For me recurring dreams are the most common opening to a lucid experience. Generally if I'm able to move a recurring event toward a lucid one, I can make it happen lucidly more than once. So lately I've been having a recurring dream of a large, textured fissure in the snow, starting as a protrusion pushing up in the pile of snow, then the fissure opening in the bulge, radiating heat. Its color palette was somewhat psychedelic and neon yellow-green featured prominently.

I even had this dream once while sleeping on the train for this task . As it recurred, I also found other protrusions happening, including a very obviously breast-like structure nearby, also steaming. As I dreamed it a couple more times, I was able to recognize I was dreaming. I transferred the snow fissure to be a work of art (I recall exclaiming "yes! I'm taskin' now!" in the dream). It became a fissure seen from above, painted in a canvas. Then later, the same thing on a flat panel (I was nose deep in my icon at this point). So I knew I could recreate it in the real world. I feel this transformation is the real accomplishment of the task, wherein I took the recurring surreal image of the pulsing textured indescribable thing and intentionally changed it into art.

As I've said, I'm not much of a painter. However I'm very proud of the way the watercolors worked on the main fissure pictured below. They made it feel more dreamlike. Also I got the more neon-like green color almost exactly as I dreamed it, which felt awesome! For a panel, I just recycled some cardboard from my office arms race task. I think I'll try to recreate it as a kind of sculpture in the snow when I get back to MSP, where I'll have more snow to work with.