming!" than to say, "Am I dreaming?"

Either way, have active intention.

I just had a dream where I saw a picture of a young lady holding up a hand with 6 fingers. I knew it had to do with lucidity. I did not become lucid. I have been averaging 2 lucids a month, but am dry this month.

Keep intending. That is the best this non-dream-guide can offer.

I'm currently planning on ADA, analyzing my dream journal for common elements that are not included in my daily life (most likely not going to find any. Need more dreams, only 40 recorded now), and reality checking whenever I feel like something is wrong, and doubting reality.

I do think my logical thinking has improved. The last lucid, I became aware of the dream when my friend wore a pink shirt. That is something that would never happen IRL. Then I got confirmation when I saw two of him creeping up behind me. I managed to do the nose pinch RC. Did it just to experience it in dream, since that had only happened once before.

Then the dream collapsed.

My lucid goal here was just a simple one: to count my fingers. In itself, it's nothing. But as a goal it means something. It would be the first thing I would actually remember to do within an LD. Once I get that done, I can move on to something better.

We'll see where it goes. Probably should stop derailing the thread now.

Originally Posted by PercyLucid

OK. What do I exactly have to do here?

Since you seem to be in control of your lucids, and this thread allows you to choose your own dream goals and discuss them,
I would say you can do what ever you want!

I only remembered that I had a personal dream goal in 1 lucid, and I don't have many anyway, so I need to be a little more efficient.

Originally Posted by JussiKala

I'm currently planning on ADA, analyzing my dream journal for common elements that are not included in my daily life (most likely not going to find any. Need more dreams, only 40 recorded now), and reality checking whenever I feel like something is wrong, and doubting reality.

I do think my logical thinking has improved. The last lucid, I became aware of the dream when my friend wore a pink shirt. That is something that would never happen IRL. Then I got confirmation when I saw two of him creeping up behind me. I managed to do the nose pinch RC. Did it just to experience it in dream, since that had only happened once before.

Then the dream collapsed.

My lucid goal here was just a simple one: to count my fingers. In itself, it's nothing. But as a goal it means something. It would be the first thing I would actually remember to do within an LD. Once I get that done, I can move on to something better.

We'll see where it goes. Probably should stop derailing the thread now.

Hey, it is something good to bring here. For what I see this thread is to learn and grow... so it is good for you and for others to share your improvements and such.

Originally Posted by Rman

Since you seem to be in control of your lucids, and this thread allows you to choose your own dream goals and discuss them,
I would say you can do what ever you want!

I only remembered that I had a personal dream goal in 1 lucid, and I don't have many anyway, so I need to be a little more efficient.

Mmmmmmmmmm.... nothing really, metaphysical goals mainly. Call something (No birds tho )

Originally Posted by PercyLucid

Mmmmmmmmmm.... nothing really, metaphysical goals mainly. Call something (No birds tho )

That sound almost ambivalent. You have achieved the TotM and the TotY, now you are
moving on the the Personal Lucid Task thread, but...mmmm...you don't really have any goals? Maybe a metaphysical goal--call something? I don't know.

Why don't you make up a short poem in your dream. I love dream creativity.

Imagine Mozart hearing a symphony in a dream? I made up a portion of a decent song, both lyric and tune, in a dream. It is really strange to wake up with free song. I mean, I have written in waking life and it's hard.

Since i've recently been having a lot of Lucids (although they either faded in a few seconds or were not vivid). I've made some goals for them. The ones in my sig are mostly my long term goals, but the first few I'd like to accomplish soon.

Originally Posted by Rman

That sound almost ambivalent. You have achieved the TotM and the TotY, now you are
moving on the the Personal Lucid Task thread, but...mmmm...you don't really have any goals? Maybe a metaphysical goal--call something? I don't know.

Why don't you make up a short poem in your dream. I love dream creativity.

Imagine Mozart hearing a symphony in a dream? I made up a portion of a decent song, both lyric and tune, in a dream. It is really strange to wake up with free song. I mean, I have written in waking life and it's hard.

Here... I am not into songs... but I did something

09.05.2011

Composing a song I (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was driving my car and going to the mall with my wife. It was night, very late, but for some reason the mall was open and full of cars. The cars were driving recklessly and it was hard to park, there were little to no parking spots left.

I parked in a place but I was not well parked, so I decided to park in other spot. I parked in reverse gear so it would be faster to get out when I was back. However, I noticed that after parking, I was parked in drive... I told my wife and she said it was OK. I told her no way, I was parked in reverse. I pointed at the gears and said, "See... it is on reverse!" When I noticed it was on Drive...

I told her I was dreaming, that this was making no sense at all. My wife started complained and got mad at me. She started arguing that I was wasting valuable time. I started to fly and left my "wife" speaking and shouting in the middle of the now empty parking lot.

I took a flight but realized my dream was stable and clear enough. While I was flying I started to recall that I needed to do something that was requested over Dreamviews... I took me a while to remember, until I remembered Rman told me to compose something in a dream. I found it funny because I am not into music at all, and neither into poetry.

