Thread: Lucid Task for the Month of March 2008

Hey, You know, I didn't realize it until just now, but I did something in my lucid on Saturday morning that might count for the basic task. I'll throw it out here just in case it qualifies. I didn't even know what the task was, but coincidentally, did something dangerous.

From my journal:

I was walking around my neighborhood with this girl who, in the dream, I used to be friends with when we were little and we grew up together. I had a flashback of us being kids and we snuck through a row of trees into some guys yard to steal some fruit. He threw something at us and we ran away. Now we were older and walking around. There were kids that were bouncing a ball to each other across the street and stopped as we walked past.

At one point, we were walking back to my house, and I noticed the streets weren't right. Like I was walking on Tuxedo, but it was going north to south. This made me become lucid, but it was pretty low level. I had no control. We arrived at the house, and it was strange. There was a front porch and a balcony, like the old two family houses. The sill on the porch rail was made of a pressure treated 2x12, and I climbed up the front of the house. The upper balcony opened right into the attic. I was in there and decided I wanted to get back down. I spontaneously gained control. I was about to climb down, but thought, "Hey, this is a dream, why don't I leap off and fly?" So I did. I fell almost all the way to the ground, but was confident that I would be able to fly.

Suddenly, near the bottom, I swooped up and started to fly over the street and towards the houses on the other side of the street. It was incredible. It felt like riding a roller coaster. I had butterflies in my stomach. The excitement was too much and I woke up. I still had butterflies as I lay there in bed. The high level lucidity was short, but flying was awesome.

I missed the perfect opportunity to do the basic task the other night. I had a giant enemy crab coming at me, but I chickened out and willed myself to wake up.

I look forward to proving I'm indestructible.

grr... I didnt wake up when my alarm went off. I decided to quit FILD on the weekdays and use it only on the weekend. I'm trying to have a DILD by doing RC's throughout the week. I have a idea for the basic Im gonna do, if anyone want one of the ULTIMATE ways to prove your indestructive: PULL YOUR HEART OUT! shove your hand into your chest and yank it out!

Originally Posted by Kiza

So Caradon, I'm guessing jumping from a skyscraper and landing face first on concrete would count?

Well, I'm not part of the staff, so I don't really have any say in what counts anyway. But yeah, go for it! If it's something you guys never did before, it's definitely worth doing. It is pretty fun.

If I was good with summoning, I would be all over jumping off a tall building, head first into a giant blender.

Some good ones already guys, good job!

Hopefully I can end this dry spell caused by getting sick, And find something interesting to get myself into.

Pretty funny technique Sara!

I wish I came on earlier to view this because I just completed Febs task and remembered it was now march after i woke up :/.

but these sound fun, i'll give them a try.

It's hard for me to find motivation to do anything other than Tasks of the Month with lucid dreams these days. As usual, I took a crack at these ones. I think I got both of them in the same dream period.

I became aware that I was dreaming through some vague dreamsign. (I almost always seem to forget exactly what the dreamsign is.) I was in someplace resembling the building in which I work. I remembered the Tasks, and figured I could jump out (and through) one of the windows to prove I'm indestructible. I went up to the window and decided to drop in such a way that would lead to a faceplant on the pavement below. I landed softly and safely, staring at asphalt.

But I didn't think that was enough. I wanted to brave all four elements to really prove my indestructibility. I counted that fall as "air," and decided to find a volcano so I could bathe in lava and brave "fire." I found one, and went inside with my little sister to bateh in lava pools. She complained of being hot after a while, but did not die; I was a bit warm but mostly comfortable. There was not much vivid detail here, and I think the lava was more "assumed" than anything. The surroundings were mostly just a dark cave.

Sometime in the middle of my quest for indestructibility, while I was distracted, I thought of the Advacned task of bringing something inanimate to life. I was in a room with a small exercise machine (child-sized, even) that sort of resembled a gazelle - its frame had "horns" in the front. I was hoping to make it come alive as some strange two-legged robotic gazelle. I made the pedals turn with my hands, and they kept going for a little while, but the thing did not come to life despite my wishful/magical thinking.

Apparently having skipped or forgotten about Water or assumed I'd done that, I went on to prove my invincibility against Earth by looking for a place with falling rocks or bricks. I went behind a building for that, accompanied by a tall, stocky man in front of me. I wasn't really seeing the bricks, and I was occasionally feeling them lightly, and occasionally going "Ouch" for effect even though I wasn't really hurt. The big guy in front of me seemed to get hurt more, but still survived the bricks just fine.

