Thread: Task for the Month of August 2008

Originally Posted by JET73L

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?

I considered viewing a piece of music. Yes, viewing, which is possible in dreams.

Originally Posted by AlexLou

I considered viewing a piece of music. Yes, viewing, which is possible in dreams.

Watching music rocks. I do it all the time. Conscious.
Thanks, Ninja. That was helpful advice.

Originally Posted by AlexLou

I considered viewing a piece of music. Yes, viewing, which is possible in dreams.

I would imagine it looks like those visualizations in Windows Media Player...what exactly does "music" look like?

Viewing music sounds cool. I think I'll try to view my favorite song, and then eat it.

I attempted the advanced task last night. I'm not sure if it counts. I ended up inhaling particles of greenish yellow light. I was trying to suck the color off the green leaf of a plant. And the colored light particles rose from the leaf as I was breathing it in.

I'll post the dream later tonight when I have time to record it.

Adavanced task completed.


...I pulled out a straw, and aimed it at the sky. I started to drink the blueness of the sky, and as i did, some clouds were sucked down through the straw, it was like i was drinking lumpy milkshake, haha.

Glad i finally got it ^^

Dizko, that's cool.

Caradon, post your dream, I'll count the green from a plant

Originally Posted by Dizko

...I pulled out a straw, and aimed it at the sky. I started to drink the blueness of the sky, and as i did, some clouds were sucked down through the straw, it was like i was drinking lumpy milkshake, haha.

LOL!! Great dream!

That is pretty cool Dizko! I don't think I could have done that.

OK, here is my dream from last night.


Advanced Lucid task completed

The first thing I remember well is that I was riding a train. Something doesn't feel right about the train to me. I have the feeling there is something wrong with the train and it will derail. Because it doesn't seem to be riding smoothly on the tracks. I decide I will jump off the train before it crashes.

I don't remember actually jumping off but I'm now on the side of the tracks, which is actually on a train bridge. I'm watching the train as it rides away, and I can see that a couple of the cars in the rear, are not connected properly to the rails. The train gets past the bridge, and then the cars all begin to derail and are piling up on each other, creating big mess. The engine goes off the tracks too, but does not stop. The driver can't stop the trains momentum, and the train goes tearing across the countryside pulling a few of the remaining cars behind it. Destroying a few structures as it plows through them.

I begin walking back the way I had come. the bridge is pretty high up and I'm trying to decide how to get down when I think."Since this is a dream I can just jump down." It's kind of strange. It's like I knew it was a dream the entire time, but I just now fully comprehended it.

I leap off the bridge, and near by is a telephone pole with a metal cable connected to the side of it, and attached to the ground for support. So it's at an angle. I land on my feet on this cable. The cable bends downward in the middle where I landed on it.
Then it springs taught again launching me high into the air. I rise above tress and houses and I can see fluffy white clouds in the sky. I also see many power-lines around me, but none hinder me in anyway.

I'm thrilled by this, and I do a back flip as I fall back down and land again on the wire, letting it spring me back into the air like I'm on a trampoline. I spend some time doing this over and over, and I'm practicing my back flips, trying to get the right tuck and form. (Like it matters in a dream lol.) At one point my foot hits an over hanging tree branch as I'm spinning like a ball.

Eventually I land on the ground. I'm on a dirt trail surrounded by trees and green vegetation. It's not a forest exactly though. There are houses near by. I see a small white dog just standing in the middle of the trail staring at me. I look at it for a moment, then begin walking. I now think about doing one of my personal tasks, but I then remember the Lucid task of the month. I wanted to try eating a color.

I look to the ground and see a small green plant with a few leaves, about the size and shape of a spinach leaf. I get on my hands and knees and lean over the plant, focusing on one leaf in particular. As with everything in this dream, the leaf is so detailed it's amazing. Part of one edge of the leaf has even turned a little yellow.

I want to try and make the green color come off the leaf and into my mouth. I open my mouth and gently and slowly inhale trying to will the color to flow off the leaf to me. The leaf itself begins to kind of stretch in my direction, and I notice small greenish yellow light particles rise from the leaf in a swirl and come towards me.

I breath them in, there is no taste or texture at all. And the leaf is still sitting there just as green as ever. That's not exactly what I had intended, so, feeling like I had failed the task, I get up and continue walking. Then, thinking of what to try next I wake.

omg i just found this thread!! This is gonna be easy!! I dont know
what my fav art is but maybe my LD will tell me. I know what im going to
try and eat already!

Originally Posted by Dizko

Adavanced task completed.


...I pulled out a straw, and aimed it at the sky. I started to drink the blueness of the sky, and as i did, some clouds were sucked down through the straw, it was like i was drinking lumpy milkshake, haha.

Glad i finally got it ^^

Awwwwwwwwwww I was going to try and eat a cloud!

I did the basic task! Finally got around to actually recording it...

8/2

Basic Task August

I was walking around the house, which was empty. I remembered the basic task while I was in the living room. There's an old painting that hangs over our couch which I've loved since I was a kid. The last time we moved, someone punched a hole in it about the size of my fist, and my dad's been too lazy to fix it ever since. I looked at it, and it changed into a TV screen, playing a commercial for McDonald's. WTF? I turned around to view a very pretty watercolor of a castle in Germany, but it also turned into a TV screen and started playing commercials.

Hmm... I've always wanted to try one of these... If I ever have another LD I'll try the advanced task. I think I'll try eating the seven sins...

Ok, I've been kinda slacking for a week or so but today I had a very weird lucid with many false awakenings. I believe I managed to get the advanced task through all the madness.
Long story short, I'll start by saying I was waking up within the dream and believing that it was reality, then I would lay back down and try successfully to accomplish lucid dreams (within the dream).
A dog finally told me that I was dreaming the entire time, and thats when I relised I was in fact dreaming everything, even the muliple times I thought I was waking from a lucid. I asked him if he was my dream guide and he said "no not really, but kinda".

Anyway, onto the advanced task. As I was thinking about the task, that same dog handed me a cup with water in it. I immediately saw a colorfull design on the cup, I then grabed with my thumb and index finger a sliver of pink design right from the cup. I held it for a second and it was kind of driping off my fingers so I put in my mouth before it disapeared. It then felt like I was eating a powdered doughnut. I was kinda pissed because I'd just eaten a powdered doughnut before laying down and I was hoping to get some weird flavor or experiance, instead it was very normal.

This dream today opened my eyes to a whole different level of dreaming that I'd not experianced until now. After thinking about everything that happened, it was very cool even with the false awakenings. In fact, thats what made the dream so unique.

Why isn't there a graphic in the gold wings - oh, wait, I get it. Anyway, why do I still have silver wings?

Advanced Task Completed...

I realised I was dreaming at home (or what was home in the dream). There was a huge bowl of grated cheese on the dining table and because I love cheese, I decided to eat it. I scooped loads of it up in both hands, but then I remembered the advanced task, so I decided to eat the colour of it. I didn't really eat it, more absorbed it. I put my face over the cheese and took a deep breath inwards. The colour of the cheese started to change and when I had finished, it was grey instead of orange.

After this, I carried on with my LD. Towards the end of it I thought about teleporting to somewhere. I closed my eyes to do it. It resulted in me having a false awakening lol

Originally Posted by AlexLou

Why isn't there a graphic in the gold wings - oh, wait, I get it.

Anyway, why do I still have silver wings?

Not sure, I'll get it fixed.

This'll be fun! I don't really have a favorite piece of art, so I'll try to create something awesome, and then eat the beauty out of it or something like that .

I hope I can get it. If not, I'll just have to try next months.

I did the art one. I have this really pretty landscape in my room, and I had a false awakening and looked at it closely, if that counts.

I believe I completed the advanced task.

I had a DILD and I found a red ball on the ground. I picked it up and held it a few inches from my face. I then stared at it with my mouth wide open, and a spirally stream of color came from the ball to my mouth, creating the tip of a funnel at my lips. (Much like a Dementor's Kiss, like I was planning). And soon I was holding a completely translucent sphere in my arms. I stared for a moment, then kicked it off into the sunset, smashing the sun to pieces as it hit.

I then woke up, very satisfied.

Originally Posted by Scarhand

I believe I completed the advanced task.

I had a DILD and I found a red ball on the ground. I picked it up and held it a few inches from my face. I then stared at it with my mouth wide open, and a spirally stream of color came from the ball to my mouth, creating the tip of a funnel at my lips. (Much like a Dementor's Kiss, like I was planning). And soon I was holding a completely translucent sphere in my arms. I stared for a moment, then kicked it off into the sunset, smashing the sun to pieces as it hit.

I then woke up, very satisfied.

What did "red" taste like for you?

Originally Posted by mini0991

What did "red" taste like for you?

Hard to say. It didn't have an actual taste, it just felt like rubber in my mouth mixed with a ton of water. The ball felt VERY odd after it was clear. It felt like an orb of water. It was great.

I think I imagined tasting rubber since the ball was rubber.

Wow! I just came up with about 20 things that would be easy to eat including the reflection off a mirror, the power from some electronic, and someone's sence of hearing, and some hard ones like the value of a dollar, and...i forget now.

I haven't LD'd with intent in a long time...I wonder if I can still wrestle up conscious memory of the real world in my dream long enough to eat a thought.