Thread: Lucid Tasks for the Month of May 2008

Originally Posted by owl

I approach the first grill - there are two directly in my line of sight. The charcoal looks like it's been burning for awhile. There are some glowing red embers, and some charred white sections on the edges. I wonder if it'll be hot, but remind myself that it doesn't really matter. I reach in, and grab a charcoal lump. I'm actually a little surprised (disappointed?) that there's no heat. I take a bite, and it doesn't taste like a cookie, but has that cookie consistency. It does, however, taste sweet - the taste reminds me of a red bean bun (the bun part, but I don't taste beans).

Eating a glowing lump of charcoal.. that was brave!

PS.. love your name and avatar!

Originally Posted by ninja9578

I stretched my mouth and crushed the wheel until it fit. I pushed t he whole thing down my throat as a whole, the pedals were a pain because they kept rotating in such a way that I couldn't swallow them. I had to lay on my back to get my neck in the right position, but I got the whole bike down in one gulp. It tasted like metal.

Uhmm.. the pedals were a pain because they kept ROTATING!!

Wow.. I am very impressed! Well done!!

the dream started weirdly. i WILDed and could only see black. usually i get frustrated and leave the dream. instead, i just danced because i was happy in a dream. then i looked at my hands and i could see them. then i looked up and i could see everything. (look at what a positive attitude can do.) anyhoo, i walked out to my backyard. i expected a beanstalk to be there and i didn't see one. then i walked a little farther and i saw it...or what i thought was it. it turned out to be about a 15 ft high, 4 ft thick, dead tree. it had one branch and no leaves. but i didn't realize this wasn't a beanstalk. oy vey. so i hovered up to the top and tried to make it grow to the sky. after a few tries, it rocketed up and i went through like 5 layers of clouds. the problem was, every layer of cloud i went through, i would start back in my backyard. so i would shoot up and teleport back down. i gave up and went to the neighbor's house for a better "beanstalk." they had one that went in some little hole thing. i climbed up like spiderman (where all i needed to do was crawl up the side.) i knew it would go somewhere cool. but i saw a ton of spider webs in there. (i have a thing with spider webs. i freak out when they are on me.) i knew i could clear the ones i could see but i didn't have confidence that i could clear them all. so i gave up and the dream was over.

Grats Ninja

I finally got around to doing the basic task, but I kinda wish I hadn't.

It was nothing all that exciting. I was walking with my mom toward the beach when I remembered to eat something. There were some reddish clay paving stones on the side of the path so I grabbed one. I briefly worried about whatever bugs might be on the bottom of it, but thought to myself, "It doesn't matter; it's a dream," and took a huge bite. I think it was a much bigger bite than I'm capable of taking in reality because there was a lot of material in my mouth. It was crumbly and soft, but it tasted disgusting! It tasted of dirt and strongly of minerals, like sucking on a multi-vitamin that you're supposed to swallow whole, except worse. I felt like I was gaging, but kept the bitter material in my mouth. I swallowed about half of it and tried to imagine a better taste for it but failed, then decided it was okay to spit out the rest and did. Then I had a false wakening in which there were chunks of the chewed up paving stone all around my bed and I thought that somehow I'd actually been chewing on it in reality.

I don't think that in writing this I've done justice to how gross it was . . . it really felt like I was gaging, I wanted to puke.

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

Unfortunately people lie.

Originally Posted by The White Rabbit

Unfortunately people lie.

what?

Originally Posted by The White Rabbit

Unfortunately people lie.

Who? I will strip their wings

Originally Posted by Clairity

Uhmm.. the pedals were a pain because they kept ROTATING!!

Wow.. I am very impressed! Well done!!

Those pedals were a pain rotating as I tried to swallow them.

Quotes are fun.

i don't think people lie about the task of the month. it is more of a personal objective than to show off the wings. and plus if someone can't do it, you don't NEED to report the failures and no one will notice. if you are going to lie, it might as well be for something worthwhile like did you illegally film signals and/or practices? no. or that isn't the same nasty ripped up hoodie from like 5 years ago is it? no.

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.

After a long dry spell the beanstalk task is proving to be a pain in my butt lol. The first few times when I was able to find a beanstalk it was too flimsy to climb, only three or four sprouts not conected. Then in this morning’s lucids I was able to make it thicker and ready to climb only to wake up before I could get a chance. And in yet another lucid this morning I wasn't able to find a beanstalk but was able to make a bed of flowers grow into one only to have the ground clasp underneath it.

