Thread: Task for the Month of August 2008

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

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

wtf? That's hilarious

I laughed much too hard at that. Thank you.

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.

That was cool Lumi

Originally Posted by ninja9578

That was cool Lumi

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
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!

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!

Said perfectly.

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

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.

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.

RB, great lucid and wonderful visual descriptions!

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 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:

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.

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

(...) 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!
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.

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.