Thread: Task of the Month for April 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 Diving


Advanced Task - Ride a Cloud

This is going to be awesome!

I ended up riding a cloud while I was doing the Great Lighthouse task of the year. That was a few weeks ago though.

I'm going to try to ride a cloud and then dive off it into some body of water.

I got it last night. It's the first lucid I've had in a week. I ended up doing a backwards dive out of the water and into the sky. It was actually very cool. I'm not sure if my could one counts or not since I did it in 3rd person.

The task parts are in blue.

I WILD’d.
I was getting some spinach for my mom since she asked for some. I knew it was just a dream, but it felt more like HH, so I just went along with it for a bit. At some point that faded.

I DEILD’d. I couldn’t tell If I was dreaming though or just in my bed. I bit my tongue and it didn’t hurt. I got up and tried to get visuals to form. I tried opening my eyes, and for the first time, it actually worked… for a second. Then the dream visuals faded again. I felt, banged on, and licked the walls, but I just couldn’t get visuals to form. I got snapped back to my bed.

I DEILD’d. I was now in a SAM’s Club. There were two DCs there and one suggested that I conjure up a bunch of girls so we can have an orgy. I’m hesitant because I want to do the task of the month, but I decide why not. I try, but I can’t get any girls to appear. Then a funny thought occurred to me. What if I could get Cloud from DV to appear. I was wondering if I could get him to give me a piggyback ride if that would count as “riding a cloud”. Lol. The dream faded though.

I DEILD’d again. This time the LD started on my futon in my living room. I could see from the start this time, but things were still hazy. I went into the bathroom and crawled into the mirror. Like usual it felt like going through water. I tried to get myself to appear in the sky near some clouds, but it just felt like I was underwater. I looked up and I could see the surface way up above.

Previously, my plan to complete the tasks of the month was to ride on a cloud and then dive off into the water. I decided I’d just do it backwards. I would dive backwards out of the water and land on a cloud and ride it. I shot out of the water and into the sky, but when I got up there, I couldn’t find a cloud to land on. I could see some large ones in the distance, but no small ones around me. Then there was some sort of transition to my bedroom. I remember that the transition made a lot of sense in the dream world since it tied the sky to my bedroom through some thoughts in my head, but I can’t recall now how they were tied together.

I decided I needed to get back outside to find a cloud. I pushed my blinds aside and opened the window. I went outside, but I found it really tough to walk. I looked down to find my feet tangled in some sort of barbed wire that was covering the ground. I spent a second looking around at the area outside my apartment. There were flowers everywhere and it was a beautiful day. I made sure I really took in how real it was. I don’t do that enough. I then flew straight up at high speed, but then the dream faded.

I DEILD’d again. I went into my bathroom and through the mirror while trying to imagine myself in the sky again. It sort of worked this time, but I was now seeing myself in 3rd person and I looked all blocky like old 3d animation. I got myself onto a small cloud and I was riding it like a surfboard for a bit before the dream faded. It felt odd watching myself. It didn’t really feel like me.

Congrats!

High In The Air On A Platform - Walking Out On These Clouds Then Boarding This Cloud Shaped Like A Space Ship (WILD)
I am up really high on this platform while aware that I am dreaming where I am unable to see anything at first, although I can sense that I am really high. When I notice that there are clouds all around me, I take off walking across the clouds. They feel sort of like pillows and hold me up. I walk over these clouds until I come to this one cloud that looks different than the other clouds as it is shaped like a jet. I walk into this cloud and sit down in this seat.

Suddenly the wife is in the seat next to me (where did she come from?) handing me this seat belt and making sure I put it on. She then fastens her seat belt, after which we take off flying really fast. I am glad that she had me put my seat belt on at this point. We are going so fast that I feel out of control and am gasping for air. Finally the cloud slows down and I am able to control where we are going simply by thinking about which way I would like to go. I take us down where we are able to see the ground and then maneuver us to the right and left before heading back up into the air.

Good job everyone so far!

Keep it up!

Have fun guys

That's a lot of DEILD's
Cool!

I've never been underwater in a dream so I'm looking forward to trying this.

I'm doing a WBTB tonight so hopefully I will.

