Thread: Lucid Task for the Month of October 2007

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 haunted house and enter it, report back your experiences.


Advanced Task: Find your reflection in a mirror, pull it out and ask it why we dream.

Advanced task completed last night

Originally Posted by Adam's dream journal

Okay so I had about 7/8 really long vivid dreams last night, only have time to type up the lucid though..

Wow how weird was this, okay so I went to bed and set my alarm for 3:50am. I had so much trouble getting to sleep though, and don't think I got to sleep for like 45 minutes after getting to bed. My alarm woke my at 3:50 - Checked DV, toilet break and a sip of my water.

Usually I can get into a lucid dream after about 10 minutes, but last night, OMG an hour later and I was still awake, like really awake - I was getting annoyed with myself for trying to LD on a school night. I think it might be because I have a head ache and a cold coming on, either way I decided to give up, kinda..

As I rolled onto my side I felt no more comfortable, and still awake, then I felt the change, you know when you can tell you are about to go to sleep, so I thought right, I will catch you out on this, and waited a little longer and could feel myself falling asleep more then tried to jump on this and WILD. But what happened next was weird.

I like to call this the 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang WILD' for those who have seen this will know they ride on a bed? Or that might be Wizard of Oz? If someone could correct me that would be great! Bedknobs and Broomsticks WILD (Thanks Oneironaut). I felt a shift in my body, like it jolt forward, I don't know if anyone else gets this, but I usually get feelings of me jolting in my bed, and I was moving forwards and backwards at some force, however when I moved forwards I was making a grunting kind of noise, and was at that confused stage where I didn't know if I was lucid or not at that point so went with it.

Then I felt my bed shift, now normally it is me doing the shifting, and I will like fall head first backwards to something similar sometimes when WILDing. However this was my bed moving, Okay I thought I will roll with this, and made myself move faster, like really fast in this bed, shooting round corners and all sorts, then when it felt ready stopped the bed moving and I was in this other room, it wasn't mine, I was lucid, I had gotten her by flying my bed?? WTF? Either way, it was an interesting WILD. So I sat up in the bed, did the finger RC (because I love the way it feels lol) My vision was still a little blurry, so steadied myself, everything because clear. I was naked though, which happens a lot - I think it might be because I sleep naked?

So I stood up, my goal was to do the advanced task for October, and had waited till tonight (1st October) to try it, I looked up on the shelf for a mirror, and sure enough there was one there. I tried to look into it, but there was this force pushing me away, not letting me look in the mirror - There was like this EVIL presence around, I could hear like a strange growl type noise and a black mist over the mirror. I think this is because I have always been worried about looking into mirrors in dreams because I have had a lot of nightmares from doing so - However I was dreaming and I knew it and nothing was going to stop me achieving my goal!

So I stood up again (this force had pushed me onto the floor) and moved towards the mirror, it was only small too, about a bit bigger than my head. I looked into it and saw myself looking back. I reached in, my hand went inside the mirror and pulled my head out... I had no body just a floating head of wisdom - or so I thought...

Me "Why ..409p sd kjsk njs jf "

I couldn't get my words out, I don't know what was wrong, maybe it was because initial conversation in lucids are hard to start? I tried again,

Me "Why do I dream?"
Head "You don't"
Me "WHY DO I DREAM?" Raising my voice as I get a little frustrated at myself/head
Head "You don't"
Me "Okay so if I don't dream, what am I doing now?"
Head "You're not dreaming!"

Damn stupid head of wisdom I thought, I let go and let it fade away. I was gutted!! I really thought I would come back with some smart ass answer!! So anyway I had the rest of my dream to explore, I went into my flat mates room, looked into her mirror, thought about trying again, then though I best write all this down, so woke myself up.

Damn if I meet my dream head again, I am going to seriously interrogate it till I get some answers I want haha!

