Thread: Lucid Task for the Month of October 2007

lol @ you arguing with yourself!!!

Congratulations

So I tried my best on this one. Ive been doing reality checks infront of mirrors for awhile now. This is what I got...

I was standing in the rain outside and I saw my reflection in a car window, I did my reality check, successfully shoving my finger through my hand. Go me. I'd been thinking about the task, and looked at my reflection. It looked sad, and depressed, trapped in that car window, so I pulled it out. As I pulled out my reflection it morphed into my friend Holly. Confused at this point, I asked her what she was doing, being me? and she just started giggling and pointing at the neighbors house. I repeated the question a few more times and thats all I got so I asked her why do we dream? And she took my hand and pulled me to my neighbors house, which turned out to be my ex's with his family, packing up and moving away. She was just laughing and giggling and pointing at them. Thats when my alarm clock woke me up.

Well, my cold meds have been hurting my sleep habits, but I did manage to complete a task. I told myself I would a few days ago, if time was running short in my dream.

The dream started out oddly enough, what with hatching adorable alligators, and the Simpons cautioning me to not kill harmless bugs. I false awaken and manage to catch that I'm dreaming through the nose RC (even though only a little air passed through, due to my stuffy nose... I actually caught it! Sometimes I don't in a cold situation). So I venture into the living room and gaze into the mirror, which looks completely different. Instead of hanging on a wall, it is on the floor, on a stand. I see...

Ninjas? ... Ninjas. Little ones. They jump out of the mirror and tell me to "see what my reflection does." I look back at the mirror and see my reflection. I tell myself that the mirror isn't a barrier--it's an open window. It works somewhat because I can get my hand through... But my reflection keeps moving away! Finally, I pause, inching closer and closer to the 'surface' of the mirror. Then my reflection pulls me through! This surprised me.

Anyway, I get on to asking my question. "Why do I lucid dream?" She replies dumbly "Because you want to." I think about this, and repeat it so I remember. And then I realize I had asked the wrong question! So I asked "Why do I dream?" and she alters her answer somewhat. "Because I want to." I frown at her, displeased at the bland responses. Done with my task, I try and wake myself up. Ah, feel that hypnopompia coming on! This time I felt a breeze. And then saw a parade! And then was flying above the parade, handing out ice cream for the next five dream minutes (non lucid). And then I wake up and write it down. =D

Not exactly my finest lucid. But I guess I was pretty lucid. Lucid enough to realize I had decided to change tasks, and lucid enough to remember the right question. Just not lucid enough to realize that I hadn't successfully woken myself!

Originally Posted by Abra

Well, my cold meds have been hurting my sleep habits, but I did manage to complete a task. I told myself I would a few days ago, if time was running short in my dream.

The dream started out oddly enough, what with hatching adorable alligators, and the Simpons cautioning me to not kill harmless bugs. I false awaken and manage to catch that I'm dreaming through the nose RC (even though only a little air passed through, due to my stuffy nose... I actually caught it! Sometimes I don't in a cold situation). So I venture into the living room and gaze into the mirror, which looks completely different. Instead of hanging on a wall, it is on the floor, on a stand. I see...

Ninjas? ... Ninjas. Little ones. They jump out of the mirror and tell me to "see what my reflection does." I look back at the mirror and see my reflection. I tell myself that the mirror isn't a barrier--it's an open window. It works somewhat because I can get my hand through... But my reflection keeps moving away! Finally, I pause, inching closer and closer to the 'surface' of the mirror. Then my reflection pulls me through! This surprised me.

Anyway, I get on to asking my question. "Why do I lucid dream?" She replies dumbly "Because you want to." I think about this, and repeat it so I remember. And then I realize I had asked the wrong question! So I asked "Why do I dream?" and she alters her answer somewhat. "Because I want to." I frown at her, displeased at the bland responses. Done with my task, I try and wake myself up. Ah, feel that hypnopompia coming on! This time I felt a breeze. And then saw a parade! And then was flying above the parade, handing out ice cream for the next five dream minutes (non lucid). And then I wake up and write it down. =D

Not exactly my finest lucid. But I guess I was pretty lucid. Lucid enough to realize I had decided to change tasks, and lucid enough to remember the right question. Just not lucid enough to realize that I hadn't successfully woken myself!

