Task of the month for May 2010

Completed both tasks after failing twice! Finally!
I will post the full dream in my DJ soon, but here's the concerned part.

I was at the top of the World Trade Center. Don't ask me how I got there, but in brief, it was an unexpected scenario change right after an FA. Remembering the task of the month, I summoned some parachutes for me and some of my friends, who somehow happened to be there. We all run far back, and I see that my shoes have now become roller blades. All for the better, I thought. We speed towards the end, but there was a fence type barrier, almost two meters high, that protected people from falling. At the last moment, I do a back flip, flawlessly avoiding it.
I am in mid-air, and rushing toward the ground. The wind was holding me up, slowing my fall. It was amazing, with the wind against my face and through my clothes. I decide to try some acrobatic tricks, but I find that it is quite hard to move about. All I manage is to roll about a bit. :D
Somehow, the ground was still far away. Then one of my friends comes over to help me with tricks in mid-air. She looks like a pro, doing back flips and all kinda weird stuff that I would only manage in a lucid and on the ground. She teaches me the basics of using the air resistance and adjusting angles and such, and pretty soon I am able to do some quite impressive moves. I thank her for that, and suddenly the basic task clicks on in my mind. I look for a flower in my pocket, but all I find is a doll of a clown. I look desperately for a flower elsewhere, and spot one little decoration rose in the breast pocket of my tuxedo. I take it out, and it's still fresh. I give her the flower, telling her that it was a token of appreciation. She looks delighted by it, and thanks me. Now that I have no more tasks, I look around. I am still falling, but somehow we are at the Mount Everest. In fact, I am right on top of it. I am about to hit the ground, but I turn gravity off quickly, slowing my fall to a graceful landing.

Well, that's that. I had some more fun with my LD after landing, but I will post the full dream in my DJ soon.

PS you can count on me to be a regular on completing the Lucid tasks each month. Coz I like that orange name and badges of yours!

Monkeyking & Delwind, you're both getting badges, but keep in mind that to receive a badge, you'll always have to post a full description of the dream (or at least the relevant parts) in the thread here or link it to your dream journal on DV. A short description is okay if your recall wasn't great, but generally try to write the whole thing out in detail. ;)

You aren't required to link to your dream journal, but it's generally how it's done. :cheeky:

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Originally Posted by lucidmax15895

PS you can count on me to be a regular on completing the Lucid tasks each month. Coz I like that orange name and badges of yours!

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Yeah, they are very cool :)

if you WILD you can pick up a new dream, and start out on the skyscraper.

Hey, skydiving was my idea!
Just kidding.

Managed to do the advanced. But its so bleak, really before the dream the advanced task was the last thing i thought about. Then in the dream (it started out lucid) i was on the Empire state building. I hesitated out of nervousness to jump, i remembered it was a dream, so i just jumped. it blacks out for a few seconds, but as i see myself almost hitting the ground a hole opens up, and i travel half-way across the earth by going through it. Ended up in china, then i woke up because my watch's alarm went off.

Completed the advanced task to jump off a skyscraper! I'll post a failed attempt first for funny-ness' sake, then the actual success dream:

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http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...01#post1461901

15.05.2010

95: 5.15.10; 11:41AM Part 2: Attempt to Jump Off a Skyscraper. (DEILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I come out of the previous dream and visualize another scene, going into a lucid where I'm next to a road that cuts through a dead corn field in the mid-afternoon. There's a girl there I recognize who is trying to DEILD as well, so someone (it could have been me who told her, but I don't recall) explains to close her eyes, visualize a scene, and walk around to get lucid. I take this advice myself and walk down a path adjacent to the road, which convinces me that I'm lucid.

I turn around and I think of putting myself on a skyscraper to jump off it. I use the previously mentioned method to put myself on top of one, but I find myself still in a field after I walk around a bit. I visualize the skyscraper again, complete with an aerial view of a skyscraper with a beautiful sprawling metropolis surrounding it, and wake up from the dream.

http://clydemachine.netthrilldesigns...ina/DV/May.png

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http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...04#post1461904

15.05.2010

95: 5.15.10; 11:41AM Part 3: Over the Edge of a Skyscraper. (DEILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Dissatisfied that I'd only had one lucid this morning, I continued my DEILD attempts, all trying to place me on a skyscraper - a simple white/grey square building top with blue sky all around. Several attempts saw me get too excited for the experience of falling from a skyscraper, and I would stay awake with my eyes closed. However, I succeeded in one attempt and got into a lucid, walking atop the skyscraper I'd envisioned. I walked right up to the edge and peered down, not seeing that sprawling metropolis at the bottom I'd hoped for, but chose to hop down anyway. My body felt that convincing, exciting, very real lurch as I slipped into the air, over the edge, and started falling down the side of the skyscraper. The excitement from that lurching feeling of falling brought me out of the dream.