After that ordeal was over, I satisfied myself that I was done with the Basic Task, and ready to take another crack at the Advanced. I soon found myself in a car with my boyfriend. I reasoned there that Love might be just the thing to bring an inanimate object to life, as it made the Velveteen Rabbit real in the classic children's story. So I decided to try it with a purple plastic mechanical pencil: I gently petted the pencil with my index finger and cooed. And, voila! It began to squirm and crawl like a caterpillar, for a few seconds. Then it stopped after it had moved maybe 6 or 8 inches away from its original location. Shortly after that, I lost interest in it. I tried something similar with some dried strawberry snacks, and they seemed to move around a bit too. I remembered something allegedly from the advertisements for those dried strawberries about loving the strawberries and loving the Earth.

And then things started to fade more or less permanently to being half-awake. (The dream had faded somewhat a few times, but little enough that I was able to pick up where I left off after the blurry periods.)

I had 3 LDs this morning but was not able to complete any of the tasks but there is still loads of time lol.

Funny thing though I was able to make a DC indestructable. She dropped from a 5 story adult jungle gym type of thing. She was all mangled, but after I looked away and back she was moving around and was nolonger mangled looking lol. Too bad it was not me.

Anna

An exact quote from my dream journal: (Sorry, the color is hard to read but just highlight it, I like this color for WILD's.

3/3: I'm indestructable!

I had my first WILD last night. It was really scary and I could barely move.

I start off at my house. I went to visit a friend at a mobile home. Then, I remembered the lucid tasks. I had to first prove I'm indestructable. I thought "Hmmm.... what always strikes mobile homes? Oh yeah, tornadoes!" I summoned a huge tornado right towards me.

My friend started running, crying, and anything else of the sort. However, I held my ground. I knew what was coming up. As soon as the tornado hit me, it tossed me around five thousand feet in the air! I was flipping all over the place. It got so scary that I lost lucidity. Then, however, a few minutes into it and I regained lucidity! I realized that the chances of this happening are really low.

However, before I hit the ground I thought of doing the advanced task. I was looking at the airplane. I tried to animate it but my brain couldn't do it properly. Then I hit the ground and woke up.

Originally Posted by unseen wombat

I was about to climb down, but thought, "Hey, this is a dream, why don't I leap off and fly?" So I did. I fell almost all the way to the ground, but was confident that I would be able to fly.

Suddenly, near the bottom, I swooped up and started to fly over the street and towards the houses on the other side of the street. It was incredible. It felt like riding a roller coaster. I had butterflies in my stomach. The excitement was too much and I woke up.

Sorry unseen wombat, but I don't think deciding to leap off a house's upper balcony and flying qualifies as doing something to prove that you're indestructable. Plus you didn't really overcome a fear as you were already confident that you would be able to fly.

The month is young.. so please give it another shot!

Yeah, we had a discussion about that on the first page. You have to actually hit the ground and do it with enough force to injure or kill you. You could fly into a building or something really fast though if you want to fly.

You have to overcome a fear?

Guess I didn't do the Basic Task, then. I kind of expected to be indestructible the whole time.

I have to think of something realistic, that really scares me. I tend to be scared when people attack me in dreams...but at least one of the two times that happened in lucid dreams, and possibly both, the attack was the dream sign that triggered lucidity, so I don't know if I can actually get scared when I'm already lucid.

Maybe I can try dreaming of crashing a car or something. Or getting blown up by a nuclear bomb. I was thinking of the latter beforehand when I was thinking of how I was gonna do the task, but I forgot about it during the dream.

Basic and Advanced Task Completed.


INTRO
I seem to be somewhat of a natural WILDer. I consciously enter sleep paralysis a lot and before I knew what it was, I was very scared. Anyway, today I woke up at 6 :30, disappointed as my earlier 5am WILD attempt had obviously failed. And to make matters worse, I KNOW I had a full length lucid dream, because I remember rubbing my hands together and doing the nose RC, but that’s all I could remember of the dream. I decided to try and WILD again, and woke up 15 minutes later with similar unsuccessful results. I had about 30minutes before I had to get ready for school, so I went to the toilet, jumped into bed and gave it one last shot, trying to let the ‘natural’ WILDer in me take over. I started counting my breaths backwards from 100. I got to 60 and got board, so I started thinking about random things, and as usual, I started sinking. I felt all of the shaking feelings, it was crazy D:

DREAM
I imagined myself sitting up, and it felt as if I was, but still, I was just lying there. Then I tried to sit up for real. When I did, my bed wasn’t there. In fact I was in my parent’s bathroom. I rubbed my hands together, not really to improve vividness, just to calm myself down because I was very exited. I opened the door and walked into my parent’s bedroom. My mum was there.
One of my favorite parts of lucid dreaming is talking to DC’s. I just love the stupid things to say. I asked my mum if she had anything she wanted to say, but she was on to me, and she just shook her head and walked away, I laughed.

