Thread: Lucid Task for the Month of September 2007

Sorry about being so scarce lately. The month of August was just a blur of activity and I had almost zero time to spend online. Thanks for the placeholder pj. Here goes:

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: find a pack of playing cards and remove one card. Report back on the card you selected.


Advanced Task: Using water, sculpt an animal and bring it to life. It can be any animal, real or imagined.

(I'm away on a little vacation. Borrowed this computer to record this short lucid. Basic task for September accomplished!)

I am awake at 3:30 and decide to try Clairity's WILD method. After what seems like ten minutes or so, I feel a "shift." I do a nose RC and am lucid.

I sit up in my hotel room, throwing off the covers. The room is dimly lit; everything is in shades of gray and shadowed. I will light, and the room illuminated somewhat, but there are odd bolts of colored light shooting through my peripheral vision. I sit there on the bed, studying my hands and marveling at how clear they are and that there are no anomalies with them.

I get up and walk over to the worktable, "knowing" I'll find a deck of cards on it. There is; they are blue, with a pattern back. I cut the deck, dropping several cards. The card at the bottom of the stack in my hand is a non-face diamond, with many diamonds all over it. The ones in the middle are all solid, while the ones away from the center are transparent. If I close one eye or the other, I see two different cards with different patterns.

I put the cards down and walk through the door. (I mean through it - didn't open it... just passed through.) I walk into the hallway and turn toward the Lobby, looking for Moonbeam.As I approach the lobby, several DCs pass me but none responds to Moonbeam's name. Then a large but thin (and very beautiful) glass dog walks out from the lobby, passing me on the right.

I enter the lobby. It is like a modest inn lobby would have been in the 20's or 30's, with a glass case full of cigars. I ask the man behind the counter if he knows where I can find Moonbeam.

I am suddenly awake.

Look at that show-off! JK, congrats!

Last night, I had a non-lucid playing a game with very strange cards. Then I had a lucid in a grocery story, and I reached in my pocket to get a card, but unfortunately it was just a grocery list.

Not good enough, I'll keep trying.

Congrats pj.
That was quick.

Soooo, what are the tasks?

The basic task is to find a card, like a playing card, then report what it has on it.

I don't think Seeker chose an advanced task yet.

Well, being new, I don't want to brag, but I cannot wait to get stuck into this. I'm lucid pretty much every night, and I love to get badges and medals! Cards and water animals...ok, let's go!

shit, the first one is very easy... I have a deck of cards on my nightstand thats been there for years, and i see it a lot of times in my LDs. ill probably have it tonight or tomorrow night. do I just post the story here? Ive never done a lucid task, or read any of them until now.

Earlier in the evening, my two year old woke up crying. I went in to coddle her and my wife ultimately got her back to bed. The dream ...

I wake to find my daughter in bed between us. I then hear crying coming from the stairwell. I get up and walk over to find my daughter climbing the stairs but stuck half way afraid to proceed. I grab her and bring her back to bed with us, only to find her duplicate already there. I place the one in my arms next to the one in bed but facing the opposite way (so they're lined up head to toe). Not sure why I did this?

I realize I'm dreaming and head downstairs to grab a card and perhaps do some flying. I grab a deck from the desk in the library and proceed to the night light in the kitchen. I open the deck and pick an arbitrary card. An ace of clubs. The A's are in the right locations (UL, LR). However, above and below the club are two puzzle piece characters. I grab one more card out of curiosity and it's more bizarre. A wild card with four options, one of which was a jack of diamonds - I forget the others. Anyway for the record - ace of clubs.

I am about to go outside when i hear more crying. I go upstairs and my wife gets up and heads to the bathroom. My daughters get up out of bed, but one is now a girl about 4 I don't recognize. She says to the two oyear old "go over and give daddy some kisses". I'm on the floor to greet here and she gives me three big kisses. The two girls then sit next to me.

I ponder this and then realize that the 4 year old looks just like my little one but older and with straight hair. I consider whether this is my minds projection of how she will look when she's 4? The dream then fades and I wake very clear minded.

Ah, crap... I suck at finding things (like decks of cards, and blue bridges, and dreamviews members, and fires, and vines, and the easter bunny, and leprechauns).

HOWEVER! I will accomplish this task! If I have to do 3 WBTB's per night, and spend every waking moment of my Lucid Dreams (er... wait, "waking"?) searching for a deck of cards, I WILL GET A SHINY BADGE THIS MONTH.

(How's that for self affirmation?)

Harder than i thought..... i had a very lucid dream last night though... it was very interesting.

