Task of the month for July 2009

[ninja9578]

Introduction: This topic is for the Lucid Tasks that are assigned by me or voted on by experienced dreamers. Please attempt one or both of these tasks throughout the month. Report back in this thread, even if you didn't successfully accomplish the task, your efforts should make interesting reading! This is required in order to get credit, it is no longer sufficient just to say that you did it. Whoever completes either of these tasks gets the following goodies until the end of the month: Your name will be displayed in ORANGE in the online members list at the bottom of the main forum page. You will receive a special title and badge. You will receive access to the "Lucid Task Club" which is a limited access forum for people that complete the lucid task each month. Tasks for this month: Basic Task - Eat a hot dog / hamburger Advanced Task - Explode

[ninja9578]

Enjoy!

[Swordz]

EXPLODE??? oh my god :O i will try the basic one.

[ray]

ooh yay this sounds fun. no offense but last month's were lame. i mean c'mon fight a sith? i will definitely explode though.

[Swordz]

in the explosion you mean, explode yourself in thousand pieces?

[mrdeano]

Woop! A lot better than last months. I will try this tonight.

[ninja9578]

in the explosion you mean, explode yourself in thousand pieces? Yes, sounds fun huh? I'm curious to see what happens after people explode.

[Derrynator]

Omg I So Want To Do This !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Swordz]

Ah i got a lucid this night. I asked to a guy where i could buy a hot dog, he said "outside the school", i gone there and there was nothing :/ i forgot to teleport to somewhere that sells hotdogs and gone to do other things.

[ninja9578]

Wow pojmaster17q, that was awesome. I can't wait to do this one myself

[iadr]

Diving Off A Rock Cliff And Landing In Some Water Below - Blowing Myself Up Then Being Pulled Back Together (WILD) I'm climbing up this rope in my imagination when the scene comes alive and I come to this rock cliff. I climb up on the cliff and am suddenly real high in the air looking out over this canyon. I dive off the canyon and feel myself turning somersaults real slow, like slow motion, all the way down. I reach the bottom and enter this water head first. I'm now someplace like the ocean where I'm fairly close to the shore walking along in this shallow water. I can feel the waves, which are fairly strong, beating against my legs as I walk through the water. When I decide to attempt the task of exploding myself a large motor boat appears in front of me. I get into the boat and begin heading out into the ocean going directly into the waves. As I get going faster and faster and the waves become higher and higher I'm thinking that the boat will soon explode with me in it. We finally hit a wave so large that the boat shatters, but I'm still in one piece floating above the water. As a piece of dynamite just happens to appear in front of me I light it with a lighter that I just happen to have and stick it down my throat. The dynamite goes off and I shatter into several pieces, although the pieces are larger than I had expected them to be. After exploding, something like a large rubber band that is connected to all of the pieces pulls me back together again.

[ninja9578]

I like how you came back together

[Realmofmind]

I am definately going to attempt this goal. I really cant wait to explode!!!! It sounds sooooo fun.

[ninja9578]

Nicely done sir

[Yume.no.ato]

I'm pretty novice, but this advanced task is so interesting I have to try (and fail? lmao) ... I wanna eat a grenade to see what happens 8D

[osiris7777777]

does it count if you explode half a planet but you survive

[Phaedrys]

does it count if you explode half a planet but you survive I can't believe it, but with the help of someone's video they posted earlier (the Daft Punk one), I was able to explode last night (first DILD)! I'll edit this post to add in the DJ once I have a bit more time. edit: Here it is.. 07.08.2009 My first (Lucid) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID Well, my dream recall is still bad, so I was not (unfortunately) able to remember much else than a small snippet of my lucid dream and a few other fragments.. I rushed out of a building, being chased by someone. Outside, as I ran down an alley, I noticed a group of people walking like zombies about 100 yards ahead of me. Somehow I realized from this that I was dreaming, and got extremely excited (so much that I forgot to do an RC..). I remembered my goals, crouched down, and jumped up into flight. Everyone else was so right.. flying through the air is the most exhilarating feeling. I couldn't continue my flight, for some reason, and landed back down very close to the group of people. I told myself that these people were not real over and over, but nothing changed (I guess I didn't have much control). I slowly backed up, not sure what the intentions of these zombie-like people were, and then remembered another dream goal. I envisioned the explosion from a Daft Punk video (thanks, Dizko!). The "camera" switched to a third-person view, and I exploded (with such grace, if I may say so) into little tiny bits and pieces. The dream, or maybe my memory, faded out after this event. But it was awesome! Although it was not too vivid (in both experience and memory), it's gotten me extremely excited for going to bed tonight.. Another! Another!

