Lucid Task for the Month of January 2008

I got real close with the advanced task. I've never been very good with space travel, but I deceded recently that I wanted to fly straight up while looking down. I will try again tonight with a different method of travelling.

I am meditating after WBTB, and I start to feel SP. To keep from losing it, I imagine the sensation of rising and falling, bouncing up and down on my mattress while still paralyzed. As I'm doing this, I notice a figure standing in the doorway to my bedroom. It looks like the silouette of a huge oversized troll. It's so gigantic, It starts to disorient me as to how close or far away it is. I know it can not possibly fit in my living room. It sort of looks like my Father if he was all huge and bubbly and hunched like a troll. It reaches a huge troll hand into the room in a threatening way. I decide to use it's hand as a way to enter the dream. I reach up and take it's hand before it can strangle me, imagining that it is reaching in to pull me out of my body. It is very soft, like a lady's hand. As soon as I touch it, I find myself standing in a ballroom in a tuxedo, with a fancily dressed woman holding my hand as if we are about to dance.

The woman with me is someone I knew from around 15 years ago. I look around the scene, confused as to why I'm in a ballroom with a woman I haven't thought of in years. What the hell does this have to do with trolls? I ask a few questions, and get nonsense responses from her. While talking, I remember the task of the month to visit another planet. Just before bed, I told my girlfriend about the task, and she said she would like me to take her with me.

I put my hands on the shoulders of my dance partner, and lock my gaze on her. I stare into her eyes and 'will' her to transform into my girlfriend. Her eyes fill my entire field of vision, but I can sense the rest of her transforming. As soon as the transformation is complete, I tighten my grasp on her shoulders and fly upward towards the ceiling. We remain perfectly still but rocket straight up throught a skylight. As we pass through the skylight, I see a third person slow motion replay of the glass shattering all around us. Very cool.

We fly upward rediculously fast, and everything around us is blurred into blue streaks. I look down, and see everything zooming away from us like an aerial photograph. I see the earth falling away into the distance, and am left in the blackness of space. I have an idea in my mind about where I am going, and that I am almost there. Unfortunately, the blackness all around me is too disorienting, and I wake up from the dream.

Failed at the task of the month, but accomplished one of my lucid goals nonetheless.

EDIT: Ok, I just read Clairity's dream, and if it was from Saturday night also, there's a weird coincidence with the dancing thing.

i was flying, heading out the atmosphere. the atmosphere was unusually thick- not by viscosity, but the distance it extended from earth. i was passing through layers and layers of fluffy clouds, and i was wondering why it took so long. i was amazed at how vivid the images were, and i passed a dark thunder cloud with realistic, vibrant lightning. it was gorgeous. i tried to speed up and immediately found myself in outer space. i hadn't seen the solar system leave behind me. i guess i skipped that part. there were an abnormal lot of galaxies and nebulae and all that good stuff mixed in with the stars, and i couldn't decide where i wanted to go. i was still deciding when i felt solid ground materialize beneath my feet. i looked behind me and i was on a planet which looked remarkably like earth. buildings, etc. it was night and i had landed on a rooftop of a popular urban area. apparently people on this planet walked around on rooftops as well as on the ground, because there were people with me on this roof and on others. i found a metal PDA-like device by my feet which told me it was the year 58 on this planet. i looked around and realized that it was an advanced civilization, technology-wise. the people on the rooftop with me were completely human though- dressed like Earthlings, and they speak English. i said to a friendly middle-aged woman, who was with her kids, started talking to me as though i was a local. i said i wasn't from there and had to get going. i don't remember much after this. i remember going to a garage sale, doing some shopping, and going to a meeting before flying out the window.

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Originally Posted by iadr

As I am flying through what feels like the twilight zone, I remember the task I had wanted to accomplish, that of going to Mars.

So I think about going to Mars, while at the same time giving my subconscious mind permission to take me to whatever planet it thinks would be best to go to.

