Thread: Lucid Task for the Month of November 2007

Awesome tasks .. and those badges are cool! I'm going to try them tonight!! (hopefully)

the advanced is going to be hard...im going to give it a go

The thanksgiving one would be hard because I don't even know what it is

But changing sex... holy SHIT that would be kinky! It's happened once before when non lucid but I didn't do anything sexual. Hope this doesn't make me a pussy but let's admit we all want to try that out!

Thanksgiving is a U.S. harvest holiday celebrated in November - this year on the 22nd. It marks the beginning of what many here refer to as the "Holiday Season."

Part of Thanksgiving for many is the procuring, roasting and consumption of a turkey, so expect some bitterness if you try this task!

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/tgturkey1.html

Changing genders? No way... That's too weird, even for me. I will have to pass the advanced one.

Wow, i'm liking the whole redesign, good job to whoever did them. I may go for these tasks since i'm back to lucid dreaming I'll report back with my results!

Nice badges.

But... don't turkeys already have wings?

I've been excited to try to change genders. I had a LD last night that I was in a doctors office, but I've completely forgotten the dream. Now that I think about it, I have a feeling I was intending to have the doctor change me into a woman.

Thanks everyone for keeping this thread alive and prospering in my absence. I hope to check in as often as possible, hopefully now with all the extra help, you won't have to wait a week to get your badges!

I've uploaded the official badges. =)

I made an attempt at the advanced task on the 30th of October.

I found myself lucid for the first time in about two weeks. I looked down at my chest and willed breasts to grow....

Nothing happened.

Ah well, 29 more chances this month!

After becoming lucid in my dream I find myself flying above some trees at which time I decide I would like to complete the Advanced Lucid Task of changing myself into the opposite gender and finding out what it feels like to be that gender.

The only way I can think to complete this task is to find a female and then try to merge my spirit with her body in order to try and feel what she is feeling like.

I then see a remote village with grass huts below me, so fly down to get a closer look at the huts.

After flying past several huts I come to one in which the door is open, so I fly into that hut.

The hut I enter is a kitchen with stoves and other appliances in it.

I then find my spirit inside the body of an older woman who is baking what appears to be chocolate chip cookies.

As I take the cookies out of the oven I notice that they are very large cookies, about 12 inches in diameter.

Just then some children come into the hut through the door, and I give them all some cookies.

I feel very content, fulfilled, and satisfied with myself for providing cookies for the children in my village.

I'm finding the easiest way to complete most of these tasks is just to think about the task I want to complete after becoming lucid, and then just follow where the dream takes me. Because the task almost never gets completed the way I would have expected it to.

Originally Posted by pj

Tasks for this month:

Lucid Task: Find a turkey and ask about its thoughts on Thanksgiving. Report the response back to us.


Advanced Task: Turn yourself into the opposite gender, report back your appearance and what effect the swap had on you mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Bonus points if you interact with a DC and report how they treat you.

i'm going to try these as soon as possible.
and...thanksgiving? more like...TRANSgiving! aaahahahahahahaha. ha. hilarious.
actually it's not that funny, but who cares

Originally Posted by iadr

The only way I can think to complete this task is to find a female and then try to merge my spirit with her body in order to try and feel what she is feeling like.

Our first successful task completion.. congratulations!!

And a great method to use become the opposite sex!

Originally Posted by foolish

...thanksgiving? more like...TRANSgiving! aaahahahahahahaha. ha. hilarious.
actually it's not that funny, but who cares

It was actually kinda clever.

Originally Posted by Clairity

It was actually kinda clever.

Well thank you! that makes my day a little better

I wonder if I can turn myself into a female turkey and ask myself what I think of Thanksgiving

Thanks for using my wings, makes me feel special

I have my own dream goals I want to achieve, like basic dream control and mental warrior training, but darn it, that turkey avatar is just so funny, I want one!

And the sex change dream sounds cool too. Before I started having lucids, or around the time of that first lucid moment, I once spontaneously dreamed I was a boy. I even had a girlfriend in the dream. But all I did was talk with her. heh.

I wonder if I could try sex as a guy in a dream?

Originally Posted by innerspacecadet

I wonder if I could try sex as a guy in a dream?

Well I have, so why not!

Originally Posted by ninja9578

I wonder if I can turn myself into a female turkey and ask myself what I think of Thanksgiving

Thanks for using my wings, makes me feel special

Many of us have accomplished both tasks in the same dream. This plan sounds like a lot of fun!

