Thread: Lucid Task For The Month Of May 2007

In the middle of a not-so-nice dream about a weird, scary orphanage-type place, I Suddenly Became Lucid. After travelling places and doing stuff for a bit, I remembered the tasks, correctly this time. I also happened to be near a bunch of trees. (I was also near a Body of Water in the form of a river, but it was fenced off. More on that later.) So I focus on a tree and it pulls up it's roots. It takes a step or two, then freezes. Frowning, I try and get it to move again, but no luck. Nor with any other tree.

So I try my luck at the river. And for some reason I remember this:

Originally Posted by tyrantt23

It worked, and I swung very "spidey" fashion to the other building.
"Ah, the perfect spot for the lucid task" I thought, except there were no more buildings around. Instead, I aimed my hand to the sky, and threw my web. It magically stuck to the sky like it did to anything else, and off I went, swinging towards the ocean, then I let go and fell in the water.

So I think. 'Ok, let's try web out my wrist!' And I try and try, and finally I see this white sticky stuff oozing out my wrist. So I try again and it shoots out and sticks to a passing cloud (a pink one I think). At this point two friends of mine appeared and I showed off my spidey-skills. They were very impressed. So I try and swing on my web, but it's too weak and snaps. I didn't even clear the fence.

Then I wake up and discover it's a school day.

Oh well, better than last time at least.

Good job Wolfie!
Glad to hear my dream helped you out (well, almost!), you were so close... try shooting out two webs next time. One from each hand... haha, that oughta be strong enough!
I guess you completed your advanced task though... I'm not the one to judge but it sounds like you made it.

Great job... keep it up!

WOW, everyone is really wearing out the tree task. Great work everyone!

Heh, thanks.
I'll try that next time I get a lucid. That and swimming. I haven't done that yet... And by the fact my name's now in gold like yours, I guess I did complete the advanced task! Web-shooting is awsome.

WOOHOO! Did anyone notice that I have started repairing the lucid task posts? Yay!

I'll be quick cos I'm in a Library.
Had a WBTB this morning, and the first bit I remember is in a dream just like RL, except it's all fuzzy and not quite right. Straight away I know I'm dreaming w/out an RC and I look out the window. In front of my house is a bunch of fields with a bay in front of it. It's still here in my dream just like RL.
I abandon the DCs and run out of the front door, my dream fading as I go. I know I have to be quick. As I'm about 1/2 mile from the bay I shoot out some spiderman web (original, I know...) and it sticks to the sky out of my sight.
Swinging on this I swoop down to the bay and release, flying through the air I drift out of my dream just as I hit the cold, dark, hard water.

First vaguely lucid dream in a while and I managed a task. Woohoo!

i did it but i didn't drop into water... does it still count?

i was on the road and my dad was walking infront of me, with food in bags. i become lucid and run up ad eat a cheese, it tasted like i had a hair in my mouth so i spit it out.

the view started to fade so i did the rubbing your hands and saying increase lucidity. after i did that i started to fly, i could hear the wind flying by me. i got high up and started swinging from spider webs, sadly it was really dark and hard to see.

i woke up to a false awakening, started telling my mom my cool dream then i woke up for real.

Its been ages since I completed a lucid task, although it was the harder one I wanted to complete twice I couldn't remember it.

This is the jist of it ...

lately I have thought about the Lucid Task on Dream Views, this played into my dream beause I was walking along and I happened to think "**** my lucid abilities are becoming a normal thing in non lucid dreams, how am I supposed to recognise a lucid if I can do it no lucidly" then I realised why not do a lucid check and levitated myself, I thought of the lucid tasks and for the second time I couldn' remember the making a tree walk around, I did however remember the spiderman one as I had just seen Spiderman 3 (Great Film) So I managed to get web to sling out of my right hand, It was very flimsy but after a few attempts I managed to get it to pull me up. I couldn't get web to shoot out of my left hand so I dragged on the wall for a while until I cleared my head and gained more focus, I was in a city so I was desperate to find water, I would have taken a glass of water, luckily i entered this chinese area, it looked rather scary, I then spotted a slipway with barrels in the water (been playing alot of Counter Strike lately) I needed to complete the task so I slinged from a chinese building that was in the water and leaped into the water and decided I would wake myself up if something bad happened...

not much else to it but heres the link
http://floatingmonkey.livejournal.com/76395.html

Bam.
I got the swinging one.

During an excellent LD, I was flying through the city like spiderman (but ropes were coming out of my wrists instead of webs o.O) when I approached an ocean.
I flew to a satellite I saw way up in the sky and jumped off it.
Just as I was about to hit the ground, I summoned up an airplane and hooked onto the bottom of it with one of my ropes.
The airplane rocketed me forward, making me land in the ocean a few thousand feet away.

Quite the experiance

And adding onto my last point, it felt like the water was made out of some sort of wierd fabric.
And I could breathe underwater.

