Thread: Task of the Month for December 2008

I did this on my very first properly controlled lucid dream. (I've had LDs before, but I've never been conscious enough in them to DO anything).

I was in my kitchen, dreaming of the L Word, particularly Shane, and there were a load of people there and I was talking to them and Shane was sulking because they were being mean to her and someone said something like “Another hussy deserves it” (I’m not sure exactly) and Shane got all upset and walked off and my friend Nikita burst into tears and ran into the lounge.

I looked at the room I was in (which had transformed into the dining room) and I thought “This has got to be a dream” coz, yaknow, Shane was there.

As soon as I realised it was a dream things started to fade. It didn’t feel real anymore. So I remembered one of the dream stabilising techniques I read about on DreamViews and I spun around in circles. When I stopped everything was clear but really dark and hard to see. So I went across to the light and turned it on and the dining room lit up loads and I could see, but there were these weird shadows on the walls. So I thought, as it was a dream, I’d walk into the lounge and see if Nikita was okay and if I could talk to her.

So I walked through to the lounge and found Nikita sat by the tree on the floor (the tree was odd; short, triangular and lit up really bright) but before I got to her I looked through the window and saw Santa’s Sleigh across the road and I thought about the DreamViews challenge to ride on Santa’s sleigh in a lucid dream. But it was through the window. So it took a deep dream-breath and stepped through the window. I was so excited by then.

I ran across the road to Santa’s sleigh and stopped nearby because the sleigh was still really santa’y but Santa was different. So I looked away and back and he changed and I did it again and he changed again but normal Santa wouldn't return. He was an old guy in a dark red coat with white trimmings. I decided this was obviously the best Santa my dream would get and thusly I climbed aboard!

I got on and before I’d even got my leg fully on (part of my slipper’d foot was on the step-up bit) Santa took off and we went flying up into the sky and through the air towards the city (I don't live in a city, but there was one there and I’m not going to complain). We flew around some tower blocks (with me trying to transform him into someone else, but the stubborn old man refused to do anything except get naked and really gross) until I saw this house with my mom sat in it so I decided to go down there. Next thing I knew I was in that house and Santa (I think) told me to sit on the wall and wait for my Christmas present. I walked across, sat down and I realised I needed the bathroom. The dream started to fade and I woke up.

It was brilliant!!! Does this count? Did I do it?

Nice job and to DV!

Did I do it, then? Did I do the challenge? o.o

I just had my first fully lucid dream, ever. A DILD!
And I've completed the advanced task of the month too (I think) ! YAY!

Here's what's written in my dream journal:
The lucid part:

I'm flying over the city, semi-lucid when it occures to me I should become fully lucid. I do a reality check (wel try to, I plug my nose but I forgot to try to breath, lol) but I think, what the hell, I'm lucid anyway.
I fly some more and decide to land. I think, now that I'm lucid, I should waste it just flying. So I think why not try the task of the month, though I was planning on doing other things it seemed really smart of me at the moment.
I turned around, closed my eyes and try to make Santa and his sleigh appear. Almost immediately I hear a Jingle Bell behind me, I turn around there is a big red sleigh facing the other side. I walk next to it so I can see Santa.
For some reason he looks Indian, and I don't think he had a beard, but I ask: "Can I go with you?". He says that's okay so I hop in.
We fly, without reindeer by the way, only about two metres above the ground, but nobody can see us. We fly right on front of a man and he doesn't seem to notice us.
We start to sing Jingle Bells loudly, but once we come to the first verse, I don't know the lines, so neither does Santa lol. We start singing La La La La La, in the melody of the verse. But then Santa remembers and he starts singing something like: "All the mortals...", so either I subconsiously know the lines, or my mind made it up.
The ending of the dream was really mean: I hear a noise, as if someone said: "Shh", I think it may have been my dad, but Santa, who is on my left, looks to the right of me and when I look too I wake up

And that's how it went. The sleigh didn't take me anywhere but that's not the task is it?

I'm so proud of myself lol

Originally Posted by bassairmoon

Did I do it, then? Did I do the challenge? o.o

Yes you did it, you'll get wings soon.

Tried and failed at the sleigh task, last night.
Just happy to have had a good lucid after so long, though.

Originally Posted by Oneironaut's Matrix

...I went phasing through the walls and doors, trying to find something interesting to do. Nothing really seemed to come to mind, immediately, and then I thought of the Tasks of the Month. It still took me a moment to remember what the tasks were, but I remembered that one of them was to ride on Santa’s sleigh. Heading outside, I flew up to the roof, which was actually quite tough to land on because it had one of those high-angled, church-type rooftops, and my feet kept trying to slide down it. I got to the top, though, and looked out over the lake.

It was dark out, but a pretty clear night. And warm. It didn’t seem very Christmas-y, and I really wanted to set the mood, if I was going to try to summon Santa and/or his sleigh. I began to visualize winds coming in from my right, and a blanket of snow streaming down over the grass and dark water of the lake. The winds slowly began to pick up, and I was sort of directing it in as if I was using telekinesis. I would focus on drawing it in from the right, inhaling and tensing a bit as I drew my hands from right to left. Then, relaxing, I sifted my hands back over to the right again, then drawing back to the left while ‘pulling’ the wind across the scene. I could hear waves being born on the lake, growing with intensity, the more I tried to pull the snow and winds in. All I was able to get were a few dashes of white on the dark surfaces beneath me. No true snow storm. Finally, I figured that I was using up too much energy in trying to do this, and I wanted to have some fun with this lucid before it was over. After a few more tries I gave up, and floated back down off the roof...