It started with me and my sister walkin around my town. We were outside of the local grocery store and we're heading home from it. On the way, the bridge near my house there wasa bunch of punks, (i saw them yesterday, they called me a faggot) and surrounded us.
They dangled me over the bridge, but i knew they were screwed befre they started.
You dont know who you're fucking with boys..... as one of them dangled me by my feet over the water, i grabbed his legs, pulled him into the water and flew back up to the bridge.
The other punks left running scared, then my sister turned into elizabeeth hurley, and daaaayyummm it was some gooood dream sex, right there on that bridge.

After this, she turned back into my sister and we went back to my house (i always have sex with my sister in dreams, even though id never think of it in real life)
We got back to the house, and my mom, and 2 brothers were there.

Apparently there were marijuana crumbs left all over the house, but they werent from me, i just got home, but i got blamed for it the second i got there.

I remember seeing a nug of pot in the bathroom, and wondering how it got there.
In he dream i blamed my brothers, because i knew it was them.

at the end of the dream someoone told me about some super mario bros concert, and i went to buy tickets from this kid who was sitting in my basement playing video games (i havent seen this kid in real life in about 3 years) he was taking magic mushrooms before this concert, and i woke up before i could give an answer.

Interesting dreams ive had this week....

DreamHerb--that is an interesting dream, but it should go in your journal rather than in the task thread. It's early, I could be wrong, but I don't think you did the tasks in it.

Dr. Technical--Way to go!

Michael--yes, just post the dream here when you do one or both of the tasks.

Anyway, I managed to do the card task last night.

--I'm at my Dad's house, sitting on the courch in the living room. I'm instantly lucid. I look around for a moment; the furniture is different and there is carpet on the floor, and the colors are very bright. I think something that I want to do, but I think I better do the card task first or I might not get a chance. So I go to the telephone table, open the drawer, and pull out a deck of bicycle cards. I open the box, and the cards spill out, with one left in my hand. On the back it is just a regular blue bicycle card, so I am worried that it will just be a three of diamonds or something when I turn it over. Instead, most of the card is covered with leaves and vines. At the top is a man's head, and the leaves and vines are growing out of his head instead of hair. There is writing under his face, but it keeps changing and I can't get a good idea of what it says.

Cool tasks, I'll probabbly try them tonight.

sweet, i wanna make a liger!

I haven't been able to get lucid in a while (probably because I haven't been able to WBTB, since I have school.) But since this is the weekend, I'll be able to do it tonight.

I attempted a WILD for this challenge, I tried the way requiring sleep deprivation lol. Anyways, Ill skip the strange feelings since every has already read about them, but one thing interesting was I had the smilie moving across my screen of vision all over the place, it almost woke me up! Anyways, going into the dream from the start with the intent in mind, I find myself in a field with grass and a few scattered trees. It's over-casty (my favorite kind of weather) and I see a stump in the middle of the field. Before I try to conjure up a deck of cards I figure I'd try some flying. I jump into the air Neo style and come to find this is and island in the shape of a sloppy circle. The most striking thing (and it really shouldnt have been) was that it was a plain as an island. So after that breif moment of flight I hover back down over the stump and feel myself losing lucidity/dreamstate. I try a dreamspin but it doesnt work. Quickly I do an RC by rubbing my hands and-Success! Im back in the dream world. Knowing I'm on some borrowed time I conjure up a deck of cards by waving around a wand I apparently had in my pocket. The deck resembles one my late grandfather had and when I pull a card out the entire deck/card is semi-transparent, it had an outline. I see 3 diamonds going from upper left to lower right but am unable to decipher whether they are red or blue (transparency and all). After fooling around for a little bit (Continent hopping and all that) I finally am awaken by the sunlight in my bedroom.

Oh, one quick edit. So you get the feel of the area, it was windy and about 60 degrees. The texture of the landscape was pastely, I cant really describe the feeling, yet the colors themselves were very(Yay ) realistic


Funnest. Dream. Ever

I played go fish and drew a 2 of smiley faces.

My friend and I decided to play cards and then I became lucid(more like semi-lucid, I remember thinking, well I'm not dreaming but I'll do the task anyway). The first card I drew from the deck was a 10 of Diamonds, I drew several others later, but I can't remember what they were. As I was doing this with my deck of normal cards, my friend started to shuffle a deck of steel cards, I thought it was pretty cool at the time.

Originally Posted by Adam's Dream Journal

I found myself back at this space station, again standing in this room with this stand in front of me with the TV screen. I remembered I had already been here before, maybe they had called me back to do some more tests on lucid dreamers?

