Thread: Lucid Task of the Month for June 2008

Hey, congratulations ninja!

Here's mine...finally.

Parking Garage - Changing TV Channels 6/15/08
I find myself in a parking garage with several floors in it when I remember a lucid task I want to complete of changing the channels on a TV to see what comes on. After I concentrate on manifesting a TV, I see a small 12 inch color TV sitting up high out of my reach with something like a movie playing on it. As I concentrate on changing the channels with my mind the channel changes to one with a couple of black guys, who appear to be doing either a newscast or a sports show. I then concentrate on changing the channel to a football game and am then find myself watching a football game.

When 3 or 4 young guys walk up to me and ask me what I am doing, I show them how I am able to change the channel on the TV just by concentrating on changing the channel. They try this themselves and are successful at changing the channel. Two of them then get into an argument as they each want to watch a different channel. Back and forth they go changing the channel, first one changing it to what he wants to watch, and then the other changing it to what he wants to watch. Although it is quite funny watching them change the channel back and forth so fast, I regret having shown them how to do this.

I then concentrate on another task I had wanted to complete of finding my body and reentering it, but I appear to not be out of my body at this point, because concentrating on finding my body just makes me aware that I am laying in my bed sleeping. I think about recording this lucid, but before I get a change I find myself in another lucid.

Yay, first lucid in a while.

I WBTB and find myself in a field/music festival. I'm not sure how long it lasted but whilst driving back I realise I'm dreaming and fade the car out of 'existence' in favor of flying.
First thing I do is try and find my friends I was in the field with. I start accelerating towards where I know they are and get sucked into another dream. This one's at a house with them all in.
Then I notice a TV and I watch it.

It's a trailer for a movie called "Carrie" with a blond woman and the actor Sam Niell. She's traveling in time but can't control it (kinda like heroes) and Sam Niel is after her (he's some kind of Bad Guy). One scene I particularly remember is of Future Her in a closet with Past Her reaching in for a coat, so Future Her (wanting to preserve the timeline) picks a coat and puts it in Past Her's groping hands before they can see each other. The rest was trailer-ish flashes of action and adventure etc making you want to see the movie.

Sam Neil the Shakespeare actor? That would be funny to see

I am laying in bed when I feel what I think to be SP slowly creep up my left side. I start to panic but then tell my self it is ok because it is just my starting to fall asleep and I want this. Little did I know I was already asleep and this was just my body trying to trick my again.

As the SP starts to get worse and I lost all feeling in my left side as the rest of my body is starting to feel numb I force myself to move off the bed any way I can. I soon get off the bed and walk into the kitchen. As I am walking to the kitchen however, I am trying to do a nose plug RC only to have my now swollen and huge lips get in the way. Once in the kitchen I look at the clocks and see them change. This reinforces the knowing that I am dreaming and I become happy. As I am standing there trying to think of some task to do I remember the TotmB and become even more happy I am in my house.

As I am walking from the kitchen to the living room I look over at my computer. On the screen I see that a move is playing, I pause to watch a little of it. On the screen I see a robot that looks like the one from the Simpson's that Homer becomes for Bart. It is in a research lab type room and just smashing away at everything. The camera zooms in on the far wall that is all glass to show the scientists standing and watching their creation destroy their lab. I remember shaking my head and snickering at how stupid they were to just stand by and watch as the thing destroyed their lab.

Knowing this robot smash movie on my computer would not be enough to complete the task I turn my attion to the TV. On the TV I see a news reporter standing on a hill over looking some type of plant/mill where police activity is happening. While the reporter is saying something the camera man does a great zoom job into the plant to the cop cars and the cops standing in a circle. One man is shouting to the other point at one man then pointing in a direction. As I am trying to considerate on the TV and what is happening in the news cast Hubby is talking to me. He is upset saying that 'They' (I am not sure who they were) did not split the atom right or even down the center for that matter and because of this stupidity on their part they were going to destroy the world. Then he started to go on about how the right way was to split the atom and other chemicals were needed to get the job done properly. I try to tell him that I do not care just now as I am trying to watch the news. However he continues on. Shortly after this I slip into a FA.

