Thread: Lucid Task for the Month of October 2007

Congratulations everybody that's gotten the tasks done, so far.

I tried for the basic task but failed, miserably. Here's the DJ entry (kinda lengthy, but it was a pretty crazy dream. Heh.)

Dream Two:
"Basic Task Attempt"
The first thing I remember of this one is being in an execution chamber. Some guy was about to be put to death for some sort of crime, and I was one of the people in the "audience." (Is that what they call the groups of people watching this kinda thing?) Instead of sitting, I was kinda walking around the chamber. Near the opening to the chamber, I remember seeing this strange, black-shrouded figure just standing there, looking into the chamber. It looked like death, himself, but I couldn't tell because I could only see the figure from the side and the hood was pulled up over his/her head.
In another small corner/room, somewhere near the chamber, a woman had followed me in. Before I even knew what was going on, she came up to me and started seducing me. It was somewhat dark in the room and there seemed to be a shadow over her face. It didn't take her long to win me over and, soon enough, we were making out pretty heavily in the small room. As things were heating up, I wanted to get a better look at her and so I planted her back up against the wall where a light was coming in through the window. When I looked up, I saw that she was probably 65 years old or so.

Instantly, I could tell by her expression that she was hurt by my surprise at how old she was, and knew that I was probably not going to let this go any further. All of a sudden, the realization came to me. I smiled at her and said, "Don't worry, we can do something about that. This is just a dream, anyway." I put both hands above her forehead, saying "Let's try to bring you back a few years," and slowly brushed my hands down the front of her face. As they moved lower, I could tell that it had worked. She now seemed between about 19 and 23 or so, with short, purple and blonde streaked hair. She smiled at me and we continued to go at it. I pulled her away from the wall and slide around behind her, embracing her with one hand up her shirt, and one down the front of her pants, kissing the side of her neck.
I heard something outside and looked at the windows that surrounded the room on three sides. There was a huge group of people out there watching us. They started banging on the windows, obviously pissed off, yelling things like "Hey!! What are you doing in there??!" and "Get away from her you alien!!" (Whatever the hell that meant ) They had flashlights and kept shining them in our faces. We kept screaming at them to leave us alone, but they wouldn't leave. Finally, I got pissed off and stepped away from the girl for a second. I put up my fists in front of me and screamed "rrrrraaaaaaahhhh!!" pushing energy outward. All the glass windows shattered outward and knocked everyone outside on their asses, like I was a bomb that had just gone off. Even the girl in the room with me ducked and covered.

The sound of raining glass subsided and the crowd got back on their feet. I thought they would have left us alone, but they came back and kept yelling at us through the window. They said the cops were coming and we were going to get in trouble. I told the girl just to forget about them, because this was my dream anyway. Just as we started making out again, more flashlights appeared, attached to taser guns. Two cops had showed up and were ordering us out of the room. Finally, fed up, I said "Fine. You want me to come out there?" I left the girl in the room and flew out through the window. The cops kept telling me to get on the ground or they were going to taser me and I said something like "You guys just have no idea what you're dealing with here, do you?" I held up one hand and pointed at one cop's taser gun. Flicking my wrist, I made him point the taser at his partner and shoot him in the chest. No electricity ran through it, though. The guy pulled the prongs out of his chest and they both turned on me and fired. The prongs stuck in my chest and they felt like staples. Again, though, no electricity ran through them. What really hurt, though, was when I tried to pull them out. It was like they had reverse-hooks in them, like arrowheads, and tore at the skin when I had to yank them out. The cops kept firing them at me again, so I started to fly backward. I saw a power-line hanging over them and I mentally made on of the cops turn and fire his taser up at the power-line, trying to electrocute him. Again, there was no exchange of electricity. I didn't feel grounded in this dream, though, and it was beginning to unravel, so I decided to ditch the cops and fly away, before I woke up from trying to concentrate too hard.

