Thread: Task for the Month of July 2008

http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...808#post843808
I just did that last night during a dream. This thread really jogged my memory. Now to try to remember to do the fireworks.

Well... I had them after you closed the Task for july threads... and posted the thread in the other section... so I don't know if it counts.
http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=60622 Post # 9 & 10 are the ones with the tasks on it. And if it doesn't count tell me so I can make them again lol

Basic Task

I was on my doorstep with my sister. I realised i was dreaming and that she was real. I started thinking about how everything around me was not real. This gave me exfellent control and i was able to fly brilliantly. I flew over the houses, telling myself that there would be a beach. It took a while but i found a small, 10ft stretch of sand beside the water with 2 sunbeds and 2 men on it. I landed on it, and nothing really happened. So started hitting the men. They didnt move.

End. Boring dream, but whatever...

heh, heh, i completely forgot about june's tasks but i will be sure to do this months!

Oi Ninja! I think ya missed me!

Originally Posted by Dizko

Basic Task

I was on my doorstep with my sister. I realised i was dreaming and that she was real. I started thinking about how everything around me was not real. This gave me exfellent control and i was able to fly brilliantly. I flew over the houses, telling myself that there would be a beach. It took a while but i found a small, 10ft stretch of sand beside the water with 2 sunbeds and 2 men on it. I landed on it, and nothing really happened. So started hitting the men. They didnt move.

End. Boring dream, but whatever...

This sucks:

I was in a McDonald's eating a huge pile of hamburgers by myself. (Weird because I don't eat there much in real life and I never get hamburgers.) I tried to take a drink of my soda but it was empty. I go back to the fountain to fill it up but no soda comes out. Suddenly I realize, I'm dreaming! (Electrical stuff never works in my dreams.)

I try to remember the task of the month but only the basic task was coming to me. So I picture the McDonald's right next to the beach. I walk outside and am unsurprised to see it off in the distance. I start running toward it, but as i do, it slides further and further away. I stop, and try to summon a horse.

It worked and one galloped at me and stopped at my side. I got on and started riding toward the beach. When it seemed like I was about to kill me the horse stopped and flung me off toward it. I hit the ground and woke up.

I'm hoping to do the tasks tonight. Coming on here and reading other's experiences is always a good way to incubate the tasks. Last night I just couldn't remember the beach one...

Wish me luck!

Originally Posted by seeker28

Wish me luck!

Good luck!

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...

ADVANCED TASK

Excerpt from my DJ:

Then i remembered the mothly task of shooting fireworks. So i raised my hand flat up towards the sky and i sent a wave of energy flowing up my arm. Some thing that looked like a missile came out of my hand. It rose up into the air slowly. I waited until it was a little bit up into the air and then i sent another wave of enerygy up my arm. The missile exploded and shot out red fireworks. Now that i was confident i shot another missile up -much faster and much higher. Again i exploded it and sent fireworks showering out.

The effect of it was awesome

I did both the basic and advanced tasks!

Fireworks

I was at the house, and I vaguely recall seeing more rabbits there. I went out the back door, and got up in the air. I remembered that I wanted to do the tasks. They were going to the beach and shooting fireworks out of your hands.

As I flew up towards the sky, I noticed that it was fake. This happens every once in a while. I was in a gigantic room which was set up to look like it was outside. Annoyed, I didn't bother to try breaking through the ceiling.

I went down a little bit, and tried the fireworks thing. One red firework went out of my right hand, but only made it about twenty feet before going off. It was really small. I tried for some more, but it seemed like all I could do was make sparkler effects come out of my sleeves. It was underwhelming.

I decided to go for the beach next. I turned in one direction and scanned the far end of the place. It looked like there were other people over there; changing thing around would draw attention to me. I turned in another direction, and saw mountains. Seemed like more of a pain to make mountains into an ocean. I turned to my right and I spotted a river behind the hill. That would do. I made the river into an ocean, and the bank into the beach, and flew over to stand by the water. The ocean was obviously as fake as the sky was; it only went out so far before merging into the backdrop. Curiously, the ocean only stayed that way until I stopped focusing on it, so after only a minute it changed back into the river again.

I followed the river, and found myself in front of a large brick wall, with huge wooden doors and black metal spikes on top. A bunch of school age kids came out of it, and apparently they were making bets about something. They didn't seem to pay much attention to me. I thought about going inside the house, but decided against it in favor of exploring the (fake) landscape some more.