Something I want to add My hubby does not know anything about atoms. He is a computer tech who is the head of the IT department at the company he works at. I do know know anything about them either lol. I wanted to so bad to remember what was fully said but because of a set of 3 Fas after this dream it has faded lol.

D.G.

Well, I had a 10-hour plane ride to take and I was pretty tired. I didn't think I'd have any dream recall because I usually don't when I take the plane, but I managed to have an LD during the ride and do the basic task! Here's the excerpt from my DJ:

"I'm in a building, and I step into a large room which apparently is a basketball court. I see the San Antonio Spurs getting ready to play, and take a seat on their bench. I briefly see Tim Duncan. After that, I walk off, and start realizing I'm dreaming (however, my level of awareness wasn't 100%, it was still pretty foggy at times). I see a girl, and think about trying some sex. First, I think to myself that I'll try and see if I can alter her appearance by willing it. I focus, and see her eye color change, I think to a sort of bright orange and then maybe blue. It was really cool. I also manage to transform a guy into a girl by looking away and then back like I usually do for other stuff.

After that, I decide that rather than risk ending the dream too quickly with sex, I'll try something else. I remember the lucid task, and see a small flatscreen TV in the room, although I don't remember if I created it or if it was already there. I turn it on, and there's that show Batman Beyond (I think that's what it's called?) they used to have a couple years back, where Bruce Wayne is old and there's a new batman. I'm a bit annoyed, because I hated that show. Anyways, on the TV I see the old Bruce Wayne ranting to the new batman about experience and stuff like that. The dream ends shortly after."

Ah... I can try even if I'm new right? If so I got the hard task instead of the easy one <.< Why? Because... here is the story:

Well, I was in that city wich seemed desert at the top, so I went to seek for the rabit in a nearby park, after waiting for some mins, it finally appeared, apparently it was stealing food from the desert city, so I went chasing it for some time until it got to hide in its hole, then I was like "How I'm supposed to enter there? Its 15 cm tall and I'm 1.65 m..." so I had to do a little trick and made myself small enough to enter, it was a short hole tough, after the first 2 meters I fell into an underground city and nearly died because of people trying to step in me -.-
Anyway, I was still in the chase of the bunny, so I just got to my normal size and teleported to where the bunny, finally got it! (I didn't got to remember if the task were caught it after entering the hole or only chase it until the hole) So I took the bunny and was attemping to get in the other city, but I got arrested because the size change... then I went to see that "police-kind" guy who was yelling at me, tough I wasn't paying attention to him, I only wanted the bunny back, but then I saw it, a TV and remembered about the other task, so I asked them to let me take it, obviusly the answer was "no" <.< So I had to make my tricks and teleport again, I took the bunny, again, and were attempting to escape but first I took one of those small TVs to watch, after some other mins of running I found a girl who took me to the other city, I was grateful and gave her some diamonds and food, and asked her were could I find some electricity to see the TV, she said "Here? There is none, the closest is like... 8km from here, to that direction!" So I just gave up and woke up <.<

I was looking for rabbit holes in my LD last night. I found a small one, so I started digging to make it bigger and I found a bunch of worms, so I stopped. I'm guessing that doesn't count lol.

Failed the advanced a few times:
I started trying yesterday but I couldn't imagine myself in an appropriate scene. While asleep I wondered if I was at the right part of sleep to be trying it; maybe it was too soon after I fell asleep? Today I first tried to imagine a squirrel and failed, but I came back to the task later in the same dream and decided that it was supposed to be a rabbit. I managed to imagine a flickering, insubstantial rabbit on a city street. It went down a storm drain. I was somewhere up in the air without a body. I went straight down into the storm drain head-first and everything went black. I hadn't read the task since the beginning of the month so I guess I forgot that I had to follow the rabbit once in the hole and I thought I'd completed the task.

