Quote Originally Posted by DoubleHelix View Post
No sarcasm. What you consider a basic task feels kind of daunting for someone with only 20 LD's under their belt despite 2 years of genuine effort and commitment. Perhaps I should have more faith in my abilities, but simply preserving lucidity is sometimes a challenge for me at this juncture due to the infrequency of LD events.

A LD is not such a mundane occurrence when they happen on the order of once per month, which, as you can see, is my average. I've been here since April of 2014 and have 19 legitimate LD's. (I don't count anything under maybe 3 - 4 minutes).

If I managed to find or conjure up a microscope, I'd be pretty darned excited. I'm still at the stage where I wander around in the dream and merely observe or let the dream take it's own course and hope to stay engaged so it doesn't fade too quickly or result in a spontaneous awakening. I'm sure conjuring or finding specific objects must seem easy peasy to some. I'm simply focusing on that particular basic task since the others seem well beyond what I've managed to accomplish in my handful of prior lucid experiences thus far.

I hope I've explained myself well enough. I've started to look forward to these contests/tasks in the hopes that striving would bring more results. As a rank beginner I avoided them for almost two years. But, got to aim high to hit high, right? Still, I feel a little left out this month...
We recently had a TOTM requiring Us to ask the dream for a dream guide. like yell out to the dream "Hey dream, I want my dream guide now"
It worked so well that I find myself doing it all the time now..If I thought of the task I could yell to the dream, "Hey dream, I need a microscope" And almost surely it would appear...(That's if I was lucid and if I remembered the task)
Just my two cents worth