Thread: Lucid Task for the Month of August 2007

8/17/07

Okay, my internet access has been limited for the moment so I'm a little late on transferring entries from my physical journal. I took a shot at the advanced task. At first, the idea of it was a little eerie; but nevertheless, I wanted to do it more and more as time went by. It was Friday night, or Saturday morning. I had thought about it how I would enter my room in a lucid dream for about two days so my subconscious mind would pick up on it. For me, that doubles the chances of that dream occurring.


I had been in a lucid dream for about an hour before I remembered to try the Task of the Month. You'll have to read my Dream Journal to read the full story. So anyways, I was just exiting my gundam mobile suit which I landed in front of my house. I walked across the sharp green grass to the front door only thinking about what my physical bodies' reaction would be. I still had on my black designed swimming shorts from swimming on the moon. I walked through the wall of the house, when half my body was through I thought it'd be better to teleport. With that thought, I was instantly in my the doorway of the room. The room was well illuminated from the late morning sun. The carpet floor was still covered with clothes and the dirty clothes hamper overflowing with more clothes. Then I moved my eyes to the gray metallic bunk bed where my brother and I usually sleep. My brother's body was not in his bed, though the covers and sheets were moved about as he'd just recently woke up and left the bed. I then looked up on the top bunk to see my body sleeping under the covers. I was laid almost too peaceful and very still, like how they arrange the bodies in a casket. I never sleep like that tho. I roll around at night, sleep on my side, all that unorganized stuff. I climbed the bunk bed ladder and looked over the rail at my body. The detail was amazing! Everything was very quiet. I reached my arm out and began nudging my physical body's leg. After about 5 or 6 nudges I saw my body's eyes flicker slowly open. His brown eyes quickly darted to mine and he frantically jerked upwards, kicked wildly and crawled backwards to the wall and pressed against the rail of the bunk bed. I, myself, was so terrified at the the event slipped off the rail falling backwards, kicked and scratched at the air wildly in an attempt to grab something, then painfully hit the floor on my back. Our eyes were connected the whole way day. Then, I woke up in a much similar spasm as my physical body had done breathing rapidly.


This experience was awesomely vivid, but quite scary at the same time. After I awoke, I looked down over the rail of my bed and saw that my brother had left the room and his sheets were in much of the same state, as the room for that matter. About five minutes later, my little sister was running into the room screaming breakfast was ready. The whole day I thought about the dream. The Task of Month gave me one wild experience to remember..

I finished the Advanced Lucid Task this morning (sort of). The task is in bold.

I was in Snape's classroom and he showing us some small, lethally poisonous insects. He let them out of their container and let them crawl around the room so we could all look at them close up. Suddenly, he points his wand at a small group of them and they all jump up and bite me! (Yup, I'm his favorite student ) I stagger out of the room for some reason, the corridor out there is covered in rubble, so I pull out my wand and shout REDUCTO to clear away some. I sit on a now clear spot, and Snape then come out and points his wand at me, healing me of the poison. (So nice of him, the poison was really close to killing me...) I immediately get up, grab the front of his robes, and push him against the wall. I tell him that if he tries another stunt like that again I'd tell whoever was running the school about it (apparently he'd been doing stuff like that to me all year). I release him and walk back into the room. I then realize that I actually should have been immune to the poison for some reason, and after a few seconds of struggling with another thought I become lucid. I then walk out of the room, then turn on the spot, wanting to go home. I end up in the hallway, so I walk into the next room and then phase through the floor to go downstairs. Then I realize that my room's upstairs now (I only moved into my new room a little over a week ago, so you can't blame me) and jump up and phase back into the room above me. I then phase through one of the walls and into my room. The room's been rearranged, but I don't care. I notice that my bed is empty, so I look away and when I look back, he's there. I then pull my wand back out and try to remember a spell to wake him up, going through them in my head (Avada kedavra, stupify, expelliarmus, possibly a few others), turning around to face the window while doing so. When I turned around, still unable to remember the spell, I find him standing up and looking at me. He tells me "Not a chance," and I, annoyed at the fact that he woke up while my back was turned, point my wand at him and shout STUPEFY! He collapses to the ground, and after spending a little more time trying to remember the spell, I give up and decide to leave. The dream was really unstable at this point, and next thing I know I'm lying in bed, awake. I try to remember the spell, and immediately remember that it's invigorate.

thanks SurvivorKylie, it was really messed up, as if my subconcious was gettin confused between childhood memories, and future ideas.
anyway, just wonderin whether anyone has got their cred yet from seeker.

