Thread: Lucid Task for the Month of January 2008

Well, looks like I'm back with the advanced task.

It seems my memory is actually quite good inside my dreams, despite the lack of... well, intellect. Here's the dream, wrapped in spoiler tags for the sake of space.

Spoiler for Graysong's Dream:

I was in some sort of roadside diner, the kind with the long bar in front, windows and table on the opposite side, and a checkered floor. It was mostly deserted, so I walked out to the back, finding a chain-link fence and some dumpsters. It occurred to me that I was waiting for someone to arrive, but knew not who (bit poetic, isn't it?)

I paced around to the front, finding the setting changed to a suburban house front. Standing in the driveway, I became lucid. Having remembered the advanced task, I pointed toward a spot on the pavement and called out, 'Take me to a planet far from our own system.'

Portals rarely work for me, but today it seemed they did; thousands of beads of light formed on the spot, and began to circle in impossibly intricate patterns. It was really quite beautiful. Weaving about, they finally formed a solid disk of light. I placed one foot upon it, and closed my eyes (whether voluntarily or not I cannot know.)

Opening my eyes, I looked out unto a marvelous landscape. It was a land of lush vegetation, wild and unkempt. Several wide gorges cut into the ground, and the greenery continued into them. It reminded me of the Grand Canyon of the U.S., yet filled with life.

The sky above was of an equally spectacular form; the term 'Tempest' comes to mind. Swirling black and purple currents swarmed the sky, blocking out much of the light. This cast a strange light on the world below.

I was standing at the edge of an overhang, which appeared to be protruding over one of the gorges. I had a vague sense that someone stood beside me, but I cannot be sure.

I heard a tremendous crashing noise, but not before seeing a creature of extreme proportions (one foot in the gorge and one foot above caused it to lean, slightly.) He appeared to be some twisted form of human, and bore a crude club, easily the size of your average skyscraper. He hefted it high over his head, and was to bring it down with both hands upon my little overview.

I pointed towards him, and instantly found myself looking through his eyes, down at myself. I looked, in fact, terribly small, though I could see my arm still raised. I placed the club down, and thereafter woke.

It was indeed a new experience for me, and I hope not to forget it.
-Graysong

Dammit! In a dream I non-lucidly visited another planet (Advanced task) Seeing the other planet suddenly made me remember and I became lucid, but I was already there so I don't think it counts as I didn't travel there whilst lucid.

The planet was pretty cool though, there were monorails with glow-worms instead of trains.

I'm gonna try again tonight, I'll go to bed a bit earlier.

EDIT: Oh shoot! I should have morphed into an animal when I got there. I completely forgot about that bit.

Woohoo, first Dream Task completed, (Easy one). I asked one of my friends who was a DC in this particular dream, he said that I should stop eating oranges. This I found to be a bit weird but I did it !!!

Now I need any ideas for doing the hard one because I really want to do it!

Yoshu

Hooray! I managed the advanced task AND the morphing task last night in a WILD, it was so cool!

Here is what happened if anyone wants to know:

Spoiler for SPOILER:

It was a normal WILD. I was in a forest which I have visited before in LDs. Because of this I knew my way around, (although some of the buildings had moved) I went over to the side of a freeway and then decided to try the task.

I stood next to a tree and shouted: "Here we go!". I couldn't think of a decent way to travel there so I just made a rope hang down out the sky. I grabbed the end of the rope and pulled hard, I held on and the rope zipped up into the air, and carried on into space with me on the end.

I flew past what looked like Jupiter and then carried on going. I looked up and saw that the rope was being pulled by a black thing, sillhouetted against the stars. It started raining in space, and I decided it was time to stop off at my planet. I stopped the rope and got off, falling through the atmosphere and landing using a flying technique.

The ground was entirely black, and the sky was browny green. There were lots of strange white creatures holding pipes and in the distance I could see some kind of glowing thing. I zoomed in (with my vision) and saw that there were glowing rocks with more of the white things about.

I tried to unzoom my vision but it got stuck. Then I remembered to morph. But all I could think of was into one of those white things. Since they were small I became really low down, but fast. I picked up a pipe to look like the rest of them, and then spent several minutes exploring before I woke up.

Do we need to PM a certain staff member or do they check this thread?

Originally Posted by Barns

Do we need to PM a certain staff member or do they check this thread?

We check.

I'm sending a PM to get you your wings (PS.. love the rope trick)!

