Thread: Lucid Task For The Month Of May 2007

Was having a very odd dream that my step-dad was here. He was asleep on the couch.

He woke and, smiled and started to walk to the bathroom. All of a sudden he got this look on his face that was very worried. He looked at his hands and started trembling. (He's diabetic IRL). All of a sudden he starts yelling "cookie! cookie!" like he needed a cookie to get his blood sugar up.

I got him fig newtons. The same thing I had just fed my daughter before her nap (and mine, when this all happened).

So, I realize I'm dreaming cuz this was just too weird. I become lucid and start walking around the house.

I increase vividness this time easier by shoulting "More Vivid!" Also rubbed my hands together but that didn't seem to work the best.

Then, I enter a room that looks like a room from our house in childhood. I remember the TOTM and look for something to swing on. A stuffed octopus is on the ceiling, mounted so it's arms are drooping down. I grab an arm and pull. It almost comes off. I think I'll never be able to swing. And where is the body of water?

I grab an arm anyhow, run and swing straight for the window! It works and I crash through closing my eyes. I then imagined a large lake below me and started freefalling. I turned (as I was falling) facing the sky and saw the house up in the air that I had jumped out of... The freefalling feeling is quite amazing. Then splash! Back-flop into a lake.

I then walked around looking for my dream lover (lol). Couldn't find her anywhere. I met an old childhood friend and asked if it looked like I was dreaming. That DC said "No, you look pretty good... not like you're dreaming at all!" Then I asked her "Where is [name]....?" She hadn't seen her either. Darn.

There was more, it involved a defictive radar detector on display in the middle of a courtyard... but that was just weird stuff.. lol

Originally Posted by legbuh

I remember the TOTM and look for something to swing on. A stuffed octopus is on the ceiling, mounted so it's arms are drooping down. I grab an arm and pull. It almost comes off. I think I'll never be able to swing. And where is the body of water?

I grab an arm anyhow, run and swing straight for the window! It works and I crash through closing my eyes. I then imagined a large lake below me and started freefalling. I turned (as I was falling) facing the sky and saw the house up in the air that I had jumped out of... The freefalling feeling is quite amazing. Then splash! Back-flop into a lake.

legbuh.. way to use what's available!! An octupus.. now that's creative and it worked!! LOL! Congrats!

It's really hard to explain how it was set up too..

Imagine a square room. Now imagine a stuffed octopus with VERY long arms. The body is attached to the ceiling in the middle of the room. The arms are stretched out to each wall connecting to the corner of the ceiling and wall, drooping in the middle (kinda like you'd hang an old fishnet on your ceiling in college).

I'm glad something whas there to swing on! lol! I just wish I could have remembered the advanced task! lol!

I just completed the advanced task a few hours ago.

I was in an RV, and did a couple reality checks out of reflex. As I walked out of the RV into a small park, I realized that the reality checks I just did showed that I was dreaming, did a couple more to prove it to myself, then became lucid.

In the park, I remembered the advanced task, and walked over to a nearby tree. The tree was about twelve feet tall, and had a line of coaxial cable wound around it's trunk. I walked up to the tree, put my hand on it's trunk, and told it that it should get up and walk somewhere. It obeys, and lifts itself up on it's roots, which turn out to be only a couple feet long. It slowly starts walking towards me, in a way reminiscent of how a spider walks.

At this point I decided I wanted it to stop walking, because it was kinda creepy, and was about to run into me. I told it that it could stop walking, but it kept going. I also tried simply forcing it down, first mentally, then physically, but this didn't work either. Finally I tried to merge with it like in April's advanced task, to control it more directly, as this was my final plan to get it to start walking in the first place. I suspect this attempt ended the dream, as I remember nothing else from that dream after that.

I did both lucid tasks in the same dream, but it's really long, so I'll just include the tree part. See my dream journal if you want to read the other part. This proves that dreams can be controlled--to me at least. I was starting to wonder if Arne was right about people not being able to controll dreams, because when I thought about it, I could really only remember controlling myself. Until now, this time it really worked. So Arne, you are wrong! You can't be convinced until you do it yourself maybe.