GRRRRRRRR what a pain! Lol But I am going to keep at it.

Anyways this brings me to a question what if it is not a “beanstalk” per say? Meaning what if I have to grow one again and I grow it out of like the flowers in the last lucid. It looked like a beanstalk, but it was not made from bean sprouts and it had some white flowers on it. Is this still ok to complete the task?

On a side note; I would try the uneatable objects task, but last time I tried to eat something in my dreams I woke up to find my self munching on a drool soaked spot on my pillow . So I am not eager to try to eat anything any time soon again in my dreams.


Anna

Better than dreaming that you're eating something and waking up and not being able to find your pillow

After a long dry spell I finally get a lucid last night, although it was quite weak. I was walking downtown with my buddy Pat and it just clicked all of a sudden that I was dreaming. I was on rollerblades and I could feel the rumbling made from going over the sidewalk bumbs on the rollerblades course through my whole body. I stopped becide a building and saw a lamp post which I tried to morph into a beanstalk with my mind. When that didn't work, I walked over to a drain pipe coming down the side of the building and looked straight up. It ended where the roof of the building began. So I looked down and then up again but it did not change. I decided to climb it anyway, but half way up I lost lucidity and it lead me nowhere close to a beanstalk

This is the first time I tried one of these tasks, heres my DJ entry:

As I cross over into the dream world, I say "I'm in!" I made it and I'm glad to be in a dream. I am in the courtyard of my old high school. I walk across the courtyard and it's daytime and there's a lot of people around. I open the door and walk down the hallway to try to get outside. As I'm walking down the hallway I begin to wake quickly and I say dang. I do my techniques such as spinning rubbing hands, and eventually make it back into the hallway. I continue to walk down the hallway and open the door and I'm now outside. I can see super large mountains in the distance and all their detail. It's a little foggy outside, and as I look at the mountains I noticed some deer on the mountain and I think "cool". I'm walking along the wall of the school now and I feel gravity wants to suck me toward the wall. I start to climb the wall like Spiderman backwards and as I reached the top I crawl into an old truck bed. I think about what I can do now that I'm lucid. I remember one of the tasks of the month that I read in the forum so I decided to try it. I have to eat something that's not edible. I look around the dirty truck bed and find an old greasy rag. I pick it up and began to eat it. I'm totally amazed at how my teeth sink into the rag and bite through it almost as if it was a marshmallow. I noticed the taste and it doesn't taste good it tastes like an old dirty rag. So I spit the rest out. I notice I'm in a forest now in the back of his truck on a dirt road. A Doberman pinscher is now barking wildly on the side of the truck like he wants to attack me. I have no fear of the dog since I know this is a dream and I reach my hands down into its razor-sharp teeth to fight with it. It's biting and cutting me but I don't see any blood coming from my arms I eventually wrestle it down onto the ground, and eventually the dog does not want to fight me anymore and just sits there. This is the first time in a dream that something stopped wanting to fight me. I suddenly wake up.

Well i got another gold star task, here is the bean stalk one:

I became lucid instantly in this dream, and i was walking in a forest for some reason. It wasnt a lush forest, but it was a forest non the less. I came accross a house, and there were bears outside of it. This was funny because i thought about the goldielox story (sp?) as i went inside the house. Then once i got inside i jumped to thinking about the red riding story and i walked inside a room to see a wolf dressed up in women clothing. This was way weird, and i was kinda freaked so i walked back out. I went outside and my mind jumped to jack and the beanstalk story, and i saw a person running away yelling "its growing!!". I was like.. what the heck? And in hopes of stealing a hot girl away from a guy, i saw a huge beanstalk. Then i was like.. beanstalk, why is that important... oh dang its a task of the month... lets climb this sucker! So i started to climb, and it was taking too long so i imagined a ladder on the other side of it and walked around and sure enough there was one. I got all the way to the top and once i got the top a huge giant just like the story was there, but he wasnt in a castle or house or w/e he had. He was just walking, and inside of his arm was a gold egg. I asked him, i said "hey dude can i have that egg?" He said, "if you get off my cloud you can" so i said sure and took his egg, then i jumped off and saw i was falling pretty fast, so i just started to fly.

The rest of the dream was pretty much me selling the egg for a good some of money and had some fun buying stuff, but that isnt relevant. All i know is, i did it

last night i had another successful WILD and decided to take the easier task(for me at least) which was eating something otherwise unedible? inedible? eh one is right. anyways i ate my computer keyboard mouse and all, for some reason it tasted kinda like peanutbutter. although i kept getting minor shocks while i was eating it (kinda like having your fingers between the prongs on some appliance when u plug it in. minor but unpleasant.) anyways overall kinda weird.

Originally Posted by Trapped

last night i had another successful WILD and decided to take the easier task(for me at least) which was eating something otherwise unedible? inedible? eh one is right. anyways i ate my computer keyboard mouse and all, for some reason it tasted kinda like peanutbutter. although i kept getting minor shocks while i was eating it (kinda like having your fingers between the prongs on some appliance when u plug it in. minor but unpleasant.) anyways overall kinda weird.

Eww. I'd never eat my keyboard. I shudder thinking of all the crumbs, dust, and dead skin cells that have accumulated in the cracks through the years.

Peanut butter, you say? XD

i said it was weird plus my keyboard is clean

Dang, sorry for being so uncreative and eating rocks but I couldn't think of anything else. I guess almost barfing in the dream sort of makes up for that though! The dream is below, and the parts that I completed the basic task are italicized. It's weird because even thought the possibilities of lucid dreaming are endless, I ran out of simple ideas at the end.

Saturday 5/17/08
Doing Basically Everything


I got to do basically everything I wanted (well in this particular dream). First I got lucid in my backyard. I went into some mud and rolled around in it. It was so realistic I couldn't even believe it. Who doesn't want to roll in mud once in a while? After that my shirt was very wet and I wanted to clean it off because it was really nasty feeling. Basically, I "reset" the dream to start off with a clean shirt. The dream was a bit hazy but I wasn't letting that stop me. I instantly went down to look at the gravel. Gravel? I remembered the lucid task. Being quite uncreative I ate a few rocks, but I can't remember what it was like. After that the world was a lot clearer and I started to fly up a bit. I flew up next to a building with a roof that has those semicircular overlapping tiles. I wondered what it would be like to slide down it. I sat down and slid down the roof. It was very bumpy, but I got pretty fast in the process. When I was off I flapped my hands and arms to recover by flying.

That was fun and all but I wanted a bigger building! I kept flying and went over our fence. As I gained altitude I found myself in a very different town than I was "supposed" to be in. It reminds me of pictures of England I have seen. Unfortunately for me, all the buildings were pretty low, except for one. I flew over to it. It had parts with a green slanted roof, but most of it was flat and white. I landed on the flat part. At the end of the roof I saw some people jumping off and flying back. Fantastic idea. I ran and then jumped off the building, doubting myself slightly. I kept telling myself I could do it, but I wasn't too sure. I jumped off (quite thrilling) and levitated right there. I turned around in midair and went back to the roof safely.

Then I had another great idea. Why don't I bungee jump? I had the building, now all I needed was the bungee cord. I then thought (consciously, I knew I was dreaming though it may sound like I was nonlucid) that the bungee cord must be under the overhang of the building. I reached under and sure enough I pulled out a bungee cord. It didn't really have anything to put my foot in, so I just tied the ends on. Even though it was a dream, I was a little afraid so instead of jumping off I did one of those wimpy "dives" where you crouch down and just fall off. The way down wasn't too exciting. Yes, I saw the ground getting closer, but I had a bungee. The way up was different. I could really feel the line stretching out and slowing me down, and then springing back. All the blood went to my head and I sailed over the overhang (good thing I didn't hit it because the bungee was attached under it) and landed on my feet on the building once more. A DC (which I knew as "ScaredyLuigi," an old online friend from the now shut down Nsider, but I thought he was from Dreamviews) then fastened the bungee to his feet and really jumped off. He was literally an inch from the ground when he pulled up. "Always have to outdo me." I said jokingly.

