Thread: Lucid Task for the Year of 2008

Mercury:

i was cold when i fell asleep so i though about going to the sun but i wasn't sure it would count as a planet so i settled for mercury.i jumped from my roof and sprouted wings.then swooped up into the sky and went straight towards the sun. i slowed as i watched the flares shoot off its roiling surface and turned towards mercury's orange surface. i flew into a dusty haze that circled the planet and had to slow so i didn't slam into it's surface hidden by the cloud.
i had the sense of it being very hot but didn't feel it much as i had made myself resistant to heat.there wasn't much to see as the planet was a barren orange wasteland with not even a hill in sight. i left soon being bored.

I made up my mind before I went to sleep last night that I would visit Uranus. As I closed my eyes and prepared for the trip I thought of what I would bring on a trip to Uranus and off I went. I wore a gossamer gown shaded in silver and purples and allowed my hair to flow free. I changed my hair from it naturally curly form to a silken flowing mass. I took a giant leap, right foot first and began to glide, weightless through the air. I cleared the Earths atmosphere quickly and wandered through the stars and planets, gathers stardust in my hands as I went. It was beautiful. The midnight blue/black backdrop with the colors of silver, red, green, blue, and violet swirling and glittering around me as I traveled. Gliding through time and space. It was glorious.
I saw my goal ahead of me and began my decent. I touched down on the planet. It was like landing on top of what I would think of as water. It rippled as I walked along the surface of the planet. The color was a icy blue, like frozen water, but it wasn't. It was like liquid mercury rolling and fluid under my feet.
The inhabitants were so strangely ethereal. Their faces were pale and cold looking with flowing hair. They all had the same general features. I couldn't tell them apart, as they all looked the same.There was no male/female gender. Breeding was accomplished by just wishing for a child. The only thing different about them were the color of their eyes. The eye color was pure color, not like ours with it's mixes. But they all had a silver cast to them. They were all pale in comparison to vivid colors, but they were blue, green, purple and Red. The red eyes signified the inhabitants that had traveled to other planets (including Earth) looking for "intelligent" life, having found none as of yet. One of the "people" wanted to travel back with me, because my visit had increased their curiosity of us. I agreed to bring Shamia back with me, but it had to agree to abide by the rules of my home and planet or I would not be it's guide.
Food was abundant, and eclectic. All you had to do was think of what you would like to eat and it appeared to you. It wasn't the food of Earth, but it was amazing all the same, and it often emulated what I thought of as food.
Not long after the food was served and consumed we began our trip back to Earth. I showed Shamia around the house explained the rules as we went along, and we went to bed to sleep.

do the sun/moon count?

Originally Posted by AlexLou

Not that I mind if you count it

I'll take that part out, I think orbiting the planet should be fine.

Originally Posted by ray

do the sun/moon count?

The moons do, not the sun

Wow, Pheonix, Uranus and it's lifeforms sound so cool.

Yay! I went to Mars last night and it was really cool. Does meeting natives count if their distant ancestors were Earthlings?

Anyway, here's a direct quote from the relevent bit of my dream journal.

Uranus as Phoenix puts it sounds cool. I'm trying to decide where to go next. It'll probably be Mercury I think I'll do baby steps towards the less Earth-like planets.

I assemble my friends around a table. A, LC, JP and Rooster. God, its so nice to see them all together relaxed and having a good time. I tell them that I'm dreaming and that I plan to go to Mars. I ask if any of them would like to come along. They say they're okay with small town America for now. I respect that.

So I have to figure out a way to Mars. I try drawing the invoking Mars Hexagram in the air, but I can't remember how that one goes. In the end I decide to walk out onto the street and pretend I'm on Mars.

After a while, I hear this loud wind over-head. Damn. I think It didn't work. There's not this much wind on Mars. Then I realise whats happening. I've teleported the city to Mars. The high air pressure of the city is being blown out because it landed in an area of typical low pressure Martian atmosphere.

I see red sky breaking through the clouds. And I'm so excited I bound towards the city limits. There's traditional Martian sand and pebbles. There's also puddles. Which confuses me.

