Thread: Lucid Tasks for the Month of May 2008

Originally Posted by Mini Man56

I have the ability to taste smells. A good thing when you smell something good, but if someone farts.... >.<

Everybody always looks at me wierd when somebody says,"Do you smell that?" and I respond,"Yeah, it tastes horrible!"

I can taste smells also

Originally Posted by Creation X

I can taste smells also

An estimated 1/6,000 people can. Yay statistics!

a lot of statistics are a load of crap.

I thoght everyone's sense of smell and taste were closely related like that... but I guess I'm just thinking about it in a different way.

So I actually remembered to do the basic task!
right away i knew i was lucid, i was in my grandmas house.
i saw a dark greenish pillow and took a bite out of it, to my surprise it tasted really good.
it had a powdery consistency in my mouth and tasted like grape.
i think i got that taste because i read other peoples results on here.

Completed the basic task this morning:

I look around the room. It's dark, but some moonlight coming through the window gives me enough light to see. I shout "Increase lucidity! Increase clarity!" Nothing really seems to change, so I just begin idly rubbing my hands together. I immediately remember a lucid task: eat something inedible. I look down on the floor and see a pair of my own boxers. I pick them up, take a big bite out of the side, chew it up and swallow it. It's surprisingly easy to eat, but it doesn't have much of a taste.

I did both tasks this morning.

I was in a sports stadium flying and climbing in the rafters. Then I remembered that I wanted to do the tasks of the month. I remembered that the basic task was to eat something inedible. I'm hanging off of a glass basketball backboard (? is that what it's called?). It looks too big to eat, but I figure I'll give it a try. I bite and crunch down. The glass crunches up in my mouth. It is really easy to eat. The texture it cool, but it has no flavor. I eat half of the glass backboard. Then I figure I'll work on the other task. But I can't remember what it is. I spend the rest of the dream eating random things: a blanket, a shoe, part of a wall.

I wake up and realize I didn't do the advanced task. I decide to DEILD, but I keep forgetting what it is. After the third dream of me forgetting I decide to DEILD while daydreaming, so I will end up in my dream already doing the advanced task. I daydream about climbing a giant beanstalk. After a few minutes I'm dreaming. I'm climbing a huge beanstalk. It is bright green and looks more like a 3-D drawing than an actual beanstalk. But I figure that won't make any difference. I climb it. The leaves work kind of like a ladder. I wonder why it isn't swaying in a breeze. When I turn and look around I realize I'm inside a giant building. The beanstalk grows up out of the floor. I continue climbing for a long time. Then quite suddenly I'm climbing up through the floor in a hallway. There are five rooms along the hallway. I go into the third. I'm starting to loose awareness at this point, but am still lucid. There is a cream colored blankent on the floor. I pick it up and eat it. It is cottony and hard to chew and swallow. It tastes like fabric softener.

Wow Seeker28, you went all out with the basic task

Short extract from my limited dream journal xD

"I looked at the painting i was doing and realised that my pieces wernt anything like this in my art class. BOOM! LUCID! After becoming lucid, i knew straight away the tasks of the month. I tried to find a beanstalk but there werent any to be found. I got frustrated and started to loose concentration, feeling my real-world body twitching back to life i grabbed a near-by rock and started chewing it, but all i could taste was silicon rubber, which i hate, and spat it out. after this i woke up"

