Thread: Task for the Month of October 2008

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

Originally Posted by ninja9578

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

Yea like mine, all he said was "nooooooooooooooooooooooo!" lmao. What a jerk.

ninja, have I completed them ?

I got it, just gotta wait for it to take effect.

Oh, ok thank you very much then

As this is the first monthly task I've attempted, my first problem was to remember to think about it when I LD'd. After forgetting a couple of times I finally clicked this morning. The start of the dream is a littly hazy, but I followed something into the ocean and then tried to get back up onto the dock. I couldn't find anything to put my foot on to get up so I tried putting my head under the water to look for something to help me up. Everything under water was illuminated and clear. This tipped me off to the fact that I was dreaming so I double checked this by taking a deep breath of water. Now convinced that I was asleep I gave up on climbing out of the water and took the simpler option of flying back up on to the dock. Once there I remembered I had to look for a Jack-O-Lantern. As there weren't any around and I find conjuring things to be a bit of a challenge I took the opportunity to try closing my eyes and spinning, a technique I first read of just recently when I signed up here. So I closed my eyes, pictured a room that was completely empty except for a Jack-O-Lantern and then spun around a couple of times. Unfortunately, when I opened them again I was laying awake in bed, or so I thought. I didn't remember to do an RC and was duped by a false awakening. I just carried on into a non-lucid dream after that and then everything fades to obscurity.

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.

Advanced Task DONE!!!

Okay, so I haven't really decided what I want to be for Halloween yet. I'm deciding between what I became in the dream and an idea my friend pitched to me.

So, a little background: In this dream I became Sarah Connor from the Terminator movies, specifically Terminator 2. If you haven't seen them, Sarah Connor is a woman who (in the second one) protects her son, John (who, in the future, will save the planet from the machines) from a machine called a Terminator, whose only goal is to kill him. So...to the task!

I have a WILD, and I find myself in my brother's bedroom in my old house. I immediatly notice that I'm dreaming, and do a nose RC just to make sure. I mull over the tasks for this month, and decide that the Advanced will be easier (despite its name) because I had already done that successfully a couple of years ago. I decided that the easiest way to become my costume will be to go through a wall or a mirror. There was a desk in the corner of the room, and I found a small piece of jagged metal sitting on it. I carved in the wall above the desk, "Terminator 2 Sarah Connor." I took a deep breath and climbed over the desk through the wall. There was a moment of disorientation, and then I found myself in front of the desk again.

However, I barely had time to take a breath before everything changed before my eyes. A darkness crept over the room, as if it had just become twilight, or it was about to storm. There was a pervading silence, and I felt that my idea had worked. I looked down to examine my clothes. I was wearing a black tank top, black boots, and black cargo pants. Attached to my belt were several grenades, and some extra ammo for the pistol that lay on the floor next to me. I picked it up, but as I stood, a helicopter crashed into the room, and a terminator stepped out. (He was wearing a police uniform, but he didn't look like the guy from the movie. He looked like my 5th grade DARE officer) He started to come toward me, and raised a pistol. I shot at him, backing toward the door. He wasn't slowing down, so I threw a grenade at his feet. As he bent to pick it up, I sprinted out the doorway and down the stairs. When I reached the hall, a loud explosion sounded overhead.

I figured I had bought myself enough time to look for John. I screamed, "John! John! Come on, we have to get the hell out of here!" I moved to the other set of stairs (it's a 3 story house) and John ran toward me from the living room. I grabbed his arm and pulled him down the stairs.

I could hear the Terminator's metal footsteps echoing as he thudded down the stairs above. John and I burst through the front door to find a car crashed into a tree, just a few feet from where we stood. John hopped in the passenger side and I ran around to the driver's. The key was in the ignition, so I jammed the car into reverse and skidded out of my ad hoc parking spot. I put it into drive and zoomed down the driveway. It was barely a second before another car crashed into the passenger side. This is where I woke up.

I think that meets the burden of proof!

