Thread: Lucid Task of the Month for February 2008

Managed to break my dry spell this morning, just before having to awake. The dream was fairly vivid, if not a bit rambling.

Spoiler for Graysong's Dream:

Near the end of a dream, I found myself in a modest restaurant, seated at a table, alone. For whatever reason, I had it in my mind that I was on some sort of task regarding one of the waitresses. The task itself did not bear much relation to the Task of the Month, however, it was obviously inspired by my reading of it.

I can not recall just what it was I was to ask, but I remember feeling that it was direly important, and I was to do anything to complete it. The waitress happened to be my server, (In the dream I assumed it was set up to be so), and approached me with the typical notepad + pen.

Before I could complete whatever it was I was to do, a rough, worn looking man rose from his chair a few meters away. He shouted, and placed a lemon to his brow. However conspicuous this was, I assumed it was some sort of signal, and another man appeared and ran off with the waitress. I bolted outside, (I had not been watching spy movies before sleeping, by the by), and approached a gray van parked outside.

I tore open the back doors, finding a man in front of a plethora of surveillance equipment. He, then, shouted at the driver, and they took off, leaving me in the street.

I looked around: I was in a quiet little town. The diner seemed to be a simple brick building now, and opposite the street were endless houses. Monstrous, billowy trees blocked my vision of much else. There was a clear sky above, and it looked a little past noon.

Looking upon the sky, I became lucid. Looking at my surroundings once more, I found a man with an enormous afro cantering down the sidewalk, wearing fairly light clothes for the chill the air bore. Following him, he quickened his pace.

'Do I have free will?' I asked him. Without stopping, he looked at me, his eyes squinted, as if he were looking directly into the sun. He paused, just for a moment, before replying with a very flat 'No.'

He continued on, faster than before. Shouting after him, I asked him if he was sure. Nearly running now, he shouted back over his shoulder, 'No!'

Committing his answer to memory, I turned and jogged down the opposite direction.

Going past the aforementioned trees, I found myself in a beautiful park, surrounded by trees and a pristine lake. The sky was an intricate pattern of colors now, mostly purple.

Jogging on, I was joined by the waitress from the restaurant. We said nothing, but nodded in recognition.

We sat down by the lake at a simple picnic bench, enjoying the view. At this point, a squirrel (Perhaps a groundhog, I cannot say) accosted me, beating my shin with a stick.

I awoke, a little confused, but satisfied.

I realize I did not question a DC on simply 'Something I didn't know about myself.' I had decided to actually pick a question, so that I might get a more lucid answer.
-Graysong

Originally Posted by Graysong

I realize I did not question a DC on simply 'Something I didn't know about myself.' I had decided to actually pick a question, so that I might get a more lucid answer. -Graysong

Graysong, since you didn't ask the required question but a question of your own choosing.. I don't think we can say that you accomplished the task. But there is still time left in the month to try again.

Haha, I think I did both in one night, though I didn't "telekenetically" levitate the groundhog.

I walked down the stairs with my friend Rachel. By the time I got down, Sky High was playing on my CD player. I also played my thin PS2. But then I realized "I don't have a thin PS2! Or Sky High on a CD!" I instantly knew I was dreaming. I didn't do much, but then I remembered to try flying. I couldn't. >.< I looked at the TV, my friend was playing Kirby: The Crystal Shards". Apparently, you had to twirl around a shard with the word "Assonance" on the screen. Then I remembered the lucid tasks.

I went to the stairs where a random person was. Apparently his name was Joe, because that's what I called him. I asked "May I ask you a question Joe?" He said "YOU ALREADY DID! NO!!!!!". I proceeded though. "Can you tell me something about myself that I don't know?" He replied "NO!"

Infuriated, I went to the laundry room to look for groundhogs (I don't know why, that's the first place I checked). I found my mother there. I asked "Mom, can you tell me something about myself that I don't already know?" She said "Sure, Joe is about to pounce on your back!" I turn around, and there he is, he jumped on my back.

Then I walk up the stairs, only to find my brother on the couch. I say "We're dreaming! Hold your nose and breathe through it!" He says "No, it hurts too much." I reply "It doesn't hurt at all, just try it!" He said the same thing. Note that in this dream I thought that it would be him in real life, if you know what I mean. That happens in a lot of my dreams.

Then I go to the family room where a kid, Ricky, was standing. I asked "Do you know where any groundhogs are?" He said "There's one right there!" It was bright yellow. I take a keyboard out of my pocket, press and hold space, and the groundhog went up in the air. Then, about thirty seconds later, I let go and drop the groundhog into his hole.

Then I see my dream start to become fuzzy. I scream "Don't forget to write!" They swear at me, then I woke up.

After I woke up I felt very pleasant.

