Lucidity Challenge 39: Congratulations, Koharo!

#7

We received five sign-ups at breakneck pace, which is amazing considering the time of day and the need to give more info than usual for sign-ups! Thank you guys for all of this! Also, it’s been really cool seeing people’s reasoning for their choices, and I hope that once Task 2 and later come along, you have a chance to act upon them!

A quick reminder to people that it asks for a setting, not a location. Choosing a location is acceptable, of course! I say this because for a setting, you can also name a point in the past or future instead of a place. While I think most people will desire locations and not times, I bring it up as an interesting alternative.

If sign-ups continue quickly, I am willing to get the challenge started during midday/evening my time. I don’t want to start any earlier, as that will prevent much of our user base from seeing the post due to sleep and work. That’s already making the large assumption that people are on LD4all every day to see this, but I will have things structured to benefit people that choose to give a few minutes at least every two days or so to LD4all, so it’s just sticking with the upcoming theme. :tongue: I want to keep people social with each other for motivation! In all likelihood, though, sign-ups will slow down and it’ll be two days from now or later.

Since some people have had BBCode issues and since some people have edited their posts while others were in the middle of quoting them, here’s the current sign-up list. Quote this post to get the BBCode!

LC 39 Signups List [Name (Average LD Time)]

  1. Mew151 (10 seconds)
  • Personal Goal: Shoot fireworks from my hands
  • Desired Action: AERIAL BATTLE
  • Desired Setting: Sky, above floating circular grassy island above more sky.
  • Desired Form: Mew (see avatar)
  1. Scipio Xaos (3 minutes)
  • Personal Goal: Find a Name for My Guitar
  • Desired Action: Use my Kinetic Accelerators
  • Desired Setting: Castle Story Floating Islands
  • Desired Form: Machamp
  1. squoak (10 minutes)
  • Personal Goal: Firebend
  • Desired Action: Fly some more
  • Desired Setting: Skyloft (Legend of Zelda)
  • Desired Form: Absol
  1. ian1 (5 minutes)
  • Personal Goal: Fly
  • Desired Action: Bring an inanimate object to life
  • Desired Setting: This place
  • Desired Form: Dinosaur
  1. Yev (1 minute)
  • Personal Goal: Receive useful advice from a DC
  • Desired Action: Fly
  • Desired Setting: A city along the coast
  • Desired Form: Wolf
  1. Masonc1 (5 Minutes)
  • Personal Goal: Dream Time Distension
  • Desired Action: Turning people into pretty monster things
  • Desired Setting: Great Sea, like in Wind Waker or One Piece /get the idea
  • Desired Form: Wyvern
#8

Masonc1 (5 Minutes)
Personal Goal: Dream Time Distension
Desired Action: Turning people into pretty monster things
Desired Setting: Great Sea, like in Wind Waker or One Piece /get the idea
Desired Form: Wyvern

I’m good at getting lucid dreams, and I have some moderate dream control, but I’m bad at making dreams last and transforming. If I make dreams last longer, I have more time to look for catalysts and practice willpower. I still want to see how dream characters react to becoming merfolk and harpies and nagas; losing feet or losing hands and seeing what they make of it. I think a Sea would be really cool, since I could change which island I visit each dream or swim or fly between them above the ocean, but it definitely wouldn’t be Earth’s sea. Choosing a Wyvern form because I just really like them, okay? But I also think the membrane tension between fingers might help stabilize the dream and be a constant reminder to the altered shape, where added wings might be forgotten as extra.