Unfortunately, the low gravity cuts in right at that minute. I find it really slow to walk. Easier to fly. Even then, I'm used to flying on Earth gravity. I tend to veer upwards until I adjust to it.

I reach down and touch the puddles because they confuse me. Then I notice a traditional Martian van, and car repair shop. Ah! So I'm in the future and Mars is partially terraformed. I see a mountain in the distance and think about how I'm love to see a Martian mountain and canyon. So I fly towards it.

After a while, I'm flying over foot hills, and I come to a little village in a valley. The grass here is green and sat on a precipice I see a young girl with her parents, the girl is stuffing food into her mouth with a bread knife.

I think about intervening. I don't want the poor girl accidentally cutting herself. But then I remember - these are Martian hill-people. Descendents from the first colonists. This kids been using knives competently for just about as long as she's been able to walk.

Another interesting fact about Martian hill-people. They believe in demons. In fact, they teach their children how to use several banishing rituals as soon as they can talk.

As I'm flying over, I stop and say "Hey kid! I'm an evil spirit! Show me a banishing ritual!" We both know this is just a game. I'm not very threatening looking in my ill fitting brightly coloured suit. She tosses the table over and shouts a line from a nursery rhyme. I am flung right out of the valley, laughing as I hit into the side of the mountain I was flying towards and wake up.

Last night I visited Mars. That trip wore me out and I feel as if I need to sleep now. I stood on my front lawn and gazed into the sky and found Mars. I bent my knees and just shot up into the sky, defying Earths gravity as I went. I reached a point just before I broke through our atmosphere where I couldn't breath. But I wanted to stay there for a couple of moments looking through the blackness to see our planet, with the fires and smoke in California, and the lights and smog from New York and New Jersey. It was beautiful even with all that. I finally turned, gasping for breath and continued my journey.
I skimmed over a meteor shower, really not a pretty as it is seeing on from Earth. It was all black rock and Icy chunks speeding along. It made me mad so I kicked one and watched it collide with the others, going up in flames as if they were composed of magnesium.
I finally landed on Mars. I was bigger than I should have been. I know this because I looked for the face that they see from Earth and found it. I sat next to it and it was all dusty and covered up with rocks and debris.
I dusted it off as I sat there with a paint brush that I pulled from my pocket. There was a message written on the side of the face that told me how to find the people that had lived there before and had left because they had destroyed their own planet, much like we are doing to ours.
I brushed aside the dirt and dust and saw the actual portrait of the people that lived there. It was beautiful. We only see the tip of the iceberg as they say, when we see "The Face" of Mars. I was also able to trigger a hologram that showed me what life was like there. I pulled a notebook from my pocket and wrote down the directions on how to find the people that had left so I could go and find them at another time. I put it away in my travel coat so I could access it the next time I needed an adventure.
I ate a sandwich that I pulled from my pocket and watched the planets go by before I reluctantly left to come back home. Landing in the same place that I left from I pulled a shower curtain around me from thin air, (I always love that) and showered all the dust from me before going into the house to sleep.

Man, Pheonix, you're going through these pretty easily That meteor field sounds so much fun. I seriously need to break this stupid dry spell and go back into space.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Man, Pheonix, you're going through these pretty easily That meteor field sounds so much fun. I seriously need to break this stupid dry spell and go back into space.

I've been lucid dreaming since I was a child and I was lucky enough that I had a grandmother that encouraged it. So I'm pretty good at it by now. I just plan ahead before I go to sleep what I want to do. If I do that I avoid nightmares. She taught me how to change my dreams too.

Failure?

As I fell asleep I envisioned Jupiter before me. At first it was a small pale orange sphere in the sky. I blinked to make it closer. I blinked again and it was huge, filling most of my field of vision. The planet was all brown and orange and I could see the spot. It looked pretty accurate to me. But then in an instant the image changed: Jupiter was divided into quadrants with a straight vertical line and a straight horizontal one, and overlying Jupiter were the outlines of earth's continents all scrambled.

