Thread: Lucid Task of the Month for February 2008

I have an idea for next months task.

Find ninja9578 in your dream, ask him what the task of the month is, and then do that task.

I didn't come up with the tasks. I wouldn't be so bold, and probably get banned. We spin out ideas in the Lucid Task Club and then vote on them. These were the winners, I'm just the one who posted them here.

i woke up in the night, and decided to wild, but accidently fell asleep. But i had a dild instead. I was walking in my living room, with one brother behind me, when i realize i'm dreaming. I turn around and ask my brother 'J' to tell me something about myself that i dont know, he doesnt take me seriously so I walk to the kitchen where my dad and other brother 'P' are. I ask my dad but he doesnt take me seriosly, then i ask 'J' again and he says some word starting with e, but i forgot what it was. then i decide he ask 'P' and he takes me serriously and thinks for several moments, but its taking too long, finally my dad says 'tenderness' I woke up.

I have half a mind to call the ASPCA on all you groundhog levitaters...

Hehe just kidding.


Anyway I went to bed a 10ish last night and woke up at 3:30 to WILD, I layed down and before I had time to get comfortable it seemed that I was dreaming.

I was on the top of a tall skyscraper and I thought to myself, F*ck, theres no groundhogs up here." So I remembered (I use a lot of passive control) that the elevator leads to a rolling green pasture full of talking wild life (I get lonely easy ). So I enter into the elevator but the buttons were really weird, I pushed the lowest down button and it took me to a green field full of hills and wildlife. Everything from deer to cougars were there. Finally I tracked down a groundhog and in an oh so dramatic fashion I began to levitate the groundhog, at about 3 feet the ground hog said "Cor blimey mate put me down!" (apparently my groundhog was from the UK) I replied "Not until you tell me something about me that I don't already know." "Well from what I can tell your an arrogant c*nt that needs to learn his place." The groundhog replied. "Well thanks" I responded and put the groundhog down. Then I turned around to the elevator and remembered that someone had fixed the buttons while I was going through the groundhog levitating ordeal (more passive), and I enter back in to the elevator, ride to the top of the skyscraper, and proceed to spiderman (I have a spiderman fetish) throughout the city until I woke up.

Originally Posted by iadr

Great lucid mark, and with so much control.

It is interesting that everyones DC's seem to just ignore them, while mine were more than happy to tell me all of things that they felt were wrong with me, even to the point of being obnoxious..

hey thanks man!!

lol it seems everyones dcs are shying away from the question lol. I am still gonna try this until I get a proper answer

Ah dont worry about their answers, maybe they were telling you something you were self conscious about? That is one of the reasons I suggest this, I was expecting some intensely personal answers....dosent seem to be working out that way eh? lol

The last time I asked something similar to this the DC gave me such a shocking but true answer it helped me alot...that is after I got over the sad feeling it caused ha ha.

Well I tried it but I didn't remember the whole thing. I said to my friend "tell me something that I don't know" Instead of "tell me something I don't know about myself" I don't remember his reply. Ill keep trying!

VVV The dream is in my dream journal, please comment! VVV

If the vote had "Giant DV orgy," I bet it would have won too.

This is for the basic task, excerpt from my Dream Journal

"Christmas...can you tell me something, something about myself"

"Like?"

"Something I dunno, something about myself I don't know."

She closed her eyes

"Your a great person, and a great friend. You bring this warmth, this comfort, and thats why you hurt people when you stop talking to them. Because that warmths no longer there. That comfort is not there."

I was able to do both in the same dream last night. Woo. The hardest part was just remembering to DO the tasks in my dreams. All week I had LDs where I was literally flying in circles, wondering what I should do for fun, and never even remembering I wanted to do the tasks. Then I'd wake up and be kicking myself.

Here's the excerpt from my DJ with the tasks:

I wandered off and into a hallway that appeared in between two buildings. When I got inside the building at the end, it was almost as big as a football field inside. It was really dark, but I noticed that there were huge lights on the ceiling. I raised my hands and forced them all to turn on. It actually worked! Normally it's almost impossible to light up a dark room. But to my disappointment the whole place was empty. It seemed to be one of those aircraft hangars. I started wondering what I could do in there.

Then I remembered the lucid task. The floor was cement, so the first thing I decided to do was make an area of it dirt. With my mind, I created a paintbrush and painted the floor with dirt (much like in photoshop, except 3-D. I've never done it this way before but it works really well). Then I made a little hole, and created the groundhog underneath so he would pop out. As soon as he did, I held up my hands and levitated him about three or four feet off the ground. Then I dropped him, and a cat came out of nowhere to chase him away.