After that, I walked down the stairs. As I did, I was thinking of all the things I wanted to do, “Okay I’d like to talk to my subconscious, and I’d like to prove I’m….err…what was it?”

I couldn’t remember the basic task, but I did remember the advanced one. I saw a soft toy on the ground; it was Zebbidy (sp?) from The Magic Roundabout. I set it on the floor and commanded it to, “LIVE!” (Nothing) “Um…GET UP!” (Still nothing). No matter what I shouted at it, it would not get up. I tried to be as confident as possible but it wasn’t happening. So I thought, “Okay...let’s use some dream logic”. I noticed a Mickey Mouse soft toy on the ground next to where I had set down Zebbidy. I said, “Okay, first one of you two to run over to me, gets a wish.”

Immediately they both stood up and ran over to me. I laughed, and asked what they would like me to grant them. Unfortunately, they couldn’t speak. They just looked at me and each other blankly. I didn’t have time to wait on them so I went away. (Don’t worry guys, ill give you that wish next time I see you!)

“Em…INDESTRUCTIBLE!, That’s it!”. I ran into my parent’s room. I’ve always wanted to gather all of my DC’s together. So I decided to go out into the street. I was looking out of the window and into the street. I normally have no problem passing through solid objects, but this time it was tricky. I ran towards the window, completely ignoring it.

WACK!. I smacked my head on it, and started laughing. I stopped to think. “Right…this window doesn’t actually exist…there is now window.” I put my hand on it, and slowly pushed it through. Then my other hand, then my head, and I was through (and didn’t have to smash the window :p).

Out in the street, I shouted “All DC’s, come here now!” I then heard some sort of horn in the distance, and rumbling. DC’s that looked like computer generated images, gathered at the bottom of the street, (I’m guessing they are my computer DC’s lol), DC’s that looked real gathered a little closer to me.

Then I noticed I massive, green English-style dragon (fat body, skinny neck) coming from the west (I know this because the mountains outside my house are to the north) and at the same time there was a Chinese-style dragon (look, serpent-like body) coming from the east. (It took me until I woke up to realize the significance of this).

As the DC’s gathered, I decided to look for my subconscious. I shouted for it to come, or appear. I did so many times, but nothing happened. I gave up and decided to move on to proving that I was indestructible.

I used telekinesis to lift up a nearby car, but I could only shake it (this dream was full of problems lol). I asked the other DC’s to help, and once they got it of the ground I took over. I brought it about 20ft high and above my head and dropped it. I was left unscratched. However the dream characters remained un-impressed. So I said, “Okay fine then, somebody shoot me”. Then some idiot from the crowd shot me in the foot. It wasn’t sore, but at the same time, it was indestructible-testing-stuff now was it?

Then I realized that there was only one way to prove that I was really indestructible. But I had been avoiding it the whole time. I knew I would have to get shot in the head. Just then I Lara Craft-like woman emerged from the crowd. She had a gun. I nodded to her and she loaded the gun. I tilted my head down so the shot would be an easy target.

The crowd fell silent. She took aim. And then the inevitable happened.

I woke up xD

I am not sure if this counts but I will leave it up to you.

Basic Task? surviving a nuclear explosion

I try to make a Nuclear explosion from my hands in the way Sylar from heroes does , so I concentrate onto my hand until I get that tingly feeling then I clench my fist and release a small but very bright mini explosion. Thrilled I managed to do this I cup both my hands together and concentrate once more but putting as much effort in as possible. Then I release the pent up energy.

My view shift to 3rd person and I see the brightest flash I have ever seen, everything else is blacked out. Then I see the mushroom cloud take shape and the darkness slowly recedes as everything comes back into vision. My view switches back to normal and I cant see because things are still so bright! and I fly away as fast as I can crashing through walls in houses and flying out the other side so fast its almost a blur.

rest of the dream here: http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...postcount=1330

I did the basic task!
I was hit in the head with a spear. It felt very strange, like I was actually hit by a real spear, just without the pain. I nearly chickened out too.