I landed in front of a house in the neighborhood and remembered the haunted house task. The house looked more homely than haunted, and there was a porch light on, which definitely ruined the affect, so I turned around and faced the other way, trying to see if I could make it transform by the time I turned back around to look at it. While I was looking the other way, some guy ran up to me and said that the cops were chasing him, too, and asked if he could hide out with me. I said yeah and turned back around to the house. It hadn't changed. I thought that maybe I could simply change the inside into a spooky house. Reaching around behind me, I visualized my patented Ghostbusters Proton Blaster and swung it around in front of me. It was very faint and unsolidified, but it was there. I opened the front door and found...a normal house. There were a bunch of kids roaming around as I went from room to room. I opened one door and a couple in bed jumped at the sight of my gun and covered themselves up with the blankets, defensively. I left them alone and walked up into the attic, hoping to find something haunting around up there. After a while in the dark, I was disappointed to have encountered nothing. I phased back down through the floor and went to go find another house. On the way out, I tried to phase through the front wall but ended up running into it, instead. I tried again and, as I went through the wall, everything went black. I could feel myself waking up, so I completely relaxed and just tried to visualize the outside of the house. Soon, I was back on the porch, having more "teleported" to the front of the house, rather than gone through the wall.

I was getting really frustrated at how unstable my dream and control were, so I decided to just go flying for a while, as things weren't looking really promising on the whole "Haunted House" front. As I was flying down the street, I looked at my hands and they were wavy but, in the night, I really couldn't see much detail. I looked up at the sky, thinking about trying to fly into space, because, with all the instability, I really couldn't see this dream lasting much longer. I was just about to fly toward the moon when I heard some kid screaming hysterically "Mommy, mommy, I killed Daddy! He's Dead! He's Dead!!" I thought to myself that the kid's dad's ghost might be roaming around, so I went and landed right beside him. I said, "you killed your daddy? Where? Show me?" He said, "over there! He's dead!!" and pointed to an unlit house across the street. I immediately flew to the house and followed the sidewalk around to the front door. Sitting on the porch was an old man slouched over in a chair. From what I could see, it looked like he was missing an eye, but it was hard to tell in the dark. The guy suddenly stirred in his seat and groaned a little. He sat up and looked in my direction. Off to the side, I heard the kid, still screaming hysterically "You're supposed to be dead!! You're supposed to be dead!!!" like he was just as upset that his dad was alive, as he was when he thought he was dead. That's when I realized that, since the guy had been sitting outside, I wouldn't have completed the task anyway, because it was to go into a haunted house. So, still frustrated, I tried to pull out my Proton Blaster again and give the guy a good zap for getting my hopes up. It didn't really materialize, though, and the best I could do was kinda point my fingers at him and make a fake gun noise with my mouth.

He obviously didn't think it was funny, though, because the last thing I remember was him responding to that by getting out of his chair and kicking me in the nuts.
...Mean old bastard.

The dream then faded and I sat in a void for a little bit, having felt myself waking again, and tried to relax myself back into the dream. It never happened, though, and I opened my eyes and got out of bed.

I attempted the Advanced Task this morning. I didn't quite get there, but it gave me hope. I usually don't do very well in the tasks that have to do with finding or interacting with another "me".


Dream:

I was in my church. I had just tripped over a ironing board that an older lady was using to iron her clothes. It suddenly seemed weird to me. I said to her, "This is just like something that would happen in my dreams."

As soon as I said that I knew I was dreaming. I remembered the Advanced Task of Pulling my reflection out of a mirror. I looked around for a mirror. The only thing that came close was a picture hanging on the wall. The glass was very refective. I figured that this would count.

I looked at my reflection. At first I could see an older man with grey hair. I didn't think this was any good, so I got closer to try to make it look more like myself.

This time I saw myself. I had shorter hair that was slightly curly and I was wearing some strange black and white patterend shirt. But I decided that would work for me.

I reached out my hand. It bumped the glass. I tried again--and once more it couldn't get throught the glass.

I thought, "Shoot, this isn't working. I need to think of something totally different to make this work."

I wonderded if it would count if instead of pulling my reflection out of the mirror if I could join it on the other side.

I figured it would count as the goal seemed to be to just end up on the same side of the glass as the reflection.

I backed up from the mirror and took a run at the picture. As I got close I jumped and dove straight into the picture. I went right through the glass and rammed right into the "me" on the other side. As I did I grabbed tightly onto my other self. I didn't want myself to get away. But as we fell and landed on the floor with a thud, it was too much. I woke up.

Heh. Damn. Nice try, TS. That's cool that you actually jumped into the mirror, though. I usually use mirrors to try to transport to somewhere else, but I've never actually tried jumping inside the mirror, to face my reflection. Awesome.

