Intermediate Challenges - Self-Control

[Budster]

EF - Eat Food

6/2/08

I was eating a Twizzler (I love those.), but it didn't have much flavor and was a bit tough.

[Moonbeam]

Bud, you ought to try for something yummier than that!  Or at least try the Twizzler again.  I eat a lot, and I think it gets better with practice.

EF - Eat food.

I am sitting on a bench, eating some apple-pie out of a big bowl.  I see that's it's almost gone, and I'm like, "Shit, I ate a whole bunch of pie."  Then I think, well it's probably a dream anyway.....Yay! More pie!  I go into the building.  It's all wooden and old-fashioned, and everybody is having a good time eating all kinds of pie and cookies and muffins.  I go to the counter and ask the boy for some pie.  He says just to take whatever I want.  I go sit at a table with some girls eating muffins.  They are huge, like three times the size of normal ones, and I pick one up and start eating.  The Monkees song "Daydream Believer" starts playing, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxz_JBuyF4I, and the girl next to me and I start to sing along with our mouths full.  Everybody at the table is laughing at us.  Then the girls realize something--there is nothing chocolate at the table.  I say I'll get us some.  I get up and look around.  Food is everywhere, and I quickly finding some giant chocolate chip cookies.  I'm reaching for them...

[Moonbeam]

TP - Teleport (relevant part in bold)

Lucid Ice-Fishing, Mall, House, and Bakery; and I learn my Dream Name

I'm at an indoor ice arena, but it is built over a real lake. People are ice-skating, and there are lots of people from work ice-fishing. I stop at the holes and talk to them. I realize that the ice arena is attached to a mall. As I walk out towards the mall, I become lucid. There are lots of people around, and I search their faces to find a DC who might be "aware". None is obvious, so I call out "Mattie!" I hear a response from far away, but I can't see him. I continue walking.

A DC come up to me and puts his arm around my shoulder, and we walk together. "Mattie?" I ask, "Is that you?" The DC says yes.

I ask him, "Do you have a message for me from pj?"

He says, "No."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes!"

"Do you even know pj? Have you ever met him?"

"No."

This is very annoying, so I decide to try and do the name task. I ask Mattie what my dream-name is. He says, "I don't know", in a somewhat irritated way. I ask, "You don't know, or you won't tell me?" He says, "I don't know!" very emphatically.

(I wake up and manage to get back into the dream using DEILD.) I see a far-off door and a DC comes out. It is the back of one of the mall stores. I project myself towards the door.)

A woman is taking trash out from the store. I go to her and say, "What is my dream name?" She looks at me, annoyed, and says, "You're not supposed to be back here." I say, "Oh come on, just tell me my dream name." She sighs and pauses from her work, leaning against the dumpster. She acts as if she is humoring a crazy person, and says, "Well, let's see, I like a boyish-sounding name for a girl--so how about...Tyler?"

I'm not happy with this, but I give up for the time being.

[dallyup52]

I'm not happy with this, but I give up for the time being.

That's is so funny. 

What would you have chosen if you were someone else?

[Moonbeam]

That's is so funny. 

What would you have chosen if you were someone else?

I don't know...I was hoping for something dramatic, with some significance.  But Tyler? 

[dallyup52]

But Tyler?

I love the name Tyler.

[Moonbeam]

Nothing wrong with it; in fact I found out it was the real name of a good friend here, so that was kind of cool.

[joshbotch]

TP - Teleport yourself

from 6.23.8
"as i re-enter the dream i am lucid from the start.  i am BACK with the zombies, only this time i am not afraid of them, they look like actors in really bad make-up.  i try to teleport myself to my friend ryans house.  i close my eyes and concentrate... i open them and i am still with the zombies but the house is ryans... i try again.  as i open my eyes slowly, i see ryans couch, ryans tv, his dogs and finally ryan!  i am so happy to finally have learned how to teleport!"

[Clairity]

i try to teleport myself to my friend ryans house.  i close my eyes and concentrate... i open them and i am still with the zombies but the house is ryans... i try again.  as i open my eyes slowly, i see ryans couch, ryans tv, his dogs and finally ryan!  i am so happy to finally have learned how to teleport!

Congratulations.. I have yet to successfully teleport! 

[Mark]

BI

from 28 March 08

I have landed near a building and I enter into a small room which has a man and a woman in it. I show off to them and want to surprise them so I say to them "watch this" and I slowly push my hand through the wall, it feels very slightly resistant like when you push a knife through butter and it also has a slightly electric charge to it which tingles.