I looked to my right and NeAvO was there, but he was not happy, he couldn't get lucid for them, I chuckled to myself as I knew I could hehe. Poor NeAvO walked out... So again I looked into this screen and when I saw the words lucid, I became lucid!! I looked up at this woman monitoring me, and smiled. She smiled back. I took it that was my cue that I could leave. LUCID TASK! I thought to myself, but where the hell am I going to find some cards on this space station.

There were a couple of weird people about now, I said to them "I really need to do the task of the month, can you tell me how to prolong this dream and increase the vividness?" and this guy looked at me and say "push the button."

I looked over at this other stand and there was a button on there, so I pushed it. Things didn't really get any clearer, but they were fine anyway so I thought I would just get on with finding some cards.

There was this big fella, he said he would help me get some and took me outside. So we were talking around and I was talking to various space DC's asking them questions but no one would reply!! "You're all so boring, you're not talking!!" I kept saying to them, they hardly even acknoledged me! There were some really ugly space people too, really weird guys.

I felt like punching one of them, because I knew it was a dream and wouldn't be real, but I couldn't bring myself to do it, so I just kept calling them names instead. The big dude walking me around decided enough was enough, opened this door and told me to enter, I walked in and woke up

I think he did this on purpose because I was insulting all the other DC's? Either way I was gutted, I thought I was this close to getting some cards

Damn space DC's

Okay - this dream followed the one above, I thought I would post them both as the above was an attempt and made me laugh, this is my achieved talk!!!!!

Originally Posted by Adam's Dream Journal

FINALLY!!! I have completed the lucid task of the month, after 9 months of trying haha! And I thought I was some kind of lucid guru - guess not!

I am going to be doing this again as I was disappointed with how I did it, so will no doubt try again on my next LD trip


So I was in this room on the space station (OMG how many more times am I going to be back here?!?!) and I am sitting on the floor, on this chair in front of me is a girl, she is very pretty, I tried to talk to her as she was really upset, and I wanted to hug her, but she was pushing me away - You can't do that, I thought, then I realised its because I was not lucid yet - and with that, I became lucid. Don't you just love that transitional feeling of reality within dreams when you go from dreaming to lucid, feels amazing, it reminds me of the matrix, you know what Agent Smith takes over another body, I kind of feel a little like I would expect that to feel when I get lucid from DILD.

Anyway, now she is a bit happier to comply, since I now OWN her and this dream. She smiles, I give her a hug and ask her if she would like to help me find some cards to do the lucid task. She smiles and nods and we stand up. Now in my flat there are a set of cards sitting on top of my DVD player in the lounge and have been for months, so I know how to find them, but we are on this damn space station (AGAIN, for those who have not read my DJ, I had about 5 separate dreams on this damn thing, the DC's are funny though).

So we get to the door, and know when I open it, it will lead to my door in the lounge. We open the door, but it opens out from my flat mates room, never mind I think, close enough.

We walk down the hallway and into the lounge and BINGO - the cards are there, and for the first time in YEARS I get a little too excited and feel the dream fading!!! NOOOOO this is NOT happening to me! I stop walking, try to stabilise but it is not working, damn, I rush to the cards, some are already face up, others are face down, I know I don't have time to sort them, so ask this DC (since she was upset) if she would like to pull out the card for me.

The smile on her face increases, she pulls out a card and turns it over....

Its a Jack of plums cross with King of clubs!!! Yes, I am going to have to photoshop this, because it was weird, but not as exciting as I had hoped it would be. I was a little dissapointed because I wasnted to come here with a good story, but I said she had done well and I let the dream fade.

So finally did the task, after 3 LDs last night I got closer with each one! It has only taken me 9 months to get here!!! But with my new technique I think I will be able to nail them all now

This is as close as I could get to it lol

If you want to skip through, orange=semi-lucid, red=lucid

The first thing I can remember is driving around in some car that was somehow automated, or possibly sentient. It drove itself and seemed to respond sometimes to voice commands. I was in the car with another person.For some reason we had stopped; I think because The car had been driving without lights on and it was extremely pitch dark outside. Then, I was going to drive the car myself, but I decided to prop the door open and sit and eat something first (there was food in the center console for some reason.)

