Thread: Lucid Task for the Month of March 2008

Wow my birthday is on monday it came so fast.... Im gonna get lucid tonight.... Im going to FILD... which works 98% for me. I had school all this dryspell and laziness these last 2weeks on the weekend prevented my LDING. I will attempt both. Wish me luck

I believe this will count for the basic task, though the task is very open to interpretation.

I tell myself before trying a LD attempt that if I wake in the house, I will put my hand over the stove and leave it roasting over the flame for a while.

Sure enough, I have a WILD and find myself on the couch. I get up and go to othe kitchen. The stove has two burners already conveniently on. I check the time and notice it's 3:01 am which is when I started my LD attempt (went back to bed) - another clue this is truly a dream.

I first put my left hand over the flame, imagining a coolness to it. It stays cool and comfortable for a while, then starts to get very hot. Using my mind, I envision the temperature reverting back to a nice cool sensation and it does. However, things again diverge from this. Suddenly, the flames start climbing up my hand, getting more and more yellow (as opposed to the natural gas blue) reaching a foot over my hand. The fire starts to give off a crackling/poping sort of sound much like a camp fire would. Again, knowing it's a dream, I relax and mentally get the temperature and flames under control.

I pull out my left hand after a minute or so of this type of excercise and there is no damage at all. I repeat this process with my right hand - again no damage.

Like I thought I was able to do the basic task last night.

I was at my school and I saw a glass window that was four stories up. I jumped out it, I flew for a while, then let myself fall. I hit the ground at full force, bounced up, and didn't even feel it.

A full account of the dream is in both of my dream journals

Awsome, I've actually done both of these before. Now if I could only get lucid.

This is my first time doing lucid tasks and I am quite surprised that I was able to do the advanced task...

Advanced task: I was outside of my house in my driveway. I tried to use some verbal commands like 'Increase Lucidity!' and 'Increase Clarity!' Each time I did this, horizontal bands of dark and light color would move vertically toward the ground, but nothing appeared to become clearer. I looked at a white cavelier in my driveway (which no one owns...). I concentrated on making it animate. It turned into something resembling a car from the movie Cars. had a mouth under the grill. As soon as this happened it drove out made a right turn and drove out of view. I did the same for a truck that was driving by but it was already moving. I just put a mouth on it... I then tried to animate a house and failed.

Basic Task: Later, I was standing along side of a busy road in my neighborhood. A line line of cars was passing in the opposite lane and one was coming from afar in the closer lane. The car in the distance pulled off the road, and I began walking down the road in the closer lane. After the line of cars passes, I see a big blue ford truck coming down the road. Right before it passes me I jump out in front of it so it cant slow down. I got a weird sensation and the next thing I know, Im still standing facing the other direction. I guess that means it passed through me. This is the first time I didnt wake up from a death experience in a dream. Of course, this is the first time I should have died in a lucid dream.

I voted for this advanced task, cause during the polls, I already tried once, but didn't succeed in bringing a big stone table to life. Now I had the opportunity to try again (being an advanced task increases my motivation to try something). I was quite hard, I don't have a lot of dream control yet (I'm also working on Telekinesis) but with some 'dream cheating' I managed to get a trash container to live


I step out of the window, onto an orange tiled roof. First I want to practice a little TK. I strech my arm forward and reach out with my mind to a flag pole, attached to our neighbours house. It takes some time before I can feel it, but then I swing it back and forth. Next: try to levitate one of the people walking on the street. Again I stretch my arm and try to grab him with my mind, but it's very hard, since he's moving. The only thing I accomplish, is slapping him on his but. And oh, the surprise of this guy when he gets hit by me without seeing anything I slap him a few times and then descend onto the street.

There's a big green cylindrical trash container. I decide this will be the object I'm going to bring to life. It would be cool if he'd throw up all his trash . It has a smiley drawn on it's 'belly', maybe that helps in bringing it to life. I focus on it, but nothing happens. Then I remember the use of 'magic potion' for dream control. A bottle of coca cola is on the street and I pretend 'this bottle contains a magic liquid to bring objects to life'. But when trying to grab it, it changes into a small grey dustbin . Behind it, it another bottle of cola, so I take that and poor it over my green trash container. Nothing happens....

