Lucid Task for the Month of March 2008

Alright, I must admit, the first one was harder than the second one.. for me, at least. Took place in two dreams.

First dream, for the indestructable thing.
I was a boy, which immediatly set something off in my brain, making me realize I was dreaming. I was in a barn, in a stall, precisley. And these men were taking aim at me, ready to kill me on the other side of the barn. So I threw a bale of hay out and attempted to duck behind it, knowing full well that it wouldnt work. They shot me. So I dodged out of the barn, and they were immediatly in their van, and they shot at me again, sending me flying off the cliff into the water. I climbed onto shore, and sat down. (This part took a great deal of concentration) I forced the bullets out of my body. Strangley enough I wasnt bleeding, but after the bullets were out I was immediatley slammed into
DREAM TWO
Here i lose some of my control over my dream, for im in a snowy winterland driving my dad's crappy gas guzzling GMC jimmy through the ice and snow. its in 4wd, but its not going anywhere. So I get out, and study my hand. Trying to regain more control of my dream. Finally i get steady control and turn towards the car, trying to get it up the mountain. I give it a small peice of its own life force, so I dont have to be in the car while its going up the mountain. Not sure where my thinking came from.. but its a dream, right? So the car goes up the mountain, with me swinging from pine tree branches, following it.

So in dream two, the car didnt really 'come to life'.. but i made it move on its own.

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Originally Posted by ninja9578

Alex - Hmm, I need a second opinion from Clairity. You knew you were indestructible, but you never actually got shot or fell, you kind of slid down a slope, if I'm reading it right. :?

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Based on what I read, I agree with ninja.. I don't think it counts.

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Originally Posted by eppy

i dont know if this counts, but last night i had a lucid where i was hanging with friends and they wanted to get in a car and fall off of a building in it and we did. it was pretty sweet, my stomach dropped like i was on a roller coaster.

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eppy, did the car slam full force into the ground with you in it?

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Originally Posted by DeadDollKitty

So in dream two, the car didnt really 'come to life'.. but i made it move on its own.

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DDK, I don't think you accomplished the advanced task because you just made the car move on it's own which isn't bringing it to life.

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Originally Posted by Clairity

Based on what I read, I agree with ninja.. I don't think it counts.



eppy, did the car slam full force into the ground with you in it?

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yeah

Well I guess i'll try these next time I LD, however I just wanted to point out this gives me a new idea for next month heh, kill someone, bring them back to life, and then ask them what being dead feels like X.X

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Originally Posted by AlexCrafter

This is kinda what it looked like:
http://i47.servimg.com/u/f47/11/17/31/86/th/drm10.jpg

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20 meters is high enough, I'll get your wings now.

Yay, I did the advanced task. :D

Here (an exact copy from my DJ)

3/10: Girders?

I start out in my bedroom. I go down to the kitchen to eat breakfast. I got a really weird feeling so I did an RC. It worked! :D

I teleported to a random area where there could be something I can bring to life. I turned out to go to this area with steel girders. On top of one of the steel girders there was a ball. A little kid was crying. I decided "Hey, I can do the lucid task of the month!" I just turned the ball to life and the ball walked off the girders to the kid.

Then I jumped off to swim, but just as I hit the water, I woke up. :(

Dayum!


Tonight I had my first lucid dream in about three months and it was a little action paced. I was in some sort of mall hallway with lots of stores to the left and the right of me. On the end of the hallway there was a wall completely made of glass. I saw it and considered jumping out of it to really feel that this was all going the way I want it to, but I hesitated a little and suddenly I heard a loud bang behind me and gunshots were fired. I turned aroudn and some guys with ski masks and Assault rifles were coming down the hallway. Some middle-aged man was standing next to me and the terrorists saw him, pointed their guns at him and yelled "There he is!". So I grabbed him and ran towards the glass thinking (This is gonna turn out fine, it's a dream, I'm fucking invincibleeeeeeeee" and broke through that whole glasswall shoulder first, pulling that guy with me. The building was three stories high and we fell deep and hit the groudn pretty hard. As I stood up. that dude next to me was knocked unconscious. Looking up I saw those terrorists pointing their guns at me, I started running towards the wall of the building, accidentially slipped through and woke up.

