Lucid Task For The Month Of May 2007

[Seeker]

Introduction: This topic is for the Lucid Tasks I assigned this month. During this month, please attempt one or both of the tasks. Report back in this thread, even if you didn't successfully accomplish the task, your efforts should make interesting reading! This is required in order to get credit, it is no longer sufficient just to say that you did it. Whoever completes either of these tasks gets the following goodies until the end of the month: *** Your name will be displayed in ORANGE in the online members list at the bottom of the main forum page. *** You will receive a special title and badge *** You will receive access to the "Lucid Task Club" which is a limitted access forum for people that complete the lucid task each month. Tasks for this month: Lucid Task: Swing from a rope, vine, or Spiderman style. Release and drop into a body of water. Find a tree and using your will, make it pull up its roots and walk around.

[i_speel_good]

Do I already count? 24/04/07 I'm in a huge, empty and white room. I do a reality check and get lucid for the 9th time. I walk around, searching for stuff. Nothing. It's all blank. Then I saw that my DILD worked: I saw the word LOL popping out on the air for a sec. I had to do it. I just had. I thought with portals. The Apeture Science Handheld Portal Device (ASHPD or Portal Gun for short) popped on my hand. I shot randomly. The orb hit a wall and became a portal. It was black. I was looking in the portal, and thought of that dude that said you can't control your dreams. I told the portal to guide me to a forest. Now, the portal had the image of a forest inside it. I dived in, and I was in a forest. I told the portal to close, and so it did. I shouted: I want to go to the biggest tree of the forest! I teleported in front of a HUGE tree. It was sunset. I looked at the tree, and went about 4 metres in front of it. I crouched. I put my hands on my front, like if I was going to lift a huge weight. HAAWG! I put power in the air. I could slowly get up, but I realised the tree was lifting. after it's roots were completely off, I realised the tree was about 50 metres above the ground. I told myself to make it have feet. ENTS! I put it down, and it started walking. I told it: Stop! It turned to see me. I shouted with my (dream) lungs: HAMMER TIME! A hammer appeared on my hand and I threw it on the tree. The tree fell down and it fell on my RL best friend, who appeared outta nowhere I then said: Let's go somewhere else. I grabbed the ASHPD, and as soon as I shot to the floor... My father woke me up for school. [/b]

[Developer]

Do I already count?[/b] You have too do it in May.

[pj]

Since when? When I've managed to pull off the advanced tasks, one of the privileges was learning what they will be a few days early (as well as being involved in the discussion leading to their choices.) Nothing was ever said about making sure not to do them early.

[Seeker]

You have too do it in May.[/b] 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.

[Fale55]

If I try this i'm gonna go spiderman since it's coming out friday. Wait can I do venom style?

[MrGrEmLiN]

These sound really cool! Gonna try to do them tonight! If I have any luck getting lucid...

[eppy]

do we really have to land in water? i dont know if im skilled enough to create water if its not already there. its worth a try though

[Phydeaux_3]

Seeker... your images are broken. Everybody is talking Spidey action, but I'm gonna try for a Pitfall Harry style! (being a 2600'er&#33 This is the image I'm hanging over my bed for May, hopefully I'll have more luck than I did in April. (allthough I DID have a "concert" dream last night, almost as good as my Zappa dream, so long ago.)

[tyrantt23]

Lucid Task: Swing from a rope, vine, or Spiderman style. Release and drop into a body of water. Find a tree and using your will, make it pull up its roots and walk around.[/b] So, do I get credit if I accomplish either of those tasks, or do I have to get them both? I'll try them out, since I've been having a really good lucid rate lately... By the way, I don't mean to be a forum police or anything, and this is not part of the topic, but i_speel_good... the size of your signature adds up to over 800 pixels in height. It's a tid bit annoying even on the 1680 x 1050 resolution that I have. May I point you out to this thread?

[GeetarGod]

I somewhat agree about the sig, though it is cool. Tasks look good. Nice to have some variety instead of the usual "find the (insert generic holiday mascot here)" tasks we weve been having lately. Tree one sounds pretty hard. Perhaps i can do it though. I will try tonight.

[skuruza]

you know, i do not think anything is hard if u have the right mindset. i havebeen able to change terrain to something weird in a very low lucidity level dream just because i have wanted to do that and because i concentrated on it. i also thnk it has something to do with a strong desire.

[Pyrofan1]

I did the basic task last night: I was at home and I opened this package filled with fire ants and they started to crawl over me and I knew that it was a dream. I ran outside and saw a vine I grabed it and swung back and forth and then I let go and feel into a puddle that was very deep and when I surfaced a DC hit me in the head with a hammer and I woke up.

[Tomdub]

I will make it my goal to do at least one of these tasks. probably the vine one. I have a whole month so wish me luck. any tips on how to go about it on low lucidity P.S. pyrofan, your link to the second best site in the world doesn't work.