I chanted the following:

- Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiireeeeeeee eeeeeee, oh fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiireeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
- oh fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiireeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, of fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiireeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
- great fire, that burns it all
- like the phoenix..... I rose....... from fiiiiiireeeeeeee"

I decided it was good signing and enough. I decided to look for Amity. I got to a big lot with signs. It was day now and I could see on a sign, "This is Amity: We are astrally connected, we always have been. I influence and change my dream world, so you do on mine"

I flew for a while more until my dream started to vanish, so I decided to L-DEILD

09.05.2011

More Fire song (DEILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I had a FA in my room. I found funny that my L-DEILD technique failed, as it was fail-proof... I decided to write down my dreams, so I went to the kitchen table and opened the microwave for light... but it never opened.

I looked around and my vision was very blurry, found it out but I thought I might be tired. My wife woke up and said what I was doing up in the middle of the night. I told her the Microwave was not working, that I might been dreaming. She told me to stop talking junk and to go back to bed, that the microwave always worked bad (it does on my dreams, lol) I told her that I did not feel awake. I jumped a couple times but did not levitate. My wife got mad at me and started to talk out loud. I showed her my hand and told me, "So, having four tiny fingers is normal for you?" She said, "Yes" and kept complaining I just crushed the door and left flying while my wife was arguing.

It was day now and I decided to fly at high speed. I was about to look for Amity when I reached a big home where I met with my brother. I told my brother to compose a song about fire for me, to make my song longer.

My brother said he needed inspiration. I invited him to do pyrokinesis. His hands started to release smoke, but never fire. However, he said:

- Oh fiiiiiiiiiiireeeeeeeeee,
you destroy treeeeeeeeeeeeees,
make them fall
crash some trains
carrying teeeeeeeeees!

My brother said he needed a fire costume. He said he needed to go home to look for one. I touched him hoping his outfit would change, without success. He insisted in leaving. I told him that he was not my real brother as we were not sharing a dream. If he left, he would vanish. He left so I decided to fly away and look for Amity when I woke up.

Originally Posted by PercyLucid

Here... I am not into songs... but I did something...

This entire post just made my night!

Lucidity seems to come easily to you. I envy you that so much, but that is obvious on
this forum.

I love the song, ridiculous as it is, because it is so-o typical for a dream. I assume all the eeeeeee's are long eeeeee's? Then, you LDEILD (whatever that is...maybe you'll clue me in) and ask a DC to come up with more...just awesome. You are coming up with a song via a third party. Lol!

Thanks Percy

L-DEILD stands for Lucid-Dream Exit Induced lucid dream. Pretty much is starting to WILD as you witness your very lucid dream crumbling.
As my brother was a dream character, I asked my conscious to come up with more.

Yep, it was long eeeee. I just sang it recalling from the dream and that piece of song last exactly 22 seconds, so figure the eees

Thanks for the compliments! I almost forgot though... I queued in the dream for a few moments trying to recall it.

And my "brother's" piece, 12 seconds.
But I though you were going to LMAO on me, because the song is terrible, lol... it is the first time I sang on a lucid dream

Originally Posted by PercyLucid

And my "brother's" piece, 12 seconds.
But I though you were going to LMAO on me, because the song is terrible, lol... it is the first time I sang on a lucid dream

I thought it was pretty epic
You should record it IRL

Originally Posted by Anthonyyy0

I thought it was pretty epic
You should record it IRL

Anthonyy0,

Don't you prefer IWL (In Waking Life)? My dreams are real life!

Originally Posted by PercyLucid

L-DEILD stands for Lucid-Dream Exit Induced lucid dream. Pretty much is starting to WILD as you witness your very lucid dream crumbling.
As my brother was a dream character, I asked my conscious to come up with more.

Yep, it was long eeeee. I just sang it recalling from the dream and that piece of song last exactly 22 seconds, so figure the eees

Thanks for the compliments! I almost forgot though... I queued in the dream for a few moments trying to recall it.

Yea, I was laughing about the song, but being a dream song, my expectation is not what it would be in waking life, so no, can't laugh at you--I'll
laugh with you.

Originally Posted by Rman

Anthonyy0,

Don't you prefer IWL (In Waking Life)? My dreams are real life!

I've never thought of that. It does make more sense though

Percy:

Your dream was absolutely hilarious. I love the song! It's so stupid! i hope that's not an insult. I just love stupid dream songs.

So, usually this thread is for people to make up their own goals. I can see you are really not that interested in that. I guess that's not that surprising considering you are a natural lucid dreamer and have probably used up a lot of ideas and find it harder to challenge yourself.

But I really like reading about how you accomplish goals and I would like to keep you involved in this thread. So can we say that your personal lucid task is to achieve goals that you choose from our suggestions on this thread? It's kind of fudging the rules a little, but I'd like to keep you around.

