Thread: Task of the Month for January 2009

The basic task should be easy enough for me as I played hockey throughout most of my childhood. When attempting WBTB, as I drift out of conciousness, I sometimes picture myself skating while imagining the cold air in my face, the feeling of the blade cutting the ice, etc. It stabilizes the dream quite nicely.

Gonna try it again tonight. I forgot about it until this post.

So my dream just outside of Atlantis didn't count?

I'll see if I can make it inside next time.

Oops, I didn't finish reading your dream. I'll get youer wings changed.

It wasn't for very long but heres what happened.
(I imagined myself souring over top the ice. I wasn't going that fast. But it was really cool.
It WAS lucid (my 2nd lucid by the way so big achievement for me :] )
Anyways. there was other people on the ice except they were not skating. they were standing at a distance with their skates on but weren't going anywhere. That's basically all i can remember.
By the way i used the technique where you picture a scene and focus on it and then you fall asleep and dream about it etc..


BTW
Im going to try this again later and see if i can get the dream any clearer and maybe skate around some more =)

I finally remembered to go to Atlantis. It was not what I had expected, but I am happy with the results.

Originally Posted by Robot_Butler

I feel disoriented as I transition to sleep. My body feels distant, and my imagination becomes more real. Instead of lying in bed, I believe I am sitting at a desk surrounded by high tech equipment. I am hooked up to an array of lights and computers I know is some kind of EEG I can control by flexing my mind. I hear a clear voice right in my ear say, "Find Annabelle, Dream Queen." I know my WILD has succeeded, so I look down at my hands to count my fingers. They look normal, so I look away and check again. This time, my fingers are stubby like a dwarf, and I count 6 on each hand.

I look up to see a beautiful young woman lying next to me. We are in my old house from high school, lying in my old bed. The woman is discussing her sex life, but I am not paying much attention. The way she is laying draped across me is very overpowering and forceful. She is incredibly strong, and holding me down without even trying. I relax, and float upward towards the ceiling, pushing her voice from my mind, and leaving her behind.

The bedroom window fills my vision, so I float towards it. I land on the sill, looking down to the front yard below me. As I leap down to the grass, I remember, "Atlantis." Telling myself the grass is water, I splash right through it. It was only a thin layer of grass floating on the surface like a swamp. Darkness surrounds me as I sink down into the deep water. After a few moments, I feel my feet touch the rocky bottom. I swim swiftly in the total darkness, using my sense of touch to feel along the bottom with my hands. I try to visualize a vast, high-tech underwater city, like the one in the movie "The Abyss." A light appears ahead, and I swim towards it, assuming it will be the entrance to this underwater paradise.

When I approach the light, it turns out to be the surface of the water. I climb out, finding myself on the grassy lawn of my old neighborhood park. I must have just swam underground a few blocks to the park. The grass is swampy, and I am sunken in to mid-calf. Looking around, I see the neighborhood has all been flooded. The houses are all in the right place, but they are abandoned, boarded up, and sitting in shallow water. It looks like a tidal wave or tropical storm has ripped through the neighborhood, flooding it like Atlantis.

I climb a nearby fence, behind which used to be an open field. I want to get a good view of my surroundings. Instead of a cow pasture on the other side of the fence, I see endless rows of suburban houses. They stretch into the night as far as I can see. Sitting on top of the fence, I watch the lights come on in each house, one by one, as if they are turning back on after a blackout. I have the feeling each of the lit windows holds a pair of eyes, watching me. They are not happy about me being there.

As I watch the lights come on, I understand the sad meaning of all this. This is the neighborhood I grew up in. This is my old park. This is my memory of my childhood. It has been destroyed, flooded by the new memories from my life. The open fields from my memories have been flooded by new housing developments making homes for new families building new memories. Just as Atlantis represents humanity's mythological lost golden age, this is my own personal mythology. A lost utopia that seems to grow more amazing the further it sinks into the ocean of the past. I fly out over the hidden eyes of the houses, daring them to see me as I wake myself up.

W.....o.....w

woahhhhhhhhh!

Finally a task that I was able to accomplish! Well, the basic part. Here's what I wrote in my dream journal. As a side note, I have non-lucid dreams about ice skating very very frequently.