[pj]

Direct from my DJ... 2 May 2007 LUCID (!!!!!!!!!&#33 ;!&#33 I am in a terminal of some kind, like a modern train station. It is daylight, there is lots of glass. Outside, through the tinted glass, I can see a tree-lined concrete walk and a lake. Inside, where I am, there are lots of chairs, concessions and people. I am lucid. I am lucid! I RC to be sure, and yes, I'm dreaming. I am quite calm. I try to think of Seeker's tasks. What are they? Something about the Easter Bunny? No - that was last month. I remember the tree task. Outside, there are trees. I walk straight through one of the windowed walls and out to the concrete walk. There is a tangle of trees. One very large one with bark like a redwood is laying way over. For some reason I think if I can get this one to stand up, then I can command it to walk. I find a spot that I can reach and push it up. It lifts... then breaks off at the roots. I let the tree fall, step back and realize that the pushing isn't necessary. The tree is laying there, broken off, and scowling(&#33 at me. I turn to one of the other smaller trees that is upright and will it to pull itself up by its roots. It, too, scowls at me, but does it, one root at a time, going around until it is standing there on its roots. I tell it to walk away. It does. What's next? Spider Man thing. I go running toward the lake, where there is a convenient awning. As I approach, several DCs look at me with alarm, as there is a few feet of drop from the walk to the water. I turn my arm up like Spider Man and shoot a web from my wrist to the underside of the awning, grab the thread and swing way out over the water. When I'm at the far end of the swing, I release it and fall. The water is COLD! This surprises and shocks me, as water usually feels delicious in my dreams. It is also black, murky and stagnant. I put my arms at my sides and sort of coast to an area to the left where there is a natural shore, a bit away from the terminal. I walk out onto a grassy knoll, back across the walkway with the broken scowling tree and back into the terminal. Now what? There is an entrance to a very posh looking restaurant near me. I take a nearby DC by the hand - a female with dark, short hair - and walk past the Maître d', who briefly objects and then looks hurt, and into the walnut-paneled dining room. Seated at one table is a party of people I know from school. They are taunting me in a friendly way, but I ignore them. (I am beginning to lose lucidity at this point.) I tell the DC that this is a dream and I'm in control of it and we can do anything we wish. She says she wants to go for a drive. We walk back out of the restaurant, into the terminal and follow the signs to the parking area. When we walk out, there is an old 1970's era station wagon sitting there full of old ladies. I walk up to the car, thank the driver and say I'll take it from here. The driver gets out and the DC and I get in the front seat, but the DCs in the back are still sitting there. I ask them to give me some money and get out. One hands me a large wad of rolled up bills, and they quietly leave. The car smokes and handles horribly. It is low on gas, so I will the tank full and watch the needle go up. We are driving down a park road, and there are people everywhere. I'm embarrassed about the car - the steering is so sloppy I'm having trouble keeping it on the road. I apologize to the DC for the car, saying, "This is just the one that was there for us!" (This is my first lucid in about two months. I think it was MILD - I was briefly awake and went back to sleep ordering myself to be aware once I was dreaming. I became lucid before doing an RC, and it definitely wasn't a WILD. This is my second night after the month-long hiatus. There were no clarity or stability issues at all, but my awareness was not keen. The world I was in seemed very solid. I felt dopey and weird. Both tasks for May are completed&#33

[Seeker]

The tree is laying there, broken off, and scowling(&#33 at me. I turn to one of the other smaller trees that is upright and will it to pull itself up by its roots. It, too, scowls at me, but does it, one root at a time, going around until it is standing there on its roots. I tell it to walk away. It does.[/b] OMG, scowling trees! I didn't expect that. Congrats on the LD, pretty darn cool!

[pj]

Yeah... I didn't expect it either. Both of the trees I interacted with really seemed to have attitudes or grudges. Thank you!

[Clairity]

Congrats pj.. you accomplished both tasks!! (I bow to your awesomeness&#33

[legbuh]

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

[Phydeaux_3]

I vote for a Pitfall Harry on this month's task badge... here's a good one: Or maybe this one here: (OK, I'll shut up now)

[Beryl]

Okay, so Wednesday night I accomplished both... I think. I remember thinking that I did it in my dream like this, but I dunno how that works because we never actually accomplish these tasks, exactly. Anyway. I was in the middle of a hazy dream when all of a sudden I was like, I have to complete the tasks for May!! So I imagined Spiderman as a tree. I swung from his tree branch/arm as he walked around and found me a small pond to land in. This was in the middle of a bunch of a dream where my favorite professor was driving me and another classmate back to our homes. I'm gonna try to complete these tasks again since it happened in such a strange way... they're fun

[Clairity]

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!

[legbuh]

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!

[Serith]

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.

[Moonbeam]

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!