Thread: Task for the Month of October 2008

Originally Posted by Kyhaar

Become my halloween costume... Haha. I'm being an emo kid this year.

"The way I dress makes every day feel like Halloween!" hahahaha

Originally Posted by Shift

"The way I dress makes every day feel like Halloween!" hahahaha

Lol.

I haven't had a lucid dream in ages, but I'll try extra hard tonight. I've gotten a lot of exercise today.

Flip... So I tried the task.

I failed.

Anyway, I had great dream to waking life memory as when I realized that I was dreaming, I thought.. 'What was the task?' Then I remembered it. Then I thought, 'What am I going as for Haloween? Oh, yeah. I don't know but I'd like to be Cthutlu even if I can't.' Then I remembered a question on this thread which read, 'If we aren't going to Haloween, can we go as what we'd like to be?' The answer was yes and I remembered that.

So I figured I'd try to become a 3 mile high squidy thing. I just tried to will it into happening. The surroundings went blank. Not black or white or clear but like they were truly blank and I kind of felt myself getting big. At least, I pictured it and saw it foggily and I got kind of dizzy like I would if I was growing in size.

But it was kind of like I was just imagining it all happen within the dream. There was no feeling of concretness to it at all... Plus, I thought that I was waking up and was in the half-asleep half awake phase since I heard cars and city noises which I thought where penetrating form outside. In the place where I used to live, that would make sense. But my new residence in the Alaskan rainforest does not present these sounds, so I know that it was only an FA.

Anyway, in dream I was unaware of that and figured I'd need to become Cthutlu quick. I kind of felt my arms miles long and limp like tentacles, but the rest of me I couldn't feel. I started to see myself in that wierd, transparent half-1st half third person thing where you zoom to close into a video game character but not through them and view it as if you are inside thier body but see through it. You know?

Anyway I came so close then woke into the FA. My dream recall fails me from then on...

So close!

(I just lost the game.)

Originally Posted by spockman

But it was kind of like I was just imagining it all happen within the dream. There was no feeling of concretness to it at all... Plus, I thought that I was waking up and was in the half-asleep half awake phase since I heard cars and city noises which I thought where penetrating form outside. In the place where I used to live, that would make sense. But my new residence in the Alaskan rainforest does not present these sounds, so I know that it was only an FA.

Anyway, in dream I was unaware of that and figured I'd need to become Cthutlu quick. I kind of felt my arms miles long and limp like tentacles, but the rest of me I couldn't feel. I started to see myself in that wierd, transparent half-1st half third person thing where you zoom to close into a video game character but not through them and view it as if you are inside thier body but see through it. You know?

I know exactly what you're saying here and I think you did the costume bit.
I never tried to morph before I came in here and got it as an idea and this
is the first time I tried it. It's a hard thing to do and it does feel more like
imagining it's happening then seeing it happen. I never look down at my
body in a LD and so the only thing I could think of was, to look in a
mirror to see if I had changed. But while I was trying to morph I was sort of
like imagining it...I mean....how else can you do it?? At least you could feel
the change, I couldn't feel it or feel different....I just saw it.

I think I completed both of them. First of all I want to say that last night was a legendary night for me thanks to you guys, be proud of me because this happened because I joined here I had 9 dreams all perfectly vivid including 3 WILD , 6 non-lucid. I tried to complete tasks in 2 of my WILDs. Lets cut to the chase where I tried them. (I will tell whole night on another thread.)

I went to bed at 1.00 am. , set my alarm to 5, put my sleepmask on. I woke up(took off my sleepmask), shut the alarm then put the sleepmask on and tried to get relax. 5 min later SP began with the vibrations but they were not as violent as before.This time I didn't try to move or get out of my body but just let it go and want to start a LD, imagine pulling back to LD. Then somehow I found myself facing bed, I was hovering. Then I saw sheet patterns which made me realize I was in dream. I saw my hands. I managed to get up and walked near the window.Did an RC, simply inserting my finger to the window (This is something I got from "the Matrix", mirror scene when Neo touched, it becomes like liquid) It was hard though. I felt like I was drunk. Then all became clear instantly.I was in shock. I really didn't expect that much reality I almost felt everything. Then I flew out of window. I was flying through buildings at night. Suddenly I remembered tasks. Well I'm not celebrating Haloween but I thought I would like to wear Superman costume.(Sorry, the task is become your costume. But that doesn't change I was flying. So I was Superman)I gave my attention to that. Then in front of me lots of Superman costumes appeared. I wasn't satisfied with the colors. So I wanted to make it more vivid. Then they become more realistic.I realized I had already had one on me, cool As soon as I got one I said " Now I'm going to land and have a little chat with Jack-o-lantern. I landed but there was a surprise. My friends were waiting and they were all bored. I told them that I can teleport them whereever they like which they didn't understand of course I wasted time and woke up.

