Lucid Task for the Month of April 2008

I thought I already posted here, but I guess my mind was playing tricks? About a week ago, I was in a dream where I was in a field, and there were these mechs (Anyone who's played Chromehounds: they looked just like the mechs from the game) And they were all firing missiles. I suddenly appear in my room, and I look in the closet which *should* be mine, and it is in the same place, but it has the appearance of a different closet in my house. Anyway, I look inside, and it is very normal (there was light illuminating the inside, but it was of no different intensity than the daylight outside). Then, someone blows a hole in the bottom of the closet, and little army men-like soldiers climb through. At this point, I realize that I'm dreaming (as I usually do when I start a task while non-lucid), and I notice that I completed the task. The dream ended soon after.

Ok, I think I got them all now.

Well, I looked in my closet when lucid, and it was a closet.

Goddamnit. Again I tried to get a hot air balloon ride in my dreams. Here's what happened.

As I was walking through a poor part of the town in a poorly kept lawn (I figured I could change this at my will when it became time for the ride), I told the girl who I was planning to go on the balloon ride with to hang on for just a second. I wanted to quickly meet my DreamGuide before going on the ride. I asked to see my DG. I turned around and saw a sign... confused, I asked, "Are you my dream guide?" Naturally, the sign didn't respond.... An ostrich passed by and I asked it (it either didn't respond or said no). Then this guy comes up with two of his friends, and he's asking everyone in sight, "Are you my dream guide? Are you my dream guide?" Then he asks me. I tell him, "No, sorry." Then another guy comes up with one of his friends. He's asking, "Are you my murderer? Are you my murderer?" And I'm like, "You were murdered?" And he says, "Yes. When you die you spend the rest of your life in the dream world." And I'm like, "Cool." And then I woke up before going on the hot air balloon ride.

ERG. Well, tonight I WILL enjoy a hot air balloon ride.

I had a false awakening today in a dorm room I used to live in. (I haven't lived in my current house very long and I seldom have dreams that take place in it, even false awakenings.) I was looking for the floor restroom when I realized I was dreaming. I went back to the dorm room and looked in the closet. There was a mini fridge and laundry. I looked under the bed and there was a blanket and some dog and cat toys.

I went through some doors and ended up outside and remembered the advanced task. The only water around was a kiddie pool that had a fountain in it. I didn't know how I was going to create the tsunami so I asked a DC to make one for me. She said she would do it if I gave her kharma. I reached in my pocket and pulled out a coin a gave it to her. She said I needed to get all the kids out of the pool so I shouted to them and said if they came out I would give them hugs. They all came out to hug me. The woman created the big wave but it was already going fast and I am not a fast flyer and didn't think I could make it to the top in time. The woman said "this man will help you." And the man who was there took me on his back and we flew up to the top of the wave. I rode it even though the wave was the only water around. It became more like a traveling device and I could look down on buildings and people.

Nice use of your dream characters, We'll get some wings for you now :D

Completed the basic task this morning. At least, I think; does it count if it was your old bedroom that you don't live in anymore?

I'm sitting in a chair in the living room of my old house. I look down at my left hand. It's extremely swollen and there is a large rift down the middle, separating my index and middle fingers from my ring and pinky. I am dreaming. When I look up, the dream suddenly appears bizarre and unstable. Random colored lights are flashing everywhere and parts of the room are fading in and out of focus. I remember a lucid task: check under my bed or in my closet. I get up and head toward the back of the house. On my way I decide to attempt to stabilize the dream. I do a couple dream spins. This has no effect whatsoever on the dream itself, but now there is a new DC in the room next to me, a guy I used to know named Anthony. I shrug and continue walking towards my room, but Anthony keeps getting in my face and blocking my path. I stop, look at him and raise my fist in a threatening manner. He grins and backs off. I walk back into my room which appears the same as in waking life. I kneel down and look under the bed; Anthony kneels and looks with me. Under my bed are about a dozen stuffed animals, including some Sesame Street characters (I specifically remember Elmo). I look at Anthony and say, "Stuffed animals." He says nothing. I get up and head towards the closet. As I approach, I wake up.

I was on a boat somewhere in the sea, and I hadn't really done alot during the LD, so I felt like I was wasting my time, I thaught about what things I could do, then I wondered what things I keep planning to do but allways forget, then I remembered the basic task. But I was on a boat, so I decided to try teleporting for the first time, which worked straight away, I was in my room. I opened the WARDROBE (that counts right? not many people have closets where I live... but it basically the same thing).
So anyway, there were some shelves with some cuddly toys or something like that on them. Then I went to look under the bed but I don't remember anything after that.

