Thread: Lucid Task For The Month Of June 2006

From today's Dream Journal:
"...later remembering the Lucid tasks. I caught a butterfly, but it squished in my hands. I tried to make a coccoon, so I kinda threw my head around until I was buried, then broke out. Nothing, I couldn't fly at all.".

Do I earn anything for killing a butterfly and coming out a paralytic?

edit: SWEET! Thank you. Killing small organisms was worth it.

Well this morning I was lucid for some time. It was awhile before I remembered the lucid task. So I went looking for a butterfly...but strangely one came right up to me. I didn't want to catch it because I didn't want to harm it, so I sort of just trapped like Gandalf traps the moth with his hand. I then whispered to it and set it free.

I then had trouble remembering if I had to turn into a butterfly or a caterpillar, so I decided I would pretend to be a caterpillar...then I hung upside down and hugged my legs and began spinning silk all around my body. I was starting to lose lucidity but I could get it to come back eventually. Soon when I thought I had spun enough silk I began changing into a butterfly and growing wings.

After completing the tasks, I realized how...boring they seemed (no offense to Seeker or anyone else) but there's just ALOT cooler and more rewarding things I've done in lucids. So I doubt I'll be attempting anymore tasks unless one comes along that I really like. Which hasn't happened for awhile.

Cheers guys!

Sorry about that Nina, I'll have to start assigning more interesting tasks.

But please remember, the tasks are more of an exercise for the beginning and mid-level dreamers to get them to start planning their activities in advance and to remember to carry them out. It is so tragic and has happened to me so many times to find myself in a lucid dream and kind of be stuck for a cool idea to try. The basic tasks are always designed to be something that you could do in real life and often result in funny twists. Remember the "Catch a duck" one? The advanced tasks are always something that should stretch the abilities of the mid-level dreamer and give them more confidence in their abilities.

I fear the uber-dreamers of this forum will always find my tasks a little boring, but I'll see what I can do to make the advanced task more interesting.

Hey Nina,
Check out, earlier in the thread, about how we've been talking about making the tasks more personal and exciting. They are only as boring as you want them to be.
Catching a butterfly too boring?
How about catching a mutant butterfly man that's flying and FA-19 Hornet by flying after him, landing on the cockpit windshield, smashing through it with your fist and pulling the butterfly/man up by his head, tying him to one of the missiles, jumping into the cockpit and firing the missile into a brick wall.
There are a lot of ways you can tweak a task to make it exciting, ya know?

Originally posted by Seeker
Sorry about that Nina, I'll have to start assigning more interesting tasks.

But please remember, the tasks are more of an exercise for the beginning and mid-level dreamers to get them to start planning their activities in advance and to remember to carry them out. *It is so tragic and has happened to me so many times to find myself in a lucid dream and kind of be stuck for a cool idea to try. *The basic tasks are always designed to be something that you could do in real life and often result in funny twists. *Remember the "Catch a duck" one? *The advanced tasks are always something that should stretch the abilities of the mid-level dreamer and give them more confidence in their abilities.

I fear the uber-dreamers of this forum will always find my tasks a little boring, but I'll see what I can do to make the advanced task more interesting.

You know, I had kind of the same problem on DoG a while ago before I made a Very Hard task. Usually, the Very Hard tasks might involve a little more than the advanced task (But even so, I usually have to challenge myself a little by doing the task before it is assigned, because now that is a challenge!), like doing both tasks, plus something more in a LD. I wonder if that would help the tasks be a bit more challenging to those that LD every night?

I felt the destroy a building task was too violent, so in chat I mentioned more peaceful tasks. I will reiterate my proposal.

Beginner Task: Find three different dream characters, and give them a hug or a kiss. Please don't force it on them, they should agree to it.
Advanced Task: Summon the archetypical evil black dog to maul you until he is satisfied. No casting spells or using mind control allowed.

Seeker, I thought it was just right! I've never tried transmorphing before, and it gave me a prompt to do it, and I, personally was pleased with the result! Thanks ^_^

I finished the beginning one quite unusually:

"Alright so I was in this house talking with like 6 other people around a table. We were discussing battle strategies on how to get past some guards, but still get some kind of a secret weapon. Somehow, I triggered lucidity and played with telekinesis for a bit, while listening to some more battle strategies. I thought the strategies were kool. I was just about to leave and find something more interesting to do when I remembered the task. I ran over to the table and asked them for idea on where I could find a butterfly. They had gastly looks on their faces and pointed at my feet. I stepped back and looked down to where my feet had been and there was a dead butterfly. So I picked it up, threw it in the air and caught it. "

Sure hope that counts it's kind of a loophole.

Lmfao. Nice. ^^

Hmm, funky_chicken, you are the second person who dreamed of dead butterflies. Interesting twists on the subconcious here. This is what I was talking about earlier in the thread. Simple and seemingly boring tasks yield some interesting results.

Questions, why did it have to be a dead butterfly? Why were the people at the table so upset about it? Cool.

I believe my subconscious chose the dead butterfly because earlier i was thinking of loopholes in the tasks. I enjoy finding loopholes, so i did that's perfectly normal. I was thinking about shooting a butterfly from the sky and catching it. Or just shooting it and picking it up off the ground, throwing it in the air and catching it again. So, I was already thinking about dead butterflies before i actually dreamed of one.

As for the people being shocked... Well if someone asked where they could find butterflies and then suddenly a dead one appeared under his feet... well i'd be kinda shocked too.

Since I haven't tried to will myself to do this lucid task, I'm surprised I had a non-lucid with something related happening. It was the advance task, except only watching a catepillar putting itself into a cacoon. It didn't turn into a butterfly, its form changed into something else I remember vaguely, a symbol hanging on a string of some sort.

I was more concerned with the colony of roaches nearby living on an inadequet food supply of flower nectar, as evidenced by their paper thin abdomens.