Thread: Lucid Dares

Soo - I've made up my mind!

• Verre: Walk into a deep enchanted forest and find an elven jollification - join in with their ethereal singing and elaborate dancing!

• Kilham: Visit an alien planet by any means you like and explore - tell us about it's flora and fauna and find a creature to communicate with - what does it have to say? Just assume you'd have an inner alien language interpreter - but doesn't matter if it fails to work...

• Schmaven: Equip yourself with canvass and paints, create a picture and tell us what it looked like! If you can enter it like a portal - even better, but not needed to accomplish it!

• Anybody: Cause a volcano to erupt by any means you like and enjoy the spectacle - I'd try to fly about close to the crater while doing so, but it's okay to just watch from a distance!

Good luck and enjoy!

Originally Posted by StephL

Verre: Walk into a deep enchanted forest and find an elven jollification - join in with their ethereal singing and elaborate dancing!

Thanks, I really like this one! It's been a while since I've learned a new song!

Originally Posted by StephL

Kilham: Visit an alien planet by any means you like and explore - tell us about it's flora and fauna and find a creature to communicate with - what does it have to say? Just assume you'd have an inner alien language interpreter - but doesn't matter if it fails to work...

Yay! I love that one!!. I´ve been having an intense dry spell but I think this motivation will help

Originally Posted by StephL

Schmaven: Equip yourself with canvass and paints, create a picture and tell us what it looked like! If you can enter it like a portal - even better, but not needed to accomplish it!

That sounds pretty awesome. Especially since I haven't made time to do anything that artistic in a long long time.

Oh shart I forgot about this. Where do I jump in now?

Originally Posted by Xanous

Oh shart I forgot about this. Where do I jump in now?

Well, this is the status of your dares:

Xanous:
• [Completed] Take your relationship with the ground to the next level! (Dreamer)
• Dive into the sea and find the Rod of Earth. Use it to master the Earth Element. (PercyLucid)

So you gotta do my dare and/or any dare that you have not completed from the Anyone's Dares list.

I made an attempt at my dare last night and thought I had a pretty good plan, but woke up before I could get to the forest! Still, it was a cool experience overall because I was trying out a new EILD method using a silent vibrating alarm.

Spoiler for Excerpt related to the dare::

I decided to try StephL's lucid dare (enter an enchanted forest, look for an elven gathering and learn a new song from them), which I thought would pair well with the October bonus TOTM (create a song on a musical instrument that doesn't exist in waking life). No sooner did my thoughts turn to the bonus task than I could actually hear ambient music in the air around me, like notes plucked from a stringed instrument. Perhaps I should have paused and investigated—I could probably have found a suitable instrument to fulfill the task—but I already had a plan in mind for getting to the enchanted forest, so I walked out of the house through the front door.

Traveling to a forest on foot hasn't been working well for me in my TOTY attempts (I tried it in Hansel and Gretel a couple times), so I had been pondering alternate strategies. One possibility simply involved growing trees around me in the house until the environment around me transforms into a forest, but another approach I found appealing was to try to use the little fir tree growing outside the front door as a portal.

It was three or four years ago that I bought this little tree at the grocery store one December and that year used it as a miniature Christmas tree (at the time it was only about two feet tall). Afterwards I put it outside in the front yard. Improbably it thrived, more than doubling in size, and apparently seemed to be doing well with no care other than being watered by the automatic sprinklers that went on briefly every morning, so I left it alone. Then one day I went to move it and discovered the secret reason it was flourishing: its roots had apparently gone right through the bottom of the pot and grown directly into the ground! I am impressed by the resourcefulness of this sapling, so I had the idea of approaching it in a dream and asking it to transport me to the enchanted forest.

When I opened the front door, I was surprised to see snow on the ground. This is probably because last night I was looking up pictures based on the search term "winter forest" to incubate appropriate visual impressions. However, since I live in a climate where snow is impossible (it has been in the nineties the last couple days!), I immediately recognized that this was more evidence of the dream state, so I added a new line to my song: "If there's snow on the ground, it's a dream." Looking over at my little tree, I saw that it was also covered in snow, and added another line, "If there's snow in the branches, it's a dream." Since I was already singing, I saw no reason to stop. I walked over to the tree, grasped its narrow trunk, and requested in song, "Take me to the enchanted forest, the enchanted forest of dream!"

Unfortunately, I promptly woke up.

Full DJ entry: October 5, 2014: "If there's water near the house, it's a dream"