That make sense. You dream because your subconscious wants to; it controls the content of your normal dreams. You actually have to work at becoming lucid, because you want to do it.

Yay! Completed Advanced Task. Hope it counts though, forgot to pull it out. Propbably wont count, but hey it was still AMAZING. This has been my most vivid and longest lucid dream to date, though it's probably been heavily influenced by the movies and books I've been seeing lately.

(I get most of my lucid dreams from these tasks, they're great)
Anyway -

I was walking in a desert. I remember it being cold, and already starting to get dark. Real cold. I don't remember much about the start of the dream. The sand around me was blurry and the air around me was shimmering. I was moving really slowly, in slow motion.

A bird flapped down. A vulture, I think, only larger than life, more frightening than a real one. It was black, mangy. I remember thinking it was weird that, even though it was dark, I could see things well (it happens quite a lot in my dreams). All around it's body there where patches of skin where the feathers had been torn out. It's head was bald and rotting away. It had a huge beak, with sharp teeth.

It talked. It said, "I am going to eat you."

I tried to move, but I couldn't. I tried harder, but I still couldn't move. I was frozen (this also is quite a common occurence in my dreams). I started to think. This couldn't be real. I'm dreaming.

I was lucid. Relieved, I started to move. The bird settled back down. The last few times I had become lucid, it had been from a nightmare. After that I had spent a whole lucid dream creating a good wand. I hoped that it would work as well again, ecause it had taken me a lot of effort. I said to myself, you are going to find that exact wand in your pocket. You are going to find that exact wand in your pocket...

While I was saying that, I reached for it and pulled it out. It was more of a staff, really. There wasn't anything to try it out on except the bird, but I was going to try and get it to help me, so I decided to leave it and hope for the best.

I made sure to rub my hands every so often. After everything I did, the dream was a little unstable.

I pointed my wand at the vulture. I had decided against just summoning a mirror - I wanted this to be fun. It's not often I get a dream like this and I wanted to enjoy it as much as I could.

"You", I said. "Bring me to a mirror please." I know I could have threatened it but usually if I do that to DC's they turn against me or disappear.

It raised a talon and pointed behind me. I turned. At the top of a slope there was a large tent, like something you would get at a circus. It was coloured a dark purple, almost black. I hadn't seen it before. I set off. When I got there, I found a gap in the tent and went in. The inside of the tent was way larger than the outside. I could hardly see the walls.

A tall man in a funny suit tapped me on the shoulder. "Welcome to my circus. What do you want?"
"Do you have a mirror here?" I asked. I've noticed that when I suggest something it usually happens. My DCs are usually extremely receptive to whatever I'm thinking, which is probably why this happened.

"Oh, yes," he said. "Do you wish to have access?"
"Yes."
"Certainly. If you can get past the guard." He pointed towards a doorway.

I wasn't going to be able to get past any guard. Usually, any big strain causes the dream to end. Which made it a bit dangerous using my wand seeing as I had no idea how hard it was to use.

Also, every single time I have a nightmare, there's a troll in it. Every single time. It's one of my dream signs. I really hoped there wasn't going to be a troll.

I went through the doorway. There was a hall with a heavy door at it's end. No guard though. Actually the circus behind me had sort of dissolved slightly. I get that sometimes, when a dream is I ran to the door and tried to open it.

It was locked.

Sometimes I really hate my dreams.

I was angry now. I pointed my wand at it. I concentrated, imagined the wand doing what I wanted. A beam of light shot out of the wand and smashed into the door. The door was blown of one of its hinges and was smashed all down one side. The lock was twisted and cracked all the way down.

Finally, something fun. I stepped through the doorway.

