LC# 28: Winner, Siiw! Congratulations!

Second Task, Talk to a wall!

I’m in the mood for something a little different. Are you prone to arguing? Anyone ever tell you that you’re so bad you could argue with a wall? No? Well maybe that’s just me then :tongue:

In either case, when you’re dreaming, the wall can argue back! But then, why argue when for all we know walls might be very good company. Well, that’s what you’re going to find out now! This task should be simple, so you’re really going to score big if you do more than just the basics. Mind you, you don’t have to get a response to get the most basic points.

Base Points
Talk to a wall: 30 pts
Actually get an answer back: 5 pts

Secondary Points
Ask what it is like to be a wall and get an answer: 20 pts
Go through the wall to see who or what, if anything, is on the other side: 30 pts

Repeating Points
For every additional wall you talk to: 10 pts
For every additional wall you do the secondary tasks for: 10 pts Note: this means you could get 10 pts for asking what it’s like to be a wall and 10 pts for going through it.

They say walls have ears, let’s see if they have mouths as well…

Current Standings
EDIT: some corrections have been made, please review

  1. KauaiDreamer |10|
  2. Puce |0|
  3. Starrygwee |80|
  4. Unseen_Eye |0|
  5. mattias |235|
  6. ZRVera |0|
  7. GHOSTIE11 |65|
  8. EllyEve |0|
  9. Dryalantha |190|
  10. Siiw |170|
  11. Idanl09 |110|
  12. cookymonster |10|
  13. Thorn |140|
  14. Ronny |0|
  15. Lucid_Sockhat |0|

Please PM me if you’ve found an error in your points for either correction or explanation.

Interesting task, Ill talk to a wall now :razz:

Oh! This sounds fun :content: .

What an interesting task! Someone should find a really old wall and interview it like a dream character.

Corrections have been made to the current standings. Please review to make sure it’s all correct. While I may be Rhewin, The Great and Powerful, I still make mistakes :tongue:

Got an LD here :cool:

I dont know if cursing in front of a wall counts as talk to it :razz:

Just woke up from the task! ( :grrr: text woke me up!)

Dream here:

[spoiler]I was at a wedding shower or something, didn’t start out lucid, but I was dressed up, and for a while was messing with a tiara in the car to try to get it right while people were waiting for me to get out. Finally I did, saw some relatives and said hi, but then saw some kids playing games out in a spacious backyard and said to myself that it was a perfect opportunity to fly. So I did, but didn’t work so well… It was more like I did better jumping than flying.

After a bit, I see this long house/barnlike building (playhouse?) in the backyard and jump on top to get a higher flying elevation. The kids tell me it’s not going to work because of the pink ceiling above me, and lo and behold, there IS a pink ceiling made of tiles like my college ceiling. I jump, and I hit the ceiling (duh). It’s bright day out, so I think that there’s gotta be a sky past the ceiling, so I move some tiles up and over onto adjacent tiles so there’s a hole in the ceiling. It’s dark with more tiles, so I try moving those and imagining a bright blue sky above them. “Ceilings” and literal ceilings often have popped up for me as an obstacle in dreams before. So I realize that, and I’m wondering what else to do worthwhile in the dream.

Then I remember the LC, and jump down from the roof of the building. I go over the backyard, and find a brick wall like the back of my house. I’m over at the corner, see a small building or structure to the side, but ignore it as it’s a different structure that doesn’t exist IRL that dreams add all the time. I put my hands on the walls, apparently remembering OmkAR’s RC of being able to push on walls and get them to move. So at first I push and nothing happens, then the wall indents and I get my arms in about 7 or 8 inches or so, the brick bending from the force of my hands. Then I let the brick come back. The wall was also not all the way to the ground; it was probably two or three feet off the ground. Then I asked it what my purpose in life was. (I must add a little girl ran to the wall with me, and stood several feet to my side, but she was out of my vision, so I’m going to ignore her here.) I heard something like a groan and then a whisper something like “Why me?” but that could also have “mo-ney”, but it sounded more like “Why me?” I then asked it if I should have another purpose in life, thinking that extra points were for more questions that got answered, not extra walls (gah, dream thinking!). I didn’t hear an answer, so I pushed my hands in it again and asked it if it had fallen asleep again. While I still had my hands on the wall, I felt and heard a buzzing and knew it was my phone IRL invading my dream, and hoped I wouldn’t wake up, but I woke up very quickly.

