Thread: Lucid Tasks For The Month Of September 2005

Introduction:

I've had several people approach me desiring an advanced lucid task of the month.

Beginning this month, there will be two tasks to complete each month. The first will be the good old lucid task of the month, the second will be an advanced task.

There will be a badge for each task, however both cannot be displayed simultaneously.

Report back in this thread, even if you didn't successfully accomplish the task, your efforts should make interesting reading! This is required in order to get credit, it is no longer sufficient just to say that you did it.

Whoever completes either of these tasks gets a custom title until the end of the month. (Note, if you are staff, I cannot give you a custom title, it would override your staff title)

Those that complete the tasks have the right to add the GIFs to their signatures when this month has ended.

Tasks for this month:

Lucid Task: Break a mirror and look at the reflection in the pieces


Advanced Lucid task: Fly to orbit and ride on a satellite

Yay! Tasks! I shall try and complete them as soon as I can

Does flying into a futuristic 747 jet count. HEHE.

Looks like I got that B6 just in time! I can't wait to see if it helps. I've broken mirrors before, but ironicaly, it was to eliminate my reflection completely. Alright, I'm on a mission now!

Originally posted by Lucid83
Does flying into a futuristic 747 jet count. HEHE.

Pffrt, fly a 7E7

Just out of curiosity. What if someone completes both of the lucid tasks?

I really like the mirror idea, that sounds really cool to try in a lucid dream.

Originally posted by Hate
Just out of curiosity. What if someone completes both of the lucid tasks?

They will get credit for both of them, but the rank displayed will be for the advanced task.

Hmm, this should be an especially difficult advanced task for me, considering I have had difficulty in the past with flying into outer space. I'm interested to see what earth will look like, though. Alright, I'll get right on this tonight!

Hey...does the task count if you find out about it in a LD b4 it is assigned?

The advanced task sounds sweet, because that's something I've actually been wanting to try anyway! I hope I have success. Sometimes I start flying towards space and hit some sort of bump, like in a video game, lol, and come crashing down.

The mirror thing sounds like a really awesome thing to try in an LD, I wonder how the brain will make the broken reflections appear! My only thing is for some reason I tend to get scared when I look into a mirror in an LD or while I'm tripping. I guess I'm scared they'll show me things about my self I don't want to know. Well, no time like the present to start conquering fears!

dang, thats one hell of a good advanced task, im gonna step on it pronto!

wow thanks seeker i like the advanced task, ill try that one tonight

wow thanks seeker i like the advanced task, ill try that one tonight

If you are interested, my website is also doing an ultra hard task....except it might be too difficult for most to handle (I may not have done it yet, but I can do it!)....here is the task:

Here is the difficult task: You must shatter a mirror whilst riding on a satellite playing Nintendo, & you must look at the shards & try to see yourself differently. After doing this, you must fly to the moon on this satellite, then fly back down to the earth....this only has to be done once, but it cannot be done in a ______.

(I put the blank there on purpose, as some things from my website cannot be said here!)[/quote]
BTW, you don't need to play Nintendo to accomplish this task if you aren't a game player....

Wow, I actually did the advance task a few months ago. I've always wanted to fly into outer space, so I finally ended up doing it, and I landed on a satellite. It was tiny, only about the size of a car, and there were lots of them around me. I'm guessing I won't get credit for it though since I didn't do it this month . Oh well, I'll try it again.

Zaphod, I'm pretty sure you were the one I stole the idea from anyway

Alright! Me first!

Finished the lucid task, but could not finish the advanced task.

It started as a kind of non lucid nightmare. Our house had water coming in. It was running down the walls, through cracks in the ceiling, everywhere, I went to the attic and saw that the ENTIRE roof was leaking. I was depressed and realized I would have to call the insurance about it. At some point, I realized that I could control it so I stretched out my arms and commanded the leaks to stop and for everything to dry up. It was about this time I realized that what I was doing was only possible in a dream

When I became lucid, I immediately remembered the task. This was a high level LD with everything totally realistic, indistinguishable from real life.

I hovered and spotted a small hand mirror sitting on the table beside the couch and floated down to it. I wondered how to break it and relaized it would be fun to smash it with my fist. Bad idea I hurt pretty badly and cut my hand. Again, SO realistic. The mirror shattered, but all the pieces were still left in the frame.

I looked in the mirror and saw an image of myself exactly as it should have appeared in a broken mirror. I then began tilting the mirror in different directions, each time I did, my reflection would change!

First tilt and it was ME, back in the mid 70's, long hair and all.
Second Tilt, I was back in 2005, but my hair was styled totally different.
Another tilt and my features changed a little.
Yet another tilt and I was a brown skinned female. Brown eyes, short dark brown har with blonde hilights.
Last tile and it was me again.

I put the mirror down and decided to try for the advanced task. Usually, I have no problem flying through matter, but this time I could not and shortly woke up.

Originally posted by Seeker+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Seeker)</div>

Our house had water coming in. It was running down the walls, through cracks in the ceiling, everywhere, I went to the attic and saw that the ENTIRE roof was leaking. I was depressed and realized I would have to call the insurance about it.[/b]

OMG!! .. I had this exact same dream a couple of mornings ago!! Water running down the walls and from cracks in the ceiling.. there was some kind of backup from the overflow in the attic. I started to get upset until I realized that my insurance would cover it all and I could get a new house out of it!

