Almost forgot to post here, I successfully did Basic I last night. I know it's nearly the end of the month, but shhhh, it was unplanned.
It was a DEILD, early morning hours (4~5am?). It started off in my bedroom, so I quickly RCed and flew out the window. I was extremely conscious and aware and I was quite happy with the fact; first quality lucid in a while. The dream was also vivid; I was in my neighborhood, but I vividly remember the area being quiet, the sky being a light pink as if it were dawn, and the large trees and buildings darkened in front of it as a silhouette. There was a slight, audible breeze as well.
I landed on the road (there were no cars) and started walking as I stabilized. I was really happy with how vivid the dream was, so I began trying to recall some of my big dream goals. Despite not planning to do it, I immediately remembered just one of the ToTMs: Find a fortune cookie and read what it says.
It wasn't what I was planning to do, but I seem to do well with summoning small objects (I hope it still counts that I didn't exactly "find" it, oops) and figured it wouldn't take long, so I was like "Hey, what the heck?" I focused for a moment, then reached into my pocket. Voila, fortune cookie.
I ate it immediately. The taste, texture and appearance were all nearly identical to
Nilla wafers (awesome stuff, by the way). On my first bite though I felt a strip of paper in my mouth. I pulled it out and stretched it out--it magically was not crumpled or wet or damaged in any way--as I swallowed the rest of the cookie.
It read, quite clearly:
And for some odd reason, I actually burst out laughing at this; I was laughing so hard I nearly woke myself up. I have no idea why I was laughing so much now that I'm awake, but in the dream I remember thinking it was the funniest thing that the result I got from the task were the task instructions themselves. I'm pretty sure I spent a good 30 seconds standing in the middle of the road on the brink of dawn laughing at this fortune cookie. :chuckle:
Eventually I calmed down, continuing on with my lucid as I ever occasionally wondered throughout the dream why that's what the fortune cookie said. Like I said, no idea why I found it so funny, but if there's one thing I learned from lucid dreaming, it's that people do weird things in their sleep.
Ah, well. :tongue: