Thread: Lucid Tasks for the Month of May 2008

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.