Task for the Month of August 2008

I guess I did the basic. I say "I guess" because it was kinda lame; short and blurry with poor control.

There are so many pieces of art that I love that I really couldn't decide on a favorite but I decided that I'd go view a sculpture by Rodin that I saw in his museum in Paris. I've never seen a photo of this sculpture online, or anywhere else for that matter, but it was of two lovers so intertwined that I remember thinking that it was difficult to tell where one ended and the other began. Anyway, in my dream I became lucid and teleported to a display of this sculpture.

Like I stated above, it was fairly blurry so I can't say that I really got a good look even though it was right in front of me. I wanted to reach into it to pull out it's essence and eat it. But for some reason I could feel my mattress and since I was standing in the dream it felt like the mattress was in front of me, a solid wall blocking my way so that I couldn't reach out to touch the sculpture. Then these two voices (one female and one male) started telling me to eat it over and over. This escalated until they were yelling. Then they started arguing with each other.

I just observed this strange phenomenon for a while, thinking that dreams truly are weird, before deciding to give up on the advanced task. I then tried to teleport to Uranus for the task of the year but for once failed to go anywhere. Then I started to feel like I was lying down in a bathtub with a shallow amount of water sloshing back in forth. I was pretty much helpless and couldn't do anything except turn the water off with my mind to keep it from getting any higher. But this didn't last too long and next I found myself in an amusement park with my friends and decided to go on a ride, because how often do I really get to go on roller coasters? Didn't want to miss the opportunity . . .

now that i'm on my way to becoming a frequent lucid dreamer, i'm going to do this task of the month! after 2 or 3 more lucid dreams lol, i still have personal tasks i want to complete, plus i just love exploring in a lucid dream.

My plan for the Advance task (I need feedback.):

- Find a can of paint (lavender would be perfered) and eat the color out of it. If my thinking is right, there should be a white base left after I eat it. Then I'll eat the white out of the base, so all that should be left is a clear substance.

- Borrow either a wand or Professor Dumbledore's Pensive and eat either eat my own thoughts or ones out of the Pensive.

How does that sound? :)

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Originally Posted by Snowy Egypt

My plan for the Advance task (I need feedback.):

- Find a can of paint (lavender would be perfered) and eat the color out of it. If my thinking is right, there should be a white base left after I eat it. Then I'll eat the white out of the base, so all that should be left is a clear substance.

- Borrow either a wand or Professor Dumbledore's Pensive and eat either eat my own thoughts or ones out of the Pensive.

How does that sound? :)

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Sounds great ;D

I'm sticking with my idea of eating the evil out of a monster. It would be cool to see a giant, fire spewing monster - suddenly become a cuddley, lovable...fire spewing monster.:lol:

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Originally Posted by Dizko

I'm sticking with my idea of eating the evil out of a monster. It would be cool to see a giant, fire spewing monster - suddenly become a cuddley, lovable...fire spewing monster.:lol:

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LOL!!! Aww, just the mental picture makes me want to cuddle something!!!

I must have been very hungry when I went to bed last night. I had checked in earlier to see what the tasks were and I wanted to take my time with them and think about it for awhile. Didn't work that way though.

I went to bed at my normal time, but didn't think I would sleep. It's been so hot here and the air is thick with smoke from the fires in CA. I don't know why but every time there are fires on the coast the darn smoke drifts for thousands of miles and lands in my valley.

Anyway I was laying in bed and began to think of what I would like my dreams to consist of. I wanted to dream of my family and I wanted them all to be happy. Instead as I felt myself drift off I thought of getting up and getting a snack. I had just bought some beautiful cherries, and that sounded good, but I was too tired to get up. So guess what I dreamed of last night? Yeah you got it, food.

I know that I was dreaming because I washed the Cherries and put them into the strainer to drain. I had done this already when I bought them.
I ate some of the cherries and they were so sweet that they were making me sick, so I searched for something else. I came up with nothing. It was too hot to cook and I just wanted a bit of something to tide me over.
I was feeling a bit sick from the smoke that we are getting. The air last night was thick with it. It felt as if I was swimming in a thick pudding of smokey air.

It came to me that I should just eat it away. It took a bite. It had a pungent, bitter taste to it, but with a pleasant slightly smokey finish to it. Kind of like eating a nice wedge of smoked Gouda. A thick texture, that wasn't unpleasant or gooey.