[Aerobic Robot]

Do we have to just explode on will or can we blow ourselves up with an explosive?

[khh]

A failed attempt: (...) Then I remembered the Lucid Task of the Month. I pulled a stick of dynamite out of my pocket, but the fuse wasn't lit. I placed my hand in my pocket again, and felt around for a lighter. Instead I found some round shape, and when I pulled it up it was a candle made from wood, with a lit wick. I thought about using it to light the dynamite stick, but I decided that the wooden candle was also dynamite (at this point the original stick of dynamite lost my attention and ceased to exist). I considered swallowing it, but I thought that might be hard. So I thought I'd hold it next to me. Then I though I'd better make sure the dynamite worked properly before I tried blowing myself up, to see how volatile it was. I threw it, and it stuck to the branch of a tree, without any visible means of support. It just stuck there like glued. Then I ducked and covered, while looking at the dynamite. It blew, but only like a standard firecracker. The stick of dynamite was still stuck in the tree (it hadn't been destroyed), and it faded. I thought "I can't really blow myself up with that." Then I thought that I perhaps should do the Basic Task. I started feeling tired, and could only keep my eyes half open. At this point I had a strange FA and lost lucidity. (excerpt from my Dream Journal entry)

[Keitorin]

A failed attempt: Then I remembered the Lucid Task of the Month. Too bad; you were close though! Are you going to try again? Might try the Basic Task first next time.

[Aerobic Robot]

Woo! First Lucid I have in a while and I do the advanced task! I don't understand each of the different types of lucids though, so I didn't know what to tag it with. 21.07.2009 Task of the Month / Demon Child (Non-lucid) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID I put on Ninja's lucid-aid mp3 3.0, I've never used it before (or any lucid aid). The beginning of the dream is a bit fuzzy. I'm in some kind of waiting room, it's dark and rusty, and there are pods, kind of like dog pound cages. I'm lead into some arena room, just as rusty as the other room. I have to destroy the entire arena. I remember the monthly challenge and try to blow myself up. I leap into the air, spread my arms, and yell "BOOM!". I can feel my body ripping appart but in the middle I warped into a pool area. There's a small child here, I try talking to him but he doesn't react. His face melts and transforms into some demon like thing. The rest of the dream involves curing the child, which is a figment of imagination, but the thoughts that created the child are from the future, actually, the tomorrow in the dream. I play along and try to solve it. The next (dream) day, I'm on a woven set of floating paths, and at the end is someone in a cage with the child. There's a well with a reflection of some type of video game. It's an old roleplaying game. Depending on how you've done in the game, you wither go to a heaven like scenario (Well of Gods) a limbo type scenario (???) and a hell like scenario (???). If you try to enter the Well of Gods when you haven't beaten the game you instantly go into the hell scenario. Someone gets in the Well of Gods and it spits out pictures and certain files. They turn out to be related to the case involving the demon child, and the child turns back to normal. I don't remember near the end, but I wake up. I splash some water on my face and write this down. I'm starting to remember things, I'll post about them as I remember them. I remember someone cracking a cd with this image on it.

[Zuma]

Had a lucid just now. Was at a mall with a food court so I ordered. I said 'Can I get a hotdog or a hamburger?' Girl gave me a hotdog (for free!). I ate it in about two bites, it didn't really taste like anything. Then I try to explode. I didn't really have full commitment, it kind of scared me cause i didn't know what would happen. So I concentrate on exploding and my body starts spreading out like I'm in that torture chamber device that stretches your limbs out. It hurts. And I start screaming really loud aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh and my body feels weird. I didn't like that feeling so I didn't try to explode again. Next time I will try to eat some dynamite or something.

