Thread: Task of the month for February 2010

Yeah, big difference there.

Originally Posted by Snowy Egypt

I don't think Kate Beckinsale is a guy.

Awesome dream Yoshi. The whole wedding seemed like it was wonderful. You have me interested in this task now. And that dog showing up was hilarious. XD Definitely a WTF moment. Question; this JT character seems like a DG of sorts. Is he?

I never really thought about it before because he is one of my real good friends in waking life, but as a DC he always seems to be helping me with dream stuff.

Wow the basic task is easy then. I'll go lucid and walk out in the sun and look for a shadow, then i'm going to fly to the sun. Even though flying to the sun is not the basic task, it sounds to awesome not to try.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Okay, just a clarification. The term "go in the sun" means simply walk into sunlight, not literally fly to the sun.

Are you serious? I thought it meant literally fly into the sun because of the thing about seeing if you had a shadow. Because in the sun, light would be hitting you from all directions, so how could you have a shadow? And yet...somehow I did when I flew into it

Oh well...I still completed the advanced task properly; no doubt about that.

Does literally flying into the sun still count as completing the basic task? You are still in the sunlight, and you're seeing if you have a shadow...

...that's what the basic task is? Are you fecking serious? I was going to take up the hard task just because it sounded easier than the basic! Oh, well, I still want to marry some cutie...

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Okay, just a clarification. The term "go in the sun" means simply walk into sunlight, not literally fly to the sun.

No way! I did this on January 29th not realising it would be February's task! Does that count? Entry is here.

I almost got to the basic task last night, but couldn't find any sunlight (My lucids are all dark and realistic for some reason). Any tips on making the sun come out? I'm quite new to dream control.

Originally Posted by LucidApprentice

Any tips on making the sun come out? I'm quite new to dream control.

next time your lucid and its dark, just expect that the sun is about to rise. really believe that it is about to happen. expecting things to happen is a great form of control in dreams and works almost every time

I don't know why we shouldn't fly into the sun

Originally Posted by JamesLD

next time your lucid and its dark, just expect that the sun is about to rise. really believe that it is about to happen. expecting things to happen is a great form of control in dreams and works almost every time

Yes, good advice. I would even goes as far as looking into the horizon and imagining the sun coming up. Picture it in your mind slowly rising above the horizon. Expectations and the imagination could be your two most powerful tools in a lucid dream.

Originally Posted by KingYoshi

Yes, good advice. I would even goes as far as looking into the horizon and imagining the sun coming up. Picture it in your mind slowly rising above the horizon. Expectations and the imagination could be your two most powerful tools in a lucid dream.

Noted...

Woohoo, I completed the basic, now time to work on the advanced. Here is the snippet from my DJ which can be found here The tales of a wandering soul

I am immediately sure that I am dreaming and go fully lucid. I jump down and rip the head off the mountain lion as I watch my other self die. I run to the edge of the platform and jump. I plummet to the world below, I had no intent of flying. As I approach I right myself and land creating a slow motion crater in the middle of a field. I look around and find myself in a well maintained field.

I remember the challenge of the month rather unexpectedly. So I twist my head all the way around while my body stays pointed forward, don't know why but thought it would be cool to try. And look at the ground behind me to see if I have a shadow.

The sun is beginning to set but there is still enough light for me to see that I do have what is similar to a shadow in my dream except it is not a constant form, it shifted from what I would expect to see as my shadow, to what appeared to be the shadow of a demon with wings and horns, then to a knight in armor, then to an attractive female shape and finally back to myself. I tell my shadow to stop changing and pick what shape it wanted to be. The shadow turned into a question mark shape for a moment then stayed as the shape of the knight. I accept this and turn my head back around.

hope you enjoy and that fits to the rules.

Originally Posted by 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 - Go in the sunlight and see if you have a shadow

Advanced Task - Get married on the Maid of the Mist*

Maid of the Mist

...I went downstairs and found myself in the living room of my parents house. My dad made breakfast with really weird, thick orange juice. Realizing that I shouldn't be here at all I reality checked and had too many fingers. LUCID

Immediately I left the room and stepped outside through the glass sliding door entering an enormous heath! I recognized this heath from my holidays to France and wanted to recreate holiday conditions (it's also snowing in waking life, for a couple of freakin' months now :S ). I flew away, summoned a gigantic pool in the neighbors garden and transformed my weird clothes in a swimming pants, all in mid air at 30 meters height.

With great velocity I flew in the water (amazing). I could see my shadow/reflection increasing as I got closer...

The water felt refreshingly cold, nice!

I completed the Basic Task as well. Here is my entry....



February 8, 2010
Lucid Dream 149: A Basket Full of Wonders
around 9:00pm
DILD

Category - WTF/Task


I'm driving my car on my way to work and it begins to rain. I turn on my windshield wipers, but they aren't helping any. Soon my windshield is covered in a thick film of water and I can't see a thing. I decide to pull over and try and fix my windshield wipers. I attempt to slow down, but my brakes aren't working properly either. I start freaking out thinking I'm about to wreck. I think to myself, "Damnit Ninja! It figures reading about your bad brakes (in your dream) would cause me to wreck another "dream" car! BAM....Lucidity!

