Thread: Lucid Task of the Month for September 2008

i walked on water once but i dont think i was lucid, i was looking at dolphins and noticed i was in the middle of the ocean then walk up... does it still count?

sorry typo woke* up.

it think i may be spamming but i don't quite get the advanced task, can we be rapidly going from one place to another?

No, you actually have to be in two places at the same time. I used sort of like a splitscreen view of a computer game to do it.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

No, you actually have to be in two places at the same time. I used sort of like a splitscreen view of a computer game to do it.

Yep thats basically what i did.

(1 page back incase ya missed it ^^)

Interesting take on the 'two places at once' task, supreme.

And the running on water reminds me of that kid from The Incredibles. Sounds exhilirating.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

No, you actually have to be in two places at the same time. I used sort of like a splitscreen view of a computer game to do it.

do i get credit fo the other dream or does it have to be on purpose?

Originally Posted by guitarboy

do i get credit fo the other dream or does it have to be on purpose?

It has to be Lucid, and you had to have had the dream this month. Past months don't count.

Originally Posted by Snowy Egypt

It has to be Lucid, and you had to have had the dream this month. Past months don't count.

k ill try to remember tonight but i wanted to go walk on the water on the picture at the top of the screen, where it says dream views staying up all night

That's an awesome idea!!! I should put that on my list of things to do!!

Originally Posted by Robot_Butler

Interesting take on the 'two places at once' task, supreme.

And the running on water reminds me of that kid from The Incredibles. Sounds exhilirating.

I know! lol and as i said i didn't even read the posts in here till after I did
them, so I didn't know where everyone else was going with that meaning!
I always had in mind to try and stand on the border of Canada and the US
lol because that's the way I saw the task to be asking for. But when I
finally had the LD last night I thought of the other thing while in the dream,
and thought how much easier it would be. I find that to think of what I might
do for the task before I LD, is almost useless to me because I always come
up with something totally different while in the dream. Thats another
reason why I wont read the thread until I try the tasks.....it keeps me
thinking freely while I'm in it. God knows what I might have done if I had
known the way everyone in here was going with that task. lol Now I
wonder if I could actually split myself in two, myself. That seems pretty
hard. I'm so glad my interpretation was excepted though, and that I get
my name in orange for 4 days!! YAY!! The running came easy
also, I always seem to want to do everything too fast. Tonight, if I LD
again, if I ever get to sleep, I'm definitely going to find out this time
if I'm actually getting wet in the water.....I've never noticed yet....I
just know I'm in the water and I don't pay close attention to the little
details enough.

I finally did the Basic Task, last night.

Dream was hella long so, I'll just post the second half. I'll bold the part where I'm doing the task, in case you just want to skip to that.

(I got up out of bed and came to the computer, jotted down some notes from the dream and browsed DV for about 15 minutes. I made sure to check out what the Tasks of the Month were, because I'd planned on trying a WBTB. I didn't really want to enter the same dream, but just wanted to focus on recognizing the dream state. I was thrown right back into the previous dream environment, though.)

Dream One (b):
I was back in the mansion. This time we were all in a very large auditorium, somewhere in the house. The whole place was packed with people, and the place was abuzz like there was some huge show about to start, but it just hadn't begun yet. Sooner or later, we learned of an alarm that ran through the whole mansion that would sound when something crazy was about to happen. (For those of you who have seen Silent Hill, it's like the loud air raid siren that warned the town whenever the ghosts were coming.) The place broke into a subtle panic, and people began streaming toward the exits. Plenty of other people just stayed behind, though, not really worried about it. I talked to JD for a moment and he said they were all going down to the "catacombs" beneath the building, which I guess was standard procedure whenever this alarm goes off. I told him I'd be staying behind. I can't remember why.

Talking to JD and picturing all of the people seeking shelter when the ghosts came reminded me of how everyone had disappeared, in my previous dream, and made me figure that that's where everyone had went. Remembering the previous dream brought me to lucidity. I sat down in one of the seats, near the high, rear exits of the room, and started having a conversation with some heavy-set girl about lucidity. After a while, we fooled around under a blanket that she happened to have with her, while all the other people just kind of hung out and did their own thing.

