Thread: Task of the month for August 2009

During the dream I realise that I am dreaming...there are two people at the bottom of the stairs: a woman and a man.
I remember this task and I ask them:
- "Do you know that you exist only in my dream?" I feel almost sad for them (like that I'm saying a death sentence to them).
However, they are really calm and do not take it tragicaly at all. The women just says something like:
-"O, is it so..?" and she looks untouched by my words.
However, the man is telling me something but I do not understand. ...then I see him behind some window and I come closer, and he tells me something like this:
-"I do exist in your dreams, but I do so ALL the time, even when you are awake I still exist in your dreams. Dreams do not disappear just because you are awaken-you just leave for a while and all your dreams are waiting for you to come back and notice them when you are asleep again. While you are awake- I am still in your dreams. I do look different in your dreams so you may think that there is a lot of the different folks in your dreams...But it is always me! I am with you all the time, and I am - you. You will recognise me in your next dream by this sign...", then he shows me a pendant on his neklace and says:
-"I'll show you this sign in some other dream in order for you to recognise me...to know that it is still me, even if the dream is different and I look or feel different"
The feeling is so nice and warm... I wake up with a good feeling.
****
So, during the dream I realised I am dreaming. ...I saw some DCs and remembered this month's task to talk to them... After that, I really got involved into the conversation...and being lucid wasn't important anymore (so I don't know if I stayed lucid during the rest of the dream)
The point was to get the answer to my question, and I felt that wonderfull conection with my DC and it was great!
So, what do you think...?
have nice dreams
http://www.mydreamview.blogspot.com

Basic task achieved. This was a really weird dream in general, and the first lucid dream I've had in a while. Lucid part of the dream is in orange.

I started out playing Texas Hold'em in a casino, and I was getting amazing hands, even impossible hands. I got a full house, Kings full of 8's and scraped a big pot. The next hand I got was 4 7s, but I some how managed to get 4 of a kind before there were enough cards out (I didn't become lucid despite this obvious dream sign). After a while I decided to cash out. I went to get a chip caddy to collect my chips. When I came back I couldn't find my chips. The dealer pulled me under the table and showed me her bag and told me that I should get something similar to protect my money. I wandered out of the casino to an old pawn shop. I was looking at an old guitar case, but when I opened it there was no guitar. I closed the case and re-opened it and part of the guitar appeared (still didn't become lucid). I started to walk towards the back of the store when an old Indian appeared and pointed a bow and arrow at me. I put my hands up and he kind of chuckled then walked into the back room. I followed him into the back room and started looking at different things. There was a middle aged man that was looking for something specific. I followed along without saying anything because I knew the Indian had something specific to show me. After the man left I waited for the Indian to show me what I needed to see. After a while a red headed kid showed up and told me that the bow was a special device that would allow me to see special things. I let the Indian point the bow at my face and had no fear. As I stood there I had a number of visions that I can't remember. Eventually the Indian shot me, which I knew he had to do and I was ok with it. There is a gap after which I ended up on the road near my house. Most of my lucid dreams are triggered on this section of road. I was riding a horse past a series of strange animals: Llamas, camels, lions. I thought I might be dreaming and held my nose. I couldn't breath, so I figured it must be real. As I continued along I saw more strange animals and did another RC which also told me I was awake. I realized that I was dreaming despite the failed RCs...

I decided to try to teleport. I thought of the place to which I tried to teleport, but I couldn't get there. I jumped off the horse and saw a cheetah staring me down. I told myself it was a dream and just ignored the cheetah. I decided to try disaparating like they do in Harry Potter, but couldn't remember exactly how it was done. I then thought about clicking my heels together like in the Wizard of Oz. Before I tried it I saw a car coming and decided to talk to my DCs. I ran up to the truck as it pulled over. There was someone already standing at the drivers door, so I shoved him out of the way. The occupants of the car asked why I did that. I explained that I was dreaming, and that he wasn't real so it didn't matter. I stepped onto the running board of the truck and continued talking to the dream characters as we drove away. In the truck were an old man, a young man, and a young woman. They might have been Mexican or Indian. We started to drive down into my neighborhood, and the woman commented on the new "Ale House" that had gone in. She said that she hadn't seen it before. I told her that I had dreamed of it being there once before and that I had a feeling it would be built in the future in the real world. The driver told me that he was sick of looking at the default image of the inside of the car and asked me to look inside so that it would render. I looked inside and the interior of the truck became detailed. The driver thanked me. I asked them what it was like being dream characters, if they had thoughts and feelings of their own. The young man explained that they did, and that their existence was not significantly different from mine. I asked him how that was possible since they did not have physical bodies. I noticed that the other two DCs had disappeared, and the young man asked me if I believed in Heaven and Hell. I didn't really give him a definitive answer. He started to explain the nature of his reality, but I was starting to wake up and lost focus on what he was saying.