Originally Posted by Clairity

Graysong, since you didn't ask the required question but a question of your own choosing.. I don't think we can say that you accomplished the task. But there is still time left in the month to try again.

Ah well, it seems I had misunderstood the task; I asked the DC about something I did not know about myself, rather than asking the DC to tell me something I did not know.

I'll give it another shot tonight. Good luck to all!
-Graysong

Actually Clairity, the way I worded the task, he might have done it:

Ask a Dream Character something about yourself that you don't know

We meant it the way that you were thinking, but I could definitely see how he could have done it. He did ask something that he didn't know and it was about himself. In fact, he's the only one that I've seen so far to get a straight answer that wasn't wrapped in a metaphor.

I guess we'll have to leave this to Seeker.

Agreed, I PM'd Admin and asked them to take a look.

Graysong, it seems you are in accord and recognize that you misunderstood the task. While what you did was indeed interesting, the question is specific and needs to at least be in the ballpark.

Good luck on your next try.

The month is now more than half gone and I've not been lucid long enough to even THINK about a task, let alone give one a try. Maybe tonight!!!!

Again had my first two lucid dreams this month last night. My lucid dreams seem to come in pairs...


February 15th

Basic Task of the Month(February)
I gained lucidity almost right away following a small dream fragment, as I recognized the false awakening after examining my surroundings. I was in my bed and I focused in on my mattress which was bright and vivid with parts resembling snakes coming out of it. My right, yellow painted wall which usually has nothing had a bulletin board nailed on. On this board was tacked a card by Sindred saying he wanted a Helm chapter NAO.

I got up, lucidity augmenting. I looked around my room and noted boxes, blankets and other junk that shouldn't be there. Then I remembered the ol' Lucid task of the month. "What was the advance task?" I thought. "Levitating something, right?" Looking at the boxes I was afraid trying to move the environment because it might burst the lucid. I changed my thoughts to the basic task.

Walking out of my room I looked towards a strange brown wall and paper door (like the Japanese have) that I assumed was part of my house. Moving up to it I poked my head through it and witnessed a masked overcoat wearing man with a blacked out face. "What should my new years resolution be?" I asked, then, realizing I had done that already, thought about the question. "What's something about me that I don't know about?" No response. I repeated the question and even tried to make him talk through my thoughts. No dice!

I retreated and slipped outside. Instead of the five acres of cowland that usually graces my front and back yards I came out in a neighborhood with a stout black street and many white houses. There I met this girl named Sarah, a girl with a perfect body, auburn hair and a sweet smile. Knowing that this was a lucid and that no one cared what I did, I instantly made out with her. During this I asked "What's something about me I don't know about?"

She pushed me back and retreated a few steps, then said: "You're too trophy proud. You think you can beat everyone because you like Axelay." [Note: I don't get it either. Axelay is a video game for the Super Nintendo.] Anyway, We continued to make out furiously until I woke up...

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I think i completed the basic task. It was my first lucid dream ever and for some reason i really wanted to complete the task so here it is.

I was in my bathroom having a drink of water when the glass started to pull away from the flowing water coming out of the tap (like 2 magnets repealing each other). I felt really exited because i thought i discovered some kind of a new physics low. So i thought no, that doesn't make sense and became lucid. I walked outside my house to see the fading seen of my front garden, so i remembered to rub my hands so it clears up. Everything became so colorful. So i tried to fly and directed my fist in to the sky like superman and tried to fly but nothing happened. When i looked back down the hole seen has changed and i was at the back of my school. So i tried to fly again but no success (I guess i really like gravity) There was a fence which i tried to jump over, but couldn't. Then i tried to levitate a dead rat that was laying on the grass and it was easy, i just pointed at it and imagined it floating in the air. I really wanted to jump up to the school roof. I can't remember what happened next but somehow i ended up on the roof. Then i jumped of it landing on my chest. When i was a kid i loved dreams where i was foaling because of that butterfly filling in your stomach, so it was good to do it again (but it took me quite a wile to build up courage to jump, even if i knew nothing can harm me). Then i remembered about the monthly task that i was reading about last night and i was interested to know what DC can tell me about my self that i don't already know. So i started to ask all the teachers that were coming out of the school
All of them just stared at me wiredly and walked away. Then i asked some of the student's but they reacted in the same way, walking away mumbling "Don't talk to him he is pregnant" to each other. But then they sorounded me and started talking, i wanted to show of a bit so i tried to jump over another fence, then i can't remember anything for a while. Then the next thing i remember is siting on the grass and talking to someone. I sead "How would you feel if i told you this was a dream. Person replied something like "No way!"
And then i asked him a question, "What can you tell me that i don't already know about my self" so he replied something like "Your sister going to have a baby". I couldn't clearly understand so i kept shouting "WHAT, say it again" the dream started to become dark and my attempts to fix it by rubbing my hands failed.