Further attempts at DEILDs brought me no closer to more lucids than a few hallucinogenic visuals.

http://clydemachine.netthrilldesigns...ina/DV/May.png

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xXxUnumtriumxXx , awesome :D

Thanks for the tips... I think I got it now.
Here's me completing the advanced task. For the entire dream see my dream Journal. The link is in my sig.

...I'm dreaming! I now know why I've been so confused, and begin laughing hysterically at how well my mind tricked me away from lucidity so successfully. I also notice the sun is going down, closing the end of my second day dreaming. I use the computer at my dream job a bit and talk with a few dream employees before sitting down to watch some TV. I feel very strong in the dream so I'm just letting things go a bit. I sleep in my dream and awake to go for a bike ride with friends and eat lunch. I'm jumping my Tallbike all over the place and my friends are amazed at my skills. I go back to work and sit down to watch TV when I realize how boring this LD is. I think to myself, I'm sleeping on the couch with the TV on in thew background and dreaming lucidly of sitting on the couch watching TV. That is a collosal waste of an LD. I ignore the other people in the room and decide I'm going to fly. I jump up to take off Goku style and remember that usually I have to just jump and get floating first. I am immediately successful and fly up through the roof and into a building next to me. It is a huge office building with glass dividers between everything and white tile floor. I fly around a bit and get bored with aimlessly flying, so I go back to my "work house" I try to think of what I want to do next and remember I've been trying to skydive off a skyscraper for the Monthly advanced task on the forum and fly back up through the roof. This time it feels like my flight battery is low because I'm getting stuck in the roof and having to climb my way up and out of the structure. I experience the same thing at the corporate building. The tiles are breaking into large white scrabble tiles and I have to swim through them and finally I end up on the roof. I think about how many of the people describe jumping off of a building and falling, but no one has actually "skydived" off of a building. I decide I'm going to do a proper base jump, but first I needed a cheering section. I begin to conjure the sounds of people on the street. Weakly I hear 4 or five people cheering "one hundred" disjointedly. I think down to the ant sized people below that they need to cheer my name and within a few moments there is a tremendous group of civilians cheering 'Bri-AN, Bri-An Bri-AN'! I look down and realize it's far and scary. I check for a parachute to find there is none. I think real hard about it and check again. Still no parachute. I look down and think, I'm not going to have the courage to jump. I know I'm only dreaming, but it is still hard to actually throw myself off of a skyscraper. I decide to steel myself to the task, and figure my parachute IS there, it's just an invisible dream parachute. With that I jump. Hurtling downward and like a heavy leaf, swaying back and forth in the wind I fall and fall. My arms and legs spread out to stabilize my body in the wind. I reach my right hand to touch the top of my head and put my left hand near the small of my back to check my stability before I pull off, which is proper technique for ensuring you are stable enough to deploy your 'chute. I pull the cord on my left with my right hand inches from the ground and immediately go shooting back up into the sky. I pulled to low to float down slowly and my invisible 'chute is fast and responsive. I stall the 'chute just before hitting the ground a second time and roll as I hit to ensure I don't hurt myself. I'm ecstatic. As I gather my invisible 'chute, which is now very real, the same colors as the shotgun towers, I see my friends all waiting to congratulate me. The sun had come up on my 4th day in dream as I was skydiving.

I open my eyes on the couch and say out loud, 'I DID IT' before closing my eyes again.
I open my eyes on the couch at the work house and think, 'Man, I'm still lucid! what should I do now?'

There is a knock at the door;
"U.S. Census, anybody home?"
Time to wake up.

To clarify, No one had actually parachuted last time I read the thread. It seems now people have properly base jumped. I also wasn't trying to take away from anyone else's experience. It was merely an observation I made within the dream to aid me in accomplishing the base jump to the best of my ability..

Man, that's an awesome way to do it, monkeyking! I want to go back and try to really land after jumping off the building, to see how I'd hit the ground, with or without a parachute. :D

bTotM-give someone a flower

"I reach the exit and go outside, there are a lot of people around and it is raining. I turn my attention to the b-TotM-give someone a flower. I see flowers in the bed near the steps. I pluck one and remove the roots. I don't kow flowers. It's yellow. The first girl I try says “No thanks.” But the second girl accepts the flower. She already has a red one."

Full entry is in my DJ.

Hmmm, that advanced task puts thoughts and ideas running through my head. I really want to do that.

It might just have motivated me enough to do it.

Basic Task completed, though I didn't actually expect to do it this morning! :shadewink:
If you're interested, I recalled 7 dreams total today, and I proved the power of the DEILD method as a sort of LDing catch-all to getting lucid easily. Details on page 7 of my DJ!

