Thread: Lucid Tasks for the Month of May 2008

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

I haven't gone through all of the post's, but I want to know if anyone has eaten metal. Just taken a gob full of it off a pole or bar or something. PM me if you have. That would be funny.

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.

Ate something unedible May 22nd/2008
So i woke up this morning and realized i had completed the task in my dream last night. so im finally getting around to telling you folks about it :

my dream was being locked in my room for a looooong time, (kind of a nightmare i guess) i didn't have 100% control over my dream so i could escape, and i was getting really really hungry, and for some reason the first think i look at is my pillow. So oddly enough i walk over and take a huge bite out of my pillow. Too be honest, it tasted like gross cotton candy, with a fabric rapper around it : /


(not recommended...)

I is soooo happy (and yes I speak perfect english, i just is sooo happy!) I completed the basic task last night, my first badge is on it's way!!!! Yaaay! Ok so here's the dreams (I did it three times in three different dreams.) I woke up at four-thirty and did some hypnosis etc, then had three lucids:

First dream: the Road Trip Dream. I was in the car and looked down at my hand which was contorted horribly (I hate that RC but I do it anyway) and I got lucid. i had been thinking about the task all day and the closest inedible object was... if I leaned forward like this... the back of the driver's seat! (which was on the right like in england although we were right outside our house). So I lean forward and take a huge, six-inch-square bite... or at least try, but I can't get any off... so I try again... and it's DISGUSTING!!! WORSE THAN STRAIGHT COFFEE BEANS!! (which are pretty gross) and it was so bitter I spat it right out on the floor. (okay... so I didn't actually swallow. I tried but gagged.) the other two I swallowed though.

Dream two: the Strange House Dream. I was in a strange room in a strange house. I got lucid (my fingers were glowing blue) and looked around. Closest inedible thing: the metal pole in the middle of the room. So I take a huge, bendy, chewy bite. It's kind of like gum: sweet yet sour. It's pretty good, like a strange aftertaste or something. I make a note of that to myself.

Dream three: the GMU Dream. I told my friend that I would eat the GMU building, and I did. After getting off of the bus, I RCed, went lucid, and took a biiiiiig bite of concrete. It was crumbly and delicious, the best yet! Really sweet like a crunchy cross between sugar and honey. Sooo good! I wish I had had time for another bite, but I then woke up.

So there are my dreams, I hope you enjoy them and I am soooo happy that I have completed my first task of the month! (a little late but still).

Yeah, concrete is always good

That's what I've been telling all my friends all day... no really! It is!

Okay, I have a good story for the advanced task. The dream wasnt lucid but it was still very vivid
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I was standing on a hovering platform in mid-air with a big 'SASUKE' sign behind me. I walked over to the edge and realized that there was no floor beneath me and I was even hundreds of feet above the clouds. I looked back up and suddenly there was a floating audience sitting on hoverbikes and flying around me. A voice came from no where and said, "Our next contestant on Ninja Warrior is an eighteen year old college student known only as Kenseiko. Will this challenger be able to beat our new course?"

An obsticle course appeared in front of me and the floor beneath me bagan flickering. I ran forward and grabbed onto the monkey bars just before the platform fell to the earth. After that I went through the courses with people on hoverbikes flying around to watch me. Throughout the whole thing I felt like I was going to die and my palms kept sweating made only worse by the fact that most of the obsticles I had to face were the ones where you were hanging and could only use your hands to hold you up. And the spider climb... that was the worst one of them all.

Eventually though I finally made it to the fourth level of the course. Instead of the tower that you have to rope climb up, there was a beanstalk that came all the way from below the clouds. I grabbed onto it for dear life and as the fourth course started, the top of the beanstalk was lit on fire which started rapidly coming downwards. I climbed downwards like hell for a few hundred feet. By the time I got to under the clouds I saw that directly below on the surface was nothing but water. I kept climbing down and down but the fire was catching up to me and soon it got so close to me that it was singing my hair. Finally I just had to jump away from the stalk and when I did I fell straight down and hit the ocean below with a belly flop. The impact shook me awake.

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

Oops, sorry, it counted

so how come im not yellow

I'm not sure, you should be yellow by now

I did it, I did it, I did it... yay

It was a WILD. (I think)... I was trying a WBTB but I thought I had fallen asleep... anyway... a dreamscene formed.

First it was a warm orange glow. I saw some walls on my left. Wooden paneled walls. I knew a dream was forming and I was conscious. I remembered the lucid task of the month. (I had my first lucid the night before and never even thought of doing the task of the month.) I was determined to try it this time.

I decided I would eat a rock. Not very imaginative but I just wanted to try and achieve it. As I was lying there with a room forming around me I saw a rock rolling up a gentle slope toward me. It was cool, like I summoned it!

It was about the size of a brazil nut. It was hard and almost translucent and golden. I picked it up and put it in my mouth. I was pleasantly surprised. It tasted like toffee. I felt smug.

Then I thought I would try something more difficult. I looked down and saw some carpet tack nails. I picked one up and held it. I was a little bit nervous about this one. I put it in my mouth and it turned into a metallic butterfly. It was crunchy and brittle and had no taste at all.

The rest of the dream isn't relevant to the task but I'm thrilled I did it.