Well, it took me 3 days, but I have nailed the Advanced task. I was in a hotel lobby, looking around for someone interesting to chat to, when I realised there were a lot of mirrors for a lobby. So I went up to a full length one and pulled my reflection out of it. Someone earlier said that it was odd we were using force, I didn't really use force (as I thought I would have to) because when I put my hands through the mirror, the mirror me grabbed my hands and stepped out. I asked him why I dream, and he cocked his head and said "you're me, I'm you". I yelled at him that I wanted to know why I dream, and he just cocked his head to the other side and repeated what he said before. Eventually I slapped him and asked him for a proper answer, he grinned then ran off. I ran after him, and he tried everything to make sure that I didn't catch him, like slowing down time, trying to change the scene, throwing things at me, eventually, he stopped, grinned at me again and said "see ya!" and teleported away. I tried to teleport after him, but ended up in a grey room with nothing in it.

Originally Posted by MisterHyde

Well, it took me 3 days, but I have nailed the Advanced task. I was in a hotel lobby, looking around for someone interesting to chat to, when I realised there were a lot of mirrors for a lobby. So I went up to a full length one and pulled my reflection out of it. Someone earlier said that it was odd we were using force, I didn't really use force (as I thought I would have to) because when I put my hands through the mirror, the mirror me grabbed my hands and stepped out. I asked him why I dream, and he cocked his head and said "you're me, I'm you". I yelled at him that I wanted to know why I dream, and he just cocked his head to the other side and repeated what he said before. Eventually I slapped him and asked him for a proper answer, he grinned then ran off. I ran after him, and he tried everything to make sure that I didn't catch him, like slowing down time, trying to change the scene, throwing things at me, eventually, he stopped, grinned at me again and said "see ya!" and teleported away. I tried to teleport after him, but ended up in a grey room with nothing in it.

That dream character sounded like one annoying f****r. From the results so far it seems that dream characters (your reflection) don't want to answer this question.

haha, sounds fun ill have to try em'

TS, we both have gotten further than we thought we would!

Cool dream, O, even if it didn't quite get it. (I see you mastered changing DC's to be more to your liking...)

The task is really cool. This vill be my first time to try a lucid task, I hope Ill be successful. Ill report back.

ok, pretty pathetic attempt at the advanced task this morning Here goes:

I'm in a dingy hotel room, talking to my mom. The place is dimly lit and has dark wood panelling on the walls. On the back wall is a closet and next to it a wall mirror. There is also an older man in the room, tall, thin, gaunt face. Total stranger. He walks to the closet and starts looking through it. Hey, I think, there's a stranger in our hotel room, and I become lucid.
I remember that I want to do the advanced task right away, but before I start I need to take care of this impertinent stranger (duh), so I ask him "What are you doing in our hotel room?" He doesn't answer, but backs away guiltily. "What are you doing in our room?" I demand. He shrinks away from me and ends up sitting on the floor below the mirror. NOW I realize that I'm wasting my time with him when I should be talking to my reflection instead, so I look up to where the mirror was a second ago and it's gone! There's only a tiny silvery square left, and that shrinks to nothing as I look at it. This can't be happening, I think, the damn mirror was there for the entire dream, and then of course the dream starts fading and I feel my body lying on the couch.I decide to try to stabilize things by rubbing my hands together, and encounter a lot of weird resistance, like there's an air cushion around my hands. They are weirdly distorted and I don't have good motor control in them. I consider trying to get up and spinning instead, but I don't want to wake up the cat which is sleeping on top of me. (Note to self: It's ok to wake the dream version of your cat, stupid!) I manage to rub my hands together anyways, sort of, and this produces a lot of very short dream scenes involving hands rubbing. The only one I remember clearly was a cool stylized black and white scene involving a witch stirring a cauldron by twirling a dowel between her hands. Nothing stabilizes enough for me to go looking for another mirror though, and I end up waking up after all.

So no go. I'll keep trying.

As a consolation, I did manage last month's basic task, although it was on Oct 1 so it doesn't count My cat dropped a card out of her fur for me. It was a three of spades. When I picked it up it shrank to about a quarter of its size and had an intricate red knot design on each side; one side also had a golden band which said something like "We guarantee the quality of this product" in German.

