Task of the month for September 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 - Give a teacher / professor an apple
Advanced Task - Makes the leaves fall, then go back
Could one of the dream guides or mods move this to the TOTM forum late tonight or tomorrow morning? :)
1st Attempt:Advanced Task: Success!!
I have that feeling of falling, and I focus on what to do while lucid dreaming. I can hear sounds vividly, like dreaming, but I was aware of the position I was lying in on my bed.
I was aware of the position my body was lying in in my bed, but the dream landscape was still appearing. I follow the advice of someone from a lucid dreaming forum, and just switch my attention to the dream reality. It feels wrong, but after a while, I forget about lying in bed.
So I try to decide what to do. 'Get pregnant!' (to give birth) 'Give an apple'. I remember the advanced task DreamViews Task of the month, which is to make all the leaves fall off a tree, and then return to the tree.
There is a tree ahead of me, bare except for a small cluster of brown leaves in the middle. The rest of the landscape is bare and vague.
I just think about the leaves falling, and they fall. I look up the tree, and make the leaves return to the tree with ease.
As the leaves return, they are purple, and blue, and pink. More leaves return than had dropped, and they knit themselves to the ends of the branches first. The tree has purple/pink/blue leaves, and bark, and the gaps were white, like all of the bark was placed on a white center. (Similar to a gram stained microscope slide, but more psychedelic).
I decide to fly. I imagine flying over the tree, but kind of get stuck looking up at the tree, which is growing taller, brighter, more vivid. The dream is now entirely visual, I have lost all sense of having a body in the dream, and as I wake up I think about drawing the tree, or writing it down....
... I wake up in a strange bed. As I remove the duvet, I see there was no sheet over the mattress, and the mattress had a couple of leaves and stones on it. I am kind of disgusted at the thought of sleeping on a strange bare mattress.
This was a false awakening, and I continue to have a dream about social etiquette.
NOTE: I think thinking too much about how to fly has made it temporarily more difficult for me. Ive tried it twice since I read 'just look where you want to go' and this has made it more difficult since. Next time instead of looking where I want to go, I'll just fly. (Or jump, superjumping is fun)
First attempt, Advanced Task, Success!!
Complete dream in my Dream Journal if you want to read the rest of the cool stuff :)..
I put the cat on my shoulder and looked up at the trees, when I remembered the Task of the Month. I decided I was going to make the leaves fall off and go back up. I chose a tall tree with lots of leaves. It looked like a maple tree with the leaves in full fall color, oranges and yellows. I made a breeze blow up just by thinking about it. I waved my hands around in front of the tree, sort of like 'jazz hands':boogie:and the leaves all fell off and drifted to the ground. Then I created another breeze, waved my hands from the ground to the tree, and the leaves went back up and settled back onto the branches. So cool!