Thread: Task for the Month of July 2008

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.

I just did the basic task. I just remembered it! It was weird. There was a boardwalk and a bunch of stands that sold different colored milk. Like Raspberry and orange and stuff.

te he...finaly i did the advanced task...

in my dream it wa wsthe fourth of july and i was at a stadium hired to shoot fire and fireworks out of my hands to compliment the real show.i was pyro-telekinetic so i could just summon fire. i came down in a big fireball in the middle of the stadium and shot fire up as the national anthem played and matching red ,white,and,blue fireworks shot up to the song.then when the main show started i floated up where the fire works were exploding around me and shot fireworks from my hands the rest of the show.

Hmm. My first Task of the month!

I'm excited to give it a try.

I completed both tasks and the lucid portion of my dream is below. (If interested, the non-lucid portion of the dream can be found in my dream journal by clicking the link in my sig.)

Once back in my bedroom, I turned out the lights and got in bed. I wondered what time it was and I pushed the button on my watch so it would light up the watch dial.. but the light wouldn't come on! I pushed it again but still no light. I tried pushing all the buttons that were on the sides of the watch but no light! In my confusion, a "small/quiet" thought came to me.. what if I'm dreaming? I pinched my nose shut and found I could still breathe but it wasn't an "eureka" moment.. just a very calm realization.

I was now vividly lucid in this dark room which makes no sense but it was true. I could only make out objects that I directly looked at.. only those objects were illuminated in the darkness.

I saw a round box and, when I lifted it, I discovered that it was a music box. When I wound the key, the top opened and a carriage with a white porcelain woman and man were visible inside.



A sweet melody began to play and the woman figure began to sing.. only her mouth moved in her frozen body. Next the man's part began and he too sang by only moving his mouth.

When the song ended I remembered the DVs lucid tasks of the month. The first task that came to mind was the one I had actually suggested.. to shoot fireworks out of the palm of your hand or through your fingertips. I looked up at the ceiling and noticed that the ceiling was gone.. there was just blue black sky speckled with stars.

I flew high above the house and hovered in that sky for a bit. I opened my palms and pointed them upwards and tried to shoot fireworks but only a slight pop and fizzle happened.

I then thought, "I know I can do better than that!". I aimed my right finger and simply and confidently thought "fireworks".

The first few weren't very bright against the very dark sky but by the fourth try I had gotten it right.



I then remembered about the "beach" task but wasn't sure how to go about finding one. I had never had much success with spinning but something told me to spin.. that this time I wouldn't wake up.

I closed my eyes and spun a couple of times and when I opened them I was floating above a swimming pool on the edge of a beach!



I look down and see a man I am attracted to standing in the pool.. the water up to his waist. I land in the pool next to him, pick him up in my arms and walk with him up the stairs and out of the pool. Picture this only with the man and women in reverse position (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3242/...0945f1de16.jpg).

I noticed that he didn't seem surprised at all to be carried in such a manner and I asked him if this happened often and was amused when he said, "yes".

I set him down and pulled him to me for a kiss. He resisted saying that he didn't know me. I replied, "You're right." and my right hand grabbed his swim trunks at the waistband and I pulled him to me again. When his lips were once again unresponsive to mine.. I shrugged and turned away. Once I feigned no interest, I was not surprised when he pulled me back and this time, he sought out my kiss. It seems that even my DC males want to be the aggressor in relationships!

When the kiss had ended, I asked him if he wanted me to carry him back to the pool and he replied, "no".. at which time, I felt the dream ending.

When I checked my watch it was 2:18 am.

Yay Clairity, I love giving wings to you

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Yay Clairity, I love giving wings to you

And I love that you love giving me wings!

I did the advanced lucid task of the month. Not only that, but I think this was my best LD yet.

Holy crap! I finished writing it here and I realized how painfully long it is. It is a good and inspiring dream though, at least it is to me anyway, so I hope you enjoy it if you spend the time and patience to read it.

It started with some false awakenings. I "woke" with SP, which was fake. My eyes couldn't focus on anything and I was afraid. But, after a while, I got up without thinking about it, although it was still hard to see. Somewhere along the line my vision returned (again without me noticing.) Something in my head kept nagging that it was a dream, it just had that feeling. I looked around my room and the outside hallway, and everything was completely normal and in place. My dream even adjusted to the recent removal of a piece of furniture in my room. Despite how normal it was I still felt the nag. I thought about shouting "lucidity!" in the hall, but was scared I'd be wrong and embarrassed. I started getting upset. I kept thinking, "I should stop lucid dreaming. I just can't accept reality anymore." Then I heard my sister come out of her room and say, "what are you doing?" Surprised that I was up at 8:00 am, she followed me back into my room. This still seemed normal. I walked up to my window. It was almost pitch black outside. I turned to her, and with doubts I said: "this has got to be a dream, it just has too! You know what that means? We can fly out of this window." She seemed strangely compliant. I continued, "On three, you just jump out. One, two, three!" I jumped out with my hands in front. I must have started much faster, because my sister fell immediately behind.

