Task for the Month of August 2008

I completed the lucid task this morning. I didn't even know what it was until I checked it a day or two ago. Got lucid this morning and the first thing I could think of was to eat a thought. I put my hand up to the back of my head and pressed my finger against my thumb like I was plucking out a hair. I had no idea what a "thought" would look like and, when I brought my hand around in front of me, I was holding a little blue cloud/bubble, like the thought bubbles in comics, but it was actually 3D and had shading to it. I put it in my mouth and it tasted like cotton candy.

I only have the notes in my journal, now, but I'll copy/paste it here, when I type the whole dream out.

Hmm... never had a lucid dream before while trying, but i almost got it last night. I might try this one. (wish me luck)

Yay oneironaut.

Advanced Task Completed!!!

So, I end of having a WILD where I wake up in my bed aware that I'm dreaming. I hop out my bedroom window into my front yard. I notice that it is completely light outside, which is a little weird to me. I notice a taxi is parked in front of my house. Here I try to recall the Lucid Tasks. I can't remember the Standard Task, but I remember the Advanced. I walk around the back of the taxi and open the driver's side door. The driver steps out. I ask him, "Will you please have a thought, because I'm going to eat it." He looks at me skeptically, and I tell him, "I'm going to suck it out your ear." (Which is weird, I know, but how else would you eat thoughts?) He nods and closes his eyes. I move close to his ear as if I'm about to whisper a secret to him, and then suck in as hard as I can, as if I'm trying to get the last bit of a drink out through a straw. A moment passes where I'm just tasting air, then the air get a little thicker. It tastes salty, then bitter. I move to face him again, and ask him what he was thinking. He says, "I was wondering what it was like to be a woman. I think people would laugh at me because my boobs would be too big." After that I tried traveling to other planets, but I didn't get anywhere.

that was probably the funniest dream I have ever read:D

Yeah, I thought it was funny too. Glad you enjoyed it.

wtf? That's hilarious :lmao:

I laughed much too hard at that. Thank you. :D

Finally! After trying to do the advanced task twice (but failed because I couldn't remember what it was) I just did it now this morning. The full dream:

The dream started with several non lucid and lucid false awakenings. I kept thinking that it was time to get up in real life. During the last FA, I "woke up" at my parents' house, with the false memory that my oldest brother and me were staying over. I left my room and headed for the stairs. But when I looked out the window, I saw that a large passenger plane was trying to land on the large lawn outside our garden. I said out loud: "Ok, I HAVE to be dreaming now!" Even though I was lucid at this point, I plugged my nose. Doing this made me remember the DV advanced task of the month, though I wanted to play with the big airplane first. I made it stand vertically with only its nose touching the ground. I then made it spin around its own axis. I left the airplane alone after doing this, and I found a book that I wanted to absorb the contents of. I opened it and took a deep breath, but I ended up inhaling the book itself, it melted and stretched towards my face. I threw it away and decided to eat/absorb the colors in my dream instead. With a great deal of focus, and some deep breathing, I saw all colors fade, until my dream was in black and white. It looked really cool, but the effort made me wake up shortly after.

Eating all the colors in a dream? I wish I would have thought of that. My ball doesn't look so impressive anymore. :P

That was cool Lumi :D

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Originally Posted by ninja9578

That was cool Lumi :D

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I agree.. draining the color of your dream til it's black and white is very cool! ;)

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I'm gonna try to eat the hole out of a donut :P
btw, you should have a first place each month for best dream.

Nah, I don't like competition. Even if some people don't say it, it makes them feel bad. It's fine the way it is. Besides, all of the dreams are the best dreams! :D

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Originally Posted by Snowy Egypt

Nah, I don't like competition. Even if some people don't say it, it makes them feel bad. It's fine the way it is. Besides, all of the dreams are the best dreams! :D

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Said perfectly. :D

Argh!! I still can't get a lucid since I joined. :bang:

It took me a while, but I finally completed this month's advanced task. This was a hard one! Lets do more like this next month. Everyone's experiences are so fascinating.

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Originally Posted by Robot_Butler

...They were spilling all over the floor, as I scrambled to scoop them up without getting bitten. They kept multiplying, and soon there were baby centipede-scorpions everywhere.

"Screw this!" I yelled out loud, frustrated. I vaulted over the guard rail, and slid down the banister on my feet. Halfway down, I leaped into the air and spread my arms out to either side. My arms sprouted feathers and flattened into eagle wings. I tucked my legs beneath me, folding my knees into my chest, and extending my toes into long bird talons. I glided down towards an open door, and out into the sunlight.

I beat my wings, and lifted into the air to turn over in an exhilarating high loop. Coming down from the loop, I thought for a second to remember what I wanted to do. I remembered the Dream Views task of the month to taste something intangible. I ended my loop a few feet off the ground, hovering near a stone lamp post at the foot of a driveway. I reached out toward the red stone with my human hand, and tried to draw the color off of it. A cloud of dark red dust lifted off the surface, and covered my fingers like dust from a terracotta conte crayon. I brought my fingers to my lips and licked them. They tasted gritty and earthy, like clay. "This is what red must tase like," I thought to myself.

Not satisfied with this result, I looked up to the beautiful blue sky above me. I was amazed at how clear my environment was, and how far I could see in all directions. I floated upward, towards the beautiful clear sky. I had to get above the shadows of the surrounding buildings. As I floated upward, I saw the sun crest the roof of the nearest house. As it appeared, I opened my mouth wide to suck in it's brilliant light. I immediately had the sensation of my mouth filling with something. I could feel pressure on my tongue, like opening your mouth while under water. It tasted leafy, like cooked spinach. I thought to myself, "I must be tasting my own chlorophyll, like a plant."

The light from the sun was blinding me no matter how much I squinted. I instinctively closed my eyes for a second to block out it's bright light. As soon as my eyes shut, I found myself back in bed.

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RB, great lucid and wonderful visual descriptions! :content:

Were you surprised that the sun's light didn't taste "hot" (or at least warm)?

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Yeah, I thought it would have tasted warm, or like sunscreen or lemonade or a hot wood fire or something. I never would have guessed spinach. Where do these surprised come from? Isn't this supposed to be my dream, my imagination?

I immediately knew why it tasted like leaves, so I guess that shows the connection.

Cool dream Butler!
If I can have a LD tonight, I'll tell you what the power from a computer taste like. (or the value of money if i can't do the first one)

I think I'm gonna try eating my piano talent (I'm in grade 8 piano) and see how it feels. I just hope it won't effect the outside world...lol

I'm gonna try flying above the clouds and eating the freedom out of that :boogie: I finnaly thought something to eat last night. I'll do that as soon as I get Lucid!

Yay RB.

I did the advanced one last night:

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I then looked at the people that I was with, one of them was a girl so I jumped over to her before remembering that I hadn't done the lucid task yet. I saw a red dodgeball. Somehow I would suck the colour out of it, through this girl. So I started to suck on the girl's mouth and watched the ball turn grey. I noticed as I breathed back out the red went back so I sucked harder and didn't stop until it was completed grey. The colour didn't have any taste.

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Not sure if this counts, but it was the first time in 3 dreams that I actually got around to try a task, so... :P

(...) I look out the window to see the sunny winter day of my previous dream and indeed there are no trees, that's why the light seemed funny.
I get back inside remembering the task of the month and rush to find the book before the dreams ends. Maybe if I see the picture I can make the dream more stable, move on to someplace else. All the junk in my room is gone but I still have to move two piles of paper to find the book where I left it IRL. The marker is also were I left it, so I imediately open in the right page - and find that the picture is not there! :shock:
I should have been looking at an alien forest of well defined lines and solid greens and blues. Instead I see a picture that seems a watercolor style done in oils. It depicts a building very similar to the one on the next page but painted in vague strokes of pale grey set against an undefined background of warm golden yellow with a suggestion of autumn leaves in soft green and orange. It really has nothing to do with the rest of the book.
I wake up.

Ah, well... I'll keep trying. :content:

Wow LD! In this dream i acheived to eat or rather drink the green color out of the grass in my garden, i stuck a straw in and sucked out the color, the grass went grey and felt like thorns on my feet, i then morphed into a very small person and was about to explore the thorny vast land, waking up was miserable.