Task of the month for September 2009

[ninja9578]

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?

[ninja9578]

Sorry for the wait, I've been away. Have fun on this one

[Jonny the Nameless]

Leaves fall from the trees. 1. Nuclear fallout, then sow the leaves back with needle and thread 2. Stay still for an entire year in fast forward 3. Simply look away, look back, look away But even just remembering the tasks would be a start. Think I'll go for the apple. Mabye get it from a tree. Mabye get it from einsteins' tree.

[-Blakren-]

These sound kinda hard to do. Yeah, I'll probably try the apple one first. By the way, with the leaves one, what do you mean when you say go back?

[Pretzel]

So far I've always been able to remember exactly what I want to do in dreams. I like the leaves one... I have to try that. And by "going back", does that mean putting the leaves back on the tree?

[ninja9578]

Yes, it means make the leaves go back onto the tree.

[CarmineEternity]

I'm making it my task of the month to have a lucid dream. lolz. banana.

[TheConqueror89]

This month's task seems more difficult to me but, as soon as i end this dry spell (my MILDs don't work anymore, omg, and i always get asleep on my WILD attempts), i will try to remember and do that.

[Baron Samedi]

1st Attempt at Advanced: I tried this this morning, listening to the lucid induction song. I was Pan walking through a forest, looking at myself in the third person from the front, bird's eye view. I was right on the verge of dreaming. A neighbor who revs his engine every morning (I don't know why! You don't need to warm up your engine in hawaii!) started his car, and freeway overpasses grew over the forest. He kept revving his engine, and I woke up. 2nd Attempt at Advanced task: I went back to sleep, to try and reenter. I became Pan again, and meditated in front of a tree. I couldn't stay asleep. I'm sure I can do it. I can see it so clearly in my mind.

[DarkLucideity]

The basic task seems a little pointless so I'm going to have to think up a creative way to do it. Advanced, I might get to it .

[NeoUmbra]

Damn it, i did last months task last night cause i havent had a lucid in a while, and then this comes up! Ohwell, hopefully ill be lucid tonight and give it a shot.

[endymion]

First Attempt: FAILURE 03.09.2009 The Smell of the Sensuous (WILD) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID 6:50 - 7:10 a.m. (20 min) ... Completing this goal reminds me of my other goal, the DV Task of the Month of causing leaves to fall from a tree and then reattach. I realize I cannot complete this goal here at Moyer base in Idaho, as there aren't many trees around and the ones that are are conifers. I remember my most vivid autumn colors experience at Potawatami State Park in Wisconsin and decide to teleport there to complete this goal. I jump up and spin a new scene. The technique works textbook-perfectly, with my visuals going black for a moment, my body spinning very fast and revolving dozens of times as I'm suspended in midair until I re-emerge in what looks to be a cross between Potawatami and the backyard of my childhood home. Surprisingly, the person who "greets" me there is my old boss from when I worked at Wyalusing State Park (for the Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources), Brian H. He says that I'm not allowed in here and that I need to leave immediately. When I make to continue on anyway, he tries to wrestle me to the ground. I easily neutralize his advances and pin him down on the ground, helpless. When I let him up he comes at my again trying to stop me. And again, I effortlessly kick and punch and finally pin him down once more. It's not until after at least three attempts that he finally concedes defeat and leaves. I continue on, but turn around when I hear my dad and brother calling me from behind. They say they're here to help with my goal. I don't know what they could possibly do, but I let them tag along anyway. Now for some reason I find this environment to be unsuitable for the completion of my goal, even though before I fought Brian there were trees with golden yellow leaves all around me. I decide that it has to be done in the front yard. I walk through the wooden gate bordering the side of the house, and as I do I achieve the highest level of lucidity of the whole dream. I verbally confirm the realness and nowness of the dream, as well as try to remember details of my waking life. I acknowledge that my real body is sleeping in a bed at Moyer base in Idaho. Just thinking about this raises my consciousness and even the detail of the dream considerably. Moments later I round the corner into the front yard. Despite the abundance of trees, I am disappointed, since all of them have green leaves instead of fall colors. Kind of silly in retrospect, since the task never specifies that the leaves have to be a certain color. But in any case, I spend a significant amount of time and effort trying to get the leaves' color to change. The tree I have in mind is a beautiful, giant live oak I see in our front yard that extends over the driveway with its long horizontal branches full of vermilliades. It's quite out of place in Wisconsin, but that's hardly relevant. I'm not sure exactly what I try to do to get the colors to change, but none of it works. I get somewhat distracted and jump up to the upper branches of the tree, then from there out above the street and fly around for a while. ... Read the full dream at my dream journal.

[Baron Samedi]

That's funny how you felt like you had to turn them orange. It makes me laugh how we get affected by dream logic still. And then, we're like, "Oh, eff, this! I'm going to fly around beeyotch!" I have a hypothesis that we can do anything we can conceive in a lucid dream, but we have to really believe we can. We have to see ourselves doing it, even in our subconscious. But, i think we create worlds with rules in them, just so we feel safe. Imagine decreasing the rules of a lucid dream so much, that no laws of physics would apply. It boggles the mind, but if we could grasp that idea fully in waking life, we can dream of such a world. I don't know if this is true, but everything I have been able to imagine doing in a daydream visualization, I can eventually do in a lucid dream. Aha! I should further the circle, and have lucid dreams about what I want my waking life to be! Lucid dreaming about a possible reality. Hey, thanks for the inspiration bro. Peace

[Jonny the Nameless]

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)

[ninja9578]

Nice job Jonny the Nameless

[Jonny the Nameless]

Thank you ninja 9578 What happens next month, when you get the orange name at the bottom? Do you also get to help decide next months challenge? I'm pretty chuffed at managing it this time, and have a few ideas to add to the pot.