But in between advanced task attempts today I easily did the basic:
After giving up on the squirrel I found myself in an unfamiliar living room. My two nieces were there laying on the carpet. I sat down with them and picked up the remote. I've been trying to give more credibility to DCs lately, so I asked them if there was anything they wanted to watch. I don't think I got any direct answer out of them so I just pointed the remote (which looked exactly like my dad's remote) and hit the power button at the top, deciding to just go with whatever came on. I laughed when I looked up at the TV. It was thin and modern and looked like the same model that my dad has (some HD Sony with a plastic stand) but it was enormous, covering an entire wall of the room. It went all the way up to the celling and was far too wide to be wide-screen. As for the programming: I could tell by the logo in the lower right that it was National Geographic Channel. It seemed to be some boring documentary about how some non-commercial pilot avoided dying in a plane crash. It seemed to me like something my boyfriend would turn on while using his laptop then forget about. The narrator sounded like almost every narrator you hear and had that serious tone that they use for those kind of shows when they're trying to convey the danger of the situation. Except I noticed the narrator make up a word, kinda like a Bushism (I made a note to myself to remember the word, but I guess I dreamed too long afterwards). Throughout the rest of my dream I noticed TV noise in the background and payed attention to it. I wondered if someone was actually watching TV nearby so that I could hear it where I was sleeping.

Woot! I did the basic task and I may have completed the advanced one too, just tell me what you guys think.

BASIC
Just after entering SP, I woke up in my bed. I have a TV right in front of where I was sleeping, so I shook myself out of my paralysis and popped on the TV. I found myself watching the news and it was a story about this moth going extinct. It showed it's population density over an area of land that didn't look familiar. After being bored, I flipped the channel to a dance show. However, this was a weird dance show. They had their legs and arms blurred out so that the viewers at home couldn't copy their dance moves. It was really weird. I remember the music sounding familiar, but I couldn't remember exactly what it was when I woke up.

ADVANCED
Okay, here's what happened. I was walking down a walking path (LDing at the time) and I thought this would be the perfect time to try the advanced task. Over the short incline I walked up, I spotted a rabbit right outside a little hole. Thinking there would be no way I could fit in, I tried imagining it bigger and it worked. The rabbit quickly jumped in and I followed. However, there wasn't cotton candy at the bottom of this hole. Instead I jumped inside of a cage, and I was imprisoned by the rabbits. Before I woke up, all I remember seeing is a bunch of other cages and this poacher looking guy. I got the impression that the rabbits were working with this man in catching people, although, I'm not entirely sure what it was all about...

I completed the basic task last night.

My history teacher was telling me I was banned from school for jumping off something... It was really weird and made no sense at all, so it didn't take long for me to become lucid. After becoming lucid, I just started to explore...

I am walking along a road, when I suddenly see a large open tent. I go inside and see a group of people watching tv, but it was off. Remembering the lucid task, I turned it on. It then showed (with sound and everything) the end of the song Plug in Baby by Muse, live at Wembley Stadium: I was watching the HAARP DVD. After watching, I left the room.

The part that I heard and saw was 3.48-4.20 from this (Only with a little better audio quality, as it was on the DVD). It sounded pretty much like it was supposed to sound, though the riff from 4.12 to 4.16 was messed up.

As soon as I remembered the TV task of the month, I spontaneously found myself watching one of those crazy Japanese gladiator obstacle course shows. There was a team of men and women, dressed in skin tight orange/yellow swirled body suits, trying to tackle some challenge on a horizontal bar. The men were hanging from either end of the bar by their hands, and had their feet held out horizontally and locked together at the ankles. Each of the women then had to climb through the square formed by their bodies and the bar. They were having a hard time, laughing hysterically at getting tangled into a huge mess. The announcer was speaking in Japanese, obviously making jokes. There were wacky sound effects and a laugh track playing.