The moment I became lucid, I slammed into a guard rail and was thrown through my windshield. Before my body hit the ground I took flight. I flew over a couple of mountains and noticed a river running down in a valley. I flew down and landed beside the river. I walked to the edge of the water and I figured I might as well break out a sacrilegious activity. I decided to try and walk on water. I concentrated and placed one foot onto the water. It felt pretty solid, so I leaned forward and stepped with the other foot. I was now standing on the top of the water. I got pretty excited about this and took one more step. I remained on top of the water and had successfully walked on water. I then tested my luck and took a tiny bunny-hop. I still stayed on top of the water. Standing on water felt kind of weird. It felt like I was standing on jello. I then sprang into the air about ten feet and attempted to land back on the water. It didn't work and I was sucked down stream.

I floated fairly quickly down the river and could feel the warm sun hitting my face. I thought to myself, "This reminds me of a lazy river at the beach." A few seconds after the thought, I noticed big yellow inner tubes floating around me. Before I could even finish the thought, water was splashed in my face by some little kid being everything but lazy in my lazy river (hate when that happens, lol). I was now laying in a inner tube myself and there was a medium sized wicker basket on the front of it. I looked in the basket and saw a gun. I thought, "WTF?" I then was splashed once again in the face by the little kid kicking his feet in his inner tube. I said, "I don't have to put up with this shit." I then grabbed the pistol and put a bullet in the back of the kids head. He fell off the tube and sunk under water.

I saw some blood in the water as I floated by his vacant tube. Another person beside me looked panicked and said, "Did you just shoot him! Why? Why did you just shoot him?" I answered, "The little bastard was splashing water in my face!" The guy chuckled and said, "Oh ok. You freaked me out there for a minute, I thought you didn't have a good reason. That is why they give everyone a gun in the basket after all. We gotta keep those bastards out of here!" I laughed and laid back in my tube allowing the sun to warm my face. I thought to myself, "This would be good time for a blunt." I imagined a blunt and then glanced into my basket once again. There was a whole basket full of blunts. Must have been a hundred of them. I pulled four of them out and stuck them all in my mouth. I then lit all four of them and got blazed out of my mind.

I just lazed in my river for several minutes smoking when I noticed my shadow in the water next to me. I glanced up into the sky and saw the sun beaming down on me. I looked back at my shadow and saw that it was correctly imitating my actions, but it was lagging a bit behind. My shadow became darker and darker as I watched it, until I noticed it had become an actually shadow-person floating in the water. I watched my shadow climb into its own unner tube and float up beside me. I instinctively passed one of my blunts to it. Me and my shadow floated down the river in peaceful silence smoking blunts together for a good while. I just kept getting new ones out of my basket when we had finished the previous ones. We must have smoked 20 blunts before I finally woke, lol.

PS: No offence to anyone. I respect others religious beliefs. I'm just telling it how it happened

Oh god Yoshi, that dream really cracked me up. Haha, amazing dream man.

Does it matter what time you go to sleep? I usually go at 10- 11, by the time im in bed and waiting to sleep it usually 11 when I tried to go to bed at 8 once... i cant go to sleep maybe i was chanting too much but i was awake till 10-11 pm.

So we can sleep whenever we want?

Originally Posted by XeL

Oh god Yoshi, that dream really cracked me up. Haha, amazing dream man.

I agree with this completely.

@Squaddle: Of course you can sleep when ever you want... The task just needs to be done in a lucid dream, so go to sleep at whatever time works best for you...

That's not my point lol.
Just wondering how the REM cycle would be diff if we sleep at diff time, would it be the same but adjusts to at what time we sleep?
Cuz when I try to sleep at 8 i couldnt till 10-11 which i usually do, a habit of the body? not accustomed?

I'm pretty sure that it's a good idea to establish a fairly regular sleep cycle, so your body doesn't have to keep adjusting itself. Settle into a nice habit...then, when you go to WILD, you'll have a better idea of when your REM periods are. I think...

Originally Posted by XeL

Oh god Yoshi, that dream really cracked me up. Haha, amazing dream man.

Originally Posted by Hidden

I agree with this completely.

Glad you enjoyed it guys (and girls )!

@Squaddle, like Mario said, it is a good idea to keep a consistent sleep schedule (especially for beginners). For me, my sleep schedule is consistently inconsistent, and it works for me. I'm pretty experienced when it comes to lucid dreaming though (may be the reason I can sleep odd hours and still have success), and I wouldn't suggest an inconsistent schedule to beginners.

Oooh, okay. ;P

But yeah, what Mario and Yoshi said...

Though is there a good time to go to sleep to get the most out of it?

I believe what time you go to sleep is just personal preference. You could experiment with different times if you wanted, but I don't think it matters a whole lot as long as you're consistent (at least at first).

That is what you were asking, right?