I teleported to the surface of Jupiter in an attempt to get away from the earth continents. But above Jupiter's brown surface were floating 2-dimensional images of earth's continents, oriented vertically. They were all around me and stretched out as far as I could see, each spaced about 5 feet apart from those around it. They were brown, just a bit taller than me, and lightning bolts zapped between them. I wanted them gone so I tried to will the earth continents away as I started to walk aimlessly on Jupiter's surface. The continents morphed as I walked so that they were no longer recognizable to me, like made-up continents in a fantasy world, but otherwise they remained unchanged.

Good enough, actually sounds really interesting

I was sitting on my porch smoking (don't smoke though so this is weird in and of itself) a very aromatic cigarette. Thinking that I had to get away from my life for a while and decided that it was time for a trip to Saturn and it's rings. I slipped on my travel coat (this coat has everything a girl could want or need while on a trip out of her normal world view), checked the many pockets to make sure they were full and took a giant leap into the star studded night. As I soared through the sky I skid to a stop to take a look at my surroundings. I know that it was a moonlit night but all I saw was darkness. I wanted it that way. I didn't want the light. I was feeling bad when I went to bed and I wanted that anonymity that occurs during sleep. No one can touch you, or harm you or make you feel bad in that place, so I kept it dark. I could see the planets as if they were all in a line and all I had to do was choose one. I wanted to ride the waves of Saturn's rings, so I aimed for them.
It was like body surfing at the beach, or taking a wild ride in the water slides at the water parks. I chose surfing the rings like you would a wave, on your belly. It was fun and refreshing. I even let the sharks play in the waves with me. I am a big fan of sharks, and I'm looking forward to watching Shark week on Discovery channel in a couple of weeks so I was aware that I had added that element to the dream because it was comforting to me and something I was looking forward to.
As I twisted and turned in the rings, I felt that I was collecting a lot of sand like residue in my clothes (yeah just like at the beach), and felt that it was time to stop. So I dove and changed the angle of trajectory that I was in and headed for the planet itself. I cleared the rings and headed inland. The colors were amazing. They reminded me of Arizona and the adobe buildings, with it's shiny silver and ruddy turquoise. All black, and blue and and silver, and reddish brown. It was beautiful to walk on it's surface and discover the native people that were living in caves to escape the raw atmosphere they lived in. I was invited into the caves and found that there were sources of water, and plant life there. The people were advance primitives. They allowed me to share their fires and food while we talked about their world. They were aware that there were other planets and people, but just didn't care. They were happy where they were and with who they were. They didn't explore, and preferred that others left them to themselves, but didn't mind the occasional personal visit. They had sharp features and skin the color of a Latte coffee. They were beautiful. They allowed me to visit with them for a time before suggesting that it might be time for me to take my leave. All very politely. I did ask if I could visit again before I left and they gave me an affirmative answer. I look forward to going again.

Jupiter:

i once again swooped off my roof with my trusty pair of wings.
i flew out into space and turned to look at all the planets(they were conveniently lined up in a row).i stood gazing at them wondering which to go to and randomly started drifting towards them.i remembered how i had missed jupiter so i steered towards the giant planet.i tried to go faster but because i was in space the magnitude of the openness wouldn't allow any movement.i flapped as hard as i could but i didn't pick up any speed.i then strapped rockets to my feet but they didn't work either.when i fired them up they sputtered out and died.i had a long wait as i slowly drifted towards jupiter, but i made it! and landed lightly on the surface.it was clouding over where i was and i saw purple and red lighting in the distance slowly getting bigger.i looked for shelter and saw a cave in a nearby rock outcrop so i ran inside and was met with brightly glowing orange seaweed like plants that were strung from the ceiling.they were undulating slightly and the light inside them was pulsating slowly as i walked down the supprisingly smooth hall of rock.i was dissapointed when it ended abruptly in a circular room. i stayed there for a while trying to wait out the storm but it was never ending so i teleported back to my house(not sure why i didn't just do this on the way there...)

