Lucid Task for the Month of December 2007

[pj]

Introduction: This topic is for the Lucid Tasks Seeker 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 limited access forum for people that complete the lucid task each month. Tasks for this month: Lucid Task: Ask a Dream Character what your dream name is. Tell us your dream name and about the experience. Advanced Task: Find an outdoors area where it isn't winter, and cause it to become winter; not just snow, but taking the leaves off the trees and lowering the temperature as well. (Badges will be updated when they become available.)

[innerspacecadet]

I've got a couple more hours to sleep this morning...doing a wbtb now...let's give it a shot!

[Robot_Butler]

I've been excited to find out my dream name. I'm going to try it right now.

[iadr]

I take 8mg of galantamine with 500mg of choline after sleeping for 5 hours, stay up and hour, then go back to bed. I find myself in a house I used to own 20 years ago with my step son, and we are cleaning up the attic getting ready to sell the house. I am vacuuming the floor, but then take the vacuum cleaner apart for some reason. When I try to put the vacuum cleaner back together the parts do not fit right, so I finally give up trying and start sweeping the floor with a broom. I then realize because of all of the discrepancies in the dream that I am dreaming. Basic Task: I concentrate on the first task I had decided to try before falling asleep, that of asking a dream character what my dream name is. At first nothing happens, but then I suddenly find myself being carried in the arms of a beautiful young, indian woman. I immediately ask her what my dream name is and she responds with something like Tierra, or Sienna, not sure because by the time I finally woke up from this dream it was 45 minutes later so it was difficult to remember some of the earlier parts of it. Advanced Task: We go over to another room and make out for a while, after which I begin concentrating on the next task I wanted to try, that of going somewhere where it is warm and changing the weather to be cold and snowy. At first, nothing happens. Then, suddenly I find myself at a beautify tropical island where there are large hotels and modern buildings along a beatiful ocean shore. There are sunbathers everywhere. I enjoy watching the women walking along the beach for a while, after which I decide to try my the advanced task. When I concentrate on making it cold and snowy everyone suddenly disappears and I see large snow flakes coming down out of the sky. Although it is snowing a lot there is only a little of it that sticks to the ground. I then find myself on the top of very snowy mountain where there appears to have been a blizzard, and where I see a large white horse laying on the ground unable to move. As I start petting the horse he suddenly shakes the snow off of himself and starts getting up. I hear a mans voice saying that he is going to be ok since he is a horse, and can endure bad weather. I then find myself back on the beach where I was earlier, only the weather is nice now, and it is night time. I decide to leave the weather alone at this point and enjoy this place the way it was meant to be enjoyed, as I feel that if I tried to change the weather again I would be messing up something in my dream world. As I look out over the city enjoying the beautiful lights, I am attracted to one building that is taller than all of the other buildings, and has a different shape than the other buildings, as it is somewhat narrow at the bottom, but then gets wider at the top, a very unusual looking building. I fly over to the building to get a closer look at it. As I fly up toward the top of the building it looks a lot different than it did from a distance as it now looks like an old, abandoned building. I then find myself inside of a hotel in their pool area where I see a small pool of boiling hot water about 20 feet from the platform I am standing on. Knowing that I am dreaming I decide to jump into this pool of hot water. Taking a big leap while turning a somersault in the air I land in the boiling hot water. I feel absolutely nothing while in the water. I then begin to become more aware of my body so decide it is time to get up and record my dream.

[Super Duck]

Ooo! Interesting! I'm not sure whether I should have a bash at the Advanced for fun and stretching my lucid abilities or whether I should try the other task to build on my knowledge of my own psych. Hmmm ... I'll do both ...

[Kyhaar]

No lucids last month. *sigh* Let's hope I do better this month- these tasks sound really interesting

[Moonbeam]

Congratulations, iadr! Both tasks in one dream, before the month begins! (To those who don't know: when you do the tasks, you get to go into the Task Club Forum, and discuss next month's tasks, and get a head start on them--one of the benefits of doing the tasks. The other benefits being getting a badge and an orange name at the bottom of the screen. ) I immediately ask her what my dream name is and she responds with something like Tierra, or Sienna, not sure because by the time I finally woke up from this dream it was 45 minutes later so it was difficult to remember some of the earlier parts of it. Since you did it so early, you should do it again and see if you get the same one. When I concentrate on making it cold and snowy everyone suddenly disappears and I see large snow flakes coming down out of the sky. I decide to leave the weather alone at this point and enjoy this place the way it was meant to be enjoyed, as I feel that if I tried to change the weather again I would be messing up something in my dream world. That was a cool dream with all the scene change; and you got a chance to go back to the nice part, even after changing the weather. I didnt know we were going to have to make it cold and everything for the advanced task; I thought it was just going to be make it snow. That is going to be a lot harder .

[Kristennoelle78]

hmmmm....a challenge. I like a challenge.