I've seemed to have trouble flying before, I either get lost or collide with an object, or just float off like a feather with no control. I came toward a tree in my front lawn and was instructing my sister that you had to fly over it. I managed to do so myself and immediately flew above my coldesac, making sure to eye the ground so I wouldn't get lost in the "blank" air. It was nighttime outside. I kept circling around through the air and noticed my body moved as though it was using a bike in order to fly. I switched to try a breast stroke which also worked. I aimed toward a house in the coldesac and rebounded off it's front (almost falling through its crappy looking window.) By now I was completely assured this was a dream and was enjoying myself. I was coming closer to the ground when I remembered the task.

I aimed toward the ground with my hand and shot a firework. It hit the ground with a wimpy little burst of light. I decided I could do better. I landed on the edge of my driveway and aimed my hand toward the horizon down the street, which for some reason had several thorny trees without any leaves. I willed another firework to shoot and it flew into the sky in the horizon and exploded into two explosions of beautiful changing colors. Immediately after the explosion the trees, which now looked like a forest of thorny trees, lit up with the same kind of colors, like Christmas trees. It was a beautiful sight to see, and my favorite part of the dream. I really wanted to see those trees up close. I turned around in the coldesac and saw my sister having fun with my dad, who wasn't there before. They acted very much like they usually do, so I felt guilty about wanting to leave family and go see the trees. I reminded myself that they were just dream people and turned back around to go to the trees. To my disappointment, they were no longer lit. I looked at the trees and willed them to be lit again. And sure enough, they lit themselves, this time even more brilliantly and full of color than before. More trees were lit the second time. I continued to walk toward them, but I woke up.

Looking back at it, I question why people say we dream in black-and-white, because those were the most vivid colors I've ever seen.

Basic task.
I'm overjoyed because of this, first lucid in a while.

I was floating in an indoor pool facing the ceiling, it was dark everywhere in the room save for some light reflecting off the water and dancing across the ceiling. It was one of the most relaxing feelings I've every experienced, just floating and looking at the reflections. I closed my eyes a moment, when I opened them I was laying in bed. Dim light was shining through the blinds, just like every morning. Everything was perfectly normal so I did a reality check (I do one every time I wake because I seem to be fooled by false awakenings often.) And found that I had 14 and a half fingers and could breathe through my nose. I was quite excited and almost lost it twice, I managed to stay lucid and decided to go fly, I walked outside onto a cobblestone street. After three attempts to fly with no success I had to think of other things to do. During my thinking I remembered the lucid task of going to a beach. As I turned I saw behind me a door, Not attached to anything, just standing there (This is how I change locations.) I walked through onto a beach. Sand stretching out to the water's edge, the sun was out, although somewhat dimmer than normal sunlight, the only sounds were the waves washing against shore and the almost constant slight breeze. I walked out into the water and decided to try a few things, first, walking on water which was interesting, although I was disappointed that it didn't feel completely real. I watched the water beneath me then saw a reflection of the sky. I looked up and saw a red sky, tinged with a few other colors that I have no words for, strange blends of colors. As I walked around on the water a strange noise sounded. A moment later and I could hear someone singing, then the dream's reality faded and I awoke in my room to the sounds of my mp3 player.

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

OK. I actually did the first one again. This one was really cool. Threre was a pool by the beach and I was with a bunch of my relatives. We all got into the pool and was saw a bunch of fireflies. Each firefly landed next to a person and turned into a very attractive woman.

I woke up before I could do the fireworks though.

I did both tasks!

I was at a beach-front condo. I was there with some of my family. I realized it was a dream when my girlfriend (who hates beer) dragged in a keg. She asked me to find some people to help her drink it all. I realized there was a beach outside! So I ran outside onto the sand. My dog and all of my cats were there, too. I thought about swimming out and seeing if I could find a shark to talk to, but decided to fly around instead.

This was in another dream.I was at a school. I was a "fairy." A bunch of monsters kept attacking me and my friends. I realized I could shoot them with fireworks. So I shot white sparks out of my fingers. I shot about 50 feet long fountains of sparks from each finger. The monsters burnt to a crisp. After this I just shot some fireworks for fun.

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. =(

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.

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. =(

Well, I had a rather unpleasant dream that turned into an LD where I eventually did the beach task.

The first thing I recall, I'm in a hospital, getting some sort of heart transplant. I've apparently woken up although the operation isn't finished yet. There's only one doctor, and she acts like it's perfectly normal that I'm awake and moving around. I still feel a bit groggy, and my vision is blurry.

For a while I just wait on the bed/stretcher, and then the doctor starts slicing/reaching into my heart. At first the pain is dulled, but then I really feel like my heart is being ripped out. I start asking if it's normal that I'm feeling all this, and I'm not sure I get an answer. I shift to the side, trying to see if it'll be less painful that way.