Anyway, advanced taslk complete I will try the basic one on my next WILD attempt

-_- damn you adam i wanted first post

i will defenitly be doing this one. how exciting!

Sorry DDK

I can see this month is already off to an interesting start! Floating head of Wisdom

no worries, im going to go up to a fun mirror in my haunted house and pull out my self. More exciting that way. Maybe, I'll be a vampire! :O

I mentioned that I had a dreams with me pulling myself from the mirror before in:

http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=42622

DANG!! I was actually in a haunted house last night. (Not lucid. Never lucid.) Still...maybe had I realized it was the months task I might have become lucid. Too bad i didn't check this yesterday. Whats really wierd is that Ive never dreamt of a haunted house before. Is it just a coincidence that I did when it was October's task?? Strange.

Originally Posted by iwishicouldld

DANG!! I was actually in a haunted house last night. (Not lucid. Never lucid.) Still...maybe had I realized it was the months task I might have become lucid. Too bad i didn't check this yesterday. Whats really wierd is that Ive never dreamt of a haunted house before. Is it just a coincidence that I did when it was October's task?? Strange.

Keep trying! Think about that dream before you go to sleep, and try to get back there!

I'm going to try and do this tonight- I WILL have a lucid dream, I WILl!!

I definitely want to pull myself out of a mirror. There are other things I would like to ask myself.

Guys!! I just woke up from a lucid dream and I feel so incredibly accomplished... I don't remember much of it... but here it goes:

Something really weird was going on and I thought to myself, "Errr... yeah... I'm just going to do a reality check, okay?" So I did the nose RC and became lucid. I was in my college apartment and suddenly remembered the advanced task. I remembered how Adam pulled his head out of the mirror so I decided to do that.

I took a deep breath (or whatever the equivalent is in LDs), walked up to the mirror in our hallway, and punched my hand through it as hard as I could to make sure that it would go through. It felt like glass was scraping my skin but it went through nonetheless. With surprising ease, I wrapped my fingers around my reflection's neck and pulled the head out of the mirror!

For a second I forgot what I was supposed to ask it (I had only read the tasks of the month like once a few days ago) but then it came to me. I asked, "Why do we dream?" and the head just stared at me without saying anything. It was still acting like too realistic of a reflection so I thought I should do something to "wake it up." So, I threw the head as far up into the air as I could (to startle it maybe, hehe) and caught it. This time it still looked like me but it was an older and uglier version. I asked, "Why do we dream??" and it started to give me this cynical look of just plain loathing..

So I decided to let it be and I stuffed the head back into the mirror. By now my entire reflection had become a bit haggard. I thought to myself that since I had gotten this far, I might as well conquer my mirror phobia and just go through the damn mirror. So, I lunged into it as hard as I could, felt glass scrape against my body, and entered a black void.

I floated around in this void for a while and suddenly felt myself start to lose lucidity. I started to feel the sleepiness of my real body... but I rubbed my hands and did whatever else I could think of to stay lucid, and finally the black void became a new dream scene.

Then I don't know what I did but yeah... who cares...

I managed to find a haunted house. When I first realized I was lucid, I was in a field, in the middle was a shack that looked old, beat down, and slightly Demonic. When I got inside of it, there was a clown. He was completly yellow, and did not have any skin. It is kind of hard to describe, his organs and fluids just stayed in place. I asked him if this was a haunted house, and he said no. I asked him what it was, he told me to turn around, and then I was awake.
Depsite what the clown says, I think it was a haunted house.

Hey I got around to doing this during my nap today so I will post what happened.

