Lucid Task For The Month Of June 2006

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Originally posted by megabenman
Just watch pokemon and all your questions will be answered :roll:

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No, I actually learned that from going to the zoo and into the butterfly gardens about 10 years ago. :D

BTW, I completed the task in a nap, today...

I kept wandering off course, but reguardless, I willed myself to catch a butterfly, then before I knew it, I was a caterpillar eating leaves, then I morphed into a crysalis. I was feeling myself changing, almost like evolution, and then I hatched. I went on top of a branch to dry out my wings, when my break ended, and I woke up.

Hey Seeker, I was wondering if maybe you can take a bunch of the lucid tasks and make a page or thread of something with them listed, so in peoples spare time everyone could try those if they werent here to see what they were. Thanks GM.

Success! I completed the first task. This is only the second one I've managed to accomplish, the other being to break a mirror and look at my reflection. I almost didn't pull it off. It was an interesting dream; I'll recap:

I had just fallen asleep after hitting my alarm clock snooze button, which only lasts nine minutes. I found myself watching some crappy Bruce Willis movie. Him and another guy were standing at my front door with assault rifles, about to rush in. I walked up behind them (now in the movie scene myself) and got their attention. They seemed startled to see me. I asked him to come help me with something, but he seemed reluctant to leave the movie scene. I figured he was worried that I was messing up the movie, so I explained that this was just a dream, and he had already filmed the movie, so the audience would never even know I was there. Man I love convoluted dream logic! Saying that I was dreaming was actually what triggered lucidity, so I led him around to the back of my house, trying to remember what I was supposed to be doing. Bruce and his cohort started patrolling the back yard while I took a moment to remember. Right! Catch a butterfly! I started looking around for my target. After a couple of minutes, I saw a small yellow butterfly flying around overhead. I willed it to fly down to me, which took some effeort, then caught it in my caged fingers, taking care not to damage its wings. I was so excited, that I couldn't remember what to do next, so I started with some of the suggestions mentioned earlier. First, I ate the little yellow butterfly. Well, I tried. It tasted bitter and dry, and I promply spit it out. Then I decided to try morphing directly into a butterfly. I got down on all fours and started to morph, when my alarm went off again and woke me up. I immediately remembered the cocoon task. :mad: Oh well, maybe next time!

not to be nasty but.... nesgirl, isn't it a necessary detail to get the credit that the task is performed AFTER reading about it?
anyway one can always re do it
nO?

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Originally posted by italianmonkey
not to be nasty but.... nesgirl, isn't it a necessary detail to get the credit that the task is performed AFTER reading about it?
anyway one can always re do it
nO?

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I really don't need any credit at all for it. I am actually doing it before it is assigned because I am trying to increase my LD abilities even further (I have done everything else for years, so how about jumpstarting on the tasks?!).

True the tasks must be accomplished after the task is revealed, but I do it b4 the task is revealed just for fun!

dunno
i never tried to repeat the same experiment two times
i wonder how it would feel to repeat the exact things.... what would change? would one feel like dejavue?
may be fun to try!

IMO, as long as nesgirl does the lucid tasks in the month they are assigned, it is legitimate.

i see nothing about having to read the lucid task in this thread's initial post...just that one must accomplish it while lucid, during the applicable month.

it is no different than seeing that the new task has been posted for the month, trying to guess it without reading it, and accomplishing it.

keep on practicing nesgirl :)

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Originally posted by wombing
IMO, as long as nesgirl does the lucid tasks in the month they are assigned, it is legitimate.

i see nothing about having to read the lucid task in this thread's initial post...just that one must accomplish it while lucid, during the applicable month.

it is no different than seeing that the new task has been posted for the month, trying to guess it without reading it, and accomplishing it.

keep on practicing nesgirl :)

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Thanks a lot, but I am not really doing it intentionally. Usually, I run around in a LD trying to figure it out, then I somehow do. Weird.

I am doing it to practice my LD skills to the max (I don't think flying to an old shack in a white robe, & looking at that murder guy in provo counts). I want to get even better at it...even though mastering it to what most people would say is the maximum. I believe that there are new areas to reach in a LD, or something like that. After all, if people truely believe anything can be done in a LD, that means you could even do stuff like doing the task...b4 it is assigned (maybe we should make a topic on that in Lucid Experiences).

