Lucid Task of the Month for February 2008

**TimeStopper** · 02-25-2008 03:54 PM

Hooray for LDing, I didn't even try and I got 2 LDs (DILD)!

But anyways this one goes it occurred inside my bedroom. Initially I thought I woke, however seeing that I could move things around and flip switches with only my mind, I quickly knew it was a dream.

So I approached this computer in my room and it had that paperclip thing from Microsoft Word and some yellow creature.

First question the paperclip asked him: "Should I be here lucid dreaming instead of doing my work?" And he replies, "Your pen doesn't have a mind!"

Then I asked for the definition for fallacious and the other guy (not the paperclip) gave me the definition which was basically right "falling to error".

Then I told him to tell me something that I didn't know about myself and the computer screen floods with information that I can't read except for something about a brain and a fox.

Then I realized I was naked...

**naikou** · 02-25-2008 06:25 PM

*annoyed*

I finally managed to break my lucid dry spell, but I knew that it was almost time for my alarm to go off, so I decided to quickly get the basic task done. The first person I found was my little brother, and I said to him, "Tell me something about myself that I don't know."

Little brother: "Umm... huh?"
Me: "Tell me something about myself that I don't know."
Little Brother: "mm... uh... ... hmm... ... .. .. ... ... .. .... ... ... .uh... hmm... ..... mmm... ..... ... what?"
Me: *hits him with a guitar* "You're useless."

The dream was over soon after that. ;_;

**ninja9578** · 02-26-2008 04:47 AM

Originally Posted by naikou

Me: *hits him with a guitar*

Ever heard "Death of an American Guitar" It was on Jim Steinman's "Bad for Good" album then again on Meat Loaf's "Bat out of Hell 2" album.

**Luminous** · 02-26-2008 06:36 AM

I finished the basic one! Haha, that was fun.

I was already lucid, and the dream had been going on for a while. I was in this cafeteria area when I suddenly remembered the task I had worked so hard on remembering yesterday. I knew that I would wake soon, so I hurried to find a random DC. I found a man sitting in a lounge area, and I sat down in a lounge chair at the other side of his table.

"Hi... Can you tell me something about myself that I don't know already?"
He looked at me. "You know how females produce free milk, right?" "Er, yes..." "Then you can afford to raise your children." (I assume he meant future children, as I don't have any children, and I didn't in the dream either). Then he laughed and said: "Sorry, that was mean." I tried to reply, but the dream faded and I woke up. The answer really surprised me.

But I don't think it really answered my question correctly.

**AlexLou** · 02-28-2008 12:39 AM

I had tried this task twice before. The first time I didn't even dream. The second, there was nothing substantial in my lucid, it was just colors and thoughts zooming by so I decided that I had too little control and woke up.

Finally Success:
I knew I was dreaming. I was at my parents' house and my old dog was there. The one that's been dead for 7 years or so. I was delighted to see him and not at all sad because I got to say goodbye to him years ago in another lucid. He put his head in my lap while I pet him and I was surprised by how big his head was and was amazed that my sleeping mind remembered details that I thought I'd forgotten.

I remembered the tasks and went into the backyard to see if I could summon a groundhog. My mom was watering out there and it was night. Everything looked so realistic. I thought that if I was gonna have any chance at imagining a groundhog it would have to be day because the youtube videos I watched were of groundhogs on sunny summer days. I looked up at the sky and tried to turn it to day for about a sec, then gave up. I looked at the ground and tried to conjure a groundhog. But I concluded that this dream was far too realistic and as a result I was unlikely to be able to impact it with my imagination. I decided to enjoy my time with my dog.

I woke up. Or did I? I'm so confused now.

I decided to try for the task again and went back to sleep and was dreaming in the same place. Only this time, my parents' backyard was a sunny farm. I went outside and there were horses. I walked a little ways, then conjured a groundhog. I was delighted to have succeeded and decided to try to levitate him. It was so easy, he went up with his belly toward me flailing his legs. I looked at him in the air and now he had tusks. I decided that he looked like a boar and distinctly cartoonish, and for a sec I was afraid that I hadn't succeeded because it wasn't a groundhog, but I decided that it had been a groundhog before it got to about 6 feet up.

There was an animal nearby that could have been another groundhog. I addressed it: "Tell me something about myself that I don't know."

"What?!" It asked.

"Tell me something about myself that I don't know."

It didn't answer, just looked at me like I was crazy.

"Tell me something about myself that I don't know."

"Tell you something about yourself that you don't know," It said, "That doesn't make any sense . . ."

I was satisfied with this answer. Of course the question doesn't make any sense. Dream characters only know things that I already know; I'm essentially talking to myself.

I woke to go post here. I was at my parents' house. I went over to the dining room table and read the date on the paper. It was March 1st! I was too late! I decide to post anyway and went upstairs to the computer. I tried to navigate to these forums but ended up with a World of Warcraft-like window where all the characters were doing a new dance in rows. I was confused: Was this the dream forums? Did my dad leave World of Warcraft open? But if my dad did leave World of Warcraft open, why was my character online dancing? My mom had followed me upstairs and was asking me what it was. She has no clue about video games or the internet and thought this might be normal. I noticed that I was forgetting bits of what had happened before, far too rapidly for me to be conscious . . . I realized that I hadn't woken at all and finally woke for real.

I was so confused when I woke up. I've never had a false waking and took more than a sec to realize that I was still dreaming. Guess I was just too exited to go post.