Thread: Task for the Month of July 2008

I tried the advanced task last night and failed, but completed the basic task by accident!

I became lucid in a place that resembled my high school, only smaller. Immediately my vision faded, but the dream continued, and I managed to remain asleep until my sight returned. When it did, I went through a nearby door, entering a dim concrete room that looked like it was used to store things. I walked a ways into the room.

The next thing I remember, I was non-lucid, at a beach. The beach was fairly small, not too crowded, and had tiny blue crystals instead of sand. I was with people I thought of as my friends, although once I was awake I realized that I'd never seen them before. We had a few small fireworks, and I was lighting them, melting some of the crystals in the process.

Eventually, this reminded me of the advanced lucid task, and of the fact that I was dreaming. I stood up, and attempted to make fireworks come out of the palm of my left hand by focusing. As I continued my attempt, a large number of monkeys rode into the beach from the ocean on surfboards, but I woke up soon after. It wasn't until a few seconds after waking that I remembered what the basic task was, and realized that I actually had succeeded at one of the tasks.

I went to a coral reef and an island last night in a LD, but I didn't even REMEMBER about the tasks of the month!!

Ah, well. Another night awaits...

I fell into a hole and landed on a very sunny beach. It was a very relaxing dream when I was done falling...

The beach was empty save for a gull or two. I walked along the crystal clear water that seemed to be completely still. I picked up a few rocks and found it really hard to skip them... I swam for a little while and came out almost completely dry...

It's too late to edit my post, but I wanted to add the picture I took on the 4th that showed a firework that looked like the one that I shot out of my finger. Except mine was red/orange in color. (Oh, and I turned the picture sideways because this is how it looked to me in the dream.)

Ah well, since links are bad... and I wanted to do it again, here, the job of a WILD for the beach one!

So I was in this car, getting to the beach, I was going to quit but remembered the beach task, so I stayed and went to the beach, once there I was trying to find something funny to do, btu since I'm not that talkative I didn't, and instead was getting bored staring at the big bridge that was on the beach to stop the waves of hiting the hotels, after some time, I decided to go there and stare at the beach from there, but there was so many people...

Then realised that there was a place to rest that had no people, because it was at half the bridge were you couldn't see the beach, but I just stayed there, and 1 girl was saying she would jump, I was like "I want to see the hit" but when I went to look, the sea lvl just increased so she would actually fall in the water with no harm, I tought that was boring and went back to my corner and were trying to find something better to do, nearly tempted to teleport, then 2 guys came to see the girl jump and were really excited about it, 1 third girl came to the scene and was telling her not to because something weird was happening, so I was going to mess in the chat when she jumped and suddenly, the water got a big water increase and a Carcharodon Megalodon jumped in front of the girl, and it looked like she got eaten, I was like "awesome, I want to see him do it again" and went up to see if there was something there were some crazy waves wich were really dangerous, but people was thinking of it as a good event and every time the shark were coming back, the waves were heavier, it was weird since 1 creature can't make that kind of thing, it must be a tsunami coming or a succesive eartquake so I was trying to confirm it, and went to the other side of the bridge, some peopel were doing some circus tricks with a killer whale and another animal, then I noticed the boys and the girl there trying to tell everyone to go out of the sea because of the shark, I was going to help them to do that, so they could escape the tsunami/earthquake.

So we made the plan, they were crazy about the shark.. so I sticked to their plan, it was horrible, they were trying to prove it being true by telling about the dead girl who was eaten by it, but they just found her, she died because she got hit with a rock (-.-) so their plan failed horribly, they were so worried about it and the waves were getting worse and worse, so I told them if there was anything like an school close, they said yes and as so we went to prevent the school, they made the kids escape and when we were about to tell the ones on the bridge about the problem but it was so late... the mega waves got there (it was an earthquake) and we had to run to save ourselves, 2 of the boys and the girl did it, the other one died, while that happend the shark ate the whale and the other animal and left a part of the whale. The people were so silly that they blamed the shark for the waves... and tried to kill the people in there, so I was like "you crazy people! don't touch it" then went for the remainings of the whale and made a tramp with it for make the shark go out of water (the lvl of the sea got many meters up so part of the beach got eaten) and they succed, the shark tried to catch the food and jumped out of the water and were "running" on earth at a really high speed (around 39miles/hour) and the kids were trying to catch it to murder it... I was mad so I went to catch him and took him with me, the Carcharodon was heavy... around 4 tons, tough it isn't much on my Dream Body so I took him easily to the beach, the people were trying to make me drop him while getting amazed (lol) then we got into another talk, while I was taking him to the sea:

