Thread: Lucid Task For The Month Of September 2006

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Dream in blue.
I asked my dad to let me try vegemite just out of curisity, and in case I got a lucid dream. I ate it, and it tasted like the bread had a thin layer of liquid salt.

I can't believe I didn't get lucid there......

Well, whatever, hopefully I'll be able to WILD by the end of the month and get one of the tasks done

Did not have a LD, but had a REALLY COOL false awakening, probably EVEN COOLER than visiting the crossroads.

Can I have a badge now?

Yay! I did the first task in my second ever lucid dream! Its a bit weird, haha.

From my dream journal, lucid part will be in blue:

I was floating in space, completely weightless. I had a perfectly clear view of earth and the moon. There was a large satellite next to me, it was about the same size as me, and black/purple coloured. I turned to the moon, and there was a huge comet flying at it then they collided and the earth shattered into pieces. I realized the satellite was still pointing at earth, and asked it if it was meant to capture the comet crash to relay back to earth. The satellite replied, and was like “Ah, crap – I was meant to capture that.” Immediately after the satellite stopped talking we both began to plummet into nothingness. I was planning on jumping out of the invisible force that was pulling me down when I fell past earth, but I forgot and within seconds I was falling through nothing – surrounded by black.

-It was at this point I realize I was dreaming and became lucid.-

Falling through the blackness, the first thought that came into my head was that I should die in my dream because the blackness was boring. Maybe I would respawn somewhere interesting. I willed myself to die, and felt something very strange – but kept on falling just as before. I then remembered the lucid challenge, but I had nothing with me to make a vegemite sandwich. Then suddenly, I thought “Hey, I have magical powers in my dreams, I can make a vegemite sandwich and land on it.” So I imagined a giant piece of bread smothered in vegemite below me, and it appeared. I landed on it – somehow not getting smothered in the vegemite, and stepped off onto an invisible floor still surrounded by black. I lifted up a corner and began to eat it, the piece of bread was huge. It would have filled up the floor of about half my bedroom so after a few bites I realised maybe I should shrink it. I shrunk the vegemite sandwich to its normal size, and finished eating it. It was pretty gross – salty and sticky. After the last bite I was like “Whoo, my first lucid task complete” And woke up.
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Best of luck to everyone else

EDIT: I'm trying for a lucid dream and a visit to the crossroads tonight. Unlikley, but its worth a shot. ^^

Wow, great advanced task this month. I haven't had much time for lucid dreams lately, but I'm about to dive right back into em again and visiting the lucid crossroads will definitly be my main goal.

Good luck everyone!

i did the vegimite one. i dont remember how the dream started. but i know i was in my bedroom when i becasme lucid. i knew it was a mid leel lucidity, enough where i could easily eat a vegimite sandwitch. so i went into the hall way and turn around and summoned a vegimite sandwich behing me. it was wierd. it was 2 pieces of bread with vegimite and butter and some butter on top. when i ate it it tassted like bread. i couldnt taste the butter or vegimite at all. then the strrangest thing happened. i started losing control of my dream. the sandwhich had "daish dogfood" on it. i have no idea how i knew i just did. i didntwanna tasate it so i spit it out. then a TV i never even knew was there had a shock-site face thing pop up on it. i tried to lookl away bt i knew if i wanted to continue the dream i would have to go outside. i tried to pass the tv but i saw it at the corner of my eye and woke up.

Alright I had a very weird dream last night, so I was in this camp/labrynth of death and I'll spare you the details of me going through the labrynth. I got to this one room and I was looking arround and running all over it(it was huge) and I couldn't find out how to get past this one room, then a former camp counceler of mine showed up and said something like, "You have to hurry up, your in last place." So I then thought wait I didn't see anyone else go into here, and I said to her, "Wait you're not supposed to be here." And I relized I was dreaming. So I asked her if she had a vegamite sandwich, and she handed me one. I ate the sandwich it was really weird, it like melted into something like a stick of butter in my mouth and had a mild salmon taste to it. I then proceeded to try and find out how to get out of this room so I can go out and do stuff and in the proccess of that I lost lucidity.

Originally Posted by tai

Did not have a LD, but had a REALLY COOL false awakening, probably EVEN COOLER than visiting the crossroads.

Can I have a badge now?
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Sorry Tai, badges only for those people that do the lucid task. You'll get on this month, I hope.

I didn't know what a vegemite sandwich was, so last night in my dream, I just made a lettuce and tomato sandwich with a bit of hummus I think. It was really delicious, do you want me to try again?