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Originally Posted by Clyde Machine

18.05.2010

98: 5.18.10; 10:30AM Part 5: Dating Assistant Clyde Machine! (DEILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Coming out of a dream, I visualized a new one and found myself in a field of red and yellow flowers. I wanted to do the task of the month, but I wanted it to be more interesting than merely handing a flower to someone, so I put a couple in the field in front of me. Unaware of my presence, they faced away from me and were naked, appearing almost as cartoon characters, sitting next to one another, unmoving.

I pulled up a yellow flower and tapped the young lady on her shoulder, holding up the flower where she could see it. She turned her head, enough to see the flower but not enough for me to see details of her face, and waited a few moments before her hand shot up and plucked the flower from my hand. I watched and waited, expecting her to give the flower to the young man next to her, but the dream faded out before I saw anything further.

http://clydemachine.netthrilldesigns...ina/DV/May.png

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Ack! Damn faulty logic, I thought I did the task last night, but thought they were something totally different :P

*Skydiving*
I was with Tigress and we were on top of a tall building. I looked over the edge. I could see the street far below, and there was traffic on the street. The cars looked like ants from up there. I could also see something circular. I remembered that it was a stargate. Tigress and I were aiming for that stargate. I remembered what we were going to do. We were going to base jump without a parachute and aim for the stargate… but what if I missed? I'd be a pancake. Apparently Tigress saw the worry. She asked if I was lucid. She said to do a reality check. I did a nose-pinch reality check and discovered I was dreaming!

Now that I realized I was dreaming, Tigress and I jumped off the building with no hesitation now. On the way down I was still a bit concerned that I would miss the stargate. I'd have to fly back up, and I didn't want to end up somewhere different from where Tigress ended up… That was not necessary, however, as we both dropped straight through the stargate with no difficulty. We both plunged through the stargate into the wormhole, and went speeding through the wormhole which was a very cool effect. We came tumbling out the other end of the stargate, and I tumbled into something hard and things went dark…
http://www.technovelgy.com/graphics/...5/wormhole.jpg

Soon I was standing on the Empire State Building. I was wearing a black and orange base jumping suit. Raven was wearing a black and blue one. She looked over at me. "You seem really excited." she shouted over the wind. I hooked up my orange helmet. "You forget, this was a goal of mine before the Task of the Month!" I shouted back. I lifted my arms out and jumped off the building. The wind rushed by me and I headed toward the Stargate below. I wanted to make sure I wasn't going to fast, because you leave the gate at the same speed you enter it. I caught a wind current and used it to slow my approach. I entered the gate.

Damn, the month's nearly over! I'm going to do it anyway even if I don't get it in time. :P

Good luck guys :) There is still time

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Originally Posted by PercyLucid

Good luck guys :) There is still time

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I had a decent 20 minute lucid last night but couldn't find a skyscraper anywhere. I was flying above and all around the city. I was asking DC's for the location but got attacked and shit.

At one point I was using a computer (with a screen obviously) but didn't think to try and use it to teleport.

Only a few days left of this month but I'll try to get em both done :happyhappy:

I find that when I wake up in the morning, I usually have a REM dream (you know what I mean). So hopefully I might be able to get myself up like that and go into a WILD. Btw is it easier to have dream recalls from WILDs or is it the same as all of the other LD's?

I tried the advanced last night but lost lucidity half way through.
I was in a city, with really tall sky scrapers all around me. Assumed it was New York although I wasn't sure. I didn't know which one to skydive off so I summonded a helicopter and got in. I wasn't driving it though; some random DC was. I was just looking out of the window in fascination at the huge city below me. Suddenly I saw 'the building' it was like way way taller than all the others and I told the pilot to take me there. He refused and made a beeline straight for the ground and we crashed.

So yeah :/
I'm going to try again tonight though

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He walks out through the door. I somehow end up on the top floor of the building. I look out over Stockholm. "Ah, that's the roof where I did some urban exploration". My dad told me it has been shut off from the public ever since a guy fell over the railing (this didn't actually happen). "Wait, when did he tell me that?" "What day is it today" I notice that my watch is missing. I become lucid. "WOW, it was just a dream", I think to myself. There is a woman staring at me standing there talking for myself. "You probably think I'm insane, huh?" I say and smile. "NO NOT AT ALL" She replies in a nervous voice. I come to think of the task of the month. I look through the office for a flower but all I can find is a big cactus plant in a black pot. I grab it and throw it at her. She gets hit by it and falls down on the floor screaming. I walk past her and enter the elevator. I start thinking of the moon. What if I can take this elevator all the way to the moon? I look away and try to imagine a button saying: Moon. I look back, just numbers. I try it two more times. Nothing happens. A what the fuck. I hit all buttons at once. They all start glowing and the elevator starts shaking. I find myself in bed, awake.

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Meh. ;/