Thread: Lucid Task For The Month Of August 2006

Lol, more interesting doesnt mean sexual. More interesting may be asking for an audience with your subconscious mind and actually asking it some predetermined questions - this may be a decent "advanced" lucid task.

The only thing I didnt like about the jumping task is that I was ready to do it but actually stopped myself cause doing the task would've ended my LD. Will jumping into water count?
It's sad that the idea of dream reentry didnt cross my mind.

About the heart surgery- do I have to do it on a "dead" DC or DC in distress? Cause normally my dreams dont feature people having heart attacks and stuff And I dont feel like ripping someone's heart out just for the sake of some experiment

Ok, completed the advanced task (not that amazing but I got it done anyway ):

I WILDed into my dream bed, I wasn't planning to do the lucid task unless the opportunity presented itself (I wasn't going to go look for a cliff or something) So I walked into my homes kitchen and found my dad standing in-front of the refrigerator rummaging through it for food or something. I stood there looking out the window that's on my kitchen door thinking about what I wanted to do.
suddenly my dreamdad says something like: "Whats wrong with you son? Get your lazy ass outside and work" suddenly the advanced lucid task came to mind ()
I walked over to him and looked him in the eyes, he had a confused look on his face that said "why isn't he backing down?" suddenly I plunged my hand into his chest and tore out his heart () He just stared at me blankly as I looked at it (it looked fake pretty much, no blood, looked like plastic) I then squeezed it in rhythm like 4 times and punched it back into his chest

I didnt check to see if the patient was still alive or not. but hey, us doctors cant save everyone now can we?

Originally Posted by Vex

You pulled your own heart out? That's awesome!

I so have to try that.
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Thanks! It hurts when I stick my finger(s) threw any body flesh though...

Eligos

I've completed both lucid tasks during a long ass LD tonight.

I dont remember how I became lucid, but I was standing on a balcony 6 stories high speaking to some woman on another balcony. Looking down on the street below prompted me to recall the lucid task. Still, I was very hesitant on jumping and tried to recall the other task. Aha! Heart surgery. There were no suitable victims in sight so I had to come down somehow. I finally decided on jumping and it was quite weird. My field of view became tunneled and I raised my head so I wouldnt see the ground below. I turned towards the building and jumped backwards. In mid fall I've tried to stop by clenching my fist and it worked. Relieved I let go and fell to the ground. I sorta blacked out but was able to recover,however I found myself in another place.
my lucidity was shaky but I remembered the second lucid task. Now I realize why it is "advanced I spent a good several minutes running around the streets looking for people to operate on. Finally I've entered a hospital but there were no suitable "victims" - I've even entered several rooms just to find small children waking up. I felt like I shouldnt practice on them. Frustrated I went around shouting "Help! Anyone needs help? Preferably people with heart problems!!!" Just as I said that I've entered a stairwell and a saw a woman fall down. Yay! I thought that I found my patient. Just as i approached her and raised my hand above her chest ready to extract the heart (my hand looked clawed and quite vicious) she woke up and thanked me for helping her get up. Bah... I've continued my search. Next I've entered a very large room, not sure if that was a butcher shop or an operation room. There were people with body parts all over the place and I ran around for a while. Finally I saw 2 hearts on a shelf, about 15 feet away from me, they looked very artificial, but I was relieved to finally find some hearts. Just as I stepped towards them two of my dream enemies popped out of thin air before me (this never happened before). They were grinning. But my resove was strong even though my lucidity was low. I pushed them away with both of my hands and one of the enemies landed on a butcher/operating table. He was bent over backwards and I held him with my left hand and plunged my right hand in his chest. It felt like a lot of cold chewing gum. Next second I pulled out his heart leaving a huge gory gap in his chest. The heart was weird and long. "Ok, I've got the heart, now what?"- I thought to myself. Suddenly a thought popped in my mind - I can use this "operation" to forever remove this enemy from my dreams. I've "massaged" this intention in his heart but instead of pluggin it back I've smashed it on the floor and stepped on it splitting the heart in two chunks. The person without a heart seemed to move but I'm not sure if he was still alive. Upon completing the surgery my lucidity disappeared and the dream degenerated into me fighting multiple opponents at once.

