Thread: Lucid Task for the Month of January 2008

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Ok, so this morning I had an ld and did the basic task. I was in a dark rm, noticed my reflection was weird, then when i looked at it closer it changed to another girls place. I did a nose rc, so now i know i'm dreaming. i decide to ask about my new years resoloution when i see ppl. i open the door, and there are several ppl standing there. I ask a lady and she shrugs her shoulders, and might have said "I don't know". Since there are several ppl there I ask them all at once, several times. Finally a guy says "failure to a read a book" or something along those lines. Well this sorta makes sense since I almost always read a book to the very end no matter what, and i havent read a book in months, and just started reading one yesterday. But then a little girl, says "don't listen to him", then she takes my hand a leads me down the long hallway quickly, then turns right, we are outside and she sits down beside tiny animals, i really mean tiny dears, bears, etc that are only 1 ft tall. i pick up a baby llama, it has really soft furr, i pet it several times before waking up.

Well I did the basic task and my feelings are kinda mixed. I'm thrilled as it's my first lucid since before the Thanksgiving/Christmas/New Year's holidays but sad as I had a FA when I thought I was writing it all down and forgot some of the most important details.

Anyhoo, I got up at 3:30 am, went to the restroom and then to the couch to WILD.

After some suggestions/affirmations, I felt the familiar "shift" and knew I was lucid. I stood up, walked to the front door, opened it and walked thru.

I jumped up into the sky and flew for a while looking for people. I flew over fields until I saw an outdoor concert being held around a huge outdoor swimming pool. I landed without much fanfare on the outskirts of the venue and saw 5 guys go into a small building. I decided that I would follow them and ask them what my New Year's resolution should be.

Once I entered the building I saw that it was actually the men's restroom.

The guys were all over 40 except for one who looked to be in his late teens/early 20s. They all stared at me like I was crazy which didn't faze me in the slightest.

I walked until I stood in front of them and said, "Tell me what my New Year's resolution should be."

They stood silently for a moment, then looked at each other and burst out laughing! "Why should we know what your resolution should be?!" one of the older men asked.

(Great.. I had to have logical DCs! )

"Because this is my dream!" I replied. They again laughed at me but I noticed that the younger one wasn't laughing as hard as the others anymore.

I'll prove I'm dreaming" I said, "I'll float around this room". With that I leaned back thinking I would float on my back but only the top part of me floated and my feet drug along the floor.

Well they just about died laughing then.. all except the younger one.

I knew then that I had to try again and this time I successfully floated on my back up towards the ceiling and then I did a really pretty slow backflip.

I gently touched down and the looks on their faces were priceless! I asked again, "What should my New Year's resolution be?" but no one could give me an answer.

They all then went outside as the concert was starting. I stood for a second wondering what I should do before following them outside. I no longer saw the older 4 men but the younger one was outside the restroom waiting for me.

A beautiful slow song that I recognized softly began to play and it increased in volume until it filled the night air.

He slowly walked over to me and I instinctively moved into his arms. Without a word we held each other and swayed dancing rhythmically to the music. For the duration of that song.. there was no one but us.

The song ended and he let me go and backed away from me.

I gazed at him for a second, then turned and flew straight up into the air and then over the outdoor pool and concert stage. I looked down at all the people as I flew over and suddenly I wanted to see him again.

I turned back and flew to where we'd danced but he was gone.

I thought the dream had ended and I that I was writing down everything.. including the song that we'd danced to but I kept going through my notes and I couldn't find it. I picked up pad after pad and turned page after page but couldn't find my notes about this dream!?! Then I woke up for real!!! I am sooo angry that I lost the name of that song due to a FA.

But at least I completed the basic task.. I did ask.. I just didn't get an answer.

Originally Posted by Clairity

I jumped up into the sky and flew for a while looking for people. I flew over fields until I saw an outdoor concert being held around a huge outdoor swimming pool. I landed without much fanfare on the outskirts of the venue and saw 5 guys go into a small building. I decided that I would follow them and ask them what my New Year's resolution should be.

Once I entered the building I saw that it was actually the men's restroom.

Congratulations Clairity.
That was an awesome lucid, and very entertaining to read.

Congratulations on breaking your dry-spell, Clariity! That was a cool dream. Maybe you can get back there and find that DC again...have you ever been able to do that? I never can find the same DC more than once.