I call the people on the street and they gather around the container. Come on, I say, let's motivate the trash container to become alive! And so they do They yell with me "Go Container, COME ON, Get Alive!" It works! It shakes a bit and makes a big yawn. But then I wake up

Pff, asking a question to some DC is much easier!

I tried both tasks this morning, but only completed the advanced.

I was in a large, dim rectangular room. The room held a small rollercoaster. I never saw the coaster, but the track covered most of the room. For some reason, I had to walk from the safe spot I was in, across the room. This made me nervous, but I did it anyways. About 3/4 of the way through, I realized I was dreaming, and remembered the tasks.

I walked the rest of the way across the room, and found the electronic equipment that controlled the rollercoaster. I figured that being unharmed by severe electrocution would probably be a good way to complete the basic task, and picked up a large bundle of wires. I ripped the wires in half, and held the ends, but I felt nothing. This suprised me, as I thought I would feel a little bit of electricity. I held up the wires, and moved them close together, and didn't see any sparks at all, and concluded that there wasn't any power going through them. I decided to just move on to the advanced task.

I walked across the room again, to a large, wooden desk. I reached into my pocket, and just as I had planned, I found an origami dragon, like the one in my avatar, although it was made with notebook paper. I held it up, and told it to live. Sure enough, it began to move, and I set it down on the desk. Oddly, it didn't hold it's form very well, and most of the time it looked more like a crumpled piece of notebook paper than a dragon. It moved around for a little bit, and I decided to move on. I picked it up, put it back in my pocket, turned away from the desk, and I remember nothing after that.

Hey, You know, I didn't realize it until just now, but I did something in my lucid on Saturday morning that might count for the basic task. I'll throw it out here just in case it qualifies. I didn't even know what the task was, but coincidentally, did something dangerous.

From my journal:

I was walking around my neighborhood with this girl who, in the dream, I used to be friends with when we were little and we grew up together. I had a flashback of us being kids and we snuck through a row of trees into some guys yard to steal some fruit. He threw something at us and we ran away. Now we were older and walking around. There were kids that were bouncing a ball to each other across the street and stopped as we walked past.

At one point, we were walking back to my house, and I noticed the streets weren't right. Like I was walking on Tuxedo, but it was going north to south. This made me become lucid, but it was pretty low level. I had no control. We arrived at the house, and it was strange. There was a front porch and a balcony, like the old two family houses. The sill on the porch rail was made of a pressure treated 2x12, and I climbed up the front of the house. The upper balcony opened right into the attic. I was in there and decided I wanted to get back down. I spontaneously gained control. I was about to climb down, but thought, "Hey, this is a dream, why don't I leap off and fly?" So I did. I fell almost all the way to the ground, but was confident that I would be able to fly.

Suddenly, near the bottom, I swooped up and started to fly over the street and towards the houses on the other side of the street. It was incredible. It felt like riding a roller coaster. I had butterflies in my stomach. The excitement was too much and I woke up. I still had butterflies as I lay there in bed. The high level lucidity was short, but flying was awesome.

I missed the perfect opportunity to do the basic task the other night. I had a giant enemy crab coming at me, but I chickened out and willed myself to wake up.

I look forward to proving I'm indestructible.

grr... I didnt wake up when my alarm went off. I decided to quit FILD on the weekdays and use it only on the weekend. I'm trying to have a DILD by doing RC's throughout the week. I have a idea for the basic Im gonna do, if anyone want one of the ULTIMATE ways to prove your indestructive: PULL YOUR HEART OUT! shove your hand into your chest and yank it out!

It's hard for me to find motivation to do anything other than Tasks of the Month with lucid dreams these days. As usual, I took a crack at these ones. I think I got both of them in the same dream period.

I became aware that I was dreaming through some vague dreamsign. (I almost always seem to forget exactly what the dreamsign is.) I was in someplace resembling the building in which I work. I remembered the Tasks, and figured I could jump out (and through) one of the windows to prove I'm indestructible. I went up to the window and decided to drop in such a way that would lead to a faceplant on the pavement below. I landed softly and safely, staring at asphalt.