There were three major glitches about these two experiences. First of all I've experienced tunnel vision - I could see the edge of my field of view. Second, the bad guys popped out of thin air to prevent me from reaching the hearts. This never happened before. Think of Agent Smith - Whenever I was attacked the attacker took place of another DC, never just appearing. Third, one of the attackers had 3 clones of himself, I've never experienced anything like that with bad guys.
Also, when I was performing the surgery the bad guys stood at the edge of my vision doing nothing, as if my intense focus on the heart pushed them out.

Holy crap man! That was cool. Running around looking for victims...er.. I mean Patients!

I had a lucid dream two days ago, in which I performed both of the tasks.

I 'spawned' in my room, went out of my house to my garden. Now I imagined a cliff and a city behind me. When I turned around, there was a huge cliff, with a city beneath. I jumped down, crashed into the ground with my face first. Now I stood up, eager to find a patient.

I found an attractive white female, approximately 5'8 - 5'9 tall with blue eyes and brown hair. I knocked her down, pushed with my hand through her chest, grabbed her heart and ate it. Now I spawned a new heart, and inserted it into her. She was now fully healed, and after a while I inserted something else into her...

Unfortunately it was not a DV member, but with Burns' permission I could do it with her.

Done it! I sky dived off a cliff! It felt so real I kept on falling and falling then dived into the sea. Then saw an amazing array of tropical fish and then swam up and out and flew back to the top of the like an angel using its wings. Cool Idea...

Hey! Maybe someone should start a topic of the top experiences to have in an LD

Allright. I'll be jumping off of a cliff haha I'll SURELY do a reality check FIRST I already know a way to counter that gastly falling-feeling experienced in Dreams. I managed to completely make it disappear, making my fall a pleasant one, not a nauseous one

I don't know if it counts, but I jumped out of a helicopter . It was so fun, first time doing it lucid.

This is confusing!

Originally Posted by zoo

This is confusing!
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What's confusing?

Yay! I finally remembered to do the task while I was lucid. I had been incubating the cliff one because I thought that would be easier, so that is what I thought of first, but on my way I found a patient and never made it to the cliff. This is gross, but hey--it was your idea!

--I outside of the house I lived in when I was a kid. I had been there before in the previous dream, and then it was all dark and gloomy, but now it was bright and sunny. I think this is what made me lucid. My brother as a teenager was hanging out with some other kids on some steps across the street. I walked over and watched them for a minute; they were playing and laughing and ignored me. I crossed back over and started to go into another house, thinking I could look for a man I've been seeing (in dreams) lately. Amazingly (for me) at that point I remembered the lucid task, so I tried to think of the nearest cliff. There is a park by the river just a couple miles from there that has some half-way decent cliffs, so I get into my car and start off. There are lots of people and traffic and it is taking me a lot longer than I think it should. I am almost there when I hit two pedestrians, a man and boy, and they go flying. A crowd gathers, and at first I just keep driving but then I realize this would be a perfect opportunity to do some heart surgery. I go over to the boy, who has become like a little preserved fetus, naked and featureless. I squat down next to the it and press my thumbs into its chest. The crowd is watching and murmurring disapprovingly, but I wave them away. I press my thumbnails into the skin and it starts to split and I can feel ribs cracking. Then the heart pops up thru the skin above collarbone. I massage it and it starts to beat again, and I tell the crowd that there was a clot in it that had to be removed. (Ta-Da&#33

But the rest is not so good; I go back to my car where some guys are messing around under the hood, I get rid of them but car isn't running right and it is smoking and making noise. I make it to the park and it has become a complex of large buildings; I know the cliff is still behind them but I don't know how to get there. I go thru a gate with a guard, she tells me that there is a hotel with a convention going on, and a library. I park and go into what I think is the library but it has a large coffee shop that is filled with people and I can't get to the back. I ask a checkout woman how to get to the cliffs, that I have to jump off, and she laughs and tells me to keep going but please don't scare the customers. Then I lost it; I try to get back into it or any dream but I can't and I wake up. Then I am so excited I can't get back to sleep for two hours!