There was a mirror on the wall. I could see my reflection in it, only it was twisted. It had no proportion - some parts of me where huge and some where shrivelled, and it twisted and shuddered as I moved.

"Why do you look so weird?" I asked.
"I'm in a funhouse mirror. When it's all wonky? Quite fitting for a dream, I thought."
"Enough. Why do we dream?"
My reflection smiled. "I gotta have some fun."
"Tell me the real answer!"
"Well, you'd go crazy without dreaming. I'm keeping you sane." It paused. "Can you keep a secret?"

The dream was starting to fade. "Yes, I can keep a secret. Tell me."
My reflection leaned forwards. I put my ear to the glass.

"Custard pies are trying to kill me," it whispered. Then it walked away.

I tried to go into the mirror to follow him. I remember it being cold, and wet. And then I woke up.

Wow, pretty great tasks this month! I'm looking forward to trying the Haunted House one.

Nice dream A Humble Sinner!

I'll see if I can do the advanced task as well. Wish me luck!

So, so close to becoming lucid.

I was talking about how much I'd miss dreamviews in ym dream, or something like that.... The dream felt like it took 2 days, but it must have only consumed a few minutes or something. Anyways, I didn;t become lucid, so I won't go into details. But ever since I started coming back to dreamviews, my dreams have been more and more vivid, clear, and my dream recall has increased. I even had a (short) LD, when my dry spell had lasted since April (after I couldn't find time for DV anymore).

I am determined to complete the task!

Holy snap! I'm glad I saw this!

Ok so this is how it started off...I just started off lucid or atleast I don't remember how I became lucid. But I was a city and I was just walking around...all of a sudden, and I can not believe that this happened to me, I found Lucy (the girl in my avatar). I walked over to her and all she was doing was walking up and down some stairs. When she walked back up I grabbed her hand and she looked at me and smiled. She took me to a quiet place and (thanks to Volcon who kept talking about it) we umm...well you know. Anyway I was kinda getting into it and I closed my eyes. When I open them I just so happen to end up in a haunted house. I was like "Son of a %$&^!" That really sucked! But I didn't try to change the scenery or anything so I started walking around. The haunted house turned out to be some kind of cheesy haunted house. Not cheesy as in it was made out of cheese but it sucked. It wasnt scary at all. There was these ghosts that looked like the ghosts off of Mario. But when I went outside it was dark and foggy. I was in a graveyard. So I kept walking through it thinking nothing would happen...but then zombies started coming out of their graves so I ran inside and closed the door behind me. And thinking that they might break in I decided to try something I did in one of my other lucid dreams. I tried to conjure up fire in my hands like I did before. I concentrated and I could start to feel the heat in my hands. But I just couldnt stay concentrated long enough to conjure the fire. I tried many times and failed. I guess the only reason that I was able to do it before was because I paniced and just did it. I tried it again every so often as I explored the place. After awhile I tried to close my eyes and stay concentrated. That didn't work either. About the 5th try with closing my eyes and concentrating, when I opened them I woke up

Sorry for the wall of text. Believe me or not...I accomplished something great. I got to see Lucy in my dream and thats all that matters to me!

Edit: The cool thing is I didn't even try to get in the haunted house...and Lucy never said a word so that was dissapointing too...

I got the Advanced Task done last night, but I'm kinda unhappy with the outcome so, if I can think of it again, I'll try it once more. This one counts, though, at least!

10/13/2007

Dream Two:
"Advanced Task Completed!"
This one started with me at my computer. I'd downloaded some strange "3D Software" that let you rotate the camera views on video files as if they were in 3D space. For instance, I started watching The Matrix and, during every scene, I was able to move the camera angles around, in real time, so I could watch any part of the movie from any angle. It was awesome. Anyway, my buddy Mike came over, even though it was like 11:30 at night. He just showed up and mom got out of bed and let him in. He chilled for a while and I tried to show him this new software, but I couldn't find the Matrix movie. I then started looking around for other movies, but couldn't find any of them. After a while without finding any of my movie files, Mike ended up going home.