Haha, failed the advanced task... AGAIN!

Okay, I'll be quick since I have to go to bed. I failed, but it was fun nonetheless.

I attempted to WILD, and somehow slipped into a crazy dream. I had to sky dive out of a plane (with no parachute) then maneuver my body so I 'collected' these blue diamond shaped crystals, about the size of my head. It was VERY Mario Party like. Anyway when I got to the ground I realised it was a dream. Unfortunately I could here cutlery and pots being put away so I assumed that it was nearly time to get up, and my Mum was up.

I woke up on the kitchen floor. After thinking it was odd, I did a nose plugging reality check!!! Sure enough it was a F.A.
I walked into my bedroom (which was in daytime) I stopped just after entering the doorway and examined it. Everything was in its usual place. I stepped over to my bed and looked at it, but I wasn't in there. The bed covers were messy and shaped like a person mucked them up, like they had just been slept on. I grabbed the covers and wrenched them off the bed hoping I would be there. I then peered under my bed to check if 'me' was hiding
After standing up and realising that I wasn't there, I turned around to face my wall opposite the bed. I wished in my mind that when I turned around there would be another me in the bed. Alas, it didn't work. But to my astonishment, when I looked my alarm clock had multiplied itself! They were the same in appearance except for the digital face. It had my rival schools logo. I laughed out loud thinking my subconcious was trying to tell me something.
I tried this a few more times but only a chair, and my bookshelf multiplied. Just as I was giving up, I saw white chalk like footprints leading out to my room, towards the bathroom. I followed them assuming they were mine.

I woke up (in real life) and did a throat plug reality check just to make sure. I lay there trying to DEILD but realised that I was unbelievebly hot and really wanted to kick the covers off. I fell into SP after a minute but then spent a few more shaking myself out of it so I could kick my stupid covers off.

Unfortunatly I went back to sleep, but remembered no more dreams.


Anyway, hopefully since there are a few days left I'll have one soon!!!





(P.S. A technique which I came up with, but is kind of stole from other peoples ideas has been helping me become lucid lately. Whilst lying in bed at the start of the night, I would try and simulate the tactile sensation your body gets when sumersalting or going on a roller coaster. I found if I concentrated this in each part of my body after 10-15min or so I would fall into SP. Although I wouldn't go into my REM cycle, I would seem to stay in this position, sleep lighter and fall into a lucid dream during the end of the night. For some reason my awareness is unbelievably high when I do this Give it a go!)

This was going to be my fourth attempt at becoming lucid, aswell as trying to complete the regular tasks. When I was finally went to sleep everything was black, but at the same time I had that numb/dream feeling, then I realized that my eyes were just closed. When I opened them I was in a bleak looking room with a chair in the middle, and a hanging lamp above it, kind of like those interogation rooms, only this had a window at the side and a door next to it. Everytime I tried opening the door it wouldnt budge. Now when Im dreaming one of my dream signs is that I usually start out trying to get past something, accomplish a specific objective. Unfortunatly it didnt hit me I was dreaming yet. Despite the light in the middle of the room one corner was strangely black, as though something was casting a shadow on it. When I moved over to investigate these long black hands reached out and pulled me into it. At that point I realized, "I'm dreaming!". I tried to remain calm, and just go on for the ride to see where it would take me. All of a sudden I appeared in the middle of a street, with a bunch of little shops to either side of me. I can remember distincly that everything had a chalk like texture to it, and that the skies were aglow and set in the color pink, I'm geussing from a sunset. Everything seems to be small, even though it was perfectly in proportion with my body. I just had "That feeling". So I decided to try to fly (again), but without much luck. Then I decided to jump like the Incredible Hulk (which is how I flew before), and all of a sudden i was just thrown into the air, going so fast in fact that the sun was moving back into mid-day. I found myself crashing into the an italian restuarant. At this point I was losing lucidity (but not the dream). I was now only at a low level of awareness. I got a strange feeling about the town and found that everyone accept for the man at the cash register, who I couldn't make out his face, couldn't move. I walked up to him and asked him what was going on. He replied promptly that time was simply standing still. I accepted this for the truth and asked him what he had to eat. He recommened (pronounced) Es Cargo (Gee, I wonder why ). So I started to explore the area again when I came across the most beautiful waterfall spilling from the sky in a middle of a small pool that the small town was centered around. Here I found several people standing in a circle around it. Again, I attained lucidity and even was able to recall that I had lost it previously. I got the feeling I was supposed to do something and was focusing on what exactly it was I was to do, then it hit me that I was supposed to cross a blue bridge, I didnt remember why though, I just felt compelled to do so. I wondered how in the world I was supposed to find a blue bridge, so I asked one of the people surrounding the circle. He said,"Do you speak of the holy one?". I was thinking to myself, Holy one? Wtf? I geuss he heard my thoughts, after all he IS a DC in my head. He told me I had to climb this cascading waterfall until I reached a rode that would lead me to it. So I figured some water-walking, Jesus style, was in order. I quickly started running up it, when I figured whynot speed it up? I got a sudden thrill of exhileration because I was running at the speed I was flung into this place.