Completed Basic Task:

Once I had realised I was Lucid, the task was the very 1st thing I remebered, my bed wasn't there so I went to my closet/wardrobe, there was nothing in it though. The only thing in it was a picture taken from behind me as I was looking in the wardrobe/closet, but it was like a video file, and as I moved the picture moved as it would a video clip. It then started getting closer to my back pretty quickly. And thats when I ripped the Picture up, only to find it was stuck to the wall behind me. I then decided this could go on forever lol and decided to shut my wardrobe/closet.

I finally remembered to look under the bed. I'm disappointed it was nothing special. Here's an excerpt from my Dream Journal

....A heavy bass beat started to pound out a rhythm, and the night was suddenly filled with pure white light. The ghosts became solid, and started to dance and celebrate. Hamilton and I were carried along with the music and dance, and soon the hilltop became a beautiful party.

As we danced, the party became more crowded, until I was in a sea of people. Eventually I noticed that I was in a separate room with half a dozen dancing ghosts. It was not that the crowd was getting bigger, it was the room that was getting tighter. I started feeling claustrophobic. The music changed to an evil sounding heavy metal riff, and the white light started to fade to a murky green.

I recognized the feeling of a nightmare approaching, and struggled to fight it. I looked up to see a ceiling covered in sharp spikes, and the room started to slowly rotate. The ghosts around me were now demons, and as the room turned, they started sliding down he walls to be impaled on the spikes. I knew it was a nightmare, so I fought to escape it. I floated off the ground, spread my arms and legs, and started to spin in place sideways, end over end like a cartwheel.

I became very disoriented, and suddenly found myself alone in the guest room of my own house. I was still floating in the air, rotating slowly. I turned myself one more time, and paused upside down to take a look under the futon. I was disappointed that there was nothing under it except for a crumpled dark blue jacket.

I shot out the window, splintering the closed wood blinds, and shattering the glass. I found myself over the open ocean at night. I could see the lights of a city skyline, so I flew towards it.....

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Originally Posted by Robot_Butler

I finally remembered to look under the bed. I'm disappointed it was nothing special. Here's an excerpt from my Dream Journal

....A heavy bass beat started to pound out a rhythm, and the night was suddenly filled with pure white light. The ghosts became solid, and started to dance and celebrate. Hamilton and I were carried along with the music and dance, and soon the hilltop became a beautiful party.

As we danced, the party became more crowded, until I was in a sea of people. Eventually I noticed that I was in a separate room with half a dozen dancing ghosts. It was not that the crowd was getting bigger, it was the room that was getting tighter. I started feeling claustrophobic. The music changed to an evil sounding heavy metal riff, and the white light started to fade to a murky green.

I recognized the feeling of a nightmare approaching, and struggled to fight it. I looked up to see a ceiling covered in sharp spikes, and the room started to slowly rotate. The ghosts around me were now demons, and as the room turned, they started sliding down he walls to be impaled on the spikes. I knew it was a nightmare, so I fought to escape it. I floated off the ground, spread my arms and legs, and started to spin in place sideways, end over end like a cartwheel.

I became very disoriented, and suddenly found myself alone in the guest room of my own house. I was still floating in the air, rotating slowly. I turned myself one more time, and paused upside down to take a look under the futon. I was disappointed that there was nothing under it except for a crumpled dark blue jacket.

I shot out the window, splintering the closed wood blinds, and shattering the glass. I found myself over the open ocean at night. I could see the lights of a city skyline, so I flew towards it.....

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That sounds pretty intense, the bass beat is quite strange but intresting;)

I had a crazy-long lucid this morning; 2 and a half hours long judging from the time I went back to sleep and the time I woke.

During part of the dream I was flying all over the place going to bodies of water that I thought were the ocean and trying to make waves. I was trying to make time-frozen waves so that I could fly over to be on top of them once they were huge enough, then, when I was ready, unfreeze them. But instead I kept making giant solid structures rise out of the water with houses on them! I also tried to get my dead dog to surf with me. And meanwhile the bodies of water would shrink until they were just lakes or rivers, so I'd have to go searching for the ocean again (I should have known not to trust what looked like the ocean in the wrong direction out my window).

But I was about as successful as Seeker28:
I was in what appeared to be a bay creating a swell directly under me. When it reached a towering height I let it go and everything went black and I ended up an appropriate distance away for me to have been in the wave when it crashed. I didn't experience the crash but I could feel the swell moving below me beforehand and ended up underwater. All I can think is that my mind decided not to fill in the blank. I've been tossed around in regular waves enough to know that I don't want to tumbling around in a tsunami.

It was the first time I can remember being in water in a dream and it didn't feel wet or cold. But somehow it felt right anyway. I think that's because my movements were appropriately slowed, I naturally floated at the top, it looked blurry when I was beneath the surface, and the blurriness clung to my eyes after I emerged.