I dreamt that a tornado was coming toward me and I was running, scared, then I thought this might be a dream, so I stopped the tornado with my hands and made it go the other direction. Now that I was lucid, I played around a while and then remembered the tasks. I asked a woman what my new years resolution should be. She asked me why I wanted to know and I said to better myself. She said she didn't want to tell me but I asked again and she mentioned a friend that I haven't seen in years. She said to stop worrying about this friend and think about myself more. I said okay.

I atempted the advanced task but didn't make it. Last time I went to outerspace, I went on a pterydactal's back. I called for the pterydactal and searched for him but couldn't find him this time. I saw a statue of a walrus and I turned it into a flying walrus and rode on it. It flew slowly but I did see the earth from below and I saw a star explode in a green and white circular explosion, it was beautiful. We started sinking and I ended up somewhere in Asia, it looked like Chinese arcitechture. I was on a roof and got on a gargoyle and flew on it's back. It looked like a winged leopard and was hissing and growling but it flew faster, but I woke up shortly after this and didn't make it to any planets.

I tried the basic task, but it didn't turn out very well. Not at all.

I was sort of half-heartedly WILDing the other night, and got stuck in sleep paralysis. I felt my body go completely numb, and started to see the darkness at the foot of my bed get denser and form into the hazy shape of a monsterously disfigured person. I started to get absolutely terrified, and feel the most terrible sensation of cold and evil. The thing climbed onto my bed and onto my paralyzed body. It grabbed my wrists to hold me down, and stared directly into my face. It's face was that of a woman, but constantly changing. It looked like it kept changing in age - from a young attractive girl to an old mummified corpse and back again.

By this time, I was completely out of my mind terrified, but in the back of my mind I had this nagging thought that this felt familiar. I was wracking my brain trying to remember what to do to get out of this situation. I remembered that if I could get through this, I could make it to a lucid dream, but I couldn't think of what to do. For some reason, as soon as I thought the word "lucid dream", I remembered the task of the month. I somehow reasoned that if I could complete the task of the month, I could get away from this disgusting mummy lady dripping puss on my face.

I fixed my eyes on hers (the only part of my body I could still move), and yelled at her with my thoughts, "What's my new years resolution?". Her face turned to an unattractive middle aged woman, and she leaned back and smiled in a sinister way. "My new years resolution is to harvest your semen, and devour your soul," she replied.

I was now completely lucid, and no longer afraid. I asked again, "But, what's MY resolution?" She looked a little confused, and turned her head to look behind her. I noticed there was a horrible looking man standing behind her this whole time. He looked like a pale, ghostly translucent clown illuminated from within. Sort of like a combination between the albino dread locked guys from that Matrix movie, and a rotting zombie in a clown suit.

He walked towards me, and sat on the edge of my bed right beside me. "You are going to discover the ability to open portals to other dimensions. When you do, the offspring we have sired from your sperm will become all powerful and invade the planet. We will start with Hawaii, since the people there are superstitious."

I was totally lucid now, and thought this quite rediculous. "So, my new years resolution is to open a portal for some sort of demon clown invasion?" I laughed, "That doesn't sound very fun to me. I don't think I'll keep that one."

I decided I had had enough of this, and woke myself up to write it down. The weird thing is, I had a dream about that same clown guy earlier in the night before this dream.

So, if a bunch of my demon clown children warp to earth to devour Hawaii, I apologize ahead of time, guys.

I think Task of the Month is the BEST idea!

Do zombies and skeletons count as DC's? I hope they do Slap some wings on me!

New year's resolution
My dad and I were driving out on to the highway, not sure where we were going. As we came to the road that usually merges on to the highway, we had to stop because the road had been ripped straight out of the ground and was laying sideways to the side. We turned around and started heading down the other way of the highway and the road we were on started to break and tilt up. We managed to drive off the end before it could raise to high, kind of like one of those bridges that that raises up to let boats pass underneath it. We were driving down this road and I noticed my dad was driving pretty close to the edge so I told him we should just stop. When we got out, I went around front of the car and hopped down this little ledge and was in this little grassy area with a lake around it. I realized here that what had just happened to the highway couldn't of really happened in real life so I knew I was dreaming. It was really cold and icy so I decided to make it snow! I wooshed my arms up and the landscape slowly turned winter white. I was really happy with myself because I have never tried changing the weather before. I turned around and there were some zombies there. I decided to ask one what my New Year's resolution should be. I ask him twice and after the second time he replied: "Be ...... more...... confident". So I guess I was happy with that. The zombie that told me was half zombie half skeleton and he wore a tattered dark blue linen cloth shirt. I picked up some snow and made a snowball and threw it at him. These 2 zombies and I had a snowball fight and then I slowly started to lose lucidity and woke up...

