Thread: Task of the month for February 2010

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 - Go in the sunlight and see if you have a shadow

Advanced Task - Get married on the Maid of the Mist*

Maid of the Mist

If you have a problem with the advanced one, blame Snowy, she picked it

Have fun!

EDIT: Nothing to see here folks. >_>

Good luck with the tasks...

Oh yuck, I don't like either of the tasks. I am good, no goin into the sun for me. I have a thing with space in dreams....NO! And gettin married...I don't even think I wanna attempt it...I'm only 16. Sorry, just sayin the truth.

Well don't blame me. Ninja roped me into it! I didn't know I was being asked to choose a task.

Bad Ninja.

I'd like to try the marriage one...but I'm sprucing up the boat...and clearing it out for just me and m'lady...and taking the thing to Japan...but I'll keep the waterfall.

they both sound a little advanced if you ask me, but sure I'll give it a shot next month.

edit: eh....i read "go to the sun and see if you have a shadow" for some reason.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Advanced Task - Get married on the Maid of the Mist*

lol...wat? That's a strange one. I'd prefer to go over Niagra Falls in a barrel or some sort of boat/floaty thing than to stand on a boat at the bottom of the falls getting sprayed with water, wearing a rain smock that makes you look like a penguin, and getting married to some random person lol. I'll be going over the falls and laughing at the silly people getting married on the boat.

Well, Nina, you're an advanced lucid dreamer. You could take the boat up on top of the falls and have it go over during your wedding. And it's Valentines day, that's why it's a wedding

Oops, sorry guys, I completely forgot to move this to the right place.

A marriage is no small thing. It implies a bondage. When a man and woman are married, for example, their souls actually become intertwined, "woven" is the word Jesus used to describe this process.

Sun sounds fun, though.

Last month: Came late to the task. I only had one opportunity: In the hypnopompic state, after waking briefly in the night, I saw a table with glasses of champagne.

As I reached for one, I thought, "Well, I am still somewhat awake. It just doesn't count."

I should have no problem with the advanced one, as i've been married once... i'll just recreate it on the boat (damn it, i didn't wanna go threw it a second time) ... First i have to study the baot as much as possible though.

Originally Posted by 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 - Go in the sunlight and see if you have a shadow

Advanced Task - Get married on the Maid of the Mist*

Maid of the Mist

...I went downstairs and found myself in the living room of my parents house. My dad made breakfast with really weird, thick orange juice. Realizing that I shouldn't be here at all I reality checked and had too many fingers. LUCID

Immediately I left the room and stepped outside through the glass sliding door entering an enormous heath! I recognized this heath from my holidays to France and wanted to recreate holiday conditions (it's also snowing in waking life, for a couple of freakin' months now :S ). I flew away, summoned a gigantic pool in the neighbors garden and transformed my weird clothes in a swimming pants, all in mid air at 30 meters height.

With great velocity I flew in the water (amazing). I could see my shadow/reflection increasing as I got closer...

The water felt refreshingly cold, nice!

I completed the Basic Task as well. Here is my entry....



February 8, 2010
Lucid Dream 149: A Basket Full of Wonders
around 9:00pm
DILD

Category - WTF/Task


I'm driving my car on my way to work and it begins to rain. I turn on my windshield wipers, but they aren't helping any. Soon my windshield is covered in a thick film of water and I can't see a thing. I decide to pull over and try and fix my windshield wipers. I attempt to slow down, but my brakes aren't working properly either. I start freaking out thinking I'm about to wreck. I think to myself, "Damnit Ninja! It figures reading about your bad brakes (in your dream) would cause me to wreck another "dream" car! BAM....Lucidity!

The moment I became lucid, I slammed into a guard rail and was thrown through my windshield. Before my body hit the ground I took flight. I flew over a couple of mountains and noticed a river running down in a valley. I flew down and landed beside the river. I walked to the edge of the water and I figured I might as well break out a sacrilegious activity. I decided to try and walk on water. I concentrated and placed one foot onto the water. It felt pretty solid, so I leaned forward and stepped with the other foot. I was now standing on the top of the water. I got pretty excited about this and took one more step. I remained on top of the water and had successfully walked on water. I then tested my luck and took a tiny bunny-hop. I still stayed on top of the water. Standing on water felt kind of weird. It felt like I was standing on jello. I then sprang into the air about ten feet and attempted to land back on the water. It didn't work and I was sucked down stream.

