Thread: Lucid Task for the Month of April 2008

Introduction:
This topic is for the Lucid Tasks I assigned this month. During this month, please attempt one or both of the tasks.

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.

Whoever completes either of these tasks gets the following goodies until the end of the month:

*** Your name will be displayed in ORANGE in the online members list at the bottom of the main forum page.

*** You will receive a special title and badge.

*** You will receive access to the "Lucid Task Club" which is a limitted access forum for people that complete the lucid task each month.

Tasks for this month:

Basic Task: See what's under your bed and/or in your closet.


Advanced Task: Ride a Tsunami. (A Tsunami is a very large ocean wave caused by an underwater earthquake or volcanic eruption.)


37 Basic Oneironauts
12 Advanced Oneironauts

There you go, Seeker. Let's hear those dreams, I think there should be some really interesting one's this month

My Advanced Task:
I landed on it and floated for a while, I moved along the surface, trying to summon a tsunami behind me. It didn't work, but I got a few waves, each got bigger. The creek suddenly became a ocean and I was now riding much larger waves, still only a few feet high, but I got to ride a few. Then I flew out a bit further and got on top of a huge wave, maybe ten feet high, it was as big as I could make it I rode it all the way to shore and let it crash, it was fun. I tried to get back out, but waves kept coming and not letting me.

My Basic Task:
I opened the closet and fell into it. There were my clothes all over the hangers and I mirror in the back. I looked at the mirror and noticed that I was wearing a blue striped shirt.

I watched my reflection and saw that it did do everything that I did perfectly. I don't recall ever actually seeing my face, but I think it was more chiseled than it really is. I crawled out, by body wasn't behaving very well. I pulled all of the clothes with me and I wondered if I might actually be performing these things in real life and it would be cool to see all my clothes thrown all over the place when I woke up.

I also noticed that under my bed there was just my dresser, nothing special

Aaarghhh! You didn't give me time to reset last month's winners profiles yet!!

Originally Posted by Seeker

Aaarghhh! You didn't give me time to reset last month's winners profiles yet!!

LOL! Ninja updated your post as I think he was a tad anxious to get started.

congrats Ninja, you lucid task glutton.

I like the under the bed/in closet thing. Looking forward to trying that one.
That makes me wonder what might be lurking in other places in my lucid dream house. I wonder what might be lurking in my fridge or in the toilet.

*edit*

I'm not ready to give up my wings.

Originally Posted by Vex Kitten

I wonder what might be lurking in my fridge or in the toilet.

I worry about that when I'm AWAKE!!!

[EDIT: It's lunch time, will take me about 20 minutes to reset the wings.]

Clairity... PMs go to me, I'm going to do my best to keep up with this (my favorite forum) from now on.

Originally Posted by Seeker

Clairity... PMs go to me, I'm going to do my best to keep up with this (my favorite forum) from now on.

Gotcha!!

Can i get in on this? Kept short ofc.

I had a successful WILD where I did just so happen to FA and found myself in my room. I knew there were tasks for this month and I had to stand there a ponder for a little to remember what they were then I remembered the basic one. Since my closets always wide open I decided to go for my bed. I hunch over and I just start pullin out mounds of clothes (some I had double of) and eventually some magazines (not dirty ones). I never found anything interesting under there :/.

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!

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

oh man how ironic!! The first month I decide to try doing the task of the month (with the idea of possibly going for the advanced task) this is what I get! I know it sounds stupid, but being in a tsunami has always been one of my worst fears... I always have recurring nightmares about them... yet can never seem to get lucid. I think I'm gonna go for that one.

AWW you guys just had to pick something related to tsunamis. I just recently got over my fear of my dream ocean (I don't fear the real thing at all, strangely) so it doesn't appear anymore, but even though I'm not afraid of it...but riding a tsunami? Gah.

Oh well...I'll still try. lol. This might be interesting.

Closet's going to be a piece of cake though.

I don't remember the first half of the dream, or how I became lucid. The furthest back I can remember is walking on a sidewalk in a residential suburban neighborhood, and coming across a group of people sitting on a low stone wall. As I passed, one of them called my name to get my attention. I stopped to say hi, and recognized him as an old friend from 20 years ago. He was thrilled to see me, and shook my hand vigorously. I then recognized the other people with him. They too were long lost acquaintances.