At that point, I thought, "Well I'm going to do the other task too." So I went up to this short little bald man, who was one of two other people in the hangar, and asked "Hey, tell me something about myself that I don't know." He completely ignored me, staring at the groundhog and then turning away to follow the two animals as they ran out the way I came in (we were all still close to the entrance). I knew I was close to waking up, so I frantically looked around for someone else to ask. By the time I could get to another area I'd be awake. While I was thinking about all this, I actually woke up.

I probably didn't get the groundhog to look right, but oh well. He kind of looked more like a guinea pig. I probably should have googled for pictures of groundhogs beforehand because my only image of one is the one from Caddyshack (Is it even a groundhog? lol).

I'm going to keep trying with the question since I really didn't get an answer. I know the guy heard me, he just ignored me.

I was hiking in the mountains with some of my friends, who were from my school, and all of a sudden one of them procured a guitar, and started playing. His name was Alex (his actual name, even though IRL he couldn't play the guitar.) I asked him to play my favorite song, and he asked what it was. I couldn't remember, and then he asked, "is this it?" and he started playing this song that sounded like the best song in the world to me. It reminded me of an actual song, which it might have been, and I enjoyed it very much. When I woke up, I had no idea what the song even sounded like, and /i had no idea what the name could have been, or even the artist. I just remember him playing the guitar and my being in euphoria at how much I loved the rythm and beat of the song. There were no lyrics.

Here's my excerpt for the second task, its actually the same dream but continued off.

As we watched the waves crash on the shore a groundhog suddenly popped out of the ground.

"What the hell?!"

"Hey, you need me don't you?"

"Get out of here!"

The groundhog was levitated and flung off into the distance. I convered the hole up and closed my eyes again.

Completed the Basic Task, last night!

Link to Journal Entry

I'm new to this whole task of the month thing so I am sorry if this is a bit long .

I think I completed the simple task of the month. I am unsure this counts because of the nature of answer I got but here is what happened:

It starts out with another FA (I had three) in which I am laying down telling my self I should really do a RC since I like to have a lot of FAs. Some how I make my self do a RC, but the nose plug method I am using does not seem to work as I can not get my nose plugged right, so I deiced to do a clock check and sure enough I was Lucid. Almost eminently I remember this task and say to my self ‘when I open the door my husband will be on the other side’, (he was). He seems happy so see me and tries to talk, but before he can I blurt out "Tell me something about my self I don't already know."

He thinks for a second and then gets this really big smile on his face then says "You mean like putting a toothbrush on a pen?" He is really happy with himself for have given me this answer.

Since I was expecting more of an answer then this I just look at him funny and ask him what he means. He takes my hand and leads me into our living room (which looks different then the one we actually have) and points to a pen on the TV stand and repeats again "Put the tooth brush on the pen."

At this point I start to look around for the front door (that I noticed was not in its proper place when we first entered the living room) so I could go out side while I was still lucid and maybe ask another person the question, but I woke up before I could do this.

Because of the nature of the answer I plan on doing this task again to see if I can get something a little different as I did not feel like he actually answered the question, but this is my first try at this. On a side note I actually completed the task for last month (flying to another planet) last week thinking it was the task for this month lol.

Take Care,
Anna

So I am kinda new at this but i have had a few lucid dreams in the past couple months now.. so i thought i would give it a shot.. Here goes...

I have had some pretty weird dreams lately so being able to recongize that i am dreaming was becoming pretty easy. This one started out me at my old grandmas house. I was dreaming that the house was being overrun with demons when i became lucid. (good timing huh) So as soon as this happened.. I forced the situation into a better setting for completing the task. thought the demons and other DC's away to start fresh. I tried to imagine myself at a mall but for some reason i ended up on my ship(in the navy) As soon as this happened, some fellow shipmates walked up to me asking for a cigarette. But i promptly asked "What is something that i dont know about myself?" And one replied... "Your too all over the place. Just give me a dang cigarette douche." Then i felt kinda dishearted.. and lost my lucidity.. but the rest of the dream spiraled into a crazy sci-fi/fantasy dream on my ship.. Kinda nuts..

But i tried.. and failed.. Oh well.. there is always next time right?

Originally Posted by DreamingGhost

I'm new to this whole task of the month thing so I am sorry if this is a bit long .