Awesome badges!! (And PSSHHH to whoever it was who ridiculed my idea of changing the wings) Nice tasks too, the advanced sounds way harder than last month's. I can't wait to do this - I miss my orange name.

I've had experience with gender changes in normal dreams (not fun), but i will try to give it a go in a lucid.

The advanced task sounds interesting.

I think I sort of did them, although according to the "Controversy" thread it might not count: it was a lucid dream embedded within a non-lucid dream, a DILD masquerading as a WILD. My control and powers in the faux WILD part were about as good as in a real WILD, rather than the lower grade lucidity and control I achieve in most DILDs.

Here goes:

I was over at a relative's house, presumably my aunt's, trying desperately to get some sleep, particularly a lucid dream, in the early morning on a couch. I was really cranky and frustrated. I kept trying to sleep, only feeling heavy and groggy yet still very much awake every time. My boyfriend and a female mutual friend were both there. My boyfriend tried hugging me at one point, and I told him to leave me alone, I wanted to get some sleep. I didn't want him or anyone touching me or bothering me in any way, and I said as much, just as bluntly. Eventually, I finally managed to let go and fall asleep on the couch.

I fell asleep rapidly and dreamt immediately. A WILD, I thought. I was excited, 'cause I could now do the lucid tasks. I jumped in the air to celebrate and confirm with a reality check, and I floated a little in the air, confirming that I was dreaming. Off I went to find that turkey.

I found one, with a little white-skinned bald head, just outside the house. I don't know if this was before or after finding the turkey, but I went to grab some dried kernels of corn to feed the turkey to befriend it. Some large-kernel dried corn was lying on the floor of the house in one of those containers they use in grocery stores for meat, presumably as food for the many animals in the area. (I just remembered there were chickens.) I fed the turkey one of the large kernels from my right hand, and he ate it without hurting me. I then asked him how he felt about Thanksgiving. He paused, and then, putting his wing up to his beak like a hand and opening his beak into an O-shape like lips, he said, "Ssssshhhhsummer." And he was soon gone. I reflected on his cryptic response, and interpreted it as meaning that he wished Thanksgiving were in the summer, because Fall is already a stressful time for turkeys because food is scarcer.

Ok. Task completed, I thought...time to take on the gender reassignment task. Off I flew, in search of a way to change my sex. Perhaps this is the part where I often got around, instead of flying, by hand-walking in the dirt, grabbing fistfuls of dirt to propel myself while my legs were stretched out behind me, because I'd remembered that it was a good idea to feel textures to ground yourself while in a lucid dream. Eventually I stumbled upon a way to enact the sex change. I don't remember what it was, but its success was confirmed by an interactive TV or LCD screen game program that had previously shown me pink hearts now showing me smaller blue hearts. I encountered some people - perhaps the relatives - first talking in my girl voice but then switching to my best guy voice. I did encounter the relatives at some point, and they tried to give me my (the girl-me's) stuff to take home. I played dumb, trying to keep my secret. "Well, 'Bill,' said my mother, I thought maybe you'd see [enter my real name] later." But I played dumb again, pretending not to know my original female self, lest my secret leak out. And I also didn't want to fly around with a bunch of stuff. The relatives were soon out of my hair, and, curious about that "sex as a guy" thing and interacting with dream characters, I flew off to seek out some dream characters, including fellow guys to bond with and a girl to get it on with.

In the side yard, or to the side of the house, I eventually ran into a girl...someone I knew from my past. I shouted her name in surprise and puzzlement. I thought she was someone I knew from high school...why high school? Isn't that a bit young? (Actually, her real-life version was an undergrad whom I knew in my first four years of grad school. She herself was just out of high school when I first met her.) Anyway, I started talking to her, and also bumped into another guy to bond with. The other guy, the girl, and I headed toward some little shacks across the street, sort of like old-fashioned wooden outhouses but with no toilets, so I could have some private time with the girl.

I sat behind the girl in the shack, straddling her, but I think only touching her with my hands on her shoulders at that point, massage-style. We talked and flirted a little. She said something about biting, and I said to her, "Well, I wanna bite *you*." "Ooh," she said. I was excited, feeling a twinge of lust, looking forward to trying sex as a guy. But, we never got around to it. We left the shack before any clothes could even go off. And the girl met up with some other people...and described me as a *she* to them.

Oh no! I thought. My sex change must have gone wrong somehow. When I looked at that interactive TV/LCD game again, it was showing both guy hearts and girl hearts (big pink and small blue) in varying proportions, and also some blue raindrops.

