Thread: Lucid Task for the Month of September 2007

Originally Posted by lucidbuddha

BOTH TASKS COMPLETED!!
I turn back to the hose to get more water and the puppy is already alive and he doesn't have hind legs! He's having some trouble so I quickly give him the rest of his body.

That's hilarious lucidbuddha! Congratulations!

Originally Posted by Clairity

I walked up to it and, once I was a few feet from the edge, raised both hands and "willed" the water to rise. A "tube" of water about 4 foot wide slowly rose from the pool and, once it was about 7 foot high.. I silently commanded "become a horse".

You almost sound like Moses parting the Red Sea, Clarity.

Originally Posted by iadr

You almost sound like Moses parting the Red Sea, Clarity.

LOL!! With the level of control I had in this LD.. if I had needed to part the Red Sea.. I probably could have done it!

Hey we had a mini spurt of completed water tasks!

Congrates iadr and lucidbuddha!! Fantastic water dreams!!

Well done!!

Advanced task completed... a little late in the month:
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I am laying on the couch and attempt to WILD. It is pretty close to time for me to get up, as I heard the clock chime at 5:00. After what seems like a long time, I'm ready to give up but do an RC first. To my surprise, I'm dreaming.

I get up, tossing the quilt aside. The room is very dimly lit. I get up and smash my shins on a coffee table and the dream collapses.

I'm laying on the couch again and do an RC before getting up. I'm still dreaming.

I sit up carefully and then stand. Everything is very stable. I'm tangled in the quilt and don't want to trip, so I spend a few moments getting it unwrapped from my feet and tossing it aside. I stand up and decide to do a task. The only one I can remember is the water animal one, but I can't remember which month's task it is for.

I need water. Looking up at our living room ceiling, I decide that it is the bottom of a pool of water. I dive up into it.

I keep rising up and up, wondering when I'll find the surface. After a time, I thing it might be better to just head back to the bottom and do everything from down there, but as I'm thinking this I realize I'm on the surface. The room is tiled. It is like a school swimming pool from the 1960s.

I decide to create a water snake. I will a mound of water to rise up and then form it into a snake's head. Then I swim backwards and have it coming at me as if to attack. The head looks good, so I start forming up a body behind it. At one point, I put my hand into the snake's head, and it "heals" when I withdraw my hand.

I have a full snake on the surface of the water. Now I add a spine ridge and change the snout, gradually turning it into an oriental dragon. I touch it again, and it is now firm. It is quite beautiful.

I find myself on the couch again. It must be time to get up, so I rise. I'm still very tired and realize that I've had about three hour's sleep, as I remember getting to bed here around 2:00 in the morning. The lights are on in another room. I walk over and talk to a familiar dark-haired lady in a bathrobe, explaining that being overly tired sometimes makes for great lucid dreaming opportunities. She nods.

I look for the bathroom, as the dream fades away.

Originally Posted by pj

I need water. Looking up at our living room ceiling, I decide that it is the bottom of a pool of water. I dive up into it.

I keep rising up and up, wondering when I'll find the surface. After a time, I thing it might be better to just head back to the bottom and do everything from down there, but as I'm thinking this I realize I'm on the surface. The room is tiled. It is like a school swimming pool from the 1960s.

Now that's different.. rise up through your ceiling into a swimming pool! Very creative!

Originally Posted by pj

I have a full snake on the surface of the water. Now I add a spine ridge and change the snout, gradually turning it into an oriental dragon. I touch it again, and it is now firm. It is quite beautiful.

It sounds beautiful.. and so well behaved!

Man, ya gotta love those false awakenings.. especially if you realize you're having one!

Congratulations on completing the advance task pj!

Well today we had no school. So after i woke up i went around and did some chores and a few push ups and stuff to get my body to get tired, because i was going to try to AP through the day. After a while of that, i laid down and started to go through the process. But instead of keeping myself awake during the vibrations, i saw the dream coming and i thought i would go into a WILD instead, because of who knows why.

Anyway it rewarded me.

As i entered the dream, i went to one of the old egyptian pyramids. I always liked this stuff, and for some reason i thought i was in an AP, because it felt just like one and i was thinking for myself. I tried some basic maneuvers, like adding numbers in my head, and when i saw that whatever i added up appeared on the side of the pyramid, i realized, woa im not in a AP, i am in a lucid. The excitment almost took me out of the dream, but instead i focused on the sphinx and kept myself in. When i got settled down i walked over to the sphinx and it got up and ran a circle and then plopped right back down in the same position. Then it looked at me and in its eyes i could see my room. So i was like hey lets go to my room (dont know why i did this) but when i jumped up and flew into its eyes i was just plopped on my bed.