Basic and Advanced Task

After lots of tossing and turning out of excitement, I finally slept and found myself on the beach. I should point out that I also repeated to myself, "I will dream of a beach" over and over again like a mantra throughout my efforts to fall asleep.

I found myself on a beach which appeared to be in the carribean because of the white sand beaches and really blue sea. The sand felt warm under my feet. It appeared to be about 7 AM in the morning. The sun was not incredibly bright, but it certainly wasn't dark.



The minute I found myself on the beach, I was immediately lucid and shouted triumphantly, "Beach" and "I'm lucid"! I felt it was important that I acknowledge those two facts immediately. At the same time, I thought of the fireworks. I felt immensely powerful and happy that I had completed the basic challenge. Yes, all those thoughts were in my head.

I began to think that the beach needed a summer home, so with my mind, I began to shape a summer home. The first one was small and I thought I should build a bigger more palatial one, which I did. It was ridiculously fancy for the beach. I paid no attention to what it might look like inside, but only concentrated on the outer architecture. The house looked something like the picture below.



Once satisified, I directed my attention to the fireworks. I turned around and found a lone, tall beam planted in the sand about 50 feet away. I remember thinking it was a tree, but there were no leaves.



I lifted my right hand and began to shoot fireworks out of my hand. I shot steadily and made the fireworks increase in intensity as they hit the center of the beam. Eventually, the fireworks began to bore a hole into the beam. I stopped once there was a big chunk of blackened circle in the beam.

Then I had a false awakening where I was typing in the forum that I completed the tasks.

More on the process or fumbling I went through to achieve lucidity can be read in my dream journal:

Tossing and Turning - 7/14/2008


All and all, I am excited that I was able to focus on the goal of having the dream and directing my mind to bring me there.

This is a great forum and I believe the tasks are really helpful in honing our skills.

Onyx

I will do it!!!

I had a very interesting LD last night.

I was dreaming that I was with a friend of mine. We were at a waterpark. However, he got lost and I had to spend the rest of the day looking for him. When I looked into a viewing room, I saw him. However, he disappeared. I instantly knew I was dreaming.

The first thing I did was turn the lights on. The lights were off, which really bugged me. I think it might've been because I was about to wake up. One way to get something in my LD's is by saying something I want in a two-liner, close your eyes for a couple seconds, and when you open them, you have it.

So I said something among the lines of "The dark is not my type of sight so please give me much of the light." However, it did give me only half of the light. It was blue. So the room was half dark and the other half was lit up by a blue light.

I said "That's not all the light, only half, so turn the lights on and take me out of this wrath." (Not the best rhyme, but it worked). The lights were still blue but.... yeah.

Then I said "My favorite place is in my reach so may you take me to the beach?" I immediately teleported to the beach. Here, I walked around. This was the best beach I've ever been to and I really liked it here. In fact, it was so amazing I was about to wake up. I couldn't stabalize myself in time. I really wanted to try the advanced task. =(

Clarity: Good
Sleep: Medium
Lucidity: Good

Lots of Flying

I had been swimming and going through a lobby and thought that it would be cool to act like I was swimming there. I realized that I floated in the air pretty easily, so I went outside and realized that I had no idea who I had gotten to where I was. I immediately jumped up and grabbed onto a clock that said 6:30 and pulled myself up on it. I then kicked off of the wall and turned around.

I was gliding over my grandfather's old backyard and I went down that long hill and noticed a cat down below. I saw a large cave in a rock so I swooped down to it and slam into the rock I reached under and it didn't seem like much of a cave so I took off into the air again. I told myself that when I woke up I would DEILD back into it because I felt that if I might.

I found myself at a large lake. There was a sandy ground there and I floated above it. The water had nearly all dried up and some dead reeds were all over the place. I tried to get them to grow again.

CC Williams was at the lake and I floated over it asking her why everything was dead. I was flying fast and she was balancing on some sort of log in the water. We ended up in a house and I kicked the wall to get back out and made a mess of it. I apologized to the people who owned the house and went to find something to clean it up with.

oh man! I had a crazy awesome WILD this morning and I was like "man I wish I knew what this month's task is" I already read this, but I thought it was for June not July.