Thread: Lucid Task of the Month for September 2008

Originally Posted by Clairity

Where's Wave?

That's what I'm trying to figure out, he didn't say that he was leaving, but hasn't logged on in three days.

Hey, Ninja. I've a question. To complete an advanced task within a lucid dream, does it have to be 100 percent intentional? I assume that it does. So if someone threw me on the water and I walked for a few seconds without meaning to would it count? Or if someone/something split my conciousnees in two within my LD but I didn't do it it wouldn't count, correct?

Thanks.

It can be unintentional too, as long as you are lucid.

Oh... Cool. I did the advanced task then. Woot.

I think I may have done the advanced task, but I'm not sure.

I was several different people, all at once, and aware of their thoughts all at once. I was surprised by how NOT confusing it was. I expected to be overwelmed or something, but it was easy and clear. I could clearly follow all their thought processes at once. One was arm wrestling. One was feeling guilty about something from an earlier dream. One was waiting in line and arguing with my mother. And one was disembodied and hearing all of them. They were all me, in a way. Like aspects of my personality were in seperate bodies.

Does this count?

If you were lucid, it sounds good to me.

I was lucid. Sorry, forgot to mention that part!

I just noticed that the "Walk on Water" wings are animated and that the figure is walking on water! Very cool!

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lol, what did you think they were?

Originally Posted by ninja9578

lol, what did you think they were?

To be honest.. I just really never took a close look at it before.

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I tried for those water wings last night. I've been Lucid a lot lately, but last night was the first time I was in the right situation to try for the task. I woke up before making it to the river though.

Dammit Dammit Dammit. I had a perfect opportunity to bring my little joke of giving these out:

into reality by making them the basic badge.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Dammit Dammit Dammit. I had a perfect opportunity to bring my little joke of giving these out:

into reality by making them the basic badge.

Very cute! HAHAA!!

I stand on a large block of wood. It seems to have the grains of a wood stump, but looks like it moves as sand under my feet.
Upon an endless ocean of water in all directions, no sound aside from my internal speaking.

Clear skies, not even blue. Clear as nothing behind, not anything.

Another stump, I see across the way. Closer and closer it is coming, without moving at all.

I close my eyes in deep lucidity, fading into nothing.
I seem to look through my body upwards, all perspective changing and suddenly looking at myself coming into sight.

I am on both platforms, looking at myself. One has form - my body, the other is being felt. I can see the feeling, and feel what I am looking at.
Two of me, looking like a mirror reflecting itself.

The sand platforms starts rapidly fading and I keep looking, totally comfortable.
I feel the water sucking at me, and the wetness without a difference in temperature.

My skin breathes the water as I sink, and I am home.
I enter for a moment, then wake up.

Did the basic! The first part of my dream is really long but for some reason I was in this arcade/casino and kept losing left after right, so i ran from room to room calling myself a loser and even getting suicidal! The end is about exact opposite from gloomy as you can get.

Anyway, it's currently 3 AM over here in PA so if my DJ is illegible please let me know.

anyway, the lucid part is i get all suicidal from facing so many failures at the arcade casino so i in a fit of not caring smash my head up against a window in the casino restaurant. I look down and get ready to jump out, i say goodbye to everyone in the room. in the room i can remember about four booths, and a black couple sat at one and maybe another booth was a family. i got ready to jump but before i did i was like “You know what! maybe on the slightest chance this could all be a dream! if this was a dream, could i do THIS??” and i stuck my finger through my palm! my attitude decidedly changed at this point and i was all like “oh my god, I love you guys!” and gave one table hugs! then i decided it was time to do the task of the month for once. I turned and opened up a closet door to find a room with grey floor, grey wall tiles, and two swimming pools with a mirror on the wall to the left. i ran across the first pool trying to keep myself up on the water and then i walk on the second one. for some reason, jesus came to mind as i did this. i then was all goofy and i did a sort of dance on the swimming pool and sang toad the wet sprocket’s “walk on the ocean.” the clarity and vividness was astounding, i looked like me in the mirror on the wall. i felt great. i faced the mirror and for some reason decided to try to bring up something from my childhood fears to see in the mirror. i walk to my left more and more and see doorways expecting to see it, but don’t! the closest thing i suspect was a part of a grey shadow that wouldn’t move out of the doorway, like IT saw ME in the mirror down the hall and IT wouldn’t come out! I pointed my pistol at it and had a “c’mon out, motherfucker, c’mon out” mentality. it never did.

Hmm...I'm gonna try, but I'll have to teleport or scene-change, because my dreams never involve bodies of water (ever). This is gonna be a challenge. *cracks knuckles*

Check this for size; last night i completed the advanced task TWICE using different methods in the same LD! Woop, Woop !!