[iadr]

Congratulations, iadr! Both tasks in one dream, before the month begins! (To those who don't know: when you do the tasks, you get to go into the Task Club Forum, and discuss next month's tasks, and get a head start on them--one of the benefits of doing the tasks. The other benefits being getting a badge and an orange name at the bottom of the screen. ) Thanks Moonbeam. I just noticed something really cool about pj's avatar that I've never noticed before. If you look at that dog long enough he moves his nose. Cool avatar pj.

[Mrs. Jones]

Advanced Task: Find an outdoors area where it isn't winter, and cause it to become winter; not just snow, but taking the leaves off the trees and lowering the temperature as well. does dream-spinning count?

[Adam]

Attempted the basic last night: I was walking in my old neighbourhood, and with some friends, I remember looking up at the sky and seeing the moon (a dream sign of mine). Then I noticed there was more than one moon, well of course; I was dreaming. So looking around at my friends as I stabilise the transition into lucidity, I notice all these girls about! "Not again!" I think to myself. It seems when ever I get lucid there are always a lot of girls about. So I thought I would ask one of the girls, "Hey, what is my dream name?" and then she looks at me, with a puzzled look on her face and says, "That was last months task..." I was confuzed, then thought well she must be right. So then I decided to take advantage of all these girls, since this was my 4th lucid of the night, so had had a good innings so far. Damn her for tricking me into believing it was last months task! I guess I will have to try again, and the next person to try trick me, will pay!

[lizmunchausen]

Attempted the basic last night: I was walking in my old neighbourhood, and with some friends, I remember looking up at the sky and seeing the moon (a dream sign of mine). Then I noticed there was more than one moon, well of course; I was dreaming. So looking around at my friends as I stabilise the transition into lucidity, I notice all these girls about! "Not again!" I think to myself. It seems when ever I get lucid there are always a lot of girls about. So I thought I would ask one of the girls, "Hey, what is my dream name?" and then she looks at me, with a puzzled look on her face and says, "That was last months task..." I was confuzed, then thought well she must be right. So then I decided to take advantage of all these girls, since this was my 4th lucid of the night, so had had a good innings so far. Damn her for tricking me into believing it was last months task! I guess I will have to try again, and the next person to try trick me, will pay! haha joker

[lostification]

Gah! this is so frustrating!! why am i cursed with Handicapped DC's!!

[pj]

does dream-spinning count? I'd say no, if you spin and just go someplace where it is winter. The task is to make it become winter where you are, not to go someplace where it is winter. It would have to be judged based on the actual attempt, of course. Seeker, Clairity and/or Moonbeam make the final decisions.

[arby]

Heh, I had a pretty good dream during a nap today and almost got the task. =P To start off, when I woke up today I felt like shit so not even a remote chance of DEILD or WBTB with VILD attributes (which is my normal winning combo). My brain felt like jelly, my nose was stuffed and my throat was raw. So, I got up, popped a couple pills and went around doing things I really didn't want to do such as shoveling the 20 cm of snow that fell last night >.< In short, I was exhausted after that and decided to try to go to bed again because the medication had worked some of its magic. I got into bed and oddly enough, the first thing I noticed was that the way I was lying is the same way they lie down on those street cart racing things that you lie flat on and go down a hill really really fast. Needless to say, I decided to VILD it because the positioning would make it that much easier (and I was still a little stuffed up) I actually didn't get to spend much time on the cart lying down however. After a few moments, a car came from behind and made me spill out to the side of the road. I had somehow gotten amazingly vivid already however. I felt the pavement as I rolled then I felt the moisture of the grass as I rolled on that and grabbed it to slow me down. But then it got weird. Where there used to be a large shoulder of grass, there was now a cliff and I was just holding on to the edge. I tried pulling myself up but the edge started crumbling away. This was when I went "Alright, thats enough. This is a dream, a dream. Hey ho, lets go." (I normally keep myself in a position of limited control so I usually need to say something like this to regain it) I flipped up over the edge effortlessly and stuck my hand into the front of a car that had sneakily come by right at that very moment in an attempt to sideswipe me. I just flung it over the cliff and went over to my cart thing. Now it looked like one of those carts you see in lumber yards. A big flatbed thing with a railing. I stood on it sideways this time and started riding it like a snowboard or skateboard. The road ahead was almost like a skate park and the turns went vertical at the farthest part. The part that was most distinct was that my cart was making some awesome skateboard noises. Anyway, to the task.. I eventually came to a town where there was a crowd waiting for me. I dismounted and they all started clapping. Then I got my idea. I would have them chant my name and whatever name they chanted would be my dream name. And then my mother woke me up because she was having trouble with the computer. She was trying to open a word document inside windows picture manager... Slightly long post for a failure but it was close =P

[Moonbeam]

Too bad arby, you almost had it! Darn Mom! You'll get it; it's still early.