Later, I was roaming through the hallways again, expecting the shit to hit the fan, and this place to become over-run with monsters again. It didn't seem like it was going to happen, though. There were other people just wandering the halls, too, but nobody seemed the least bit aware that there were supposed to be creatures causing havoc around here. Continuing to walk about aimlessly, I came upon two fountains in the hallway. I suddenly remembered that I'd read the Tasks, and the basic one was to walk on water. I stepped up onto the edge of the fountain and took a step forward, trying to keep myself up, mentally. The first step I took sank into the surface a bit, but never actually got wet. I was able to keep myself elevated and pulled the leg back out, standing on top of the surface. I started walking across it, and it felt like walking on a water bed. I felt that I had to really focus to keep myself from falling in. I remember looking down and seeing an eel swimming under my feet. When I jumped down from the other side of the fountain, I went up onto the other one and walked across it as well. I never was able to remember the advanced task, though.

Shortly after this, word began getting around that the all doors to the mansion had been locked. People slowly began to panic. I had a feeling that this meant things were about to get nuts, and it would be just like the first time. Even though I was lucid, this wasn't a very appealing thought to me. (Heh.) I tried to text JD, on my phone, but had a really hard time seeing the screen and the characters. I suppose I could have tried to fix it with visualization, but not only did I not think of it, but I felt I was in a rather low level of lucidity. Eventually, I got a hold of him, and he said he was down in the catacombs. I didn't know if I wanted to travel down through all of that shit, alone, to find them. Even though the doors locked themselves, though, nothing really happened. People slowly calmed down. The doors opened, and things began returning to normal. For some reason, many of us stayed to hang out around the mansion. A few of my friends an I were hanging around out in the same back yard. The only difference was that the road where the motorcycle had fallen, was now a set of train tracks. I didn't notice this until a train suddenly came rolling out between us and the mansion. It was an old, ragged, un-kept train, and the locomotive stopped directly behind the glass, overhung doors of the mansion, and sat there for a moment. Then, all at once, a chorus of clothed, dated spirits streamed out of the train, hooking through the air and launching themselves into the mansion, just sinking in through the walls. Immediately, I figured that this was the beginning of the first monster attack on the mansion that I'd experienced, and the ghosts had been responsible for the monsters we encountered (as if my adventure had actually taken me back through time - in the dream - but I don't know if that's actually the case).

While watching the ghosts fire themselves into the mansion, the dream began unraveling and I woke up.

i ran on water. i coulddnt remember alot of the dream but i was standing near the pool at a beach club i go to, then i stepped in. i only remember that before i became lucid, i was dreaming about this forum lol. but i ran across the water trying to think it wasn;t there, and it was ground but half way through i woke up

im also having trouble with my dreams. in the last one, i thought it would last longer but it felt like it lasted a couple seconds, only enough time to run halfway, why did i wake up? i wanted to fly

You were probably either too exited, or the dream wasn't stable enough. Next time try rubbing your hands together. That's always a good way to stay in dreams longer.

I'm lying in bed and begin to enter sleep paralysis. I feel several waves of vibrations through my arms and I faintly see swirling colors appearing out of the darkness. I can just barely hear a whispering voice to my right, but I can't tell what it's saying. I know the voice isn't real, so I just relax and enjoy the ride.

As the darkness melts away, I find myself in my own bed, but it's now daytime. I find my reaction a bit sluggish and my vision distorted and realize I'm dreaming.

As I get up out of bed, I immediately see that I'm also sitting on the floor on the other side of the room. I go over to the "other me" and say "Hey, this is a hell of a dream, huh?"

My perspective changes, and I (the other me) nod my head and lay down on the floor.

My viewpoint changes back, and I (the first me) look away, then when I look back I see that my other instance has changed into a disembodied torso, then in front of my eyes it changes again into a jug with a spout. I pick up the jug and carry it downstairs, where I arrive in my childhood home.

I walk into the kitchen and see a woman I don't recognize. I ask her who she is, but I don't remember what she said if anything.