The first method i think is the single most odd method yet! But technically it is right. Ok, so i DILDed in the middle of a dream, done a few things to get my confidence up (flying etc). Then for the rest of the LD i was obsessed with trying the advanced task. I 'appeared' in a small, dark room, with a small table in the middle. Lying face up on the table was a square mirror, slightly smaller than the table. Somehow when i looked down at the mirror my full body reflection appeared. I cut the mirror in half so each half of the mirror had half of my original reflection, but my reflection (although should) didn't move. I then broke the two halves of the mirror in pieces about the size of dimes. I could still make out my reflections easily. The two halves then turned a slight different color from each other and my half reflections started moving away from each other, by means of the mirror piece moving. It looked very realistic as the reflections on the mirror also seemed to move within the mirror as well as the moving pieces. I felt this still didn't count as having yourself in two different locations, so i made my view point change (as if i was one of the reflections. I then tried to merge it with the other reflection's view point, via a split screen. However they seemed to blur into each other, but i was still able to see each point of view easy, when i wanted, (almost like the way you can change the focus of your eye to see objects further away making closer objects blurred and in your peripheral vision.) I then moved the reflections away from each other, seemingly longer than how long the table was. I reckon the reflections ended up about 20m from each other before the dream moved on .

BTW; don't ask me why i tried this method, it never occurred to me before. I just don't know lol!

Second method; As i talked for so long about the previous method, ill keep this one short . I was hiding at the opening of a large forest, in some bushes. The open was facing a small village. I suddenly seen another me walking at the edge of the village, i then shifted my view point to the 'village me'. And was able to control him, i then tried to merge the 2 view points of me together into a split screen. However the two view points merged like they did using the previous method. I moved my 2 characters about a bit, i walked the 'village me' into the village and 'forest me' into the forest. The dream then changed scene, and i completed the task, again!

Wing me ninja !!

basic task completed!

finally...

i went to my favorite beach although i had just read a book with a beach in it so it had bits from that beach in/on it.i remembered the task and walked out onto the water and looked down after about fifty feet to see crabs and lobsters crawling along the bottom and burrowing into the sand.i wanted to go swiming but i am afraid of deep water so i gradually sunk up to my waist and stayed walking around in/on the water.i was walking on a semi hard plate of water abd sunk up to my chest so i could swim easier and swam pretty far out but never lost site of land.(there is more to the dream but that's the relevant part.)

Yay !!!!
My first pair of wings !!!

Congrats More to come I hope.

Here is an unsuccessful attempt to do the basic task:

morning 9/12/08
#1 (DILD) Someone was having a dream that they were planting chocholate trees that looked a lot like pear trees as soldiers were rushing out to fight an enemy. A tornado came and destroyed everyone.
Suddenly I'm in that clearing. Then I realized that I was dreaming. When the tornado came I ran into the woods and froze time.
I lost my vision and I was trying to think of the task. At first I thought it was doing backflips, and I had the sensation of doing backflips. Then I realized that it was to walk on water, and my feet felt wet.
My left eye opened and I was on the top bunk of a bunk bed in someone else's body. I could see textured ceiling tiles as I started spinning rightward off of the bed. I knew I would eventually land on a floor covered in toys. I saw a father in the military talking to her daughter about dreams when she had to fill out a card about her dream for school. I was glad that her school payed attention to students dreams.

YAY! I was finaly able to remember the task!
I started out in my room. I did a reality check (the nose one) and it worked. I walked down the hallway and went to my elevator. I remembered the task was to walk on water, so I pressed the "beach" button. On the way down, I tried to practice my flying, but it was hard because I was in an elevator. The first time I tried, I jumped up to the ceiling, but I floated back down. The second time, I made it to the ceiling and managed to stay, but the elevator stopped and I hit the ceiling and fell back down. It hurt.

When the doors of the elevator opened, I was in the lobby of my house, not the beach. I decided that it would work mainly because I knew it would take awhile to walk to the beach. I saw a boys locker room and went in. There were a few toilet stalls and they were all flushing. I went into the third one because it was the biggest and the middle one was...used... I remembered the task was to walk on water, so I stuck my foot into the toilet. I went to the bottom. I tried slower. Still didn't work. I decided to stand on the toilet seat and start there. Then I slowly slid down into the water and I was standing on it. I rememberd the task spesifically said "walk" so I walked in a tiny circle just to make sure it counted I didn't even think about flushing myself. (I'll try that next time)

I walked out of the locker room and I was outside of my house, which was actually my house instead of a hotel/gym combo now! I remembered the second task: be in two places at once. I tried stepping in two different directions and it worked, but my visions were really blurry and I coudn't see a thing. It was cool though because I could tell I had two visions. I tried walking in different directions and it worked for like, a second, but it was too much and I woke up.

Originally Posted by shakeandbake

There were a few toilet stalls and they were all flushing. I went into the third one because it was the biggest and the middle one was...used... I remembered the task was to walk on water, so I stuck my foot into the toilet. I went to the bottom. I tried slower. Still didn't work. I decided to stand on the toilet seat and start there. Then I slowly slid down into the water and I was standing on it. I rememberd the task spesifically said "walk" so I walked in a tiny circle just to make sure it counted I didn't even think about flushing myself. (I'll try that next

LMAO!! Walking in a tiny circle on the water inside the toilet bowl.. I never would have thought of that!!

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Soooo.... I had my second decent LD last night, and i remembered the basic task first.

I was in a rural farming community in the same place where i live (which is what it was many years ago, oddly enough). I gained lucidity somehow, rubbed my hands, attempted flying, failed, climbed on some power lines, and then remembered the task. I looked around for a lake, but something always obscured my vision, and when i saw it again it disapeared. Finally i saw an irrigation canal that seemed steady enough. I climbed in, and was about ankle deep the entire time, but was still walking.

that does count, right?