I love breathing underwater, the sensation is amazing, thats why I failed the task the first time I tried, I just jumped in instead of swinging on a rope I conjured.

I have a lot of LD's even if there not induced. Today I had 5 or 6 (I lost count) Ld's. I firgure this would be a great time for trying to prolong lucidity. So when i realized i was dreaming i started to rub my hands together and spin aroun at the same time. It worked. I was in my neighbors yard and i willed the tree to uproot then i threw it at the house. It was sweet. I was thinking you should have an advance task: While in a LD have an OBE. That would be cool. You could probualy do it by flying as high as you can towards the sky.

P.S> Next time i'll make it walk around and not throw it into a house. he he

Thanks Asher for hacking in the badges!

Who's the "swinger"? Tarzan? Johnny Weismuller? I noticed the sassy leopard skin frock. Good job. (But I still think it shoulda been Pitfall Harry!)


Now if I could just earn me one of them.. sheesh.


And, but, also.. I'd like to suggest that the wording be changed on "completed advanced lucid task" so that it would fit in one line.
Just looks slightly sloppy going into the second line like that, maybe just "completed advanced task" or something like that (there are a lot of creative fixes) to neat it up. Just my 2¢.

Geez, I feel really out of it, but what if we've done this already, like years ago, does that count?

I watched (actually, read the screenplay Spiderman {the first one} several years ago, and dreamed about flying and webs that same night.)

I was Mary Jane, and I was jealous of Peter Parker, so I created my own webs, and they sprouted every time I was angry, and I could swing on them from country to country until I defeated the bad guy. I can't remember the bad guy, but I think it was my ex-husband, LOL. Something like that, but it was long ago, don't take my word on it. I'll have to look it up in my dream journals.

This was the first month I gave the task of the month some serious interest and effort. I was focusing on the tree uprooting. I tried a few times previously but no luck.

Last night I had a FA. After doing a few RT's I headed outside to the crab apple tree. Previous attempts had me visualizing the tree uprooting. Other attempts had me putting a skirt on the tree and telling it to dance in english, then in spanish (you know, just in case) - still no luck.

Anyway, since I was certain of my lucidity I think I was more confident. I stood in front of the tree and focused my mental energy via my arms to lift the tree out of the ground. It was now hovering over me, root ball and all. It was actually at an angle of about 30 degrees off the horizontal. I realized I needed to make it dance, so I started to spin it around about it's root ball so it was tracing out a cone (if you're getting the visual on this). I then used my mind to push it up further and further in the air while it was still spinning. I then pushed it away from me and watched it violently fly into the sky and ultimately away from my view.

Right when i got into the dream i started to rub my hands and spin around at the same time. Then i walked up to my neighbor's house and uprooted the tree and made it walk. I put eyes and a mouth on it (kind of like the Boss:tree in kirby) After that i couldn't resist i had to throw it into the house. It's just so much fun doing that. Anyways after that i lost conciuosness and had my first very vivid false awaking (kinda of freaky). Anyways i'm going to try the spiderman one tonight. But i probulay won't be able to do it because i have to wake up at 5.

Also in my dream my neighbor came out of his house after i threw the tree at it and he looked angry. So I went to go apologize (I have no idea why) and he reply was "I like eggs"

After that i had the false awakeing, i think that's because i did not expect him to say that after i just threw a tree in his house.

not to sound like uber-noob, but how are you supposed to show that you did those things in your dreams?

You just come in here and describe the dream. That's all.

We all really enjoy reading about people's experiences - both successes and failures.

Well I had wanted to get at least one of the tasks done before the end of the month and I knew I didn't have long since I just joined a few days ago and theres only a little more than a week left in may.

Last night I had a dream that I don't remember most of, but at some point I was in a bedroom with the door barred reading out of some ancient book. I remember that for some reason I had to intone a specific passage from the book in order to avert some catastrophe, but read the wrong part so instead it summoned this creature that was humanoid, but very bug like. It was riding what looked like a horse and the humanoid and the horse seemed to be wearing some kind of full body armor but on closer inspection the armor turned out to be an insect like exo-skeleton carapace and it linked the two together so that it may actually have been one creature that just looked like horse and rider.

At this point I became aware that I was now looking at this thing out in a field and there were several other people around riding various different creatures and there were some people around me talking about different modes of transportation. It was because of their conversation that it occurred to me that I usually flew everywhere I needed to go and this thought made me lucid.

I tried to take off, and at first just jumped really high, but when I landed I just instantly tried again and the force of my fall and trying to take off again made a rubbery sort of indent in the ground and I rocketed off in to the sky. I flew out over a bay that was next to a large city and tried to decide what I wanted to do with this dream. I had read a thread last night in which someone mentioned trying to fly as high as possible which had never occurred to me before so I started flying straight up, but then I remembered the tasks of the month. I wasn't near any trees, but I was right over a body of water and I remembered that spiderman type swinging was allowed so I shot out a rope at the nearest building and let myself go in to a free fall.