Originally Posted by sanjar

During the dream I realise that I am dreaming...there are two people at the bottom of the stairs: a woman and a man.
I remember this task and I ask them:
- "Do you know that you exist only in my dream?" I feel almost sad for them (like that I'm saying a death sentence to them).
However, they are really calm and do not take it tragicaly at all. The women just says something like:
-"O, is it so..?" and she looks untouched by my words.
However, the man is telling me something but I do not understand. ...then I see him behind some window and I come closer, and he tells me something like this:
-"I do exist in your dreams, but I do so ALL the time, even when you are awake I still exist in your dreams. Dreams do not disappear just because you are awaken-you just leave for a while and all your dreams are waiting for you to come back and notice them when you are asleep again. While you are awake- I am still in your dreams. I do look different in your dreams so you may think that there is a lot of the different folks in your dreams...But it is always me! I am with you all the time, and I am - you. You will recognise me in your next dream by this sign...", then he shows me a pendant on his neklace and says:
-"I'll show you this sign in some other dream in order for you to recognise me...to know that it is still me, even if the dream is different and I look or feel different"
The feeling is so nice and warm... I wake up with a good feeling.
****
So, during the dream I realised I am dreaming. ...I saw some DCs and remembered this month's task to talk to them... After that, I really got involved into the conversation...and being lucid wasn't important anymore (so I don't know if I stayed lucid during the rest of the dream)
The point was to get the answer to my question, and I felt that wonderfull conection with my DC and it was great!
So, what do you think...?
have nice dreams
http://www.mydreamview.blogspot.com

Holy crap....that reminds me so much of The Matrix...like its Neo telling you that the dream world is the "reality" and your world is an illusion

So, ever since seeing Waking Life, I had the idea to ask a dream character what it's like to be a character in a dream. I have done this on multiple occassions. At first they would change the subject or ignore me. I kept doing it, and after awhile the would say things like, "Well, it doesn't really matter, " or, "How does that pertain to the conversation?" Recently, they just give me a knowing smile. Because I have done this so many times, I really wasn't interested in getting another knowing smile from a dream character.

I tried WILD'ing for the first time yesterday, all day. I had stayed up late the night before and not slept much. My WILD dreams were for the most part blurry, dim, and short. I didn't feel totally immersed. I still had partial awareness of my physical body for all of them except one. Sometimes when I have a DILD, I have awareness of my physical body, and I wake up, but I have been able to go back to sleep totally, and lose my physical awareness.

I meditated in shavasana (sp?), yoga corpse position, wore a sleep mask and ear plugs, focused on breathing very slowly, and brought my gaze up to my third eye. I also kept the tip of my tongue on my palate.

I had a series of short tornado dreams. Some people said they got bored of their tornadoes, so as I was falling asleep, I told myself I wanted to make a tornado that I would love to sit and watch. I decided to try and make a purple tornado with lightning coming out of it.

I also looked at my hands saying, "Look at your hands. This is a dream. Make a tornado."

Tornado Dream #1:
( Third person perspective ) I am inside my dream house, a living house made from a banyan tree. I sleep in an egg shape made of banyan tree roots. The banyan tree is on a steep mountainside in Hawaii. I look like a creature in that movie Wizards, or a character by the graffiti artist Katch 1 whose art I just looked at on Saturday. I stick my head out of my egg/room and see a giant dark grey almost black tornado on the plain.

Tornado Dream #2
(third person view) I tried to astral project this time. I think I just dreamed. I flew up into outer space. I met Hal Jordan, one of the Green Lanterns from Detective Comics. He said, "You need to become a Green Lantern." I said, "I know. Hmm, I don't have a power ring."
Then I started thinking about the hassle of having a Power Battery to charge my ring, and how annoying that would be. Then I said, "or I could just become Ion.' Then, Ion, a green glowing symbiote entity of pure willpower, appeared about two feet long hovering in front of me, looking like a catfish. He then swam into my torso, merging with me. A green force field covered me, hovering about an inch off of my skin. Suddenly Hal Jordan and I were on Earth. We sat on a mountain. He pointed his ring at the ground. Something like a sunbeam came out. He pointed to a spot on the the plain below. It reminded me of using a magnifying glass with the sun. A little smoke or vapor came out of the bright spot on the ground, and then a grey tornado formed out of it. I thought, "How do I do that without a ring? Well, it looks boring anyway. I don't care about doing that."

Tornado Dream #3
(First person) I was at this Arts Center I hang out at. I was standing in front of the bar, looking into my palm. A tiny purple tornado, about four or five inches high, was moving back and forth across my hand in figure-eights. It reminded me of a top, and it kind of tickled. It felt like a top spinning on my hand.

I am including the next WILD because it was so very vivid, though it has nothing to do with a tornado.
I am in a barbershop where I got my head shaved (just the top) for a role in a play (in waking life). A woman walks in with a plastic grocery bag. She takes out an ulu (breadfruit) and gives it to me, saying, "Have a nice trip!"

I like the idea of WILD's. I have never heard of the concept before. I have tried it before hearing its name, but I often wake up as soon as it starts. These WILD's were probably about five or ten seconds long each. Reading about it has helped me a lot.

Nice job, Nomad! And three different times, very impressive.

Advanced Task Completed!!! YEAH! (forgive me if I get a little excited. I'm still new at this. )

Here's the entry:

25.08.2009

Tornado (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was driving along a highway on the side of a mountain and I thought "Where am I? This must be a dream." I looked at my hands and sure enough they were all deformed.