Hey guys, I'm not one to complain very much, but those silver wings you gave me are kind of itchy. I think I'd like to upgrade to gold wings. I know that they cost a little more so I thought I've settle by sharing a story of my latest lucid dream from my journal:

Clarity: Good
Sleep: Good
Lucidity: Very Good

It's a Cookbook!

I was in the passenger seat of a very small car in the middle of nowhere with my father. I suddenly had the feeling that I wasn't where I seemed. "Where are we going?" I asked him.

"The darkness," he replied after a moment.

"Where are we really going?" I demanded as I analyzed that. He didn't answer. I stood up in the car, my head and hands went through the roof. I used my hands to pull a hole in the roof so that I could fit through it. The roof tore open like tin foil.

I then flew straight up as fast as I could towards the clouds. I had never been more than forty feet above the ground before, but I didn't look down to make sure that I didn't loose this. I flew up though one set of clouds (scratch that off my checklist) and then through two more, feeling as if I was falling once. It took longer than I thought to exit the atmosphere and the sky remained blue for a long time.

I focused on the moon and then the sky turned black. I was apparently flying in a spiral, the moon would rotate around me, getting closer with each rotation. I heard a narrative explaining the story as I closed in on the moon. The narrative suddenly said that I got turned around.

I looked at where I was going and I was headed back towards Earth. I must have been a hundred thousand miles from it. The I realized that I wasn't looking at the Earth at all, this was another, much smaller planet.

I flew towards it and I could see farms on it. The planet itself was blue and green like Earth, but didn't really have any large land masses, mostly small islands. There was a large one that looked like Australia (it was about the same size comparatively.) I flew towards that. The landscape didn't zoom in smoothly, it kind of acted like Google Earth. I would get closer then a higher resolution image would appear. I had sort of a fish-eye lens view now.

I landed on the surface and found myself in a small room. The ground and floor were both made out of a hard rubber sort of substance (like a mat in a weight room.) It was dark grey. I was alone, but was quickly joined by an alien and a pretty woman. I immediately recognized both. The alien had a large protruding forehead and the woman was the woman from the Twilight Zone episode. There was a book on the table. I couldn't see the title, but knew that it was "To Serve Man."

The Alien and Woman


I rubbed the alien's head, the top was flat and smooth. He wiped it off and I apologized that my hands were wet. I guess I had put wet gloves on at some point. I asked him if I could get him something to eat. The alien grinned smugly and nodded.

I walked away and quickly transformed into one of the aliens. I grew taller and my posture changed. I touched my forehead to find that it had changed. I saw a staircase leading down. I flew down it and landed in a ninja-roll. I was surprised to see another human there. He was a young boy, maybe fifteen, and he was playing video games.

He complained about the alien games and I looked around him. There were miniature DVDs of Futurama and Animal Planet and he told me that he had access to the complete works of the human education.

Video in my DJ


Am I the first to actually turn into one of the aliens? That would make me happy, I will be posted a video for the contest thing later in the day.

I also just created two badges for the tasks.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

I rubbed the alien's head, the top was flat and smooth. He wiped it off and I apologized that my hands were wet. I guess I had put wet gloves on at some point. I asked him if I could get him something to eat. The alien grinned smugly and nodded.

I also just created two badges for the tasks.

You rubbed the alien's head and then apologized yourself because you were wet? Eheh funny dream and weird alien.

Anyway cool badges, guess I'll only have one in like 5 mounths

Originally Posted by ninja9578

I also just created two badges for the tasks.

These are beautiful ninja!!

Originally Posted by Moonbeam

I never can find the same DC more than once.

Huh? What about your "BF"? And your "relatives"? Don't you dream about them in multiples? I'm sure I've read a few accounts of yours where you mention them.. ??

BTW Haven't you ever asked them who they really are?

Originally Posted by Oneiro

Huh? What about your "BF"? And your "relatives"? Don't you dream about them in multiples? I'm sure I've read a few accounts of yours where you mention them.. ??

BTW Haven't you ever asked them who they really are?

Hey, that's a good point Oneiro.

I've never considered my wife to be a DC, but I'm going to try to remember to ask her who she really is the next time she is in one of my dreams.

Sometimes the simplest and most obvious DC's are the easiest ones to miss.

I just hope we're not sharing a dream together when I ask her that.

So, yesterday I had an LD and it went like this.