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

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

Ahh I had an awesome lucid last night (WILD). Strange considering it was the night that I signed up for dreamviews, and I browsed the forums when I awoke after 5 hours to try it. I asked a DC (apparently a dream guide, she says) my name. She said Hitler twice before laughing intensely. She then said it was 'Library'. I asked another DC and she said 'Book-worm'.

=/

I finally had the chance to try the Task of the Month. I got to sleep in so I did a WBTB.


I didn't quite WILD. But I drifted into a dream immediately. I was with my mom in the kitchen. She had her sewing maching on the table. I was talking to her, but I started to sense things were not right. I questioned it and realized that I was in a dream. I continued to watch my mom, she was jumping all around and acting like a kid. I wondered why I didn't pick up on the fact that it was a dream before this point.

I thought, "Now's the chance to do a lucid task of the month". I decided to start with the basic. I was about to ask her what my New Year's resolution should be....but then "I woke up."

It didn't take me long to realize that this was a False Awakening. I don't remember where I was, but the next thing I remember was that I was flying. I could see beautiful red cliffs all around me. I flew for a few minutes then I saw a guy on the ground. He was standing by a trailhead and reading a sign. I started to land by him. At first he seemed surprised to see me flying. But then he knodded as if figuring out that I was lucid dreaming. I reached out my hand and he started flying after me. He was in his twenties and had dark hair that was receding a little.

I could see the ocean in front of us. I flew over some hills and saw the land drop out from under me and I was now flying high over the beach and soon over the water. I started sinking a little and was slightly nervous that I was going to end up in the water. But then I had confidence that even though I'd go low that I would still stay above the water.

I looked behind me and saw that the guy didn't want to come over the water. I turned back and went to where he was standing. I then remembered to try the task again.

So I asked him what my New year's Resolution should be. I had no idea what he was going to say. I was very curious. He finally said to me, "Your New Year's Resolution....you should ratify your drinks."

I said, "What does that mean? And what do you mean by 'drinks'--I don't drink. I don't get it".

I wasn't really satisfied with that because I didn't understand it. So I looked around. I saw a boy with dark curly hair that looked about 12. I asked him what my N Y's resolution should be. But he wouldn't answer. Then for some strange reason I decided to kiss him (I have been doing that in LDs lately...age doesn't seem to matter...it's like I'm just curious to see what it's like to kiss dream people). But as I closed in he was like a ghost. I couldn't make contact.

So I went and found a group of little girls that looked about 6 years old. I asked them what my NYR should be. Then I felt I needed to clarify. I told them that NYRs would be things like, "I will exercise more regularly this year"...or "I will eat healthier" and things like that.


But then one of the girls started crying over something, and I went to comfort her. She looked like Lana from Smallville when she was little. I told her that she was a very beautiful little girl.


There was another LD but I have to go and will finish later.

a planet outside the solar system

I was there a long time ago, too bad I didn't morph into a plant.

Anyway I would like to complete the task but I don't know how to prove it that I did.

Originally Posted by CloudOne

Anyway I would like to complete the task but I don't know how to prove it that I did.

Tasks of the Month must be accomplished/completed during that month and don't require "proof".. you just have to post the details of the experience.

I completed the basic task this morning, and attempted the advanced task. Here's what I posted about it in my dream journal.



I was driving through a strange desert land, populated by bizarre people with orange reptilian skin. Around when we passed the tornado, I realized I was dreaming. At this point, I decided to complete the lucid tasks of the month. For the basic task, I turned to the guy next to me in the car, and asked him what my new year's resolution should be. When I woke up, I couldn't remember what he said, and I'm still uncertain, but I think it was something like "Buy more things".

Anyway, I got out of the car, and thinking I might have already completed the advanced task, I asked one of the lizard people if we were on another planet. He replied that we were still on earth. So, I looked in the sky, and chose a star.

I haven't had much luck going to specific places chosen before sleeping before, so I figured going to another planet might be tough to do successfully. However, I figured it might not be too tough to bring the planet to me. Using telekinesis, I dragged the star towards the earth until I could see something orbiting it, at which point I grabbed that orbiting object with my mind, and began bringing that in instead. It looked like a star, but I figured that planets look like stars from that distance. As it came closer, I realized that it might have really been a star, and at the point where it filled almost the entire sky, I woke up.

Yahoo! I finally managed to do one of tasks.

I did the Basic Task.

I was driving around in this car looking for some DCs. By a fishing pond I saw a group of old people. I figured one of them might be willing to help me out. As I walked up I realized they were all speaking in a foreign language. I asked if any of them speak English. One old man said he did.
"What should my New Year's Resolution be," I asked him.