Once I began to eat the smoke, I began to relax. I know this is going to sound strange, but since CA. has so much wacky tobacco I knew that I was also partaking of that particular product also. I began to relax and float along just eating more and more smoke.

As the smoke began to thin out, I could collect it on my hand like you might the strands of cotton candy that are so popular at the fairs this time of year. It began to take on a sweet taste, (faintly like cotton candy) not overpoweringly sweet, but that faint touch of sweetness that you naturally from a nice white table wine.

I began to roll myself in the wonder of eating the smoke and the cool taste of it on the back of my tongue.
I finally came to the fire. I didn't even hesitate; I know I'm dreaming and it can't hurt me. I took a huge bite of the fire. I tasted like citrus, with a touch of orange, lemon, lime and grapefruit. I wanted more of this taste. That sweet and sour taste of citrus. It smelled so fresh, that I just wanted to eat more. I licked the flames as they were trying to lick the fuel of forest around them. I licked the color off them. The Citrus flavor was light and sweet, with a touch of tartness.

There was no heat to it, just that tart sour taste of citrus.
I ate my fill. I felt full enough to sleep and dream of other things.

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Originally Posted by Snowy Egypt

LOL!!! Aww, just the mental picture makes me want to cuddle something!!!

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Lol ^_^

I think after i do that, ill ask the monster to throw me to some planet so i can start the task of the year.

Yay finally found a picture similar to the monster in my dream.

Mine was all black though, and was dressed like a roman soldier almost.

http://www.davidandgavinhoffman.com/...orpion-man.jpg

I haven't managed to do it yet.

But I do have another possible way to eay something abstract rather easily. Find a store that sells it in jars or cans (jars preferably, you probably would never find a can opener). For example, some store might have jars of "evil" or jars of "love" or such.

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Originally Posted by Snowy Egypt

My plan for the Advance task (I need feedback.):

- Find a can of paint (lavender would be perfered) and eat the color out of it. If my thinking is right, there should be a white base left after I eat it. Then I'll eat the white out of the base, so all that should be left is a clear substance.

- Borrow either a wand or Professor Dumbledore's Pensive and eat either eat my own thoughts or ones out of the Pensive.

How does that sound? :)

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I absolutely love the second one. I seriously need to visit Hogwarts sometime. :D

As for my plan, I plan on getting a ball (Just an inflatable one from a playground) and then somehow absorbing the color off it (kind of looking like a Dementor's Kiss) and thus leaving a clear sphere in my hands. :D

Okay, just did a MILD this morning and the task as well. I got mixed results, at best.

I got up at about 5:45 AM, before my alarm for 6 went off. I shut off the alarm and told myself as I went to sleep, "I will remember to realize I'm dreaming" over and over again. So, in the dream, I was at some kind of house that looked like a cross between mine and my grandmother's (hard to explain) and I did a RC. For some reason though, I wasn't very confident in the results and did a hand RC, which didn't check out at first but it did after a few tries. Anyway, I remembered the advanced task of the month and went outside on my front porch to find something to do it with. At the corner of the porch was a pot of pink roses.

I went over to the roses and picked a petal off them. Like the beach ball example, I did something and it split off into two elements, grey and pink.

Now here comes the funny part. My recall of this dream is fuzzy and my lucidity was rather weak. I'm still not sure if I split the rose petal off into a pink color and a grey petal or a pink petal and a grey petal. I do think though, that the pink element was very thin, so it may have been the color I was trying to eat.

Anyway, I took the pink element and ate it. It had a rather creamy and flowery taste to it, almost like melted cherry creme savers. Sometime during this, I lost lucidity, and with it the abstraction, and I ended up spitting it out realizing I may have been eating a rose petal. When I spat it out, it looked like a rose petal.

I'm personally not that thrilled with the turnout of my dream task this morning, so I'm still going to give it another shot in a different way. But, whoever hands out the badges, you be the judge.

I got both tasks done in separate dreams last night. The first dream was absurdly long(Hurray!), so I'll just skip ahead to just before I completed the task.

Basic:

I found myself in my neighborhood and decided to try flying. I had tried flying in many dreams before, but most ended with me nosediving into the ground.:lol: I got a short running start and leaped into the air, and dear lord was it a pretty sight. The detail and color of my neighborhood and the feeling of flying was one of the most amazing things to happen to me in a lucid dream (so far...). I was able to control my flying near perfectly. While flying, I remembered the task of the month, and said aloud "I need to find the Mona Lisa!" (Since I'm not really an art dude, that will have to do.) I look down while flying, and see it hanging on the wall of a house. I observe it for a minute, and then continue flying.