#9

LC 39 Signups List [Name (Average LD Time)]

  1. Mew151 (10 seconds)
  • Personal Goal: Shoot fireworks from my hands
  • Desired Action: AERIAL BATTLE
  • Desired Setting: Sky, above floating circular grassy island above more sky.
  • Desired Form: Mew (see avatar)
  1. Scipio Xaos (3 minutes)
  • Personal Goal: Find a Name for My Guitar
  • Desired Action: Use my Kinetic Accelerators
  • Desired Setting: Castle Story Floating Islands
  • Desired Form: Machamp
  1. squoak (10 minutes)
  • Personal Goal: Firebend
  • Desired Action: Fly some more
  • Desired Setting: Skyloft (Legend of Zelda)
  • Desired Form: Absol
  1. ian1 (5 minutes)
  • Personal Goal: Fly
  • Desired Action: Bring an inanimate object to life
  • Desired Setting: This place
  • Desired Form: Dinosaur
  1. Yev (1 minute)
  • Personal Goal: Receive useful advice from a DC
  • Desired Action: Fly
  • Desired Setting: A city along the coast
  • Desired Form: Wolf
  1. Masonc1 (5 Minutes)
  • Personal Goal: Dream Time Distension
  • Desired Action: Turning people into pretty monster things
  • Desired Setting: Great Sea, like in Wind Waker or One Piece /get the idea
  • Desired Form: Wyvern
  1. Lumessence :universe: (5 Minutes)
  • Personal Goal: Return to the year 5017
  • Desired Action: Sprout flora in an otherwise plantless area.
  • Desired Setting: The Future?
  • Desired Form: Phoenix

It seems my desired location and personal goal go hand in hand with eachother… I’m not sure if that’s acceptable or not? I can come up with something else for my setting if need be.

#10

This is posted from my phone, so i’ll edit and add proper formatting later.

Average length: 3 minutes
Personal goal: Discover or create a song
Desired action: Make something grow or heal
Desired setting: Fantasy world (book, game, Ceeia etc)
Desired form: Extended senses (will explain :cool: )

#11

If you could, it would be nice. While I certainly won’t shout “NO, YOU’RE WRONG, THAT’S NOT ALLOWED,” in the interest of being fair to everybody, I’d rather not have Task 2 overlap with personal goals for some people but not for all.

@Siiw: No problem; I’ll add the formatting to the first post. I know that our list BBCode is a pain. :tongue: I’m definitely interested in hearing what you mean by “extended senses” and what sort of fantasy world you’re looking into. :smile:

#12

  1. James_UK2008 (5 minutes)

    Personal goal: Try and stabilise dream a bit more to extend time within LD.
    Desired action: Change a DC into another creature.
    Desired setting: A tropical island/jungle.
    Desired form: Lizard-Man (Wonderboy 3: The Dragons Trap)

#13

  1. IkranMakto (15 seconds)

    Personal Goal: Fly on an Ikran
    Desired Action: Meeting with someone from IRC or DG/SC
    Desired Setting: Park nearby argon’s house from one of my HI’s
    Desired Form: Ikran

#14

We’ve hit 10 sign-ups for this LC less than 24 hours after the end of the last one. This is quite the turnout!

For the recent sign-ups, notice that the earlier sign-ups gave a bit of explanation after their choices. You’re not required to do this, but it may come in handy later, and it may help us learn a bit about you.

With 10 sign-ups done, I would like to know if anybody’s averse to starting soon? There’s a few people that want to sign up but haven’t had the chance, and I’ll definitely wait for these people. If many people can’t participate until a certain day, I can push things back a bit. Given the fast sign-up rate, though, I don’t want to be waiting a week or so. :tongue:

#15
  1. HeadInTheClouds (1-2 minutes)
  • Personal Goal: Become aware of my dream body
  • Desired action: Clone myself
  • Desired setting: A cliff overlooking some water
  • Desired form: Flip my gender

I’ve noticed that I am not very aware of my dream body in my lucid dreams, and I usually only see myself completely in mirrors. I don’t think I’ve ever been fully conscious of my body like I normally am IRL. I’ve been trying to clone myself from a mirror, but have been unsuccessful; therefore, I thought I would go easier on myself and just try to clone myself somehow. I read a book a few weeks ago, and it got me into the mood to do something crazy and that would give me some adrenaline. I thought it would be cool to jump off a cliff, so that is why I want to find a cliff overlooking some water. I’ve tried changing my gender in my dreams, but have never been very successful. I don’t have something in particular that I want to transform into, so I guess I will continue to try to succeed at changing my gender.