Wow, lol! Riding a cloud sounds like a lot of fun =)

If I ever become lucid during the month, I will be sure to attempt the task

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Basic Task - Go Diving

It feels so amazing when you're underwater in a dream...plus the benefit of never having to resurface.

Can't wait to try it out

Oh darn i had a dream about diving a few days ago, not lucid but still cool, ill try my best but i gaurantee nothing

These sound pretty cool; Much better than last month's.

But what exactly is meant by "go diving?" Scuba diving, sky diving, cliff diving, diving off a diving board?

Yeah, I have the same question has Hazel. Could we go sky diving or what kind of diving to be exact?

It says diving.

Do whatever kind of diving you want.

Good luck, everyone!

Originally Posted by Hazel

These sound pretty cool; Much better than last month's.

But what exactly is meant by "go diving?" Scuba diving, sky diving, cliff diving, diving off a diving board?

I'm going to do them all sky dive onto a cliff, then take my parachute off, put some scuba gear on and cliff dive off the cliff with a diving board, diving into the water and going scuba diving

This task is definitely on my mind. I had a non-lucid last night about sailing on the open ocean and exploring some underwater ruins that were converted into a dock. It was very cool, but not lucid.

Does diving off my roof count? I don't think I hit the ground though. If it counts I'll write in my DJ. I am pretty lazy this week.

I've had diving dreams nonL before, most of which, I beleive, had some cartoonish thing involved in them. Some parts did creep me out. When it got all dark.

Well here is my basic task attempt. Even if it counts I'm going to attempt it again and hopefully get better results. Here is the dream....


April 3, 2009
Lucid Dream 25: Crazy with a Side of Lucid Task
DEILD

Category - Random


I stabilized the dream and saw I was in a large lobby with marble floors. There were couches and a fine persian rug. I could have been a nice hotel lobby. The actor, Josh Mostel (principal Anderson from "Billy Madison") was wearing a suit and standing in the middle of the lobby. I think he was a bellboy.

My brother was also there and he took of sprinting through the lobby. Mostel yelled, "No running!" and began chasing after him in a hilarious waddle. I then lept into the air and flew toward the nearby hallway. Mostel shouted, "No flying in the lobby!" I then decided to have some fun with him. I started sweeping with a broom and Mostel yelled, "Hey, no sweeping the floor!" I then grabbed a teapot that was sitting on the coffee table. Mostel shouted, "No tea allowed!" He was pretty close to catching me now, so I launched a bookshelf at him with my mind and got him stuck between shelves. I then flew down the hallway. I saw my brother laying on his back in the hallway and he said, "Watch this!" He then sunk and passed his body through the ground tile and disappeared. He then reappeared and told me he hid inside the floor. I layed down and attempted this myself. My body began tingling and I passed through the floor. The floor above me was transparent and I saw Mostel walk over top of me. I then jumped up out of the floor and Mostel turned toward me and said, "No jumping out of the floor!" I leaned my back against the nearest wall and succeeded in my attempt to pass through the wall.

It worked! The room was like a small living room. I heard Mostel shout from the other room, "No becoming invisible in the lobby!" I then attempted to pass through the opposite wall of whence I came. It worked again and I now entered a backwards slide from the seated position. I slid backward through room after room after room. Each room became more and more trippy. I never spent more than about 5 seconds per room and each one was brightly colored. It was like an acid trip. One room had bright green ganja as the carpet, another was like a meadow with vultures eating a lion, another had a single rabbit and as I passed it was struck by lightning and turned into dust, another was underwater (which reminded me of the task of the month). I then slid out of the building and onto a beach. I stopped sliding as I approached the water.

I stood up and looked around for some diving gear, so I could get the full experience. All I could find though was a pink mask/snorkle set. I put it on and dove into the water. The ocean floor was about 15 feet down. The ocean floor was littered with baseball sized, round, smooth, multi-colored stones (colored like fish tank pebbles). There were also a few hollow logs on the sea floor. Unfortunately, I looked out toward the deep ocean and saw the dark silhouette of something very large. I freaked out and swam back to the surface. I exploded out of the water and back on the beach.