When i looked around i noticed my computer was still on. I looked at the pc screen and it had the words "Lucid Task" on it, i put a sticky note on my computer to help remind me if i went into an AP, but instead of a sticky note it was just all over the screen. I thought, woa, the lucid task, what was it again? And when i thought about it i was like oh ya a deck of cards. I looked around and i couldnt see any cards, and i was like well what kind of crappy lucid is this. But then i was like ah screw it i cant find my cards and went into my kitchen which was flooding over. Apparently the sink had been left on and i ran over to shut it off. When i did a pesky squiriel kept turning it back on, and as i focused on the squirel i looked up and i was by a small lake in a forest with this squirrell running away.

Of course i didnt really think about the change so much, i pretty much thought it was a ok thing to do at the time. But then i was like, ok so there is no deck of cards in my room, but hey i see water! lets try to do the other one. But i was all confused, apparently my brain cant think very hard when im in a LD, because i was like what the heck was the water task again? Then i saw a fish jump out of the water and i rose my hand up and froze it into an ice cube, i have no idea why the heck i did that, but whatever.

Anyway after i saw it i rememberd, ohhh ya i was supposed to make a thing out of this water. Then i looked down at the middle of the lake and i was thinking to myself, that water is a greenish color, it must be perfect for making things rise up out of it! And again, i dont know why i thought that, but i did. Anyway i walked over to the green patch of water and i realized, hey im walking on water, sweet! and i ran around for a bit, but then i got back on track and went to the green water. I was thinking, what should i make hmm hmm, when that pesky squirrel jumps out of no where and lands on my head, then i crash and fall into the lake. I get out and the squirrel jumps away and im like ok no more distractions when i saw a whale at the other side of this lake. It was a small lake, but again my brain thought it could happen.

Anyway after i saw the whale i was like, woa, that is a extremely rare whale! ive gotta catch that thing! So i looked at the water and i was like ok, this is supposed to go into something, i know! And i brang up my hands and out flew this gigantic boat with water sailors and wator pirates and water parrots and the boat was also full of water. But as it rose up they hurled a net at the whale and caught it. But for some reason i was like, heyy they shouldnt keep that whale all alone! So i then made three more whales pop out of the water, they where all water too, and i sent them into the cage the other whale was in. Then i was thinking, man my arms are tired so i let them down and the boat pirate said, "Aye thanks matey!" and i turned around and i thought, hey that was so cool. So then i made a jet ski pop out of the water, and i rode back to a cottage at the side of the lake. Then i jumped out and went inside and i was back inside my room. The computer this time said "Good job!" in all yellow (like the names you get after you complete one of these) and i was like, oh ya, that was fun. Then i said to myself, well that was an interesting dream, lets wake up now, and then i did.

I woke up at about 2:00 in the day and i wrote everything down as detailed as i could. I think i might have missed some stuff about Egypt because it was the first part of my dream, but the really cool stuff was still there.

Hope this is what you guys wanted, either way i had a blast experiencing it

Standard Task Completed!!

I'm late in the month, but it's done regardless.

I use the DEILD method, and have an FA. I immediatly do the nose RC, and realize I am dreaming. I try to remember the task, and easily recall both of them. I decide to do the standard one, as it seems easy and is late in the month. I wrench open my desk drawer looking for cards, only to find none. I have an idea: run to my cabinet that has game boards in it, there are sure to be cards in there. I run there and find a pack easily. There are other things besides cards in the box, notably a popsicle stick wrapped in paper that has a picure of an oriental dragon on it. I grab a card. On the back it looks like a standard bicycle card, but it is much thinner; I could see through it. I turn it over. There is a picture of a king, with fours in all the corners. There is no symbol. All the ink is a dark brown. The king looks normal, except he has two heads facing opposite directions, connected by the back of the head. At the bottom of the card it says "REPORT" in all caps. I pull out another card for good measure. It has the same picture, without numbers. The card is also about one-and-a-half times as big as the first, though it was the same size while in the stack. At the bottom of the card it says, "Reussarize the Presupposition Report." At the top it says, "Resupposition Report," both in all caps. Task done!!!

Originally Posted by Lunalight

Standard Task Completed!!
I grab a card. On the back it looks like a standard bicycle card, but it is much thinner; I could see through it. I turn it over. There is a picture of a king, with fours in all the corners. There is no symbol. All the ink is a dark brown. The king looks normal, except he has two heads facing opposite directions, connected by the back of the head. At the bottom of the card it says "REPORT" in all caps. I pull out another card for good measure. It has the same picture, without numbers. The card is also about one-and-a-half times as big as the first, though it was the same size while in the stack. At the bottom of the card it says, "Reussarize the Presupposition Report." At the top it says, "Resupposition Report," both in all caps. Task done!!!

Excellent attention to detail Lunalight. Funny how those cards look so much different in a dream isn't it?