The house down the street was having a great party, so I walked over to check it out. One of my best friends from high school was on the lawn to greet me. We embraced, and he invited me inside. The whole house was filled with people I haven't even thought about in 10 years, 20 years, or more. There were some friends who I knew are now dead, and some friends whose names I couldn't even remember. It was some sort of surprise party just for me.

I was lucid, and felt very sad that this all was not real. It was so emotional to see all these old people again. All these people that used to be meaningful in my life, but are now lost to me. The feelings of loss and regret made me so depressed, I started to cry. Everyone was having such a good time, and I was having such a terrible time. I didn't want to be at this party. I was in the garage, and everyone was yelling greetings to me, hugging me, patting me on the back, and shaking my hand. All I could do was cry, knowing none of this was real.

I wanted to escape, so I pushed everyone away, and flew up to a large storage shelf hanging from the roof. It was full of all my old toys from when I was a kid. This made me even more sad, and I started to become angry at myself for creating all this. Just as my sadness began to turn to anger, I heard my mother's voice in the crowd below. By now, the garage had grown to the size of an airplane hanger. I was a hundred feet or more above the ground.

My mother's voice floated up to me. She was saying, "He's always been like this. Always over-thinks everything. He can't just have fun. What mother could be proud of a child like that? We've only recently felt any love for him at all. You should have seen him when he was a kid...."

I was really angry now, and decided I was through with this dream. I looked down to see water trickling under the closed door below. Just as the crowd started to notice, the door blew off its hinges in a forceful jet of water. High pressure water began spraying into the room from the doorway. People started screaming and pushing to get away. I heard a horrible moaning coming from the wall, then the entire wall gave away, like a dam, to the flood of water. From my vantage point above, I watched the whole building get washed away in a violent flood with everyone in it.

The water level quickly rose to my height, and I felt the strong current pulling at my feet as I struggled to hold on. I heard a roar, and looked up to see a wall of water a hundred feet high rushing towards me. I only now remembered that this was the task of the month. I laughed at the thrilling feeling, and let go of the platform as the wave approached. I felt the swell as I was pulled up to the crest of the tsunami. It was an incredible rush, but I timed it wrong. The wave curled and crashed down on me. I felt my spine snap, and was whipped around under the water, totally disoriented.

I was not afraid, and I did not wake up right away. I laughed in excitement as I was thrown around like a rag doll.

I did the basic task. I wilded into my room, I remembered the basic task, so I get off my bed, then I push both mattresses aside because in the dream they're just sitting on the floor instead of a frame. Theres nothing there. So I walk over to my closet, clothes are hanging, then I look at the floor and half is clear (I can see the carpet) and the other half has a pile of mixed clothes-in RL theres only shoes.

Might be a little long but here is my attempt at the basic task:

I wake to a FA like I wanted from the dream before this one (it was another LD but I was not at home). I am not able to move all that much, but I am able to move my hand. I struggle with my self to do a RC even though I know I am dreaming. My nose plug check comes back positive that I am dreaming. For about a minute I just lay there knowing too much forced movement will wake me up. (I know this from lucids I had as a child before I knew they were lucids.) I remember a few lucids before this where I had this problem, but was able to solve it by looking at my hand, so I moved my hand into view and just stared at it for a bit. Soon I feel the dream start to take more of a solid from and fell, I test moving and I can.

Remembering the TotMB (Task of the month basic) I get out of bed, but I head to the light switch so I could see what might be in the closet, but it does not work (as I have not mastered light in my dreams yet.), but there is a faint glow now. Not really caring about the light (as I am starting to feel the dream slip a little bit) I rush to the closet and slid the door open. As soon as I slid the door open there is this flash of white-blueish light. When I look inside the closet there is nothing there but bare walls. I am very disappointed by this fact.

Being disappointed by the fact there was nothing in the closet I deiced to look under the bed to see what I can find there. On my first look I am surprised to see some of my stuffed animals and toys are having a party under there. I look away and back again to still see the party going on. At this point my (child size) jester asks me if I want to join in on the party. I kindly decline telling him there were other tasks I wanted to try. When I get back to my feet I look over at the closet again. This time I see the doors are no longer there and there are now baskets of cloths stacked in it.
Before I can remember what other tasks I wanted to do I wake up.