[mylucidworld]

I Like the basic task. I will do this tonight if i remember, it will be my first task of the month attempt. My main goal is getting to the dream views party but i could ask someone on the way or somebody there. Knowing my dream characters they will probably come up with a ridiculous name. The advanced task i will probably have trouble with because i am crap at changing scenery but i might give it a go sometime this month.

[Pyor]

Piece of cake. This WILD occurred yesterday. As I was playing around in my LD, I remembered the task of the month. So I conjured an area, which seemed to be located in a backyard — all that's necessary — and which area was full of trees, plants, flowers, grass. I said aloud : “ Shall it now be winter ”. Thus it started snowing — and I could feel the snow flakes on my face. Flowers and plants died instantly. Trees lost their leaves. Since it was working so fine, I then said with my fingers pointed upwards : “ Shall it now be spring ”. Thus the snow melted. Trees, plants and flowers started to blossom very quickly, as we see in documentaries. When spring was completed, I then ordered : “ Let's have another winter, now ”. And so it started snowing again. The trees lost their leaves ; flowers and plants died once again. I might have done all of that three times, until I got bored and sought other LD adventures.

[Kyhaar]

Success! I was in a medevial-ish city, except there was a bar outside in on the cobblestoned alley. I asked the bartender if I could have 2 beers, so he brought me two huge beer mugs full of a frothing liquid. I had a sip, and it tasted foul and disgusting. Obviously, I stole them and ran away (I had no money to pay for them). I was afraid of getting arrested, so I ran into a restaurant where some friends of mine from PF (rather not give name, sorry) and my leader were hanging out. I slid in with the beers, and my leader looked at me strangely. When the bartender came in, the beers had vanished. I pulled up a fuzzy green jacket to cover most of my face so that he wouldn't recognise me. After giving me some suspicious looks, he left. As he did so, I somehow appeared out of my seat. All the kids had vanished, leaving Wendy and the waitress. I kept thinking if this was the time to do a Reality Check. I did a nose reality check and became lucid. I grabbed the blonde waitress by the arm and said, "What is my dream name?" No answer- she was terrified of me. I asked again. "What is my dream name?" Out of her mouth came, "Jheraerea". I felt myself awakening, and I woke up. Note: Jheraerea is pronounced "Jare (like hare) - ray - ree - ya"

[lucidbuddha]

I had an early lucid that I nearly forgot! I'm with some guy in a field with trees lining both sides. There's one tree in the field that has been cut but still stands about 30-40 feet tall. I'm enjoying myself flying around and I grab this guys hand and fly him up to this cut tree-top. I first ask him where he is from. (maybe I thought I was mutually dreaming?) he didn't answer, and then I remembered the task and asked him my dream name. Me: "What's my dream name?" Him: "What?" Me: "What's my dream name?" Him: "Oh, Zaygin" Me: "Really?" I repeat it in my head thinking it was funny at first then I came to tems with it, "Thanks" I took his arm and flew around some more (often when I fly it's more of an exagerated moon walk) At one point I'm hanging onto a branch trying to get to a more sturdy one when he tries to get me to lose balance. I said, "I'll just try the advanced task in another dream and let go and plummet to the ground" and he said "That's if you can recognize the next one" and I let go....and didn't recognize the next one.

[seeker28]

Last night I completed both the basic and advanced tasks, in the same dream! Basic task: I was in a high school class room. It was a math class. We were going to learn how to caluclate the area inside a triangle. I had a book, but the page numbers were all weird. Each section was numbered seperatly. I couldn't find the right page! Being in a classroom is one of my dream signs, so as soon as I calmed down I realized I was dreaming. I decided to try for both tasks. I turned to the girl in front of me and asked, "What is my dream name?" She smiled and said, "That's easy. You are Ameila Line." Advanced Task: It was still the same dream and I was still lucid. The class was now on a school bus that was droping all of us off at our homes. We were driving through the country. It was summer. I smiled and said, "I'm going to turn it into winter. I put my hand on the window over a tree. I imagined that when I moved my hand the leaves would all fall off. They did. I moved my hand around, making the grass turn brown and all the trees loose their leaves. I decided it was time for it to snow now, so it did. We were driving past a sod and tree farm. The farmer was out in a sod field yelling that he didn't understand why it was cold all of a sudden. The unexpected change in weather was going to hurt his businness. I felt bad about that and decided that today it would be winter, but tomorrow it would go back to summer.

[StephenT]

Nice winter change! Especially like the angry farmer. That's nice that it's only emporary though.

[Mrs. Jones]

i'm in french class, Amanda, Sharpies, thin, Popo, pizza, cilantro, knife, 3 microwaves, bedroom, sex edit: i just remembered i was lucid (unstable obviously, since i couldnt remember it til now) in that one and even completed basic lucid task (i think). when i went to the bedroom there was someone sleeping in there. i asked him what my dream name was and then music radiated from him saying "very superstitious writing on the wall". does this count?

[ninja9578]

I think you have to actually get an answer. Are those dream comments or just random words

[Mrs. Jones]

that's dream shorthand for when i'm lazy