Thread: Personal Lucid Task Club

The last few lucids I had, I didn't even think to try a task. R-r-r-r!
My last lucid started out with me in a vacuum. There was just nothing around. It was so stupid.
I decided to let go and let things happen. I ended up semi-lucid.
I can't wait to be lucid again, but I need to focus more on it. I need to wake up with an RC and
go to sleep with an RC, and question things during the day. I will do it from now on!

Hey, i am going to join this, so heres my task...

Task: Get to the green moon.
(If you don't get that, look up waking nomad's shared dream tutorials, he said that he teraformed the moon and moved it.

My last good lucid was about 2 weeks ago and I had bad recall for a long time, (And of course I had to learn how to teleport in that dream and then not be able to use that skill for two weeks.) but now it´s back to normal. Not sure if I remember to do my task though, there´s just so much stuff I want to do now that I can actually travel somewhere. But I did hear some music during a battle in my last lucid. (Swinging with ropes is just so much more epic with this song.)

I'd like to share a dream with Dark_Merlin while both being lucid!

Percy: glad you had an epic 500th lucid. Sounds like it was pretty epic indeed. Lots of crazy stuff going on, there.

MrIrony: so does the music you heard in your last lucid count for your task? I'd like to hear about it. Also, I envy your teleportation abilities.

tom32 and fOrceez: good luck with your shared dreaming tasks! Although tom, are you counting it as a shared dream? Or just your interpretation of the green moon?

Now for my news:

I did it! FINALLY! I made it to the Island. Didn't do much there, but I made it.

I find myself on a grassy lawn. There are some abandoned-looking buildings around. I turn to see a sort of canal running next to the buildings. I remember the new ToTM and walk toward the water. There are a couple of dilapidated boats moored to an old dock. I walk along the dock to the end and kneel and look into the water. My brain does some crazy things with the water textures as usual, switching between completely transparent to very real looking to a kind of high res ripple effect. I put my hands in the water and play with the weird looking ripples for a little bit while Tom Waits narrates something in my head. I slip into the water next to one of the boats and look down into the murky depths. I think I can see the outline of a boat down there, but not a very big one. Suddenly, my desire to find the island pops into my head along with the knowledge that I need absolute certainty. I have a sudden rush as I think, "Finally! I've made it to the island!" knowing that when I turn around it will be there. Sure enough, as I turn in the water, I see the island at last. The shore is rocky and slopes steeply up out of the ocean. The vegetation starts out scrubby but becomes more thick and tangled and wild as it gets higher up from the water. The higher slopes are covered in deep green trees. I climb out of the water onto the rocky beach and make my way up the slope, pulling myself along with my hands and touching all the different plants as I go. They seem to be predominantly short evergreen bushes with beach grass growing through them. Here and there are patches of tall white lilies. I come to a small house. I am surprised because it is supposed to be MY desert island, but I figure I've lived here for a while and maybe built the house. It is a little wooden house surrounded by overgrown flower beds and painted with white peeling paint. I make my way behind the house and continue climbing. I can now see some sheer dramatic cliffs rising out of the jungle farther in the distance. I take a moment to enjoy the "lucid blue distance". I climb further and come across another structure, this one obviously abandoned with the white paint peeling badly. It seems to be like a little watch station about the size of a shed. Attached to it is a long vine-covered wall that blocks my progress up the hill. I walk along the wall to a precipice where I suddenly switch to third person and wake up.

I will come up with another task in another post.

Originally Posted by Perlinfalcon

Percy: glad you had an epic 500th lucid. Sounds like it was pretty epic indeed. Lots of crazy stuff going on, there.

MrIrony: so does the music you heard in your last lucid count for your task? I'd like to hear about it. Also, I envy your teleportation abilities.

tom32 and fOrceez: good luck with your shared dreaming tasks! Although tom, are you counting it as a shared dream? Or just your interpretation of the green moon?

Now for my news:

I did it! FINALLY! I made it to the Island. Didn't do much there, but I made it.

