Thread: Lucid Task for the Year of 2008

I've gone to Saturn before, but it was a while ago, before the task of the year was posted, so I don't know if it counts. I flew to the planet on a pterodactal's back. The planet was covered in snow and there was a large forrest. I saw an alien who was tall with straight blonde hair, but couldn't speak and I didn't know what gender it was, it was wearing a hospital gown. But I did talk to a rock/plant thing and he said his name was Bill and that he had to warn me that the police were after me because I didn't vote for them.

I just want to let everybody know that I didn't try this because of the fourm, but I had been on mars in my dream a while back. The world , "Planet earth" was destroyed by a huge title wave. I was in an apt complex building that was cut in half so you could see all the units, just like a doll house. BOOM! When I woke up from the title wave in my dream (waking up in a totally next chapter in my dream) ~ I was on mars, all I seen was a red atmosphere, and the stuff I was breathing was clearly not oxygen, it was a different substance, but I was alive, and could sustain life there. My vision was different than on earth, and my thought process was different as well. I felt an urge to tell everyone about this in my dream, but they where all gone. I was the only one standing on Mars, or what I believed to be Mars. The planet was visually orange red, and the atmosphere was the same color. No levitation occurred, but I just knew I was on mars. I have never had a dream like that since.

yea I think pluto should still be one. Its grandfathered in...

Ok, I started working on this task. I haven't gone to any other planets yet because instead of just imagining things into existence, I have been building them. It has taken a LONG time, but I just finished a suit for space travel. It looks sort of steampunk, with parts made of gold substances and specially treated wood that can withstand extreme heat and cold. The helmet has a thick glass face shield that has been coated with a liquid that , when connected to an electrical current, can block ou different wavelengths of light. I will try to post a picture soon. I still have to design a whole ship and actually start the expedition, but I just ad to share my progress. This is the first time I have taken time to build something, instead of simply making it exhist in a dream. It took me about 15-16 WILDS to complete the suit. I am looking foreward to actually completing this task!

I tried to get to mars but was cut short.

I was in a friend’s house and for some reason I reached up and wobbled my tooth, the tooth wobbled a lot and came out but I thought that a nerve was still attached, I went to show my mum and she recoiled and said it was, so I went to look in a mirror. I thought "the more I think about this the worse it will get" and I recognized it as one of the common dream cues I had read about on the forum. I fixed my tooth (just thought it right) and set about visiting Mars, which I Decided was my first destination on the LTFTY. I opened some French doors and went into a back yard, the sky was a dark blue hue of and full of stars, I took off and flew up out of the atmosphere but was disappointed with the transition of sound and color so I went down a bit and tried again, so it was more accurate I went around the planet trying to locate the brighter light of mars but started to spin out of control; I caught a glimpse of it and focused my spin on it then set out across space. On the way I noticed a slightly cubic meteoroid spinning through space and before I knew it I was following that not Mars. I knew that I was still dreaming and decided that I would investigate the meteoroid first, then go find Mars (stupid) It was covered in holes in and hollow inside like a block of cheese, as I looked inside I saw a Smartie (kind of candy) fly from one side of the cube to the other and disappear into a hole in the other side. Jumping in, I got a huge mouthful of Smarties as they erupted from a small hole. I looked out of a larger hole and there was a room full of beautiful women, one reached for my hand and I let her take it and pull me out, the room was that of a Greek palace... The story goes on a bit more, then I woke up, but basically I failed because of distraction (kind of like "The Odyssey's" Sirens ).

I am happy that there is now a task of the year to complete, but I do not think I will try it this year. The reason for this is because in my dreams no matter how many pictures I could look at nothing looks the same as it would in real life. It becomes dream distorted and even though I might know what it would look like the dream distorts it to something else.

So in short I might say I am on Mars but other then it being red (or not red in some cases) it would look nothing like the Mars of waking life.

D.G.

Mars seems to be the first place to go, I just went there too

Clarity: Medium
Sleep: Medium
Lucidity: Good

Going to Mars

I was chatting with psychology student and I was interested in his avatar. I asked him if it was captain jack (the british flag) or old glory (the american flag). I was dark blue and the stripes kept changing. It was darker than either of our flags, it looked like of like Marlie's signature, then would switch to the american flag, except the blue would be in the wrong place.

I then had a false awakening and looked around the room. There was a table near the bed that shouldn't have been there. I walked in the darkness and through the wall to find myself in the kitchen, which didn't look at all like our kitchen. I opened the door to the refrigerator and the light didn't come on and I couldn't see a damn thing so I jumped out the window and fly up towards the sky.

I let myself fall, I knew that I wanted to go to Mar, but I couldn't find it. Somehow I ended up in the kitchen again and jumped out the window again and took off into the sky.

This time I was able to find Mars. I saw it off in the distance, it was surrounded by a ton of moons, which confused me because I knew that Mars only had two.

I flew towards it and orbited it. It was beautiful, I could see all of the canyons and mountains and there were two large ice caps at the poles. I then had another false awakening. I went to write down my dream, but I couldn't find any light to see. I found light switches, but they only seemed to work in pairs so it took a while for me to figure out how to get them on.

Damn, this night I got really close; I flew into space(I have never done this before and so I was amazed by the view), I howered in space for a bit in search of mars, then I thaught: I'll turn around and then I'm gona see mars. I did and no mars was there, no stars either, just blackness, I thought: "shit!"(I have never been able to sustain a dream when it's gone totally black), I woke up... But I think it's all good now because I didn't find it that hard getting into space and therefore I'm gonna do it sooner or later...

Looking at this thread reminded me: I had a dream with Eris last night. Eris is the largest of dwarf planets, and farthest from the sun. The scientists were all "Oh! For some reason, this planet is much warmer than we first thought!"