Originally Posted by nyxx

The only one I remember clearly was a cool stylized black and white scene involving a witch stirring a cauldron by twirling a dowel between her hands.

You got pretty far with the task, and it sounds like you almost got close to the basic task too.

Originally Posted by nyxx

As a consolation, I did manage last month's basic task, although it was on Oct 1 so it doesn't count My cat dropped a card out of her fur for me. It was a three of spades. When I picked it up it shrank to about a quarter of its size and had an intricate red knot design on each side; one side also had a golden band which said something like "We guarantee the quality of this product" in German.

Almost! It's great that you were able to do it, even one day late. (Funny card!)

I've just learned about the tasks and was super excited to try. But now I'm not too sure...I am such a wimp when it comes to haunted houses and reflections. And so many things can happen in a dream! I'll be afraid it'll start out lucid and then I'll lose lucidity and wind up having a horrible nightmare!!!

Originally Posted by Moonbeam

You got pretty far with the task, and it sounds like you almost got close to the basic task too.

Hey you're right! Witch.. haunted House... that hadn't even occurred to me my subconscious is smarter than I am...

Another attempt of mine:

From the end of the dream...

I remembered that I wanted to try the Mirror Task again. I hurried into my bathroom. It was dark. I tried to flip the light switch. But it wouldn't work. So typical.

But I could still see a little. I could tell it was my reflection in the mirror. I reached out my hand and tired to touch myself.

I bumped the glass.

I tried again. I bumped the glass.

I remembered how last time I flew through the mirror to the other side. I backed up and dove toward the mirror. But instead of going through, my head bumped off the glass and I fell back into the bathroom.




I am going to get this one eventually.

Originally Posted by Twoshadows

I could tell it was my reflection in the mirror. I reached out my hand and tired to touch myself.

I bumped the glass.

I tried again. I bumped the glass.

I remembered how last time I flew through the mirror to the other side. I backed up and dove toward the mirror. But instead of going through, my head bumped off the glass and I fell back into the bathroom.

.. oh, I'm sorry.. are you alright?

()

haha TS thats awesome hehe x

Heh. Now I don't feel so embarassed about running into a wall, the other night, instead of through it.

I feel your pain, TS.

Sweet. I love Halloween and these are some tasks I would like to do anyway!

iwishicouldld, you had a LD? Congrats!!

OK, I just found this today. Both the tasks sound really awesome, but this is my question; Why do the badges still have question marks on them?? I've noticed this since we changed over to vBulletin®, the badges have been question marks with wings, and not something that stood for the task, like the Christmas present one for December last year.

I know it sounds like I'm whining, but I miss the way the badges use to look...

The person who did the art for the customized badges no longer has time to do them, so we're stuck with the generic ones until they find a new artist.

Twoshadows, next time you should try putting your hand against the mirror, and pressing forward until it goes through. That's the way I had to first pass through mirrors before I'd done it a couple of times. I think it works better because it gives more time for it to happen, and in my experience, doing things you're not used to in dreams often works better if you don't try to make them happen in an instant.

normally I get these things done right off the bat, but I'm gonna blame it on lack of LDs for the past month and my shift change, but oh well...he it is.

I couldn't help but play with the knobs and buttons to see if it worked or not...and then I started thinking about the Task of the month. Freaking haunted house keeps popping in my head took me a couple of moments to think about pulling myself out of a mirror and asking me "why do i dream"...and suddenly the dream starts fading. so I try rolling/spinning.

It feels like i'm back in my bed, but my body is rolling, and it made a 180 degree arc placing me on the opposite side of the bed...but still facing my wall. My eyes open slightly, and I seem my room...but theres two images of the room. (Its daytime in my room when I'm opening and closing my eyes slightly, but in reality it was still pitch blackout side...something I should have caught) One is how I would view it from one side of the bed, and the other is the exact opposite...layered on it I could say. I'm thinking I just tripped my brain out, and it's time to blog in DV


I get out of bed and I'm walking through the woods. I started walking up this hill when I see a butterfly created entirely out of dead leaves. It's not a DS, but it still worked out. I flew up the hill, and started thinking about the Task of the Month again. "haunted house, no...and whats the other one? Oh yeah...pull myself out of the mirror". So I told myself that a mirror was going to be directly behind me, and I turned around, and it wasn't. Then I said "well it'll be one right behind that huge log over there. When I went around the dead tree, I did spot a mirror for a second, and I don't know what happened to it.

