Thread: Lucid Task For The Month Of October 2005

Good luck! I'll get right on youse guys badges when i get home! Congrats!

I wanted to try both of them, and I got the chance last night to try the Ninja Flying one. xD

In the dream last night, I was on a random street, it was dark, night time. I suddenly realized that I was dreaming, and turned around and saw one of my friends. I said - thinking of the post that I saw on this board, about teaching a DC to fly - "Wanna learn how to fly?"

He said sure. I grabbed his hand, and we both jumped, trying to get into the air. xD I said, "How about at the same time?" Or sometime like that, and we jumped again, getting into the air. I also, for some reason said, "Tomorrow, say 'spork' to me.".. xD I think the dream was fading back into what it was before it, and I was loosing lucidity at this time. I let go of his hand, and I guess he dissapered.

I thought of the Ninja Flying task, and turned on my back. I saw a dark night sky. xD My vision turned into tunnel-ish vision as I tilted my head back, and the dream faded.

xD I didn't get to fly much like it.. But, at least I got a chance to try... I want to do the Trick-or-treat one. >D

.. Wonder what my costume'll be?

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That made my morning...

Yes! I did it!
All right, I have this freaky dream-monster who keeps appearing.
It is mostly human, walks on two legs, etc...
Anyway, it looked out of a window in my house, so i walked up to it, grabbed its shoulders, turned it around, and told it to stop destroying my dreams.
Then i pushed it away and it disappeared!
So...
I went outside, everything was sunny and nice.
I remembered the task, and jumped up in the air, stayed there, and tried to spin 180 degrees around my axis...
Which worked, of course, then i set off, and crashed in a tree.
Hurrah for my fanatically fantastic Nina flying!
It worked for approximately 2 seconds.

Well, I didn't quite go trick or treating, but in one of my dreams that I posted in my journal, I went to a halloween party. There were definetely some reall cool and weird costumes there. Mine confused myself the most of all. I was a bed. A bed as a costume. Whatever. THis may not be trick or treating explicitly but could it be close enough? I haven't trick or treated IRL for about 8 years now (semi strict mom even in middle school.... oh how I miss the candy) and I think I am forgetting what it is actually like! oh no! I think i will try to specifically trick or treat before the month is out though. ALso for the flying thing, that sounds difficult. I have a hard time flying normally let alone upside down staring at the ground. Sound exhileratingly fun. I will have to practice my flying skills.

PS This is the first I have heard of these challenges as I am new here, I already cant' wait to see what next month brings!

After a lucid dream where I was flying in outer space and fighting some spaceship (a bit like something from the old Star Fox), I was in my bedroom and I remembered that I wanted to go trick or treating. On my bookshelf, I saw what looked like a pointy witches cap at first, but when I pulled it off, it was a Cat in the Hat (from the book) mask. The neck was so tall that my head would have only gone up to the throat area, and I believe I saw little cartoon eyes where I was thinking I should look out. I put it on and had a hard time seeing out until I made myself busy with the next part, which was putting on the pants. The pants were way too small, but I thought that if I used confidence, I could get them to fit. I had some luck, but unfortunately I woke up during this and did not get to go house-to-house. I also had a cute little pumpkin costume that I was planning to put on my dog, who I was going to take with me . I want to try this task again!

Okay, I was going for the trick-or-treat one, but I knew it wouldn't turn out quite as planned. This may not count.

(brief background)
Through my high school years I was fond of "tricking" the dream environment into getting it do certain things, like show me what happens after a violent death. Although I don't regret it (thanks Kim ) a series of events occured that resulted from those pursuits, and I want to stay as far away from tricks as possible.

During the past year I been looking for "hard" differences between the dream enviornment and the real one; the dream environment is often mutable, but that is not the case in some of my non-lucid dreams in familiar settings. The only persistent difference I've found is that there is a greater complexity of sound in the real world, like the sound of the wind, for example. The wind through the trees... I don't think I've ever heard that quite so richly in the dream environment. So on the onset of lucidity, here, I habitually looked for something different.
(/brief brief background)

I became lucid while running in a park with no physical exhaustion whatsoever. I didn't even have to think about it. Lucidity was immediate. Only in a dream do things get that close to perfect.

I immediately noticed something different. There was no need to think any philosophical thoughts. Not one! No need to ask, "why are things this way and not another way?" or "why is this possible and not that?" or anything. Of course, I've noticed and appreciated this many times before, but only after the dream was over. This time I noticed it as it was happening, and there was calming, extra appreciation from that. Everything was clear and lucid.

No more tricks.

And it was a beautiful spring day, rays of light rapidly moving past my eyes through the trees, as their branches moved with a gentle wind.

I was flying above the running path, and a convertible matched my speed on the left. It felt like an old teacher. He appeared to have friends in the back and his wife in the front seat. He said that I had owed them money!

I held on to the passenger door and flew on my side with the car. It felt like the amount was less than $20 dollars for some supplies or something I needed for a particular class. I gave his wife $200, after charming her for a bit, to make him jealous.. a little repayment for his hounding me down with his friends, and then flew off. (Treat!)