Once we wanted to drive, I closed the door but realized that the lights would only go on with the door open, like the dome light in the car but this was effecting the headlights too. The other person in the car suggested the car didn't want the lights on because we were trying to avoid being seen by someone (mafia?) who was coming to find us. At some point I god out of the car and was standing by the trunk and the third (new) person in the car said that they were coming after us because of the bag of expensive clothing he had. He said that he had over $100,000 worth of expensive clothing with him, and I realized that this was true because the pants that were in my hand, that I had been wearing to work (in RL) had a tag that said $100 dollars on them (actually not that expensive, but for me they are. The RL version of these pants were bought at the salvation army)

The dream at this point made a scene skip and I was now being dropped off by the other people and the sentient car on some suburb street at night and do some sort of business at a house involving the expensive clothing. I went to the house and the people who lived there were people I had known as a child (in the dream) but now they were somehow involved on the otherside of the mafia pants issue. The mother and a son who I had gone to school with but now was a tough mafia thug were arguing when I realized this so I tried to duck out before they noticed that I was on to the set up, but they noticed when I left. I had this big bag of clothes on my back so I was having a hard time running away and the guy came out behind me. I turned and fell backwards and started trying to push myself away from him with my feet. It was really dark out and I couldn't really tell what he was doing but it looked like he was holding a gun.

At this point I began to be somewhat lucid because I realized that I didn't have a gun, but if I thought I should have one in my pocket then it would be there so I reached in a pulled it out. I shot at him several times and eventually he fell on top of me. He said something like, "You're dead ______. (don't remember my name in the dream. I think it might have been Dinky to tell you the truth; something he probably called me in elementary school)" Then he held his gun to my head and pulled the trigger but it just clicked empty over and over. This made me realize that he was never really going to kill me and was just trying to scare me and I had just gunned him down.

I think my brain decided that this was too sad of an ending because I became fully lucid for a little bit at this point, but the dream went black. When the dream came back in, I was no longer lucid and he was still chasing me but now we were closer to school age children.

I ran in to someone's back yard, and around some fence to where their porch was. There were three rottweilers tied up on the porch barking at me but they weren't much older than a year so they were small and impressionable and I got them to quiet down. I could see the path that the guy chasing me (his name was Dewey I think) would have to take to get to this back yard and there was no back way for him to sneak around. When I saw him coming up, I went up on the porch through a gate. The Dogs didn't bark and looked happy to see me, but I went past them in to the house. I was sure to be quiet since I was trespassing and went straight for the front door. Outside, there was now snow on the ground (it had been summer) and it looked like the front of the house was in a bavarian mountain town. This made me completely lucid again and I flew down towards the snowy street.

There was a pile of snow in the road and I remembered the advanced task for this month so I made the snow melt out flat, and then made it draw back up in to an animal shape. I didn't really have a particular animal in mind and what came out looked like a cartoon dragon without wings. I decided it needed wings so I tried to "pull" some out of its back but they only grew to little flipper size and wouldn't "pull" out any farther. (I say "pull" because I had the sensation of actually grabbing the ice on either side and pulling out the wings like shaping clay and it even lifted the dragon of the ground when I did it but I never really touched it, it was about 15 feet away from me and about 15 feet tall.) The dragon was now flying around on its tiny little wings and breathing icy wind and I said, "okay now make your own creatures." It flew towards a snow drift blowing like the north wind and out popped what looked like a dolphin with a snail's head that hopped around on its back flipper.

Now that I was lucid and confident, I called to Dewey to come get me, and he yelled back, but then I woke up.

Heres a five minute MSPaint sketch of the "Ice Dragon"

And heres a five minute sketch of the "Snow Snail/dolphin"

And now back to bed.

Finally, I had a second LD, and completed the basic task.

It started with me walking around in a stadium. I was on the main floor, and I walked outside, on a belcony, with stairs leading down to the parking lots. I did a RC, and realized I was dreaming. I tried flying briefly, and then decided to jump off the bacony, and pull up at the last second. It didn't work. Instead, I hit the ground. It didn't hurt, but instead, I felt all tingly where my body collided with the pavement. I got up and remembered the basic task. I asked a bunch of people near me for a deck of cards. I believe it was my brother who handed me a deck. I pulled out a card, hoping that it would be something interesting... And it was the five of kitchens. It didn't really have anything to do with kitchens, other than it said "Kitchens" in the middle. It only had the number 5 on it in the top right corner. In the bottem left corner, there was an egg, and on, I believe it was the top left corner, there was a cartoon eye looking out from the depths of a hole (like when in cartoons, everything is pitch black, except you can see the eyes). I walked down the street with my brother, trying to memorize what was on the card. I then relized that the dream wasn't very clear, so I tried to increase the vividness. Instead, the dream began to fade. I told myself "I might wake up in a FA" so when I woke up, I did an RC, and I was still sleeping. I left my room, and didn't get very far when I woke up for real.

I tried the basic one last night. Although I don't think it counts, I'll post it here anyway.