Does that count? I didn't know about the tasks at that point, but still, I did it because I was sure I was indestructable.

I completed the invulnerability test in my LD yesterday.

I had 3 nap induced WILD yesterday. I was at a friends house with my GF and the two of them were in another room trying on some new clothes and trying to pick out a dress they liked. So i was out lying on the couch in the other room. I was tired so i took a nap for about 15 min and had a regular non-lucid dream. They came out all dressed up and asked me if i liked what they were wearing. I shook my head and said yes i do like it you look very pretty, then they went back to their room and got changed again. I only moved my head so it was easy to fall back asleep, I decided to do a WILD and in a few moments was lucid. I found myself flying through space and decided i wanted to dive into Jupiter, so I did, The dense gas was like an ocean it was so thick and strange. As i floated through the water I saw marvelous beast, like a whale except much bigger and a lot scarier looking. I bored quickly of this beast as it would not talk to me or acknowledge my presence, so i flew towards earth. I dove straight into the atmosphere and felt the warmth as I entered in. I left myself to free-fall into the ocean again and had an amazing time free falling I did not try to slow myself as i descended and hit the water traveling fast enough to have splattered myself. My body stopped for a second as I hit the water because of the resistance of hitting something but i sank a moment after that. I plunged down into the abyss and once i reached the bottom of the ocean it was pitch black so i decided to light it up a little. It was really boring down there then my GF walks up to me in my dream all dressed up and says "how do i look, do you like it?" bam i was back in reality and looking at her dressed in a nice black dress. I shook my head again and told her how beautiful she is. She was all happy and went back into the other room to change again. The other 2 LD were fun but irrelevant to the LD task of the month.

I did the basic task again just for fun. I did it to show that there are more fun ways to prove that you're indestructible than jumping out of a window :tonguewiggle:

I felt the onset of sleep paralysis and new that I'd be dreaming soon. I found myself on a ship and there was another ship pulling away. I decided to do the basic task again for fun. I grabbed ahold of the ship that was moving and let it pull me and the other ship along. I was taking the entire weight of the second ship as the first one tried to pull us.

We moved far out and then the first ship started to sink, doing it on purpose I guess. The smokestack disappeared underneath the water and I pulled the other ship under too. Once we were pretty far down I jumped over the railing, knowing that my body was now completely asleep.

I got the basic!!
Im afraid of flying, so when I was being chased by my best friend who just happened to be carrying a chainsaw, I jumped through a window and I summoned an airplane to overcome my fear, but what I got was a tinyyyy ass airplane. its wingspan was probably like 3 ft. So anyways, I was holding on to the wings of the airplane and I started to maneuver and control it. I was flying allllll over the place! Over trees and people and stuff I had a blast.
Very awesome LD for me, also my longest.

The task was to prove that you're indestructible, not to overcome your fear :tonguewiggle: If you had crashed the plane or let the chainsaw slice you up it would have worked. :)

Last night I was at my school in a dream, I was stabbed. Does that count, If not, I'll probably have something by the end of the week.

I completed the advance task last night.

I was in a bedroom and I looked at the television to see what time it is. As I look at the time it was unreadable and as I tryed to focus on the numbers more I then realized that I was dreaming. I then immidiately thought of the advance task to make an inanimate object come to life and began looking around for something. I was inside some house or apartment I have never been in before with brown carpet. I made my way down the hall and I found a table in the kitchen area. I looked for something that would be interesting to bring to life. The only thing on the table was cups and bowls and plates and I thought how boring so I looked harder and saw a golf-ball-sized glass ornament that was orange and yellow shaped as a fish. Then when I looked again it was now the size of a football. I looked at this orange yellow fish and pointed towards it willing it to come to life. I got nothing. Then with a second more concentrated try I got it to slowly come to life. First its tail fin started moving from side to side, then its side fins and finally its mouth opened and closed like fish mouths do. The fish then swam off of the table into the air around me. I then played fetch with it throwing some small object into the air saing "get it boy, get it." and the fish did. It swam around in the air for a little bit weaving in and out of china plates on a shelf. Becuase it was still glass the middle part of the fishes body was stiff so he was a little clumsy and bumped into some of the plates.

did anyone else wake like 5 seconds after they proved they're indestructable? i jumped off a buildng

I kept on jumping over and over.

