First basic task success!
My first time completing a task! I dreamt I got out of bed and walked in the garden, and became lucid. I started to run (as I usually do when starting a lucid dream) but told myself to stay calm and maintain lucidity. Walked a garden path/with high walls of greenery, picked at leaves to look at their detail, and came to a pool at the end of the path, immediately recognizing it as a dreamsign of mine. Before swimming, I remembered the basic task, after some thought. Closets appeared near the pool, and I looked in one, gave myself a bolt of fright as I opened it, expecting something nasty, but there was only flotsam: old files and a lampshade etc. I looked in the adjacent closet for good measure. The same type of contents. Then swam, it was warm. When at one end of the pool I noticed a dark shadowy figure at the other end and assumed it was the other side of myself. I wanted to use the pool to teleport to a beach in Barcelona, so I swam fast underwater to the middle of the pool, meeting up with my other self, and tried to spin to get to the sea in Barcelona. Tried 3 times but no success. Walking with Shadow (my sister’s dog) back to the house, I got a call on my cellphone from a friend of mine in Hong Kong. How cool to tell her over the phone that I’m lucid dreaming while I’m lucid dreaming, I thought! But I couldn’t hear a clear signal and gave up concentrating to speak to her. Then in the house, I lost lucidity, believing that I had woken up and was now telling my dad about my lucid dream. Was also distracted by things and people going on around me; vats of pesto, washing drying indoors, had to wash my oily pesto hands, eating chocolate, popping a zit.