They gasp and I enjoy their shock but I want to move on. The woman gives me a soft opaque cube filled with a blue liquid as a gift to stop me leaving but it does not deter me. Somehow she has managed to handcuff me but I just let the cuffs phase through my wrists and drop to the floor.

TP

from 18 May 2008

Then I remember Lucidbulbs gave some really good advice on teleporting and so I land in the field (stones are still clattering off my shield, thrown by the chavs I assaulted) and close my eyes.

I slowly open my eyes and everything is blurred, I can see some white/blue shapes and a bright bright red glow. I rub my hands and my vision comes back then I look around. The ground is not earth or rock but a strange white substance which has a ground mist coming from it. I look along the "road" and see spires of crystal in the distance! huge cathedrals and interlocked crystal structures! I cant believe I have made it here!

I turn around and I am utterly thrilled when I see Kal el's fortress of solitude looking huge in the distance (for those who dont know check this out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbTrYMDbkUM&feature=related) I enter the Fortress and wow is it beautiful, the Crystal supports and levels seem to emit this blue light which feels really warm and when I approach one of the columns to see if I can look right through it, which I can but I also see my eye reflected hundreds of times which looks so cool.

DC

29 December 2007

I am about to go off flying when I see 2 builders and decide to ask them some questions. I approach the first who is wearing a paint spattered white overall and ask "excuse me could I ask you some questions?" he replies "sorry lad im a bit busy here".

I turn to the next person and ask the same and he tells me he will try, I ask  "What are you?" he is unsure what to answer and is stuttering alot so I say "well considering this is all just a dream and none of this is real what does that make you?" he seems to understand what I want and says "an expectation...or rather your expectation"

I then ask "What am I doing here" but before he can answer the dream fades and I wake up.

[joshbotch]

EF

the man hands me my dream journal and a pen, the woman hands me a drink. it is like a lava lamp only the liquid is cool and drinkable.  the man asked how she made it, she told him that it is carbonated with barium.  it was a beautiful purple and red drink.  i took a sip, it was so sweet!  like what i would imagine pure high fructose corn syrup tasted like... it had the consistency of warm chocolate syrup and it coated my mouth.

dream here: http://mortalmist.com/forum/index.php/topic,854.msg23619.html#msg23619

[Hazel]

EF- I saw a table on the side of the road, and it had some Apple-walnut bread on it. I ate it and it tasted REALLY good.

IA- After a moment I stopped, and was about to summon some DCs. (I wanted to give the task of the year a shot, and I wanted a DC to guide me to a mirror that I could use as a portal.) But I saw some cows grazing nearby, and I decided to ask them for help.

I asked one of the cows if she could help me find a mirror, and she told me to follow her. She began to run, and it was very hard to keep up with her for some reason. Finally she brought me to a house, and a lady inside invited me in.


DC- I realized that it was a dream. I began to half fly, half run down the road with a group of companions. I decided it would be a good time to interrogate some DCs, but the only one I could remember was one that I had come up with for an expirement. "What's a jabberwocky?" I asked. "Something to do with walking," was the response.

I was thinking of how vivid the dream was, and how clearheaded I was as we continued to walk down the road. I decided to knock on a random door and ask my question again. I knock on the door of this creepy old blue house, and tell the person that this was all a dream. I then ask her my question. She says it has something to do with Russians getting married, and the cross between them and something else were called "Mussians."

[Twoshadows]

I just had this LD. I have doen more in this section, but need to find the dreams so I can post them.

IA

Lucid dream:

I got off of a bus. The sidewalk was soft like a big matress. I remember doing summersaults and flips as I moved along toward my destination.

I was looking for a shop where I could use the restroom, but I couldn't find one.

Next to the sidewalk was a canal where there were kayaks. I decided I wanted to go kayaking. I saw a kayak with a paddle. I reached for the paddle, but ended up dropping it in the water.

I decided that I would just fly. As soon as I was  in the air I realized I was dreaming. I thanked myself for being so aware. I hoped that this meant that flying would now always trigger lucidity. As I flew I thought about what task I wanted to accomplish. The only thing that popped into my head was one of the tasks that I thought was on MM which was talk to an animal...or something like that.

I ended up in a building. I was in the corner of a room. I looked around and couldn't see any animals. But I knew if I just kept looking with the expectation that I would find some, then they would appear.

I turned around and saw that the room was now filled with cats. I went to a group of them that were eating. I asked them to talk to me. BUt they kept eating. I saw an especially cute orange tabby. It was making a mess with its food.

I told it, "You need to talk to me. Say......um....'I'm sorry for making a mess.' ".

It looked up at me with big green eyes and said, "Sorry...."