And also, if I do it before it is assigned, and I then see the task, I can easily do the task a lot sooner (since my memory isn't the greatest in LDs)..

I caught a butterfly as I was on my way up and levitating to the top of the city. After a few moments I let it go and it flew away. Its funny that it was flying around in the city and not a field with more nature etc.

You can read the full dream in my journal.

http://www.dreamviews.com/forum/viewtopic....p=312530#312530

I got the advanced one done. A DC came up to me and told me I had 30 seconds left in my dream. He was about right too. I understood that the dream had conveyed what it wanted to, and it had extra time, and I thought "Ooh that's enough time to get the lucid task in". I scan around, and outside I see an almost Y shaped tree. I zoom in until I'm there, and I switch to 3rd person and see a little light green caterpillar. I puff up the outside skin, which immediately hardens. Also, I anchor myself to the tree, then fall down and hang vertically. I switch my view to inside the pod, and while it was green and looked like sparse smoke, it killed the dream.

Interestingly, I decided to MILD, and right after the dream ended, I was set on going right back in. I saw a hypnopompic/hypnogogic imagery of a spiral. In less than three seconds I was back in the dream. I saw a DC I recognized from the internet (not this forum) and asked his friend and him if they knew they was dreaming. They weren't surprised or anything. Then I started pointing out which characters were familiar to me, people I knew from reality, and the two other dream characters did the same. I just knew somehow that they were seeing different people, that they knew from reality. It's like they were each a symbol, representing something, and I perceived one thing, while the other DCs perceived something else...Really interesting, whether it was a DS or not. My provide the basis for a cool DS experiment.

well if you read my new post in the general section you'd know I'm having trouble sleeping :( and im having trouble finding the right induced dream technique for me. I had this dream a couple of nights ago.

I decided to try out self suggestion. I remembered that for the last task with the bucket, I had written down what I wanted to do. And it worked, well...sorta! So I did the same. I wrote it out a few times, my goal was simple - catch a butterfly.

Ill try the next task later!

I had trouble falling asleep that night, so this dream took place in the morning. And according to my clock it lasted from 8:10 to 8:12.........

anyhoot! It starts out Im an x-men! Me and the other x-men are wearing sexy black spandex outfits. We jump off of a building together and land in the shadows down below. Some one in the front signals us to move foward, the bad guys were just up ahead. I get excited and start thinking what powers I should assume. And thinking that made me realize I was dreaming.

We face the bad guys, it started to feel like a rival gang war. The battle was about to start! But then I felt myself waking up, dang no time for this. "BUTTERFLIES!!" I scream!

Dead butterflies started to fall from the sky like ashes. The bad guys look confused. My X-Men team look at me and say "What is this? Some happy care-bear attack???"

and I muttered "Something like that....."

I catch one of the falling butterflies with my hand. Its wings were torn and wrinkled up. And I remember thinking how disappointing that was, I wanted to try the task differently! And I found it disturbing that the butterflies were dead. But I didnt have time to change that, the sun was so bright it flooded my dream and woke me up.

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Originally posted by nesgirl119


I really don't need any credit at all for it. I am actually doing it before it is assigned because I am trying to increase my LD abilities even further (I have done everything else for years, so how about jumpstarting on the tasks?!).

True the tasks must be accomplished after the task is revealed, but I do it b4 the task is revealed just for fun!

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How are you possibly doing these task before they are revealed? Does seeker give them to you first?

Or are you saying you're somehow "like a psychic" creeping into the man's(SEEK) brain and finding out what they are ahead of time?

Please explain because this just doesnt make sense!

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Originally posted by phoenelai


How are you possibly doing these task before they are revealed? Does seeker give them to you first?

Or are you saying you're somehow "like a psychic" creeping into the man's(SEEK) brain and finding out what they are ahead of time?

Please explain because this just doesnt make sense!

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No...(laughs)

I do them just for fun. I also want to improve my dream skills (I don't think sage is high enough).

