Lucid Task for the Month of September 2007

[pj]

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.

[pj]

(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.

[Moonbeam]

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.

[Vex Kitten]

Congrats pj. That was quick.

[Oneironaught]

Soooo, what are the tasks?

[Moonbeam]

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.

[DreamHerb]

thats a piece of cake. ill do it tonight.

[peppy]

I'll try next time i get lucid.

[Caradon]

Congratulations PJ! I liked the glass dog, I have a good picture in my mind of what that must have looked like.

[pj]

Borrowed a computer again here this morning... The easy task is to find a pack of playing cards, select one and report back what was on it. The advanced task is to conjure up a glass dog. (just kidding)

[Iamerik]

I did have a dream involving cards yesterday... I was going to play cards with my friends but we ended up arguing because they gave me too many cards. I had to count it several times for them and I got more cards in my hand every time I counted... Also a few cards were missing so we used... Clay tablets with small holes in it indicating what card it was. Still, I was too busy arguing to actually look at my cards so I'll try again. I wasn't completely lucid either. Feeling lucky tonight, I'll see if I have anything to report tomorrow.

[Moonbeam]

Where is Seeker, anyway? We need tasks! Pj, I think we should just go with yours. A glass dog, it is.

[The Question]

If I have a LD ever....I will try the card one, but i still want to try the one with the blue bridge even if there is no award I think that one seems mysterious!

[Seeker]

Well, lucid 4 times last night and never remembered to do a task. I did make a Dachshund fly though. Pesky little thing was jumping up and grabbing my ankles while I was attempting to get airborn. Weiner dogs fly real good!!

[Lunalight]

Weiner dogs fly real good!! Well, I would think they are more aerodynamic than most breeds. Gonna try the basic task, I think the advanced will be quite a challenge. Not that I don't like challenges...game on!

[tai]

Wow. I think I'll try the card one, as "sculpting an animal from water and bringing it to life" may be a bit, um, challenging.

[Iamerik]

No luck last night, didn't became lucid. Too busy trying not to get killed by a bear. Ooh the advanced task is difficult! If I become lucid I'll make sure to do the basic first, and then see if I can do the advanced. I've always had a lot of control over water for some reason. And if the thing I'm trying to do has the potential of killing me it usually works!

[pj]

Hey, Seeker! What IS the advanced task?

[Clairity]

Wow pj, you are quick (and I'm glad my technique was helpful)!! Congratulations!! and now that I'm back home.. it's time to get get my lucidity on!!

[Adam]

Wow pj, you are quick (and I'm glad my technique was helpful)!! Congratulations!! and now that I'm back home.. it's time to get get my lucidity on!! I will second that! For the first time - I know I can do these tasks now! Just hav to remember to do them when lucid lol.

[MisterHyde]

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!

[Michael]

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.

[DrTechnical]

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.

[naikou]

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?)

[DreamHerb]

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....