I was walking through my school when I saw my friend Sean. We started talking about something and I don't remember exactly how, but I realized that I was dreaming. I then stopped paying attention to the previous conversation and asked Sean "What should my New Years Resolution be?". He then replied, to my amazement, "To stop Lucid Dreaming..." I was simply dumbfounded, but decided to try the advanced task before I woke up. I said "That's not gonna happen" and then flew away. I flew past all of the planets in our galazy, and into deep deep space. This took about 10-15 seconds. Once in "deep space" I saw a planet similar to Earth. I flew around it a few times and landed. Once on the planet I noticed that everything was mountanous and bueatiful. Thats when I truly looked around. The planet was simply AMAZING to look at. It was similar to the Rocky Mountains, yet the mountains were even more massive. I walked around a bit, and then created a portal. I walked through, with no destination in mind aside from staying on the planet. I ended up on a cliff top. Looking out I saw a lush forest with extremely high pine trees. I was about a mile or 2 high. The view was truly breath taking. When I ripped my eyes from the view, I turned around. Behind me was a "tribe" of an alien people. They all were bluish, and had orange hair. Many had mowhawks/crazy hair. The one thing they all had in common was they were all brandishing weapons and aiming them at me. Many were all aiming bow and arrows at me. The tips of the arows were green. Some of them had spears. They had no armour, only leatherish pants. Instead of talking, I felt threatened, and quickly beganto run for the cliff edge. Arrows flew by me, and one pierced my right arm (very weird and painful feeling, even while dreaming). I ignored the pain, and leaped off the cliff. I began free falling, and looked back and saw a few of them leap after me. After a short air skirmish, in which I kicked a few into outcroppings of the cliff, or stabbed them with a knife I had, I noticed I was rapidly accelerating towards the ground. I tried to gain control and fly, but I was too caught up in sudden fear. I failed to gain control, and hit the ground and woke up.
I woke up very happy and satisfied, as this was probably my best Lucid dream yet. It was about 45 min. long and very vivid. I'm pretty pumped just thinking about it.... Anyways, I did both tasks and I'm happy about that!

-Justin

Argh, LD, that color is very difficult to read!
Great that you accomplised the task though!

Yesterday I said to my BF: damn, it's already the tenth and I still haven't accomplished the TOTM The badges are so beautifull this month, I really want one!
So this morning in a short nap, I had only 40 seconds of lucidity, but they were well spent:

*rest of dream in my DJ*
Not expecting I could be dreaming, I pinch my nose. Hey, WTF, I can breath! (yeah, I finally discovered the awesomeness of a random nose pinch!!)

OK, so this IS a dream, now what can I do....
I see red mailboxes at the end of the street. Then I remember my task! Ask for my new year's resolution. Knowing I don't have too much time, I approach an old lady that is crossing the street. On the middle of the street, I ask her immediately (in Dutch): "Please, what is my new year's resolution? "

She responds with a mumbling voice: "Nou, mevrouw, je zult het niet zo leuk vinden, maar je moet meer thee brengen" (translated: "well, miss, you won't like it, but you'll have to bring more tea")
To make sure I understood her correctly, I ask "Tea?"
She says more clearly now: "Ja, viertijd thee, zoals mijn moeder vroeger ......" ("yes, four-time tea, like my mother used to .....")


So, I should bring tea. Or maybe drink more tea...?

last night i had a lucid and when i finally remembered what to ask, i was told:

"simply relax and find it in yourself to find a resolution. its been in you all this time"

i responded "i need help though"

and got "are you going to become lucid more this year? or are you going to become lucid more"

so thats that.

and as for the advanced, last week i went to the moon and found that gravity was twice if not three times more intense than on earth (funny how it would be like that)

i had no luck turning into anything i found though

been lucid a lot and decided to finally go for both tasks this month. This'll be the first month I've actually attempted both! Attempt, being the key word...here's what happened.

I walked out into the middle of the road and thought about the task of the month. I told him that I was going to fly to mars. I took off and started flying and I landed near the road. I kept thinking about flying and didn't worry about going in the sky....I felt all of this wind and gravity pressing down on me like I was....but I'm still on the ground...everything gets really weird for a second, and things clear up. I've traveled from my front yard to the road to the ditch, and I look to the left of me and theres this these networked series of screens hovering there. They were green with black background's and yellow lettering....