I considered doing a DEILD, hoping it was my roommate’s phone since I knew I’d set no alarms, but decided to get up and write the dream instead since I’ve been out of the habit of DJing. And apparently I needed to get up since it’s been about 14 hours since I fell asleep…[/spoiler]

Success, at least for the major part of the task! Not sure why I asked what I asked or why I got the answer I did, but that’s for another day. :content:

Edit: Note: Even though I call pushing in the wall Om’s RC, I didn’t use it as an RC; I was already assuming it was an LD. Oh how I miss my RC-less LDs… :content:

GHOSTIE11: Sorry, I would have accepted cursing at the wall, but that’s not quite what you did. I need the LD length, but for now I will assume medium.

ZRVera: Well, at least you did get the basic part of the task :content:. So you get |30 lucid task+ 20 early + 35 base (talking and getting an answer) = 85 pts|. I need to know the length of the LD, so until then I will assume medium.

For those interested, I had a short RCILD last night here.

That nets me 0 lucid points!!! Ima win this :grin:

I had an LD this afternoon, but then I forgot the task :sad:. It was about 5 minutes. I shot laser rays out of my eyes and drank from some random carton.

I know it’s irrelevant but I must add that your, Rhewin’s Rhants topic is hilarious! :tongue:

I was lucid in a dream for about 5 minutes tonight (which would be medium-length for me), but I tried neither of these tasks nor the monthly task because the dream itself was very interesting already and I didn’t want to interrupt its course. :content:

I assume it was medium length

+1 short LD. Couldn’t do the task, I was stuck in a time loop. :eek:

(Total: 3 LD’s - 1 semi Quest, 1 semi Task, 1 short)

Whoops, sorry, Rhewin, forgot about time length. Yeah, I’ll say it’s about medium. A few minutes or so. A bit longer than my LDs recently have been.

StarryGwee: Ok, so based on the times you submitted when you joined, that would be a short LD which will get you |20 lucid pts|

Puce: I hope you had fun :content:. A medium-length LD buys you |30 lucid pts|

Dryalantha:For being stuck in a short time loop you get… you get… you get… you get… you get… you get… |20 lucid pts| :nuu:

I think that’s everyone so far… oh, and you only have until Thursday to finish up this task. The next few won’t last quite as long, so kick it into high gear!

Oh, and I did complete the task last night if anyone would like to take a look. The wall was… excited to talk to someone to say the least. Shame I’m not actually competing (though I still wouldn’t be winning anyway right now). :tongue:

But what makes me happy is that this is my longest LD in a while. So two RCILD’s in one week… and who says RC’s aren’t very helpful?

clicky

I had a long LD (10 min) combined with a ND(2-3 min).
But didn’t remember the task.
The Dream:

Well, low lucidity or not that still gets you |40 lucid pts|. Maybe next time you can go back and confront that abusive father.

KauaiDreamer: that medium LD that you posted before the task gets you |30 lucid pts|

GHOSTIE & ZRVera: The points have been updated for your medium LD’s, so |30 lucid pts| each.

There, I think I’m caught up now :tongue:!

Sorry for going AWOL, everyone. Every internet provider in town just hates me for some reason, and then I got struck by the worst flu I ever had in my life. I think I understand now why writers and dreamers talk about fever dreams being special. Fever dreams to me have always been the worst, the least vivid, blurring into waking life, but in this one I was very sure that I was both in a beach and jungle at the same time and that cartoon animals were singing to me.