[ninja9578]

You will gain access to the task of the month club forum, that's where the tasks are decided usually

[Baron Samedi]

Great job, Jonny the Nameless. Third missed attempt: Well, I had a very vivid sex LD last night, but it had nothing to do with the task, so I'll just post the whole thing in my dream journal. I got so amazed by the clarity and lucidity, I totally forgot about the task.

[KingYoshi]

I completed the advanced task, here is my entry... September 7, 2009 Lucid Dream 97: WILD-ly Unstable WILD around 1:00pm Category - WTF/Task I had awoken this morning and laid back down this evening. I immediately felt some random SP come on. I thought, "Yup, its go time!" I laid still and my SP lasted quite a long time. I began seeing through my eye lids in short periods followed by periods of darkness. I could hear somebody talking just above my head. It was muffled and sounded like it was coming from the closet. Suddenly I heard a door hinge sqeak and heard a man yelling in extreme anger. My heart began to race a bit, but I quickly calmed down when I noticed the voice was my own. This was truly a strange HH. I could see myself looking down at my own body and yelling at me to get up and fight. I was now not frightened at all, but in complete awe at what was going on. Suddenly, I saw the hallucination of myself swing its leg back and kick me in my side. It repeatedly kicked me over and over. It didn't hurt, but I could most definately feel it. Suddenly, my vision blurred and restored itself. I decided it time to enter the dream world. I sat up and took off for my window. I dove headfirst out of it and attempted to take flight. My vision was still fairly blurry and seemed to be fading in and out. I could hear the damn dvd menu music and I tried hard to block it out and ignore it. I had a lot of trouble flying and decided to give it up. I walked over toward a large tree that had a small group of people under it. I remembered the task of the month. My vision was now fairly clear, but everyones face was distorted and looked rather frightening. I ignored these oddities and told one of the people to watch what I was about to do. I looked up toward the tree and raised both of my hands into the air. A huge rush of wind burst through the tree and removed every leaf from it. My vision distorted horribly for a few seconds and then returned to its normal state. Large, neatly seperated piles of leaves were now scattered below the tree's bare limbs. Everyone faces were now clear, but I noticed that they all had adult bodies with young children's faces (like 9 or 10 year olds). It was truly an odd site. All of them began cheering and jumping in and out of the leaf piles. I walked over to an undisturbed leaf pile, reached my hands inside and abruptly thrust them to the sky. All the leaves in the pile shot up and reclaimed their place on the tree limbs. The adult/kids all began yelling at me and calling me an a**hole and a few other, more explicit, names. My vision kept blurring badly, in and out as I walked around to the other piles of leaves. I rubbed my hands together which didn't work very well and continued walking around throwing more piles back into the tree. I heard the dvd menu music once more and couldn't hold on any longer. I had a false awakening that fooled me and then I awoke for good shortly after.

[legonut4]

I finished the advacned task 07.09.2009 leaf falling ld (DILD) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID I was standindg on the side of my garage. I jumped up for some reason and went very high. I tried to breathe through my nose, which I could not do, but I then looked at my hands and they were very short. like the got cut at the first joint. I got lucid and remembered the advanced task of the month. I went over to our side yard and there were a few brown leaves on it. I made them fall down, but couldnt see it because it swung around the house and then came back. I moved closer to get a better view and tried again. this time all the breown leaves fall and when they came back they were diffrent shades of blue, green, and yellow. There was also a little kid swinging on it. i went on to try the next task, but woke up before i could this task was really fun

[Baron Samedi]

Good job homies. That is so funny that your dream characters got pissed at you for putting the leaves back on the tree, King Yoshi. I started laughing my ass off.

[Jonny the Nameless]

Endymion: "I re-emerge in what looks to be a cross between Potawatami and the backyard of my childhood home." KingYoshi: "they all had adult bodies with young children's faces...the adult/kids all began yelling at me" Legonut: "There was also a little kid swinging on it." Recurring theme? Does this normally happen, or do you recon its because we havent played with leaves since being a kid?

[Baron Samedi]

excpert from me dream journal I landed on earth in a forest, and shockwaves came out from my hooves, blowing leaves off the trees. The leaves suddenly froze in the air, as I squatted. As I leapt into outer space, I spun around, and pointed my hands at the earth. The leaves swirled around and landed on the trees. I landed back on the moon, and jumped back and forth between the earth and moon in a few seconds in each leap. I jumped off the moon, and flew back to the earth again. I landed in a forest. I took a huge inhale, and turned my head sucking all the leaves off of the trees into my mouth in a cone shape in front of me. My cheeks puffed out like a chipmunk. With a godly exhale, I blew all the leaves back on the trees again. I jumped up in the air and hovered about 80 feet above the ground. I flew forward in a vertical position, and spun around, arms at my sides, clockwise. I sucked the leaves off of trees in a whirlwind, and then the leaves would land right back where the came off the trees. I moved my green whirlwind forward faster. I stuck my arms out at my sides, and made the whirlwind tilt left and right. I raised my arms toward the sky, and made another leaf tornado on top of me, so it was an hourglass shape. I grew up in Hawaii and Washington, but mainly Hawaii, so I think that's why my leaves didn't change color.

[Jonny the Nameless]

Nicely done. LInteresting that they didnt change colour

[KingYoshi]

Jonny: "Recurring theme? Does this normally happen, or do you recon its because we havent played with leaves since being a kid?" Lol, that is crazy. Its most likely the latter.