I didn't really know what else I wanted to do at the moment, and the scene seems to have changed around me. I was underneath some metal bleachers with the same kid. I now noticed that he looked like one from the Cross Country team I just joined at school. I realized I forgot the beginning of the dream (indeed at least ten minutes have been cut) and I asked him if he knew. I figured that it was worth a shot. He said something like, "No, that's the problem with lucid dreams." I kept walking and got to a place where a lot of DC's were leaning on a blue railing and looking out to a park on the opposite side. I flopped on my stomach and found a pile of rocks. I remembered the task again, and also that I had done it. However, I thought the first one didn't really count. I was also trying to think of the second lucid task but I couldn't figure it out. I popped a rock into my mouth and chewed. It was ridiculously soft, and the once hard rock fell apart into grains probably 1/10th the size of playground sand. I didn't really have to swallow, the stuff just went down. I threw in another two and started to gag. I mean, the rocks were absolutely tasteless, but they were making me gag really violently. I thought it would be idiotic to throw up (especially since it just might happen in real life) so I spit out whatever was left in there and got up to look for a drinking fountain. The DC's leaning on the fence said something about how horrible the person managing the park on the opposite side was. I looked, and saw a woman with black skin, but it seemed to have cracks were the skin was red. It was as if the black was flaking off and soon all of her skin would be bright red. I turned and saw two things: a hell of a lot of graffiti and a drinking fountain. Not thinking of looking at the graffiti (which could have been interesting) I started to drink water and flush out the rock with it. I then "woke up" into blackness. I had forgotten a lot of my dream and decided to complete the final step and record the dream. I "awoke" from this half dreaming state.

i think i may have completed the advanced but i don't know if this counts.....

okay, i was lucid and all of a sudden i remembered the advanced task so i summoned a giant bean stalk.I looked up and tried to see the top but i couldn't so i started to climb.About half way up i climbed into this big open archway in the side of the stalk ,i realized it was a window and looked around.inside was an elevator room like in hospitals so i decided i climbed enough and took an elevator.I didn't press a button once i got in and just stood staring at this woman that was freaking out because she was in an elevator and couldn't get out.The door opened and i got off into this old shed that had laboratory equipment in it from like the fifties.On the floor were all these little copper and iron pellets along with all sorts of foreign coins.My dad,brother,and dog were there and we were collecting these.(i think i was only semi lucid at this point because i just went along with the dream,usually i do my own thing when i'm lucid)Then one of the scientists came in but has no idea that the lab has been out of use for about forty years.He asks us to leave but isn't alarmed or angry at our random presence.The lab was for testing car parts...we leave out the back door into wal-mart.we all walk towards the doors by the cash registers really nervously because there is a guard there and our bags we had the pellets in were wal-mart bags.she just smiles at us and lets us pass. we get into our trucks. i realize that i do not own a hummer let alone a vehicle-my alarm wakes me up.sorry for the length....does this count?did we have to get to the top of the beanstalk?

I became lucid at some party where people were doing pretty weird things. Everyone would smoke pasta and watch TV. I remembered the beanstalk task and I ran outside to my backyard. I expected to see a beanstalk but all I saw was this baby tree that is actually there in reality. I decided to make it grow into a breanstalk so I watched it get thicker and bigger. I thought that this would take a long time so I looked away and back again and it was a MASSIVE tree with no top. It was just a huge trunk. I thought, that isn't a beanstalk (this was one off my issues with previous attempt) so I looked away and back. It changed from brown bark to green and it grew these giant leaves all over it. I climbed up and it only took like 10 seconds, but at the top I was really tired. It ended like 10 feet before the clouds so I made it grow with me on top until I could walk out onto the cloud. At the top, there was just vast cloud and a verticle toolbar thing in my vision on the right. It had 2 columns of faces of people I could have up here. I looked over and a computer mouse and I was controlling scrolled up. It was all anime people who I didn't recognize. I thought this is strange because I don't even like anime. The only two things I recognized were Ash from Pokemon and Sonic the Hedgehog. I look away and I am in a video game village. It apparently takes place in Midieval Europe. I now had a toolbar on the bottom of my screen/vision. It had pictures of people I could summon. I decided that since I did the beanstalk, I could go find a girl to...you know. So i walked into a hut and found like 6 people sleeping. 4 woke up and it turns out they are evil lizard men. I thought, oh, this is the plot of the game. But i am busy I can't deal with this. So I walk out just as I take an axe to the back but I could barely feel it. I think i could summon a girl with the toolbar. But now all the people were wearing armor becaus the lizard men had started attacking. I summoned what I thought was a girl. I found her and started having sex. Then I FA-ed into another lucid dream.

How do you upload the GIF.?

Originally Posted by ray

does this count?did we have to get to the top of the beanstalk?

No, you just had to go somewhere else, that archway sounds like it was a different place so it counts.

I ate somthing unedible in a dream last night: a slice of Domino's pizza.