I've had vegemite once (another reason why I didn't like Australians at the time), and it was pretty darn uh interesting. I don't remember what it tastes like though... let me know if I should give this another go.

The Purple Knight

Yup, try again please.

Hummis is not Vegimite. I had a hummis and lettuce sandwich one time. Stuffed it all into a pita pocket, was pretty good. We were out Dolphin spotting off of Key West at the time. It was prety good!

Originally Posted by Seeker

Yup, try again please.

Hummis is not Vegimite. I had a hummis and lettuce sandwich one time. Stuffed it all into a pita pocket, was pretty good. We were out Dolphin spotting off of Key West at the time. It was prety good!
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Hahaha ok, I thought you wanted me to make a vegetable sandwich, so I did! It's weird, I hadn't LD'd in months, then I almost did the task of the month on day 3.

What does that mean, going to that invented land you're talking about? I'm not sure if I understand that task either. I have to go to one of the pictures on the site?

CV

if you havent noticed, the badges are the ones from last month

Originally Posted by Seeker

Sorry Tai, badges only for those people that do the lucid task. You'll get on this month, I hope.
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Rats!

lol

Originally Posted by Seeker

Hummis is not Vegimite. I had a hummis and lettuce sandwich one time. Stuffed it all into a pita pocket, was pretty good. We were out Dolphin spotting off of Key West at the time. It was prety good!
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You mean IRL? You've only eaten hummus once IRL?

Hummus is defintely not vegemite. Hummus is ubiquitous and delicious, and vegemite is horrible (from what I've heard) and extremely hard to find. I've checked all the stores in my area; luckily I'm travelling next week so maybe I can find it. Otherwise I'll have to order it off the internet. By the time I get it, the month will be over!

Sorry about the whining. I've been trying to do it without actually tasting it with no luck whatsoever. I'm sure it would help to eat it right before bed.

i have completed the advanced task, i remember walking up a hill where birds were flying and lots of different roads leading off of it , i entered by a road with buildings around me, on the hill the sun was setting and the area had an orange glow, i remember one of the other roads, it led to more hills or mountains or fields, i cant remember, but there was a song playing, it was peter gabriels - solsbury hill...i remember singing along to it, i only remember hearing the first verse, and it of describes what was happening from my point of view:

Climbing up on Solsbury Hill
I could see the city light
Wind was blowing, time stood still
Eagle flew out of the night
He was something to observe
Came in close, I heard a voice
Standing stretching every nerve
Had to listen had no choice...

the place that i was in bore a resenblance to twilight town from kingdom hearts 2, which is a place which i have imagened to resemble paradise...i hope that this dream completes the advanced lucid task...so show me the medal and entrance into the lucid task club once again...

I'll try to remember the Vegemite one. I went just a tad lucid last night, but for like 4 seconds. I'll tell the results if I remember.

What the heck is a vegemite sandwich? Going to the Lucid Crossroads sounds cool though. I've sorta wanted to do it ever since joining DV, and landing on the Crossroads site through a link.

Ok, I ate not just one but two vegemite sandwiches last night. They were absolutely disgusting; I had to mentally teleport the last piece down my throat. But I did it.

I also went to a place my brain said was Lucid Crossroads. It was like a circle in the middle with doors in every direction. I went and opened a few of the doors, it was pretty neat.

Pieman, that doesn't sound like the Crossroads to me. Did it resemble in any way the place that was showed in the link I posted?

Curses.

Attempting this task is the first time I've tried to LD deliberately and after helping me out for years, my subconscious now seems to be trying every trick it can think of to stop me becoming lucid (including false awakenings that are so realistic, they're actually mundane).

Of course, if I just give up and forget about, I'll probaby be staring into Glad's rosewater eyes in no time! lol

I visited the Lucid Crossroads on the 1st but haven't had a chance to post until now.

I became lucid and thought of the Crossroads, so I quickly found a door and imagined the Crossroads on the other side. I opened the door and walked through, and I was there! I could see the blue floor, the desert, the doors, and the well, but nothing else.

I wanted to talk to Clem to increase my lucidity, but neither he nor Glad were there. I imagined he was in front of me anyway. I could feel his presence even though I couldn't see him. I shouted "Increase stability!", which I think worked. I then walked to the pool and dipped my hand in. It was a little chilly, but it wasn't icy cold like it's supposed to be. Then I felt the chain mail on the side of the little structure beside the pool. I said "Increase lucity!"