After that, I pass out in the dream and wake up again, supposedly with the new heart implanted. The doctor is much more talkative now, and tells me we're basically done and that everything went well. I have this weird sort of black hat on my head, and it falls off. The doctor suddenly turns very serious, and explains that since I didn't keep the hat on we're going to have to do a complicated procedure. She says something like: "It's probably going to be quite long, and quite painful..." I start feeling a sort of electrical shock going through me.

I have another blank-out and wake up in a hospital corridor. Several people I know are around, and I talk to them. I end up in a sort of outdoor courtyard that's part of the hospital. As I walk, I slowly begin to realize I'm dreaming. I have a set of blood transfusion tubes going into my arm, and consider ripping them off. However, I decide that I better make sure this is really a dream, or else I might be killing myself. I do a nose RC, and I can breathe even with my nose plugged. This is sufficient evidence for me, and I rip off the tubes and fly into the air.

Floating for a moment, I remember the basic task, but can't quite recall the advanced one. I focus on there being a beach in the direction that I begin flying in. Soon enough, I arrive near the ocean. I see some people there on a sort of balcony overlooking the beach, sitting on lawn chairs. I try asking what the advanced task is, but get no useful response. I decide to continue with the basic one: I go down to the beach, and look around.

There's almost no one around, and the beach is very small, and between two cliffs. I turn my back to the water for a moment, and end up getting hit by a big wave. For a moment I have a third person view of my wipeout. I get up, and see a girl I know. For some reason, she keeps trying to shove me towards the water while I'm still thinking about what the advanced task is. Eventually, the dream fades out.

my second intentional lucid dream and i did the advanced task

i was in a grocery store and all of a suden a girl came up and told me i was dreaming, i realised i was and then the girl disapeard. i started to try out telekinises but then i thought "i already did this last time" so i thoght of the task of the month and remebered fireworks.
it was hard i maneged to first make my hands glow and spark then i shot them out with a firework effect. i was still in the grocery store and i decided i wanted to change the sceane but when i did i FA

I had a lucid dream last night. Forgot the details, but I think I tried to fly through a door. Then, I tried to shoot fireworks through my hands, to no avail

Completed Advanced Lucid Task yesterday;

Spoiler for Dream:

I woke up in SP after another dream (which was unrelated to the task), and by using a WILD technique I fell asleep again, and the dream started in my bed. There was a very low humming sound, which progressed into a faint rumbling, and my bed started shaking. I got a bit scared so I summoned a fireball with dream control to protect me. After about 30 seconds there was a mighty creaking sound and my bed and floor faded away. Suddenly I was falling out of the bottom of my bedroom, leaving the walls and ceiling behind. I grabbed the fireball I created earlier and hung on it to slow my fall. I slowed down until I was floating, and then I looked down.

I saw a huge cavernous mouth looming below me, looking like a sandworm from Dune. Its diameter was bigger than my entire house, and it had rows upon rows of teeth, each one larger than my head. I was suffering from extreme vertigo, and fear obviously. I was hanging only 20m from its jaws, when I realised what it was- the mouth belonged to one of my Dream-Nemesis’s: a 100m long squid named ‘Lord Squid’ which has appeared in about 7 dreams recently.

My fireball which was keeping me up was losing energy, and I was starting to sink again. I then became lucid and remembered the advanced lucid task. I let go of the fireball with one hand and aimed at one of the huge white teeth below. I could feel the firework stored in my elbow. I flicked my arm and it shot down my arm and burst out my palm, shooting towards the tooth. The rocket bounced off and exploded in a yellow and red star, scorching the flesh of Lord Squid. I looked at my palm- the hole from the firework had healed over. I gained confidence and started launching rockets left, right and centre, producing a medley of colours.

However, the explosions of the fireworks were peanuts in comparison to the amount of explosives it would take to kill Lord Squid. At the last minute I remembered a previous dream when a DC had given me an anti-squid weapon- a spray can filled with destructive nano-robots. I reached into my pocket and pulled out the can, spraying Lord Squid vigorously. Within seconds the nano-robots began attacking Lord Squid’s flesh, and the squid departed, returning my bed and floor to me.

Last Night I tried the fireworks task.

I was sitting in Starbucks staring at my cappucino because I wasn't in the mood when it parted (like the parting of the waves) I nearly let it slip but It jolted me lucid

I flew outside spmehow not going through a wall odd.. into the sky I was a bit miffed that it was daytime and I couldn't change the weather to night, so I imagined the fireworkds rocketing out of my palms. I watched as as 3 huge unlit rockets ploped OUT of My hand the hole closed up like Claire off heroes. . Then I tried just Imagining the light trails and it worked sparks flew out of my hand and zoomewd off and exploded a flying goose I felt bad and the dream ended

Close enough, the task didn't specify that they had to explode