Thread: Task for the Month of August 2008

Introduction:
This topic is for the Lucid Tasks that are assigned by me or voted on by experiences dreamers. Please attempt one or both of these tasks throughout the month.

Report back in this thread, even if you didn't successfully accomplish the task, your efforts should make interesting reading! This is required in order to get credit, it is no longer sufficient just to say that you did it.

Whoever completes either of these tasks gets the following goodies until the end of the month:

• Your name will be displayed in ORANGE in the online members list at the bottom of the main forum page.
  
• You will receive a special title and badge.
  
• You will receive access to the "Lucid Task Club" which is a limitted access forum for people that complete the lucid task each month.

Tasks for this month:

Basic Task - View your favourite piece of art


Advanced Task - Eat something intangible (a colour or a thought)

i dont quite understand whats required for the advanced task... i mean can you give me a few examples of something that is intangible?

:S

You have to eat something that's abstract. For example, you can pick up the ball and find a way to eat the colour out of it. Not the ball itself, or even the paint on the ball, just the colour.

I have a feeling that this will be a fascinating task to read. What the members can come up with is usually awesome, I want to watch as they wrap their heads around how to do this.

do we have to physically eat it as in chew and swallow or can we absorb it or something?

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Advanced Task - Eat something intangible (a colour or a thought)

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Now you're just screwing with our heads. This is gonna be very interesting.

Originally Posted by ray

do we have to physically eat it as in chew and swallow or can we absorb it or something?

You can absorb it somehow if you wish.

Originally Posted by Pastulio_

Now you're just screwing with our heads. This is gonna be very interesting.

Hey, it wasn't my idea. The first page is full of support for this task.

ahh ok i get it now... sounds awesome!... im gona start getting my mind set fort this task

Good to see great ideas back in the tasks =P

Maybe i could try eating emotions...or someones thoughts... ^^

EDIT:

Ive got it!

Eat the fear out of a nightmare!

me lika the thinking of dizko =D

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.

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. 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.

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! :bravo:

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! :bravo:

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 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.

Sure that would count, as long as it's some type of art.

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.

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.

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.