#16

Considering that Lumessence wanted to give DC-me pink pigtails as a personal goal in the last LC, you’ll understand if I find this highly amusing. :tongue: Maybe she’ll have some advice for you.~ All accounted for, cool stuff!

#17

paual (2 minutes)
Personal Goal: Meet Davesprite
Desired action: Consume dreamfood
Desired setting: A field with flowers and some trees, with a lake in the middle
Desired form: A human/bird hybrid

While meeting a favorite fictional character is something that has happened before to me in ND’s, I think it’d be even more awesome to be aware of how that metting goes, and consciously know what I’d be talking to him, or the things we do. I think it’d also be an interesting way to see how he’d behave in my mind, how I see him, and how my perspective of him relates to my own personality??

As for the dreamfood bit, I’ve always seen it be prepared in front of me in both normal and lucid dreams, but unfortunately I ALWAYS wake up before I get the chance to taste it, :cry:

The desired setting I chose is a place where I’d feel the safest and the most at peace, and it’d be nice to visit it while lucid, in all its vividness :smile:

The human/bird hybrid bit comes from my long lived desire for flight and endless fascination with birds (I guess Davesprite falls in this scenario too, haha), and while I’ve dreamt I was a duck before, being a human/bird mix seems more interesting

#18

Hi paual,

I can’t say that we’ve met before, but it’s a pleasure to meet you. I can’t claim to be a huge Homestuck fan like some other people, but I’m familiar with your personal goal and wish you the best of luck. As you can tell from my avatar and dream journal, I fully endorse anything winged in dreams, so I can’t wait to see you manage your hybrid idea starting with Task 2 and later.

We have a whopping 12 sign-ups, everybody! We’re 60% full!

#19
  1. Ecila6 (1 minute)
  • Personal Goal: Flying to the moon
  • Desired action: Explode!!
  • Desired setting: Dream Island above the moon
  • Desired form: 6Alice(The exact opposite of me!)
#20
  1. demented (1 minute)
  • Personal Goal: Spend time in Ancient Greece.
  • Desired action: Find ommie.
  • Desired setting: Beyond the boundaries of dreamworld.
  • Desired form: Plant!

My goals used to be related with dreaming and awareness. Like having a good lucid dream or getting to know subconscious. I was going to continue with similar goals, but since I didn’t managed to achieve something this way, I realized I should take different approach. Instead of trying to learn how to dream better, why not just take whatever I have and go fulfill my ‘dreams’, and see what comes up. If I think I was born in wrong time and wrong place, let’s move to right time and right place! Additionally, someone has to find OmkAR, while beyond the dreamworld*, in a form of a plant!

*There’s world of the waking, and there’s world of dreaming. But sometimes you can push a little bit further…

#21

Haha, yeah, I’ve been lurking for YEARS, but only now officially joined in, but yes it is a pleasure to meet you (and the rest of the people here!!) too!

But yeah, I can definitely see AND relate to that, and thank you very much, I’m quite looking forward to it!!

Good luck to everyone too :smile:

#22
  1. LDbc12 (1-2 minutes)
    Personal Goal: Waterbend
    Desired action: Meet Peter Pan
    Desired setting: A Rainbow!!
    Desired form: Fox
#23

LC 39 Signups List [Name (Average LD Time)]