I ditched the car by floating out the passenger side window and out into the open. There was a valley below me but it was difficult to see because of a fog bank. I decided to explore the valley so I floated down through the fog.

I was having major stability issues and had to constantly look at my hands or focus on one of the cliff walls to keep my vision clear.

Once I was below the fog I could make out my surroundings. They were much different than I expected but not surprising. (This is a dream.)

The bottom area was about 50 feet wide and maybe 200 feet long. It was open but had multiple levels. Some levels had small ladders connecting them. I was standing on the back wall on a lower level. Cliffs rose up on all sides but the fog blocked my view of the sky. The cliffs were squared off like they were skyscrapers made of rock. They had rectangular caves for every floor. I made a point of just standing and looking around me trying to engrave that image into memory.

Once I was done looking around and felt stable enough to move on I tried to summons my DG once more. This almost knocked me out of the dream again so I calmed down, stabilized and figured I would just try that again later.

Then I remembered the task of the month. The biggest thing I've done up until now is change the weather so this would be cool if I could pull it off.

I saw some particles floating in the air nearby and whipped my hand around in circles to get them to move. It took a few moments but the particles did start to move. Then a funnel cloud appeared and slowly grew up farther than I could see. I was thrilled and just marveled and my accomplishment for a moment. Then I got bored and let the twister disperse.

Next I wanted to run at super human speed so I took off but nothing spectacular happened until I went to hop up onto the next level. I jumped about 20 feet up in the air did a back flip and landed. (Considering I usually fly everywhere I guess this wasn't that impressive but it sure felt cool. )

I decided to do another trick.
I wanted to try time control and since there weren't any people around I figured I would just throw something up in the air and try to make it slow down or stop. It didn't. I tried a few more times but gave up.
Next. Pyrokinesis.
Just as I was concentrating on making fire in my hands my vision went away. I tried to look at my hands but everything dissolved away.

All in all this was a pretty successful dream but I need to keep working on my control.

You had better hurry, ninja. Soon august will be over!

Simon, that is awesome that you could remember so many things you wanted to do! I've been only able to remember one thing per dream!

Originally Posted by Hercuflea

Holy crap....that reminds me so much of The Matrix...like its Neo telling you that the dream world is the "reality" and your world is an illusion

Holy...whatever! What is The Matrix?
Btw, in my dream I didn't get the impression that my DC is telling me that my world is not real and his is. It was more like: the BOTH worlds are real. And it felt really good and (somehow) true.

One of the greatest movies ever.

And if you watch it, you'll understand my sigpic.

Originally Posted by Supernova

One of the greatest movies ever.

And if you watch it, you'll understand my sigpic.

...thanks a lot for the link.
I remember now that I watched this movie a long time ago;but I completelly forgot about it. I'm going to watch it again.
Sweet Dreams

Basic Task Attempt #2: SUCCESS (I think)

20.08.2009

The Fisherman's Lure (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

4:20 - 5:00 a.m. (40 min)

...
Eventually I come to the ruins of a colosseum or amphitheater - something very ancient and in Greek or Roman style. The columns are basically all that are left, the rest having been overgrown with weeds & wildflowers. At this point I remember my goal of asking a DC how it feels to be a DC in my dream. Only, I am totally alone and no one else is around. I run through gaps in the columns, shouting something like, "Come on out!...Anybody! I'm waiting for you!" This forceful method doesn't work for a while, but as I'm shouting even louder and more desperately, I give the faintest hint of expectation to myself that someone is behind one of the far columns. Sure enough, when I run past and that area emerges into my line of sight, someone is there, waiting for me (it seems). I see a very exotic looking adult man, with brown skin, long, curly, black hair, and a flowing, purple silk shirt loosened on top to reveal part of his chest. I stop in my tracks, grateful my technique has borne fruit. I then walk towards him and ask, "Who are you and how does it feel to be a character in my dream?"

At first he smiles and has a very congenial look about him. Then he says, "I am the Fisherman. [pause] Come with me, fairy. You're mine now." This is definitely not a request; I've fallen into a trap! Instantly he shoots an invisible "hook" at me, which tethers me to him like a harpoon. Then he turns around and starts dragging me away to his realm (ostensibly). I feel powerless under the relentless tug of the line, my body dragging in the grass of the field.

Just as I'm consigning myself to my fate, I catch a brief glimpse of a maiden on horseback about 100 feet away. She's wearing a veil and seems like a princess - in fact, this whole scene seems like a fairy tale - and I, supposedly, am the fairy. The princess doesn't notice me, however. Maybe she sent the Fisherman to catch her a fairy to begin with. Regardless, something about seeing her strengthens and renews my will to escape. I think to myself, I'm lucid, this is my dream, I don't have to take this. I turn back the way I came and claw my fingers into the ground. A roar of unbelief issues from the Fisherman behind me. My visuals go black for a moment, but I know now that I have the strength to break free; my capture was only as real as I made it, that I let it happen.

The next thing I know I'm rocketing across the field unbound, enjoying a surge of freedom.
...

Read the entire dream at my dream journal.