Thread: Lucid Task of the Month for February 2008

Advanced and Basic tasks completed ...

I had two lengthy lucids last night, I'll touch on the relevant highlights.

My first was a WILD. After the 2nd wave of vibrations stopped I found myself as always, right where I started, on the couch. I actually have groundhogs living in my yard, under my shed. I make my way to the porch which leads to the backyard. I flip on the light hoping to find a groundhog eating the birdseed on the porch. I visualize warm air hitting me and open the door (it's actually about 10F, which sucks). I enter the porch and it's a balmy 60F or so. However no groundhog. I figure I'll try the direct approach. I go out to the shed, reach under the hole they have burrowed and try to flip the shed over. I lift it a foot or two and see a groundhog but lose control and drop it. I get a better angle and try again. I lift the shed up and over (it's about 1000 lbs I would guess). Sure enough, one groundhog is hiberating, it's chest slowly coming up and down while it breaths. I put out my hand and try to levitate it (much like Yoda would). He lifts up about an inch off the floor but I lose it. I realize I'm wearing a glove and that's the problem. I take it off to try a more substantial levitation but wake.

Lucid number 2:

I wake and get off the couch. Passing the microwave in the kitchen, I see the dispaly is red which catches my eye. I look again and notice the time is "V". Oh, a false awakening - great. I figure I'll try the basic task. My wife is up early working in her office. I go over and ask her "what can you tell me about myself that I don't already know". She thinks about this for a while and proudly repsonds "you would be embarrased if you were educated and your mom didn't come". I said "what the hell does that mean?". She didn't elaborate. I then tried to convince her that one of her hot friends from the gym was upstairs and that we should join her. She wasn't interested so I didn't push. I decided to redo the groundhog task. I go out again and the shed is gone completely. The groundhog is still there. He sees my and sits up. I levitate him about 3 feet. I look at my hand and back at him and he's now a weird cartoonish looking groundhog/lion creature with strange bright orange and black stripes. I continue levitating him and put in on a branch on the adjacent tree. I then go for a nice fly ...

Originally Posted by DrTechnical

Advanced and Basic tasks completed ...

I had two lengthy lucids last night, I'll touch on the relevant highlights.

My first was a WILD. After the 2nd wave of vibrations stopped I found myself as always, right where I started, on the couch. I actually have groundhogs living in my yard, under my shed. I make my way to the porch which leads to the backyard. I flip on the light hoping to find a groundhog eating the birdseed on the porch. I visualize warm air hitting me and open the door (it's actually about 10F, which sucks). I enter the porch and it's a balmy 60F or so. However no groundhog. I figure I'll try the direct approach. I go out to the shed, reach under the hole they have burrowed and try to flip the shed over. I lift it a foot or two and see a groundhog but lose control and drop it. I get a better angle and try again. I lift the shed up and over (it's about 1000 lbs I would guess). Sure enough, one groundhog is hiberating, it's chest slowly coming up and down while it breaths. I put out my hand and try to levitate it (much like Yoda would). He lifts up about an inch off the floor but I lose it. I realize I'm wearing a glove and that's the problem. I take it off to try a more substantial levitation but wake.

Lucid number 2:

I wake and get off the couch. Passing the microwave in the kitchen, I see the dispaly is red which catches my eye. I look again and notice the time is "V". Oh, a false awakening - great. I figure I'll try the basic task. My wife is up early working in her office. I go over and ask her "what can you tell me about myself that I don't already know". She thinks about this for a while and proudly repsonds "you would be embarrased if you were educated and your mom didn't come". I said "what the hell does that mean?". She didn't elaborate. I then tried to convince her that one of her hot friends from the gym was upstairs and that we should join her. She wasn't interested so I didn't push. I decided to redo the groundhog task. I go out again and the shed is gone completely. The groundhog is still there. He sees my and sits up. I levitate him about 3 feet. I look at my hand and back at him and he's now a weird cartoonish looking groundhog/lion creature with strange bright orange and black stripes. I continue levitating him and put in on a branch on the adjacent tree. I then go for a nice fly ...

Wow! Two lucid tasks completed in a night...that's great James. You have pretty good control in your dreams, especially the levitation one, which is very interesting!!

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.

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.

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.