  1. Mew151 (10 seconds)
  • Personal Goal: Shoot fireworks from my hands
  • Desired Action: AERIAL BATTLE
  • Desired Setting: Sky, above floating circular grassy island above more sky.
  • Desired Form: Mew (see avatar)
  1. Scipio Xaos (3 minutes)
  • Personal Goal: Find a Name for My Guitar
  • Desired Action: Use my Kinetic Accelerators
  • Desired Setting: Castle Story Floating Islands
  • Desired Form: Machamp
  1. squoak (10 minutes)
  • Personal Goal: Firebend
  • Desired Action: Fly some more
  • Desired Setting: Skyloft (Legend of Zelda)
  • Desired Form: Absol
  1. ian1 (5 minutes)
  • Personal Goal: Fly
  • Desired Action: Bring an inanimate object to life
  • Desired Setting: This place
  • Desired Form: Dinosaur
  1. Yev (1 minute)
  • Personal Goal: Receive useful advice from a DC
  • Desired Action: Fly
  • Desired Setting: A city along the coast
  • Desired Form: Wolf
  1. Masonc1 (5 Minutes)
  • Personal Goal: Dream Time Distension
  • Desired Action: Turning people into pretty monster things
  • Desired Setting: Great Sea, like in Wind Waker or One Piece /get the idea
  • Desired Form: Wyvern
  1. Lumessence :universe: (5 Minutes)
  • Personal Goal: Return to the year 5017
  • Desired Action: Sprout flora in an otherwise plantless area.
  • Desired Setting: A city, or other settlement in the sky.
  • Desired Form: Phoenix
  1. Siiw (3 Minutes)
  • Personal Goal: Discover or create a song
  • Desired Action: Make something grow or heal
  • Desired Setting: Fantasy world (book, game, Ceeia etc)
  • Desired Form: Extended senses
  1. James_UK2008 (5 Minutes)
  • Personal Goal: Try and stabilize dream a bit more to extend time within LD.
  • Desired Action: Change a DC into another creature.
  • Desired Setting: A tropical island/jungle.
  • Desired Form: Lizard-Man (Wonderboy 3: The Dragon’s Trap)
  1. IkranMakto (15 Seconds)
  • Personal Goal: Fly on an Ikran
  • Desired Action: Meeting with someone from IRC or DC/DS
  • Desired Setting: Park nearby argon’s house from one of my HI’s
  • Desired Form: Ikran
  1. HeadInTheClouds (1-2 Minutes)
  • Personal Goal: Become aware of my dream body
  • Desired Action: Clone myself
  • Desired Setting: A cliff overlooking some water
  • Desired Form: Flip my gender
  1. paual (2 Minutes)
  • Personal Goal:Meet Davesprite
  • Desired Action: Consume dreamfood
  • Desired Setting: A field with flowers and some trees, with a lake in the middle
  • Desired Form: A human/bird hybrid
  1. Ecila6 (1 Minutes)
  • Personal Goal: Flying to the moon
  • Desired Action: Explode!!
  • Desired Setting: Dream Island above the moon
  • Desired Form: 6Alice(The exact opposite of me!)
  1. Demented (1 Minute)
  • Personal Goal: Spend time in Ancient Greece.
  • Desired Action: Find ommie.
  • Desired Setting: Beyond the boundaries of dreamworld.
  • Desired Form: Plant!
  1. LDbc12 (1-2 Minutes)
  • Personal Goal: Waterbend
  • Desired Action: Meet Peter Pan
  • Desired Setting: A Rainbow!!
  • Desired Form: Fox

Updated my desired setting to a sky settlement.

I had a dream not too long ago where it was raining and I ran to where the rainbow was hitting the ground. (who didn’t try that when they were little?) I reached it, and flew up into it, traveling through it’s length. Though entering it, I was only flying through the purple section of the spectrum.

Twin-tails.*
And that is still a back-burner goal. I will make you read about yourself in such an appearance.

#24

Considering that I was a DC in this and found it very amusing, I think I’ll be fine with whatever you’re planning. :tongue: It’s really hard to faze me with a dream (that’s not a challenge).

The sign-ups are 75% full! If you plan to join, do so quickly! If we hit 20 people, we’ll start midday tomorrow (my time). If not, we’ll wait.

#25

[color=olive]16. Koharo :yinyang: (5 minutes)

  • Personal Goal: Test the limits of an ability
  • Desired Action: Hanging out/dates with dream girls
  • Desired Setting: Costal/Tropical region (Bar, fight tourney, beach, patio, event, or gym)
  • Desired Form: The usual/My anime form v

[spoiler]…That ability list is kinda old…
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…This many already…? This’ll be eventful… [/color]

#26
  1. StarryGwee :nuu: ( 3.5 minutes)
    Personal Goal: Explore Valinor, the blessed realm
    Desired Action: Sprout into a giant tree, the Telperion
    Desired Setting: Middle Earth
    Desired Form: A fallen leaf traveling by the wind of Manwë

Woot!