Not a bad first night. Got a darn good start on my combined task. Here it is, Almost a Score - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views
Not very wing worthy, but I guess the stuff counts for use force like powers.
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Not a bad first night. Got a darn good start on my combined task. Here it is, Almost a Score - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views
Not very wing worthy, but I guess the stuff counts for use force like powers.
Awesome tasks and congratulations to all the early birds! I'm looking forward to doing basic task ii and advance task i, as a shy person advance task i is going to be fun ^o^
I like Sivason's Idea of using the force to control the instruments and create a display. I'm planning on playing the violin for my performance, maybe do a duet with a DC :mrgreen:
Absolutely agree, the tasks are a great lucidity booster. Love the beginning of month when the new ones are posted. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Thena
Had an attempt at advanced ii...but I am most happy with my self-awareness during the LD and also breaking away from my typical LD slant (though that kind of sexual thinking helped me realize it was a dream).
I am back on the cruise ship and I see some movement involving a woman in this big glass windowed room/atrium and I think about going in but then it occurs to me that this is a dream scenario for me...I might be...I must be...yeah...I will float up and prove it to myself. Sure enough I float up maybe 20 feet in the air and think that this is a great location to do the musical performance task in front of a large audience on a cruise ship. (Dream control poison removed to protect the dream schema of the innocent). I am now flying over an odd version of a vast ocean. Instead of a realistic ocean it is very light blue for as far as I can see in all directions with symbols in a symmetrical pattern throughout. The repeating symbol was kind of like a yin & yang symbol but with a dolphin on one side and a graphical representation of a wave on the other. I try flying in different directions and still thinking about how to find a large audience and I tell myself that I will begin seeing a city. The seascape starts to change but instead of starting to see a city I suddenly find myself in a large dark, dusty room with a fireplace mantle on one end and a few decorations hanging around it and several old dusty chairs sitting on the right and left side of the room. I find this very interesting to have such a drastic change in scene and look around in amazement. This place looks most like an abandoned retirement home and I feel like this room is probably the recreational room where they would play bingo and what not. I decide that I can still make this work, I just need to summon a bunch of people like I did in last months TOTM, but I tried to summon everyone in with one idea. The idea was that I could hear the crowd building and cheering flowing into the room and I could start to hear it when I felt the dream quickly dissipate. Perhaps I should have brought groups of people in, one at a time, like I did last month thinking I may have tried to do too much at once or perhaps I was coming to the end of my REM anyway.
I agree for the most part, I find that having the tasks in mind before I sleep and then just blundering into one in a dream story and saying "Holy Shit, I'm dreaming" and I can do this is an easy way to get lucid and I've gotten many wings that way But!!
I also find that with a little workout to lucid dream beforehand so my conscious mind is sitting there smugly watching me start dreaming it's a lot more fun to jump out of my sleeping body and run to the mirror to play faces first then go on to tasks, And fun, And making my own story. :yddd:
Thanks for the explanation. I'm not sure I can do that task anyway...
In any case, not sure if it's just me, but as I was reading those lines, Frank Sinatra came to mind... maybe it's because I listened to him a bit before entering the forum, but I almost heard his voice while reading this!
Oh boy, these are great xD I'm trying the Cinco De Mayo tonight.
Why do I find myself wanting to do the Bonus Task? :-?
likely because your'e good at giving birth but be careful your creation don't eat you, Im just posting to get some life into this thing.. I never seen it so dead so early in the month..
:yddd:
Heres one from this morning, It's not a task and it's not lucid but it's a good read if you get bored and will help advertise my dream journal... http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/woblybil/
If it helps anyone, the Popeye the sailor man songs are all limericks. I'm going to try to compose one of those on the spot.
Just succeeded in Basic Task ii! Also my first Galantamine success, not the earth-shattering ultra high level vivid 2-hours long epic LD I was hoping for, but who am I to complain, I had waking life memory, so first one of those in over a month, that's a cause for celebration and some wings! Stabilization success, too, crawled my way back from the (white) void. Earliest wings yet, too, woohoo! The TK was effin' awesome, it worked, it was the first time I did TK while really observing the results (other than just tossing random DCs out of my way [which is fun too!]).
Must have been some karma involved since today is the 5th, but I got the force instead of the shots...