I think I completed the simple task of the month. I am unsure this counts because of the nature of answer I got but here is what happened:

It starts out with another FA (I had three) in which I am laying down telling my self I should really do a RC since I like to have a lot of FAs. Some how I make my self do a RC, but the nose plug method I am using does not seem to work as I can not get my nose plugged right, so I deiced to do a clock check and sure enough I was Lucid. Almost eminently I remember this task and say to my self ‘when I open the door my husband will be on the other side’, (he was). He seems happy so see me and tries to talk, but before he can I blurt out "Tell me something about my self I don't already know."

He thinks for a second and then gets this really big smile on his face then says "You mean like putting a toothbrush on a pen?" He is really happy with himself for have given me this answer.

Since I was expecting more of an answer then this I just look at him funny and ask him what he means. He takes my hand and leads me into our living room (which looks different then the one we actually have) and points to a pen on the TV stand and repeats again "Put the tooth brush on the pen."

At this point I start to look around for the front door (that I noticed was not in its proper place when we first entered the living room) so I could go out side while I was still lucid and maybe ask another person the question, but I woke up before I could do this.

Because of the nature of the answer I plan on doing this task again to see if I can get something a little different as I did not feel like he actually answered the question, but this is my first try at this. On a side note I actually completed the task for last month (flying to another planet) last week thinking it was the task for this month lol.

Take Care,
Anna

LOL... "Put the toothbrush on the pen".. this made me laugh out loud I think you should have followed his advice and put the toothbrush on the pen, just to see what would have happened.

Originally Posted by urokusaki69

some fellow shipmates walked up to me asking for a cigarette. But i promptly asked "What is something that i dont know about myself?" And one replied... "Your too all over the place. Just give me a dang cigarette douche." Then i felt kinda dishearted.. and lost my lucidity.. but the rest of the dream spiraled into a crazy sci-fi/fantasy dream on my ship.. Kinda nuts..

But i tried.. and failed.. Oh well.. there is always next time right?

urokusaki69, the task is to "ask" a DC to tell you something about yourself that you don't know.. which you did. Therefore I think you should get "winged" and I'll let an Admin know.

So last night I had a MILD. I ran up to a DC, someone i know in RL, and asked him to tell me something about myself I didnt know, he said "When you wake up you will be hungry, but won't eat for a while."

I said, "thats it? Nothing better:

He replied, "Umm, not really, you know yourself better than I do."

O well, if only I could remember the advanced task, I thought.

I went to ask someone the meaning of life, three DCs gave me equally nonsensical answers.

Btw, I had two additional DILDs that night, one from an FA, most I've had in one night.

Oops, forgot to post my basic task completion here...

The completion (or attempt) of tasks often causes me to wake up. Maybe it's because I don't want to forget the outcome, but maybe there's another reason. Anyone experience with this?


In the end of this long series of lucids, I met a lady on the street, she was with my mother (who shows up a lot recently, but in a positive way now). I asked her 'tell me something I don't know about myself'. She said something with 'donkey' (the real word was in Dutch and it doesn't have a meaning, so I can't translate it) I ask "what?" Her reply "you know, donkey-ing".

I don't know if I'm happy with the answer
But at least she replied my question

okay about this Basic Task: Ask a Dream Character something about yourself that you don't know

i was at my nanas when i felt really drowsy! and then i found myself drifting in and out of a dream...
so there i was in a pallace surounded by snowy white forests (my dream character is my bestest friend who lives in a pallace) i was walking in the hall when charlotte (my dc) came up to me and asked me if i was staying for the night i said okay then... hey i need to ask you a question but she had already started walking down the hall hey wait i cried out to her but she didnt stop... i thought aww man now what when suddenly i heard a scream (which turned out to be a whistle in a footy game on tv) i flew out the window and got to the yard and saw charlotte hanging on for her life in a whirlwind so natraully i ran to save her the dream gets blurry and i find myself in her room so i ask her again what do you know about me that i dont she replyed i know that in a year you will fall in love with a girl named claire... suddenly i was in my nanas spare bed where i went to sleep!! finally (oh god i love charlotte)!! task complete!

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

3 Feb 08 ( The Night before my BDAY )
(unknown trigger, random DILD)

I was at my diningroom table which looked quite irregular and I realised I was dreaming, I look about the kitchen and my mother walked in on me, quite off the chance I asked "Mum, what can you tell me about myself that I do not know". her reply was "you ... are sitting ...on my...seat"

I feel pretty amused at her reply and I walk into my room and I play LoTR BFME II on PC and start clicking on Shelob and the little spiders.

I am not sure if this counts in the strictest sense as the task as sure enough...I was sitting in her seat that she occupies during dinner, but no one, and I mean NO ONE can beat mum for random one liners!

