Thread: Lucid Task for the Month of November 2007

Originally Posted by Vex Kitten

Yeah!
I think I only changed my reflection and not myself because i didn't feel any different. But it's close enough for me.

Congratulations, Vex! That's a lot farther than I've gotten!

I kind of figured if I managed to do it it might be the same way; not feel any different, but look different in the mirror.

Sounds like the skateboarding was the fun part of the dream.

So, I did the Advanced Task, sort of.

It was a WILD that I had after taking some GalantaMind (galantamine and choline), which makes WILDing much easier. It was also my first LD in two months, and my longest to date (must have been 30-45 minutes):

In the beginning of the dream I have a particularly hard time getting out of my dream bed. Also, something that happens when I take GalantaMind is this sensation of still being able to feel my body in bed (even though that is just a second, stationary dream body that only appears to be my real body)--a kind of bodily "double vision."

I get up several times and walk out into the hall, heading outside; but my several times my body "resets" to a sleeping position in my dream bed because of the lingering "double vision". I have trouble walking, I bump into things. My whole ability to move and my sense of balance are thrown off, and I have a certain sense (in the beginning and throughout the dream) that I'm not fully corporeal.

Eventually I get outside. I am at a dream version of my college campus, and of course it bears only a marginal semblance to reality. I have a sense from the beginning that I want to try to complete the advanced lucid task. For some time I walk around trying to find the "right opportunity" to phase into a DC and complete the task.

[But, if I wrote all the intervening stuff down, this would be way too long. So skipping to the task....]

I am now in a restroom. Brown tiles, dim, and kind of depressing. It's dark outside, and there are lamps on in the room. In one half, there is a table at which some girls are sitting. In the other half there are the stalls.

I see a girl, who happens to be someone from class in RL, so I walk up behind her, phase through her, and enter her body. BUT, I don't notice any change. And since my body has been rather incorporeal throughout the whole dream, I might as well have walked just walked from one end of the room to another, and not phased into anyone.

I go to the stall area, to "check myself out." I discover, to my disappointment, that I still have my usual "parts" an no tell-tale new parts, really. (I don't think of looking in a mirror to see if I at least look like her). But then the girl that I was supposed to have phased into walks over. She sort of cocks her head and looks at me funny, though not nearly as strange as one might expect (in RL) if someone suddenly became a copy of oneself. I ask her if it is weird for her that I look like her.

Soon after that, I have a FA, get out of bed, realize its still a dream, and then wake up for real.

So, there it is. I don't know if that counts or not. Probably shouldn't. In any case, if I am able to LD again any time soon, I'll probably do a do-over.

-Lux

Well...half-congratulations, Lux! At least you had a really long lucid, and remembered to do the task. I guess you can decide whether you think you did it or not...it sounds like you don't want to count it. That was an original way to do it--taking over someone else's body. (Maybe one other person did it like that.)

I think it was a pretty good try! Not everyone has been a "perfect" member of the opposite sex!

Originally Posted by pj

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

Lol you guys don't even try anymore.

Does the advanced count if I started out as a male and then become lucid? Or do I have to change myself into a male while lucid?

i attained lucidity and attempted both tasks in the same dream, both succeeding.

i asked a turkey what its thoughts were, but it hadnt responded. all it did was gobble. so i did what i thought best, i spoke in "turkey" language, and in a kind of asian accent the turkey replied:

"i have recently returned from the valley of darkness. after the day of thanks, you will lose all you have ever hoped to have learned"

in confusion i asked "wait what?" and surely enough, being in dream land he then replied "christmas is better"

really dont understand what happened.

for the advanced task, i tried hard to turn myself into a female (me being male)

and i got halfway there. i didnt get "stung by the bees of womanhood" but i know for a fact that my voice was different and i had different skin, and height. and hips as well.

unfortunately the scene going on during this thing was a country highway with not a lot of life around. i was driving a beetle, and i stopped at what i thought was a gas station. when i went in there was an elderly couple running it, and they didnt really acknowledge my gender...and the fact that im still a beginner at lucid dreaming somewhat, i didnt remember to clarify and try to possibly get some words out of them. but i got the usual "good evening, fair weather were having eh?" or something of the sort. so for my final answer, i didnt get anything interesting from my DC's, but at least i successfully changed genders. (i hope thats the only time in my life ill have to say that)

Originally Posted by Lunalight

Does the advanced count if I started out as a male and then become lucid? Or do I have to change myself into a male while lucid?

