Thread: Tasks of the Month: Aug. & Sept. '21

Basic-Task 2: Turn to the nearest DC and ask them what part of my subconscious they represent - Success

Spoiler for TOTM part:

I’m lucid and walking down a street with an old friend of mine and wonder what I should do in the dream. I then remember my TOTM goal and turn to him and say “what part of my subconscious do you represent?” He pauses and thinks deeply for a moment as if he isn’t fully sure. I stand and wait. The dream feels really stable but I hope he doesn’t take too long as waiting around usually brings my lucids to an end. “I’m the part that stops you being ill” he says. “Wait, what do you mean?” I question, not fully understanding. “I just told you?” he says as if annoyed that I wasn’t paying attention. “Ok, I’ll think about it when I wake up” I say not wanting to dwell on it right now and waste time. He starts to think again and looks confused. “You are my universe?” he says and it’s as if he’s trying to make sense of his own existence. “Well yeah, I think you’re a part of my mind and this is all in my head” I explain. I don’t think we discuss this further and instead I go on to do other things…

Spoiler for The full dream:

Subconscious friend
-Lucid - DILD

I can’t remember the point I became lucid but I’m in my spare bedroom and decide to jump through the wall to exit the house. I run and imagine myself leaping through the wall onto the drive below. I hit the wall and bounce back. It didn’t work? Im surprised but try again and this time run and leap and watch as I fade through the wall and window as if it’s only a hologram. I then fall to the drive below but as I hit the ground I phase through it as well and fall into blackness. I stop myself and start pushing myself back up as if swimming and manage to pull myself out of the dark and back onto my driveway which is now solid. It’s night outside and I get up and walk down the hill toward the main road and marvel at the stability and realism of the dream. I decide to manifest an old friend for some reason. “He’s behind this bush” I say as I go around the corner, expecting him to be there. He’s not? It didn’t work and again I’m surprised. I walk toward the road and suddenly he comes running out of the shadows and into the light. “There you are!” I say and believe the manifestation just needed some time to load. It’s daylight now and I wonder what I should do next. I then remember my TOTM goal and turn to him and say “what part of my subconscious do you represent?” He pauses and thinks deeply for a moment as if he isn’t fully sure. I stand and wait. The dream feels really stable but I hope he doesn’t take too long as waiting around usually brings my lucids to an end. “I’m the part that stops you being ill” he says. “Wait, what do you mean?” I question, not fully understanding. “I just told you?” he says as if annoyed that I wasn’t paying attention. “Ok, I’ll think about it when I wake up” I say not wanting to dwell on it right now and waste time. He starts to think again and looks confused. “You are my universe?” he says and it’s as if he’s trying to make sense of his own existence. “Well yeah, I think you’re a part of my mind and this is all in my head” I explain. I don’t think we discuss this further and instead I go on to do other things. My memory is a bit fuzzy on what happens next. I remember thinking how stable the dream was and feeling lost for ideas on what to do again. I then remember my second TOTM goal about the northern lights but it’s not dark so I decide to try change location instead. I want to get to a forest and start thinking about it and hope it manifests. The dream collapses shortly after and goes dark. I expect to wake up but instead have an odd false awakening in which I awake in a small sleeping pod, like something out of science fiction. My lucidity has gone though and It’s not until later I wake and recall the dream.

After waking up and reflecting I still don’t know what he meant! It could be interpreted many ways but it just felt like a muddled reaction to my question and even he looked unsure about his answer. I found what he said afterward more interesting. “You are my universe?” It took me by surprise and was an interesting way for “him” to view me. I suppose his response is based on the idea that dreaming is like “a universe inside your head”.