People: Hey you shouldn't help the monster!
Me: Wich monster?
People: The shark!
Me: Why is he a monster?
People: He killed people and is a giant shark!
Me: He didn't... the girl died from her own and he isn't giant... thats the average size for a Carcharodon.
People: Well, he would kill a human and thats bad.
Me: By that logic you would be killing lots of humans right now... so screw that banhammer and go away silly people.
People: Well... just don't do it, its an animal anyway.
Me: "gives shark ability to talk in human" an animal that can talk <.<
Shark: I will never come back here, there is no food.
Me: Oh I gave you human knowledge, and try not to go deep, there are some giant squids and they are far stronger than you.
Shark: Ok.
People: That was weird. "runs"
Me: Cya shark!

Then I throw him at the sea and he just went away, it was fun to help him so I just woke up.

Weird dream, not sure if it counts.
its late at night and I was lost near a train station and i couldn't find my way back home.A random guy said he knew how to get back so i followed him into some sort of dessert the dessert had holes in it that were filled with walking piranhas. Anyway he led me to a camping site were other kids had also been lost. During the night one of the kids started moaning in their tent. I came out of mine to check it out. He's skin was tearing apart and he was transforming into some sort of wolf/snake demon. It suddenly struck me this was a dream and before i knew it i was also turning into a monster except i was a flying dinosaur. There were more moans and cries around the camp. In the middle of my transformation the wolf charged me and started ripping my wings out. Whenever i tried escaping it would bring me down again thats when i felt a rage so intense i shot a flare or firework out of my mini arms.

Twas kinda like van-helsing

Sadly, I haven't even had enough lucid time to do any of these tasks yet.

However, I found a new flying strat! Throw yourself at the ground and miss on perpose.

It actually took me a minute to remember that I'd done the advanced task with all the interesting stuff that happened in my dream afterwards. I was caught up in some interesting plot and some DC was talking to me, when I thought, "Oh, fireworks!" I kinda paused the DC and looked down at my palms (I think that left and right may have been switched). Tiny twin fireworks sprouted from my hands and around halfway to my face they burst. They weren't bright, instead they were dark in color, made up of maroon and navy blue or something similar. I turned my attention back to the DC and thought about how I'd have to report to you guys that the task was such a short intermission in my dream.

I love going to the beach. I do it all the time in my dreams. I came to this site because I don't think I have dreams that aren't Lucid. This morning I went to a beach with black sand. The sun was setting and the water had taken on the reflection of that orange, pink, dark blue, and black color the sky gets right before the sun set. It was beautiful. The water was warm and the waves were crashing into the shore line, throwing up great hunks of seaweed, kelp and shells. I was there hunting for a particular conical shell. I found it, held it to my ear and heard the echo of the ocean in it. I wanted to find an abalone shell, so I walked in the waves until I found one rolling in the waves. I chased it through the water until a large Orca brought it to me, gently placing it in my hand allowing me to pet him as a thank you. I lay on the beach and listened to the waves and the pine trees further inland singing the song of the ocean. The Owls and the Eagles flew above me hunting for their evening meal.

Nice, AlexLou. You must really have burned the task deep in your subconscious for it to pop up so unexpectedly. I imagine the DC waiting impatiently, like, "Get this over with already so we can get back to the jibberjabber..."

Nice job. Sorry I'm a little slow getting the badges out.