Well this may count for the wings, but I'll have to try again. I'm not completely satisfied.

Nice job, I know that you've been trying to get that one for a while :D


I've been curious for a while for when tasks are easy and hard, so I've added a count to the first post so that we can keep track of how many people have done each task :D

Hazaar, I did the bascic!

I looked under my bed preparing for monsters and stuff to jump out and grab me. But there was nothing there. It was just pitch black except in one corner there was a large teddy bear with blue and bron checks.

To be honest, it wasn't as exciting as I was expecting it to be so I'm a bit dissapointed. But at leats a completed it. Woot! :boogie:

I'll have to have a go at the tsunami one next time.

Peppy, I expected the closet and bed tasks to have some scarry reuslts too. I didn't want to jynx it early on by saying anything, but its weird that not a lot of people have had any monsters or alternate universes or anything like that. Weird.

Ooo, haha i'll try the under your bed one.
THere isn't much time left in april though.
I need a task to get back into the swing of things with lucid dreaming

Completed Basic Task


I was downstairs on my treadmill. I looked over to where my workout bench was supposed to be. I was surprised that I didn't see it. I looked away, then looked back. There it was. I closed one eye. The workout bench was gone again. I switched eyes, and the workout bench was back. I thought that was really odd and bizarre.

Then it hit me that I might be dreaming. I took a little jump and floated off the floor. The first thought to come to mind that I needed to fly upstairs and look under my bed, so I could finally get that task completed.

I flew up and went into my bedroom. I saw my bed as it is in real life with the boxsprings sitting directly on the floor. There was no space under the bed. I tried to reach under anyway. But there was no place for my hand to go.

I then looked up and saw my sister there. At that point I had a False awakening. I saw black.

I concentrated on the basement again. And I soon found myself on the treadmill again where I had started.

I flew upstaris again, this time picturing my bed with a space underneath. I got to my bed, but again, there was no space under the bed. My friend Emily was sitting on the bed with papers spead out all over it. I got distracted a bit and lost lucidity for a moment as we started to discuss those papers, which were very important in the dream.

I then had another false awakening. I pictured myself on the treadmill again, and was soon there.

I flew up the staris again remembering that I could look in my closet. I sat on the floor in front of the closet and reached in. The first thing I pulled out was a pair of brown jeans with a black belt on them (not anything I own in real life). I dropped them behind me. I then pulled out a black T shirt with the word "Peppers" written on the front in faded grey letters (also not real).

I then started going through my shoes. These were all familiar from real life. I then saw the duffle bag that IRL holds my AstroScan telescope. I reached in and could feel the round smooth surface of the telescope.

I then pulled my clothing aside and looked in the back corner. I saw two Kermit The Frog Puppets (No, it didn't make me think of my Pig Puppet). I actually owned a Kermit puppet a long time ago. It didn't seem strange to see two of them in my closet.

I then stood and walked to my dresser drawer. I pulled the top drawer open and sorted through things. I saw a stack of photos. There were pictures of groups of people in a place that looked very familiar. [In retrospect the place was actually a place I had visited several times in my dreams.]

I then pulled out one of the carving's that Oneironaught had sent me (in IRL), except this one was half finished and the wood was an odd orange and black color.

I also remember seeing a little flower charm that would have gone on a necklace.

I think I saw many other things, but this is all I remember.

I then pulled open one of the small side drawer. There were lots of things in this drawer, but all I remember is that everything was so very dusty with a fine reddish brown dust. Oh, there was a pair of scissors in that drawer.

I then opened the small drawer under that one. This drawer was full of old cassette tapes. I pulled three out. They seemed to be fancy and instead of a paper label on them, there was a brown leather label. One said, "Global", another said, "Treadmill", and the last said, "Health". I figured these were old workout tapes that I used to use.

Before I could search any longer, I woke up.

How far can the Task of the Month's rules be bent. For example this months' requires a tsunami for completion; can this tsunami be symbolic?

Ah, man, I keep forgetting to do the task! :/

Hopefully I'll remember before the month is over... I still have a week.

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Originally Posted by psychology student

How far can the Task of the Month's rules be bent. For example this months' requires a tsunami for completion; can this tsunami be symbolic?

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I'm pretty flexible, if one of the girls has sex with the DV member "Tsunami" I'll count it :chuckle: What did you have in mind, I decide who gets the wings.


Yay for TwoShadows! Nice dream.

I wasn't really interested in doing the basic one this time, but I just happened to remember it last night so I did it anyway.