I find myself on a grassy lawn. There are some abandoned-looking buildings around. I turn to see a sort of canal running next to the buildings. I remember the new ToTM and walk toward the water. There are a couple of dilapidated boats moored to an old dock. I walk along the dock to the end and kneel and look into the water. My brain does some crazy things with the water textures as usual, switching between completely transparent to very real looking to a kind of high res ripple effect. I put my hands in the water and play with the weird looking ripples for a little bit while Tom Waits narrates something in my head. I slip into the water next to one of the boats and look down into the murky depths. I think I can see the outline of a boat down there, but not a very big one. Suddenly, my desire to find the island pops into my head along with the knowledge that I need absolute certainty. I have a sudden rush as I think, "Finally! I've made it to the island!" knowing that when I turn around it will be there. Sure enough, as I turn in the water, I see the island at last. The shore is rocky and slopes steeply up out of the ocean. The vegetation starts out scrubby but becomes more thick and tangled and wild as it gets higher up from the water. The higher slopes are covered in deep green trees. I climb out of the water onto the rocky beach and make my way up the slope, pulling myself along with my hands and touching all the different plants as I go. They seem to be predominantly short evergreen bushes with beach grass growing through them. Here and there are patches of tall white lilies. I come to a small house. I am surprised because it is supposed to be MY desert island, but I figure I've lived here for a while and maybe built the house. It is a little wooden house surrounded by overgrown flower beds and painted with white peeling paint. I make my way behind the house and continue climbing. I can now see some sheer dramatic cliffs rising out of the jungle farther in the distance. I take a moment to enjoy the "lucid blue distance". I climb further and come across another structure, this one obviously abandoned with the white paint peeling badly. It seems to be like a little watch station about the size of a shed. Attached to it is a long vine-covered wall that blocks my progress up the hill. I walk along the wall to a precipice where I suddenly switch to third person and wake up.

I will come up with another task in another post.

YAY, you made it.

For your question, no, that music won´t count for my task because I want to be able to play music when I want. Although it would be great to have songs start playing automaticly...

Go PerlinFalcon! Hehe.
Sounds like it was really vivid too. Gongrats

Recently noticing that many of my dreams involve water, I would just like to confirm to myselft that one of my dream signs is water. My dream goal is to see water and reality check because of it in a dream.

Good one, metalconch. I have had that exact thing work for me a few times.

Ok, my new personal task. Hmm.

I want to fly high above a landscape for a reasonable distance. Usually I have a hard time getting above treetop or building top height.

Hope this is easier than the last one!

Finally got another lucid! Didn't do my task, though. I asked my friend to show me how to shapeshift, but he really wanted to teach me how to drive like a reckless maniac so i decided that would be fun anyway.

Ha ha! At least you did something fun! Good job on getting lucid.

I almost thought of doing the turning into a bird thing as my next task. But then, I wouldn't want it to be a competition. Or maybe that would be fun. I dunno. Just gonna improve flying in my own body first.

Originally Posted by Metalconch

Recently noticing that many of my dreams involve water, I would just like to confirm to myselft that one of my dream signs is water. My dream goal is to see water and reality check because of it in a dream.

Good luck with that. May I see my father and recognize the sign as I used to.

Originally Posted by Perlinfalcon

Ha ha! At least you did something fun! Good job on getting lucid.

I almost thought of doing the turning into a bird thing as my next task. But then, I wouldn't want it to be a competition. Or maybe that would be fun. I dunno. Just gonna improve flying in my own body first.

Yeah, that would be awesome. Motivational also
Plus if I don't win I still get to hear about how you did it. Do whatever task you feel like

As a starter, I want to have a lucid lasting longer than 2 minutes.

So I tried my task last night and didn't get too far. But here is an excerpt anyway. I licked things!

There is a knee-level stone shelf running along the brick wall on my left side. I kneel next to the shelf and run my hands along it. There are intricate carvings of eagles and lions on it. I decide to lick the granite carvings to stabilize things. *I start licking it and the stone is cold and gritty on my tongue. Things jump into hyper focus and I can see the grain of the stone and how it is darker where I licked it. Decided that things are now clear enough to attempt flight, I get up and begin to run down the alley. At the end of the alley is an old black lamppost with a sticker with an arrow pointing left. I am amused at the detail and turn left. My jog is light and buoyant and I pick up speed quickly. Suddenly, a group of joggers gets in my way. A tall guy in a yellow shirt pushes right in front of me. I imagine myself overtaking him and I pass him. Now we are in a short tunnel. I get to the other side of the tunnel and jump into the air. I fly up along the facade of a tall old building, but as I reach about fifteen feet, a pedestrian jumps up and grabs my ankle. Somewhat frustrated but amused at my dreaming mind's reluctance to let me fly, I envision the ground receding as I fly upward again. I wake up and decide to write things down rather than DEILD.*

Originally Posted by Perlinfalcon

So I tried my task last night and didn't get too far. But here is an excerpt anyway. I licked things!

