Thread: Lucid Task for the Month of January 2008

sounds like you have a couple resolutions to complete haha
i'd take the doughnut counting one if i were you

ahahahahha. yeah i think i might have to. that way when know one is looking i can sneak a few in my mouth

I like planet hopping, so I did this one last night. I do it often anyways so it's easier for me then asking for a new years resolution.

Before getting into the dream I'll mention that when going for orbit, I find it easier to maintain a view of the ground below me and move away from it. If I turn towards the sky too quickly I generally end up flying with no escape to space.

Once I am in orbit and have the "space shuttle" view of earth, I can turn towards whatever star and rush to it without getting stuck in flight.

The dream.

It started off with myself being chased by a bunch of wild dogs. They were alot faster then me, so I went prone to hide in some grass. When I did that I melded into the ground and suddenly they couldn't track me anymore. AHAH! Lucidity achieved. Actually that was rather convenient, being prone is the right position to begin my ascent to orbit. I lifted off the ground and had that queasy zero G feeling you get sometimes while hovering, so I focused on a spot on the ground below instead of looking around and it wasn't long before I was looking at the earth. With orbit achieved I did a quick turn and a warp field like boost off to a random star in the distance. The other stars whipped by in that "star-trek" like visual of warp speed, and it wasn't long until I reached the solar system and began to slow. My planet was actually a giant boring dust ring, but it did have an orbital cruise ship. I went there instead of planetside because it was clearly more interesting. Onboard in the crowd of people walking about (all human), I ran into what I called one of my other "iterations" (basically another sentient creature with similar thoughts and outlooks to me) and "she" was serving drinks on the cruise ship. Yep, a waitress. I was about to start up a conversation with her but there was a giant mirror behind the bar. Grrr, I lost control at that point and the dream played itself out. Looking at my reflection I was female *I am male* and fidgeting with my hair. The hair was blonde instead of my normal brown and after deciding I was pretty cure for a girl that's when I woke up.

Maybe I should try out being a blonde?

I'm sorry I have to wow this.. I'm a very powerful lucid dreamer to say the least. I can do a lot with my surroundings, fly anywhere. To another planet. I've personally done this with saturn because I wanted to see the rings in the light up close. but, morph into an animal. I've never tried that and that sound hard. I can morph my surroundings but, NEVER have I did myself. lol. great list and I will do it for ya :-D

as the guy above stated don't float up without anything around, try to go where its nigh time focus on a star and go there thinking of it as a planet and you should get there. If its day light I never tried this. I will try some of these things tonight and see what happens.

i had a lucid last night and tried the advanced, but didn't get close at all.

i was torn between flying to the planet or dream spinning. i figured i'd spin because sometimes i can't fly, and i'd be angry if i got very far then be unable to continue- i fly pretty slow and i stall a lot.

so i spun, but recently i've been blacking out after spinning and this time was no different. at least i didn't wake up like i normally do after spinning, and was able to continue with the dream

As I concentrate on floating I find my dream body trying to float out of my physical body, although it appears to be stuck, as it is unable to get all of the way out.

I try every which way I can think of to get out of my body, turning first this way, then that way, but nothing works, until I imagine myself flying, after which I find myself flying up through some trees and into what seems like the twilight zone.

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.

As I am flying along I begin to hear some male voices which seem to be approaching me as they are getting louder and louder.

I relax as in the past when I have encountered these voices they usually don't seem to know I even there.

This time they seem to sense my presence though, because I very shortly feel myself completely covered by something like a blanket which forces me back into my body and causes me to wake up, putting an end to a perfectly fun adventure.

Congratulations, iadr. I had that same problem of getting stuck in my body lately; unlike you, I never could get out.

I'm not sure if Mars has housing projects....

Originally Posted by Moonbeam

I'm not sure if Mars has housing projects....

I sort of doubt that they do also.

I guess that was just the best my subconscious mind could do.

Who knows where I actually was, although the darkness, fog, and eerie feeling in the atmosphere made it seem like another planet.

Originally Posted by Seeker

I look forward to doing the tasks again. I finished last months basic task today, oh well too late. Anyway, it was the most wonderful and lucid of lucid dreams. Entirely freeking realer than real. I asked three DCs in an office what my dream name was, they insisted it is 'Seeker'.

I even argued with them about it for a few moments and they would not change their minds

Something we might consider doing is creating a special badge for anyone who accomplishes a previous months task.

Completing a task from a previous month is still a great accomplishment, which in my opinion should be rewarded.

This would give someone who might need just a little more time to complete a task an opportunity to complete that task and get the proper recognition for completing it.

We could use the same badges we currently use, but just put a "P" in the middle of them if it to designate that it was for a previous month.

All the person would need to do is let us know which months task they completed so we would be able to look it up easily.

Comments? Suggestions?

That's a good idea about the badge with a "P". Easy to do, and would make it worthwhile finally managing to perform a task that someone has been working on for a long time.

In the lucid task club, we have talked about doing this as an ongoing project; having a list of previous tasks that we complete. I think we were calling it the "challenge tasks". Each person could maybe have their own thread, and after they do the task of the month they could pick a challenge task to do.

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.

Let's hope I can have another lucky lucid- this task sounds like fun!

Lately, I've been having stress-related nightmares . I hope I can use those to my advantage.

Seeker, that's a cool dream name. Mine turned out to be Jharaerea, and I learned a good lesson- never steal beer from angry bartenders.

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.

Happened to me too- I "wrote" down my dream name on paper. Except, I couldn't find it. Took me about an hour to remember, and I was so worried!

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 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.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

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.

That was a quick promotion! Good job!

Originally Posted by ninja9578

I also just created two badges for the tasks.

Those are beautiful, Ninja! Thanks.

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?

Hmmm...I guess you're right. I was thinking of those other DC's. It has never occurred to me to ask people that I knew who they really were. (Adding it to the ever-increasing list of things to do...)

Hehe, are New Years resolutions still valid now?

The advanced task sounds really cool. I've been outside the solar system in some weak lucids before, but never to a different planet.

I tried the basic task, but none of my DCs would speak to me for some reason.

I did manage to do the advanced one though. One of the strangest dreams I have had. I used an old biplane to fly in to space, and the only planet I could find was this large muffin shaped one. I remember flying around trying to look for others. I landed, and even though I did it safely, it exploded anyway. Around me were trees growing muffins. With some people muffins. I was a muffin world. I don't know why muffins. I tried the extra challenge and well, turned into a muffin. Then I thought it'd be funny too eat another muffin. Muffin's scream really weird. I remember being accused of cannibalism and the rest of the dream consisted of me, fighting off muffin police.

Strange it was. I don't know why it had to be muffins.

I found myself lucid and walking down a country road on a beautiful Spring day. The sky was a deep blue, the trees were green and there were fields of yellow flowers on either side. The smell was wonderful. I stepped over a fence looking for someone to talk to. Sure enough, I turned around and a small aging man approached me. I asked him what my New Year's resolution should be. He tried to tell me but just then another DC appeared and interrupted him. I asked him again. Again ,the DC interrupted him as if to thwart my efforts. Finally, I shouted at him to shut up so I could here the old man speak. When I finally heard him he said "your task is to go find Vick Bungalo." So, I left and continued walking down the road trying to find this Bungalo fellow. A little kid ran up to me with a big stick of beef jerky in his hand. He looked at me and said, "it's like chocolate, you know," then ran off. After that I woke up.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

I also just created two badges for the tasks.

These are beautiful ninja!!