I floated fairly quickly down the river and could feel the warm sun hitting my face. I thought to myself, "This reminds me of a lazy river at the beach." A few seconds after the thought, I noticed big yellow inner tubes floating around me. Before I could even finish the thought, water was splashed in my face by some little kid being everything but lazy in my lazy river (hate when that happens, lol). I was now laying in a inner tube myself and there was a medium sized wicker basket on the front of it. I looked in the basket and saw a gun. I thought, "WTF?" I then was splashed once again in the face by the little kid kicking his feet in his inner tube. I said, "I don't have to put up with this shit." I then grabbed the pistol and put a bullet in the back of the kids head. He fell off the tube and sunk under water.

I saw some blood in the water as I floated by his vacant tube. Another person beside me looked panicked and said, "Did you just shoot him! Why? Why did you just shoot him?" I answered, "The little bastard was splashing water in my face!" The guy chuckled and said, "Oh ok. You freaked me out there for a minute, I thought you didn't have a good reason. That is why they give everyone a gun in the basket after all. We gotta keep those bastards out of here!" I laughed and laid back in my tube allowing the sun to warm my face. I thought to myself, "This would be good time for a blunt." I imagined a blunt and then glanced into my basket once again. There was a whole basket full of blunts. Must have been a hundred of them. I pulled four of them out and stuck them all in my mouth. I then lit all four of them and got blazed out of my mind.

I just lazed in my river for several minutes smoking when I noticed my shadow in the water next to me. I glanced up into the sky and saw the sun beaming down on me. I looked back at my shadow and saw that it was correctly imitating my actions, but it was lagging a bit behind. My shadow became darker and darker as I watched it, until I noticed it had become an actually shadow-person floating in the water. I watched my shadow climb into its own unner tube and float up beside me. I instinctively passed one of my blunts to it. Me and my shadow floated down the river in peaceful silence smoking blunts together for a good while. I just kept getting new ones out of my basket when we had finished the previous ones. We must have smoked 20 blunts before I finally woke, lol.

PS: No offence to anyone. I respect others religious beliefs. I'm just telling it how it happened

Oh god Yoshi, that dream really cracked me up. Haha, amazing dream man.

Does it matter what time you go to sleep? I usually go at 10- 11, by the time im in bed and waiting to sleep it usually 11 when I tried to go to bed at 8 once... i cant go to sleep maybe i was chanting too much but i was awake till 10-11 pm.

So we can sleep whenever we want?

Originally Posted by XeL

Oh god Yoshi, that dream really cracked me up. Haha, amazing dream man.

I agree with this completely.

@Squaddle: Of course you can sleep when ever you want... The task just needs to be done in a lucid dream, so go to sleep at whatever time works best for you...

That's not my point lol.
Just wondering how the REM cycle would be diff if we sleep at diff time, would it be the same but adjusts to at what time we sleep?
Cuz when I try to sleep at 8 i couldnt till 10-11 which i usually do, a habit of the body? not accustomed?

Originally Posted by XeL

Oh god Yoshi, that dream really cracked me up. Haha, amazing dream man.

Originally Posted by Hidden

I agree with this completely.

Glad you enjoyed it guys (and girls )!

@Squaddle, like Mario said, it is a good idea to keep a consistent sleep schedule (especially for beginners). For me, my sleep schedule is consistently inconsistent, and it works for me. I'm pretty experienced when it comes to lucid dreaming though (may be the reason I can sleep odd hours and still have success), and I wouldn't suggest an inconsistent schedule to beginners.

