Thread: Task of the Month for April 2009

I already did the cloud task exactly one week ago, but today I had another lucid dream and I did the diving task for the fun of it and thought I should share it. I had the dream during a nap today and at some point I became lucid; although I can't remember when that quite happened. It was a DILD and those are still a tricky thing for me and they feel very different than a WILD (at least mine seem different).

The part of the dream I remember was I was in this place with really thick bushes, kind of like manzanita bushes except they didn't have any leaves. I was walking through these trails through the brush and came to this area where on both sides of the trail where these dirt and rock faces, kind of like a small canyon. After walking through that I came to this hole in the ground. The hole had something like roots lining the inside and the hole was really deep, like a hundred feet deep or something. I started climbing the roots and I think it was at this point that I became lucid or at least shortly after.

Now I was lucid and at the bottom of the hole. The walls where made of dark gray stone and there was a large pool of water. The water was a beautiful light blue color and the bottom was all sandy. I remembered the diving task and I figured this would be a good dream to dive in so I dove into the water. I spent a long time swimming and breathing under the water. It was so much fun. I could hear the water splashing and it felt so real.

At some point I woke up which was annoying, but I just kept my eyes closed and tried to imagine myself swimming in the water. After a minute or so sleep paralysis started and I found myself back in the water. I swam some more, but this time I wasn't in the cavern/grotto thing. I was in a creek or river outside in the middle of these green grassy hills. The water still had the beautiful blue hue to it. After swimming some more I went out and walked into this building that must have been close by. The interior was like an office setting with cubicles, computers, and other stuff, but there were no people around. Then I had this desire to find a mirror and look into it. The reason is that I've had this fear of mirrors in dreams because in one lucid dream I looked into a mirror and the image was really distorted and it frightened me. I was feeling good though after the swim and felt more at peace so I decided to face my fear. I tried to make a mirror appear, but that didn't work. Then I saw a metal cabinet thing and just imagined that one would be on in the inside. I opened the door and sure enough a mirror was in there so I looked into it. The image was distorted, but it was more fun than scary. I spent some time looking into the mirror and was amazed at the details of the image of myself even though it was distorted. After that I woke up to some loud noise outside, but I had a lot of fun with the dream.