Almost immediately I feel myself descending and find myself flying in a place that is both dark and foggy, making it very difficult to see anything, although I do see some buildings that look like housing projects on the side of one of the roads I am flying along.

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At first I was unsure where I had actually gone in this lucid, but now I'm thinking that I may have actually gone to Mars after someone showed me the below website where this guy claims to have soul travelled to various plantets, because the pictures I found here look almost exactly like the place I was at, although it was really dark and foggy during my lucid.

Anyway, this site may help someone else decide on a possible planet that they might like to visit.

http://www.soundcurrentrider.com/Mars.html

I had some hypnagogic imagery that I thought I would share.

I was looking at a planet then I realized I was in the hypnagogic state. So I started flying (human torch style) as I'm prone to do. I flew around the planet (third person perspective) and came back and touch the flame trail that circled the planet. Then I remembered to try to do the task of the month. Next thing I know I'm standing on the ground and my wife is in front of me. We passionately embrace and I rip open her shirt. Then I remember the question before we get any further. "What is my new year's resolution?" I say.

"To have more sex!" She responds.

That was the last thing I remember. But I must say with a newborn that arrived in December, I'm pretty sure this resolution is unfortunately made to be broken.

where's my badge :morecrying:

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.

I got my very first basic task today.:boogie: This morning my dad accidentally woke me up before he went to work at about 4 o'clock. So I decided what the heck and started a wild. The first time I waited too long and didn't enter the dream the second time however I got in. I got out of bed and my brother was laying on the floor playing guitar in his underwear so I asked him what my New Year's resolution should be and I must have not been paying attention because I didn't really catch anything he said. So I left my house somehow I ended up in K-mart. I walked around and eventually I stumbled upon a group of my friends and a teacher from my school. I asked one of them what should my resolution be and he answered. "You have to learn to grow better crops and find out what crop circles are all about" :? This didn't make any sense to me but I was happy I completed the task so I sat them down and made a game of pulling off my fingers and flying them around. Everyone really enjoyed that trick until my alarm woke me up.

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...?

ok. I decided that I'd goto another planet. That was the only task I remembered off your list and tried it out. I seriously flew for a good 60 seconds at super speeds and could bearly get to the moon. It was a crescent moon and I was able to fly through it for some reason lol. I then proceeded to go out away from the bright sun. It felt as if the bottoms of my feet were on fire but, I didn't look down. I was flying away from the sun. And kept going I looked back after about 30-45 seconds because I was afraid I'd lose lucidity after a bit. And saw the moon still. I didn't make it very far. It was like realistic speed. I did what I could to find an asteroid because it was my last hope. I then found one and bolted toward it. For some reason I could not slow down haha. I collided with the asteroid and landed on it. I'd say it was about 50 ft across. I searched around it and found a few caves and holes in it. I sat down for a second to take in the dream and just enjoy the effects. Also to keep lucid. I tend to fall out every time I rush too much. After a few seconds say 30. I decided to take a tour of the caves. Inside one led me to another asteroid. I didnt' want to leave so I tried to find another one. I then proceeded to the next cave and decided whatever lets go. I walked through it and I appeared at a bus with all of my friends from high school. I actually forgot for sometime that I was dreaming. At the end of it I remembered gaining lucidity again when the bus was gathering us in. At that point I was thinking what happened to the other planet? I can't tell if its the same dream or one lapped another. Its kinda interesting. But, that was the end of my traveling. As for the New years task. I honestly didn't even read this enough to know it was there till today. I just glanced at it and the planet hoping sounded cool.

Yay! January Basic completed.

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Lucid TOTM (January)

I'm lucid in a store similar to a gas station or small market. Jocelyn is looking at something and I fly up and over to another attendant to perhaps fool around. There's a beam that is quite low and I flew right through it. (You can go back to my old journal to see how long it took me to get through solid objects...now its so easy :boogie:) I reach the attendant and sorta do a belly slide that she liked. I start kissing her when I remember the TOTM. I find a kid to ask. He's about 8-10 and I say "hey" and he stops. When I ask him the question he mocks me and says it the exact same time. So In sync, "What do you think my New Year's Resolution should be" Then he said, "Caramel Mackeral Chocolate Sundae" WHAT??? I asked him to repeat it and he said the same exact thing. I wake myself up to remember.