My girlfriend and I were watching this on an old school wood cabinet television. My girlfriend reached right through the TV screen, and lifted up one of the girl's bikini tops. I realized that the people were actually wearing bikinis and speedos, but had their skin painted in acrylic body paint. I reached in the TV screen also, and started playing with one of the girl's breasts while my girlfriend played with the other. It was as if we had stopped time in the show. Everyone else was frozen like mannequins. The Japanese girl was getting real into it, and she and my girlfriend started making out. I was still fondling her pretty obscenely, and at some point I realized she had three nipples. It was like her left breast had another smaller breast growing off of it. It was hard to tell through the body paint. Weird.

I got a little weirded out by her mutated triple breast, and suddenly smelled somethiing burning. I turned away from the TV, and found myself in the kitchen of my mother's old house. The TV was on the counter, still showing the scene with my girlfriend and the Japanese girl. There was a tray of food under the broiler that smelled like it was burning. I quickly opened the oven, and slid out a tray of really thick bacon with sliced zucchini and squash. I thought it was stupid to cook this all together, because the bacon was going to be undercooked while the squash would burn. I used my fingers to flip each piece of food over individually. I was surprised that I could feel my fingers burning even though it was a dream.

I slid the tray back in the oven, and turned around. I was startled by the one of the orange painted contestants from the show now standing in the corner of the kitchen. I started making out with her, but woke up before I got too far.

Well, I've tried to finish the advanced task three times this week, and my last attempt was pretty close, so here's my experience for you to judge:

I realized I was lucid rather slowly at first. I was in a classroom at my school and my former English teacher was assigning us some dull assignment I had no intention of doing. I remember telling him "I don't have to listen to you, I'm dreaming." That was what really clued me in (Wait, that's right! I'm dreaming!) since aperantly I realize I'm lucid on some level without actually thinking about it. It was kinda weird...
Anyhow, I remembered that I had to follow a rabbit down it's hole, and I knew I had to do it quickly before I lost lucidity (A problem of mine) so I glanced over to the peron sitting next to me (It was a girl I know from school, but I can't remember her name) hoping she would have a rabbit on her shirt. Sadly, it was a polar bear. Luckily enough, the DC noticed my plight and held up her bag for me to see- as it turned out, it had the playboy bunny logo on it. I figured it was close enough, so I told the purse something along the lines of "I've got to follow you down your hole, so, could you please show me where it is?" or something similar. It immidiately jumped from the girl's hands and started hopping out of the classroom-the sight of which made me laugh even in a dream state.
I followed it down the hallway until I came to another room and saw the purse cavorting around a young man's feet. (Somehow I made the connection that he was one of my classmate's older brothers)

I think I lost lucidity almost completely right about here;
He asked me what I wanted and I handed him an essay written on lined paper, telling him I wanted him to look it over. He declined("No, it's hopeless") and I followed him out the door, asking him if he pleeeeease would help me. He eventually gave in, and my dream seemed to return to it's original plotline.
He lead me downstairs into the boy's locker room (down the rabbit hole at last?) where he told me to wait before disapearing into the back. (I think he had to go to the bathroom XD) Eventually I noticed Disney's Tinkerbell laying quite listlessly on a desk/bench thing not far away, so I went over and asked her what was wrong. I can't remember the entire convoluted story she told me (Something about how she used to rule Christmas before I overthrew her, thinking she was someone else. Yeah, I didn't get it either.) but she told me I needed to find a specific image/sticker of her holding something that looked like a heart shaped cherry (or maybe it was a sugar-plum. I couldn't really tell by looking at at it) for her powers to return, or she'd die. I spent the last portion of my dream looking for the image on google and woke up rather dissatisfied by my dream's ending.
I think I'll draw the picture she wanted, then go see her again the next time I'm lucid so I can give it to her. I'd hate to think I killed her out of neglect. :/

Yeah, that's my story. Probably the most impressionistic interpretation of this task the world has ever seen- but does it count as a sucess or not?

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I dream from cinema and tv, but I doesn't become lucid. All what I remember was that the dream was reallllly long.