Advanced

The second dream takes place in a big store. I'm searching through the store trying to find something good to take the color out of it, but nothing really jumps out. I eventually find a big, green box, and decide to use that. I try willing the color out of the box, but it doesn't work at all. It seems like I was trying too hard. I relaxed a little and tried again, and the green rose out of it in a thick green mist. I ate the mist, but I didn't taste anything.(I don't think I've ever tasted anything anything in my dreams, I'll have to try that sometime.) When I was done, the box had turned black, and soon after the dream ended. Compared to what some people are trying for this task, my method seems rather boring.:embarrassed:

I love a lot of different kinds of art. I love computer gen, abstract, realism, etc. My favorite piece of art is an abstract that I haven't seen in a while. It's rather beautiful though with pink, purple, mauve, light blue and white all blended together. I once came to the conclusion that the painting was a rather abstract view of the most intimate part of a woman's body.

For all that, it's just beautiful. I first saw it at woman's conference. You know one of those you are a confident business woman type things. It was used as the background for the fliers and cards and such that are passed out at those things. So for the weekend I was looking at this piece of art. I have some of it for my records somewhere, but I didn't want to go looking for it, but it's kind of stuck in my head anyway.

Last night I was trying to think of this piece as I went to sleep and I couldn't remember where the original piece was hanging. I thought it might have been in the Louvre, so I went there in my mind. Kind of like you would go through files in a file cabinet.

I went to the Louvre. I found the Mona Lisa, with her knowing smirk (that's not a smile, that's a smirk). I spoke with her for a bit and asked her if she knew where the painting that I was looking for located. She told me that she didn't, but she knew of the painting. She was impressed with it, as it wasn't a phallic painting at all, which is not always that case.

I spoke with whistler's mother about the painting. She was not impressed with it at all. She was more concerned with the notion that people thought her son could be a criminal. She was no help.

I spoke to the old farm couple. He is a sour old man, while she is as puritanical as you can get without being a puritan. Now wonder he is all sour. They wanted nothing to do with anyone, or anything.

I was tired of wandering the halls looking for a painting that I was sure was done by Monet, but couldn't remember if it was true.

I decided to leave the museum and find the rendition of the painting that I saw most recently. I know that this place no longer exists since the woman that owned the print of the painting has passed on, but I know that in my dreams this plane of existence is not the one that I can go to.

So I went back to that place at a happy time. I had a warm cup of Bavarian Berry tea in my hand, a comfortable place to sit, with some relaxing music to listen to and I immersed myself into that print.

The creamy white background draws you into the elliptical colors of warm pinks, lavenders, and mauve. Cool blue on the outside edge of the painting draws you eye to the top of the painting, forcing you to focus on that illusive spot that you know is there.

I finished the tea as I gazed at the print. It drew me into the swirling colors. I felt the warmth of the color as I felt the warmth of the dessert tea I was drinking. I wrapped myself in that warmth allowing the darkness to overtake me.

Wow..Phoenixfire what a wondrous dream!

The things you saw, the people/pictures you spoke with and the way you described it all.. bravo! :goodjob::bravo:

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Originally Posted by Clairity

Wow..Phoenixfire what a wondrous dream!

The things you saw, the people/pictures you spoke with and the way you described it all.. bravo! :goodjob::bravo:

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Thank you. It really was a nice one. I'm kind of disappointed that I finished these tasks so quickly though. Now I have to wait for next months. I really did want to draw it out. Hope you enjoyed taking that small little journey with me though.

I love food, and I love intangible thoughts so I'll see if I can try the advanced task next time I become lucid.

Okay so last night I didn't think I was that tired but when I actually just laid still in my bed I felt suddenly tired so I went to sleep. I then found myself in the dream and lucid straight from the start. So I took a moment to think of what the tasks were. I would have done the basic but I don't really have a favorite piece of art. So I would try the advanced.

I had already thought about what I would do if I tried the advanced beforehand, so I teleported myself to the beach. There was a guy and girl walking down the beach holding hands. They were in love and I was gonna eat their love. I was about 10 feet away from them but I reached out and somehow tried to grab the love out of them. It came out as a little heart with the word love next to it.(not sure why I needs to be labeled, lol:lol:) So I had the two "loves" in my hand, I tried sucking them up (not sure why) but it had the opposite effect. I was still holding the two but like tons of little "loves" were blowing out in a spiral from them. Kinda like if blow a dandelion. Eventually I lost the two origial "loves" but did manage to grab a little one and throw it in my mouth. It had no taste, but felt thin and soft like a flower petal.

