Thread: Task of the month for August 2009

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 - Ask a DC what they think of existing only in your dream


Advanced Task - Make a Tornado

Looks ok for me, but i wanted to see "ask a dc about the creation of the universe" ^^

Ah dang, my leaf tornado didn't make it. Will probably do the basic one again, its always fun to watch their reactions.

You can put leaves in the tornado if you want

hooray, mine got picked!

Have fun all

I've already done the DC one once, but I'm well up for doing it again

I am completely lucid. I know it is a dream, and decide to ask my mum if she knows it's a dream, if she knows it's not real.

Mum: Well of course some things aren't real, obviously. It's up to you to question and decide what to accept.

Nan: Say for instance, you have kids. You have to accept your existence, and the reality of certain things to get by.

Mum: Even if that existence is a bit beige (boring).

Me: Yeah, but you're down with the beige. (Me basically saying I understand that while you're accepting a boring reality, it's so you can master it. I say it that way because I'm gangsta.)

The point was, you need to do some things, like eat, like drive to work, so you have to accept the existance of food, cars and work etc. But everything else you can question to your hearts content, because it doesn't matter if you're wrong.

Originally Posted by Jonny the Nameless

I've already done the DC one once, but I'm well up for doing it again

I am completely lucid. I know it is a dream, and decide to ask my mum if she knows it's a dream, if she knows it's not real.

Mum: Well of course some things aren't real, obviously. It's up to you to question and decide what to accept.

Nan: Say for instance, you have kids. You have to accept your existence, and the reality of certain things to get by.

Mum: Even if that existence is a bit beige (boring).

Me: Yeah, but you're down with the beige. (Me basically saying I understand that while you're accepting a boring reality, it's so you can master it. I say it that way because I'm gangsta.)

The point was, you need to do some things, like eat, like drive to work, so you have to accept the existance of food, cars and work etc. But everything else you can question to your hearts content, because it doesn't matter if you're wrong.

haha that's actually a really deep answer..

Wow, you guys got the task of the month up and running fast.They seem really fun. I'm going to try the basic one first, the second one seems kind of hard. I'll report back if I complete a task.

I will do the basic task by the end of the month! that is my goal, I've never been lucid but this seems like something easy to remember. Also does anyone every try doing wild drugs in the LD's i feel like peoples reaction to taking dream LSD would be baffling, just a thought...

I did the basic task last night,and it was,interesting.Thinking about it makes me chuckle.

So the dream starts off in this camera way,slowly zooming in,and it turns out to be an interview,an interview with me! I was being interviewed about guitar! So when the camera is still zooming in on me the interviewer,who's name was Abercrombie ,I thought to myself (which was odd since I wasn't in my body,for the moment I thought this I was seeing this in third person),"This is it!Ask the DC how he feels to be only a dream character!". So I did,and here's how it went:

Me:So how does it feel to only be in my dream?
Aber:Well,it really doesn't matter,since I'm only a figment of your imagination.

I found that odd,so I tried again,this time,I asked Jimi Hendrix,(who somehow appeared in my dreams),and I got the same exact response.

I'm still dumbfounded at that.

Originally Posted by sora12

Wow, you guys got the task of the month up and running fast.They seem really fun. I'm going to try the basic one first, the second one seems kind of hard. I'll report back if I complete a task.

The second one wasn't too bad. I'm sure you could do it if you tried.

In A Run Down Building Watching This Cleaning Lady - Creating A Tornado, Then Getting Rid Of It (WILD)
I'm looking at this building while lucid, which looks like a shack, only it is about 3 stories high, and looks similar to the Adam's Family House, except that it is more rundown. As I float inside I see the spirit of this cleaning lady who used to work in this place going about her duties. She's a stout lady and has this scarf around her head.

I create a tornado using my imagination, after which I see these dark colored clouds heading our way, which completely blows the building away. As I continue standing here, feeling the tornado blowing against my face, getting stronger and stronger, I become concerned that I am about to blow away, so utter the words "Peace, be still", after which the tornado is gone.

hi, i made a small tornado in the middle of this grassy plain and my tornadoe was small to medium sized and one of my DC actually put it in a jar for one reason or the other and it was still going in a jar. does this count?