I looked off of the front porch over the railing. The sun was shining brightly. I could see it reflecting off of our tiny pond. I could see our fish swimming around in the tiny pond. Goldfish. They were overgrown goldfish, the pond wasn't large enough for koi. I would fly. Flying always makes me feel good. I climbed up on the railing and took to the sky. I remembered something about a dream task… to look and see if I had a shadow when in sunlight? Of course I would have a shadow… how could I not? My thought was confirmed when I looked down at the desert below and saw my own shadow following me on the ground below. Wow… that was sure easy… I remembered I had originally thought the goal was to fly into the sun itself. I remembered I had wanted to do that. I flew higher and higher. The height I was at was dizzying. It was exhilarating. I loved it. The wind in my face… Would I be able to escape the Earth's gravity? Sure. This is a dream. I can do whatever I want. I continued flying higher and higher until everything around me faded to black and I woke.

The Funny Dancing Shadow

Method: DILD
Black = non-lucid
Red = lucid

The first part of the dream that i remember is being in a lady's house, in which i have never been before. There was a big get together where everyone comes together to have a large meal. There were several tables everywhere and a lot people were there, most of them were people from my old high school. Jill (a girl i used to like in high school and still kind of do even though i haven't seen her in over 3 years) was there. She started singing and the man next to her (whom i assume was her dad) started making guitar noises with his mouth. What was funny was that he actually sounded like a real electric guitar. She sang really good. I told her that she sang really awesome, and she said, "I know, it was awesome wasn't it." Then a radio came on. It was a girl singing, except she sang horribly. I said, "Now that is not awesome." and Jill said, "Yeah." The guy next to me said, "Man, don't be diss'n." After that, i noticed an woman there who gave off an evil vibe. I ignored the woman for now and decided to play my guitar. My friend Matt was there and he told me to try playing it left-handed. I tried, but it couldn't do it. I then started playing a small riff that i made up before going to bed that night.

Then my attention changed to a large tank on the side of the room, there was a big fat boy in there. He had locked himself in there and never came out. Eventually, the evil woman convinced him to leave. I went inside the tank and found another doorway inside. I followed the doorway and came to some really steep steps. After going up the steps, i noticed a doorway for midgets. I crawled through it and came out into a maze of halls and stairways. The further i went, the smaller the rooms got, until all i could do was crawl. I was completely lost and getting very claustrophobic. I told myself that i would never get out and would die there. Then i thought, no i won't it's just a dream so i'll get out of here eventually. Sadly, those were only idle words, because i did not become lucid from that. Then there was a scene change.

I was now in my backyard, where i noticed the evil lady. She now was wearing a white kimono and was a zombie. She was really pale and mean looking. She had some kind of cake that was poisoned. She fed some to my miniature dachtsund and it died. She was going to try and feed some to my beagle to, but i ran over to her and snatched the cake from her before she could feed it to my beagle. I ran from her for a little ways and then stopped. While i watched her begin to chase after me, i thought that she was too odd and the likelihood of me being chased by a zombie is very small. I must be dreaming.

Now that i'm lucid. I have no fear of her at all. She started to throw stuff at me. I don't remember everything she threw, but she did throw a gourd at me that had been made into a birdhouse. I caught it and decided to feel the texture of it to stabilize the dream. After that i rubbed my hands together to stabilize a little bit further. Now i remembered to try the basic TOTM. The sun was out, so i looked for my shadow. I saw it, but it was kind of dim. The more i stared at it, the darker it became, until it was easily visible. Somebody else that did the basic task said that their shadow's movements were delayed. I moved and my shadow was delayed also. It also had elongated arms and a strange arch in its lower back. I started to dance around to see how it would react. It followed me perfectly, except for the delay. I was going to try flying to the sun, but i wanted to keep dancing for a while. The shadow was so funny looking, that i started laughing hysterically. The zombie woman tried to take this as a chance to attack me. She ran towards me, but i kept dancing until she was right in front of me. Then i gave her a flying knee drive right to the face. Sadly, i didn't get to see her reaction, because as soon as my knee connected with her face; i woke up.

Yay! My first TOTM.

I'm gonna jump on this, however late into it I may be. Gonna shoot for just the basic task for now, though I love the idea of going through a marriage on the Maid of the Mist.... Inner romantic speaking, there.

I hope that I've done it correctly ...

Bald Sephiroth and ... A Giant Lizzard ??!!