This whole taks gave me an idea for acheiving lucidity. I'm going to design and animate the space I want to dream of before I sleep.

I completed the advanced task for november but when i woke up i forgot that it was march and that it was old :). at least i still completed one even if it was a little late.:D

Don't try it if you are a sleepwalker!!! Or if you take Ambien. Could be hazardous. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/08/bu.../08ambien.html

I think I need to remind everyone of the following:

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Originally Posted by pj

Report back in this thread, even if you didn't successfully accomplish the task, your efforts should make interesting reading! This is required in order to get credit, it is no longer sufficient just to say that you did it.

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Please remember that you need to describe your lucid experience not just post one sentence stating you did the task.

Meh. I had a lucid last night. I was running through a cave-like hall and realized I was dreaming. It went on for a little while but the moment I thought about doing the DV lucid task of the month I woke up.

Bummer. :(

Alright! Did both tasks last night in the same dream. It was a very epic dream with low level lucidity. Plus, it had a bunch of DV member cameos! It inspired me to start a dream journal

I included a sketch of the meat machines in my DJ:
http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=54817


Alien beings have traveled from a far away planet to invade the earth. They are here to harvest humans as food. To do this, they have converted their spaceships into giant meat processing plants that grind humans down to pulp.

I find myself a prisoner in one of these huge meat processing concentration camps. I am there with several other people waiting in line to get shredded alive by a giant spherical meat grinder. Everyone except for me seems to be in a drugged trance. Like zombies walking to their horribly painful deaths. I am horrified, but somehow realize that this is a dream. I reason that I am lucid, but everyone else is still dreaming. This is why they are all zombified.

I start yelling at people, shaking them, trying to get them to realize that this is a dream, and they don't have to be killed. I try to save them. No one will listen to me. I watch helplessly as they are ripped apart one by one and ground down in giant pencil sharpeners. I remember the task of the month as a way to wake people up. I get up on a platform and yell to the crowd, "This is a dream! If you become Lucid like me, we can escape! I will prove it by jumping into this grinder, and coming out unharmed."

I lower myself into the top, and feel the wind from the spinning blades blow against my feet. I lower myself further down, and my foot gets ripped off in a spray of blood. I feel the pain, but it feels distant, so I am reassured this is a dream. I jump in all the way, and feel a thousand blades close in around me. They close in from the bottom up, and the outside in, like a giant pencil sharpener. My legs and arms are torn off first, then my entire body is ripped and sliced into a thousand pieces.

My consciousness remains, and I feel myself pass through the machine, and slop out the bottom in a pile of gore. I form the puddle of my remains back into a body, like the Terminator or Alex Mack. Somehow my survival has destroyed the machine. I see them failing all over the factory. The lights shut off, and alarms start to sound.

Everyone runs from the building, and I meet up with a group of survivors in a burned out house. I recognize several of the survivors as DV members. I recognize Adam, Burns, Twoshadows, and Aquanina We discuss our plans to retake the earth from the aliens, and save all the people who are still not Lucid. It appears that my lucidity destroyed all the meat plants all over the world, and the alien Alien spaceships. The aliens were planning on harvesting us as food and then returning to their home planets. Now that we destroyed their spaceships, they can not go home. They have given up on killing humans, and are now gathering all the world's energy and fuel to create portals home.

We scramble to pack our things. I run through the house gathering everything valuable to me. As I pass by a copy of Exploring the World of Lucid Dreams by Stephen Laberge, I am reminded that this is a dream. I look at the bag of dirty socks I am trying to stuff into my suitcase. I think of the other task of the month, and dump the socks out on the ground. As they fall, I will them to life. They turn into mice that still look like socks. They start squirming and inching all over the floor. Burns laughs, and pulls two kittens out of her suitcase. They chase the sock mice, and disappear under the furniture.