He looked at me seriously. "You should be a big industry girl," he finally said.

I was a bit annoyed, as this made no sense, so I asked, "What kind of industry?"

He looked at all of his fishing buddies and they all laughed. "hay-sha, I think."

"I don't know about hay-sha for her, " one old lady said.

So the old guy pulls out a pen light and looks in my ears. He feels my head and taps on my skull. "Shiva," he says now. "That's for sure."

All of the old people laugh and talk to each other in their language. I wonder what they are saying, but from their gestures and the tone of their laughter, I think maybe the old guy just told me I should be a prostitute or porn star.

Anyway, I kiss his cheek and tell him thank you for his help.

Anyway, there's my dream.

Today I managed to do both tasks. I wasn't expecting success with completing these tasks and I was surprised how easy I've done it.

From my Dream Journal:

1. After I woke up (FA) in my room, I did reality check by walking through wall. I saw surroundings of my house and I remembered that I could do DV tasks. So I wished to be on another planet, but instead of I appeared in the city. On the street there was an old woman whom I asked about my New Years resolution. She replied that mine is one year older than hers. I don't know what she meant by that but DC always tend to be the weird ones.

2. A few LDs passed, I was on a bus station. It was night. I wanted to get into the bus but it has crashed before it got to the station. So I had to wait on the other side of the road for another bus. That bus which arrived was empty so I got in. A while after, I realised I can do the second task so I transformed the bus into a space shuttle. While it was flying the nature below me changed into a beautiful picture of glowing city. I was firing little fireballs from my finger for fun. Then the sky changed a color to blue/violet, moon disappeared and a planet which was dark violet appeared there. I was approaching the planet and when I was near I transported myself onto a crater that was on the surface. As soon as I was there I was attacked by insect natives. They were 50 cm in size and they were firing big stings on me. It pretty much hurt so I woke up.

That's it. I'm looking forward to next month's tasks.

Gah! I'm running out of time to do the tasks!

Tried again last night, I just could not fly above about treetop level anybody have any advice on getting past this barrier? I guess I just have tonight and tomorrow night, if I do it Thursday night does that count?

The rest of my dream is on my dream journal the link is in my sig.

Exited I thought, “What am I going to do” I then remembered the task of the month. I went into my dad’s office to get a gun from his safe for my adventure to another planet. Unfortunately at this point I started losing sight, everything became blurry and I couldn’t feel anything. I yelled “Increase vividness!”…Nothing happened... I yelled it again “INCREASE VIVIDNESS” …nothing happened…I go into my room and find my cell phone, I figure the 7 button is probably the vividness button so I press it a bunch of times. Sure enough everything begins to snap back into focus. I then went not to my dad’s safe but to my hallway. I found my glock 19 airsoft gun and my fathers glock 17 with training bullets in it. I figure these are good enough because I am dreaming so I can just make them shoot real bullets. I then go back into my room, get a running start and dive headfirst through my window breaking the glass and flying into the air. I see the moon, its craters are exaggerated and it is growing slightly. I aim towards it and fly/swim hoping to fly past it and on to the unknown. I am making almost no progress and when I stop moving my arms and legs I float gently back to earth. Again I cannot get above treetop level. I imagine myself flying past the sun but this shuts off my focus from the dream, I hear my sister opening a cabinet door in the hallway and I wake up.

I made the attempt last night for the Advanced Task. This is part of a humongously large dream of mine, so this time I will just post the relevant part.


I was now flying outside my mom's house at night. As I looked up at the stars, I suddenly remembered that the main thing I had wanted to do if I had a lucid dream was to complete the Advanced Task of flying to another planet.

I remembered being able to fly to the stars in the past, so that gave me comfidence. I just stared out at the night and concentrated... and all around me I started seeing stars. I pushed forward and saw the stars rushing by me. I tried to keep my eye out for planets. I finally saw one, but it passed me too quickly. I tried to slow down a bit, but stars were still passing me. I looked and saw another planet. It was reddish brown and had little crators. I got closer, but I passed it. I tried to turn around, but at this point I woke up.

Originally Posted by kevtegr8

Tried again last night, I just could not fly above about treetop level anybody have any advice on getting past this barrier?

I have flown out into space several times. But I have never been able to fly into space by flying up. I have the same problem with hitting barriers if I go too high. But I have found that I can get there by suddenly teleporting there. The first time I went into space I teleported by flying through a mirror.

I think the "barrier problem" is common enough. So for those of us that have that, we need to get to space by other means.

BTW, nice dream. You did a good job getting the vividness to come back. Very creative.

The more practice we have, the more we find that little tricks like this can work for us.