Thread: Lucid Task of the Month for June 2008

I had a lucid dream this morning and was able to complete the basic task.

Unfortunately, I didn't wake up right away when the lucid ended and then I had a false awakening where I thought I was writing down the details of my dream. I then woke up with a start when I realized I hadn't and lost most of the minor details but below is what I do recall. For those not interested in the "how" I became lucid but in the dream itself.. simply skip to the section in dark red.

I got up at 3:30 am and went to my livingroom couch. I said my protection mantra while putting in my earplugs and decided to try something different while waiting for the "shift".

I decided to mentally sing the chorus from the song 'inchworm" from Hans Christian Anderson but with my own slant on the lyrics (for those who've never heard it: http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/wind...294657,00.html )

The real chorus is:

Inchworm, inchworm
Measuring the marigolds
Seems to me you'd stop and see
How beautiful they are.

My chorus was:

Dream Guide, Dream Guide
Teaching me to lucid dream
Seems to me that you would see
How desirable they are.

I kept repeating this chorus over and over in my head and when I felt sufficiently tired, I rolled on my side, felt the "shift" and then took one long slow inhale through my mouth and found myself lucid.

I was in a furnished room that I didn't recognize but I see that a big screen tv against one wall is on. The tv must be high definition as the picture is brilliantly clear and vibrant in its colors. The picture on the screen is of sailing boats skimming gracefully across the water.



I watched for a minute or more and then walked into another room only to find another tv. Only this tv was showing video from a family vacation which I "sensed" to be me and my family only it wasn't me nor my family (if that makes any sense).

Unforutunately, the rest of the dream was lost to my memory.

Cool! Some of you find this so easy! I'm so jealous.

I tried to WILD last night many times but failed. I did have some HI and some funny thoughts though.

At one stage I was thinking about the rabbit in the hole one and thinking I would get awfully claustrophobic if I got stuck half way in. Then I wondered if that wicked witch that was with me would pull me out. Then I thought, of course she won't, she's evil.

I was still awake while I was thinking that, lol. (And I had just watched "The Chronicles of Narnia" earlier that night... hence the wicked witch.)

I had never seen that movie before or The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Nor have I seen Alice in Wonderland... I'll have to google it to get my imagination going.

Sorry for rambling...

Originally Posted by Clairity

I had a lucid dream this morning and was able to complete the basic task.

Yay for Clairity.

Originally Posted by Bethany

I had never seen that movie before or The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Nor have I seen Alice in Wonderland... I'll have to google it to get my imagination going.

Sorry for rambling...

Aww, don't worry, you don't have to find magic mushrooms or anything, just go down a hole that a rabbit did.

I'm going to try the TV one tonight. I would try the rabbit one but what are the odds of finding a rabbit? I've had very good luck going lucid this week!

I had the rabbit one because i think it was on my mind when i didn't think i would be able 2 do it.
It happened very early in REM i just saw a plain old white bunny rabbit and it was next to it's hole which was at an angle not directly on the floor like bugs bunny's, i was already small i guess because i wasn't thinking about my size, so i just followed it down with a jump and i fell into the normal rabbit hole with the rabbits bum dissappearing of into the tunnel ahead of me and i thought this is boring and the floor gave way underneath me and i fell again... I have memory from this point of very colourful surroundings and i think sombrero style patterns but i can't remember it clearly cause i probably didn't get up for another 3-4 hrs after that. I really need more practice on waking myself up after completing a task because i have a habbit of just dreaming on.
Anyways i'm not happy with my dream and am going to have another go this week

P.s. C.S.Lewis books rule!!!

I'm actually kind of surprised I managed the basic task last night (this morning, technically). It had been over a week since my last LD, and my recall hasn't been that good. I'm also still a novice, and since all of my LDs are DILD, they always come as a pleasant surprise I've also been having tons of FAs the last couple of nights, and haven't remembered to RC, despite some obvious signs (most notably, a talking otter - I told it I couldn't talk because I had to get to sleep ).

Anyway, here's the section of last night's LD related to the basic task!


There's also the thought in the back of my mind that I have a task to complete, so I return to the ground. There's an LCD tv sitting in the middle of the room. It looks like it's already on, since there's that empty-channel static/snow on, but I want to see more, so I hit the power button again, and there's an image of the guy from Third Rock from the Sun (I just looked it up, French Stewart - I only watched this show once, and it's been canceled for a long time, so who knows why he's on the tv) - he has longer, spiked up white hair, and a light purple shirt. The image is of him from the waist up. It pans back, and he's talking to someone, using a lot of hand motions. I didn't get a good look of the other person, just that it was a man, also with white hair. Although they are talking to each other, they are speaking gibberish - a lot of w and b sounds. I decide that I want to try and write down what I'm seeing, though I know I won't have the piece of paper when I wake up. I think that somehow it will help me remember. I turn to my left, hoping to see a pen and paper, but there is a table with two pudgy fingers. No hand, and no blood to suggest the fingers are severed, but just two fingers. I look away, and now I have a piece of lined paper and a blue crayon. I put the paper down on the table, and start writing "30 Rock." In my dream mind, I keep confusing "Third Rock from the Sun" and "30 Rock". They both have 3s and Rocks I guess, and I never saw either more than once or twice. I look further down the page and where I wrote "30 Rock at the top," there's now just a blue line, kind of like my writing was crossed out, but no sign of the words, or any erase marks. Every time I write something, this happens. The words won't stick on this paper. Still, it's amusing how it works to me. I know that I should focus on the tv, but I really wanted to try writing. I then wake up (another FA ><), apparently because I finished the task - same thing happened with the last TOTM.

I did the basic task. Here's the whole dream:

Night of 6/1

GARGUYLES! SLYKICKS!

June Basic TOTM

I left my body to find myself trapped in my room. I checked the door, and found that I wouldn't be able to go through it. There were, however, two extra windows at the top of my room. I floated up to peer through them. Eyes peered back at me. The belonged to three gargoyles sitting on the window sills. One of them looked kind of like a barn owl, and the other two looked more or less like regular gargoyles. Even though they were made of stone, they were all breathing and moving just enough that it was obvious they were alive.

Some people have the worst taste.

I knew this trick. The things are programmed to attack me if I go through the window and fly away. If I were to go back into my room, they'd leave me be again. I didn't feel like taking on all three of those things at the same time. They all gave me the creeps and it was very distracting.

Instead I decided to check DV on my dream computer. First I went into the chatroom. The usual people were there. I asked them for their advice on my situation. They all said, "You should stay where you are; you should listen to [Scott]." Like a bunch of good little brainwashed boys and girls. Ew. I checked out the task of the month and remembered the TV task.

I turned on the TV, and it was Dr. Phil. Dr. Phil was interviewing some young man who'd apparently been molested in the orphanage where he'd grown up. He was obviously very traumatized; I wondered how Dr. Phil could parade people like that on national television and still sleep at night. Dr. Phil brought out a surprise guest, some girl who the boy had known growing up. They both cried. Another girl from the same place was in the audience, and she kept disappearing (not literally, she was just sneaking off). After she did this a few times. Dr. Phil went up to her to confront her about it. He made her out to be some kind of villain which I couldn't quite understand.