Thread: Lucid Tasks for the Month of May 2008

Originally Posted by Robot_Butler

I wonder why it turned into a butterfly. Are metallic butterflies any more edible than carpet nails? Was it alive? Could you feel it fluttering around?

Nope it wasn't alive or fluttering around. It was just a thin metallic butterfly... metallic like whatever carpet tacks are made from...

And I have no idea why it changed from a carpet tack to a butterfly, lol.

I had a lucid dream last night. And for the first time in a while I thought about the lucid tasks. I realize that this is the very end of the month, but better late than never...


Lucid Dream:

I was in a grocery store. Another girl I was with was helping people by holding their babies while they shopped.

I remember standing by the produce section when the girl come over to me holding a very cute, but very young baby. She tells me that she has to go and asks me to hold the baby. I told her that I didn't feel comfortable holding the baby since the parents didn't know that I had the baby and that I didn't even know who the parents were. She told me not to worry, that the dad's name was Kevin Sullivan. Then she left.

I stood there holding the baby not sure what to do. I looked at the baby. He was absolutely adorable. I then started wandering around the store looking for someone who might look like the baby's dad. Near the front of the sotre I saw a guy talking to Jeff. He looked a lot like Gene Wilder. For some reason, I was sure that this was the dad. I went over to him making eye contact. He looked at me, then the baby, then I knew for sure that this was the dad. I handed the baby back.

I then followed Jeff toward the front doors. He was ahead of me, so to catch up I jumped over the carts. It was such a good and long jump, and the amount of the time that I was in the air made me question whether this could possible be reality. I instantly knew that I was dreaming.

I then took off and flew out the front doors. As I flew I thought about what I should do in this lucid. The DV lucid Tasks came to mind. I remembered that the Basic one was to eat something that wasn't really edible. I looked around. The ground was concrete, but in a crack I saw some wet dirt. It was really kind of gross dirty kind of dirt--the kind that people have been walking on all day and throwing trash on and all. But it didn't bother me. I grabbed a rather large pinch and put it into my mouth. It tasted like I would imagine wet dirt to taste like--kind of gritty with a mineral taste.

And like normal in my dreams, I'm never satisfied with doing the task once, so I reached out and grabbed a piece of a rubber tree leaf (the kind that leaks white sticky stuff). I put it in my mouth and chewed it up. It didn't have much of a taste, kind of like a mild lettuce.

I then passed (while still flying) a juniper tree. I pulled off a sprig. I smelled it. It had a strong smell that I recognized as real juniper. I thought it would be really strong to eat, but it too had a rather mild taste. I was grateful becasue I was worried that it would leave a very bitter taste in my mouth for a while.

I then took off faster and flew to this large open building. It seems like there were planes stored in the building. I landed briefly on on of the large beams that overlooked the planes, then took off flying again.

I then flew to another large building. This one was under construction. As I got close I remembered that I had wanted to fall backwards when I had my next LD.

So I flew up to a high floor, turned my back to the dropoff, then squatted down gripping something in front of me. I felt the thrill of what I was about to do and briefly wondered of I should feel nervous.

But before I could think too much about it I let go with my hands and kicked off with my feet, and did a backwards dive. I let myself fall for a time enjoying the falling sensation. Then flew up to do it again. This time I stood with my back to the edge and just let myself slowly fall back.

This time I went all the way to the ground. I felt a light thud as I hit the ground. As I stood, I thougth about the Advanced Task. I tried to remember what it was. Wasn't it something about traveling to different places? I wasn't entirely sure, but it sounded good enough for me to try. I took off flying again. I wondered how many places I would have to go to get it to count. I figured that it would have to be at least three to four.

I decided that I needed to get to a jungle first. As I flew I imagined everything turning black (like my last successful LD where I transported to a different place), then coming out in the jungle.

But as I flew the dream faded and I lost lucidity.

Nice job TS Kind of close with the advanced one

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Nice job TS Kind of close with the advanced one

Thanks, Ninja.

Yeah, I usually don't have a problem remembering tasks in my dreams when I think about them before going to bed. But I hadn't really been thinking about them as much lately.

I've still got another night to try the beanstalk. (I think I've got that in my head now .)