But I didn't think that was enough. I wanted to brave all four elements to really prove my indestructibility. I counted that fall as "air," and decided to find a volcano so I could bathe in lava and brave "fire." I found one, and went inside with my little sister to bateh in lava pools. She complained of being hot after a while, but did not die; I was a bit warm but mostly comfortable. There was not much vivid detail here, and I think the lava was more "assumed" than anything. The surroundings were mostly just a dark cave.

Sometime in the middle of my quest for indestructibility, while I was distracted, I thought of the Advacned task of bringing something inanimate to life. I was in a room with a small exercise machine (child-sized, even) that sort of resembled a gazelle - its frame had "horns" in the front. I was hoping to make it come alive as some strange two-legged robotic gazelle. I made the pedals turn with my hands, and they kept going for a little while, but the thing did not come to life despite my wishful/magical thinking.

Apparently having skipped or forgotten about Water or assumed I'd done that, I went on to prove my invincibility against Earth by looking for a place with falling rocks or bricks. I went behind a building for that, accompanied by a tall, stocky man in front of me. I wasn't really seeing the bricks, and I was occasionally feeling them lightly, and occasionally going "Ouch" for effect even though I wasn't really hurt. The big guy in front of me seemed to get hurt more, but still survived the bricks just fine.

After that ordeal was over, I satisfied myself that I was done with the Basic Task, and ready to take another crack at the Advanced. I soon found myself in a car with my boyfriend. I reasoned there that Love might be just the thing to bring an inanimate object to life, as it made the Velveteen Rabbit real in the classic children's story. So I decided to try it with a purple plastic mechanical pencil: I gently petted the pencil with my index finger and cooed. And, voila! It began to squirm and crawl like a caterpillar, for a few seconds. Then it stopped after it had moved maybe 6 or 8 inches away from its original location. Shortly after that, I lost interest in it. I tried something similar with some dried strawberry snacks, and they seemed to move around a bit too. I remembered something allegedly from the advertisements for those dried strawberries about loving the strawberries and loving the Earth.

And then things started to fade more or less permanently to being half-awake. (The dream had faded somewhat a few times, but little enough that I was able to pick up where I left off after the blurry periods.)

An exact quote from my dream journal: (Sorry, the color is hard to read but just highlight it, I like this color for WILD's.

3/3: I'm indestructable!

I had my first WILD last night. It was really scary and I could barely move.

I start off at my house. I went to visit a friend at a mobile home. Then, I remembered the lucid tasks. I had to first prove I'm indestructable. I thought "Hmmm.... what always strikes mobile homes? Oh yeah, tornadoes!" I summoned a huge tornado right towards me.

My friend started running, crying, and anything else of the sort. However, I held my ground. I knew what was coming up. As soon as the tornado hit me, it tossed me around five thousand feet in the air! I was flipping all over the place. It got so scary that I lost lucidity. Then, however, a few minutes into it and I regained lucidity! I realized that the chances of this happening are really low.

However, before I hit the ground I thought of doing the advanced task. I was looking at the airplane. I tried to animate it but my brain couldn't do it properly. Then I hit the ground and woke up.

Originally Posted by unseen wombat

I was about to climb down, but thought, "Hey, this is a dream, why don't I leap off and fly?" So I did. I fell almost all the way to the ground, but was confident that I would be able to fly.

Suddenly, near the bottom, I swooped up and started to fly over the street and towards the houses on the other side of the street. It was incredible. It felt like riding a roller coaster. I had butterflies in my stomach. The excitement was too much and I woke up.

Sorry unseen wombat, but I don't think deciding to leap off a house's upper balcony and flying qualifies as doing something to prove that you're indestructable. Plus you didn't really overcome a fear as you were already confident that you would be able to fly.

The month is young.. so please give it another shot!

I am not sure if this counts but I will leave it up to you.