So if anybody asks me what my resolution is, that's what I'll say.:lol:

Now how long do these "wings" last? Do I get it for life? or the month? lol

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Originally Posted by hercules71185

Now how long do these "wings" last? Do I get it for life? or the month? lol

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Just for the month. On February 1st all our wings will be ripped off, and we'll have to earn a new pair.

haha alright thanks

I got the standard!

I was at my elementary and middle school, and became lucid while wondering why I was there. I remembered only the standard task, and looked around for someone. I was outside, in an area between buildings that had stone picnic tables. I spotted a girl going around a building. She was carrying a lot of books, and she was obviously in a hurry. I asked her, "What should my New Years resolution be?" She gave an exasperated sigh and said, "To be turtle." As she turned to go to class, I asked, puzzled, "A turtle?" She nodded and rushed off.

I hope she was going for some kind of 'tortoise and the hare' metaphor.A great start to 2008!

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"Caramel Mackeral Chocolate Sundae"

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That's a great resolution :lmao:

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"To be turtle."

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Did you turn yourself into a turtle? You should next time that you're lucid.

Hercules: Now that you have access to the Task Club you'll know the task in advance so you can do it in advance so that you don't have to loose your wings :)

I did it!

This one was pretty easy for me, because I'm sort of into the whole sci-fi thing, and I work for the USAF Space Command.

Okay, so I went lucid last night, when I realized that I was having a naked dream. I was at work, checking on some equipment, without a stitch of clothing. Somehow I alternated between being suddenly embarrassed and not really caring that I was naked at work, but no one seemed to say antyhing about it. Then all at once I realized that I would never actually come to work naked, and I couldn't figure out any way that I would accidentally become naked once I got there.

So, I did an RC, the one where you hold your nose and try to breathe through it, and went lucid. At first, I misremembered this months challenge as turning into an animal, which is similar, and one I had done long ago, but before I had a chance to do that, I remembered somehow that it wasn't the real challenge.

Getting into space was kind of wierd, to say the least. Using telekinesis, I lifted a huge portion of US 83 straight up into the air, to form a sort of ramp that went over a mile up, then flew up to the top of the ramp. Using more telekinesis, as well as a pair of binoculars, I caused my Camaro to speed at the ramp as fast as it could go, and then jumped in through one of the open T-tops as it went past me. (Driving cars from the driver's seat doesn't work too well for me in dreams, so I didn't bother trying it that way.)

I remember stuggling to put the missing T-top section back in place before I hit vaccuum, and then I jumped into "hyperspace," by slipping from Overdrive into Performance Drive, and buckled up. I set my course for a very particular star, visible in the Southern Sky, which was named after me by an ex using one of those radio star naming services, and was also the setting for a sf novel I wrote a year ago.

Upon arriving in a region called "Skierkowa," I met up with a Nonych, one of the native aborignials, and transformed into one of them to hunt wulfbeasts in the Delt Forest. Nonychs are a very tall, intelligent species that resemble a cross between an allosaurus and a velociraptor, and their name is given to them by a character who thinks they look like "Deinonychus."

I only managed to hunt for about twenty minutes or so, and didn't manage to bag anything before I woke up.

I completed the basic task, I got a totally random answer which confused the hell out of me ha ha

So here is the task

I walk around my bed still holding shaun by the throat when my mum walks in and I ask her "What should my new years resolution be" she says "well....it could be many things, err...I know you can call me a pole!", I look at her and say "what!!".

here is the link to the dream

http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...&postcount=940

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Originally Posted by ninja9578

That's a great resolution :lmao:


Did you turn yourself into a turtle? You should next time that you're lucid.