Length : Great
Vividity : Great

I'm at a barber shop and want to have a hair cut. The seats are full so I decided to sit down on a couch and read some magazines. I turned the first page, then suddenly '' One-Winged Angel '' started playing. I got freaked out and jumped from the couch. '' WTF ? '' I got tired of waiting so I went to the barber, and was suprised to death. They were giving Sephy a haircut. I wondered why '' One-Winged Angel '' is being played and found out why, Sephiroth has put on some headphones and the volume was at its max. I instantly became LuCiD. I laughed as he was moving his head back and forward to the beat, and when ever his name was mentioned in the song, he'll say his name in his normal low-pitched voice. I went to him and said to him : '' You serious ? '' he put his headphones down, he finally cut his hair to absolute nothingness, and replied : '' We'll all return to the life stream. Might as well go back in style. '' I laughed infront of him. '' Never make fun of the lifestream ! '' He sheathed his 9 foot katana. I got terrified, looking at the sword as he rushed towards me. I close my eyes. Instead of slicing me to pieces, he punched me in my stomach. Blood fell from my mouth. '' Hmph '' He said. Then he kicked me far away, crashing the building, and up the sky. I was litteraly laughing. Why would he use his hands when he sheathed his swords, I was thinking. I opened my eyes. I'm at a desert. Sand everywhere. The sun shining and it is hot. I stood up. I remembered DVs ToTM, so I looked down and found my shadow there as it should be. I was on a struggle to return back and decided to walk. I was walking through the desert, the wind blowing the sand on my eyes. I fealt that there was something behind me, so I looked down and found an immense shadow. I turned around. And there he was. A giant lizzard the size of a building. He just stood there, he didn't do anything. A fly went to his eye, but he didn't move a muscle. His tongue suddenly stretched like a frog's and ate that fly. It was digusting. '' Embrace the spirit of eternity. '' He talked as he chewed. '' What does that mean ? '' I said ' mean ' in high-pitched voice, I was frightned. The view was unbelievable. '' YOU SHALL FILL THE VOID !! '' He hit me with his giant tail and I woke up.

Two or three nights ago (don't know exactly because I don't have my Dream Journal with me) I actually remembered to do the TotM! Woohoo...

It was evening, and I was walking around my campus. The sun was starting to set, and it was warm, grassy and spring-ish. This should have been my first clue since I'm practically living in antarctica right now. It was early in the evening and it seemed slightly late for me to be there. I wondered to myself "why the heck am I here...I don't have any evening classes" but nothing registered. I decided that I must be there to turn in an assignment to one of my professors. So I go into the building of one of my professors from last semester. I start up the staircase, when I notice that the stone tiles in the floor have changed from a flecked sort of brown-grey-gold granite (?) to a blue-turquoise black and violet color. Thinking to myself "that's wierd, I must have never come here during the remodeling" I just continued on. I had gone up four or five flights of stairs when I realized my professor's office was on the third floor...and that the building only had three floors. Upon realizing this, I became lucid. I was so excited, as I hadn't had any very good quality lucids for quite a while. I looked around and noticed a girl sitting on the bench accross the...sitting area (for lack of a better term). I was looking around strangely, and she was looking at me funny. I just laughed really hard and started looking for things to do. She continued to look at me strangely, but then started to laugh as well. I noticed the evening sun coming in through one of the windows and remembered the Task of the Month. I went over to the light and tried to inspect my shadow: nothing. I closed my eyes and looked again. This time I had a shadow, but it was't behaving properly. It reminded me of those iTunes commercials with the shadow people dancing to their music. (from here on has nothing to do with the task) As I looked around, I saw one of the telephones from my home sitting on one of the benches. I picked it up, but it slipped out of my hands and the back fell off, revealig the battery. By this time, the girl was looking at me rather strangely again, so I picked up the telephone and pitched it through the window. The look on her face was priceless. I just laughed again, and started to walk away as she continued to stare at me in jaw-dropping amazement...

I done it for the first time =D

Originally Posted by Dylan xD's Dream Journal

Fragments!

I was standing in a forest area, there was a road to my right with a tank sitting in the middle of it.I started to remember something "My shadow" I shouted.
I turned and looked at the ground, staring at my shadow it started to become dark, I turned around and started to walk off "I have to remember this dream!" I mumbled.

Hope I done it right :}