Wow, Jupiter sounds awesome. I'm going to go there soon hopefully

lol, tried to go to venus last night...i was drifting in and out of random dreams and suddenly i realized i was in space so i concentrated on the planets to go to one and chose venus.i flew towards it but it never got any bigger and i realized i had accidentally made my self huge so that venus was about the size of a basket ball to me. i ran into it and it smashed right into my stomach un-moving in its orbit of the sun.i picked it up and it felt like a bouncy ball,i wanted to throw it and make it bounce off the walls of the now solid square room of outer space.i reconsidered and quickly dropped it back into place wondering if anything lived on the planet that i had just killed by picking it up.i felt guilty and lost what little lucidity i had. i hope i didn't kill anybody lol
if i could go to all the planets within this month it would be so awesome. (its what i'm aiming for)

I was so upset last night. I had just bought a new DVD player and it didn't work. I wanted to watch a movie so bad.
I ended up going to bed early instead. I just wanted to escape from all the crap surrounding me during the last couple of days. So I went to bed with the thought of going somewhere fun in my dreams. I lay down and thought about my travel coat. I put it on, and closed the latches on it. This coat looks like the dusters of old, with big pockets and lots of them. It's long and black and it can protect me from all the bad things that can happen when you travel. When I wear it nothing can go wrong, and if it does I can just pull the solution to the problem right out of a pocket.
I traveled to Jupiter last night. I found the faint rings of Jupiter and swallowed them like a drink of cool soda water, with a touch of citrus. Which was weird since they are a cobalt blue color.
I found the planet so big that I couldn't just land and find what I wanted. I had to look for it. The Big Red Spot (BRS). I found it and landed beside it's outer edge. It was so bright red that it almost hurt your eyes. I took off my boots and put them into the pocket of my travel coat and stepped upon the spot.
It was a trampoline. I began to jump on the tramp, twisting and turning. It was wonderful. I came across other inhabitants as I jumped my way across the BRS. We spoke as we jumped. I asked them if they lived on the planet or if they, like me, were just visiting. I couldn't get a definitive answer the whole time I was there. It was so much fun though and talking on Jupiter isn't hard, but you sound like Mickey Mouse. The people told me that it was because there was so much Helium in the atmosphere everyone talked like that on Jupiter. When I got to the other side of the BRS, I stepped off it, and immediately back onto it. Put my boots on because stepping onto the planet proper was like walking onto what I would call a primordial soup. Thick and viscous, and unimaginable underneath.
I waved goodbye to the people that I had exchanged pleasantries with, and popped back to earth. I think that pop was so loud in my dream that I awoke rather suddenly.
It was one of those sounds that you have to check out to make sure it was in your dream and not in the house itself. If I was a travel guide and wanted to recommend a destination for just a bit of fun, Jupiter would be on the list.

*Don't need to visit Earth*

You make it sound as though there is nothing interesting about it, yet some of the "life" found on Earth has managed to use it's intelligence to explore the rest of the galaxy while it's unconcious. And that's the reality I think that's pretty damn amazing.

A cool addition to the task could be- once you have found life on one of the planets, you then have to have another lucid in which you are a character of the lifeform making a trip to Earth to describe what it's like. Like.. say you find life on neptune, as an ice-man, you have to fly your ice-shuttle to Earth and get off and understand what life is like over here.

Sounds awesome... I think I'm going to try and have a lucid like that at some point

jim.

Kind of made it to Mercury last night.

I ran into an old friend JP and went lucid just after seeing him. So I decided to take him up with me to fly about. We both flew so fast, it was amazing. I have never made it so high so fast before. I could see the curvature of the Earth.

This was remarkable, and it reminded me of the challenge and my goal of making it to Mercury. So I flew up. higher and higher. I couldn't break the atmosphere, but I entered a tunnel to Mercury.

The planet was high up. A small section of its surface had been teleported to me. Just slightly too far for me to reach by levitation. So I balanced on JP and reached out, I touched its cratered surface. It felt metallic, looked dark.

The moment I had put my palm to the ground, I lost lucidity. and the ability to fly. JP was on the edge of an epileptic fit and tried to get me to let go of him and fall to my death. Very JP response to a problem.

I hung onto him and told him to concentrate on levitating us as much as possible while I grabbed onto the side of the portal and used it to slow our fall. This lead to neither of us dying, rather than the death of both of us.

Does this count as making it to Mercury?

Sure does! Metallic Mercury sounds really cool.

It was kind of a disappointment, to tell the truth. Compared to Mars. Awesome that its counted though. My next goal is Venus, which I'm excited about.