Though too many times, I have often gone through a school day in a LD, and it is like I go through it again in real time 98%....weird.

But this is not the topic to talk about it....if you want to talk about it, make a topic in Senseless about completing the tasks before they happen! :wink:

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Originally posted by nesgirl119


No...(laughs)

I do them just for fun. I also want to improve my dream skills (I don't think sage is high enough).

Though too many times, I have often gone through a school day in a LD, and it is like I go through it again in real time 98%....weird.

But this is not the topic to talk about it....if you want to talk about it, make a topic in Senseless about completing the tasks before they happen! :wink:

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So you're doing them, and then Seek just happens to call the same task and of course it's one that you already did just because you're coming up with them on your own. What are the odds of that???

You and Seek must be connected somehow because I think the rest of us would come up with entirely different task. Example: Have you seen Billy Bob's list?

Seems Fishy, that's all! :huh:

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Originally posted by phoenelai


So you're doing them, and then Seek just happens to call the same task and of course it's one that you already did just because you're coming up with them on your own. What are the odds of that???

You and Seek must be connected somehow because I think the rest of us would come up with entirely different task. Example: Have you seen Billy Bob's list?

Seems Fishy, that's all! :huh:

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Actually, I am not connected at all to Seeker. I am actually looking into my own mind showing tomorrow basically. Most of the time, I attempt the LD tasks for my own website, not this one before they happen, but the tasks on my website are somewhat identical to the ones on here, but are a lot harder, because many of my members are expert LDers, and want more of a challenge.

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Originally posted by nesgirl119


I am actually looking into my own mind showing tomorrow basically.

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Originally posted by phoenelai


:?:

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Yeah, I know that is weird...I don't know how it is done, but if I can explore my past, can't I explore my future, too? I really do think there is more to LDing than we all believe, and that you can do anything with it....

BTW, this is not the place to discuss this (look in senseless banter for the doing the task before it is assigned), this is the place to discuss the LD task itself!

I did the task again just for fun the same as the last time. I like doing the task more than once just as much as I like to figure out the task before it is assigned! :D

Wohoooo,

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Originally posted by I

Woooh, I'm on a roll lately.

I was in some dream, resulting in me being in the bathroom/hall by the front door again. There was a kinda graphical glitch though (which is turning out to be a major dream sign, luckily for me). I did the usual questioning of reality, but rather strangely, I didnt have the usual headrush followed by clarity, until the 3rd questioning in a row, or so. I was quite happy, and also awesome'd at the stability of this dream. I tested it with the usual things that make dreams crack. I managed to go blind in one eye, when really trying to shake things up, and it naturally opened a few seconds later! Cool, so I thought 'Ooh better try the advanced task pretty quick!' I found a nice leaf of a plant by the window outside the front door and shrunk myself onto it, quickly leaping off and hanging myself from the leaf! A few seconds later I burst into the air as a butterfly, but then my rather eccentric driver friend came speeding round the corner towards the house, in some kinda corvette thing. I tried to obliterate it with force coming outta my hands, but it didnt work, so I concluded that I had woken up when turning back from a butterfly, ending up on the floor outside in real life! The friend asked what on earth I was doing, and the dream continued, normally til I woke up. Something to do with bad trainee teachers and rubbers :S

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Woohoo x2!!

Haha. I think all this talking about the task yesterday helped me out. :cooler:

06/20/2006
Dream One:
“Second Lucid Task Completed!”