hope it counts!! my first proper LD and a shot at a TOTM xD

After a dream where I was climbing a building and something about the keys I have forgot to take with me. There was a gore dream about an old haunted car which killed whoever gets in/...I don't remember the moment I got lucid.../I'm trying to vanish two DC's who I don't want to be there. I want to see them become sparks and disappear. Every effort I make doesn't work at all. They just take their clothes off. Finally I'm thinking about it would be an interesting basic task to perform, to vanish a DC. I haven't checked if it has been asked before. Then I remember the task of the month and think about the beanstalk. First I have to do something more direct with the DC's in order to make them disappear, I take both of them and fold them as a carpet. That's it, work done, but now I have to put the package somewhere else. I throw them under the bed. Then I go to the window and there it is! The beanstalk! at the other side of the backyard, but it is not too high, no more than a 4 floors building. I think it must grow, I turn for a while and when I see it again it has grown to the sides, it lookslike a cactus! no, no, it must be higher not thicker! I go downstairs, I prefer to walk in order to enjoy every step inside the dream (I am in a second floor) when I get the backyard there are 2 beanstalks side to side, I think it's better but still it must be higher! I see it grow up as a fastmotion movie, till it reaches the clouds! that is good. At this point, I have many DC's following me as I am a kind of attraction or some. Then the dogs again! (I talk about them in my attempt of dreamjournal) but now just one of them is biting my hand. That moment I think it would be good if I perform the basic task too, I start to look for something uneatable, I find a piece of wood, but I want to find something better. Meanwhile the little dog is still biting my right hand, it is stressing me. There is a lot of water around the beanstalk, so I take the little dog and sink him into the water in order to he lets my hand. Once he opens his snout, I take him out and throw the farest I can, taking care of not harming him, when he falls on the floor he stands there and sits quiet. A loudy snore, close enough, wake me up and I'm not able to get into the dream again. Better look next time

I became lucid after realizing I was supposed to be the Dreamer or something. Went outside, tried to eat a wood chip thing. Tasted sweet, but I wasn't sure if that was enough, so I found an ant posion thing (OUTSIDE!), asked a DC if I was dreaming ("No" + giggles), and ate it. It tasted like the wood chip, but less so, and I could feel the crunchy ants inside my mouth.

ive only had about 5 lucid dreams in my life but 2 of them have been in the past week

i read this thread a few days ago and found it interesting that night i was dreaming that i was geting chased by a tiger and i managed to change it into a dog, that was when i became lucid, i was in a jungle and decided i was going to try and eat something that i could not usually eat i saw a tree and decided it would be a good idea to take a bit, was rather shocked when it tasted sweet like sugar cane. i then decided to change the scenery to a old block of flats i used to live in, i saw a metal door handle and decided to try and eat that however when i put my mouth round it i got a strange feeling in my teeth like i was taking a bite out of an ice pole so i stopped lol i then lost control of the dream.

I've had enough of heights lately, as during my hiatus all I've done is meddle with physics.

Anyway, I thought I'd try the task of the month. I planned on visiting a restaurant, and ordering something fancy, along with something inedible.

I wake up watching a movie with my sister. I didn't remember sleeping on the couch, so I reality checked. Of course I was dreaming! To focus, I jammed my index finger into the back of my hand, trying to get it through. I could feel my finger slide between the metacarpals. Fun times. My sister begged me to take her with (she asks me to take her with on dream adventures in real life), but lost interest as I made my way to the kitchen.

Although I imagined a restaurant, the kitchen remained a kitchen. I rifled through the cupboards and pulled out a fork. I wanted my completion of the task to be somewhat ironic. I put the pointy end in my mouth and bent the fork against the roof and the tongue. Once it broke, I chewed. It easily crumpled, like a pecan, but didn't have any taste. I took a bite out of the holding end, too, which was equally tasteless. The fork began to regenerate, so I tossed it aside, not wanting to waste time on it. I swallowed a bit, and spat the rest out, because it started tasting bitter!

"This is going great!" I said aloud, believing I had much time left.

--blah blah blah, I FA, still lucid, I go into the forest--

Suddenly I was in a house. I shrugged and looked around. It didn’t resemble any house I’ve lived in. A DVD rack presented a new enigma. What does a DVD taste like? I grabbed two, went outside, and began to chew the taffy-like discs. It didn’t have taste until I walked by a barbecue grill, when it acquired mesquite flavor. I hopped a fence and made my way back to the pond, but woke up before I got there.