I am happy! A couple days left this month to wear my first badge.

Same here I got mine with 3 days left in the month. Oh well, I'll try to do next months.

Umm... Not sure if it counts if you're flying in midair already...

From my DJ:
I try flying upside down, on my back. It's fun. Then I remember the August dream task of jumping off a tall building or cliff. I'm in mid-air, though; and I'm starting to feel as though I'll wake up soon; so I just stop flying and let myself fall. I fall slowly; and I land near the edge of a lake or pond. I don't want to go into the water because it's scummy with algae. When I land, only my foot ends up in the edge of the lake.

i did it...i completed the basic lucid task...i summoned a pyramid out of the ground, took a bounding leap to get on top of it and i jumpd off of it into a dark abyss...all while being completely lucid, i was on holiday in egypt at the time so it seemed fitting...so please give me the medal...

I became lucid thru DILD. THen I remembered task so I spun to Mt everest or something. And I screadmed! I need a cliff!!!!!!!

SO I ran and I found one! SO I jumped off and right be4 I hit the ground, I spread my arms and flew into the air!

AWESOME feelign falling!

A lot of people are talking about just dropping a long way down, does this count? or does it have to be off a cliff?

I dropped about 50ft in an LD a few nights ago, through a sewage vent down to some tunnels below (sounds fun doesn't it!!?) and I don't know if it counts.

Sorry, no overtly violent tasks. The main purpose of the lucid task is to get people to begin remembering things they want to do in their dreams. The purpose of the advanced task (usually) is to try to get the dreamer through doing the task to realize something about themselves.[/b]

Judging from this:
If you remembered the task and jumped off anything it should count. If you just fell off somewhere without recalling the task it may not count.

I know it's kind of late but last lucid I really failed badly.

First of all, I picked a random DC and tried to give them open heart surgery (cause I'm just a mean person). But when I was messing around, it looked like I was in MS Paint. I had her chest selected with the selection tool, but when I pressed Apple+X (I'm on a mac) there was no heart . So then I press Apple+U to try to undo it, but nothing happens.

Then, later in the LD, I jumped off the roof of my house (it didn't hurt at all) to go find a cliff. I searched for maybe a minute and then I woke up eventually.

Well, whatever, I can't wait till next months task though (and it's pretty soon hehe).

Do we just post when we complete the task? If so I completed the normal "jump off a cliff" task.

Hah--just under the wire! From my DJ:

Okay, so, the advanced lucid task: Do open-heart surgery on someone. I know I have to do this now, because it's August 31 and this is the last day. But there's no one around; and I've looked at my own heart before, just out of curiousity; so this is what I do again.

I use my hands to open my chest. It's easier this time than before; I don't have to go through the different layers (skin, fat, muscle, ribs) as I did before--I just open it right up. It feels weird but doesn't hurt. Then I reach in and grab my heart, making sure to mentally disconnect the arteries and veins, short lengths of which dangle from the heart. It's slippery and I drop it; so I squat down next to it and start poking around.

I take the heart apart. It's got upper and lower chambers, instead of four as it ought to; and it's filled with a whitish fluid instead of blood. I squeeze this out of the heart, and some of it has clotted. I figure I'll have to remember and watch this in real life, just in case it's a problem. Blood clots are, after all, what cause strokes and heart attacks.

I'm done now, and I don't bother to put the heart back into my chest; I've still got my real-life one, so I don't need this dream-construct; and my chest, without my attention on it, is now closed. I stand up and decide I'll wake myself up right away, so as to remember this dream well.[/b]

And now I am going back to sleep... waking up after five hours doesn't count as a full night's rest in my book!

Originally Posted by Miskingo

Do we just post when we complete the task? If so I completed the normal "jump off a cliff" task.
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You need to post the details of the experience for it to count.

Originally Posted by Elessar

I haven't really been active on forums lately so I'm gunna try the task tonight. C'mere Ophelia! HEART SURGERY TIME! MUAH HAHAHA![/b]

sooo...did you have any luck with that hrmmmmmmm?