Later, I was watching TV, and there was a documentary on about a planet. It was a really weird planet that was shaped like a squared doughnut and had stripes running around it. The camera panned out from a really close view of the terrain, to a wide shot of the entire planet, and I soon noticed that I was no longer watching the TV, but I was as actually inside the program, and looking down at this planet from space. I instantly became lucid and floated there for a moment, looking at this odd planet. I figured I'd much rather be down on Earth so I figured I could fly down toward the planet and sort of "turn it into Earth" as I got closer to the ground. I flew down as fast as I could, breaking through the atmosphere and watching the ground begin to come into view. As it came closer, I saw it looking more and more like Earth. Soon I was coming down over a city scape, and the diving straight toward my house. I passed through the roof of my house and, before I knew it, I had landed in my room.

I remembered how I always had trouble flying into space, and figured that, since I came down from space so easily, I might be able to get back up there. I flew up and tried to rocket into space again, but I got stuck in the ceiling of my room. (DAMNIT I hate that.) I pulled myself back down and landed on my floor again. Trying to think of something to do, I suddenly remembered the Advanced Task, and my bathroom was right across the hall. I ran out of my room and into the bathroom, noticing, on my way there, that mom was sleeping on the couch with a blanket, which she never really does. I went in the bathroom and closed the door, looking in the mirror at my reflection which was, surprising, not deformed or disfigured. At first, I just asked it "Why do we dream?" and it just stood there and looked at me. It's lips never moved when mine did, and it just kinda looked at me, stoicly. I then remembered that I had to reach in the mirror and pull my reflection out, so I dipped my hands into the mirror, but I was feeling some resistance. It felt like the mirror was trying to solidify with my hands inside, and I couldn't get anything passed a few inches above my wrists into it. Curling my fingers around where I figured the back of my reflections head would be, I pulled back, trying to bring it out. I was only able to pull it out a little bit, to where the face was sticking out of the mirror by a few inches. I asked again, "Why do we dream?" Again, my reflection just stared at me, blankly, and blinked its eyes a few times. I got kinda frustrated and just let go, and the reflection snapped back into the mirror. I turned my head left and right and noticed that my ears were actually much smaller than they are in waking life.

Then, I heard my mom open my room door like she was snooping around, and this broke my focus. I lost lucidity, opening the door and saying "What are you doing?" She tried to explain something to me, and we got into an argument about privacy, but I forgot the dialog and the dream ended shortly after that.

Almost! So close, except I was not lucid (so it doesn't count, obviously)

But, basically I was entering this haunted house (which, after I tried to leave, transformed into the house I lived in before I moved). My mom was a mummy/zombie thing and I had to escape the house without being caught. However, if I left the house, I'd be caught in pouring rain that was coming down in torments. Then I woke up.

Congrats on the tasks everyone! Looks like we picked an advanced one that is causing a little trouble for people this time

Mirrors are some of the strangest ojects in lucid dreams.

Originally Posted by Seeker

Congrats on the tasks everyone! Looks like we picked an advanced one that is causing a little trouble for people this time

Mirrors are some of the strangest ojects in lucid dreams.

We should tally up at the end of the month how many people managed to do it.

how do you decide how difficult a task is? what makes___ normal and ___ advanced?

how do i get to the special forum? i cant seem to find it

Originally Posted by Mrs. Jones

how do you decide how difficult a task is? what makes___ normal and ___ advanced?

It's pretty much arbitrary. We decide two tasks for the following month and, whichever one we seem to agree on might be the hardest, gets to be the advanced task. That doesn't necessarily mean that it would be the hardest for everyone.

I failed miserably at this month's beginner's task, but I was able to get the advanced task on the first try.

Originally Posted by reality check!

how do i get to the special forum? i cant seem to find it

When you go to the Lucid Experiences forum, there should be a link at the top that says "Lucid Task Club."

Okay, first off, i was not lucid, but it was a very vivid dream, so i don't know if this counts.