As I gather my things, I feel the dream slipping. I try to imagine what the outcome of this dream will be. How the story will end. I get brief flashes of the future, like a movie preview. Myself, Adam, Burns, Twoshadows, and Aquanina piled into a car on a road trip for the rest of our lives. We run from town to town in a post apocalyptic wasteland trying to find enough gasoline to keep driving. At one point, stuffed in the back seat with all our suitcases and pillows, I reach over and take Aquanina's hand. I know that we will have a love story that is crucial to the plot of the dream. I think how great this will be that we will all become such great friends.

I see a view of the closing credits. It's Burns's kitten walking to the car with my dirty sock in its mouth.

Hah, it seems I've inadvertently completed the first one :eh:.

This morning I was drifting in and out of consciousness after my alarm rang. I had a succession of short LDs, in one of them, I was at a festival outside somewhere. I ended up in a hot-air balloon teathered maybe a thousand feet off the ground with some older lady. For some reason, the lady jumped out of the basket and I quickly followed her, plumeting to the ground. I could feel myself accelerating, weightless, and after maybe 4 or 5 seconds, I hit the ground hard. Of course, I got up unscathed and brushed myself off, which would be tricky in reality... So do I get a prize?

Ok, so I did the first task, and I have to admit, this was one of my best lucids.

I have a false awakening in my old house, and become lucid after a nose RC. I remember the tasks, and realize I am in luck because I am on the third floor. I decide to do something rather suicidal and jump out the window. I have trouble getting through the screen, so I rip it open with my teeth, and jump out. I fall, and hit the ground with a jolt.

I saw my mom's SUV and decide to drive into a city I could see from where I was standing. I noticed the little unlock buttons on the side are in the wrong order, but the door opened anyway. I started the car, (without a key) and zoomed, in reverse, out of the driveway. I hit a building and was thrown from the car. I decided to walk to someplace exciting.

I walked around for a bit, until a seedy-looking bar caught my eye. I walked in, and before anyone could notice I was there, I punched the nearest person in the face. They attacked me, and I felt a poke in my side, like a needle, and something being injected into my body. I stepped back and yelled, "Haha, I'm indestructible!!" At that point everyone in the bar went to attack me. They forced me up against the counter, and the bartender hit me over the head with a beer bottle...twice. I got up and ran out the door.

I ran down the street, and found a place a little more low-key. Just some people playing cards, in a large dark room. I picked out a cute guy and asked him to come with me to the back. He followed, but before we could do anything, everyone in the building rushed in there, yelling, "The werewolves are here!!" I pulled open a curtain, and saw wolf-like men smashing through the windows. At this point I started to wake up, so I spun and somehow ended up on the street.

I went into a 50's looking diner, asked an old man where I dreamguide was and then stepped out to find him. It was a young (my age) dark-skinned guy with short, dark hair. He could have been Native American. He kept insisting he was my DG, but as I was waking up, he was telling me how the old man was a corrupt mayor, so I don't think he's the right guy.

So, YAY!! That task was probably the most fun of all the ones I have done.

I didn't remember about the Tasks until after my dream, but I am wondering if it would still count:

Last night I had a Lucid where I was in my room, and had just realized I was lucid. it was my first time EVER taking control and I was pretty excited. I decided that to make sure I was asleep(i wasn't sure), I'd try my first attempt to fly. I have never made myself jump off of a high place, and allow myself to fall into the ground. Well, I made myself jump out the window, and since I didn't know how to start flying, I smacked right into the ground(and then flew)

would this count for the first task?

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Originally Posted by drmrgrl

I didn't remember about the Tasks until after my dream, but I am wondering if it would still count:

would this count for the first task?

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drmrgrl, the rule is that you have to deliberately do the task. So if you didn't think about it until afterwards then it doesn't count.

You did a good job, though.

I'm sure you can do something similar again, this time on purpose.

I finally had a long enough lucid to do one of the Tasks this month.

Lucid Nap Dream:

I knew I was supposed to talk to NJ. The next thing I knew I was walking into her house without knocking. I called out for her. I looked down the hallway and saw her husband quickly shut one of the doors in the hallway.

I was suddenly motified that I had just walked into their house without knocking. I realized that S had to shut the door so I wouldn't wake up thier two year old son that I knew he had just gotten to sleep.