Basic Task? surviving a nuclear explosion

I try to make a Nuclear explosion from my hands in the way Sylar from heroes does , so I concentrate onto my hand until I get that tingly feeling then I clench my fist and release a small but very bright mini explosion. Thrilled I managed to do this I cup both my hands together and concentrate once more but putting as much effort in as possible. Then I release the pent up energy.

My view shift to 3rd person and I see the brightest flash I have ever seen, everything else is blacked out. Then I see the mushroom cloud take shape and the darkness slowly recedes as everything comes back into vision. My view switches back to normal and I cant see because things are still so bright! and I fly away as fast as I can crashing through walls in houses and flying out the other side so fast its almost a blur.

rest of the dream here: http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...postcount=1330

I did the basic task!
I was hit in the head with a spear. It felt very strange, like I was actually hit by a real spear, just without the pain. I nearly chickened out too.

Original Post Here

Originally Posted by Hiros' Journal

I walk out into the grass field a bit and look up at the wall I'm standing near. I can see a soldier on the top carrying a spear. I remember the basic task and think I should provoke him and get hit by the spear. I try to yell out but my voice isn't working and I barely make a sound. The guy looks anyway and starts yelling out something in another language. I chicken out and start walking towards the catwalk entrance at the edge of the cliff because I start to think I might wake up if I get "killed" by the spear. He throws the spear in front of me a bit like he's leading his target, I just stop moving and it misses. This happens another 4 times, like he's got a whole stack of spears with him. Each one misses very easily. I think this guy is a lousy shot. I'm almost at the catwalk so I'm going to make a run for it until he can't reach me anymore, but now there is another soldier down on the grass, also with a spear. He throws it and I somehow stand my ground. The spear hits me right in the forehead. It doesn't hurt at all, nor did I wake up, but it felt very disturbing.

So I had a quick LD last night, and hopefully what I did counts for the basic task

I tried the advanced one, too, but failed.

I'm in this weird kind of place that's sort of like a gigantic cave (but really disproportionate, like several the "ceiling" is several thousand feet high), and instantly lucid. I look around, and think of doing the basic task. I notice there's a kind of contest going on, conveniently enough, where some guys are trying to climb a sort of skyscraper. I decide I'll take a leap off that, and try to fly up to it. However, I float up into the air a bit, and then just fall back down.

After a bunch of tries, I still don't manage to do it, and decide to try something else. Taking a kind of running start, I try to walk forwards and upwards on thin air. Surprisingly enough, it works out perfectly. I airwalk to the top of the building, and I think some announcer through a megaphone mentions it. There's a kind of cushion on the ground that I use as a target (although I guess it was kinda stupid if I'm trying to prove I'm indestructible). I jump off, and try to position myself so that I'll hit neck/head first. I land without pain, and do several more jumps before stopping, to the applause of the audience each time.

I now decide to try the advanced lucid task. Looking around for stuff to animate, I decide on this weird kind of golden belt thing. It's kinda hard to describe, and my recall is a bit fuzzy. Anyways, I put my hand on it and will it to become alive. However, even with several tries, I think there's some mild motion from the belt, but it just ends up being inanimate.

The last thing I recall is going towards a mirror, seeing a corridor in the reflection (although I wasn't in one), and thinking to myself that I should try to go inside the mirror. I did so, and I don't remember anything after.

I have already done both =]

Invincible: in this LD I was swimming in a pool and when I got out and noticed I had abs xD so I showed off to the ladies but jumping in the pool. The bad part was I was in the shallow end and I realized it just before I hit the pool floor which I had time to imagine I was invincible and I just heard a crack and some blood but I wasn't dead

Bringing object to life =]

I was doing archery and I was trying to gain ultimate focus by trying to control the arrow which worked I could become the arrow =]. Then I looked at the target I was shooting at a scarecrow. I said hmm he has done a good days work so I just closed my eyes and imagined him dancing and when I opened my eyes BAM he was =]

I was invincible as rambo. some guy was shooting me (with a mini gun) and it didn't hurt so i was like "this is most likely a dream" and i turned into rambo and started walking closer to him and then i get in a slap fight with him.

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

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.

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.

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:

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.

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