I had a rather lame lucid dream last night. I don't remember how I got there, but suddenly, I was in front of my house staring at a giant beanstalk in front of me, and instantly became lucid at the memory of the task of the month. Of course, things started to fade, so I started yelling "Clarity!" and rubbed my hands on the grass (For some reason, I never remember to rub my hands together -- I just touch other things with texture. Seems to work, though) until things came back into focus.
So I started climbing the beanstalk. It worked kind of like a rope. In fact, it sort of turned into a rope with leaves growing out of the sides because it started swaying a little like a rope would. I didn't appear to be going anywhere except way, way up into the tree in my front yard (which in my dream was apparently about 500 feet tall). This lasted for several minutes. Finally, I reached the top of the beanstalk and saw the roof of my house below (my house is also apparently MASSIVELY tall) and thought "There's my destination!", so I jumped down and the second I landed on my roof the dream faded Hope it still counts!

A couple of nights ago, I got Lucid again and found the beanstalk, I climbed it, but in the middle I realized that it was too tall and it was becoming more as a rope than a beanstalk. There I was, hanging on a rope, crossing the "border line" of the dream where I came from, loosing the dream. Everything became blurry and soon I woke up... I lose it three times this month, although I got lucid more frequently!!... may be next month will be better!

I wonder how many here actually just write fiction rather than dream experiences.
Eg.:
I managed to do the beanstalk one.
Whilst I had to cheat a bit (I did not find a beanstalk but summoned one after becoming lucid), I climbed up to find, you guessed it, a portal.

Went through it and somehow I ended up in a street with a hole where the beanstalk came from (though before entering it the street was nowhere to be seen in the sky)
After jumping from the beanstalk on the street there I thought the streets were empty but I got attacked by demons lolz, big firefight ensued. and I woke up in the middle of it (not due to death or w/e, my dream just shut down).



Sometimes I think that if I could make movies of my dreams, I'd be superrich. (Not related to the text above lol)

Originally Posted by [Alpha]-0mega-

I wonder how many here actually just write fiction rather than dream experiences.

Well that's a little bit uncharitable... it would be disappointing to think people would abuse the "honesty system" this is based on.

But if people do abuse it then that only means they get an avatar. They DON'T get the satisfaction of accomplishment. They don't get the very real memory of the dream and the feelings associated with it. And that is the real reward.

I joked with my friend that I had accomplished the (basic) task of the month but there were only a few days left to wear my wings and we had a laugh about it. But the feeling of how cool it is to do something in your lucid dream that was suggested on a group forum like this is awesome.

I think these tasks of the month are a brilliant idea and I hope they keep it up. It's very generous of the moderators to monitor this for us and make it so much fun... it must be a lot of work.

It's not as much work as you'd think

I just discovered this site and have been reading a few guides...I actually have been getting into SP for a while and didn't know what to do with it. Instead of going with the flow and gradually transitioning into a dream, I freaked out and tried to wake myself up as fast as possible.

However, I've been really close in an OOBE experience these past nights. I was actually doing it this morning until I was awakened up by my alarm clock. Hopefully I will be able to complete next month's task.

Congrats to all those who succeeded this month!

You still got another day to do it, there are 31 days in May Do it tonight

There is a big surprise coming on June 1st relevant to the TOTM... what could it be?

Originally Posted by ninja9578

It's not as much work as you'd think

Oh... well... thank you anyway

Your welcome, I feel appreciated

Ok i slept for 15 hours last night trying to get one of the tasks done and managed to do the basic task.

Ok I went in an out of REM 5 times last night (that i remember and wasn't having to much luck becoming completely lucid. After the third phase i woke up and thought "i'm doing really pants tonight!" but then i drifter into sleep with this thought on my mind. Then i was like "wait i'm asleep, those black blocks are new and the fact i'm in a cave is suspicious" so i was like yay i'm lucid. So i was thinking what do i do now "fly.. no to lame, summon someone.. can't think of anyone, blow something up... yeh sounds fun, no wait there was something i wanted to do?" then it occured to me as the image of a packman flashed through my mind yeh eat something so ate grabbed a matt finished block from a small pile to my left and ate the corner and i got the wierdest sensation as the part i bit off sort of disintigrated outwards into little spheres and light through the edge of my face like I wasn't there and a taste of sherbet spred through my mouth, then i think i just drifted into normal sleep again. But WOW! that was so wierd and satisfying, if anyone else sees a black, matt finished, block while there dreaming eat it!

Ok now i didn't do it before june the 1st cause i'm GMT and his happened between 6-7am on june 1st so i'm just out but still that was fun and i'll try again next time .

Oh, well, next month's tasks are fun too.