PART 1--Walking Tree
--I'm sharing an strange apartment with SF from work. I'm making my lunches for the week, and the bowls are in a cabinet way over my head. I reach up on my tiptoes and reach for them, and altho I can't touch them, they tip slowly and fall into my hands. I think, that was really weird--I should do an RC. I almost brush the thought aside, but then I think, "No, I haven't been doing my RC's enough and that's why I'm not having any lucid dreams". So with a sense that I'm being silly, I look at my hand. No pinky--it's been amputated! Yay! Suddenly I realize the ridiculousness of the whole situation, and wonder how I could have not known it was a dream. I run out of the kitchen into the living room. My Mom and some other family members are sitting on the couch. I want to communicate with the Mom-DC; I've been wanting to talk to DC's and learn from them. So I sit next to her, and try to get her to tell me something (I can't remember what I said exactly). She responds just as if it had been IRL and I interrupted her talking to someone else to ask her about her feelings--confusion, distraction, maybe slight annonyance, etc. So I think, oh well, well there's lucid tasks to do anyway! I run out of the apartment, down the stairs, tthinking the whole time--there's going to be a beautiful day thru that door--and there is! I run out into a peaceful street scene, a much better neighborhood than the squalid apartment would have seem to have been in. The sun is shining, and kids are playing in the park-like yards. I see a small tree (the kind that's I've been "practicing" IRL with, I figured a small one would be easier than a big one). I point at it, and command it: "UPROOT! UPROOT! UPROOT!" People gather to see what I'm doing. The grown-ups are scoffing and telling me I'm crazy, but the kids watch the tree intently. Slowly it rises from the ground. "See, it's working!", I say to the doubters. The tree rises on four thick roots, kind of like little elephant legs. I continue to yell commands to it until it is about 5-6 inches up. Then I say, "NOW WALk! WALK! WALK!" and it does! The kids cheer, and the grown-ups are amazed and murmurring (murmur, murmur, murmur.) The tree takes about two or three steps--then topples over. But I am ecstatic! I did it!

Wow, I'm on fire! I've been having lucid dreams more often than I've ever had, and two nights ago I did a lucid task for the first time, as well as a successful WILD for the first time in my life! Here's an excerpt from my dream journal:

Originally Posted by tyrantt23

The Running Tree (WILD)

I opened my eyes, and I was on my bed, in the same position I was before. My room looked very different, very colorful. There was a rolling chair in the middle of the room, some big purple teddy bear, a clock on the wall... very different than my real room. I did a nose reality check, and I was able to breath, but I still couldn't believe I had just been able to do a WILD, so I waited there laying down, looking at the chair and the teddy bear. The chair started moving on its own, and I figured I was probably dreaming indeed, and thought I could get out of bed, but was still afraid I would mess up the WILD. After I saw the teddy bear blinking on its own, I figured I really was dreaming!
I got out of bed and looked around the room for a brief moment, then tried to think of what I could do. I started walking towards the door, then I remembered about the Lucid Task of the month (make a tree lift itself up and walk, or swing either spider-man style or on a vine onto a body of water). I looked outside the window and saw a garden, with trees of many different sizes... BINGO! I looked at the huge tree and thought to myself "way out of my league..." when I noticed a tree about my size on the center of the garden. I focused my attention on making the tree lift its own roots up. It used two of its branches as if they were arms, and pulled its roots up as if it was a pair of pants or a skirt. looked to its left, to its right, then to its left again, and started running away. I found this very funny, but now I didn't know what else to do.
I jumped out of the window onto the garden, and from there I started doing parkour, jumping from building to building, trying to find a dream character or something interesting. I then jumped from one wall into another building, through some black glass facade. I was on some stairways, and one of my friends from Knoxville, Rachel, was standing there. "Hey, do you want to go have some fun?" I asked her (meaning, lets go find weird stuff, fly, whatever). And in reply to my question, she took her shirt off... she had no bra on. "Well, alright, that works too!" I thought to myself, so I got near her and started kissing her. The kiss was very real, vivid, watery, tasty! But then, I woke up in less than a minute. :p