Venus should be fun, I can't wait to go there

I was having a lucid dream where I was on a wooden deck outside. I said outloud that I wanted to go to Jupiter. The deck lifted off the ground and was flying, when it landed I saw a full moon in the distance, although it was light out. There was a huge tree and dead leaves on the ground everywhere. I felt myself waking and looked at my hands, but it was too late, I woke before I was able to do any exploring.

Such a busy weekend . . . I actually visited Neptune Saturday morning.

I recognized that "dreamy feeling" and got it in my head that I aught to go to Neptune. But I didn't think that I had time because I thought that if I washed my hair in my dream it would happen in reality (I was getting married and needed my hair to look pretty). Fortunately Neptune came to me: I spotted it outside the bathroom window. It had come so close to the earth that the two were almost touching. I flew out the window to get a better look. For some reason there were all white buildings and greenery behind the house. The buildings were built at progressively lower levels and eventually dropped off in a steep hill. Behind it all was Neptune. It was a beautiful pale turquoise circle, huge on the horizon with it's lower edge dipping slightly below. I teleported to the surface to fly in the winds there while looking down at the planet beneath me which was now more of a pale periwinkle with cloud-like streaks of white. I decided that the winds should be stronger and made them blow faster. But after a few minutes I still felt like it wasn't turbulent enough so I made it more turbulent by inducing a feeling of motion in myself.

I wasn't sure how I induced the feeling of moving around in the winds, but I woke up to find that I had acquired benign paroxysmal positional vertigo and the two sensations are very similar. So I think that possibly all I was doing was moving the position of my head slightly while I was dreaming to make myself dizzy.

I know where smurfs come from cuz' I saw them last night. I went to Neptune and met them. I really wasn't planning a trip last night, but sometime in the middle of all the other dreams that I was having, I decided to take a trip. I put my travel coat on and off I went.
I traveled to Neptune by taking a huge black storm cloud right here where I live and as it swirled and twirled out it's anger and unleashed it's violence upon earth it threw me into space
I saw this pretty blue planet and decided to see what was going on. I passed by the twisted half formed water rings and I landed on the Transport pad- some call it the Great Dark Spot, or GDS- and I jumped off. I watched it move again as it was picked up by a really big skittering kind of cloud and moved to the next destination.
I was greeted by a rather small blue person that assigned me to my itinerary, a guide and gave me my special water shoes. Neptune's movement is propelled by water under it's surface so you have to have special shoes to move through it's surface. The water moves slowly, but very strongly and if you don't have the shoes to walk on the surface of it, you really can't move. The water gives the planet it's distinctive blue color too.
Everything was blue with the exception of the GDS which was neon pink and the clothing that the people wore. It was white. The shades of blue were so beautiful and iridescent, the people were different shades of blue, but they all had purple eyes. I think the person that invented the smurfs had been to this Neptune too.
I had a really intense blue drink that gave me the feeling of being drunk, but not like a drunk I've ever been. It intensified the colors and sounds and beauty of the place, it wasn't fuzzy, but very clear.
We left the staging area and moved across the water talking and sharing information. They as a people were very curious about people from Earth as we don't stop by very often.
Stopping along certain points to look at earth. The people of Neptune also like the color contrasts that we have. The would like to visit, but feel that the people of Earth have too many prejudices to allow them to visit without help form friends to hide what they are. These people just don't feel it should be necessary to hide though, so they don't make the effort to visit. But they will when we can get over the fear of difference in others.
They seemed to use the light from Earth as an energy source to grow their food (and yes it was all blue). They told me that after my visit was through and I went home I would have a slight blue cast to my skin. I worried about that for a minute, but let it go. I was really hot, and steamy on Neptune and I didn't think that I could take it much longer. It was like a day where rain is threatening and it's hot, but the humidity is like 90% or more. I could feel myself losing strength.
I asked them about some berry bushes that I saw nearby and they gave me a taste of them. They were the sweetest thing that I'd ever tasted, and then came the sour. It was like eating a sour patch, only more intense. They took me back to the GDS and asked me to come again. I think I will, but I'll put some A/C in the pockets of my travel coat so I can stay longer.

Wow, Pheonix is flying through these. I'm going to have to come up with some sort of prize soon