Thread: Lucid Task for the Year of 2009

well, in a few more weeks it'll be Task of the Year 2010 time.

I'm not even attempting the Task of the Year for 2009 'cause, while I joined the forum originally a long time ago, I just got back from a long hiatus/disinterest phase. Otherwise, though, I'm generally a huge Lucid Task buff, 'cause tasks are a handy tool for lucidity maintenance and improving dream control. And I sometimes have trouble getting started thinking of tasks for myself.

Don't give up, some people were able to do the entire task in less than a month.

Well, I had two nights in a row where I was only able to attain crude partial lucidity at best, where I knew I was dreaming for maybe a few seconds and didn't have the awareness and drive to do anything. So I really don't feel like starting to try the Task of the Year now. I may need to just not attempt any WBTB's for a couple nights so I can refresh and re-normalize my sleep schedule (I think part of the issue was going to bed one hour early one night and one hour late the next), while recording my dreams so I can maintain my recall. And now I'm thinking I'm gonna wanna focus on more personally meaningful stuff, since that's what I originally got back into it for.

I don't have nearly as many LD's as I used to since I don't try anymore, but I had one this morning. I decided to finally try and finish up the task of the year.

Originally Posted by John11's Dream Journal

I was lying in bed. I was going to get up and I saw this lady putting colorful tiles on the wall next to me. I realized it was a dream and quickly got up while focusing on her. The dream quickly started fading, but I though "No way I'm letting this dream fade" as a banged on some stuff around me. It immediately got much clearer. I decided to go and try to find the mausoleum. I went out the window. As I went out I tried to imagine the mausoleum to my right, but it didn't work.

I came out of a second floor window onto the roof of something. I looked around and I was in some very colorful apartment complex. I think all of the buildings were yellow with red roofs and blue trimming if I recall correctly. It was built on a hill and there were many tall trees around. I decided the building I'm standing on must be the mausoleum. I jumped off of it and it was very small but vaguely resembled the mausoleum. It had a very small door, but I decided to squeeze my way through anyway. I shouldn't have fit, but I kept pushing and made it though. There were steps going down for about 5 stories or so. They were just as narrow as the door.

It finally opened up into a very large chamber (a few stories high and about the size of a football field. The floor and walls were mostly a bright gray. There were pillars and other things around they were very colorful though (like the apartments above). I then said "This is John! I've come for you!" to see if anything interesting would happen. No response though. I went into another large chamber to my left. When I went in, it was completely dark to my right. I started going that way, but then I woke up.