Anna

Robot Butler, that sounds like it was great

I think I completed the Basic task...

I was lucid Im very sure, but I had a VERY hard time controlling myself. The whole dream was basically a chain of 3 or more false awakenings. Since I was having trouble controlling myself, I kept yelling "control" out loud(need to read about control). I tried to get to my closet, but my body kept holding me back. I managed to grab the doorknob and pulled the door open. I actually opened the door so I can leave the house to go to a forest, but the closet was filled with clothes that piled up to the ceiling.

When I actually woke up from the dream, I wasn't too sure if I was still asleep since I so many false awakenings in one night.

whooo! i did the first task.

So I was flying around, and obviously i got that major hint that I was dreaming. And I was in my room, which had gotten way larger and almost a museum type place, but stilly my room. I flew straight into my closet, expanding it. Behind it was a forest. A big. Dark forest. And a waterfall. I set myself down and my boyfriend was there (hes ALWAYS there ) but the problem was, he had his ex in the truck with him. I made her dissapear. -_-
So I got in the truck with him and we left. I woke up about this time.
(Didnt have much control in this dream)

Cool, Sounds like a Narnia kind of thing.

Originally Posted by DeadDollKitty

whooo! i did the first task.
And a waterfall. I set myself down and my boyfriend was there (hes ALWAYS there ) but the problem was, he had his ex in the truck with him. I made her dissapear. -_-

(Didnt have much control in this dream)

hehe omg that rules. Poof! you're gone biatachhhhh

Daaaamnn. Both of these months taks have something to do with big fears of mine. One involving looking into dark concealed places and the other being treading water in the deep ocean.

I woke up this morning, went back to sleep and managed to have two lucids in a row. Unfortunately, I had a few dreams after them before waking properly so I can't remember them too well.

In the first dream I became lucid outside. It may have been snowing, but I'm not sure. I remembered the task and started looking for a house, after all you're not likely to find a bed or closet outside are you? I must have found one because the next thing I remember is being in a small, very messy, very blue room where three people were playing cards. There was a bed in one corner, so I went and looked under it. All I could see was an odd blurry blackness. It was almost a complete absence of anything. Disappointed, I told the card-players but they seemed to ignore me.

In the next dream I 'woke up' in my bed. The fact the bed was in my old house, which I haven't seen for years, made me realise it was a dream. I got out of bed and looked under it but all I saw was more bed. The style of the bed made it practically impossible to see anything under it so I gave up and decided to go on an Adventure. For some reason I went on said Adventure in my pyjamas and matching slippers. (Blue with cats on.). The rest of the dream was spent talking to goths and getting supplies for my airship. I don't know the airship came from, but I had one. And it was called Zoot. The End.

I also remember standing in front of a closet thinking 'I wonder what my subconscious will show me?'. But I have no idea when the hell I dreamt this or what happened next.
So, how did I do?

So I WILDed and started to see some HI. I was riding in the passenger seat of a jeep with no top and i could feel the wind blowing. I think I tried to enter the dream too early and I failed and lost the HI. So I kept at it and I got some HI of a street by my house so I decided to try to first use all of my senses before trying to "jump" into the dream. so i looked around and felt the wind. This time though I decided to eat some berry off a tree so I could use some more senses (touch and taste). So after that I was fully in the dream and lucid. I looked down the street and a massive wave started to come right through the downtown area. It looked like it was going to be 50 feet when it got to me but when it reached me it was only like 20 feet. I let it engulf me so I was underwater, still on the ground. Then I levitated to the top so i was standing on the top of the wave. I rode it for a few hundred yards before it died down and I was left on dry ground again. Then some DC was talking about how the tsunami was prophesized (I wish I had spell check) in some pamphlet she had. Little does she know it was me who caused it MWHAHAHA!

Another unsuccessful attempt . . .

First of all, I think that I dreamed that I WILDed (weird!). I'm not exactly sure and I'm still trying to sort out what happened, but I do know that I was dreaming beforehand. At one point I was near waking (was this my starting point?) and I was aware of my real body and the room around me. I thought that my boyfriend was moving around the room and that my eyes were partially open and rolling back in my head. I thought that he might be freaking out so I was trying to talk to him. It was dificult to move my lips, but I thought I said his name. It was very similar to SP and like in SP, I knew that my boyfriend being there could be a delusion. But I don't think I was paralyzed. I thought that I felt him get into bed next to me.