From my journal, basic task done:

FA, go out of bed and RC, I had an amazing idea! To go and make some DC RC by messing with them, so went to MM chat and got to talk with them, I don’t recall who was there, but it was like 3 people… anyway, they were talking about calculators and computers and when they said something about RNG, I changed the talk to online games, I wanted them to say RPG, and they did… eventually, so I told them “Yeah my random plant generator isn’t working properly right now” and they all were like… “Uh? RPG isn’t that…” Me: “lol RC?” They did and became lucid, then I told them that they were not real and all that stuff, asked how it felt, and they said “Are we the ones dreaming or you?” “Lol Me, so how does it feel?” “Depressing”, it was fun, but I was to wake up now.

I'm having trouble remembering to do RC during the day, i use to write the letter A on my hand and check on it quite often but that didnt work, so i've been holding my nose and trying to breathe and trying to stick my finger through my other hand, i think these RCs will work better for me but i cant seem to remember to do them during the day, any advice would be very helpful

For having 174 lucid dreams you sure dont have an imagination ninja lol. You can come up with some better tasks!!! Make a tornado??? Come on, how bout make a level 5 hurricane in New York City and energize it with electricity? Something, anything better than that!!!! Im begging you! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE YOUR IMAGINATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, but with a tornado,
we get to see where people did it, what happened, who was there etc.

But if its a tornado in new york, everybodys dream will be a tornado in new york, doesnt make for interesting reading.

While it would be more difficult, it doesn't leave much room for the dream imagination.

Or your own creativity. I personally want to make the twister in a nursery, or above a pond full of ducks or something.

Originally Posted by Elwood

For having 174 lucid dreams you sure dont have an imagination ninja lol. You can come up with some better tasks!!! Make a tornado??? Come on, how bout make a level 5 hurricane in New York City and energize it with electricity? Something, anything better than that!!!! Im begging you! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE YOUR IMAGINATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think this task is just fine. Ninja makes the tasks general, and that is the way it should be. Most people could not manage making a level 5 hurricane appear in New York City and energize it with electricity. I`m sure no one would mind if you did, though.



Wait musical heart, a dream list of lucid goals that you consult?


...Brilliant!

Ok, I just napped on the advanced task, heres the dream:
I was sitting at my desk on my computer, then I noticed my keys on the keyboard weren't lined up and were also odd letters and symbols.(became lucid)
Then I remembered the advanced task. So I looked at the side of the wall, and Looked back down at my keyboard. (thinking about a tornado ripping of my wall.) And it did it!I watched it for a while(ripping down the rest of my house and backyard), and then decided I was going to have some fun.
I then jumped into the tornado, but sucked because I looked down and it turned into a hole, and I was falling.I then had a false awakening. and forgot I was lucid.

YAY I did both
"...So at one point I went into my room to check my phone to see if he had replied...and I RC'd (nose pinch). It worked and I screamed, "YES! A LUCID!" (yeah, i get excited lol)
So I rubbed my hands together to stabilize the dream. It was extremely vivid and I had tons of control! So then I couldn't decide what to do first. So I went to my backpack to try to find my list of lucid goals that I keep in there. It wasn't there so I closed my eyes and imagine it there. I opened my eyes and there it was! I read it but I couldn't find anything interesting on it. So I dedcided to do the tasks of the month. I ran out of my room and there was mom about to walk down the stairs.
I said, "Hey, I gotta ask you a question!"
She turned to me and said, "Ok but then you gotta clean the bathrooms and vaccum."
I was like yeah right but I said, "Ok. So....what do you think about only existing in my dream?"
She didn't even hesitate and said, "I don't like not being able to control what you're doing."
I thought that was kinda funny so I just walked back into my room and decided to do the advanced tast. I walked up to my window and decided to experiment with my control first. I said, "rain!" and before the word had gotten all the way out of my mouth it started downpouring! I said, "clouds!" and dark clouds appeared. I yelled, "tornado!" and the clouds spun around a few times and stopped. So I took away the rain which was clouding my vision, and went to a larger window. I spoke to the clouds and said, "swirl". they began swirling. I used my finger to "pull" down a part of the cloud. I drew circles in the air while pulling my finger down to show I wanted it to spiral and touch down on the ground. Then I put the rain back and said, "Alright. Now. Tornado!" and the small spiral turned into a full blown tornado. It picked up some random house out of nowhere and broke it in half. I got bored of watching it and destroyed it.

what is a dc

Zukin, that's really funny. Good job on remembering all that dialogue... I can't seem to remember any these days!

Originally Posted by deepdreamer

what is a dc

DC = Dream Character

yes i am stupid... who is DC?