I'm Spider-Man! (WILD)

I didn't move at all, thinking I was probably still on SP. I closed my eyes, and started thinking of lucid dreaming once again. Concentrating on being calm, freeing my mind. Very quickly the darkness of my eyes closed once again began to shift shades. Within a couple of minutes, I started seeing some 2D images, and then it seemed like someone was talking to me, in a very hazy, unrealistic dream.
I tried to do a finger-through-hand reality check, and as I was doing it, I was paying attention to my hands... this made the dream become much more vivid and realistic, but it still seemed unstable. After I started rubbing my hands, then spinning, the dream was set... very realistic, stable, and vivid. I left the man that I was talking to, and tried to throw the spider web onto another building, spider man style. It worked, and I swung very "spidey" fashion to the other building. Then I decided to start moving around like that, and threw the web a couple more times and ended up in a different scenery in the dream, near the ocean.
"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. It was only about waist-deep, and I didn't feel wet at all.
I started walking towards the shore, and yelled out if I could meet my dream guide or my spirit guide. Nothing. I yelled it out again, and about 15 DCs appeared near the shore, all staring at me. One of them resembled the DC I had met a couple of times who claimed to be my dream guide (I still don't know his name), so I started walking towards him. I asked him his name, but he gave me a number, 34 I think, not sure. So I said, no, not your age, I want to know your name. He repeated the same number. I tried to talk a little more with him, but I woke up shortly after. I have yet to have a conversation with him that lasts more than a minute before I wake up.

Here's one of the May tasks done.

I’m in a futuristic night mall and there’s a few weird hypnotic devices that people were hooking themselves up to. I try to free 2 people out while they’re strapped in and remove headbands and such while they’re watching a spiral on a screen and they start crying. I try to talk with the front people running it to say they shouldn’t be doing this. Then a really smart professor from my college comes up and says something that totally puts my belief to shame, but I accept it. I cave in and feel relieved and a little sad from getting this answer. I look up later and see some green sailboat/rowboat display and its rotating and moving around. BAM! I become lucid and remember the Spiderman waterdrop task. I shoot a web out my wrist at like 20 degrees or so and swing a few times before willing a small pool of water on the hardwood floor. I do a backflop and open my eyes as I go under and experience a little trip down this stream. There’s music going on and some weird baseball themes. At the end of the ride, I tell my friend all about it (I lost lucidity here from being too excited). He doesn’t respond at all, just kind of nods and I wake up. (NOTE: Next time I become lucid, I want to do the nose RC and some math problems so I can familiarize myself with being calm and in control so I’m more aware.)

Congratulations Moonbeam and everyone else!! I am sooo jealous and proud of you all!!

I tried to WILD this morning but was too sleepy and simply fell asleep and had alot of very vivid NON-lucid dreams!

I WILL succeed and earn my badge.. I WILL!!

does it count f you already did the task last month when it was announced on the lucid task club forum....

Originally Posted by the real pieman

does it count f you already did the task last month when it was announced on the lucid task club forum....

If I understand correctly.. yes, it does count. One of the perks of belonging to the Lucid Task Club is knowing the next month's task earlier and therefore having more time to attempt (and achieve) it.

I have completed my first lucid task of the month! This deserves the use of an emoticon. Here goes:



I was attempting a WILD this morning. I started at 4:20, and I didn't enter a dream until around 5:40 (as the dream faded at 5:50). Unfortunately, I did not WILD... I did a DILD instead! I started my dream as a false awakening, walking into the kitchen to look at the analog clock, thinking "Oh crap. It's 6:55. There's not enough time to try to WILD again! Screw it, five minutes is five minutes." And I dove back into my bed, oddly into the crack between the bed and wall. And my blankets were gone. Ah well. So, I entered a dream immediately after 'WILDing' in my dream. I was in my backyard, thinking "Finally! A successful WILD!" I thought for a moment what I should do... I saw the trees around, and decided I should at least have something to show for this lucid. I went up to a young, tall one, with a diameter the length of my middle finger to my wrist. I lifted my hands up as if I was Yoda in Staw Wars: Episode II (although the movie... Was not the best of the series, Yoda will always rock) and told the tree to move. It tilted, uprooting some of its base roots. It appeared to be stuck! I sent out an image of myself, lifting the tree (I was acting in both first and third person) and the tree lifted all the way. I commanded it to walk. One large root flopped on the grass, and then another. Two of its branches sagged, like arms, and it began walking on those two roots; the rest of the roots raked the grass, still stiff and brambly. It walked through the neighbor's yard, ruining their perfect lawn with its weight and stiff roots. I chuckled, and shouted over to my other neighbor, who was gardening on the other side of my house. "You don't see that every day!" I then went into a small monologue. "Hmm. Hey! I could make the whole forest walk, like in that one book!" (Upon awakening, I realized that it's apart of the prophecies in the play Macbeth. Only it didn't happen literally. xD) I dismissed the idea (I thought it'd take too long, and too much effort) and continued the remaining five minutes of the dream working on a personal goal.

That's awesome Abra! Congratulations!

Originally Posted by Abra

I have completed my first lucid task of the month! This deserves the use of an emoticon. Here goes:



I was attempting a WILD this morning. I started at 4:20, and I didn't enter a dream until around 5:40 (as the dream faded at 5:50). Unfortunately, I did not WILD... I did a DILD instead! I started my dream as a false awakening, walking into the kitchen to look at the analog clock, thinking "Oh crap. It's 6:55. There's not enough time to try to WILD again! Screw it, five minutes is five minutes." And I dove back into my bed, oddly into the crack between the bed and wall. And my blankets were gone. Ah well. So, I entered a dream immediately after 'WILDing' in my dream.

Hey, I'd count that as a WILD...
probably one of the quickest WILDs ever too... hehe!

Tree one seems awesome!

Since we're not getting a lot of responses this month, I decided to post the part of the dream where I did the basic task (I already posted the advanced task above.)

Part 3 - Swinging with the Band
--I run out of the apartment, back to the street and I decide it is safe to fly at a low level. I fly thru the neighborhood, looking for a likely place to swing into water. I find a fair of some sort, and there I lose my flying ability. I try commanding "FLY!", but it doesn't work. I then try the command "SUPER-FAST RUNNING!", and I try to run, but that doesn't work either. I walk thru the fair, and I see a band on a stage, with a tub of water behind it. The tub is painted in a colorful diamond-pattern, and I think it is either like the tub a trapeze artist might dive into at a circus, or maybe an elephant-watering tub. I approach the stage, and I see a Mariachi band playing. As I get closer, I make a mighty leap, and I see I am going to fall short. One of the band members reaches out to me; I think he is trying to help me make it, but then I see his face. He is angry, and he tries to swat me away. I swerve to the side, and catch two of the thick wires that are running alone the side of the stage. I climb hand-over-hand up the wire, to the level of the stage and then to the top of the support beam. I pull the wires loose, and hope they will swing me far enough to go over the stage and into the water behind. I jump, swing over the band, clear the stage, let myself drop....and miss the pool by a few feet, landing on some wooden stage-supports. I laugh and lay there for a minute, all tangled up in the lumber, and wonder if Seeker will let me count this. Then I remember it doesn't matter, because I did the advanced task already!

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 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!

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.

I did the Spiderman one. I was eating oranges in my backyard when I became lucid. The I changed the scenery to NYC and gave myself web shooting ability. Then I basically just swung around and beat up bad guys. This one guy was trying to shoot MJ, so I shot him with my web, and flung him over a building. Then I also made out with Mary Jane Thats about it.

Thanks for the comments, Clarity, naikou, and Moonbeam.

Originally Posted by Clairity

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....yeah, that's right!

Originally Posted by naikou

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

Oh man, I guess I did. I'd rather not that happen again. But then again, if it did, I could just do flips....:p

Originally Posted by Moonbeam

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

Too funny.....


By the way, I drew a sketch of the wheeled trees for my Dream Journal for any one who cares to see.