I was so disappointed i couldn't fly.

I completed both tasks, although I never got an answer for the basic one.

In my dream, I was in the library. It felt like my school library, but it was huge, easily the size of a large city's public library. Then, I remembered that I was dreaming, and that I had yet to do the lucid tasks.

First, I looked for a groundhog. I tried to convince myself that there was one standing behind me, but there wasn't. Then I remembered that there was one on top of one of the shelves, near the front of the library, and sure enough, there was a stuffed groundhog on top of the shelf. I picked it up with my mind, whirled it through the air a bit, and put it back down.

For the next task, I walked up to the nearest person, and asked her to tell me something about myself that I don't know. She looked at me like I was crazy, and started to walk away. I told her that this was a dream, and that she should answer my question, and to convince her I was dreaming, I pulled a poster off of a display, using my mind. She wasn't convinced, but said she would be if I could break the glass on another display, using my mind, but I couldn't, and the dream ended.

In my LD last night, I was running around chasing women. There was this one that was really fast and I couldn't reach her, but then I remembered the lucid task. I screamed, "Tell me something about myself I don't know!" And she calls back "You are hot!"

Meh, not too exciting of an answer but I did it

Standard Task Completed!!!

So, I'll just start with the part where I became lucid. I'm in my old bedroom, at my old, house from where we moved about six years ago. I get lucid, and notice someone from my school in the room. Unfortunately, against my better judgment, I decide to have sex with him. In the midst of everything, I remember the task, and push him away. I ask him to tell me something about myself I don't know. He looks humiliated, and dives under the bed. I lift the dust ruffle to find that he has disappeared, and in his place is an empty panda costume. I stand, and find about six people sitting on my bed. I ask, "Can anyone tell me something about myself I don't know?" One of them starts a long, poetic speech. I tried to repeat it to myself as he was saying it so I could remember, but upon waking, I lost most of the middle. Here is what I do recall, "When the words bleed, the truth is twice the lies...hell is not hell." Then I went about trying to find my dreamguide, to no avail.

I finally had an LD last night! I was in a hotel with my family and I realise I am dreaming. I try to cut off the boring conversation me and my dad were having but he wouldn't stop. So I went out a door that I swear was a window to some sort earlier, to find a park with loads of people. thats about the time I remembered the task, so I asked a lady in a red and yellow outfit. I didn't even get to finish my question and she said, "I know eveything." so I just looked at her funny and asked some other people, which wasn't any better... I kinda lost my concentration after that.

I got my badge (thanks pj) so I better post my dream:

The second time I get out of bed, I'm outside in wide, dark, open, plain. Figures are moving in the distance. I think I see a shadow which might be Brian, but I don't think I can communicate with him anymore. I approach another figure, a walking man, somewhat ominous, thug-like, with a blond crew-cut. I say to him, "Tell me something about myself that I don't know!"

He turns to me and says, "You travel on ice, not on fire." He then goes on to say like a paragraph more, but I can't keep up with what he is saying. He starts to walk away, and I say "Wait! I didn't understand!" He says, "I have turned my back on you", which I take to mean that the conversation is over.

It is actually meaningful to me; I am involved in a situation in which becoming emotional will not help matters at all. So I take it as a warning to stay cool.

This is the lucid dream I did not have! I am kicking myself.

I went to sleep thinking about floating groundhogs. I have never had a dream about a groundhog so I thought this would work and it did.

I had a dream that everywhere I went this crazed groundhog was pestering me unmercifally. I even jumped on it and rode it around for awhile.(think of a clown on a miniature bicycle but much, much slower). This creature was practically begging me to levitate him but I never realized I was dreaming. Finally I turned around, wished him away and banished him to nothingness.

hah, bad luck damnpamn.

I got the Basic task! And it was on accident!

I dreamt that I was in some sort of underground clubhouse with some of my friends. All of a sudden, I mention something about dreams, and like that LD where I possesed my friend, I knew I was dreaming. So I tried something. My friend asked me "What was that?" I responded: "I found out that this is a dream!"

"Nah, there's no way to know if you're dreaming"

"Yeah, there is, I just did it."

I then thought of it, and asked "Hey, bud, tell me something I don't know about myself"

"huh?"

"Something I don't know about myself. Tell me!!"

"Why should I?"

"Because I said so! And in case you don't know I'm in control here." I threatened him with a fireball from my hand.

"Ok! Ok! Fine! You're a bit on the lazy side. Now get that fire away from me!"

Sorry I had to resort to force, but I got it! Woo! Can I has a medal?

YES! I completed the basic task with the VILD technique
I was just outside my school gate in some sort of circus that was in a forest
An old lady was walking on the path and i remembered the months basic task. i asked her,
"Do people find me to be ignorant?", she simply answered
"Yes", and walked away.
I'm not exactly sure if this counts but i couldn't get her to speak any more.