I saw N and apologized fro walking into their house without knocking. That I had no idea what had come over me. I then asked her what she needed to talk to me about. I knew she had called me earlier saying that she needed to talk to me about something, but I no longer remembered what that was. She looked a little confused too and said that she didn't know either.

Suddenly a suspicion came over me. I wouldn't walk into anyone's house without knocking in real life.

I then said to N, "You know, I think this is a dream. In fact, I know this is a dream. Wanna come to the door and watch me fly?"

I opened the door and then flew out. I felt so good to finally be in a lucid dream again. It had been so long.

As soon as I thought this it all began to fade. I felt mad that it was all over already. Then I thought angrily to myself, "Every day on Dreamviews I give suggestions to the Newbies about extending their LDs and preventing things like this from happening. And I can't even keep it from happening to myself."

Then another thought suddenly hit me, "Why don't I actually try some of the things that I tell the Newbies to do?" :shock:

At this point most of the visual was gone, though not completely. And I felt somewhat aware of my physical body in bed. I decided to try the "rubbing my hands together" trick. I did and and felt a little worried that I was actually rubbing my real hands together in bed, because it really felt very real.

I then concentrated with the visual. I have noticed in the past when entering a dream it is often easier to just imagine the scenery passing me by, instead of making myself move through the scenery. So I was able to do this and everything became much more vivid again.

I continued to fly over the neighborhood. I moved my arms as I flew "Swimming" style. I still wondered if I was moving my arms in real life. I felt if I moved my hands lower that they would suddenly catch on the blankets. But then I moved my hands so they were moving below my body closer to my chest and stomach. They didn't catch on anything, so I knew that what felt so much like my physical body was once again just my dream body. (This isn't the first time I have thought I was moving my physical body, when it was only my dream body all along.)

I saw an interesting tree below. I flew up to it and over the top touching my hands all over the top as I flew. It looked like it was shaped as a topiary. It was either dead or dormant because the leaves were all brown and crunchy. But the tree was all filled in and very dense... and very round.

I flew around it again and this time put my hands on the top and tried to do a handstand. I tried it several times until I felt like I was completely straight. I balanced there for a bit enjoying the feeling of being upside down.

At that point I heard Mrs. Moore's voice from down below say, "Well, I've never seen anyone do that before." I knew that she knew that this was a lucid dream. But I understood her to mean that she had never seen someone do that in their lucid dream before.

I started to fly again. Twice more the dream started to fade and I was able to follow my own advice and bring it back. Each time I felt very close to losing the dream. So I was very proud of myself for getting it to continue. I really didn't want to lose lucidty yet. I needed to have the joy of having a long lucid again.

At that point it hit me that I really needed to try one of the Tasks of the Month since I hadn't had a chance to even try yet. My mind was blank for a moment as I tried to remember. The first one that I remembered was the "indestructable" task. I really didn't feel like doing that right now. I then reemmebered that the other one was to bring an inanimate object to life. I really wanted to do that one.

I looked down below and saw a front yard. In it was a lot of gravel. My first thought was that I would swoop down and fly really low and make the rocks come to life and run after me. That thought actually sounded very appealing to me, as I pictured the little rocks with little stick legs running down the street.

So I swooped down...but the rocks didn't follow me. I decided that I needed to put a little mor effort into it. I landed right in front of the yard. I took a good look at it. There were some dead looking bushes in a planter type area. There was also a plastic flamingo and a ceramic cat nestled in among the dead bushes. There were several choices here....

I wondered how I should try this. I then remembered that when I made the tree walk (as a past Task of the Month) that I had just looked at it with the expectation that it would walk. I had done nothing special. So I just stood there looking into the garden and waited.

I glanced over at the ceramic cat. It's eye suddenly blinked. So it would be the cat. I was thrilled that my mind was able to do this while I just stood there doing nothing.

I watched the cat. It started to walk over to me. I knelt down, and touched the cat. I could feel real fur. It was a small cat, white with black stripes. It looked up at me while I continued to pet it. It's fur was very short and somewhat think, almost like a stuffed animal. But it was very real, and it purred while I pet it.

And at that point I woke up.