We will have the right badges this weekend, I promise

I went lucid last night and remembered June's basic task of the month, which made me think about July's. I was in a room of a house and remembered that I had to go to the beach so I laid down and put my hands on the ground and tried to imagine that I was at the beach. I began by feeling the sand and the wind and hearing the waves, and finally I opened my eyes and I was there. Which also I might add, is the first time and place I've ever flown properly in a lucid, I just thought about it and took off like crazy and flew around the water. But anyway I was at the beach, so basic task completed! First one ever. Also while I was there I tried to shoot fireworks out of my hands but it didn't work, I just wasn't in the zone . But atleast the basic is done so now I can concentrate on the fireworks.

I was in my room, standing next to the door, when my brother's girlfriend threw the door open, nearly knocking me over in the process. I got extremely angry at her, and started yelling.

Suddenly, I realized that I was behaving strangely, and quickly performed a reality check, which confirmed my suspicions that I was dreaming. I leapt through the window (which had glass in it but didn't break) and went flying up into the sky.

It was night, and amazingly beautiful. The moon hung overhead, very large, and blue for some reason. Even though I was high up, I could see the grass below clearly, and it was amazingly green. Everything looked so real. I remembered the task of the month, and, looking ahead, I saw a rocky, moonlit beach ahead of me, full of people.

While I was flying towards it, I decided to see how much control I had by transforming into a wolf. I was successful. I landed on the beach, held out my paws, and shot out two fireworks, each leaving a trail of white sparks behind them. Unfortunately, I quickly lost lucidity at this point.

Originally Posted by Robot_Butler

Nice, AlexLou. You must really have burned the task deep in your subconscious for it to pop up so unexpectedly. I imagine the DC waiting impatiently, like, "Get this over with already so we can get back to the jibberjabber..."

Nah, I don't give DCs that much substance I'm afraid. When I stopped paying attention to her it's like she didn't exist, or at least she wouldn't have if I hadn't kept a memory of her image to go back to.

I seem to remember the tasks fairly consistently. In this case I don't remember the point at which I became lucid, it was too far back in the dream or the night. So if there was an "Ah ha!" moment in which I would have remembered the tasks I don't remember it. So any other moment in the dream becomes fair game.

I never get to see the fireworks show in my hometown, but this year I did in a LD. In the dream I was laying out in the yard on a beautifully soft quilt and I was watching the sky as the kids were lighting off their fireworks in the street. You could see light as the fireworks from surrounding towns were lighting their fireworks off. It was bouncing off the mountains, looking a lot like a distant thunderstorm. I wanted so badly to light my own fireworks. I thought that if I was like spiderman I could shoot them out of the palms of my hands, but I'm not. I do; however, have an acerbic wit. I used my mouth. I spit the fireworks from my mouth. I wanted to shoot them from my eyes next because I was so mad that I couldn't manage to shoot them from my palms. When I was able to do that I knew that I could do it. I shot the most amazingly loud, and technicolor fireworks from my Fingertips. I had beautiful purple, green, orange, red, yellow, gold and silver fireworks shooting from the tips of my fingers. Each finger had it's own color assigned to it. I wrote words in the sky with them and the people around me were amazed. They wanted to do the same thing, but I wouldn't tell them how to do it. It was my secret. I would never tell, and I will only use this power during special times. I blew on my fingers to close off the power and rolled over into the quilt and went to sleep.
It was a wonderful dream. An now I've managed to do both tasks for this month.

Wow, fireworks from the eyes and mouth sounds intense. Your description of the distant fireworks lighting up the hills sounds beautiful.