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Okay, I had this Dream about a week ago, but I have been so busy that there has hardly even been time for me to check my email, let alone visit the forum. Here was my dream (in condenced form):

I was walking through my neighborhood, and I was looking at the pretty fall colors on the leaves, I then realized that it was not autumn, but rather spring. Upon realizing this, the landscape changed and I became lucid. I began some unsuccessfull attempts at flight, but was unable to even sufficiently hover above the groung. I started doing some other things, such as calling objects or characters to me, but the characters were being more difficult. At one point, I started to lose lucidity, but I started breathing slowly and the lucid world came filtering back. It was here that I remembered the lucid task, and so I started looking around for something unedible to eat. I searched, and found this round rock, roughly the size of an apple. I took a bite into it, and remarkably it sounded like an apple, making that crisp-crunchy sound that you hear when you bite into an apple. It tasted strange, but good. It was a taste that I cannot describe; sweet with a satisfying zing to it. I looked down at the rock in surprise and realized that it was a geode with purple crystals formed in the inside. I looked around for something to get the rest of the crystals out, but then realized that I should keep this special rock. I got excited and started to try and tell people about my amazing discovery, but evidently the excitement was too much for me, and I lost lucidity abruptly, before I could even attempt to keep myself in the dream. Any way, that was my dream, reported a little late, but here nonetheless.

-Kordan

Originally Posted by iLucid

i saw a metal door handle and decided to try and eat that however when i put my mouth round it i got a strange feeling in my teeth like i was taking a bite out of an ice pole so i stopped lol i then lost control of the dream.

I wilded up around three dreams last night, ran out of things to do, I find it realy hard to remember good things from your waking life, so I started an eating rampage. I ate a sterio, it kinda tasted like "after-eight", then I ate my brothers nose, funny thing was that it almost emediately grew back again. Then I ate almost everything I could find around me... after this in some other dream I shoot lightning from my fingers at a television so that it broke, yeah I also tested pyrotecnique stuff with my hands. Also I flew some, I'm worried that I'm starting to lose this ability, I'm not as good a flyer as I used to be... yeah and finaly, a tip for breaking the vibrations-state, try sinking trough your bed, worked like a clockwork...

Last night I was successful with the first task without even meaning to lucid for the attempt to complete the task

Before I was lucid, I dreamt that me and my girlfriend were trying to get a cat down from a low lampost, she gave me a leg up and as I reached for the cat my hand went through the glass cover of the lampost and I realised I was dreaming

I kept my hand inside, and the lightsource was dull, but just a glowing ball in the middle of the lamp.

So I tried as hard as I could to hold the light and pull it out the lamp, and I managed to in the end, it came out like a magic ball of light, and I passed it down to Nikki. And she said something about DreamViews, she handed it back to me, and I had the TotM in my head.

So I put it in my mouth and I couldnt feel it there, but I couldn't close my mouth either, it was like I couldn't bring myself to close my mouth, so I took it out, and it then looked duller and smaller. Nikki was standing right infront of me, and I bit half of it off and it felt like hard candy but for some reason it tasted like watercress :S Really bland and wierd. But I chewed and crunched it up and it turned to like a paste which tasted like dust
I managed to swallow it and I still had the aftertaste, it was so wierd.

I was shocked that I managed to achieve this, I've only managed to have 3-5 lucids. Was a great task idea though, I'd love to try more when I get better

Thanks,
Jim.

ok i will actively try the beanstalk task tonight

wish me luck

Good luck!

Okay guys, I just failed the Advanced Task last night. I don't understand how. But anyway, here's the attempt:

Night of 5/19

Epic Failure (Advanced Task May)

I left my body around 7am. It was a really really bad idea because I actually needed to get up this morning, and unlike lucid dreams, OBEs take a toll on my body. I usually wake up feeling like I’d been awake the entire duration of the experience, or sometimes I’ll feel like I hadn’t slept at all.