The result was pretty lame though, lol. I was disappointed. :ghosttown:

Anyways here's the excerpt from my journal:

I left my body and walked out of my room down the hall. It was already light out so it was easy to see.

I walked by the bathroom and it was full of my brother’s crap, like a lot of the stuff he keeps in his closet. Then remembered the basic task. I got so excited that I had to take many deep breaths to keep from waking up. This worked a lot better than the stupid rubbing your hands thing I tried several nights ago. Went down the hall to my closet and looked inside. Sadly it was full of the usual crap, only it had more crap than my real closet. It was piled up to waist level. I have a very tiny closet--maybe 4 square feet, about half the size of most small closets. There’s a little light in there though.

I was very disappointed that my closet had nothing interesting in it at all. At least the bathroom had these old play pillows (big square shapes that you could use for building forts, much like the seat cushions on couches), old video games and consoles, and TVs. But my closet isn’t big enough to fit anything good. The only thing of interest was a fishing rod since I’ve never even gone fishing before. It was mostly shoes with a pile of clothes on top, and shoe boxes full of old comic books (all stuff I have in there, but my real closet isn’t quite as bad).

I decided to clear it out. My closet has this cord hanging from the lightbulb. Instead of using the cord to turn on the light, I decided that I would make it activate a trap door. I pulled it. Nothing happened. Annoyed, I focused a little more and pulled it again. The floor finally gave, and the stuff fell through. Apparently it only went down a few feet, and some of my stuff god jammed in the opening so I had to use my foot to cram it down.

Curiously, I saw a square on the back wall of the closet. I put a little force on the edges, as it was as if somebody had taken a box cutter to make the mark. The square crumbed easily, like dried out clay, and behind it was a door about two feet high. Finally, something interesting!

I reached to open the door, and as I was opening it, I woke up. Bah! Figures.

Original Entry

I flew over a cliff and decided there would be an ocean on the other side. There was. I willed a tsunami to occur, and it did. I watched the powerful wave. Then someone shouted at me. "Hello! You! What the fuck are you doing?" I was like, "What?" I turned around and this Japanese woman was sitting there eating tofu (I know this is a stereotype; sorry to anyone who is offended by it - I love tofu, by the way). "You can't jump on that tsunami," she said. I was like, "Are you my dream guide?" She goes, "No, I'm not your dream guide, I'm just concerned for your well being. Don't you know the harm that can come of riding a tsunami?" I reply, "But it's just a dream..." She says, "Come enjoy some tofu."

I look back and the tsunami's gone by now, so I decide to go eat some tofu with her. She was very interesting and we had quite a nice conversation. Then something naughty happened (I don't know if I'm allowed to say it here) and I woke up.

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Originally Posted by ninja9578

I'm pretty flexible, if one of the girls has sex with the DV member "Tsunami" I'll count it :chuckle:

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Ah, I see because of the pun on the verb "ride". Mines simpler than that.

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Originally Posted by luciddream

I flew over a cliff and decided there would be an ocean on the other side. There was. I willed a tsunami to occur, and it did. I watched the powerful wave. Then someone shouted at me. "Hello! You! What the fuck are you doing?" I was like, "What?" I turned around and this Japanese woman was sitting there eating tofu (I know this is a stereotype; sorry to anyone who is offended by it - I love tofu, by the way). "You can't jump on that tsunami," she said. I was like, "Are you my dream guide?" She goes, "No, I'm not your dream guide, I'm just concerned for your well being. Don't you know the harm that can come of riding a tsunami?" I reply, "But it's just a dream..." She says, "Come enjoy some tofu."

I look back and the tsunami's gone by now, so I decide to go eat some tofu with her. She was very interesting and we had quite a nice conversation. Then something naughty happened (I don't know if I'm allowed to say it here) and I woke up.

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:( Oh, but you were so close, you should have killed her and ridden the wave :cry:

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Originally Posted by psychology student

Ah, I see because of the pun on the verb "ride". Mines simpler than that.

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What's your idea? You could PM it to me if you think it's fun and don't want a spoiler for everyone else. I'll tell you if it'll count. :)

Okay, this was the first lucid this month in which I remembered to do the task:
I was having this dream where I was watering some plants at my neighbor's house, when I realized that the flowers were not the right kind (tulips instead of pansies), and I bacame lucid. I went across the street of my house where I expected to find something terribly scary, but I just kept telling myself that there was nothing to be afraid of in my closet. When I opened the door, my closet was just that, save for it was incredibly clean (which would be a miracle :)). Then I tried to merge with a pipe that runs through my closet, and run down through it to see where it goes (a curiosity of mine), but when I touched the pipe, I started to loose lucidity :(. I can't remember anything after that, until the time I woke up.
Kind of dissapointing actually...
-Kordan