Jack-o-lantern conversation happened on my third WILD. After I woke up I had difficulty in sleeping. After 30min later SP began. Then I did exactly the same precedure. I felt more drunk this time. Everything was blurry. I stood by the window this time and tried to clarify whole scene and tried to gain balance. Then it worked. I was so happy because this time I saw the sun beams it was so real and vivid. I accelerated the process and it was afternoon. I flew up again after I saw everything was vivid and ready to go. There were no buildings. There was a huge green open field, some houses. I passed by a huge balloon. That was so fantastic because I felt the wind while flying. I remembered Jack-o-lantern. Then I saw a family having a picnic. There was Jack-o-lantern on the table. I thing I put it there by thinking. I landed.I thought that I have to erase his face first, then draw his face in order to complete the task. I don't know why I remembered the task that way. I erase and draw his face again with telekinesis (finger, Sylar style). Then I said "Hello there" (I don't know why I said it in English. This happens to me alot since joining here) It responded in a clear voice but in German. "guten.." Then I asked the women what was he saying. She said it says good afternoon. I was like " Oh, ok then how are you?" Then it said a very complicating and long thing in German. I decided to take off since I made that conversation. Because I was not going to understand it anyway. It wanted to speak in German I flew again observing the ground. Then landed beside a house with a pool. There were children. I woke up.

I finally completed the basic task...I think.

I walked along the road looking for a jack-o-lanturn and found a house with a lot of fall decorations. I saw some pumkins and finally a jack-o-lanturn. He was tall and skinny with extra holes cut beside his eyes. His mouth was wide open and some gourds or something were shoved behind his eyes and the extra holes. It looked really cool. I picked him up and introduced myself. He said hello and something else that I can't remember. I asked him what his name was, but he was a normal jack-o-lanturn.

Basically, I said hi, he said something, and that was it.

Doesn't say you have to have a good conversation with it

I have competed the basic task; I will just jump into to the part of the dream where I completed it.

When I first found the patch of pumpkins on a hill they wouldn't talk. I crossed my arms over my chest and told them I knew they could talk because this was my dream and I gave them the power to do so. After that about 10 of them erupted into talking with one another. I focused on a group of three arguing. The little one of the group was arguing with the mom pumpkin about taking something out so it could be thawed to be sliced. I was waiting to ask them what they were talking about, but could not get in a word. So I turned to a pumpkin near by the group and asked it if the three always argued like that and what they were arguing about, but before it could answer the third pumpkin of the group turned to me and told me that yes they were always arguing and that they were arguing about taking out a pizza. I said oh and thank you to him for answering me. That is when I remembered something else I wanted to do in the dream while lucid and did not want to waste any mote time with arguing pumpkins lol.

Just a question if I am not going to dress up on Halloween can I just be anything I want to in the dream to complete the task?

D.G.

Finally after 2 1/2 weeks of trying I had two lucid dreams in one night and they didn't fade after 10 seconds! It's late in the month, but I still actually managed it . I didn't think I would be able to get enough control by the end of the month, but last night was just amazing!

The lucid part is green, and the part that matters for the challenges is blue

Talking to a Jack-o-lantern

Originally Posted by John11's Dream Journal

I was skydiving from a plane. I think we jumped out from 90,000 ft (lol). I got shot twice just as I jumped out of the plane. Luckily there was a medic jumping out with us and he was able to tend to my wounds while we feel since we were so high up. He said I was to pull my parachute cord once we reached an altitude of 2,500 ft. I don't know how I knew when we were at 2,500 ft, but I did. We were parachuting directly into some city. There were tall buildings all around when I pulled my parachute. I was worried it might catch a gust and throw me into one of them. Luckily the wind blew me away from the tall skyscrapers. It was around sunset and it was quite beautiful. I was falling slowly toward another skyscraper off in the distance. I thought that it felt like flying in a dream.