Hercules: Now that you have access to the Task Club you'll know the task in advance so you can do it in advance so that you don't have to loose your wings :)

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that is pretty neat. i didn't know about that.

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I did it!

This one was pretty easy for me, because I'm sort of into the whole sci-fi thing, and I work for the USAF Space Command.

Okay, so I went lucid last night, when I realized that I was having a naked dream. I was at work, checking on some equipment, without a stitch of clothing. Somehow I alternated between being suddenly embarrassed and not really caring that I was naked at work, but no one seemed to say antyhing about it. Then all at once I realized that I would never actually come to work naked, and I couldn't figure out any way that I would accidentally become naked once I got there.

So, I did an RC, the one where you hold your nose and try to breathe through it, and went lucid. At first, I misremembered this months challenge as turning into an animal, which is similar, and one I had done long ago, but before I had a chance to do that, I remembered somehow that it wasn't the real challenge.

Getting into space was kind of wierd, to say the least. Using telekinesis, I lifted a huge portion of US 83 straight up into the air, to form a sort of ramp that went over a mile up, then flew up to the top of the ramp. Using more telekinesis, as well as a pair of binoculars, I caused my Camaro to speed at the ramp as fast as it could go, and then jumped in through one of the open T-tops as it went past me. (Driving cars from the driver's seat doesn't work too well for me in dreams, so I didn't bother trying it that way.)

I remember stuggling to put the missing T-top section back in place before I hit vaccuum, and then I jumped into "hyperspace," by slipping from Overdrive into Performance Drive, and buckled up. I set my course for a very particular star, visible in the Southern Sky, which was named after me by an ex using one of those radio star naming services, and was also the setting for a sf novel I wrote a year ago.

Upon arriving in a region called "Skierkowa," I met up with a Nonych, one of the native aborignials, and transformed into one of them to hunt wulfbeasts in the Delt Forest. Nonychs are a very tall, intelligent species that resemble a cross between an allosaurus and a velociraptor, and their name is given to them by a character who thinks they look like "Deinonychus."

I only managed to hunt for about twenty minutes or so, and didn't manage to bag anything before I woke up.

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Wow, nice one!!! i couldn't even get out of the atmosphere lol it was probably because i just flew instead of using a rocket or an advance flying technique like being the human tourch that would of been cool :p. But all i could do was fly and i verly got to the atmosphere of our planet lol just imagine getting out of our solar system with just a basic flying technique lol am such a noob for even thinking that i could lol:P

Glad ya liked it!

So, uh, when do I get my wings?

sweet!

I had another great lucid last night. I tried the advanced again but, instead. I didn't get very high before I lost my attention span and saw a truck crash. As I went over I saw a few people in it. I also started becoming less lucid. So I tried the spinning in circles. IT WORKED!! haha I didn't actually expect it to work. I jumped up again and I guess it was the end of my cycle I could only stay lucid about 5 seconds at a time after my spinning.

for some reason, the extra challenge seems easier to me than the first one.

I rarely ever talk to my DC's and even if i do, then i usually dont realize i control them orthat theyre not even real.

as for the second challenge, its second nature to morph into what i see and teleport.. weird. o_O

Ah, another one of my DWILDs (tried to WILD in a dream) last night led to the completion of the basic task. It was of fairly good length, but here's the important part:

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I walked through my grandparents' living room - the most detailed, clear lucid scene to date. I picked things up and observed intricacies, worried that the realism might cause me to lose lucidity. My brother and father walked in, and I remembered the lucid task.

I debated which of them to ask, and I decided on my brother as I already asked my father about a previous task.

"Christopher," I said, "What is my dream name?"
He raised an eyebrow and replied, "Your dream name . . . umm . . ."
"No, wait! Not my dream name. I mean, what should my New Year's Resolution be?"
"Oh!" he said with a smile. "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air!"
"Can you . . . clarify that?"
"You should watch more of it."

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So there you have it, folks. I would have tried the advanced task, but there had been a lot of dream up to this point, so I didn't think there would be time. Maybe tonight.