Originally Posted by Lunalight

Standard Task Completed!!

At the bottom of the card it says, "Reussarize the Presupposition Report." At the top it says, "Resupposition Report," both in all caps. Task done!!!

Wow I'm impressed that you remember that! I would have a hard time doing that.

I wonder what it means? Congrats, anyway!

Congrats on the great tasks everyone. I'd love to have an LD again. These last two months have been soo hectic, I drop into bed exhausted and am not getting nearly enough hours in at night.

Originally Posted by Moonbeam

Wow I'm impressed that you remember that! I would have a hard time doing that.

I wonder what it means? Congrats, anyway!

That's funny that you said that, because when I looked at it I thought, "How can I remember all that?!" So I took a second to study it. Thanks, too!

Had a lucid in which I inadvertantly completed the first task.

I didn't have the tasks in mind but I was lucid and had ended up on some people's porch. As I was talking to them, a card flew off one of the tables and so I picked it up and put it back. Then, to try to prove to them that I was dreaming, I told them that I could guess what card was next to be drawn off the deck. I can't remember what I guessed, but I was wrong; the card was mostly blank accept for some writing in the bottom left hand corner, when I tried to read it, it was complete nonsense and I could watch it change as I read it. I looked away and then looked back and this time it had random letters and numbers on it that reminded me of a receipt.

My first substantial lucid in a couple years, and I halfway complete that advanced task. After several weeks of getting back into keeping my dream journal, I had a vivid and long lasting dream with incredible lucidity.

It is a sunny summer day, and I am on a gondola ride/ ski lift like the ones at amusement parks. The cable supporting the seats is strung between two gigantic palm trees that must be 200 feet tall. I exit the ski lift and am immediately snowboarding at high speed down a dirt slope with absolutely no snow. (Strange, I have never been snowboarding before). I go off a jump, and shoot up high in the air. I think to myself "wow, this is fun, it feels exactly like when I fly in my lucid dreams - oh crap this IS a lucid dream".

As I am processing this, I land from my jump... in the ocean at the beach. I surf to the shore, still on my snowboard. I feel things are beginning to fade, so I look down at my feet, and focus on the feel of the sand between my toes (man, I miss living in Hawaii) to ground myself.

As I look at the sand, I see little pieces of it blowing around in the breez, as if I have super sharp vision. I move my hands back and forth and move the particles of sand like mini sandstorms. I get really into it, and remember a time I did this in another dream. I start creating abstract sculptures out of the sand without touching it (I sculpt with concrete in a bed of sand in real life).

As I am pondering what to do, and scared that I will lose this dream, my sculpting reminds me of the task of the month. I walk to the ocean, and wade into it waist deep (waves feel crazy weird in dreams). I reach up and try to stop a wave before it crashes on me. I stop it into a wall of water, and reach out to run my fingers along its edge. The water still feels like it is moving under my fingers. I begin to panic, seeing the wall of water growing higher and higher as the waves behind it push it further above me.

I focus my mind on trying to sculpt the water, but it is too powerful, and swirling too fast. I try to pull an animal out of the wave imagining something like a those crystal sculptures they sell at hallmark. Unexpectedly, I feel the water give, and suddenly thousands and thousands of live crabs pour out of the wall of water and crash down on me (sort of like that new pirates of the caribbean movie). I freak out and wake up.

Man, I forgot how much freaking fun this is!!!

From DJ:

...I hold a 2-liter bottle in my right hand and squeeze it, forcing its contents [water] to jet out towards the surface of the water pool. The water stream travels almost in a straight line (like a rod) then falls into the water. The splashes are only a few inches tall, even with the nearly 10 foot distance between us. I then empty the other two containers. It's almost as if the water is being sucked from the bottles, rather than ejecting from them: never spilling or missing its target.

My intention is to bring the water to life as it merges with the pool of water in the cylinder but nothing happens. I put the empty containers down and begin to sing out a series of progressively higher notes. I feel something will happen when I reach my highest note but my voice crackles. I begin the sequence again, this time holding each note longer then the one before it.

I close my eyes as I hold the final note. As the note rings out I hear a crackle in the wall to my left (past the other dining table). I look to see that the wall is now made of red brick and a rectangular hole has opened up. The opening measures about 4 feet tall by 3 wide and is lined with a decorative tan brick pattern. It's at least four feet deep.

I sing out the last few notes even longer still, expecting to see water come out in some form. I can see the leading edge of some sort of water entity emerging from the passageway. It is a deep ocean blue and has white stripes forming a pattern. It becomes apparent that this a jumbo version of "Nemo" from the Disney/Pixar movie "Finding Nemo". All the parts that should be orange were deep blue. This fish is only a form, it has no life. I can see the light distortions as waves ripple through its mass, almost like blue gelatin. Its dimensions are about 2 1/2 feet tall x 3 1/2 feet long x 10 inches wide.