I've changed my desktop to a picture of the night sky. I always put my desktop to something I hope to dream about.

By no intention of my own I ended up on Saturn this morning after only reading about the task of the year last night and was super excited because . . . task completion!

The planet was large and yellow and somehow I knew it was cold even though I couldn't feel it (Did I even know this much about Saturn?) I saw the rings, which really only looked like one massive flat ring. The ring was also yellow. I thought that the task was to see an alien on every planet, so I figured that I'd better see an alien and they appeared. They were little, chubby, and bright yellow. They looked a lot like pikmin except without the flowers/leaves sprouting out of their heads. I noticed that they had four limbs, torsos, and heads. Just like us . . . entirely unrealistic aliens I decided. They walked upside-down, meaning that they walked on their legs but oriented upside-down. So they had to walk on structures built just above the surface of the planet so that they were walking in a little gap between the ground and the structures with their feet on the structures. They also had to keep themselves from falling with their arms. I spotted one walking where there weren't any structures and to do that it had to walk on it's hands. It looked very difficult. I watched it flailing its legs desperately for balance as it walked on its hands down a slope.

Now I decide that I can probably go off and do what I want and somehow my consciousness kinda floats off the planet, and through hazy white mist I can just make out some other planets. They're each a bright color subdued by the mist. But then I wonder if I'm supposed to spend time with the alien for the task. I can't remember but I decide that I'd better 'cuz if I leave something out I'll have to do the whole thing again.

I'm instantly back on Saturn. The alien that I saw struggling to walk wants to spend time with me. It gets in a car and I feel invited to join it for a drive. It's just a regular car, and an old one at that: it's large and rectangular like cars were 40 years ago. The little alien drives. We find our way to little streets between buildings, but there are no other cars or aliens. I decide that I ought to entertain the alien by making the car fly. I wonder if this will be difficult, but pretty soon I have the car hovering above the ground. I do this a few times, bringing it back to the ground each time. Somehow I float out of the car and into the outer atmosphere. I can see the other planets clearly now. They are each a bright color in a sea of stars and mist. It's really gorgeous and I look out at it in admiration. I fly around a bit. It seems that it will be no trouble to visit all the other planets and I reflect that this task may be too easy for me. But for some reason the mist and everything ends abruptly on all four sides like in a video game level with invisible walls.

Nice one AlexLou! You're the first not to go to Mars first.

Now this seems fun!

Wow... that sounds tough... it would be extremely tough to go to all of them in one night- while flying to each planet instead of teleporting!

I had several LDs this morning and tried to get to outerspace a few times but would wake up once I got to outerspace before I could see any planets. I flew on my own past all the clouds and another time I went in a rocket ship. The last time I went on a hang glyder and said "I want to go to Venus." The hang glyder landed and I saw a woman and little girl. I asked the woman where I was and she said Venus. There were mountains, green grass, wooden structures and houses and statues of Venus de Milo with arms. The woman and girl looked like regular people with regular clothes. The woman had brown hair. I don't have a scanner, but they looked something like this:

Originally Posted by Mew151

Wow... that sounds tough... it would be extremely tough to go to all of them in one night- while flying to each planet instead of teleporting!

You can't do it all in one dream, it has to be multiple dreams

Yay goldentheponygirl, I think that's your second planet right?

It is my 2nd if Saturn counts. Here is what Bill, the rock alien from saturn looked like.

This is an elaborate task indeed.

This is a remarkable task. I think I have a scheme of how to do it. We'll see.

Neptune:

I fell asleep lucid and thought about which planet i wanted to go to. I meant to go to mars but i was flying too fast and went by it so i slowed a little and was considering Jupiter when i got a strange urge to go to Neptune.i flew past and went into orbit around Neptune gazing at the amazingly different blue hues of the planet.i floated for a while and then drifted down to the liquid surface.i shape shifted into a sort of alien mermaid thing and swam down until i found giant alien whales and greenish red coral.i shape shifted again into an alien dolphin and hunted weird little purple blue fish.i broke the surface and was joined by the whales, i changed into one of them and had the feeling of having always lived with them.i have the feeling i lived with them a while longer and went along with their life style until eventually going to the moon and watching the earth go through it's phases and wishing i had someone else with me up there.i went back to earth and gave a couple more people the power of space flight and they joined me on the moon.we hung out and lived on the moon for a while foraging these little greyish green bushes that looked like sage brush. there were little mouse like insects that lived in these bushes with which we coexisted.it was very quiet and peaceful...
sorry i don't have pics i don't have a clue how to post them or else i would draw in paint and put them on.

Wow ray, that is awesome. You can go to www.imageshack.us and upload your pictures there. They give you a link back to them and you can post that link here.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

You can't do it all in one dream, it has to be multiple dreams

I know but it would be cool to do it in one dream

I intentionally envisioned the Martian surface before me. I didn't have a body, I was just an observer. The sky was black and full of stars. The surface of the planet was orange-red, composed of sand and pebbles and as it stretched out flat in all directions it faded off into darkness. Only the area directly in front of me was illuminated, as if by an artificial light that wasn't there.

I wanted to go back in time to see oceans on Mars and then go forward again to see the water evaporate and freeze. As I thought this several small volcanoes sprouted up around me and started spewing bright red liquid. Suddenly everything was bright and illuminated and I "felt" the cold around me dissolve into warmth. I realized that I was looking back in time at when Mars was full of volcanic activity.


After I woke up I did go back to sleep and go to Mars again, but it was very brief before I was woken once more.

Hmm . . . just looked over the rules and I can't say that I "landed" on Mars . . .

I never said that you had to land

Looks like AlexLou's pulling into the lead to get the task done first