In any case, I got up, and took a few steps across the room. Everything was still very shaky. Or rather, not everything else, but me. It’s very hard to explain. Sometimes this happens because I get out too fast. I stood still for a few moments and allowed my energy to catch up. After that I felt completely normal, as if it were real. I heard noises coming from the kitchen, so I opened the door a crack and crouched behind it to listen. The noises stopped, and I heard no voices.

I went into the hall. The house felt empty but I called out anyway. No answer. I walked into the living room, cursing myself for being here. I felt so bored. The only thing I could really do here was watch TV. Outside, it was very dark, and there seemed to be a terrible storm. I didn’t really want to go out in that. I wondered if there was anything I could do. I knew I probably wouldn’t have enough time or energy to use my TARDIS, so I considered my other options. Then I remembered the beanstalk task. I brightened, and went over to the back porch.

Oddly enough, the sky parted a bit so that it was sunny just around the area of the porch. I didn’t do this myself, but at the time I really didn’t think anything of it. I put my hands out and made a small twig on the porch grow into a beanstalk. Mine didn’t exactly look like a cartoon beanstalk--it was more like several thick stalks roped together, which formed a stalk a few feet wide. It was growing a little slow, though, and had only reached maybe twenty feet. I put more effort into making the thing grow faster, and wondered to myself how high I should make it before climbing it.

Suddenly, the nearby pine tree next struck down and ATE my beanstalk, like a cat pouncing on its prey. It was so fast I didn’t even register it, let alone have the chance to stop it. I stood there, dumbfounded. “What the fuck just happened?” Then I realized that my experiment had been ruined. “HEY! DAMN YOU! WELL SEE IF I EVER DO ANYTHING FOR YOU, YOU STUPID PINE TREE!” I screamed as I slammed the back door as hard as I could.

What the fuck? That's one of the more hilarious things that I've read here. It seems that the failures are getting better than the completions

hehe that sucks, naiya. though for me it would still be worth it- it was funny.

i like your avatar ninja.

In my LD i was watching TV from Japan because I was already lucid. Then i remember the tasks of the month so I walked over to my living room and saw my pool table. instictively I picked up the que ball and ate it. It tasted like chalk with a tint of grease, well i think it was grease since I have never eaten grease. after that I remembered the second task so i summmoned a bean stalk in my back yard and it sprouted out like at fast growing tree. Then I climbed it for a minute or two. When i reached the top and I saw an Object far off so I teleported to it and it was a large toilet and their was a door and i opened it. The place turned out to be a bar and the Drink selection was Murky Water, Toilet Water, or The Sour Stuff I then woke up. That is how I completed the tasks of the month.
-Mrmike2

Oh! I did the advanced task about a week ago, I just haven't gotten online...

I summened up a beanstalk inside a building, and it forced its way up to the second floor. I climbed it, and up there was a guy in a banana suit. He was crying.

I dont know if this counts because i wasnt completely "asleep"

this was during a faild WILD

i was in the stage after the heaviness sets in, and sort of semi-paralyzed, so i started to create dreamscapes to hopefully get into the dream state, and i went outside of some country house i have never been to and remember to climb a beanstalk. So poof, there's a beanstalk there for me to climb. I climb and climb and climb until i get to i'd say about 1000 feet in the air. I look around and there are scattered clouds and one or two airplanes flying. One flies right beside me and knocks me back down the stalk. But before i fall back to the ground i grab back hold of the stalk and climb back to the top. I can see everything around me, farms, mostly country-style setting, and then randomly this reindeer with sharp teeth jumps out of nowhere and tries to attack me, but i dodge it.

I dont remember what happens next, but i remember i went on to blast open doors and ride in a falling house, and attack a city in a desert with a medieval army while being completely on fire.

But once again, i wasnt fully asleep so i dont know if that counts?

can someone tell me if i passed or not