Thread: Task of the month for August 2009

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.