I was in a field of wheat which is usually where I start off in my dreams when I am lucid and searched for a house that I thought to be "Haunted." So on my journey I come to find a bunch of people laying down in front of this old rickety 2 story home that is painted black. As I approached the house the people in front of it stood up and turned into zombies and charged at me to my surprise (They had speed like the zombies in Dawn Of The Dead) so I run into the house and block the door and close the windows and slump down to the floor and sigh. After this I do a bit of exploring in the house the furniture and such is in very bad condition and the wallpaper is torn and I hear something going on upstairs. I went into this bedroom where and old record player was playing some weird tune and I shut it off because it was creeping me out. Once I turned it off I remembered that I needed to look for a mirror so the search began. I could not find one so I went to a old Clothes wardrobe and believed that a mirror would be in there when I opened it. When I did low behold I found a mirror. When I first looked I just saw a blurry reflection but upon focusing I did see someone who looked like myself I asked them to step out and they did. And chatted with them for a bit and then asked myself why do we dream. He rubbed his chin and gave me one of the most serious looks I have ever seen and said "If you don't know then why would I?" and then he stepped back into the mirror and my reflection disappered. I stood there for a moment realizing that was a pretty good answer actually and went back out and fought the zombies and woke up a bit later.

"If you don't know then why would I?"

haha Thats awesome

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!

finished the advanced task!

Wow i'm so happy... I haven't had a lucid dream in over 5 months and then today at 3:00pm i decided to try a wild... Right after I felt the wave sensation I found myself on my computer looking at my keyboard. I suddenly realized that i had just successfully pulled of a WILD i was so excited. I snapped out of the dream and was back to a black screen but i couldn't accept it so i tried hard to concentrate on getting back in. Here i was back at my computer i looked to the left and saw a mirror and suddenly remembered the expert task of the month, So i went to the big mirror in my bed room. My reflection was really fuzzy/staticy. I reached into the mirror and pulled this staticy 2-d image out. "Why do we dream?" i asked my reflection. "chahshahchchh" the only noise my reflection made was some static noise and it jumped back into the mirror. Next I slipped into another (non lucid dream) YAY!!! first LD in a long time and I remembered to do the task!!! Now i gotta try the beginner task

I made two custom badges for this month if you wanted to use them

basic:

advanced:

I completed the Advanced Lucid Dreaming Task last night during the following dream last night:

I seem to be out of town and am spending the night someplace like an apt building in this dream.

During the night I become concerned that my alarm clocks may not wake me up in time to get to work on time.

I wake up at about 07:00 in my dream and realize that I have overslept as I was supposed to have been at work by 04:30.

I think about calling my boss and letting him know that I am running late, but decide to try to sneak into work unnoticed instead.

I then decide to check out my reports from home to make sure that they all ran ok, however I am unable to find a computer in my apt to check them out with.

Although I am sure that this is really happening to me, and that there is no way I could be dreaming, I decide to ask myself if I am dreaming anyway, and to try floating.

To my amazement I float up into the air which then convinces me that I am dreaming.

I keep hearing male voices in the hallway of the apartment I am staying in, and begin getting very annoyed with them as they are quite loud, as I hear one guy yelling at another guy.

Then my cuckoo clock goes off (I have these go off every 30 minutes during the night to help me become aware in my dreams), but this time it is very annoying as it is interrupting my lucid dream.

I continue concentrating on the dream until the alarm finally stops, at which time I begin hearing the male voices again.

With an act of will I fly out of the apt where I no longer hear the voices.

Now I am free to fly at will, so fly all over the place doing all sort of aerobatic stunts while flying.

I decide to try the advanced lucid dreaming task so start looking for a mirror, but am have a lot of trouble finding one.

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Finally, a mirror appears in front me.

When I look into the mirror I see something that looks like a small tree instead of a reflection of myself.

I reach in and pull the small tree out of the mirror and ask it why we dream.

Instead of answering me in words, the tree begins expanding, and grows into a beautiful little tree with a magnificient design.

Interpretation: The dream seemed to be showing me that the reason I dream is to branch out or expand, and become more fulfilled.
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I then begin flying around some more and find myself someplace like a remote oriental village where the people live in grass huts, where I complete the advanced task for next month, which I will wait until next month to share.

I hope completing it early still counts. If not, I will do it again.