Then I either dreamed that I woke, or I did wake completely and he was where I thought he'd be in bed, but I knew that he hadn't been up at all. I asked him, "Did you hear me?" He said that he had heard me and was waiting for me to go on.

Anyway, the tsunami:
Well I thought that I was falling asleep, so I was concentrating vigorously on keeping my awareness. I was kneeling on tiles similar to the ones at my parents' house, except that I could push the tiles in like keyboard keys. I didn't think this was odd, in fact I thought that the only reason there weren't letters on them was because I was dreaming, and that I'd be able to use these in reality. There are also bird cages around from my previous dream. As soon as I'm satisfied that I'm completely asleep I start crawling forward because I think that if I get up I might lose lucidity.

I crawl a few feet and I'm at the edge of a seaside cliff. I look out at the swells turning into waves in the distance and try to make a big one. A huge one starts much further out than the others and I can already tell that it's much much bigger than any normal wave. But as it forms I decide that it's still not big enough to be a tsunami. Furthermore I need to be out in the ocean to ride it. From looking out at the sea, I turn my head so that I would see the cliff stretching away in the distance, but as I do I will the cliff not to be there. It flickers black, then moves back a few hundred feet, not as far as I wanted. It occurs to me now that I wasn't standing on anything at this point. Not that I was floating, I just didn't need anything to stand on . . .

Then I woke up. This tsunami thing is turning out to be a challenge for me.

I got into the ld by wild and then found myself in my room, at this point I did not now if I were dreaming or if I had awakened for real and I thaught that I would be quite embarased to act as if I were dreaming in real life so I thaught of some way to check this. Then I remembered the tsunami task and thaught that, hell, why don't I create on, that will be a sign for sure. I held my hands out and visualized for a second and then I could see it coming from my window. I great flood! I was surprised it had worked but just for a second, then the flood blew my window in and I was swept away. At this point I did the "look-at-your-hands-and-rub-them" trick so that I wouldn't wake up and I didn't. I managed to get on top of the flood and ride it for a bit, as this was not a tsunami though I stopped and tried to create one. At this point I was standing on a streat and to create the tsunami I thaught about it coming round a corner of a large building in front of me. This worked, however when the tsunami came closer I remembered I didn't have a plan for riding it yet and so it smashed into me instead, it's a terribly great thing to be swept away with(and survive of course). I managed to create another one much larger but this one smashed into me too, then I gave up I think and did some other things and so I woke up.
Ah, I was so close to do the second task... however I will try tomorow again, this time I might actually come up with something...

I got the basic task this morning. You can read it from my dream journal or you can read the excerpt here.

I jump in the portal and I'm in my room. Since I can't look under my bed because it's raised up I settle on looking in my closet/cupboard thing. I walk over to it and pull open the doors. Inside is some psychedelic tunnel with all these swirling colours, kind of like the tunnel thing in Doctor Who when he travels in time. A hand beckons for me to come in so I step into the closet. I'm sucked into this tunnel and I swirl around and around until I pop out into this room. The room is cartoony, like in Waking Life, except everywhere in this room are swirling colours. I phase through the wall into a hallway, also cartoony and swirling colours.

I fly through the roof and I appear in a new room. I keep trying to escape these rooms but I can't do it. In some of the room there are DC's but I don't talk to them. At one point I yell 'Clarity!' a few times but it doesn't do much. For some reason while I'm trying to escape the hand that beckoned me in starts chasing me. I start flying away from it. I fly through this world of rooms trying to escape the hand. I ask some DC's to help but they just stare blankly at me.

While it's been fun in this closet world I really want to get out of it now. So I concentrate on the swirling colours and raise my hand. I slowly spin my hand around and the colours spin around as well. I keep spinning my hand, gradually getting faster. Eventually what I want started to happen, the colours started to become a cyclone of colours. Once I've got it spinning enough I walk into the cyclone of colours. All around me is colour. I feel the cyclone rise up and out through the roof.

I visualise me being in a party now. I jump out of the cyclone, do a flip and land on the ground, crouching. I'm not in a party, I'm in some endless desert which stretches all around me.