Thread: Lucid Task for the Month of December 2007

Too bad arby, you almost had it! Darn Mom!

You'll get it; it's still early.

I Like the basic task. I will do this tonight if i remember, it will be my first task of the month attempt.
My main goal is getting to the dream views party but i could ask someone on the way or somebody there.
Knowing my dream characters they will probably come up with a ridiculous name.

The advanced task i will probably have trouble with because i am crap at changing scenery but i might give it a go sometime this month.

Originally Posted by Mrs. Jones

does dream-spinning count?

I'd say no, if you spin and just go someplace where it is winter. The task is to make it become winter where you are, not to go someplace where it is winter.

It would have to be judged based on the actual attempt, of course. Seeker, Clairity and/or Moonbeam make the final decisions.

Originally Posted by Adam

Attempted the basic last night:

I was walking in my old neighbourhood, and with some friends, I remember looking up at the sky and seeing the moon (a dream sign of mine). Then I noticed there was more than one moon, well of course; I was dreaming. So looking around at my friends as I stabilise the transition into lucidity, I notice all these girls about! "Not again!" I think to myself. It seems when ever I get lucid there are always a lot of girls about. So I thought I would ask one of the girls, "Hey, what is my dream name?" and then she looks at me, with a puzzled look on her face and says, "That was last months task..."

I was confuzed, then thought well she must be right. So then I decided to take advantage of all these girls, since this was my 4th lucid of the night, so had had a good innings so far.

Damn her for tricking me into believing it was last months task! I guess I will have to try again, and the next person to try trick me, will pay!

haha joker

Gah! this is so frustrating!! why am i cursed with Handicapped DC's!!

Originally Posted by Moonbeam

I ask the DC what my dream-name is. He says, "I don't know", in a somewhat irritated way. I say, "You don't know, or you won't tell me?" He says, "I don't know!" very emphatically.

(I wake up and manage to get back into the dream using DEILD. I see a far-off door and a DC comes out. It is the back of one of the mall stores. I project myself towards the door.)

A woman is taking trash out from the store. I go to her and say, "What is my dream name?" She looks at me, annoyed, and says, "You're not supposed to be back here." I say, "Oh come on, just tell me my dream name." She sighs and pauses from her work, leaning against the dumpster. She acts as if she is humoring a crazy person, and says, "Well, let's see, I like a boyish-sounding name for a girl--so how about...Tyler?"

Your DC's certainly weren't very helpful were they Moonbeam?

Congratulations on prying the information out of them.

BTW, that's a really neat stocking cap your avatar is wearing.

YAY I attempted the advanced and completed the basic in the best LD experience I've ever had!!!!

Advanced attempt:I then remembered the TOTM!!! (advanced) I ran outside and to my dismay it was already winter... I tried to make it summer and make it back winter but it was too hard.

Basic completed: So I remembered the dream name task!! I ran over to a burger king that looked more like a local sushi shop. I went inside and immediately started asking. I asked this one lady "what's my dream name" she said for me to stop wasting her time.. So I broke her table with telekinesis!! Then I asked this Chinese guy who said " I dunno... Ummm Candy Green?" I was like Ok awesome. And I started repeating it in my head. Then I'm like wait a sec!! And I looked over at what he was purchasing... It was a mound of candy some being green!! I picked up a green lollipop and asked him "Is this the reason I'm candy green??? he was like "NOOO Please don't hurt me" And I'm like okay I believe you.

If you wanna check out my action packed experience just click my dream journal link on my sig

I can finally wirte down my LD from a while back where I completed the Dream Name Task. This isn't as long as some of my past marathon LDs. But it seems significant in some way.

I'll just start before I became lucid.

Lucid Dream:

I was at my sister's house. We had been talking. She is the sister that has cancer. In the dream she had all her hair unlike in real life. Her twin daughters were there in their pajamas and hugging me.

Then I remember I was looking in a mirror. I noticed that something weird was going on.

I called out to my sister, "Come check this out. Notice how when you look at my shirt, it's black. But when you look at it in the mirror, it's white."

It came as no shock that I was dreaming. It was if I had known all along, but that this was the first time I had really aknowleged it.

I then remembered I wanted to do the Dream Name Task.

I asked my sister, "What is your dream name?"

She looked at me and said, "Janene." And then she came closer and as if revealing a huge secret, she added, "And I'm also from San Francisco."

I took that in. And then I leaned to her and said, "And my dream name is..." And then I didn't know what to say. I thought for a moment and the names Brenda and Catherine came to mind. But they didn't seem that special.

Then I remembered that I was supposed to ask someone else what my dream name was. So I asked my sister what my dream name was.

She looked again at me like she was revealing something extrememly confidential, and said, "Your dream name is my old nick name....it's Suzy-Q."

