Thread: Task of the Month for January 2009

Introduction:
This topic is for the Lucid Tasks that are assigned by me or voted on by experienced dreamers. Please attempt one or both of these tasks throughout the month.

Report back in this thread, even if you didn't successfully accomplish the task, your efforts should make interesting reading! This is required in order to get credit, it is no longer sufficient just to say that you did it.

Whoever completes either of these tasks gets the following goodies until the end of the month:

• Your name will be displayed in ORANGE in the online members list at the bottom of the main forum page.
  
• You will receive a special title and badge.
  
• You will receive access to the "Lucid Task Club" which is a limited access forum for people that complete the lucid task each month.

Tasks for this month:

Basic Task - Go Ice Skating


Advanced Task - Visit the Lost City of Atlantis

Lost City Of Atlantis - Visiting
I am riding something like a chariot, out in the middle of the ocean, that the front wheels suddenly collapse on, which dumps me and the chariot straight down into the ocean. When I get to the bottom of the ocean I notice that I am able to breath underwater. There are all of these small colorful fish swimming around, the kind you would see in an aquarium at a zoo, light blue, a very pretty dark blue, light and dark green, brown spotted fish, and some yellow fish, but no red fish. I am wondering why there are no red or orange colored fish down here.

There is something like a large ship in front of me, which when I look closer, now appears to be the walls of an ancient city. As I go inside there is this miniature replica of the Lost City Of Atlantis. There are all of these tiny castles and building that are only about a foot tall all over the inside of this place. It is really quite amazing looking with street and street signs, etc. I am thinking that someone really went to a lot of work to build this replica of the Lost City Of Atlantis.

(I am a little disappointed when I wake up from this lucid that I only found a miniature replica of this city, until I start reading up on it more on the internet, after which I then understood what my subconscious mind was telling me.)

Happy New Year.

HAPPY NEW YEAR LOL it's 12:42 where I am but I just had to find out the new lucid task before going to bed

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Happy New Year.

Three cheers for your enthusiasm.

The advanced task is awesome btw. I can't wait to read more entries.

Happy New Year! I'm going to try these... If I can have another LD. I WILL HAVE AN LD. And I will do both tasks. =D

I'll make new badges sometime today or tomorrow.

i like the advanced one it will do two of my tasks at once

1 go under water
2 complete advaced task!

w00t

This was a fun advanced task to do...I only wish I made more of my time in Atlantis (or remembered more of what I did)!

Attempt #1: SUCCESS!
(The following is the relevant part of the dream for the advanced task attempt. To see the full dream, check out my dream journal.)

Finally I once again remember my intention to get to Atlantis, so I try a different method this time: spinning. Honestly, I shouldn’t even bother with the whole doors method anymore because spinning is so much more effective for me. Needless to say, it works again this time. I get to the scene that I had planned out in my mind before the dream – a sandy beach bordering the sea that leads down to Atlantis. Here there are a lot of distractions, like little cities built into the sandy cliffs and creatures prancing around along the shore. For some reason I feel this compulsion to destroy the tiny sand-cities, so I go around kicking them into oblivion for a while. Then I get back on track and enter the water, diving in and swimming deeper and deeper. As soon as I submerge I have this realization that I’ve never really done underwater breathing while lucid. I imagined it would be unlike real life in terms of visibility, resistance, and the whole texture and lung sensation, but to my surprise it was very life-like, with little pockets of air even coming from my exhales and the visibility being generally very poor like in real life. When I get to a certain depth everything goes black; I have the tactile sensation of still diving ever deeper in the water, but I can’t see anything. Eventually even this is lost as the scene fades.

I end up somewhere else (probably home again), but this time I try a new strategy, one that in hindsight seems very clever: I just reach out and grasp on to a trident, which materializes right in my hands. When I pull myself towards the trident, the old scene vanishes and a new one has taken its place – right in Atlantis! I find myself alone in this museum-like room. The walls are translucent and look sea-blue from the water reflecting in through the glass – a very elegant and fitting atmosphere overall. All around me are displays of fantastic sea creatures – fish and mermaids and such. I walk along them and when I get to the last one, a huge blue and gold eel or barracuda or something, it starts looking at me! It looks kind of cartoonish, like something out of a Disney movie, but it comes alive and starts talking even, all the while it’s mounted there in the center of the room. Unfortunately, I forget what it says, but this creature was definitely the thing that stuck out most in my mind while reflecting on the dream.

Eventually I leave the museum room and come to this lobby area full of activity. It reminds me of a food court in a shopping mall. All the denizens of Atlantis are going about their business, completely oblivious to me. Although I feel a lot happens after this, I can’t remember any of it. Perhaps I go on having some nonlucid adventures in Atlantis, but I can’t recall one way or another. The next thing I know I’m awake in my bed.

Originally Posted by endymion

The walls are translucent and look sea-blue from the water reflecting in through the glass – a very elegant and fitting atmosphere overall. All around me are displays of fantastic sea creatures – fish and mermaids and such. I walk along them and when I get to the last one, a huge blue and gold eel or barracuda or something, it starts looking at me! It looks kind of cartoonish, like something out of a Disney movie, but it comes alive and starts talking even, all the while it’s mounted there in the center of the room. Unfortunately, I forget what it says, but this creature was definitely the thing that stuck out most in my mind while reflecting on the dream.

This reminds me of when you go to an aquarium or natural history museum where they have the life-size fiberglass whales and sharks hanging from the ceiling. It would be intimidating to have one of them spring to life and start talking like that.

I can't wait to do this task. It love sea monsters, and my undersea adventures are always some of my best dreams.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

• You will receive access to the "Lucid Task Club" which is a limited access forum for people that complete the lucid task each month.

I just wanted to remind everyone who accomplished this month's task that you are welcome to come visit the Lucid Task Club to help brainstorm for future tasks.