I was walking down this path and it was pitch black, i mean darker than standard night darkness, it was very dark like dreams can be, and i proceeded forward and saw an opening into some very very tall grass, i walked through it into a small opening where the grass had been flattened and i stopped, looked around and observed, i was a little scared at first but then i came to my senses and got over the fact that it was dark and scary. I then looked into the distance and saw a dim light ahead, and like a fly to a bright light i was drawn. I proceeded into the darkness and the grass and then found myself outside a large house, it looked asthough it was built 1800's by the looks of it. It looked really creepy and scary, and then suddenly i heard a ruffling sound from behind the house. Like the stupid person i am i walked round to the back of the house and found the back door swinging open and closed in the wind. I heard a small, cold and chilling whisper in the wind around where i was and it gave me a scare so i quickly moved into the house.

I then walked into the house and saw a big open room in the centre of the house, i walked over and found a gridded area in the centre of the room. I looked down and it was pitch black, then i saw a small glimmer coming from the bottom of this huge pit and then i saw a pair of evil white eyes coming up towards me.

Thats all i remember for now, maybe it counts, maybe it doesn't, i wasn't lucid as far as i know but it was a very vivid dream and my emotions were high, i might aswell have been lucid. I'll let you guys be the judge.

Success....finally. Both tasks done..
so i got all my sleep and tried to wild at about 4:47 and i was almost there then my girlfriend kicks me...I thought it was over.
so i got up and went to the bathroom and layed back down on my side
and then i felt the shift, bamm, lucidity.
so im floating around this house and the lights are off and I find a door and concentrate on a haunted house, I open it and its almost pitch black in this hallway and I can see this scare crow like DC at the end and he moves out of the way, so i go through the door and find a mirror and its kind of tilted downward, I pulled my reflection out and asked him why we dream and he replied "we dream only because we have to" and then after that i had to wake up and write it down

Very efficient -- a mirror in a haunted house. That's the way to do it, dreamscaper 22. Even the answer was short and sweet. I need to do it like that if I'm going to get it done this month.

Originally Posted by dreamscaper22

Success....finally. Both tasks done..
so i got all my sleep and tried to wild at about 4:47 and i was almost there then my girlfriend kicks me...I thought it was over.
so i got up and went to the bathroom and layed back down on my side
and then i felt the shift, bamm, lucidity.
so im floating around this house and the lights are off and I find a door and concentrate on a haunted house, I open it and its almost pitch black in this hallway and I can see this scare crow like DC at the end and he moves out of the way, so i go through the door and find a mirror and its kind of tilted downward, I pulled my reflection out and asked him why we dream and he replied "we dream only because we have to" and then after that i had to wake up and write it down

WOOT! What a erm, straight forward answer!

Originally Posted by Mrs. Jones

how do you decide how difficult a task is? what makes___ normal and ___ advanced?

From my understanding, the basic task is something you could actually do in real life and the advanced task is something that's not possible to do in real life.

Originally Posted by reality check!

how do i get to the special forum? i cant seem to find it

I don't have access right not but, from what I recall, it's another sub-forum (like this one is) under "Lucid Experiences".

well i knew I didnt have much time...so i tried to find both in the same place

Good job, everyone....


Oneironaut, I knew you could do it! I like the details you share in trying to pull the reflection out.


A Humble Sinner--I really enjoyed reading yours. Very entertaining. Great details. Good job!

I tried the basic task, but didn't succeed. I realized I was dreaming in my house, and exited through the window. The houses in my neighborhood all looked dark and empty, and I thought that any one of them would probably work, but I saw a couple people on the end of the street, and decided to talk to them. I don't remember much about them, except that there was something odd about their eyes. I asked them if any of the houses around here were haunted, and they said yes, but offered to drive me to another one elsewhere, and the next thing I knew, we were driving away in a car. A few miles away I realized it would be unlikely for us to actually get somewhere before I woke up, and got out of the car, but it was too late, and the dream faded.