And at that moment of discovery, I woke up.

I shared this with my sister, and we had a good laugh--especially at the "I'm from San Francisco" part. And she also thought it was cool that my "dream name" was her old nick name.

I became lucid in a dream this morning after seeing someone from my old highschool. I thought for a minute about what I wanted to do and then remembered the task to create winter. I made some wind and some leaves started to fall from the trees. I looked up at the clouds and brought them all together to make a big cloud right above me and made some snow fall. That was all that happened.

I then remembered the dream name task and went inside this place that was like a bar. I went to a couple that was sitting at the bar and asked them what my dream name was. The man said, "What do you mean, like Fiction or Non-Fiction." I said, "Yeah, I guess it can be just a word," not really realizing what he said until I woke up. He said, "Okay. Fiction." The woman said, "I would have said A7." I found out that their names were Toby and Laura. I had heard these names in my dreams before and my mother suggested to me that they might be the names of spirit guides. I asked if they were spirit guides and they said no. I asked if they were figments of my imagination and they said yes. Not trusting the figments of my imagination, I asked to see my dream guide who I have met before in a lucid dream. When he entered I asked what my dream name was. He said "Leslie". I asked what a dream name was, if it was like a spirit name. He said I was dumb. My dream guide is often sarcastic, so his reply did not shock me.

I then went outside and decided to experiment with the weather some more. I used my breath to make wind. I kept blowing air and a strong wind was created. The branches of the trees were swaying and many leaves were falling off and blowing around. I then woke up.

Wow, I've never completed a task so fast before!

THE DREAM:
My family and I were having a big snow ball fight. (We had actually had a real snowball fight that afternoon) There was slush everywhere and it was about 10 o'clock at night. I tried to dodge a snowball and turned around. As soon as I turned back a mudball hit me in the face. I looked around to see who had thrown it, but there was no one there. I noticed that the whole place had changed. I was no longer in my winter neighborhood and that's when I became lucid. I was now standing on a hill in a meadow looking out to the horizon. The meadow was all brown grass as far as the eye could see, and right in the middle was a single huge tree. The tree had a purple trunk (???) with yellow, oak-like leaves as big as as my head. I walked towards the tree and as I got right under the branches a giant acorn hit me on the head. I looked up and there was a tiny squirrel with an army of mudballs and acorns ready to throw at me. I ran away and thought about how I could get revenge. I decided that since one of the tasks was making the place into winter, I would use this task to my advantage.
I walked back to the tree and stared at the 2 inch tall squirrel, sitting on a big purple branch. As I stared I could feel the air slowly becoming extremely cold, and I could begin to see tiny snowflakes falling around us. Strangely, the snow seemed to be falling from the tree as well as from the sky. It began to snow harder and harder until I was nearly standing in a blizzard. I made a small gesture with my hand and a gust of wind blew the squirrel out of the tree. It made a small, squirrel shaped hole in the snow, which was now about 2 feet deep. I went over to see if the squirrel was okay, but when I got there the squirrel jumped up out of the snow and started throwing frozen mud pellets at me (Ouch!) I tried to use my dream control to stop the hail of frozen mud, but I couldn't. Then the squirrel suddenly stopped and looked behind me and made some happy sounding chattering noises. Before I could do anything I heard a growl from some kind of creature behind me that sounded huge. I tried to turn around and look but I was frozen in place. I struggled to get free, but I panicked so bad that I woke up.

Before I left my dream though, I would SWEAR that puny little squirrel was grinning at me.

P.S. I didn't even bother to think about learning my dream name since I would rather prefer it to remain a mystery...

Me: Are you a mashellan?
DC: Yes.
Me: Do you know my dream name?
DC: Are you an idiot?
Me: (surprised) Ermm.. no.. I don't think so!
DC: You're Simon, of course!
Me: (nonplussed) Oh..

"Simon" is my real name.

Originally Posted by Oneiro

Me: Are you a mashellan?
DC: Yes.
Me: Do you know my dream name?
DC: Are you an idiot?
Me: (surprised) Ermm.. no.. I don't think so!
DC: You're Simon, of course!
Me: (nonplussed) Oh..

"Simon" is my real name.

ha ha, I bet I would probably get a similar answer.

It hasn't snowed here in Holland yet so it won't be difficult to find a snow-free location in my dream. And I've always been good at manipulating weather. I'll try!

Here!

Apparently I'm Tortoola.

It's in one of the first paragraphs.

Originally Posted by indescribable

I made a small gesture with my hand and a gust of wind blew the squirrel out of the tree. It made a small, squirrel shaped hole in the snow,

I think I'm in love with this dream. Just a little.