As the water fish's tail completely emerges from the wall it begins to turn into a large stuffed plush fish, still blue with white strips. Everyone seems amazed this whole time. Nemo finally vanishes into thin air. ...

It may or may not count. I know I'll try again but it's been a dry month and this is all I have. Again I wait until the month is almost over before doing the task.

Originally Posted by Oneironaught

It may or may not count. I know I'll try again but it's been a dry month and this is all I have. Again I wait until the month is almost over before doing the task.

Looks OK to me! Better late than never, Gh!

That was was cool Oneironaught! I'm glad that you got to do the Task, seeing how it was your idea. And such a fun one too.

Hi everyone,

This is my first post! I've been lurking for a while though, mostly on this thread...

I tried Clairity's excellent WILD technique. It didn't lead to a WILD, as I lost consciousness and fell asleep after about an hour or so, but it worked well enough to make me remember to do a reality test in a dream I had some time later. It was one of the longest lucid dreams I've had so far, with excellent control. Anyways, here's the relevant part:

...I'm flying over a landscape with lots of small streams and tall clumps of grass when I remember that I wanted to do the lucid task. There's plenty of water around, so I figure I'll try the water animal one. I land by a pond under a beautiful large willow tree, and start to move my hands in large circles over the water.
I can feel the energy moving under my hands, and the water responds by swirling around. I want to make a horse, and for some reason I concentrate on making the legs first, since they seem the hardest to get right. That's not that useful though (nothing much happens to the water), so I stop that train of thought and just concentrate on "horse" - and it rises out of the water! It turns out to be a smallish very cartoony horse with stumpy legs and a large head, like something out of a Warner Brothers Cartoon. It's transparent, and I can see little air bubbles moving inside it. It's very pretty.
Then its material kind of congeals and turns opaque. It now has very bright colors. I decide to try riding into town on it, but that turns out to be hard because it insists on walking on two legs! I manage to stay on it anyways, although I briefly consider carrying it instead since that might be more comfortable. In town, we ride straight into a large pool hall, and as I get off the horse I see John Lennon leave through a side door. I'd like to talk to him, so I abandon the horse and walk after him....

Congrats, nyxx, and welcome to Dream Views! Cool dream, and a great first post!

I did the beginner task in my second lucid dream ever. I was wandering through the lakebed around my house when I remembered so I ran/flew back to my house and went into my room and grabbed a deck. When I pulled it out it had a kind of triangular shape in ech corner then in the center there was a very beautiful pattern that I can't remember well enough to describe very well. So here is my best shot, it was a tan color and had so many tiny lines that wound under and around eachother in a big intricate pattern that I would never have thought of.

Yay! I completed the first task!

I started the dream in my bed, and did a reality check, instantly becoming lucid. The first thing I thought about was the lucid task of the month, and I found a deck of playing cards on my bookshelf. I randomly pulled from from the deck, and my card came out looking like this:

Don't ask me what the symbol on the top is supposed to be...

The back of the card looked like the typical pattern you see. It was the pattern in the top left of this picture: http://www.djmcadam.com/images/squeezers02.jpg

Two more in under the wire! Congrats, Brendan 13 and naikou!

I sort of did the basic task again; this time in a lucid. But I didn't actually draw the card from the deck myself so it may not even count.

From my DJ

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I now find myself sitting in the house's lounge. On the couch next to me - on my left - is my youngest Brother, R (He's much younger than his current real life age but I didn't notice that at the time). To our right is another, longer couch with about 5 people talking amongst themselves. Against the wall on our left side of the room is a small table with 4 people sitting around it playing cards. The guy nearest me tosses a card at a three-tall card wall he's making on the table. The card he tossed lands perfectly in place in top of the card house wall.

Yes, I am dreaming! I turn to my Brother, R, and say: "Look at those cards the guys are using." Since there's a number of them stacked edge to edge we can easily see the faces. "Look at that one, a 99 of clubs. And how about that one there? Do you know what that means?" I look him in the eye and continue, "That means we're dreaming!"

...

EDIT: From what I can recall, the card looked very much like this:

Congrats everyone! Some pretty cool experiences!

Originally Posted by nyxx

I tried Clairity's excellent WILD technique. It didn't lead to a WILD, as I lost consciousness and fell asleep after about an hour or so, but it worked well enough to make me remember to do a reality test in a dream I had some time later. It was one of the longest lucid dreams I've had so far, with excellent control.

nyxx, I'm so glad my technique helped you (your post made my weekend)!

Congrats on your LD and on completing the task (quite an IMPRESSIVE first post)!!

Congratulations to everyone on completing the tasks.. well done!!