**On a side note this is the funnest, and the "most normal" dream I've had so far**.

So when I reached the top, which resembled what I always thought Mt.Olympus would look like, I saw a path leading to large creek/small river. When I got to the part the path rounded it very closely resembled a famous picture (Widely distributed/copied) I remember seeing displayed in my gandmothers living room. As I neared it and was about to take the first step it crumbled and everything started fading. I though ,"No!", and did a dream spin, which only prolonged it a few seconds, but given I could run at _ _ _ Mph it was enough to cross it. Then I woke up and my body jumped up really fast and I found myself breathing really heavily like I just had a nightmare. This time I said it outloud, and just didnt think it "Yesss ". I remembered then why I had to go through the whole cherade in the first place. Then I prompty resumed sleep and had another more interesting and vivid dream, but thats an entirely different story.

~Happy Dreaming!
-Time

Originally Posted by ~Anthriel.Sai/Tsuyko//.

8/17/07

Okay, my internet access has been limited for the moment so I'm a little late on transferring entries from my physical journal. I took a shot at the advanced task. At first, the idea of it was a little eerie; but nevertheless, I wanted to do it more and more as time went by. It was Friday night, or Saturday morning. I had thought about it how I would enter my room in a lucid dream for about two days so my subconscious mind would pick up on it. For me, that doubles the chances of that dream occurring.


I had been in a lucid dream for about an hour before I remembered to try the Task of the Month. You'll have to read my Dream Journal to read the full story. So anyways, I was just exiting my gundam mobile suit which I landed in front of my house. I walked across the sharp green grass to the front door only thinking about what my physical bodies' reaction would be. I still had on my black designed swimming shorts from swimming on the moon. I walked through the wall of the house, when half my body was through I thought it'd be better to teleport. With that thought, I was instantly in my the doorway of the room. The room was well illuminated from the late morning sun. The carpet floor was still covered with clothes and the dirty clothes hamper overflowing with more clothes. Then I moved my eyes to the gray metallic bunk bed where my brother and I usually sleep. My brother's body was not in his bed, though the covers and sheets were moved about as he'd just recently woke up and left the bed. I then looked up on the top bunk to see my body sleeping under the covers. I was laid almost too peaceful and very still, like how they arrange the bodies in a casket. I never sleep like that tho. I roll around at night, sleep on my side, all that unorganized stuff. I climbed the bunk bed ladder and looked over the rail at my body. The detail was amazing! Everything was very quiet. I reached my arm out and began nudging my physical body's leg. After about 5 or 6 nudges I saw my body's eyes flicker slowly open. His brown eyes quickly darted to mine and he frantically jerked upwards, kicked wildly and crawled backwards to the wall and pressed against the rail of the bunk bed. I, myself, was so terrified at the the event slipped off the rail falling backwards, kicked and scratched at the air wildly in an attempt to grab something, then painfully hit the floor on my back. Our eyes were connected the whole way day. Then, I woke up in a much similar spasm as my physical body had done breathing rapidly.


This experience was awesomely vivid, but quite scary at the same time. After I awoke, I looked down over the rail of my bed and saw that my brother had left the room and his sheets were in much of the same state, as the room for that matter. About five minutes later, my little sister was running into the room screaming breakfast was ready. The whole day I thought about the dream. The Task of Month gave me one wild experience to remember..

Wow, that's pretty intense, congrats Anthriel!

I never got my badge!

Originally Posted by therpgmaker

I never got my badge!

Patience. This is Seeker's territory, and he's away at the moment. He'll be back soon - you haven't been forgotten.

emmm...

yeah i finished this at least 5 days ago.
seeker? you out there?

oh...