"I'm in the future" I shout into the phone. The first thing i do is go over to check the mail and theres a magazine that says 547 on it. I look inside and they have toys...must be antiques of some sort. One of them was sonic the hedgehog and the other was shaq...but it was when he played for the magic. The mail box only had my fathers name on it so I'm assuming that my mother passed away and he was the last one left...but the house was kind of empty, so maybe he was gone too. I don't remember too much of what I did but I was just assuming that everything is going to be normal when I walked outside and what I saw was just amazing. In the field across my street there was a giant machine that was rooted in the middle of the field. It had long arms that shot up at an angle and down all the way into to the earth. It reminded me of stripped umbrella half way open, but much thicker and so much more detal in all of the moving parts. At the tips there were rotating mechanisms that plowed the earth in a circular motion. The sky was grey and there were two tornadoes crashing into each other near the machine, and I'm just thinking about Ophelia Blue and wondering why her dream signs are in my dream as everything fades.

ps I read her dj before going to sleep..

Basically I tried to fly to another planet but I ended up reaching the outer bounds of the universe

This is the lucid part, the rest is in my dream journal.

This soon turns into me just flying. Once I start flying I realize that I can only fly in dreams. Exited I attempt to make a graceful dive but it ends haphazardly and I am barely able to retain altitude. I enter a building and collect myself. I feel my wrist and I am amazed at the amount of detail, I can feel my watch and everything is exactly as it should be. I then have a little fun flying through the ceiling into the attic and back down again. I then remember that I wanted to complete the task of the month and go to another planet. I first wanted to go home and get a gun, because having a gun would probably be more fun/safer when I went to a new world. I flew up and up hoping that when I turned around I could locate North America and find my house. Unfortunatly when I turned around I found myself in an empty room. The room did have a table in the center with a bin ontop of that. Inside the bin was the universe, darkness, stars everything. I got really scared and I dived back into the bin and back into the building. My friend Effie was there and he starts playing Mexican music on a portable radio. I tell him to turn it off and he just turns it louder. I figure Its probably music in the waking world and it would soon wake me up. I shoot into the sky but everything starts fading and I realize I have nothing to hold onto. The dream dissolves and I find myself in my bed. I did not realize it at the time but the bed was in the wrong place in my room, and my room was clean. My mom is out of my room yelling something and I worry that she smelled the marijuana smoke. I look around and I have no paraphernalia around and she enters. I don’t remember what she said but after that I wrote the dream down in my journal and while I’m writing I wake up in real life quite surprised.

oh well, I guess Ill try again tonight

YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Today I finally did the second task, I did it without even realizing. Heres what happened.

I was really tired because, I took some strong flu medicine so I feel asleep quickly. I woke up sometime in the night and couldn't be bothered to look at the time so I went back to sleep. I began to feel as though I was being dragged off my bed! Then I heard some weird nosies and then it felt like someone was sitting on me. I was like WTF!!!!

After a while it stopped and I opened my eyes, for some odd reason everything was moving 10 times slower. It took me 3 minutes to get outta bed, but when I looked around I wasn't even in my own room; I was in some next barren wasteland. I had WILDed without even meaning to

I looked around and there were monsters everywhere. So being the "Lucid mage" I conjured up magic such as fireballs and lightening spells. To my relief I appeared to have 100% dream control! But, then a massive dragon appeared, but I refused to wake up, so summoning all my lucidity I turned into the beast (Yes and it was freaking awesome!) and began breathing fire out of my mouth. When I killed it I looked around. Everything was dead apart from me. I remembered about the task of the month and looked up at the sky; a red moon orbited this planet. I lay down still in my dragon form but unfortunately woke up.

So do I get my badge? I visited and saved a planet and turned into a monster from it! But I didn't fly to it though because my dream already landed me there though, but plz!! It can't be my fault that my dream wants me to get this!

EDIT: Thank you!!! for the badge!

in my one and only so far lucid dream i asked my mum about what my new years resoulutions were. do i still get the reward even though i didn't get an answer. plz i need some respect

Originally Posted by Namio

in my one and only so far lucid dream i asked my mum about what my new years resoulutions were. do i still get the reward even though i didn't get an answer. plz i need some respect

I believe you do still get the prize, though now it's Feb and the new set of tasks should be posted soon.

Congrats.

Better late than never. Sorry, your wings would have already fallen off, but start the March tasks. If they aren't posted by tonight I'll do it.