Thread: Task of the Month for January 2011

Hi, new member here. Short story is that a change in my work schedule about a month and a half ago led to an earlier and longer sleep schedule, which led to several vivid (non-lucid) dreams, a re-interest in lucid dreams (which I had heard about, but never actually tried), and to my lurking here. In that time, I've started a journal, and have had three dreams with any significant amount of lucidity, although they've all had rather poor quality.

In my last one, I think I completed this month's basic TotM:

This first bit is hazy, but I'm following an eccentric bearded man in tattered rags up a series of ladders through underground chambers filled with ancient Egyptian treasure. One room even has glossy white statues of mythological animal-headed men standing guard around the walls. Eventually, we emerge into an area at the base of the Great Pyramid.

The next thing I know, I'm leaving this area, going up a flight of stone stairs to a door that leads into the interior of the Pyramid, and I'm looking for something (maybe my guide?). In front of the door, and blocking it, is a round, nearly-spherical pottery vase, maybe two feet in diameter. It's a dark pink or mauve color, with multiple darker brown wavy stripes around it. I move it out of the way and open the door into the Pyramid.

Inside, a long hallway stretches to the left and right, with a maroon-colored carpet, and with lots of anonymous doors along the sides. It reminded me of the inside of a hotel. If I had followed the hallway around, I'm sure it would have formed a complete square around the base of the Pyramid. I'm pondering the hallway and all the doors, and trying to remember what I was looking for, when I realize that I've been in hallways like this in dreams before, and I suddenly become lucid.

I hadn't really been expecting a lucid dream, and I didn't think it would last very long before I woke up, so I didn't even try stabilizing it. I decided to just have a bit of fun waking up, and cause a nuclear explosion in the pyramid. Before I had a chance to do that, I remembered the Task of the Month – be struck by lightening from a thunderstorm. I knew that in order to get struck, I had to be outdoors at the highest point possible. (I'd also been wanting the chance for a while to definitively exit one of these dream mazes I seem to keep falling into, without being stuck wandering or searching aimlessly for the rest of the dream.) I resolved that, after rounding the next corner, the first door on the left would be an elevator taking me to the “roof” of the Pyramid.

I reach the door, and the dream skips ahead to me standing on the flattened, square, stone top of the pyramid. There's no thunderstorm, though, so I dramatically raise my arms skyward, and try to summon a storm. Suddenly, my POV switches to 3rd person, and the “camera” zooms way out to a long shot and starts slowly circling the top of the pyramid like a shot from a helicopter. Meanwhile, the sky grows darker. Soon its filled with clouds, and a bolt of lightening jolts me back into first person. I'm lying on my back – muscles tensed, back arched, unable to move – and lit up like a Van de Graff generator. It feels somehow intense, but oddly, neither particularly painful nor pleasurable. After what feels like a few seconds, it's over, and I summon a nuclear bomb strike on the pyramid. The world around me explodes into pieces as I wake up, 10 minutes before my alarm goes off, thinking, “Did I just do that!? That was awesome!”

(Edit: I find it hilarious that despite only being my third lucid, I almost couldn't think of anything to try doing except waking myself up. I haven't even tried basic flying yet!)