I believe that you have to start out as one sex and change into the other per the rules:

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.

Originally Posted by FooFightersKid

for the advanced task, i tried hard to turn myself into a female (me being male) and i got halfway there. i didnt get "stung by the bees of womanhood" but i know for a fact that my voice was different and i had different skin, and height. and hips as well.

LOL at not being "stung by the bees of womanhood"!

Congratulations on completing both tasks!

There's a lot of good stuff in here. Congratulations to those who have succeeded, or even tried. I'd like to try each task again. I wonder what a talking turkey sounds like. I only got dumb looks from mine.

Originally Posted by Clairity

Sounds like a chicken/turkey "conspiracy" to me.

Or rather, a case of foul play

Originally Posted by Clairity

Sounds like a chicken/turkey "conspiracy" to me.

Originally Posted by Oneironaught

Or rather, a case of foul play

(http://www.audiosparx.com/sa/play/po...ound_iid.51893) ..

Originally Posted by FooFightersKid

"i have recently returned from the valley of darkness. after the day of thanks, you will lose all you have ever hoped to have learned"

in confusion i asked "wait what?" and surely enough, being in dream land he then replied "christmas is better"

I like how it went from philosophical and riddle-like to speaking like a 5 year old.


EDIT: Cool, that was my 1000th post!

I find myself starting to get dream images but am having difficulty getting the dream to continue until I find myself rolling over and over.

At first I feel like I am going to roll out of my bed, but as I continue to roll over and over again I realize that I am just rolling in my imagination.

I soon roll out into a lucid dream where I find myself flying through the air still rolling around and around as I fly.

When I concentrate on completing the basic lucid task of asking a turkey what it thinks of Thanksgiving I find myself laying out in a field unable to move.

An animal approaches me and climbs on top of me. It is a small puppy and it starts licking my face. I then find I can move my arms so I pet it while it continues licking me.

Once again I concentrate on finding a turkey, and in the distance see some farm animals which I am sucked right over to.

A very small turkey appears before me which is only 2 inches tall. Really a cute little guy.

When I ask him what he thinks of Thanksgiving he starts rattling off a bunch of things I am unable to understand.

As I concentate on what he is saying I hear him say "Say hi to Harvey", and "Say hi to Louie for me".

As I start walking off of the farm I see someone coming out of a door of a farm house to ask me what I am doing on their farm.

Seeing this, I start running and take off flying into the air like Superman.

I find myself flying very high in the air admiring the scenery below.

Congratulations, iadr. Your turkey is quite unusual (do you know Harvey and Louie?) That's kind of like when I've asked DC's questions; sometimes they start saying a bunch of stuff I can't understand.

And the best part--fly away!

Originally Posted by Moonbeam

Congratulations, iadr. Your turkey is quite unusual (do you know Harvey and Louie?) That's kind of like when I've asked DC's questions; sometimes they start saying a bunch of stuff I can't understand.

And the best part--fly away!

Thanks Moonbeam. Not sure who the Harvey and Louie are that the little fellow asked me to say hi to although I assume they must be turkeys. He sure was a cocky liitle guy rattling off all of that stuff .

I must have been experiencing some kind of sleep paralysis when I dreamed that I was unable to move when the puppy was approaching me.

Originally Posted by iadr

When I concentrate on completing the basic lucid task of asking a turkey what it thinks of Thanksgiving I find myself laying out in a field unable to move.

An animal approaches me and climbs on top of me. It is a small puppy and it starts licking my face. I then find I can move my arms so I pet it while it continues licking me.

Awwww! It's a good thing it was a "friendly" puppy or that could have turned into a very unpleasant experience.

Originally Posted by iadr

A very small turkey appears before me which is only 2 inches tall. Really a cute little guy.

A 2 inch tall turkey.. I bet it was really cute!

Congratulations on completing the task!

Wow...I did it in my first "real" Lucid Dream! Here it is from my Dream journal ( parts in red you need )

My alarm went off at 2 for a WILD. I sat there doing the breathing method. I must have been sitting there for 45 minutes before I gave up. Then I just tried again. I kept trying with no luck. Then I think I could not get to sleep so at around 4 I tried Clarity ( THANK YOU ) alphabet method, and OMG I think it worked because the next thing I can remember is me being Lucid by my bed.