At this point I was probably about 80 stories in the air and the building I was swinging from was far away enough that the bottom of the swing brought me almost to touching the water. I continued to swing till I peaked and then let go and flew through the air (flying in the way you actually would after swinging on a rope). As I fell back down towards the water I went in to a forward dive and when I hit the water I went down a good 30 feet. It took a long time to swim back to the surface and I woke as soon as my head came out of the water.

I just had a Lucid Dream in which I tried very hard to do the Advanced Task. I feel like I was really close, so maybe this will count. I'm going to submit it in hopes. Either way, I feel a nice sense of satisfaction.



It started in my neighbor's backyard. I was talking to my friend N who supposedly lived there. We were discussing the problems we had with our yards. As we stood there in her yard, I could see right through the chain link fence to see my whole yard. Both of our yards were very large. They were all sandy dirt and had junk laying around.

I commented on how messy our yards looked. I said, "Look at how my yard slopes. It's hard to have a yard look neat when it isn't level. You're lucky yours is level."

But as I looked at her yard, it was only level where we were standing, all the rest was uneven with ditches and hills.

Then I looked at the green plants growing. I pointed it out to N. I said, "You see all that green stuff that looks like grass? Well, it's not. Those are baby tumble weeds. They are going to grow up to be huge and ugly, and when you try to pull them up, you'll get all scratched up with their stickers.

She then said she wasn't sure what plants I was talking about.

I said, "You can see them better if you fly over them." And at that point I started to hover in a horizontal position a few few off the ground and started flying over the little tumble weeds. "See..?" I said.

She looked at me and smiled and said, "C----, you just like to show off."

BLAM!

I was dreaming. Of course, because I was flying. Funny that I had a bit of a delayed reaction in figuring that out.

The first thing that comes to my mind is to complete the Advanced Task. I needed to find a tree.

I looked over into my yard and saw two poplar trrees. Unfortunately they looked dead. I didn't think I could make a dead tree walk around. So I kept looking. In the far end of the yard I saw another poplar.

I stared at it really intensly and willed it to pull up its roots. I could see it start to come up. I could see its roots emerge from the dirt. I then willed it to walk. It started forward.

As I wached it move, I realized that something wasn't quite right. I looked closer at the tree's roots. Under the roots I could see little wheels. The tree wasn't really using its roots to walk, but intead used little wheels that it hid under it's roots.

I thought to myself, "Will I get credit for this? Maybe I should try again."

So I looked over at another poplar tree. I stared at it until it too came up out of the ground. But this tree, instead of trying to fool me with its roots, just had wheels....and it wheeled itself away.

I started feeling like I had to hurry. I started pulling up tree after tree at this point only to find that all my trees had wheels and no roots at all.

To make matters worse, all the background in the dream suddenly went out on me. Everything but myself and about 8 wheeled trees was a flat light blue. I felt like we were in a computer--like the Matrix-- and someone had messed with the background color.

Then it messed up again. I was now trapped in a dark blue room. I had to get out. I ran at the wall with the intent of slipping right through. But I hit the wall.

After several times of being unsuccessful, I decided to try something different. I thought if I closed my eyes, then I wouldn't be fooled by a wall that wasn't even physical to begin with.

So with my eyes closed I ran at the wall. I ran further than I thought I needed to go and started to feel like I had made it, then blam. I hit it with the top of my head.

I tried two more times with my eyes closed.

But after no success. I decided to just do flips--like I often do in LDs.

As I did the flips I felt so good. I remember thinking, "This feels so good, why am I bothering to do anything else at all in my LDs. I should just do flips the whole time."

So I stayed in the room completely content for the next few minutes just enjoying the sensation of dream flips.

Until I finally woke up.

Originally Posted by Twoshadows

I stared at it really intensly and willed it to pull up its roots. I could see it start to come up. I could see its roots emerge from the dirt. I then willed it to walk. It started forward.

As I wached it move, I realized that something wasn't quite right. I looked closer at the tree's roots. Under the roots I could see little wheels. The tree wasn't really using its roots to walk, but intead used little wheels that it hid under it's roots.

I thought to myself, "Will I get credit for this? Maybe I should try again."

So I looked over at another poplar tree. I stared at it until it too came up out of the ground. But this tree, instead of trying to fool me with its roots, just had wheels....and it wheeled itself away.

This is too funny.. trees wheeling themselves away!

If it was up to me I'd give you credit for the task (after all.. you didn't cheat.. your trees did)!

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lol! That's funny, Twoshadows. Not only do you have trees with wheels, but you got the blue screen of death in a dream.

Yay TwoShadows!:bravo: That totally counts in my opinion. So your trees were handicapped, and had to wheel themselves instead of walking.