I finally completed the advanced lucid task last night. Since both of them involve being in a specific location, and I have yet to learn a reliable method of easily teleporting to a specific location (despite trying for the past month or so), I wasn't sure I'd complete a task this month, but fortunately, when I realized I was dreaming last night, I was already in my house.

After looking around my house for a while (found nothing interesting, except that all the light switches worked, and that my closet went back at least 25 feet further than usual), I remembered the advanced task. I went into my room, and as I expected, there was someone asleep in my bed under the covers. I shook my bed and said, "wake up", and they did, but the person there was female, black, and about 16, definately not me. So, I walked back outside my room, closed my door, and in order to change things so I could complete the task, thought to myself that that must be an illusion, and that it's really me who's asleep in my bed right now. Sure enough, when I went back in and told the person in my bed to wake up again, the person who sat up was me. I told him he was dreaming, and he got out of bed. He looked exactly like me, except that for some reason he had unusually long earlobes.

With that task finished, I asked him if he'd make a portal to the bridge so I could move on to the next task, but he gave some nonsensical excuse for why he couldn't, so I instead tried to use the nearby flatscreen TV on the ground (which I don't have in my real room) as a portal. I turned it on, and saw an ocean, but when I tried to change the channel, I hit the wrong button and lost the picture, and soon after I woke up.

i have always been able to find my body and wake myself up, so i guess im an advanced lucid dreamer (i am). That blue bridge picture reminds me of alot of lucid dreams ive had too!!! i will follow the bridge tonight, and report what i see.

Meh, I dunno if this counts or not. I didn't make it across the bridge, but I did discover what was on the other side.

I was standing in my kitchen, and decided to do the nose RC. I realized I was dreaming, and thought of the easy task. "The bridge will be outside..." I thought, so I stepped through my kitchen wall to my backyard. My yard was an island, surrounded by a steely-grey ocean. It was not yet dawn, so everything was dark and greyish. I willed the sun to rise, and saw a pink stripe on the horizon. The blue bridge started at our sandmound, and arched across the ocean at its narrowest part. The bridge was quite short and narrow, it seemed only 200 feet long or so. As I stepped onto it the whole thing wobbled and shook, like I imagined it would. I looked across it and saw a small island, covered in dense forest.

As I walked across the bridge I could hear strange animals roaring, chirping, running around the island. I thought I could make out their shapes along the narrow shore. The island was quite beautiful, really, the sun was just rising behind it and the trees sparkled as though covered in water. The gray water was now sparkling and rippling like diamonds. The beauty was quite a contrast to the bridge, which was a dull blue and looked worn, like an old slide at a playground.

I was now almost at the other end of the bridge, and I thought I saw the animal's eyes between the trees. (the "shapes" on shore had gone back among them) But the bridge began to shake so horribly that I fell off - and as I did, I woke up.

It was a beautiful dream, anyway. The most vivid I've had in a while. I felt it was worth sharing.

I think I have something against doing the advanced task this month. I've had some GREAT LDs recently, but something is holding me back from even attempting it. Maybe it's the creep-out factor?

Oh well... four days left to try!

OMG! I just discovered this section and now im super pumped for more lucid dreams! I really want to begin to have LD's regularly! Whoever came up dream task, great idea!!!

Go, SkySaw and the Question, Go! You can do it!

Yay! I'm home and had a few minutes to catch up. Sorry for the delay in the badges. I've decided to let everyone keep theirs through September as an appology.

~Anthriel.Sai/Tsuyko//. - That was exactly the kind of experience I was hoping more people would have. Way to go!

Last night, while wandering my subconscious, when i became lucid, the first thing that struck my mind was "Blue Bridge". In the dream i was already flying in the sky, around my house, i made sure not to panic once i realized i was lucid (this happened earlier in the week while trying to complete this task. )
After thinking about the bridge, it appeared under me, and i stepped onto its velvety glass-like surface.

When i first got onto it, the bridge curved down in the sky, like a slide, and i slide down very fast on my feet. After the curve stopped, the bridge turned into a escalator to "Dream city". Dream city is a city compiled of all the houses,towns,and scenery I've ever seen in my life.

A surge of satisfaction came through me, as i knew i had completed the task, on the last possible day.... not the next one!

The bridge was quite fun.

Tried finding my sleeping self last night...but all I found was a sleeping woman...she then woke up, told me that she was really a person from the real world, and that I was a pervert for looking for her...

Last night I just had an incredible dream combining these lucid tasks! If only I had had the dream a few nights earlier.

Ah well, I'll try for September.