I don't really remeber much after that. I'm not sure if that counts as completeing it but it was really beautiful when all the little "loves" spiraled, because all the colors of them combined with the sunset of the beach was just amazing. It was just a neat experience.

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I tried sucking them up (not sure why) but it had the opposite effect. I was still holding the two but like tons of little "loves" were blowing out in a spiral from them. Kinda like if blow a dandelion. Eventually I lost the two origial "loves" but did manage to grab a little one and throw it in my mouth. It had no taste, but felt thin and soft like a flower petal.

I don't really remeber much after that. I'm not sure if that counts as completeing it but it was really beautiful when all the little "loves" spiraled, because all the colors of them combined with the sunset of the beach was just amazing. It was just a neat experience.

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What a unique thing to happen.. that must have beautiful!! :smitten:

I hope it counts.. I think it should! ;)

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So I was driving a car when I realized I was lucid. I stepped out and flew effortlessly (which is surprising for me) into the sky. I flew towards an art museum and started looking for my favorite painting, Guernica http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guernica_%28painting%29

The first floor only had abstract paintings, so I ran up the stairs to the second floor. The museum went out of focus two or three times, but studying my hands easily fixed that. The second floor had a sign pointing to the different types of paintings on the floor, but I don't remember them now. Anyway, I eventually found the painting, but it was about six by six inches and the real painting is massive. There were two characters in it that were moving, embracing and hugging each other, which I thought was strange considering the real painting has people screaming and dying.

I read the challenge yesterday and I accomplished it last night! Gives me plenty of time to work on the advanced challenge now.

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Anyway, I eventually found the painting, but it was about six by six inches and the real painting is massive. There were two characters in it that were moving, embracing and hugging each other, which I thought was strange considering the real painting has people screaming and dying..

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How strange that the painting you found was not only tiny but that the characters were loving and hugging while the real painting has the people in agony. :shock:

I definately like your version better! :hug:

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The dream scene that I found myself in was one in which I was supposed to be talking to a therapist (which is weird since I never see therapists), but I was completely ignoring the woman and instead was trying to draw intangible concepts out of the objects around me. I was failing quite completely when the therapist's shirt caught my attention. It was a turquoise, short-sleeved button down with white polka dots. I drew the turquoise color out of it and the color flew through the air in liquid form and went down my throat. I didn't feel or taste anything. Now the woman's shirt was just gray scale. It didn't look like whites or grays in reality, because in reality these have slight color from lighting and reflections. Her shirt was completely devoid of color, as if no color could touch it and the polka dots were no longer visible.

I feel lame for just using Ninja's idea.

I'm totally loving reading these advanced task, you guys are very creative. :content:

I did the advanced task in a lucid this morning I had after a WBTB. I tried to eat the fear out of my room (for some reason when i walked into my room in this dream I got really scared and stuff and shadows were wisping out from under my bed.)

This didn't work though because it didn't go away, and seeing as i am still quite new to lucid dreaming I thought I'd keep it plain and simple. So what I did was just grabbed the lottery/airplane tickets i had from the start of the dream and licked the colour off of them.

They tasted like smarties and M&Ms but had the smooth texture of a chocolate milkshake.:tonguewiggle:

I tried to do the basic task but all I got was a crappy painting version of a photo that's hanging up in my house, so I don't think that counts. But still, atleast I completed the advanced task :D

I LOVE the idea of eating something intangible.

I didn;t have any problem understanding the advanced task, (I kow what intangible means, and I can imagine several ways to eat or absorb something intangible), but I'm having a hard time on understanding guidelines of the basic task. For example, if your favorite piece of art is, I don;t know, an example of architecture, like the Arc de Triomphe, or the Eiffel Tower, or the Great Wall of China, would that count? My problem is, I'm not really into paintings and sculpture and all that sdort of thing, I'm more into books. Woul books be considered art? Would a particular edition of a book I like, with a cover I like, count as art? Or would it have to be at least the picture from the cover whether or not the book (which I consider necessary) is attached to the image?

PS: @Snowy: I'm pretty sure the Pensieve makes thoughts tangible, but I could be nitpicking. I probably am. Ignore this postscript.