There is a knee-level stone shelf running along the brick wall on my left side. I kneel next to the shelf and run my hands along it. There are intricate carvings of eagles and lions on it. I decide to lick the granite carvings to stabilize things. *I start licking it and the stone is cold and gritty on my tongue. Things jump into hyper focus and I can see the grain of the stone and how it is darker where I licked it. Decided that things are now clear enough to attempt flight, I get up and begin to run down the alley. At the end of the alley is an old black lamppost with a sticker with an arrow pointing left. I am amused at the detail and turn left. My jog is light and buoyant and I pick up speed quickly. Suddenly, a group of joggers gets in my way. A tall guy in a yellow shirt pushes right in front of me. I imagine myself overtaking him and I pass him. Now we are in a short tunnel. I get to the other side of the tunnel and jump into the air. I fly up along the facade of a tall old building, but as I reach about fifteen feet, a pedestrian jumps up and grabs my ankle. Somewhat frustrated but amused at my dreaming mind's reluctance to let me fly, I envision the ground receding as I fly upward again. I wake up and decide to write things down rather than DEILD.*

Nice dream falcon. I like your decision-making process in this dream.
I suppose this is purely coincidence, but my real name means Lion (Lion of God), and my deceased father in his later life went to a Depak Chopra seminar (1 week). He was told his animal
spirit was the eagle, so he bought an eagle sculpture. Anyway, it is nice to see the two ideas together in your dream.

Good luck in your next lucid adventure.

I heard another song in a lucid. Although I still didn´t make it play, it just started by itself.

Great to see my dreams are playing music to me.

I sort of tried my task the other night. I got above building height and then above cloud level, but then I swooped back down and the city had become a cardboard model and I crashed into it. It was kind of a low quality dream. I don't think I'm going to count it. I want a good epic flying dream.

You got really close at least.

What I'm going to do is go to the dream world academy before attempting my task and try to find a DC who knows a lot about shapeshifting. The dream world academy is like the academies on DV, but in a dream. There's more info in the academies section on DV, I probably didn't explain it very well. Maybe you can try to go there and find a master at flying who will teach you. Just a random thought.

Took a while, but I did it. Yay I guess.

Off to do the next task in my sig.

It might sound strange but my personal task is to fire a gun in a dream. Every dream I can recall where I was armed, the gun just never fired...glad I'm female or Freud might have something to say :p

Since I have never encountered anyone expept my parrents, a dragon and the Frost Giant I plan to go outside my house and find people to talk to. In lucid dreams of course. I just wanna see what I can come across.

Yes, I did it! Completed my task last night.

I was in the side yard at my dad's house with my brother Nick. I suddenly remembered to do a reality check and realized I was dreaming. I set out to do my lucid task, transforming into a bird and flying. I remember a thread on DV that had a list of spells, one of them being "protean", allowing you to shapeshift. I leaped up into the. air and threw my arms to my side and shouted the spell. My arms turned into huge wings and the rest of my body followed. My feathers were bright red with orange tips on some of them.

When the transformation was complete, I flapped my wings as hard as I could and took off flying. I was going really slow, as if swimming through water. I tried moving my wings slower and with more control, and it worked, I was flying much faster.

Right, I had another unbelievable missed opportunity not long ago.
Those who remember me will know I'm trying to fly in a lucid dream. Well...
I was on a great but busy beach, and I kept jumping high into the air, gliding and then plunging into the shallow water. It felt like I was on a wire or attached to a kite. But of course I failed to notice this as something I could only do in dreams.
Then my subconscious succeeded in mentally taking the mickey again. A scene change brought me to my old school playground, where I continued to try and jump high, but only lifted a few feet off the floor for a second or two, and as I persevered my efforts got worse. "Too much doubt setting in," I said to myself. I tacitly understood that a little bit of doubt can stop you from doing something efficiently in a lucid dream, but again this never clicked entirely. What a fool I am.