Thread: Lucid Task For The Month Of May 2007

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.

Congratulations all who've managed the tasks so far.

I've only had one LD since the beginning of the month but forgot the task Nice nonetheless - it was at night in deserted streets, painting/ graffiting huge billboards telekinetically, then the buildings themselves, glorious colours, then the pavemements and everything. A combination of throwing paint, and hosing it, as well as like the scene in 70's UK tv show 'The Goodies' - photorealistic images with one stroke of a fat brush. It felt so naughty - like being a child drawing on the walls of my bedroom. And then some of the paintings started changing and sliding off the walls. For some reason this was very funny - I was still laughing as I woke up...

Any hints/ techniques for remembering the tasks? Often as soon as I'm lucid its the very first thing that springs to mind. But not always... I've put a pic of Treebeard as the wallpaper on my laptop.

Anyone remember the Monty Python sketch with David Attenborough looking for walking trees?

Originally Posted by Phalangees

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

All Right! I'm so proud!


(Seeker: I got into the Lucid Task Club, so that seems to be working.)

Slimslowslider--I used to never remember the task when I got lucid, but just keeping it your mind a lot during the day seems to help. This month it was kind of easy to be reminded of it for me, because every time I saw trees I would pick out one and practice trying to make it walk.

I remember that show, The Goodies. I thought it was hilarious at the time. I don't remember the walking-tree Monty Python tho.

Originally Posted by Moonbeam

Slimslowslider--I used to never remember the task when I got lucid, but just keeping it your mind a lot during the day seems to help. This month it was kind of easy to be reminded of it for me, because every time I saw trees I would pick out one and practice trying to make it walk.

She's right. For me I remembered by repeating in my head as I fell asleep, "I will have a lucid dream and I will remember to control the trees" over and over until I lost consciousness and all of my dreams had something to do with me looking for a tree lucid and non. I didn't actually think I would be able to control a tree but I did. It was awesome.

I failed.

Last night I was Lucid and I remembered the task (OMG!). So I tried to do it. The problem was that I could only remember the advanced task, and for some reason I thought it was to pick up a tree (using just the Power of the Mind), make it grow feet and then make it walk. So I went to a forest and started trying to do what I thought was the task.

I tried about ten trees, but couldn't pick any of them up with my mind. I even tried a foxglove-like plant, but even that was too much. Next I tried to cheat by just picking one up (I'm surprisingly strong in my dreams) but even then it refused to grow feet. Then I tried the regular task but all I could remember of it was that it involved a bucket (?). That was really annoying when I woke up, 'cos the forest was right beside a lake! Gah, silly me!

And that's it. I'm not even sure why I'm posting this.

Originally Posted by Wolfie

I failed....

And that's it. I'm not even sure why I'm posting this.

Seeker has asked for people to post failures, remember... and failures are sometimes a lot more interesting than successes!

So thanks for posting this. Failures are part of the game.

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....

Originally Posted by Seeker

Nope, he was a lucid task club member. They get to start the tasks early. Kind of like the 25% miles bonus frequent flyers get.

Oh, sorry, did not know that.

PS. Nice and clean new forum!


Developer

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!

hey people, I'm travelling, and i'm in some internet café right now, so I'm gonna be as short as possible

I was in a car with my father, on some large-laned road in the night (I think this was because i travelled by car )... so we drive and drive and drive.. i remember many things, such as bridges, narrow parts, and some other things... then we got to some traffic light.. we stopped, and suddenly it was day again...
I was at some grassy field, alone, and there were some people playing tennis to my left.. to the right there was a pool.. in the sky there was this strange kind of big jellyfish flying behing me... I walked forward more and more, seeing many trees around.... eventually I could go no further and I turned right

Then I saw a large tree, and the jellyfish further on.. I thought "Man, that jelyfish is gonna attack me!!".. then I thought whether I would run or fight (here again goes my theory: decision use the conscious part of the mind, that's what made me consciosu enough to become lucid I guess) - I decided to fight to see what would happen, and I got a strange dream feeling.. I thought to myself "ah, what a pity I ain't lucid, I could try the lucid task of the month" and that finally triggered lucidity.. I tried to calm down as lucidity rose, and then I jumped high, willing to fly around.. then I thought again about the lucid task
firstly, what came to my mind was april's lucid task, so I hugged the tree, and tried to merge with it.. I was pushed back, then I tried it again... this time I felt pulled into te tree, and although I couldn't see anymore, I could feel the life force within the tree.. it felt really warm and.. wood-like
then i unmerged with the tree and thought to myself "hey, lucid task has changed!!" - so I looked to the tree, and tried to control the tree's mind with my mind.. after a little while, the tree was moving its roots, and after that it began to move just like a spider around and around again.. qute scary..
I decided to fly, and in the middle of the air, the dream faded

I really liked this drea.. that jellyfish was quite scary xD thinking I'ld have to fight it was cool enough

sooo happy xDDD my first lucid task was successful finally yaaaaa

I don't get how this works, I'm new here... Do we just try to do the things in the first post? Or do we sign up for something first? (I'm always Like this, I have to make sure I'm doing it right, becasue I don't like doing something then someone telling me I did It wrong XD)

Try to do the tasks that Seeker assigned in the first post. They change every month; there is always a basic and an advanced task. Don't worry about doing it wrong; as long as you're lucid and you do some reasonable fascsimile of the task, Seeker will count it. We used to get badges under our avatar when we completed a task, before forum change; that hasn't been put back yet. It's just for fun and practice; it's funny to see what people come up with in their dreams.

Thanks everybody for your patience. My life has been a little bit of a shamles lately and I'm afraid I've been neglecting the lucid task club,

I think I have all of you set right now, please let me know if you cannot see the lucid task club.

Originally Posted by Seeker

Thanks everybody for your patience. My life has been a little bit of a shamles lately and I'm afraid I've been neglecting the lucid task club

There you go again, letting that so-called "life" of yours interfere with priorities!

Tree one seems awesome!