Eventually I woke up, on the couch where I'd fallen asleep, reuniting with the friend and boyfriend. My boyfriend received some Red Sox tickets in the mail and opened them, but said he probably wasn't going to use them. We found out via some kind of communication device that the Red Sox won the last game in the world series 6-4 or 6-2 (don't remember exactly). I thought that a little odd - hadn't they already won the World Series a while ago? I got on with my life, which included writing down the lucid dream to report to Dreamviews later.

And then...I woke up for real, in my own bed, not having written down a snippet of the dream yet, and wondering whether it would even count because it was "a dream of a lucid dream."

But as you can see, I wrote it down anyway.

There were a couple of other bits of the whole nonlucid+lucid+nonlucid dream sequence I couldn't place chronologically:
-I had a little 2- or 3-year old blonde cousin named Maggie or Maddie.
-I don't remember whether this happened on TV, live, or a mixture of both, but some teenage boys with Asperger syndrome were stranded on a lake in their kayaks with the Aspergers clinic logo on them. Someone brought them in, and they started talking to each other. I listened to their voices for hints of monotony, and sometimes found some.
-As I was interacting with some adult relatives, several of whom had gray hair, I said that I actually liked gray/white hair better than brown hair, and that I was generally drawn to lighter hair colors such as blond and white.

If this counts, I want the turkey badge. After all, my dream self assessed itself at one point as not having quite succeeded at the gender task. (I'm probably not going to re-attempt either of them, though. This is about as good as I can hope for. And I want to pursue my own lucid goals.)

Oh...and before the dream, I was trying to hard to LD again and was frustrated in my attempts to get to sleep. Hence the nonlucid beginning of the dream.

Damn, just found out the tasks! I wasn't sure if these were set in stone yet. Had a lucid this morning! Okay will do these tonight

I've been looking forward to getting back into doing the lucid tasks, but was a little disappointed at the tasks this month. Then again, I think I usually was, which is why I stopped doing them in the first place lol. But I may try to talk to a turkey, that could be interesting...maybe. As for turning into a guy...meh...I've done that on many occassions. Here are the effects mentally: Oh my god I have a penis!, emotionally: Whoa this is so weird I have a penis!, spiritually: Did you not hear me!? I have a penis!!

innerspacecadet, bravo!! :bravo:

I would say that you completed both tasks and it was a really fun and well described read!

I really had to chuckle when I read:

"My boyfriend tried hugging me at one point, and I told him to leave me alone, I wanted to get some sleep. I didn't want him or anyone touching me or bothering me in any way, and I said as much, just as bluntly."

It sounds just like something I'd tell my husband when I'm focused on trying to WILD.

I also thought for a second that the turkey was going to tell you "Ssssshhhh" because he didn't want you to say the word Thanksgiving!

Do your boyfriend and female friend know about lucid dreaming?

Originally Posted by Clairity

innerspacecadet, bravo!! :bravo:

I would say that you completed both tasks and it was a really fun and well described read!

Woohoo! I can't wait for my turkey wings. I've been anticipating them impatiently ever since my false awakening in the dream!

It was probably one of the most vivid dreams I've had in a while. And also the best job at dream incubating in a LONG time. The last time I remember successfully incubating a dream based on an idea I'd read was when I was reading LaBerge's "Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming" and tried out dream spinning and meeting a shadow archetype. Mine was a witch resembling an upperclasswoman mentor from my freshman year of college.

My first LD since starting back up, where I'd had the idea to fly through the Galaxy, I failed.

I really had to chuckle when I read:

"My boyfriend tried hugging me at one point, and I told him to leave me alone, I wanted to get some sleep. I didn't want him or anyone touching me or bothering me in any way, and I said as much, just as bluntly."

It sounds just like something I'd tell my husband when I'm focused on trying to WILD.

I usually reject my boyfriend's affections for other reasons...getting sleep might sometimes be one of them, but then, I've never tried to LD (or had an LD that I can recall) while visiting him.

I also thought for a second that the turkey was going to tell you "Ssssshhhh" because he didn't want you to say the word Thanksgiving!

lol...I didn't know what he was going to say.

Do your boyfriend and female friend know about lucid dreaming?

I've told my boyfriend about it. He sometimes has almost-lucid or borderline-lucid dreams, where he knows something is weird...oftentimes because he sees his dead friend...but he never takes command of them and let the realization he's dreaming really sink in. I don't know if the female friend knows. She reads my live journal, and I recently made a friends-only post there mentioning this forum. Maybe I should post about this dream there, and mention that the "mutual friend" was her.