Originally Posted by PercyLucid

Mmmmmmmmmm.... nothing really, metaphysical goals mainly. Call something (No birds tho )

So, what are your metaphysical goals?

My goal is to continue my Dragon's Key dream and unlock the big door with it and retrieve the magic staff in there. After the boss battle of course.

Originally Posted by Perlinfalcon

Percy:

Your dream was absolutely hilarious. I love the song! It's so stupid! i hope that's not an insult. I just love stupid dream songs.

So, usually this thread is for people to make up their own goals. I can see you are really not that interested in that. I guess that's not that surprising considering you are a natural lucid dreamer and have probably used up a lot of ideas and find it harder to challenge yourself.

But I really like reading about how you accomplish goals and I would like to keep you involved in this thread. So can we say that your personal lucid task is to achieve goals that you choose from our suggestions on this thread? It's kind of fudging the rules a little, but I'd like to keep you around.

Thanks It will be an honor. Well, I found interesting the dream that rman asked me to, because I never sang on a lucid dream. And no, it is not an insult, the song was stupid lol.

I'll look for something!

Originally Posted by Rman

So, what are your metaphysical goals?

They are kind of deep dreaming goals. I want to reach deeper states of consciousness.

I'll keep a look around here and when something comes up, I'll post it

Well, I wanted my 500th dream to be epic or at least, over than decent.

I managed to induce a nice LD

16.05.2011

Exploring Space (MILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

The 500th dream was coming up. I was aware that with 500 dreams I would get the "Epic Dream Journal" award. I wanted to have an epic lucid dream and I knew it was a one lifetime opportunity, so no chances to make it wrong.

I was living with some friends for some reason. I had a girl friend instead of a wife. She was very different from my wife as well. We went to the beach and we were going to have sex. She told me that she would meet me later after doing some assignment I had. She was very happy to see me.

I realized all the nonsense of the dream and turned lucid. I decided to take a flight to make my dream very stable. I flew over a huge town. It was night and I could see the whole town lit. I was happy as it was a high quality lucid dream.

I flew over a lake between the tall buildings. I could see boats floating and also, submarines. In addition, I saw like stores that were sunk, but they were supposed to be like that, as I could see customers inside (it was made out of glass)

Double consciousness triggered. I could feel one of my cats and the dream quality dramatically fell. I needed and epic dream to celebrate my 500th dream. I grabbed a piece of bush and started to squish it with my hands, so I would stay anchored to my dream. It worked fine, double consciousness ended and the dream quality skyrocketed once again.

I got to a more quiet place of downtown. However, it looked more like a low end neighborhood. I found a dog that needed to be walked either on the dream or Astral plane. I was going to walk the dog and see if it changed the physical plane and actually walked the real dog. I realized it made no sense what I was saying.

I decided to enter a building and see what my mind created. There were a few people, but they were acting very dumb. I found a container with Cola Cao (chocolate powder) so I opened and tasted it. It looked like blue crystals, but it tasted like the real thing. As I was about to exit this weird house, I saw a giant yellow plastic duck next to me. The nonsense surprised me.

I looked up to the sky and saw the moon. I decided to fly to the moon, however, when I started to reach it, it fell! It started to melt until it vanished. I was wondering what could I do by then.

I decided to have a flight in Space. I was sure another moon was going to spawn. As I reach to space, I saw several black holes and explosions













Different shapes and a lot of colors were seen during this flight. Some of these happened right on my head, but I did not feel anything and it did not changed the path of my dream.

I saw a wormhole and decided to enter it. I started to travel at high speed until I got to a different dimension. All I could see was nothingness... a few seconds later, I saw a lot of starts and different colored letters... as weird as it sound. It looked freaking like Sesame Street!!! Each time I stepped on one of this letters, I could hear the sound of it.

I stayed there for a few moment and decided to take off again. I saw another wormhole and entered it. I got to a different planet. It looked like the Earth, there were humans and everything, but the sky had three suns and it was red.

I entered a building and suddenly, the daylight turned into night. I decided to exit the building and fly to keep the dream stable, but I was loosing it fast. I got to the top to a building where there was a restaurant. The tables of this restaurant were round and they had white cloths. There were two servers who were dressed up in business professional. I also could hear a violin playing. It looked very upscale. My dream was almost gone, so I asked the server if I could borrow a towel. He told I could, they had spare ones. I started to rub my hands with the towel and my dream got stable again.

I once more entered the building to explore. It was pretty similar to what I explored before. I even found the Cola Cao again, and once more, it was made out of blue crystals. As I exited, I found the same plastic duck too.

As I exited, I saw the sun and decided to fly to it. It was very cloudy and I felt like not flying through the clouds or I would wake up due blurry vision, so I flew at super high speed. Soon, I was in space again and I could see the Sun. As I approach it, the dream ended extremely abruptly.

I had a FA and I wrote down the entire dream when after I while I woke up for real and almost forgot the whole dream.