I am in a long tunnel looks like the area below a launch pad. The walls are grey and I can see a small stream of water in the middle. I turn a corner to see my sister with my friend Maura. I'm instantly taken aback and I ask Maura, "Why are you hanging out with my sister?" She says to me something like, "I can be with whoever I want". For some reason, at this point I realize I'm dreaming, and my sister and Maura fade away almost immediately.

I remember one of the things I wanted to do was go ice skating. I turn to the nearest wall to me, and walk into it. As I cross the threshold, I see the instant materialization of a brilliant, beautiful, large ice arena. My "heart" races, as I love to skate. I decide that I already have ice skates on, and alas, there they are! I begin to skate, and wanted to see if I could do a tripple salchow, which I cannot do in the waking world. Of course, the jump I did ended up being something entirely different, but I successfully pulled it off. I try a few other jumps, and float way high in the air each time I jump. It seems I'm having a difficulty making it realistic, so I move on to making the lost city of atlantis.

This time I see if I can spin. I end up in a large body of water, underwater. Unfortunately, it doesn't look anything like a unique dreamscene of atlantis, it looks like the underwater city that Jar Jar Binks lived in from "Starwars Episode I- The Phantom Menace". As soon as I step in, a man approaches me and tells me I'm not supposed to be here, and proceeds to call security. They arrive, and I begin to yell, explaining to them that I am just dreaming, and can do as I please, and demand that they leave me be, but they aren't listening. I think I'm not fully lucid anymore, otherwise I wouldn't be trying to convince them that I have rights, and such.

Anyway, after that, I really did lose lucidity.. it happened so fast, but I don't consider the advanced task completed. The ice skating one was EASY that's something I normally do anyway That's actually in my "adoption" profile for something I want to perfect.

Cheers

Robot Butler, that is seriously one f the coolest dreams I have ever read.

Thanks Still, I think it could have used a few fish people or topless mermaids.

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.

Do I get the wings for visiting the Lost City of Atlantis?
Ok, here is the story.
Last night I had an ordinary dream about walking around with my mum. We entered an elevator. As I do often dream about elevators( they always go up very very fast..), I thought "oh this is my dream sign, is this a dream?"
I realized that I am dreaming. I turned to my mum and said: this is a dream. I was really excited (although mum looked a little bit confused). I tried a few things then but it didn't work so well. At one point I got somewhat scared and screamed. Then a FA happened. I looked at a digital watch (there is not a such watch in my room) and I saw it was 3:38. I was back in my dream and again I was aware that it was a dream. I saw my close friend and I said "you wouldn't believe this, this is just a dream, lets do something together and tomorrow you can tell me if you remember this dream as well" (I was attempting the 'shared dreaming' or something...) He replied 'ok, lets do it'.
Then I remembered this task for the month of January. I talked to my friend about it. Lets fly to the Atlantis. First, we looked at a big map. I was trying to find where the Atlantic ocean is. I found it, but it didn't look right. It was somehow too small for the ocean and looked more like the Mediteranian Sea. But I accepted it the way it was. The next moment we teleported ourselves to the Lost city. I saw the city. It was magnificent and beautiful. But I saw only the buildings not any people in there. The buildings were built of the white stone, they were huge and looked a lot like the buildings in the Old Greece (Athena, Pantheon etc).
I tried to remember some details that I could report in this forum! I remember thinking about Ninja and how I will write this post. Then I saw a star on one of the buildings, it was placed above the entrance and was beautiful, even shiny. I counted how many arms is there , and it was a star with 5 arms.
I didn't wake up there, although I do not remember what happened after that... but I was lucid for some time... was travelling somewhere on a train.... Funny how I got there by flying or teleporting myself there - but had to take a train to get back... (train in the Atlantis ...he he he)
The feeling was great! I saw the Lost City. And it was beautiful. I may go back and look for some people as well ...
For now, I am bringing back from Atlantis this beautiful shiny star that I found on a huge white building in the Lost City.
Looking forward to your replies. See you in a dream world...

I was flying around random places my whole dream and then went over the ocean. The thought of Atlantis came to my mind and I told myself that it was waiting in the water just below me. I just started to fly toward it and then my dream ended (by coincidence?). If it happens again I'll know to not mess around and get down there quick haha .

I wonder what the significance of the 5 pointed star is, Sanjar. I guess it makes sense that the city was deserted. It is, after all, a lost and dead city.

Did your shared dreaming experiment work out? Your friend didn't dream of atlantis, too, did he?