Hope i get my first pare of wings...

I completed both tasks last night i levatated a ground hog out of a hole and then a fountain of them came pouring out of the hole and then burrowed back into the hole.

Graysong, you now have your wings.

I asked that our original decision be reversed and that you be given the basic wings.

I see now that the question was not worded in the task thread created by ninja9578 the way it was "originally" suggested in the Lucid Task Club thread.

In the Lucid Task Club thread.. it stated "ask one of the guys, Tell me something about myself that I don't know".

In the Task of the month, ninja only put, "Ask a DC something about yourself that you don't know."

I do see how that could easily be misinterpreted as two different questions.

I apologize and I will do a better job making sure that there are no such misunderstandings in future tasks selected.

With the above being said, warock and Mrmike2, I have sent a PM to Admin to get you your wings as well.

Originally Posted by Astroman129

I went to the stairs where a random person was. Apparently his name was Joe, because that's what I called him. I asked "May I ask you a question Joe?" He said "YOU ALREADY DID! NO!!!!!". I proceeded though. "Can you tell me something about myself that I don't know?" He replied "NO!"

Infuriated, I went to the laundry room to look for groundhogs (I don't know why, that's the first place I checked). I found my mother there. I asked "Mom, can you tell me something about myself that I don't already know?" She said "Sure, Joe is about to pounce on your back!" I turn around, and there he is, he jumped on my back.

Hahaha, that was a funny, but very true answer

I take a keyboard out of my pocket, press and hold space, and the groundhog went up in the air.

And just another crazy detail that made me laugh out loud

Sara, I know what you mean. The keyboard one was because I'm addicted to computers so that's what happened probably. I meant to take out something like a button to press but instead it was a keyboard.

Also, the day that it happened my back hurt so that's maybe why Joe pounced on my pack.

Yeehaaa!
I had the best Lucid I've ever had last night. Very long and with excellent control.
I achieved the advanced task!
Punching groundhogs is fun

Originally Posted by Hiros' Journal

[...]
The next bit is fuzzy as I don't specifically remember leaving my room, but next thing I remember, I'm in the main room by the kitchen and there are a bunch of people there. I go up to a large lady near the study and am about to ask her something. I think I should do the task, but then I realize I've done the basic task already, so I ask her "Whats my dream name?". I realize it was Decembers task but I didn't have anything prepared to say. She hesitates for a moment and then I think "Bluey", as soon as I do, she says it. So I say "Hey, you cheated! You read my mind". I then remember the Advanced task so I ask her "Have you seen any groundhogs lately?". Instead of waiting for an answer I start heading back to the bedrooms expecting to find a groundhog along the way, but I don't. Then I see the open door to my sister room and I think she'll have a groundhog in there because she likes animals. As I'm walking towards the door a groundhog comes running out. It's running really fast so I quickly hold out my hand and try to stop it. It stops as if something is holding it down. Then I lift my hand and it flings into the air, doing somersaults. I then decide to punch it telekinetically, so I punch the air with my fist and the groundhog goes flying backwards into my sister room. I then turn around and find the rather large lady from before standing there. I telekinetically punch her in the face and she flies into the wall and falls down into a slump. This is awesome! I have heaps of control.
[...]

Originally Posted by Clairity

Graysong, you now have your wings.

I asked that our original decision be reversed and that you be given the basic wings.

I see now that the question was not worded in the task thread created by ninja9578 the way it was "originally" suggested in the Lucid Task Club thread.

In the Lucid Task Club thread.. it stated "ask one of the guys, Tell me something about myself that I don't know".

In the Task of the month, ninja only put, "Ask a DC something about yourself that you don't know."

I do see how that could easily be misinterpreted as two different questions.

I apologize and I will do a better job making sure that there are no such misunderstandings in future tasks selected.

With the above being said, warock and Mrmike2, I have sent a PM to Admin to get you your wings as well.

I cannot thank you all enough for your leniency in the matter. I'll admit, I was more than a bit disheartened...

I am continually surprised by Dreamviews; few people in this world truly 'care' for much, and it seems they have assembled here. Though they may be simply wings, I do not think myself overreacting.

Thanks again. Suppose I'll try for the Advanced task, then.
-Graysong

Originally Posted by Graysong

I cannot thank you all enough for your leniency in the matter. I'll admit, I was more than a bit disheartened...

I am continually surprised by Dreamviews; few people in this world truly 'care' for much, and it seems they have assembled here. Though they may be simply wings, I do not think myself overreacting.

Thanks again. Suppose I'll try for the Advanced task, then.
-Graysong

You're so very welcome!

Good luck with the advanced task!