In this room/forested open area there were painting everywhere. In the middle there were small pictures of me...but they were cut in half. My neck touched the top of the picture, and my head was at the bottom. I was thinking about pulling myself out of that, but didn't know if it would count.....


theres more...but thats the just of what happened. I'll get it next time for sure.

This was my first ever attempt at a task lol I never done it but I just thought I would post my results anyway

Advanced Task Attempt

I wake up in bed and do my usual RC. I have only one eye open for some reason. Its light out side and when I examine my hand all seems fine but then suddenly my hand begins to fade and eventually turns completly invisible, I actually cant see my hand. I also do the Nose RC and I know fro sure I am def dreaming.

I am a little worried because my eyes are still half closed (I feel so tired) and last time I opened my eyes I woke up so this time I slowly role out of my bed and my hand lands in a bucket for some reason. I dont know how but I can see normally now and I think right im gonna attempt a task. I could not remember the basic task so the mirror task it was.

I leave my room doing one last RC to be sure im dreaming and yes I still cant see my hand. I enter my mums room and there are lots of mirrors maybe 6. I walk up to the first one and l look at my reflection. For some reason im a little nervous to do this. I stare at this version of me but it seems strange he has a sadistic smile on his face. I reach in and grab his head although I cant feel anything when I pull back he distorts a little but snaps back to normal.

I move to the second mirror telling my self this is just a dream and I can do it. This one freaks me out its me but distorted heavily and there is nothing reflected in the back ground. My forehead is massive, my eyes are out of alignment, I have bad teeth and my skin is also bad and for a second I wonder if this is showing me every fault I have ever thought I had but massivly exaggerated.

I try to reach in but my hands just hit glass and I cant get to him.

Cool, I did the basic one by accident, I just happened to be in a house while lucid and I found out that there were ghosts in it. I hadn't been lucid enough to create the ghosts myself, but definitely knew it was a dream.

I was swimming underwater with someone. We were where saltwater met freshwater and the saltwater was heavier so it there was clear distinction between the two layers and it looked really cool. I'll have to take a screenshot from Planet Earth, because that's just what it looked like.

We were now in someone's backyard and the salt water was so much more dense that the freshwater that it flowed and even made an underwater waterfall. We swimming up the stairs, but the water kept disappearing. Now I knew that it was a dream, but was just barely lucid. I told him to know it and the water returned.

We looked through someone's stuff, there was a game in there and underneath some stuff there was some incriminating stuff, but I forget what. It was something that told us that there were ghosts in the house. They we heard someone stir in the next room. I leap from the side porch that we had climbed up and landed on the neighbour's garage...

rest of the dream is in my dream journal, but that's the important part.

I finished the adavanced task last night, and made an attempt at the basic one also.

(From my DJ I keep on my computer)
Technique: DILD
Status: Lifelike
Dream 3: Dad is going to have lunch with a lady from work when I realize I need to feed the dog. I go out onto the back porch and in a valley below me the gates is busted and there are two dogs looking up at me. I look to the left and there are 10 dogs looking at me all howling. I run inside and see them attacking everyone in the house. When I get to the kitchen I have doubts that this is happening, so I do a nose RC and can breathe. I decide to do the mirror task, so I start rubbing my hands and walk towards the bathroom. I look into the mirror but all I see is a girl. I grab her by the collar and pull her through to where her head and collar are out of the mirror. She all of a sudden turns to me if I was 10 with a buzz cut and pimples all over my face. I ask him "Why do we dream?" He mocked me "Why do we dream. At least you can dream!" I threw him back into the mirror and left."

FA: I woke up in bed and did the nose RC again and I was dreaming. I wanted to do the haunted house task so I walked onto the back porch. I saw a perfect blue sky but dark clouds began billowing ever extremly fast. I tried to fly but fell into a pool that was placed in the backyard. The water felt relaxing so I just closed my eyes and told myslef "I will wake up and write all of this down" While my eyes were closed I saw a white cloud and felt SP, but woke up to another FA.

Wow, a lot of success this week! Sorry for the delay in getting your badges to you, been a really messed up week.