I leave the kitchen, then turn around and head back in to see if anybody else has appeared, and on the counter I see a disembodied woman's head in a glass pan, and she's eating Jello. I take a closer look at her and see that she has a beard. I ask her where the rest of her body is; she responds that she doesn't know.

I walk into the living room where my mother and sister are sitting on the couch. I hand the jug to my sister; she drinks from it and her eyes disappear. I stand in front of her looking at her now eyeless face, then I wake up.

Originally Posted by Snowy Egypt

It has to be Lucid, and you had to have had the dream this month. Past months don't count.

Originally Posted by Snowy Egypt

You were probably either too exited, or the dream wasn't stable enough. Next time try rubbing your hands together. That's always a good way to stay in dreams longer.

i wasnt excited at all, ive been having lucid dreams a long time and i just thought everyone had them. ill try rubbing my hands together tonight, and spinning, another thing i read. i dont think that ill be able to spin to, my mind wanders alot during dreams.
for instance, i waas having this dream and i had powers, but then i remember the tasks. then i forgot about them again and i was a vampirei wasnt lucid then so it changed to somethin i dont remember then i woke up

Originally Posted by guitarboy

i wasnt excited at all, ive been having lucid dreams a long time and i just thought everyone had them. ill try rubbing my hands together tonight, and spinning, another thing i read. i dont think that ill be able to spin to, my mind wanders alot during dreams.
for instance, i waas having this dream and i had powers, but then i remember the tasks. then i forgot about them again and i was a vampirei wasnt lucid then so it changed to somethin i dont remember then i woke up

Keep in mind: Spinning is good for changing the scene and destabilizing the dream. Only spin if you want to get out of the scene that you are already in.

To stay in the dream longer, trying interacting with some of your surroundings, through touch. Rub your hands together, stare at them, brush them along the walls. This should ground you into the dream a little more. And, above all else, try not to think about waking up, only staying in the dream.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

It is, it's a thanksgiving movie, tell him everyone

Too many people got the advanced task so I had to choose something hard. Actually, this has been on my list of things to do for almost a year now, but never got around to it. I have a pretty good idea for how I'm going to do it though.

well the month is coming to a close, i give up

ooo oooo lets do something halloweeny for the next one

If you get this one, you can be in the lucid task club and vote for the next one.
(it's pretty late now and the polls might be closed, maybe next month)

Originally Posted by Mr. Pig

If you get this one, you can be in the lucid task club and vote for the next one.
(it's pretty late now and the polls might be closed, maybe next month)

ii did do the basic task but i never got my wingies

did i do something wrong, my wings never came. anyway is it still open? im attempting it again tonight.

Who cares if there is barely any time left to do the task, I might be the last one. ^_^

Anyway, this is taken from my dream journal. You might want to visit, it's fairly interesting.

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To Think I was in Art Class...

Oy vey, did I do the task?

Sorry, but in this dream, it wouldn't let me hi-lite my lucid part Medium Turquoise for some reason, so please bear with me.

Anyway, I started out in the art class at school. I realized I shouldn't be at school (I'm currently in a hospital, recovering) so I realized I was dreaming! Instantly! I decided to run out the door to see what the world would offer me. As I ran out, I said bye to my art teacher. But then, she's like, "bye, Rebecca!" Gee Willickers, my name isn't Rebecca.

Anyway, I just happened to think about the basic task as I walked out the door. I decided to do it, as there was water in a pond to the left of the football field. We recently had pretty big storms here, so it's kind of a drainage thing.

I started out at the edge, and kept stepping forward. First step, already down. I decided to get back up and start again. Second attempt was better, three steps, but then I fell in (be in mind that the water was about six feet deep)

Then, I realized that the pond had become a pool. I decided to try again. I was much more successful this time, getting about halfway across, but then messed up.

Then, the whole football field turned into a water park and nobody was there. Now, I took about three more attempts, but when I fell in (around the middle) I had to go through the whole water park and start over. My dream ended around the time when I fell in and I was climbing back up.

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So did I do the task?

(Sorry, I didn't put it in quote tags because I didn't feel like it. )