[reality<LDs]

Tomorrow night I will push myself to eat a hamburger, lucid or not. mmm. -Reality.

[Mzzkc]

I inadvertently completed the basic task. No spoiler tags this time around since I don't want to this to go seemingly unnoticed like my Advanced Task completion. DJ Excerpt, From Entry: Hamburger in Paradise At this point, my Chick-Fil-A and Burger King meals were ready, so I took them and started walking away. I wonder how I'm going to eat all this food, but a voice in my head blurts in, saying, relax it's a dream, eat away. Yeah, you're right, it is a dream, I think strolling on as if nothing drastic had really changed. I make my way back to the front doors where this guy shouts, pulls out an uzi, and yells something along the lines of "Everyone down, unless you want to volunteer to let us have some fun with you." I'm getting a kick out of all the people screaming and dropping to the ground. I just walk up to the guy, bags of food still in my right hand. I say to him, "Yeah, sure, I'll volunteer," raising my other hand into the air. He looks at me weird, tells me to stay right there, and then runs back outside where he starts assembling his cohorts. There's a lot of them. Well, crap, now how am I gonna enjoy my meal. There's no way I can fight that many with only one hand. So, I run away. At first they're hot on my tail, but a few short range TPs put enough distance between us for a little more breathing room, not that I was worried. The TPs destabilized things a bit, due to the sudden and forcible change in scenery. I stabilized by rubbing my hands together and focusing on the room I was now in. White walls, and lots of people on little white cots. I go into the corner, behind a white shelf that blocks most of the room from view, and pull out the Whopper. I take a bite. I normally don't eat in lucids, but maybe I should, because god this was delicious. The evil dudes were still looking for me and even came into the room and kidnapped a few kids and threw them onto crosses and into cramped coffin like boxes. But, I was chill, knowing it was just a dream, so I just kept eating my burger. It was moist and hot and meaty, with crunchy toppings like cold lettuce, and sweet onions, and pickles, can't forget those pickles. At the time I didn't even know I was completing the basic task. *facepalm*

[endymion]

I just got back from 10 days camping in the backcountry and had some great opportunities to try the advanced task of the month. There are my excerpts of my two attempts...I hope they count: ATTEMPT #1: [...] " I find myself in my childhood home, out in the backyard, still lucid. I remember the Dream Views task of the month of exploding. As I had planned to pull it off, I would summon a bomb (timed), strap it to my chest, and let it go off. The way it ends up happening is more or less as planned. First I try to use the wooden toy chest next to the jungle gym as a place in which to "discover" the bomb. I walk up over there and open it up, expecting to find the bomb there. But instead, there is nothing. Not willing to give up that easily, I try to just turn around and expect it to be there on the lawn. After a few tries, this works! But instead of a fancy, high-tech bomb, this is one of those stereotypical round, black bombs like in Super Mario Bros. I just "know" that it's going to go off in one second, so I quickly scoop it up and hold it to my chest. It indeed "goes off," but not quite in the manner I expected. First, there is no visual blast, just a tactile vibration of great intensity. Then, instead of being broken into a thousand pieces, my body "locks up" and I begin to float upwards (against gravity) completely outside my control. I'm literally paralyzed, cannot move my limbs, and I'm mute, so my cries for help go unanswered. I just float inexorably upwards like a balloon until something causes the scene to shift." ATTEMPT #2: [...] "Thus the scene shifts and I find myself once again at my childhood home, this time on the back deck (how hard it is to get away from that damn place in my dreams!) I'm still lucid, though not as high-level as before. Still, I remember to try the Dream Views task of the month of exploding. So I try to summon a bomb directly into my hands. I take them slightly out of my line of sight, then re-emerge with a rough slab of meat, like a steak or something. I conclude that "the bomb must be implanted in the meat and about to go off." So I hold it tight to my chest and sure enough, a moment later there is an explosion-like sound and I am flung dozens of feet off the deck and onto the backyard lawn, lying prone on the ground and feeling pain in my chest from the blast. Even though I pre-visualized and expected to be blown into a thousand tiny pieces, I remain fully put-together. After a few moments of lying there helpless, the scene changes once again."