This caused me to realize that it was a dream, and woke me up, but I DEILD'd back into the dream. I was trying to picture a suburban neighborhood at night with a house surrounded by a brick wall with a jack-o-lantern on it, but instead I found myself in a city alley looking onto a street filled with people lying on the ground literally covering the entire street (I think they might have been dead ). It was bright out.

I tried to convince myself that if I turned around there would be a jack-o-lantern behind me. That didn't work, I just saw a wall blocking the alley. I tried again by turning back toward the street with the people on it, and this time one of the people lying in the street near the alley had a jack-o-lantern for a head. I said, "Hi! I'm John." It responded "Hi. I'm a pumpkin." with much less entusiasm than I had. I wasn't entirely content with this, but I thought it was good enough and I'd go and do something else.

I turned around again to find the alley had opened up a bit and there was a guy there that was wearing a burlap sack as a mask over his head like that guy in the beginning of The Dark Knight. He calls himself The Pumpkin. He needs me to get him something but I don't recall what now. I thought about trying to leave, but I decide to go with the flow of the dream to try and keep the LD longer. I recall asking him a question to see how he'd respond, but I don't recall the question or the answer. However, I do remember that the answer had gibberish in it which I found amusing. At some point this masked man became this other DC. This new guy had short blond (almost white) hair with two short horns coming out of his head. He looked quite evil.

Somehow I find myself on a bridge. It's night now. There's a guy hung by the neck from the bridge. He was part of a dream I had earlier. He had been a detective for the city? He wasn't doing a good job though, and they ended up hanging him for it. I was playing around with the rope and swinging him back and forth for some reason. Kif from futurama was there next to me. He was explaining what I needed to do. I recall that it seemed like sensible information and I tried asking him some questions, but I don't recall the questions or the answers. There were two other DCs there as well.

I know I have a goal now of somewhere to go, but I don't recall where. The fastest was there was to jump off the bridge down into a park area below. It was fun to jump off the bridge and fall a few stories and land like it's nothing. It felt cool and it started waking me up. Once I realized I was starting to wake up, I got down on my knees and started licking the ground (some one on DV said it worked for him). It did end up working it made everything much more clear.

I decided since I was down there on the ground I should look at it in more detail. I looked at it and it looked like a simple 8 bit graphic repeated over and over. When I was looking at it closely, it wouldn't stop shifting back and forth. I tried to get it to stay still, but then I could feel my eyes shifting in my head and that woke me up.

When I woke up and recorded that I was mad at myself for not thinking about the costume challenge, but luckily I got another chance later that morning.

Becoming My Costume (It would be Mario if I were dressing up. I've always wanted to dress up as Mario.)

Originally Posted by John11's Dream Journal

I had a dream here.

At this point the dream fades, and think I hear R outside my front door. He is talking to someone and he sounds drunk. I assume that means he decided to come to my apartment instead of going back to his sisters place so he wouldn't disturb them. I decide I'm going to get up and let him in, but then I hear him walking around the apartment and knocking on my bedroom window. He was saying, "hey John, let me in." I tried to get up, but I was in sleep paralysis and I couldn't get up. I felt bad that I couldn't let R in. I tried to move my foot a bit and that worked, but I couldn't get any further than that. Then it occurred to me that maybe I'm having auditory hallucinations since I'm in sleep paralysis and all. I decide to not worry about it and if it R really is there he'll knock again anyway and maybe that will wake me up.

I decide that since I'm in sleep paralysis I might as well try to LD. I try the rolling out of bed technique, but I still just feel the sleep paralysis. Then it gives way a bit and I feel that I'm at the edge of my bed now. I figured I failed and then thought if I should just get up and record these dreams I had.

I decided to get up and record my dreams I had had. I went over to hit record on my laptop to record my dream, but I found that it had already been recording. It was around 8 minutes. I stopped it and saved it. I was about to press record again, but then I noticed that my brother B was in the room sleeping on the floor. I couldn't tell if it was him since it was dark. I said, "B?" He said "yeah?" I was like "When did you get here?" He was like "What? What do you mean?" I tried to recall how he got here, but I just couldn't.

