Thread: Task for the Month of July 2008

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 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.

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!!!

Yay, managed the basic task! Here's the dream. I managed to WILD because I kept having to get up because I had a sniffy nose and thought I might as well use these sleep interuptions wisely!

The first thing I remember was I was in the shopping mall and I had about twenty bags and suitcases all blocking the doorway to another room and partly filling that room. I thought that I would try moving them not physically but with my mind. So I tried and instead of just moving them out of the way of the doorway they would slide across the floor and dissapear into a big black suticase in the centre of the following room (one of these bags with weird dimensions inside I guess, think Mary Poppins or Terry Pratchett). I thought it wasn't perfect but it would certainly do.

The next bit I remember I was still in the shopping centre but I was behind a check-in desk checking a bunch of puppy-eyed little boys (about 6 yrs old) onto a flight. It seemed they had become lost and were desperately trying to get home again. However, despite this I was charging them 2000 for the flight - Im so cruel. For those who didn't have the fare I would try and materialise a 2000 note for them which worked. I can't have had a high level of lucidity till then but suddenly I decided that I was going to do something a bit more with my lucidity and remembered the beach task. I told my boyfriend to check the boys in because I was going to the beach and he happily obliged - that's his job in real life after all.

I went to a hallway behind the check in desks and there was a big window near ground level looking onto a large warehouse below. I decided I would fly through the warehouse to the beach. I figured I would be able to go straight through the window so I fly at it and of course end up as a big crumpled heap on the floor and realise that my boyfriend and a large man are both looking at me and laughing. So I try again and this time I make it and through the one on the opposite side of the warehouse. And Im above the beach. I fly towards the water and have a bit of trouble keeping altitude. Then these two bratty little children floating around in the water on inflatables start throwing balls at me - guess they didnt think I should be flying around. Shortly after that the dream faded.

I'm a bit lucky considering the beach literally is just outside that shopping centre in real life so it didn't take a whole lot of mental effort. However, I'm peeved I didn't remember the fireworks!! Yesterday evening I went to see the July 14th fireworks on the beach right by there. I'd have had a lot of work on my hands to out do those though in my dream

I realized I did the basic task, even though I didn't know what it was, if that counts.

I was walking on the beach, and I saw a starfish, that had little claws on the end of the end of the arms. On closer inspection they were kind of pale green and translucent.

The water was really cold, like ice. It had the same kind of hue(?) as the green claws, if you know what I mean. The water was blue though obv.

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. =(

I love your two-liners. Almost like spells!

Originally Posted by Astroman129

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.

Tried and failed last night:

I had a DILD, which immediately began to fall apart, as per usual. I was on an open top bus (which was, incidentally, right next to a beach - but the basic task didn't really interest me this month), and decided to try the advanced task. I was in a rush, so I sort of just thrust my hand up a few times, but all I achieved were these weird visuals of firework explosions, where they were simultaneously sort of in my 'mind's eye', as if I were imagining them, and sort of actually there to see. I was definitely not satisfied, so I thought I'd be a wiseass and try to 'shoot a firework out of my hand' by impaling my palm on a small firework, and then firing it out by lighting it with a match. I pulled a small rocket out of my pocket, but then I got the feeling that the dream was just about to collapse entirely, so I dropped everything and flew up, fast. I only got about 30 meters out before awakening fully, however.

Now I know why it's the advanced task...

Last night I had my first WILD and I was in control of most things. After drawing some chalk doors and talking to a dream character in my backyard, I walked onto the grass and looked up at the twilight sky. I imagined energy building in my hands and could feel a sort of vibrating energy, which I released out of my palms, but instead of a sparkling firework, it was an orange cloud that flew upwards and exploded like a firework would - only releasing heaps and heaps of colourful balloons instead of sparks. I tried to make the clouds I was releasing turn into fireworks, but some woman came along and started trying to poke me. By the time I got rid of her, I gave up trying to change my "fireworks" and checked to see how my chalk-drawings were doing.
It was a pretty awesome attempt in my opinion, with some pretty aweosme results ^_^

I *think* I may have completed the basic task. I remember a few fragments of a dream where I was lucid with more control than I have ever had before. I was teleporting all over the place, seeing as many different places as I could. One such place was the beach. I had to park my car away from the shoreline and pass under a bridge to get there. On my way, I lost lucidity. Even though I got to the beach while lucid, I was not lucid at the beach. Does this still count?

But anyway:

I walked under the bridge and saw the shoreline. It was packed with people. I saw the water, and I charged toward it. My friend Sean with with me. We end up passing through a small area with tables, covered with a shade. It might have been a restaurant. We run past lots of people, mostly families, on beach blankets, playing games, building sandcastles, etc. A huge wave is crashing as we approach. I race toward it, trying to dive into it before the water recedes. I miss it - and fall about 3 feet. The waves have cut a ledge into the sand that I did not see. I laugh and say to Sean: "We missed the wave, thanks to our good friends, the Navy!"(I don't get it either).

Another wave breaks as I notice that no one is swimming. The water brushes my feet, and it is warm. Not warm for the ocean, I mean warm like a glass of water that has been sitting out for a while. I see a transparent jellyfish in the water. Then I see more. Lots more. I panic and run out of the water, recalling a memory that was part of the dream. It was a newspaper artice saying that warm water made jellyfish eat each other, get aggressive, and grow bigger.

Then my cell phone started vibrating, waking me up for a WBTB.

Originally Posted by Licity

Even though I got to the beach while lucid, I was not lucid at the beach. Does this still count?

I vote for it counting . You decided to go to the beach while lucid, and did get there and remember it.