Thread: Lucid Task for the Month of September 2007

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!"

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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!!