My Mom then comes in the room. I ask her how they got here, and she says, "What do you mean? We came in the middle of the night." I said, "I'm sorry. I'm just having really bad dream recall tonight I'm barely remembering any dreams. I guess I had forgotten I let you guys in." My brother said, "You know, I had a dream with you in it last night." I said, "Hey! I had a dream with you in it last night too! You and E and T and I were at a restaurant." He said, "Well my dream wasn't anything like that." Then E enters the room. I think to myself now that this has to be a dream. I try to move my hands to look at them, but I can't and I start waking up.

I don't completely wake up and I try to reform the dream. I want to complete the other part of the monthly challenge, so I try to imagine myself as Mario. The beginning of Mario 1 began to form. I was Mario with a fire flower. I saw the world as you would a video game, but I was definitely Mario. I saw a goomba up ahead and I tried to throw a fireball and it worked! I then jumped over that first pipe and the level wasn't like the first level any more. I tried moving my hands and my head and I could. There were sprite animations for whatever I wanted to do. I jumped on two more goombas, and jumped around a bit more, but then I woke up.

I'd like to defend myself if anyone should think this shouldn't count since it was in 3rd person. Let me say that in the dream it never even occurred to me that it was in 3rd person. I didn't realize that until I was awake. It felt like I actually was Mario. My explanation for why it was in 3rd person would be that is how I would have to perceive Mario visualizing his 2d world if he were to be able to function in it.

I did it!!!!!!.... It wasn't much but converse I did!

I had trouble getting to sleep and i was super tired in the AM.. finally i recieved some vibrations which put me in a state of sleep paralysis to lucidity.. once i opened my eyes i had my eye mask on my face and I could not get it off. I rolled onto the floor and I took the advice i recieved on here a couple days ago and pretended it did not exist and felt my way around my dream room till it became transparent then see through and I am standing in my room. i decide it is time to play around with powers, not something i do much.

I have a glass door to a balcony by my bed, I visualize myself going through it because it is non-existant and bash my head against the glass, but realize my hand is sticking right through the glass! I see my girlfriends puppy on the floor, his fur being darker than usual. i pick him up and throw him through the glass he goes right through it and runs inside back to my feet I see he peed himself haha.. (poor fellow pees when he gets excited) but I figure he was scared!. I stop trying to get through the door as i remember reading in a thread here I should give up befor I lose lucidity.. I go downstairs see my mom and feel the urge to tell her I love her. I don't do that enough. Then I decided to start spinning. not cool - i have never done this before and once i started i lost control i couldnt stop till everything went black. I fight to keep my dream eyes open and try to picture a place i want to be in but realize I am in my bed with that stupid eye mask on my face again and I can't tear it off.

As I try to ignore it I lift up my blankets and it was as if my head was under the covers cause I see my mom lying beside me and the mask turns transparent again!

I get up and Open my balcony visualizing warm air outside because I am naked. the air was cool but I sucked it up as i jumped off and began to fly to god knows where. ( I should probably think of somewhere next time).

I land outside in umfamiliar surrounding with a DC , or a real friend i can't rememebr which one and I start messing around. I remembered how i wanted to find a magic wand so it could do w/e I wanted for me, but instead I used visualization and my thoughts to create a wand.. Except unfortunatly for me it was not a genuine wand made from animal hair like the kind i expected to find from HP but rather a piece of cardboard being black and white and extremely short and vulnerable.

Remembering the task of the month i pointed my want at the sidewalk and visualized a Jack-O-lantern. I soon realized it was not the wand but my concentration that was doing the work. A small pumpkin with a face carved appeared.. it was about the size of 2 fists.
I then pointed it again and concentrated on making it bigger. It got to the size of a melon. still pretty small. With another flick of the wand I light a fire inside the Jack-O-lantern and was ready to ask a question.
I then asked the same question I saw someone on here ask their pumpkin which was "What should I be for Halloween"

The answer i got was so trippy/confusing and was something along the lines of: "There is a difference between what you want to be an what you will be but only you know what you will be so what do you want to be?"
I was so dumfounded I turned to my DC like are you hearing this?

Knowing that I completed my task I forgot about the pumpkin and went on to mess around with my wand some more visualizing and creating things until my dream faded, I dont remember how it ended.

I never thought I'd compelte a task!! I did it!