Originally Posted by Robot_Butler

I think I'm in love with this dream. Just a little.

lol, do you have a grudge against 2 inch tall squirrels?

Advanced lucid task (barely):
I was in the middle of a parking lot with some people and i looked up into the sky... there were flashes of pink and green light in the sky, and i discovered i could control them. Thats how i became lucid. From there i was just experimenting.. I made pink lightning from the sky to the ground, which created a strange moving machine (which i would later use as a transporter). Anyways, I then thought of the advanced lucid task. In the middle of this metropolis, I made leaves appear on top of buildings (sincei rememberd that leaves couldnt be on the trees). Which was weird cuz there were no trees in this metropolis.. just skyscrapers... Anyways then I stared at the dark cloudy night sky and visualized little tiny snowflakes falling down. I could feel the chill on my body of the frozen air, and the world seemed so serene and sterile on the gray pavement lit by a yellow streetlight, being cold as an ice hell.. I didnt wait all that long for the snow to build up and I went into my teleporter and went off into an adventure full of pie throwing and lots of cream

Good job Candy Green, Suzy-Q, Fiction A7, Simon, and Tortoola!

Congrats also to indescribable and nayriki! That's a hard task, I think.

Suzy Q is a good song. Congrat's on that name!

Piece of cake. This WILD occurred yesterday. As I was playing around in my LD, I remembered the task of the month.

So I conjured an area, which seemed to be located in a backyard — all that's necessary — and which area was full of trees, plants, flowers, grass.

I said aloud : “ Shall it now be winter ”. Thus it started snowing — and I could feel the snow flakes on my face. Flowers and plants died instantly. Trees lost their leaves.

Since it was working so fine, I then said with my fingers pointed upwards : “ Shall it now be spring ”. Thus the snow melted. Trees, plants and flowers started to blossom very quickly, as we see in documentaries.

When spring was completed, I then ordered : “ Let's have another winter, now ”. And so it started snowing again. The trees lost their leaves ; flowers and plants died once again.

I might have done all of that three times, until I got bored and sought other LD adventures.

Success!

I was in a medevial-ish city, except there was a bar outside in on the cobblestoned alley. I asked the bartender if I could have 2 beers, so he brought me two huge beer mugs full of a frothing liquid. I had a sip, and it tasted foul and disgusting. Obviously, I stole them and ran away (I had no money to pay for them).

I was afraid of getting arrested, so I ran into a restaurant where some friends of mine from PF (rather not give name, sorry) and my leader were hanging out. I slid in with the beers, and my leader looked at me strangely.

When the bartender came in, the beers had vanished. I pulled up a fuzzy green jacket to cover most of my face so that he wouldn't recognise me. After giving me some suspicious looks, he left.

As he did so, I somehow appeared out of my seat. All the kids had vanished, leaving Wendy and the waitress. I kept thinking if this was the time to do a Reality Check. I did a nose reality check and became lucid. I grabbed the blonde waitress by the arm and said, "What is my dream name?"

No answer- she was terrified of me. I asked again. "What is my dream name?" Out of her mouth came, "Jheraerea". I felt myself awakening, and I woke up.

Note: Jheraerea is pronounced "Jare (like hare) - ray - ree - ya"

I had an early lucid that I nearly forgot!

I'm with some guy in a field with trees lining both sides. There's one tree in the field that has been cut but still stands about 30-40 feet tall. I'm enjoying myself flying around and I grab this guys hand and fly him up to this cut tree-top. I first ask him where he is from. (maybe I thought I was mutually dreaming?) he didn't answer, and then I remembered the task and asked him my dream name.
Me: "What's my dream name?"
Him: "What?"
Me: "What's my dream name?"
Him: "Oh, Zaygin"
Me: "Really?" I repeat it in my head thinking it was funny at first then I came to tems with it, "Thanks"

I took his arm and flew around some more (often when I fly it's more of an exagerated moon walk) At one point I'm hanging onto a branch trying to get to a more sturdy one when he tries to get me to lose balance. I said, "I'll just try the advanced task in another dream and let go and plummet to the ground" and he said "That's if you can recognize the next one" and I let go....and didn't recognize the next one.

WOW.. We have got some lucid dreamers this month!!!

Congratulations on completing the basic task to:

iadr,
Line,
Kristennoelle78,
Moonbeam,
Jamal,
Twoshadows,
Oneiro,
Stephent91,
Kyhaar,
lucidbuddha

Congratulations on completing the advanced task to:

iadr,
strinky,
goldentheponygirl,
indescribable,
nayrki,
Pyor,

If I missed anyone, I apologize and congratulations to you as well!

Ummm.. Clairity.. much as I would like to complete the advanced task for December, I've only attempted the basic one.. so.. thanks for your congrats on completing the advanced task, but I haven't actually tried it yet!