Ok, I just had a DILD that I was in the library with my sister. I realized it was a dream, and we'd been joking around so in that crazy I-just-became-lucid! state I started tickling her. Then I started waking up because things were getting crazy, so I told myself to calm down and think of my goals. I immediately remembered the task of the month. She and I walked across the room looking for pumpkins, but there were none. So I said, "Ok ok ok, this is gonna be the coolest trick you've ever seen. Ready? On the count of three, I'm going to look away, and there are going to be jackolanters everywhere! She start laughing, and I counted to three, and when I looked back she didn't have a head anymore, but had a jackolantern there instead. There were jackolanterns all over the library, some real and some that looked like they were real but were 2d, and up on the walls. So I started talking to her new jackolantern face. It didn't have her voice at first, it just kept saying "Wow! Huh! Wow, look at this!" in a gruff, deep kind of voice, and when I started asking it what I should be for Halloween, it turned into my sister's voice, and she started chiding me (as a jackolantern) for not having figured that out yet. So I went to try to talk to the other jackolanterns, on the walls and tables, and I'd walk up and say, "Hey, how's it going?" to which they'd reply, "NOPE!" and then become mute. What a bunch of jerks!

Next time... next time I get lucid, I'm going to start singing to them about Halloween like in the Nightmare Before Christmas. I'm sure they'll join in.

Yayyyyyy I've got a flying pumpkin!! Here's to my first complete Task of the Month! With many more to follow!!

Originally Posted by Shift

Yayyyyyy I've got a flying pumpkin!! Here's to my first complete Task of the Month! With many more to follow!!

Congrats

I found myself lucid on an empty street. I thought to myself, "I'm dreaming!" So I remembered the lucid task for the month and closed my eyes. I concentrated on seeing a pumpkin and when I opened my eyes there were three jackolanterns stacked on top of each other biggest to smallest. I walked up to the pumpkins and said "what is your name?" The top pumpkin told me a name, something like oogiabra or something weird, I cant remember, and then his mouth started opening and closing really fast until he and the other pumkins dicentegrated into the air. It was really creepy. It was like sand falling to the ground but there was no pile afterward. I thought to myself," that wasnt good enough" so I found myself in a hardware store (dont know why it was a hardware store) and there was a isle full of fake pumkins. I thought it wouldnt work but I walked up to them and tried talking to them. They only followed me with their eyes and kind of snickered at me. Some of them lit up, and turned their "heads" to follow me. Thats all I got out of them. I lost lucididy before I could try the costume thing.

Originally Posted by guitarboy

. i tried a sleeping technique last night, i think i got to deep in sleep though. i had some honey and warm milk. i remember becoming lucid, then waking up for school, then nothing else

School is a dream killer.
Well, here is my lucid.

I became lucid, then I walked outside and remembered my lucid task. I sat down, said "hello" to a jack-o-lantern. It growled something back. That freaked me out, and I lost lucidity.

I talked to a Jack-O-Lantern. It told me to F off.

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!

OOH.... I'm not so sure I want to be my halloween costume. It is a patch you put over your eye, and it makes it look like your eye has fallen out. Even if it wouldn't hurt, it would be quite disturbing.

Oh my god, Guys i did it unfortunatly.. the pumpkin refused to talk, it just sat there staring at me for ages like so i gave up, and i before proceeding through the night, i decided i would try and turn into my costume, i dont have one but i wanted to be a vampire emo pixie.. lmao, and. i went to this store, the whole town was in a rek, and i went into this abandonned store and imagined there to be costumes all around, and i picked out my costumes and put it all together. And then looked into a mirror and saw A small pixie with vampire teeth and long hair lol.. and then i just became it i guess (: i bit someone but it didn't taste very nice as i can rember haha!. oh well, i did it. and im proud (:

I will try to complete this task tonight... I doubt I will =(

Originally Posted by Zell Dincht

I doubt I will =(

That's not a helpful way to think!

Originally Posted by Zell Dincht

I know I will =D

There you go

Originally Posted by Sasuke

Oh my god, Guys i did it unfortunatly.. the pumpkin refused to talk, it just sat there staring at me for ages like so i gave up, and i before proceeding through the night, i decided i would try and turn into my costume, i dont have one but i wanted to be a vampire emo pixie.. lmao, and. i went to this store, the whole town was in a rek, and i went into this abandonned store and imagined there to be costumes all around, and i picked out my costumes and put it all together. And then looked into a mirror and saw A small pixie with vampire teeth and long hair lol.. and then i just became it i guess (: i bit someone but it didn't taste very nice as i can rember haha!. oh well, i did it. and im proud (:

That is a GREAT story
i LOVE it !

Originally Posted by John11

That's not a helpful way to think!



There you go

Bahaha, thanks for makin' me smile

Imma concentrate as hard as I can before I go to bed with Reality Checks, and what not... wish me luck!

No... I have failed again... And this time with a task I was really looking forward to...

Ah, well, it inspired a lot of similar dreams (I've had more lucid powers this month than ever before, from trying to be a particular mage).

I shall persevere! To the Lucid Task of the Month for Novemeber!