Spoiler for TOTM basic ii:
Yay FryingMan!! :) I feel bad that I don't get to the TOTM threads more, I have just been so busy lately, but I also find them super-helpful and they spurred me on a second night to a personally wonderful lucid experience. I don't want to count it as "advanced ii completion" which I explain at the end...and if judged strictly, it wouldn't count...but as requested in the OP, post your attempts. :)
http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/foge...-beyond-57538/Spoiler for Lucid DJ entry:
Shots! I did shots! Only non-lucid:
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Somebody (me?) calls out "Shots!" and my friends (7-10 of us) and I all lie down in the middle of the room on our stomachs propped up on our elbows in a circle facing the center. Shots glasses are placed in the middle of the circle. On the far side of the shot glasses from me there is one larger tumbler glass. The liquor is poured and we all drink. I instantly start feeling veeeeeery friendly and cozy with the girl immediately to my right. We're kind of snuggling up against each other now, pushing our shoulders together and our hands meet (my right hand her left) and we hold hands with curved curled fingers while the next round is being poured. I think the guy with the tumbler is going to get wasted fast. I pick up my 2nd round and look to my left and right to make sure my friends have enough, I offer to pour some of mine into the cozy girl's glass but she has enough it turns out. I think if I'm already this hammered from 2 shots, how could Matt Damon in "Promised Land" possibly do 10 of them, that explained why he was so messed up in the morning.
I was lucid in a dream, and remembered the giving birth challenge. It was night time, and I was next to a street on the sidewalk. I was about to reach into my stomach and pull out a baby when I remembered this way of doing it. I started laughing so hard that I couldn't even stay on my feet. I tried to blast one out like that, but the thought of doing so was too funny. Then I woke up.
I haven't completed the tasks yet, but my incubation is having an effect!
I had a non-lucid dream last night about performing on stage for a large audience, and I was singing about my experience giving birth (to 5 ducks/geese... not sure where that came from!) :tongue:
Baah, sorry about the long post ahead, just replying to stuff in the thread, lol.
I learned too quickly that this doesn't actually work for me, and I've no idea why. Maybe I'm just thinking about peeing in reality too much.
Maybe I'll try this. I could transform into a chicken perhaps, to make sure it works. Would hurt a lot less than giving birth, and still fits the task, right?
Spoiler for Spooky:
Wait, don't move. This is a sign.
(Your dream made me laugh a bit too much, by the way. That sounded like an epic dream.)
Agreed as well, I have two problems and it's that they're:
1. If I don't have a dream goal, my interest in LDing tends to wane and if I do LD, the LD usually feels not vivid enough or unsatisfying at the end.
2. I have a hard time thinking up a dream goal and sticking to it; not because LDing is limiting, but because there's so much to do and I just don't know what to do and gaahh.
I like ToTMs because they solve both of those issues.
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Also, wonderful job to everyone who's done the tasks, it was all entertaining to read. :wink: Just reading this thread is getting me motivated, and I've got a 4-day weekend, so I think I'm going to attempt a WILD tonight (for the first time in ages) and attempt the tasks I want to do.
Sometimes you get busy with your life, but then you come back to DreamViews and you're like, "Lucid dreaming is freaking awesome, I should do that again."
Haha!
I've been infected too: I had a (semi?) lucid where I was using telekinesis to construct and move around water fountains, the whole while saying to myself, "This is the kind of stuff I can do in lucid dreams."
:facepalm:
And a DC was saying how they were afraid of going into the water in some of the deeper fountains I had made, when I'm the one who's scared to go into the water in lucids.
:facepalm: :facepalm:
Oh, yeah. Same here. Though even my dream recall's been pretty shoddy lately, there is one particular instance which I remember from a few days ago in which I was dreaming and I saw, in my non-lucid dream, a literal sign stuck into the ground that said, "You are dreaming," and I thought, "Haha, yeah, I could be dreaming, couldn't I?" And then I proceeded to stumble through the rest of the still non-lucid dream.
:facepalm:
So after that, I realised that I may again have been insufficiently thorough with my reality checks lately.
(On a sidenote, whoa, I love all the new smileys showing up in the extended menu! :armflap: So many moderator/dream-guide- and lucid-task-related smileys that it hurts! With awesome!
Aaaaahhh, you even got a Doctor Who one now! :tardis:)
That's hilarious! I've had dreams where I've said something like, "Oh, I must remember to write this in my dream journal!" but I haven't actually consciously recognised that I'm dreaming. D'ohhh.
We will get these tasks done soon! :nodyes:
http://www.sherv.net/cm/emoticons/ha...y-emoticon.gif
? There's lots of smaller ones around, too.
I'll probably combine Basic task 2 and advanced task one. I have always wanted to have a lucid music/rhythmic/battle dream, where I have special powers
is that weird? :3
Wow I love stuff like that, that's amazing! Sure to have a night full of lucidity tonight!Quote:
Wait, don't move. This is a sign.
Glad you liked it! It was most excellent. Captain America's bouncy ball!Quote:
(Your dream made me laugh a bit too much, by the way. That sounded like an epic dream.)
I had a facepalm along those lines, I was reaching for my phone to journal a dream, I realized I wasn't awake, so I *woke myself up* so I could record! AAAAAAA!