Originally posted by Seeker@
I hovered and spotted a small hand mirror sitting on the table beside the couch and floated down to it. I wondered how to break it and relaized it would be fun to smash it with my fist. Bad idea I hurt pretty badly and cut my hand. Again, SO realistic. The mirror shattered, but all the pieces were still left in the frame.

Is it just me or is anyone else hesitant to break mirrors (even in a dream) due to the 7 years of bad luck theory? I know it's silly but if I ever get the chance to do this task.. I'll have to have a dream character break the mirror or find a mirror already broken (I just don't like to tempt fate).

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I looked in the mirror and saw an image of myself exactly as it should have appeared in a broken mirror. I then began tilting the mirror in different directions, each time I did, my reflection would change!

First tilt and it was ME, back in the mid 70's, long hair and all.
Second Tilt, I was back in 2005, but my hair was styled totally different.
Another tilt and my features changed a little.
Yet another tilt and I was a brown skinned female. Brown eyes, short dark brown har with blonde hilights.
Last tile and it was me again.

I put the mirror down and decided to try for the advanced task. Usually, I have no problem flying through matter, but this time I could not and shortly woke up.

Very cool dream.. I love how you saw the many different aspects of yourself in the reflections!
As for the advanced task.. the month is still young!!

Wooo...sounds great! Ill remember to try them...but...I can't summon a mirror..lol..I suck at summoning...and...it hurts to punch it. Lol.......Ill try the flying thingy....

Seeker and Clairity,

Perhaps you have had the New Orleans disaster in your minds lately and those thoughts were manifested in your dreams with flooded houses.

......Anyway, as far as I am concered, I tried to become lucid last night when I woke up and I did and made it to my bathroom where my mirror is, and then I felt it disappearing to fast to save it, bummer. I've broken mirrors in the past with my fist, but if other people find it painful, try kicking it.

I almost did it!

Ok, i started at night by talking to myself and convincing myself that i will have a lucid dream.

Just a few minutes later, i was still lying there, but the room was light, but it wasn't light outside, and the lights weren't on, the light had no source, it was just light.
I did a reality check, and yes, i was surprisingly dreaming already.
Then i heard a car drive outside, and woke up, just to find that it actually did drive outside in real life...

Later on, several dreams away, i was inside a house, where i think i've been before, it just seemed familiar.
I summoned a mirror, but i thougt it was to small, smaller than my hand, so i didn't wanna break it, i wanted a big one, but i didn't manage to summon a big mirror, and then it kept changing dreams and i eventually lost lucidity.

YES!! I finally completed the Difficult LD task on my website (which combines the others...):http://nesgirl119.bravejournal.com/index.php...
I had to wait all this time to say that, b/c my Internet has been crashing alot today.

Woo, I finished the easy task. Only read about it yesterday too!

.. I walked outside (of the shopping centre) and stopped.... since when was I in america? Its a dream! The first thing I think of is I have to break a mirror, so I run back into the shopping centre to look for a bathroom. I get into the guys toilets and, because my mind likes to screw me over, all of the mirrors were badly polished steel. Screwed if I'm going to punch one of them! I walk out into a corridor and a mirror has appeared on the wall. I walk over, pick it up and punch it. It hurts a bit, but it works and I see myself reflected as you'd expect from a broken mirror. I hit it a few more times for good measure and take out a few pieces, seeing what they reflect. The 3 pieces I take out and look at reflect in order: me, me with some wierd skin condition, me completley covered in boils not having a good time. It was just the reflection though, I was having a good time! I walk outside to try task number two and wake up...

It's crazy the brain can work out, on the fly, all of the reflections of a broken mirror. But then again, it does create environments, people and events to dream every night. Must be a walk in the park to reflect stuff

-spoon

I completed the mirror task. I haven't been around lately (because of moving) or else I would have posted it earlier.

I was in a dream where I was talking to a friend on the phone, but for some reason I thought that i was awake. I was talking and closed my eyes and then all the sudden I was warped to a place in my town, but I could still hear my friend on the other line, but I couldn't talk back. So I willed myself back to "wakefulness". Somehow I didn't see this phenomenon as strange at the time. Then he gave the phone to his sister and I talked to her for a moment and fell back into another dream. This time I didn't care to come back to the "phone" because I could care less about talking to her.

I was in a field, already very close to lucidity (after all I just had a dream that I started dreaming). Then I saw somebody there and jumped up and did a big arching flip for them. At that very moment I became lucid, because impossible acrobatics is a good dream sign for me. That instant I began thinking about the lucid tasks. I decided to start with the mirror and told myself there would be one when I turned around. It was a handheld mirror on the ground so then I punched it. I only shattered about half of it, and there were about 6 shards in all. I bent down to look in them and the first image I saw was my eye in almost the exact same way the dream task icon looks, then I noticed the others which were tilted strangely and reflecting the respective parts of my face. My brain did well, I was impressed.

Then I tried to do the advanced task. I flew in the air but never made it to orbit. Gravity was weighing me down more than usual, so maybe next time.

Originally posted by
Wooo...sounds great! Ill remember to try them...but...I can't summon a mirror..lol..I suck at summoning...and...it hurts to punch it. Lol.......Ill try the flying thingy....

Have you tried walking somewhere, like around the corner of a hallway/building/etc., and expecting to run into one. Since dream geography changes all the time, it should be pretty simple to expect a mirror to be just around the corner and find it standing there. Or ask someone else nearby if they have one or if they could get one for you.

Loopholes, my friend. Loopholes.

-Amé

(btw, no lucids lately, though I did try to fly (unsuccessfully) in my dreams last night.)