Thread: Lucid Task For The Month Of May 2007

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!!

Just keeping everyone in the loop. We have added back the lucid task teams and I think I put all of you back correctly. Please let me know if you can see the task club forum.

I am working on getting all of the previous task threads back to normal.

Also, we are working on a way to display badges, it is not directly supported that I can find. Whew, what a wild couple of days!

Those are really inspiring. I feel like tonight I will have a lucid dream just from reading so many success stories

Originally Posted by Clairity

Congratulations Moonbeam and everyone else!! I
I WILL succeed and earn my badge.. I WILL!!

It's early yet! I know you will! I'm looking forward to seeing just how you do it.

Originally Posted by Phalangees

I was very suspicious of my dream scape. It seemed to real. Then I realized that nothing around me makes any sense so I jumped in the air and started to fly towards the tree line. It was a long distance so I decided to practice my commands on the way. I told some parked cars to move and they started driving towards wherever I pointed. I pointed at a fire hydrant and flicked my finger and it went flying and I almost got hit by the water fountain. I finally got to the trees. I picked out one with a fat trunk. I pointed at it and yelled, "MOVE!" It just sat there. I though maybe I should be a little nicer. I yelled, "GET OUT OF THE WAY... please." Instantly it's roots shot up in the air and started to curl inwards so it could push itself up. It got completely off the ground and started to walk away from me but then it got off balance and fell backwards on top of me. My vision was really blurred again like earlier so I just tried to blink it off but again I woke up.

Don't know if I did enough. I hope so. It was fun.

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.

Hey pj and Wolfie,

Posting my failure from 2 days ago. This is copied directly from my Dream Journal.

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May 6th

NOTE: Took another Mellodyn and got to bed around 3AM after a Cinco de Mayo party where I was kind of drunk. Alcohol sucks.

1. Drive with Mom, Toy Airplanes, Craziness

I'm driving with my Mom somewhere and I tell her about wanting to drop out of school and she seems to be very disapproving of it. There's a light in the sky going up and down slowly and it's very intriguing. We come around a bend and this kid is flying a toy airplane outside and his mother is watching him smiling. We end up at some house and my Grandma is there and I become lucid. I'm asking her about stuff, but forget our exact conversation. Somehow later, I'm back at my house with my Mom outside in the driveway. I do the nose RC to make sure I'm still dreaming. I tell her I'm dreaming and put my finger through my hand. I try to do the walking tree task, but the tree won't budge. I physically try lifting it (which doesn't work either...at all ). There's no other trees around too which sucks. My bro comes out and there's a bush that he says he planted and he uproots it and it just sits there. I go back to the first tree and try pushing it again, and it falls over and separates from its trunk (someone cut it when I wasn't looking???). Somehow I end up in my bed and do a nose RC and realize I'm dreaming still and I walk downstairs and the sun is shining in through the windows and the TV is on, but no one is around. It's a dream, but looks A LOT like real life. I look in the mirror in the front of my house and my face is changing expressions slowly, but I don't feel my facial muscles moving. When I open the front door, it's dark and light blue all around and is cold and there's trucks in our driveway and people working or something. I tell my parents I need to leave to do some tasks so I go out the front and start to fly. There's shady people right outside the door when I fly away and I'm kind of scared. I command myself to teleport to a beautiful place (not very specific I know) and I teleport to my bed!! I do the nose RC and realize I'm dreaming. My dresser beside me is a mess and there's a Wendy's fry thing and an empty glass and some other stuff. For some reason, I feel I have to get ready for something??? I have a gold chain on around my neck and I take it off and go to my closet and get a blue tee shirt. I look in the mirror and have long black hair?!?! I concentrate on getting ready so much that the dream fades and I wake up.

So yeah, I think a combination of drinking, partying, going to bed late again, and melatonin gave me very VIVID, BAD SITUATION type dreams. I think I was doing a lot of spinning when it wasn't really necessary too. The dead tree probably freaked me out and led to the other bad dreams afterwards.

Hopefully I'll get some success on these tasks too and get a better sleep schedule too.

Originally Posted by Clairity

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.

if thats so then i have completed the basic task, heres the dream:

i jumped and tried to fly, it didnt work and i was sent crashing to the ground then i pushed myself up into the airand realised i was about to hit the side of a building, so naturally i shot out webs from my hands and swung on them, it was really realistic my arm and the web even stretched as force was put on them, then i saw the sea, so i dived into it by doing a tripple backflip, it was great underwater but i went back to web swinging because it was just so darn fun....

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!

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!

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