First I was in a cinema. Their was one man, which talks every second with a fat woman. First she was angry, then she talk with the man. The other people show the film on the screen.

Then focus the dream on a woman, which do gymnastics with a white rope. In few second their was many peoples with white ropes do gymnastics. The woman was in the middle of them. After a while she begun to sleep. Now she lays in a hole of a wand. She slide a little and it's seem, that she fall a abysm (10m).

New scene.
The cinema is a great private room. The man from beginning babbles again every second to the house owner. He seens a little nerved. Again the people in the room doesn't noting the babbler.

PRo

I'll count your Clouded, going down stairs I guess would be avery liberal interpretation of down a rabbit hole. And PRo, you have to do the task lucidly

Well the tv was on in my first Lucid Dream actually (OBE really) when I used the WILD technique and to tell you the truth, family guy was on, lol. I didn't want the TV on so I turned it off but there were still images of 'agents' from the matrix on it (?).

I got pretty lucky with this task.

I was wandering around post with some people in my unit, when we passed by a TV that was turned on. I stopped dead, and they were a few steps away when the noticed I was being left behind. They turned around and said, "Let's go. Hurry up."
Becoming lucid, I said, "I can't. I have to watch TV."
One of them said, "Why?"
I said, "I don't remember."
Another one said, "There's nothing on that TV. It's only for Arabic."
I said, "Cool. I studied Arabic in college. This is perfect."
I went up to the TV and turned the volume up. It was Al-Jazeera, which I used to watch a lot when I was studying, but haven't seen in a long time. There was a sports report on World Cup matches with highlights from the games. There was one of a goal Iran scored on France. And one of a pentalty kick of Iraq vs. Italy. It was said that both Iran and Iraq won their matches and were set to face each other, but the game was on hold because both teams wanted to wear blue uniform and neither would budge on the issue. The anchor asked the sports reported who he though would win, and the reported said he hoped they would both forfit because he's Sudanese. That logic didn't make any sense to be, but I thought it was funny. I turned off the TV and discovered that all my friends had ditched me.

Finally did the Basic Task! I did it in a really long dream, so I'll only tell the part that counts.

An Evil Professor who wanted to force me to teach the whole world how to fly was chasing me through a hilly neighborhood. It was winter and night. He had some people drive their car off of a jump at me, to try to knock me out of the air. Instead they hit a kid. I helped the kid up out of the snow and asked him if I could hide with him someplace. He lead me to his house.

Inside it was decorated for Christmas. His whole extended family was there. I apologized for my intrusion to his mom, but his grandpa kept asking me what I wanted.

I noticed in the corner was a small TV set. They had it turned on. It was some old, black-and-white Christmas special. I watched it for a little while. It was some kind of cross of "The Aadam's Family" and "It's a Wonderful Life." It didn't make any sense. I woke up just as the Evil Professor barged into their living room.

ninja9578,
I anticipated as much.

In the private room, when I notes that the people watching tv, I feel my head move to the right, where the tv stands on a regal. I look at the tv, but I see only movements -> that was the change, but I missed it .

I'll try it again


Welcome to my dreams
PRo

Basic Task Completed


Yes! Finally.

This one has taken the longest since i joined DV. I thought it was going to be my first uncompleted task of the month. Here it is:


20/06/08 - TV Adventures

I had many, many dreams this night. Very vivid, and a couple lucid. They all kind of blurred into eachother which is why i'm putting them all together. At one point i flew the best i have ever flown. The highest and most real experience of flight in a dream. After that i had a false awakening, during which i was completly lucid and realised that my room wasn't exactly my room. I then decided to stop for a second - It's been a while since i've had a decent lucid dream, i wanted to check if theres anything i want to accomplish. Then i remembered the task of the month.

I say remembered, really i knew it all along. My head was so clear, and sleep was so shallow that my brain was quite alert and sharp. I saw a television that wasn't on. I turned it on and all i could see was a black screen with the description of the current program at the bottom, the little description that comes up as the channel loads. It said, "Popeye and Friends" - or something like that. It took a while for the picture to come on, which worried me for a second.