I was in a bar. I remember feeling like a complete stranger in this place, and a lot of people were sorta giving me the eye. I kept to myself, and made my way to the counter, and started to order a drink. Behind me, the door opened, and the big 6 foot / 300 something pound guy walks in.
While the bartender was just about to turn to me to take my order, this big guy walks up to me from behind and shoves me out of the way. Taking my spot at the bar and ordering his drink first. My mind began racing as I stared at this guy, knowing that he could probably crush me, if he wanted to. But finally, in my anger, it hit me: “I was dreaming!”
I stepped back up to him and we started to exchange words, but I forgot what we said. He kept talking to me dismissively, though, as if it was in my best interest to leave him alone. I didn’t, of course. I can’t remember whether or not he attacked me first, but all I remember is picking this guy up by the crotch with one arm and flattening him like a bug against the ceiling above the doorframe. And when I say flattened, I mean the blood ran out of him like I was ringing a towel up over my head. Unnecessarily graphic, but satisfying, nonetheless.
Now, with a moment to think, I looked around the bar as if to say “Hmm..well I’m lucid…now what?” Then I realized that, before falling asleep, I had been repeating “Gotta catch a butterfly. Gotta catch a butterfly.” The Task!!! That was my first order of business. Now, originally, I had planned to make some big elaborate scenario about either catching a giant butterfly or catching/fighting a butterfly/human hybrid, but this dream was feeling very unstable, so I took the easy route. I held up my hands as if I was holding an invisible basketball between them and began moving them slowly together. Just before they touched, the butterfly materialized in thin air and slipped down between my palms as I cupped my hands together and I could feel it rattling inside. Smiling, I opened my hands with a sense of victory and the butterfly flew out just as the scene changed.

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Originally posted by juroara
And I found it disturbing that the butterflies were dead. But I didnt have time to change that, the sun was so bright it flooded my dream and woke me up.

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Yeah, that is a disturbing image. Where I live, we have Swallow Tail butterflies, lots of them, you know, those big yellow ones about the size of your hand?

I hate it when I hit one with the car, somehow the image of hundreds of those guys all torn and burned falling from the sky bothers me as well. It's going to take a little while to get that out of my mind.

I remember reading a futuristic novel one time. There was a passage where the main characters were remembering the past. The one line that stuck with me and is still with me was: "Remember when the frogs all died?" :cry:

*shutters*

Okay, I'm confused. Why are the badges a bucket and a building? Were those for a different month?

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Originally posted by O-Nieronaut
Okay, I'm confused. Why are the badges a bucket and a building? Were those for a different month?

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That's what I was wondering, heheh! :D

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Originally posted by Seeker


Yeah, that is a disturbing image. Where I live, we have Swallow Tail butterflies, lots of them, you know, those big yellow ones about the size of your hand?

I hate it when I hit one with the car, somehow the image of hundreds of those guys all torn and burned falling from the sky bothers me as well. It's going to take a little while to get that out of my mind.

I remember reading a futuristic novel one time. There was a passage where the main characters were remembering the past. The one line that stuck with me and is still with me was: "Remember when the frogs all died?" :cry:

*shutters*

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sorry for disturbing you XD

I have no clue what kinda butterflies they were, but they were the size of my palm with their wings spread it...

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Originally posted by O-Nieronaut
Okay, I'm confused. Why are the badges a bucket and a building? Were those for a different month?

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*Seeker waves his hand* You saw nothing :D

:D I did it! Completed the advanced lucid task. :D

((taken from my dream journal))
"I'm dreaming." I said out loud.
I moved to and plopped onto the couch. My mind instantly raced with a billion things to try. I decided to try this month's lucid task.
I laid on the couch and closed my eyes. I imagined myself as a catepillar, an odd tingling coursed through my body and I felt it shrinking. I was a little green inch worm. Felt so odd.
Anyway, inched off the couch and crawled up the leg of my coffee table and eased into one of the corners under the table top. My hind legs gripped onto the surface as the rest of me dangled. Don't recall weaving a cocoon. Think I was just instantly enveloped in one. It felt so comfortable, like being cuddled up in silk sheets.
At this point, the dream kept switching from catepillar point of view to an outside point of view. Had the feeling I was gong to loose lucidity.
Quickly burst out of the cocoon. As I did, the view switched and I watched myself 'hatch'. The thing that came out of the cocoon was a huge shiney black scarey looking scorpion. After a few moments I/it surried to the center of the table underside. Scrunched up wet looking wings twitched at either of my/it's sides.
I was impatient for the wings to dry. Wanted so desperately to fly. I'd shake them every so often, trying to speed the drying process.
From the outer view, my wings were monarch-like, but violet and black instead of orange and black.
In my excitement to fly, I felt lucidity slipping away. I tried like a maniac to hand onto it but eventually lost it. Woke up immediately