Original Post Here

Originally Posted by Hiros' Journal

I walk out into the grass field a bit and look up at the wall I'm standing near. I can see a soldier on the top carrying a spear. I remember the basic task and think I should provoke him and get hit by the spear. I try to yell out but my voice isn't working and I barely make a sound. The guy looks anyway and starts yelling out something in another language. I chicken out and start walking towards the catwalk entrance at the edge of the cliff because I start to think I might wake up if I get "killed" by the spear. He throws the spear in front of me a bit like he's leading his target, I just stop moving and it misses. This happens another 4 times, like he's got a whole stack of spears with him. Each one misses very easily. I think this guy is a lousy shot. I'm almost at the catwalk so I'm going to make a run for it until he can't reach me anymore, but now there is another soldier down on the grass, also with a spear. He throws it and I somehow stand my ground. The spear hits me right in the forehead. It doesn't hurt at all, nor did I wake up, but it felt very disturbing.

I did the basic task too! And I did it like a Bhuddist Protestor!

Originally Posted by Welcome to my Jungle - 2008

A Flying Van And A Burning Man

I dream that I am right in front of my house (it looks exactly like my house too) and about to get in the old grey van. I see my little bro get in the middle seats of the van, and the door closes automatically. (usually only the new van does that) I then get in the drivers seat, and I see a note attached to the key. It reads "Dreaming: Make it fly". I take the obvious hint, and I start the van. The van, on my command, takes to the sky like a plane. My little bro suddenly vanishes into thin air, which I take as an extra hint. I then turn the wheel, and "do a barrel roll" and fly the van upside-down. I re-direct the van-plane to an open field, which I try to land the van on, but gravity starts being a bitch and pulls the van down faster than President Bush without guards.

On the ground, I am suprisingly not shocked out of the dream, but I did get shocked enough to remember something: The Basic Lucid task. I then take the opportunity to make like a Bhuddist protestor, and snap my fingers and set myself ablaze. I see my arms and legs blaze in orange, but I feel no pain. I float with my legs crossed in the air, still blazing in fire, while I think "I am indestructable". I wake up with that thought.

I literally just woke up from finishing the advanced task. I didn't expect to remember it, because I did no work whatsoever to try to remember it. I wanted to so the basic task to, but I couldn't remember it.

I was in a forest, the trees had bright yellow leaves, and there were plenty of leaves on the ground. The vividness was crazy. I remembered the task, and looked for an object. I saw a steel shovel with a red handle lying in the leaves. I brought it to life, and it appeared that the shovel part was its face when it came to life. It hopped up, and flexed, and bent its face. Then it got this sort of aggressive look on its face, and it started to (weakly) attack me. I fended it off with a "dead" shovel, and turned it back to normal. I laughed once I woke up.

this will be good....a goal for the month...it will start of basic cause i am a noob

Bringing something inanimate to life sounds really fun. I made it one of my lucid goals.

So, I've been neglecting lucid dreaming for some time now.
Maybe this is a good start, 'cos it's my first go at the monthly task.

Yay! Kind of disappointed with what it did, I may do it again, but I did it.

I found myself in my old house and I looked for something to bring to life. I saw a pair of shoes, but grabbed the broom from the fireplace instead. I stood it up and commanded it (mentally) to walk. It didn't, it just stood there.

There was another broom there too so I grabbed that. I molded it's bristles into legs and moved them. I then set it down and let it walk to me. It kind of glided rather than walked, but it was alive.

I became lucid in a dream today and walked by a fireplace. I walked to it but the fire was dying be the time I got to it. I went inside the fireplace and put my hand in the fire. It hurt some but did not damage my hand.

I then saw a piano that I wanted to bring to life. It was not a grand but one of the smaller ones you see in classrooms a lot. I tried to make it maove but could not, so I picked up a small boy and lowered him into the piano to morph the boy with the object. Nothing happend so I took some pixie dust out of my pocket and threw it on the piano and said, "speak." The pedels on the piano started moving and making noise. I told it to move and it did. The I opened the cover that was covering the keys and told it to dance. It played music on its own and went around in circles. I grabbed onto it and danced with it and sang. I told like my singing voice in real life, but in my dream I could sing like an opera singer.

That's the best one yet I think

PM'd admin, you'll get your wings soon

I have already done both =]

Invincible: in this LD I was swimming in a pool and when I got out and noticed I had abs xD so I showed off to the ladies but jumping in the pool. The bad part was I was in the shallow end and I realized it just before I hit the pool floor which I had time to imagine I was invincible and I just heard a crack and some blood but I wasn't dead

Bringing object to life =]

I was doing archery and I was trying to gain ultimate focus by trying to control the arrow which worked I could become the arrow =]. Then I looked at the target I was shooting at a scarecrow. I said hmm he has done a good days work so I just closed my eyes and imagined him dancing and when I opened my eyes BAM he was =]