Rolling on the floor laughing ~ Smee

I tried the advanced task, but it doesn't count because I can't remember the actual groundhog levitation. I think I did the basic task, although I'm going to try again to get a clearer answer.

I went to sleep (in the dream) and WILDed into a lucid dream. The descent was a bit shorter than usual. At the beginning of the falling feeling, I remembered that one of the tasks of the month was to levitate a groundhog. I was glad that I had remembered so quickly, and planned on doing the task once I landed. As the descent continued, I was briefly worried about winding up in a negative dream. I decided to counter this by thinking of something else...Groundhogs!! I thought. I could vaguely see little groundhog faces swirling before me. This was amusing, and put me in a good mood for a while. What happened right after I landed was very vague, but my dream self seemed to think that I had completed the groundhog task and was bored, looking for something else to do.

I eventually remembered the basic task, and there were some vague dream characters nearby. I sort of loudly thought the words "Tell me something about myself that I do not know" and this was apparently enough for a response. There were lots of words, which made sense at first, only they just kept coming. As I had feared, there was so much complicated information that I couldn't remember all of it. As I tried to hear the words that were being spoken right then, I forgot the first words. I now had a book open, and I was reading the words. For some reason, it was a solid fact that this book was by Vernor Vinge (no idea why). Reading seemed to make the words a bit clearer, although still hard to remember. After reading about a page and a half, I suddenly realized that the book had the same information as the words! My logic started to become muddled, and I reasoned that I could just read the book while awake...only I thought that there were some slight differences. How would I be sure I translated everything correctly? I decided to read/listen to the words and try to get at least some of the message. All I can remember from the whole thing was a reference to a dream I had a long time ago about having a sort of mutated brother (I'm an only child) and what this meant. Not long after this I became obsessed with trying to write everything down and then there was a lot of confusion about getting my post to show up on Dream Views (lol).

wow, I just woke up from a crazy WILD. I'll post the full in the Subliminal Lucid 3.0 thread in Lucid Aids since I was listening to that. Here is the part about the task. I was so excited because this is the first time I've remembered to do it, but I tried really hard to get it in my head and to do it so it payed off!


"I then found myself in a house with some relatives and found my cousin and remembered the lucid task. I asked her something about myself that I didn't know and she looked at me weird and said I don't know. I felt like she was hiding something."

Not much, and I wish I could have got a cool answer, but I tried I'm going to try again tonight though, hopefully I get a better response.

alright, last night.. rather interesting.

I was already into my LD when I remember the task i needed to do. I was lying down on the floor, with my boyfriend beside me, covered in blankets. i was kinda falling asleep and I said to him "tell me something I dont know about myself" and he picks me up and carries me upstairs saying "You miss your lollypop." (What lollypop hes talking about I really have no clue) So I cuddle closer to him and fall asleep in my dream. Which is where I pull out of LD and into another dream

Finally broke my dry spell and cracked at the basic task. I did two tries, because the first try I didn't remember what the person said.

First shot: I attained lucidity after thinking of doing some reality checks. Just thinking of the need for them was enough to make me realize I was dreaming. I went up to my dad, and asked him what I don't know about myself. First he whispered some nonsense words, mostly vowel sounds, into my ear. Then he said something more substantial, but I forgot what it was. I don't think it made much sense as an answer anyway, though, even if I'd remember it.

(I also took a shot at the advanced task afterwards, with no luck - I found only "regular" squirrels in the forests I flew around in, not groundhogs, and I couldn't levitate any of them.)

Second dream: I don't remember how I got lucid enough to try the task again. I talked to some children and asked them what I didn't know about myself, but I didn't know. Later, while in a bathroom or someplace like that, I heard voices off to my right. I floated down the hall and into the second of two small auditoriums, in which I met a familiar-looking woman, a middle-aged teacher with short blond hair. I asked her what I don't know about herself. Her answer was, paraphrased (don't remember her exact words), what my real strengths are. She said that the things I want to do are not necessarily the things I'm naturally good at.

A quick funny story. I accomplished the basic LD task from a few months ago ...

I'm dreaming. I'm at a gym and I walk by a woman who's checking me out. She then disappears in thin air. I realize I'm dreaming. I enter a room looking for her. I find her asleep on the floor. I figure I'll wake her, get the basic task done and move on to more physical goals. I wake her, she pushes me down and sits on top of me. She obviously has no panties on under her skirt.

I ask her "What's my dream name". She replies "James" - my actual name. Yes - I know that was from a few months ago, I got distracted.

Anyway, she pulls down my pants, licks her hand, reaches around ... well, you get the point.

Now I'm a little pissed. Just a little.