I saw a flock of seagulls pass overhead and i decided to fly with them. I took flight and joined their formation. I flew with them out over the sea and curiosity got the best of me, so I grabbed one of the seagulls out of the air. It pecked and struggled hard to get away as I just watched it in amazement. I let it go and hovered above the ocean for a while. Not sure if my dive would count, I turned and looked for a plane, so I could go sky diving instead. I saw a plane in the distance, but as I flew toward it, it transformed into a jet ski. The colors were the exact same (white with a red stripe), but it had changed form.

I flew above the guy riding on it and jolted into a super human burst of speed and grabbed the guy and tossed him out into the ocean. I then took another super human burst and landed on the jet ski. A controller suddenly appeared in my hand. It had only a few buttons. One of the buttons said, "Change Form." I changed it a few times until I found a helicopter. I pushed the button and the jet ski turned into a remote control toy helicopter.

I grabbed the belt that was hanging down from it and flew over the sand. I began to ascend. The belt I was hanging onto was apparently retractable. The belt kept pulling further and further out as the helicopter gained altitude. Essentially, I was staying in the same spot as the copter climbe. It kept running into trouble though. Powerlines and ceiling kept appearing out of nowhere and hindered its progress. I finally gave up with this and the scene changed.

I was in a barn and I decided I would just fly high into the sky and dive. I took a leap and tried to bust through the ceiling. I hit the ceiling and crashed into the attic, but fell back to the ground. I jumped many more times and all I managed to do was put alot of holes in the barn ceiling. Frustrated I accidentally woke myself up.

I just did the cloud one! I just had several WILDs over the last 2-3 hours. I just woke up from the last one and am writing this here so I won't forget because I'm still tired and I'm going back to sleep after this (I should start a dream journal). This is the first time I have accomplished one of these monthly tasks; and actually there were a few other things that were firsts for me.

Here's some of what happened:

I kept waking up from these lucid dreams and they were all very vivid. In a few of them I lost my lucidity and drifted off into some normal, but exciting dreams. I kept waking up throughout the night and would think about them for a while. Then I would lie back down and sleep paralysis just kept hitting me each time I tried to go to sleep. I think it was after about 3 dreams that I was going into another WILD and I remembered about the tasks on this forum, but I couldn't remember the diving one. I thought the cloud one might be too difficult for me, but I tried it anyway. I started climbing my house and in the dream it was much taller and had more floors than real life. I got to the top finally and tried to imagine that I was way up in the sky. When I looked around I was, but all the clouds were still too high. I wasn't able to fly in the dream either. My brother appeared though with this pitcher looking thing and said he was going to help me. He started pouring this liquid over the edge and it formed into a little cloud below me. I jumped and landed on it and it was barely large enough to sit on, but I hung on and it started flying forward. After a while it started loosing altitude and I came to ground level and the cloud sort of landed while going down the slope of a steep hill. Now it was like a sled going down this hill and eventually I crashed into a bunch of trees at the bottom and woke up. It was a lot of fun though and a big step for me in my dream control.

Here are some of the other firsts for me:

In one dream I was successfully able to teleport with an intended destination in mind. I was even able to bring my brother along. I just sort of grabbed a hold of him and started spinning and away we went. I also have never had this many WILDs (especially such lengthy and vibrant ones) after being asleep for only around 2-3 hours outside of taking an afternoon nap. I was shocked when I finally looked at my clock and saw the time. One other thing that was a first for me was a very bizarre colored dream. I've always had dreams in color (that I can recall), but one of them today was in black and white except for these vines that grow around here and any leaves on bushes and trees. They were all a weird, unnatural-looking, lime green color. The grass was black and white though.

Anyway, I'm pretty excited about my accomplishments and now I need to go back to sleep. Like I mentioned I've only been asleep a few hours and I've woken up several times throughout so I'm pretty tired. Hopefully I'll have another dream or two, but if not I'm pretty satisfied with today's dreams.

I tried but all that happened was that as soon as i put my feet on the cloud i fell right trought it and ifell on a giant teaacup filled with salty water...WEIRD.
I shall try again now, im about to go to bed, as im writing this, its 11:17.

I has no wings! D:

Yea... ninja still hasn't made any yet...