When it did come on, I saw Popeye, the big guy that is his enemy, and a rabbit. The three of them were walking on water in a sort of proud, cartoon style prance. I decided to jump into the TV, and when i did i was looking up stream, standing behind a small chipmunk which was running up the hill via the stream - Popeye was nowhere to be seen. =P

After that, the dream faded into a third part, and i was in my backgarden. I wanted to try the advanced task. I looked for a rabbit but there wasn't one, (there was a rabbit following popeye just a few minutes ago, co-incidence?), however there were a lot of rabbit-related objects around. I felt the dream start to slip away. I tried to bring one of the rabbit ornaments stuck on the wall to life. Wasn't working. Okay forget that, i thought. I tried to go to mars instead, for the task of the year. I looked at the sky and flew. I imagined the sky turning black as i went into space, it didn't. I looked down - I was 2ft off the ground, dream ended. Haha.

I found myself in the lobby of a very bizarre police station. I did a RC and became lucid. After talking to some DCs and looking around a bit, I remembered the task and asked someone for a TV. It was turned off so I pointed at the TV and willed it to turn on which seemed to impress the DCs standing there. The show on TV showed a caveman on top of a mountain. He threw a spear into the chest of a doll who had bright red hair. Out of the chest of the doll came hundreds of arrows that rained down on thousands of marching soldiers below. They were marching on an enormous flat piece of land that was actually floating in the sky with clouds underneath. Then the dream faded away.

Originally Posted by skywatcher

I found myself in the lobby of a very bizarre police station. I did a RC and became lucid. After talking to some DCs and looking around a bit, I remembered the task and asked someone for a TV. It was turned off so I pointed at the TV and willed it to turn on which seemed to impress the DCs standing there. The show on TV showed a caveman on top of a mountain. He threw a spear into the chest of a doll who had bright red hair. Out of the chest of the doll came hundreds of arrows that rained down on thousands of marching soldiers below. They were marching on an enormous flat piece of land that was actually floating in the sky with clouds underneath. Then the dream faded away.

That is awesome!

So I did the advanced task last night, at least I feel I did.

I had a DILD, became aware that I was dreaming after I had literally crapped my pants in my dream. I flew out of the bathroom window and the only that that popped into my head was "What was the advanced task of the month?" I couldn't remember if it was june or july, but I had decided that it must have been to chase the rabbit down the hole.

So I expected a rabbit to be behind me, and I turned around and there was a rabbit.

But it popped up like bugs bunny does, it made the tunnel I could see then it popped up, it was a cartooney rabbit, but not bugs bunny.

It went back down its hole but for some reason I was scared to go after it.

I stuck my head down the hole and pryed it open some more and inside was a cigarette butt, which I found odd because when I used to smoke I never did it at my dads house, which is where I was in the dream.

There were also cardboard box-like material all around to. like the entire hole was made out of a lot of cardboard boxes that were mended together somehow...anyways, that was my dream.

So I had had lucid dreams the night before last and the night before that, I was so intent I could just feel that I was going to have a lucid dream last night and what-da-ya-know I did. I only checked what the task of the month was at the begining of June then completely forgot about it. Anyways...
I had WBTB then found myself lucid.I was lucid having my own fun, flying around doing all that stuff, some creeping woman had been following me I don't know why. But I was flying and then from out of nowhere I remembered the task of the month so I yelled it out for no reason "I have to watch TV!" Then I was in my houase sitting on the sofa in front of the TV. The creepy woman was sitting on the other couch. But I turned on the TV and I'm like what am I watching? It was an animated movie, and what-da-ya-know I was watching Shrek 2. So flipped the channel and the weather was on. The forcast for today showed heavy, fat, snow. I looked out the window and it was snowing. Then they showed the forcast for the week but instead of weather conditions they were showing celebrities I had never heard of. Then I figured that was good and I ran off to have some more of my own fun.

Yay, another advanced task done. There haven't been many this month