I think my favorite part of firework shows is the time leading up to it. So many people out of their houses, away from their TVs, lying on comfortable blankets in the warm night. Just relaxing and enjoying the summertime. I wish there were more things in the world that encouraged this kind of chill attitude. Too bad all the good vibes disappear when everyone gets road rage sitting in traffic on the way home

Originally Posted by Robot_Butler

I think my favorite part of firework shows is the time leading up to it. So many people out of their houses, away from their TVs, lying on comfortable blankets in the warm night. Just relaxing and enjoying the summertime. I wish there were more things in the world that encouraged this kind of chill attitude. Too bad all the good vibes disappear when everyone gets road rage sitting in traffic on the way home

We have fireworks everyday during the summer here in Anaheim. People from out of town pull over to the side of the freeway and put their parking lights on to watch.

Well, Anaheim sounds like a beautiful wonderland. Now that I think about it, I believe I may have lived there for a year or two when I was real young. Are they the Disneyland fireworks?

Yep, Disneyland. We get them for about a month around Christmas too. It's actually pretty cool because Disney designed their own launchers so they don't use black powder and it's more environmentally friendly.

ugh, i can never remember the fireworks one! almost every night i think of it but it slips away as i fall asleep.....i will do it tonight!

This is my first try... here it goes.

I don't remember much of the dream because I fell back asleep before I could record it.

I was kidnapped by my mom's cousin. She was driving me to some mansion but when we got to the mansion I realized that instead of sky there was black. I immediately became lucid. Running up a flight of stairs in the mansion so that my mom's cousin would stop bothering me. Thinking hard of the lucid task and I remembered the beach one. I tried closing my eyes and opening them imagining I was at a beach but I nearly woke up. (I think I might have opened them in real life.) So I imagined a beach at the top floor of the mansion. I concentrated really hard but I woke up right before I made it to the top.

edit: sorry I suck at writing my dreams

Woot!! Basic task complete. I did this today after a wbtb. I was in the Bahamas and I say my cousin and his girlfriend on a boat naked and I immediately realized that I was dreaming. I slowly looked at my hands to try and increase stability and then floated down to the beach. I decided to increase how vivid the dream was. What happened was the dream become so outrageously colorful I was shocked into a false awakening

Tomorrow is another night for the other task.

It was a little difficult, but I managed the advanced task last night. It was painful, but pretty cool. The dream was super long, over 1-1/2 hours, so I will just post the fireworks part:

Originally Posted by Robot_Butler

Looking at my hands reminded me of the DV task of the month. I was at the bottom of an outdoor flight of stairs, in a busy open air marketplace. I focused on my hands, and imagined what it would feel like to shoot fireworks from them. I imagined something like T.S. described, with fountains jetting out of my fingertips. Instead, I watched as my palms tore open painfully. I saw the tip of something shiny in the open wound, and realized it was a rocket. I flung my hand upwards to help dislodge the rocket. Blood splashed all over me from the grizzly gash in my palm, but I managed to fling the rocket free. It flipped up end over end into the air before I saw the back end of it ignite. It hesitated for a second, then shot up a few feet and burst into a cloud of brightly colored confetti. Not quite what I had in mind. I tried the other hand, which felt even more painful. It shot further than the first, and looked more like fireworks when it exploded high in the air. Unfortunately, as the sparks fell downward, they also turned into confetti. I knew I must look like an idiot to the people standing around watching. I felt like a bad street magician.

Now I was frustrated. I decided I had to make it dark, because I could not imagine what fireworks would look like in a daytime sky. The light slowly began to fade to dusk as I braced myself for another attempt. This time, I focused my attention to the tips of my fingers. I pointed my hands away from myself, and locked my vision on a place high in the sky. There was no pain this time, as a series of paper rockets blasted out of my fingertips rapid fire. I watched them as they disappeared into the distance. The sky had now settled to a dark indigo color. After a few seconds, the sky lit up to an impressive display of color. It looked like the end of a fireworks show, when they shoot off a ton of fireworks at once. The crowd cheered, and I was surprised by how amazing it looked. As the sparks settled, I noticed that they, too were turning into confetti. Not again!! I reached out to them with my consciousness, and all the millions of bits of confetti burst into fireworks of their own. The sky lit up with their brilliance, and I cheered along with the crowd.

...............guess what i forgot to do last night...... there is no way i will forget tonight.