It was spring and I wanted it to stay that way, so I came upon no classic scene of trick-or-treaters, but I did find a group of high schoolers in the park, sharing candy and stories. I sat down, had a few of their stash, and shared some stories of my own. We laughed. No costumes, no masks... there was a true kinship with them. Of course, they're in my dream! And that makes them alright. (Treat!)

People eventually started going home, and that's where I found myself as well. Immediately, I went back outside again and started flying in a gradual ascent towards a busy intersection near my home. There were power lines where there shouldn't have been, and they were huge, tall mofos. They wouldn't tangle my sky. I flew above them! I crossed the parking lot of a bank. I used to ride my bike there after hours when I was younger. It's pretty big, even IRL. Here, the parking lot turned into a gigantic lake. Lots of liquidity...

I was about to perform one of my own lucid tasks, when...

... what's this? A very small crowd gathering near the intersection on the other side of the bank, and in the middle, it's... the president of the United States! Sure, I have plenty of disagreements of my own with him, but he seemed to be just having a great time with people.. microphone in hand, telling jokes, letting other people tell them too.. no God bless America bullshit... Ha! (Treat!)

The president wished us all well when he had to leave. I don't remember his exact words but he said something really rousing, something that lifted everyone's spirits, so they affirmed with a "yeah!" and cheered in unison, and it was a big crowd by that time.

The crowd dispersed, and I exited as well in a timely fashion, waking up.

I'm going to go to the store and buy some candy.

Well I hope this one counts.

I was having my first lucid dream experience, and it cam to me, why don't I try to do one of the challenges I read about.

After gathering my friends we decided to go trick or treating, but I did not have a costume. I was planning on trying to be luigi this year, but I never got a costume so I think there is the connection.

Well, I found a little kid and acquired the costume from him, I took the hat off his head and ran ha ha.

The rest of the nigth was walking around the neighbporhood talking and trick or treating, although we never actually got any candy. Oh well

Fun night however.

Wow, your first lucid, Mark!

Congrats! And welcome to DV.

Yeah thanx! It was a fun experience.

Hey, just joined this forum and there aren't many days left in october. Guess I'll have to try it tonight! (I'm thinking the whole flying-on-back think is pretty appealing).

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Hmm... Last night I had a lucid dream but forgot about the task. However, I kind of seemed to end the task that I started over the weekend. Last time, I woke up before I could get out the door; this time I started off outside at night, but it never occured to me that I was trick or treating until well after I awoke. I was at the end of a lucid dream and was trying to make it day outside by revolving the sky and everything. The best I could do was make the moon come out (although it had been out before). While I was walking down my street I shouted, "Moon, light up the night!" and moonlight just poured over the landscape -- very beautiful. Anyway, I was drawn to this well-lit house with a full moon with a face painted on it. I called it "The Moon House." A nice old lady welcomed me in and said that she was going to get some creme pies for me. I smiled and thought, "moon pies!" I awoke while she was getting them.

Now I will try to get a more unified trick-or-treating experience!

10/26/05
Completed the basic and advanced tasks for October. Well, sort of. I was in this small town type place with some building with multiple floors. I was running around. I think I was running from my dad. I don’t remember but I think I did something wrong. I went down to the street level and inside one of these buildings. Just then I realized I was dreaming. So I immediately decided to try to do the advanced task. I turned around and leaned back and tried to fly. It wasn’t working very well. I could see things upside down and started flying for a few seconds, but I ended up coming back down to the ground. I tried closing my eyes and envisioning what I wanted to do, but this caused me to feel like I was about to wake up. Like things started to fade. I figured I gave the advanced task a good try so I would try the basic one. This would have more of a plot and character interaction if I tried it. I walked up to a building which seemed like an apartment. There was one or two people with me but I couldn’t tell who they were. I was kind of impatient because it still felt like I was being chased. I also felt that I could wake up any minute. I basically busted in and was like “Give me some candy.” I didn’t even have a costume on. There was one person that that walked into another room and there was an older lady sitting in a chair. I ended up waking up before the other person got back with the candy. I guess I completed the task by trick-or-treating. I just never got any candy.

The saddest thing happened. For once in my life I remembered the dream task of trick or treating, but the problem was I was lost inside of a house (or some giant in door maze house, I'm not sure.)

So I went trick or treating, room to room. But I wasnt ever able to wait long enough for someone to open the door.

Does that count?

Last night I had a dream that turned lucid. I jumped up so high, gravity no longer applied. The sky turned black, and I started seeing doors in outer space. Then it got so dark I couldn't see, so I headed back down. I started falling and got that sinking feeling in my stomach, but I told myself to relax and enjoy it.

Then I realized I was falling because I wanted to go down. I knew I could fly, then I remembered the lucid task. I turned over, but I rotated the wrong way and my feet were above my head, I was pointed straight down. As I was in the nose dive, then I realized that and flipped over, putting my stomach facing the black. I levelled out, and came down on an angle towards what looked like the boot of Italy. Tough to see though. The terrain was like on a map where there are lots of mountains, the yellows, the light green and browns. I flipped back over right before I landed and I was at a windmill in a desolate field with several statues.