Lusense, maybe you woke up from some sort of atlantean security system. They have it in place to keep dreamers from discovering their paradise

Haha, trying to put ideas in my head so I can't get in? Harsh, man. jk

It's the bermuda triangle of dream land. You'll never find it Bwahaha

My attemp... on atlantis, I just think the skating one is impossible for me in just 1 month <.<

WILD

Now, I’m in a dark place, recall about the atlantis thing and try to teleport, but fail as there is nothing where I am (DT requires something to be there), so instead, I draw a circle and then start to summon the thing, constructing it molecule by molecule so I will get there, I was at half the way, with around 10 buildings, a blue reflection all over the place and water surrounding along with many crystals when I’m woken again… ah well, at least I tried it <.<

If I can't do the basic, will do the advanced! Just wait! (hope its within this month)

My attemp... on atlantis, I just think the skating one is impossible for me in just 1 month <.<

I did it on my second lucid since joining this forum (I ran around screaming of course)
I had actually been trying to have a dream about ice skating before that though. and I had finally rlly rlly tried for it hah.

Oh but I can't do it because its a sport... which for me, is a really hard thing to do, never skated on my life, so Ice Skating is nearly impossible in 1 month (for me), still will try tough <.<

Originally Posted by Walms

Oh but I can't do it because its a sport... which for me, is a really hard thing to do, never skated on my life, so Ice Skating is nearly impossible in 1 month (for me), still will try tough <.<

It's a dream

Can't we do anything

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QUOTE=Robot_Butler;1007278]I wonder what the significance of the 5 pointed star is, Sanjar. I guess it makes sense that the city was deserted. It is, after all, a lost and dead city.

Did your shared dreaming experiment work out? Your friend didn't dream of atlantis, too, did he?

the 5 pointed star was on the flag of the country that I used to live in... the flag doesn't exist anymore, neither the country... And I am not talking about the lost city....
And for the shared dreaming... no, my friend didn't dream about the Atlantis BUT he said (before I told him anything about my dream) that he had a strange dream last night although he couldn't remember the details...
Coincidence...? yes, probably ...what else it could be, ha? ...still...
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Damn I got back into dreaming tool late this month didn't I
I am going to use these last 8 days to try the advanced one, this HOPEFULY will be easy for me because of the TV show 'Stargate Atlantis'. I can visualise what atlasntis would be like very easily

Wish me luck
xx

From my journal:

DEILD

Weird enough, I wanted to give a try to Ice Skating, to which I discovered wasn’t a good idea, put the Skates and then teleported to a place with Ice, of course, I just got lucky last time, I couldn’t even move my legs withouth falling to the ground this time, lucky me, at least there was a big statue in the middle of the place to which I could hold in case of falling again, so did that and then took of the silly skates, then teleported to do the atlantis task. But woke up…

WILD

Now on a town close to a beach, made a big hole on the earth and went down, in my way found an octopus and a squid, whom I transformed into monsters to aid me defeat the kraken, then again I don’t think I would need any help considering I was travelling underground, anyway, once I got there, the place was… too gray, dead and boring, the only thing that was still standing were tons of brown glowing rocks, I wanted to conquer the place! So to make up for it, told my new minions to look for any treasure that may be close to the city, I was feeling really bad, those crystals were giving me some kind of headache, so I wanted to leave soon, told that to new minions and they were heading back, but then a pale grey cave (that was right above the city) grabbed my attention, it had a cool look to, like a spiked turtle or something, I could easily acces it trough the city, which was destroyed (I think I said that before) and boring, so then told the minions to go there, then started to stalk them with telekinesis, when they got in, they got out, I explain, when they got there the thing sneezed, apparently it was a really, really big octopus, so it was only logical, but somehow that activated some traps that sent tons of fishes and arrows towards my minions, had to save them using telekinesis, which caused me a lot of pain, these silly crystals in the city were damaging me, good thing there was no live there, or else I would mostly lose, minions quickly got to my place with tons of useless stuff, which I gave to them and granted them one wish! Then woke up due to the pain… was satisfied with going to Atlantis so didn’t go back to sleep. (That and I was hungry)

Failed the basic task again... its to hard! And advanced wasn't that hard <.<

Walms, your dreams always sound like so much fun. You have such a great imagination! The giant octopus sounds awesomely frightening, in a good way. I have a love/fright relationship with sea monsters.