I instantly bent down and grabbed an object off my messy bedroom floor. It was a necklase. I then looked at its detail thinking this is a dream. I smelled it, it smelled normal. I then licked it. Then I moved my muscles and it felt great! I then stood up and felt my desk. This was the greatest part of the dream for me because I had been doing the same thing in real life and having a Lucid Dream that night did not seem possible. Then I thought "Right...time to fly" I then saw my sister and a friend of mine come in. I must have lost lucidity a bit because I started to think it was a shared dream. But they helped me with control! I wanted to make it light outside my bedroom window I tried to. Nothing, I tried again. Then my sister my friend reminded me of passive control. I said alright then. I said something along the lines of did the news report last night not say it was going to be light. OMG it worked. My first Dream control. I went outside. I was rapidly losing it now. I could not fly. I used passive control and everything. I jumped off a wall after a while. ( I did this in rehearsal the night before!!! ) But still could not do my ultimate goal despite getting slighty annoyed and shouting " ITS RESERVE GRAVITY DAY!. So I went inside. I looked out the window but was to scared to jump. I then said to my sister n friend " we need to find a turkey". We went into my sisters bedroom and there it was. I bent down and said " What do you think of Thanksgiving" it replied something along the lines of " Cannibalism ... complete" ( or something like that it was really hard to understand) I then lost lucidity. Possibly due to being overexcited.

Originally Posted by Oneironaught

Or rather, a case of foul play

That is ... foWl

Wow, Tsunami, that's great! Completing a task in your first lucid! I think that is very good to have that much control in your first one!

Originally Posted by Moonbeam

Wow, Tsunami, that's great! Completing a task in your first lucid! I think that is very good to have that much control in your first one!

Thanks!

Although technically speaking it is my second. My first one ended within half a second of it starting hehe. But I call that my first.

Edit: Also it was my first real WILD attempt. I'm going to see if I can WILD again tonight, or if i just got lucky. Anyway Im going to try for the advanced.

Hey, well nice work!

Originally Posted by Super Duck

That is ... foWl

Aw man, I messed up my pun. Your way is better.

Had my first Lucid dream last night i wasso happy i flew off looking for a turkey and got to this village where they had one but it turns out it was a chicken so i went to a nearby castle looking for one and there wasn't any there!! I couldn't conjure one up...guess i need to work on ym dream contorl but still im happy!

Originally Posted by Tsunami

Then I think I could not get to sleep so at around 4 I tried Clarity ( THANK YOU ) alphabet method, and OMG I think it worked because the next thing I can remember is me being Lucid by my bed.

I am so happy my alphabet method helped you!! Congrats on your first "lasting" lucid dream and on completing the task!!

Originally Posted by luffers

Had my first Lucid dream last night i wasso happy i flew off looking for a turkey and got to this village where they had one but it turns out it was a chicken so i went to a nearby castle looking for one and there wasn't any there!! I couldn't conjure one up...guess i need to work on ym dream contorl but still im happy!

And congratulations to you on your first LD luffers!! You'll find that turkey yet!

ADVANCED TASK:
Soo last night i'd just had a false awakeneing... I knew, as always, that it was probably a dream, but to verify i grabbed a book and red text... it said the red fox jumped over the yellow fence in big bold letters... I tried to change it to green, but instead the entire page turned into some article about cow reproduction or some crap... I was like yesssss reality check fail!!! anyways then i pissed off this big huge guy... who tried to stab me with some sharp metal object...I was like screw this... and used my gigantic muscles to stab my hand through his chest. I beat another DC who happened to be there with his flailing body, then spun around to try to get him off my arm.
Then, I thought of the dream task. I tried turning myself directly into a girl, but it wouldnt stay. So then I thought. hey, if i kill myself, I can make myself respawn as a girl. So i tried to get myself ran over by a car. What happened was, i didnt kill myself, but i made myself into an insane freak bent on destryogin things, and then switched entities with a female that was trying to keep me from destroying things. This guy who I nearly got to ran me over was extremely pissed off, and very large. I was explaining to him how we could use these yellow sticks of chemicals to bait him and trap him for long enough for the man to escape. I was afraid that he was going to rape me or something, because he was huge and burly and i just had a little nerdy scientist with me... but the charachter that resembled me came up and killed the guy before he could. Then I petted my character's hair, and he snuggled up against me, and the dream ended right when it was getting good. Guess no fantasies as the opposite sex for me!

My goodness, nayrki, that was quite a dream!