I was in some town and the people wanted to put me in jail. They had no reason to do that so they made a wanted poster as an excuse (don't ask). There were guards wearing medieval armor and one showed me the poster. My dad started chasing me and so i started to run away from him. I went through some gate then kept running and doing weird jumps along the way. Suddenly I thought "Hey, I'm dreaming" and I rubbed my hands. I remembered the lucid task of the month so I reached into my pocket for a card. I pulled it out with the back of the card facing me. It was one of those normal red and white patterned cards. As I started to turn it round my dream started falling apart. Everything started to go black and I only saw a white corner and edge of the other side of the card.

I finally did it. It took camping to get me to have a lucid dream this month.

It's not as long as sometimes, but I'm just glad I got it done.


I remember that I was walking down the street with two friends, when we suddenly saw a group of children dressed in Halloween costumes going Trick-or-treating. The following thougths went through my mind:

"Oh my gosh--it's Halloween. How did I not know? Now it's way too late for me to decorate the house or carve pumpkins. This is such a nightmare--it's just like all those dreams I have about it being Halloween and I'm not prepared. If only this were a dream. But this is too real to be a dream. I mean, if this were a dream, I owuld have already started floating by thinking about the possiblity of it being a dream. But I'm not floating...and I can't imagine floating becasue this is too real....But just for fun, maybe I should try floating....."

And I took off with a big jump and tilted backward until I stopped in a horizontal float on my back.

That was such a thrill to be able to do that when I was so sure that it was real life.

The first thing that came to my mind at that point was to do the Advanced Task of creating an animal out of water.

I looked in front of me and saw a drop of water form, floating at about eye level. The drop started to grow until it was a little bigger than a basket ball. At that point I started to see it form into the shape of a cat. It was kind of a blobby cat. The legs and tail were all connected to the body and not separate. It was a bit triangular in shape--kind of like a pyramid. (I need to draw a picture and post it).

As soon as it was finished, it landed on the ground....and I woke up.

Finally I got lucid again. I had been so stressed lately that I didn't even sleep enough at all.

A deep-but-failed WILD attempt made me have a DILD. Pretty long dream it was, got lucid at the end... I'm gonna post it all, so if you want to read the part of the task, go straight to the blue part.


I was at this strange party, and some of my friends were in it. Then an acquaintance told me: "Oh my, Bruno, you are blond!!" (I'm not blond in real life). So I said "Am I?" and continued to walk through that maze of a party. I found a group of girls tha tstarted to flirt with me, and when I asked them if any of them had a cute brother (I'm gay lol), they all laughed.
I was now getting out of the party, and going home. This part is the best one. I went on jumping between buildings, running a la Le Parkour. It was just great. I finally got at my house, only to have my mother ask me if I had brought the car (what? I have a car???). So I just lied to her, and then went back to get the damned car.
As soon as I got to the car park, which was side by side with the partying place, I payed the guy responsible for the car park. When I analysed the change, I could see it was fake money. So I went to the bank just by the car park to get someone to arrest the guy. For soem reason my cousins were now with me. I got completely lost in the building: the more I went down, the higher I was. I finally got to the basement, where I asked for help. One of my cousins yelled "No, don't go there!!". Next thing I saw was me getting killed. There was this huge blade which cut me into pieces. Then I raised from the dead and went back to the guy at the car park, being followed by a police agent.
As soon as I got back at the car park, the guy revealed hsi true form (lol now this is a videogame) He was kind of a demon. Then he hid away. The police officer told me I had to join the 5 people I loved most in order to beat him.
Joinign the people was a great inner challenge. I didn't know whom to pick. I finally chose my mother, my dad, my sister, my cousin and the person I love. Then I went back to the car park and I got togetherr with the five chosen ones, and suddenly the demon guy was screaming and turning back into a human. Once it was done, the police arrested him. I asked the police if I could have a reward, or at least my change back. He said I couldn't, but then I went into the car park and stole a huge piece of gold.

Next thing I remember was me at the bank, and I just knew it was a dream. There was this clerk somewhere, and stairs on both sides. And there it was, a fountain. I decided to make the advanced task and make up a wolf out of water. I chose a wolf because it's the animal I like most; it's kind of a totem to me. Anyway, I used my psychic powers to move the water and made a wolf out of it. It just looked dark and mysteriously at me (pretty much like the pokemon Suicune). He seemed to carry a lot of power inside him. Then I told myself "COOL!" and decided to make one out of fire. The fiery one looked more or less the same, but made of living flames. Not late after that the dream ended.


Coolest lucid task ever. The elemental wolves were just beautiful and meaningful. So dark but friendly a tthe same time. Just like any other wolf

PS: please forgive any typos