I walked through one of the doors to enter a new scene. I was in a room with my family, and I thought that they were there in real life and I was there from my LD. I tried to convince them that I wasn't there in RL and that I came there from my LD. I floated above my dad a little to convince them, then I woke up.

I'll definitely try to visit the Crossroads again... next time I actually want to meet Glad and Clem, and maybe sign the guestbook

who wants to hear my story of how i did the lucid crossroads task?
I do!
anyway
so im hanging out in the finished basement of somehouse and im singing the song thunder road by bruce springsteen. (my iboom is playing on shuffle of all my ipod songs so i must assume that at this same moment thunder road was playing ont he iboom) suddenly i wonder why im singing and i become lucid, with a quick noseplug rc to seal the deal. i decided i would complete the task and i go upstairs to find a door. i walk past the couch and for no reason at all decide to set it on fire. i look over at it and outsrtech my hands in a firecasting position and a little flame appears on the couch and then just as soon goes out and a little black spot like when you burn something is where the flame was. then suddenly the words "NOMEX: fire retardent" fade into view on the couch. (i had been reading about the material that they make special forces suits out of earlier that day.) this made me very angry so i lifted up my hands and threw a giant fireball at it, which whiffed out of view and left the couch unharmed. then the words nomex fire retardent transformed into a clown face and started laughing at me. i screamed in rage and was about to throw another fireball and then remembered this was one of those things that would cause me to lose lucidity and i would be pissed when i woke up. so i stuck out my toungue at the couchclown, , then it stuck out its tounge at me, and then i turned around and walked away. i noticed the front door and i said okay this time im going to do it. so i walked right up to the door and looked at it, and tried my best to visualize the lucid crossroads, but i had trouble focusing on all the things i needed. (the tree, the desk the chairs the table) and i was only focusing on the desert and the endless sky. i opened the door and saw an unsatisfying dreamscape of old tucson and arizona and thought, okay, now the whole thing. i closed the door and pictured the whole thing. this time thou, instead of trying to imagine the whole thing by myself i sort of set my mind on autopilot and sort of thought, lucid crossroads, and let my mind fill in the blanks. I opened up the door and there it was the lucid crossroads. (the view looked kind of like it would looking onto the circle of doors from about 10 yards (same as meters basically) from behind the tree. ( i set the backround on my desktop with that picture hoping it would help me to visualize it when i got there.) so im in there, pretty pleased with myself i must admit, and i walked right over to the circle of doors. glad and clem however, were nowhere to be seen. i remembered they might try to sneak up on me because they think there cool like that, but i didnt think they would be able to.so i plunked myself down in one of the chairs, and saw the guestbook layed out on the table. i remembered to make my mark, but there was no pen. so i bit my finger to make it bleed and wrote out mountain in blood. it was suprisingly normal though, like you could tell it was blood but it was just as legible as red pen. so i licked my finger to stop the bleeding and it stopped. i looked around for a second, and noticed the mirror, which was supposedly used for astral projection. i didnt know what it would do, and decided to stay away from it... i never really liked alice in wonderland. so i went over to the font, splashed some water in my face, and went over to one ofthe doors.before i opeed it and walked through, i sald to the door, "i wanna be where the ocean meets the sand. i went through and i was on a vacant beach with white sand. there were dolphins jumping up and down through the water and i layed down on the shoreline. i soon lost lucidity and went off doing some menial task, then woke up.

it did resemble it, minus the doors, the paths were not doors instead they were foot paths which if you went to the end to you would get to the place where the doors will take you...so basically it was a longer route to the same place, there was a place to sit but no fountain, and the time of the day was dusk so there was an orangy glow about the place, basically it was my interpretation of what my ideal lucid crossroads would be, it was a mixture of paradise and the lucid crossroads, and the scenery was better without the doors, there were also birds flying...i entered through a path with buildings and another road lead to fields or mountains...

I can't find vegemite anywhere; I'm out of the sticks and in the big city now and it is nowhere. Somebody said something about a distributor problem. This is inhibiting my ability to do the lucid task; I must have some before I can do it. I guess I'll have to order it; hope I get it in time...

Anybody else (in U.S.) have any luck finding it? Is this a nationwide shortage?

Originally Posted by Moonbeam

I can't find vegemite anywhere; I'm out of the sticks and in the big city now and it is nowhere. Somebody said something about a distributor problem. This is inhibiting my ability to do the lucid task; I must have some before I can do it. I guess I'll have to order it; hope I get it in time...

Anybody else (in U.S.) have any luck finding it? Is this a nationwide shortage?
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Theres this one place near me that sells food and other things from around the world and they carry vegimite.