Did the basic task last night! 
It was a really long dream, so I won't paste all of it (the whole thing is in my journal), just the lucid part, which is already large in itself. It was a pretty nice LD, and the part where I actually did the task turned kinda crazy, but I think it was actually pretty awesome and interesting (it's in red for those who just wanna skip to it).
"Eventually, I think the weirdness of the situation starts catching up with me and I slowly realize I'm dreaming. At this point, the room has kind of changed from a stage and chairs to just a couple of benches with a ceiling open to the sky. I see some people I know sitting on the benches, and at this point I try to use all my senses to make sure I'm well-grounded in the dream. Once I feel confident enough, I walk out of the room (if you can still call it a room) and into some sort of airport.
There's a sort of room nearby, and I walk in because I see some of my friends going in there. I realize it's a bathroom, and even though I have to smell that not-so-great odor, I'm alright with it because at least it's realistic. I walk out rather quickly though, since I have nothing to do there. For a while I'm not really sure what I want to do, so I just try to keep stabilizing everything. I look down at my watch, and see that it displays 2 AM. I think to myself that this is interesting compared to the time in real life, but wrong since I already woke up at 4 AM for WILD. When I check the watch again, the time is upside down and it was 12 something.
As I keep walking, I get to an area where there's a sort of concession stand. I decide to get something to drink to see what it's like. I pick an Orangina from the available sodas, but the guy doesn't really want to sell it to me because it's only half-full and that wouldn't be honest. He starts getting sort of all worked up about it. I tell him to give me the bottle for a second, and as I take it he starts looking in a miniature refrigerator for a smaller Orangina bottle to give to me for free as a compensation. I place the larger bottle that I'm carrying behind my back, will it to be full, and put it back in my line of sight. It works, and I tell him that there's no problem now since the bottle is full.
I walk away and start drinking, and it tastes like normal Orangina. I walk off, and into a corridor. I see a girl that I shortly talk to and kiss. I then remember the lucid tasks, and decide I'll try the basic one. I then try to figure out how I'm going to go about finding a turkey. There's a room nearby that I see, but I can't really see what's in it because there's a large column blocking my view. I point towards the room, and think to myself: "When I get there, the turkey I'm looking for will be waiting for me." I start walking, but I see that the entrance to the room is obstructed by metal bars. I think to myself that the dream is trying to make things hard for me 
I decide to just try to walk through the bars. I focus on just moving forward, and it works without problems. I look around, and, disappointed, see no turkey. However, I look to my right and then see a sort of weird rooster-looking thing, actually sitting down on a bench. I realize that this is my "turkey" (my rationalization: I don't really have a good mental image of a turkey, I've never actually seen one and few pictures. I actually looked up some pictures of a turkey for this task a few weeks ago to see what it was supposed to be like, apparently it didn't work completely!)
Anyways, I go up to the turkey and say: "What do you think of Thanksgiving?" At this point, I kinda start losing lucidity, and the dream is a bit hard to explain. Everything goes mostly dark, except for an image of the turkey, as if in a video game dialogue that I'm reading on a screen. I see lines of text appear as responses, and even my own questions are shown as text. I try to focus on what the turkey is saying (or at least on what I can read). At the same time, I'm somehow typing it on a computer, although I'm not sure what my reasoning was, maybe that if I typed it down now it would be easier to remember when I woke up. Anyways, the answer, as clearly as I can recall it was: "I hate it! I have no oak's peace [during Thanksgiving]!" among other things. I'm not sure where the oak part came from, but it made me think he was using the image of the oak tree as the example of peace/serenity.
Anyways, the conversation continues, almost with a mind of it's own, while I frantically try to recopy it. I don't really recall what was said after the beginning, but then things got even weirder in my semi-conscious state. I realized that the conversation was getting COMPLETELY random, and things started making no sense. The turkey's responses become nonsensical, with stuff like "Thoerwq-5327125-538292" and finally just number sequences. The turkey also says something about "Arrows 10 out of 10", and various small windows/boxes with text or pictures appear around the 'screen'.
One of the windows says "Gustave", then another appears next to it saying "Bustave". I don't know exactly how well this actually worked, but I start realizing that the text and even a video that start appearing are reflecting my thoughts and memories. I remember a game I played (the character's name was Gustave), and the video starts showing sequences from it (and then an unrelated sequence with a spaceship taking off). I try to see how much I can influence what's being shown, and eventually wake up."
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