I wanted it to talk some more, but I felt myself slip out of the dream. As I felt myself slip, I told myself that I was probably going to just have a FA, so I would just need to remember that and become lucid again. But when I woke up I felt myself in bed, so I figured that I was really awake.

In retrospect, I believe it actually was an FA.

So I need to really pay attention so I can stretch my LDs out.

[Lucidbulbs]

IA - Interact with an animal

Horses & Skittles & Cars [Complexly]-
We were on a deserted road, we being my father and I. The sun was blaring out, the grass cringed away from any fringe of life, shriveling in its own gloom. I saw in the horizon an old brown horse.

Old. It described it well. Its head sunk glumly, its ribs were faintly visible, and yet... I knew it could carry me. Though it couldn't bare more than 40 pounds, I could be fine....

Thud. I turned, my dad had passed out. I was tempted to leave him when the thought crossed me. Lucid dreaming. I could.... I could be lucid dreaming?

There was no shock, no noticeable change in anything to react to my revelation. Just the horse trotting towards me and the weather feeling just as scorching hot as before. I had to keep thinking, sometimes even saying to myself it was a dream.... It was hard, for the air felt like life, the world felt like life, nothing different, not even my slight omnipotent ego kicked in.

I pitied the horse more than my father. I healed the thing, and the land turned green. I made my father poof -home- and summoned up a nice, new, gray convertible.

It was so fast~ The green blurs. The glorious purr. The water engine's speed. [I knew somehow it was a water engine O.o]

I pull into the driveway of my dad's home in "Cow Land" and see a bag of sour skittles. I think, gee, what if I put them in the driveway- and so I do.

I look up after seeing the order they were in; purple, orange, yellow, and notice they transformed into cars. I'm in awe, they were all sugar-shiny sports cars, and run over to each one. Out of the corner of my eye I notice a green one away from the rest. I hop to it and get in, when my dad comes out and yells that I can't drive it.

"They're my cars. And look, it even has stick shift!" I point to the second gear-shifts perpendicular to the auto-shift.

I wake up soon afterwards.

[Higurashi]

Excerpts:

TP - Teleport yourself
'Get help!' I jump back and lose my footing, clumsily falling onto the fence. I look up at him and nod, before closing my eyes.
When I open them again I'm in my driveway.

IA - Interact with an animal(I fought an animal, does that count? )
I am in my grandmother's kitchen, instantly aware that I am dreaming. I look around and no one's there. I also check the garage, and none of my family is there either. On my way back into the kitchen, I remember that I had wanted to create a dream guide, a cat. I go in the living room and notice a black purse on a table. I extend my hand and the purse transforms into a male black cat. It doesn't move, but sits atop the table and stares at me with large yellow eyes. Excited, I run to him and pick him up, holding him close to my face and smiling.
When all of the sudden, he paws my face and bites me on the shoulder!
I'm so shocked that I drop him, and he runs about 5 feet in front of me. I can't believe he just bit me, but still - though carefully - I walk towards him again, determined to befriend this cat. He stares at me. I reach my arms out, asking him to come, when literally out of nowhere an orange cat jumps from behind him and digs his claws into my neck. I scream, and the surprising force knocks me to the ground. I bang my head on the table on the way down and hide my face behind my hands, rolling around on the floor as this cat attacks me. Eventually I'm able to get a hold of it and I throw it about ten feet across the room. It turns and hisses, and as I struggle to my feet it almost instantly runs back across the room. When it's about halfway from me, it leaps into the air, no doubt aiming for my face. I would never hurt an animal, but I have no choice.
I kick it as it closes in on me, and if flies through the air, hitting a wall.
It flops lifelessly to the floor, letting out a pitiful "meow", before the strangest thing happens. It stiffens, it's paws and tail frozen in the air. I hesitantly go closer and realize that this is a stuffed kitten. I gently lift its head and some kind of grainy substance - sawdust, maybe - falls out of his mouth. Confused and tired, I collapse on a sofa nearby. I realize the black cat from before is nowhere to be seen. My dream body aches terribly, and I lay on the sofa contemplating my failure until the dream ends.

[EDIT]
Forgot one:

DC - Ask a dream character a question
He somewhat hesitantly looks me over, from top to bottom. I then begin to take notice of myself, and realize how differently I appear emerging from the darkness in between "worlds". I seem a spirit or a ghost almost, a sort of hologram. I didn't even think I would be tangible. I also notice that my feet hover about an inch above the floor. Looking back to him, I find it in myself to speak.

"What did you call me for?"

He doesn't answer, and I don't push him to. We stare at each other with wondering eyes, until the dream fades.