Thread: Task of the year for 2010

Originally Posted by PXUmais

Lol,

Well at least the worst you can do is not suggest at all... Who know, maybe after a *few* months they'll make an honorary mention of your suggestion...

It'll be known as: "The one that came close" ... (A day to celebrate),

HHAHA. It's been more than a few months. But, I don't really care, because the ones Ninja picks are always awesome!

Lol, Keeping a brave face.. Nice,

But yh, Ninja's picks are pretty good..

Hello everybody, I am new here though not as new as I am to lucid dreaming. I ended up in this site when I googled with words 'lucid dreaming'. The main thing I have been doing in lucids has been flying so i went searching for something else to do (I have an account in another lucid dreaming site, but its much less used than this one). So, I came to this site, went to forums, continued to lucid experiences and was delighted to find the tasks of the month and the year. I may not be posting very long descriptions of my dreams here, as I will be writing to the other site (I can't just copy and paste because the site is not in english). Hopefully I'll be posting here again tomorrow.

Originally Posted by Recidul

Hello everybody, I am new here though not as new as I am to lucid dreaming. I ended up in this site when I googled with words 'lucid dreaming'. The main thing I have been doing in lucids has been flying so i went searching for something else to do (I have an account in another lucid dreaming site, but its much less used than this one). So, I came to this site, went to forums, continued to lucid experiences and was delighted to find the tasks of the month and the year. I may not be posting very long descriptions of my dreams here, as I will be writing to the other site (I can't just copy and paste because the site is not in english). Hopefully I'll be posting here again tomorrow.

Awesome, Welcome to DV..

Make sure, you start a Online Dream Journal and post there if you can...

Death of the dinosaurs completed! The quality of the lucid wasnt very good though. I'm not even sure if it was a WILD or a DILD. I think I had atleast one WILD last night. The first thing i remember is that I'm in the land of the dinosaurs. It looks quite much like The Land Before Time, though it's not animated, but looks real. There is a triceratops and a tyrannosaurus rex, the latter intending to eat the former. The tyrannosaurus chases the other for a while. They end up beside a lava river (now there are lava rivers and lava lakes). A chunk of the rock by the river falls off and floats to the middle of the river, taking the two dinosaurs with it. The tyrannosaurus rex is on the other side of the oblong platform and the triceratops is on the other side. If i remember right, they said something to each other. The other side of the platform, the one with the triceratops sinks down to the lava, but it doesn't take the dinosaurs with it. Instead, both of the dinosaurs hold to the rock, even though the platform is almost at an angle of seventy degrees. The tyrannosaurus rex is the first one to lose its grip. It falls on top of the triceratops, taking them both to the lava. I look at the sky. It is all red now. I can see the meteor nearing. I don't remember the meteor crash well. I must've waken up shortly after that.

Originally Posted by Recidul

Death of the dinosaurs completed!

The quality of the lucid wasnt very good though. I'm not even sure if it was a WILD or a DILD. I think I had atleast one WILD last night. The first thing i remember is that I'm in the land of the dinosaurs. It looks quite much like The Land Before Time, though it's not animated, but looks real. There is a triceratops and a tyrannosaurus rex, the latter intending to eat the former. The tyrannosaurus chases the other for a while. They end up beside a lava river (now there are lava rivers and lava lakes). A chunk of the rock by the river falls off and floats to the middle of the river, taking the two dinosaurs with it. The tyrannosaurus rex is on the other side of the oblong platform and the triceratops is on the other side. If i remember right, they said something to each other. The other side of the platform, the one with the triceratops sinks down to the lava, but it doesn't take the dinosaurs with it. Instead, both of the dinosaurs hold to the rock, even though the platform is almost at an angle of seventy degrees. The tyrannosaurus rex is the first one to lose its grip. It falls on top of the triceratops, taking them both to the lava. I look at the sky. It is all red now. I can see the meteor nearing. I don't remember the meteor crash well. I must've waken up shortly after that.

Just giving this the emphasis it deserves. Awesome, man! That was quick. You want to join the Serial Dream RPG? (link's in my sig)

Ok, maybe a task of the year from Dreamviews? I thought I would try the one where the goal is to see how the pyramids in Egypt were built, so I focused on opening a portal to get there, and it finally opened. My mother told me to hurry back or I would miss the whole movie, then the portal closed behind me. I was now in the deserts of Egypt, I looked around to see if I was there in the proper time period, and it looked like I was. I went over to a giant pyramid that looked like it was under construction. I saw groups of people pushing the huge blocks up the ramps to get them into their proper positions at the top of the part that was completed. I found that to be quite disappointing, I had been hoping to find something interesting. This was just the typical mundane explanation of how it was done.

I decided to look at it closer, anyway, since I had come all the way through time to see this. As I got closer I saw that the people moving the blocks up the ramp didn't look like they were straining at all, I got even closer and saw they were moving the blocks with ease, even going uphill. I saw some people preparing another huge block to go up the ramps, and I got a closer look, they had black stones that they were working with, somehow they were attaching them to the bottom of the large block… the large block was sitting up on smaller blocks, allowing the people to get to the underneath side of the huge block… I also saw that the ramps going up the pyramid were covered with black stone, there was also a railing about a foot high along the edge of the ramps. I saw some people coming down a narrower ramp from the back side of the pyramid, they were pushing containers of the black stones back down from the top.

I spent a bit of time figuring out what was happening there when one of the people in charge apparently thought I should be working, not watching. So I helped move one of the huge stones all the way up the pyramid, it was very easy, and I realized how it worked as I did that… it was all done with magnets! Each of the huge stones were being kept floating a couple of inches off the ramp by a magnetic field between the stones on the bottom of the block and those on the ramp. They must have been angled just right, because the block didn't tend to slide back down the ramp. The railing along the ramp was to keep the block from being pushed right off the edge, which since there was no friction that would have been very easy to do. The block slid easily up to the top, where the stones were removed from under the huge block and it was slid into place. It was very heavy to slide into place, but that was such a small move compared to the entire path from the bottom… magnetic fields. I wondered if that idea had ever been thought of before… most likely. I was looking at the block we had just placed when I woke.

I know it is a bit late to start doing the TotY, but I want to give it a try. I started with the dinosaurs and this was the result.

I think about the task of the year (tasks of the month are done already) and wish to go see how the dinosaurs got extinct. I jump with eyes closed and when I open them I’m on some forest/jungle environment. I see high grass, dense foliage. The weather is hot and moist and the light is golden. I hear dinosaurs’ sounds at some distance and decide to explore this world. As I go through the forest I then spot what seems to be a little man with a conic hat. Man? He looks like a gnome, he is short and round and he is totally focused on his work – I then see cultivated fields and realise he is farming. I think I totally screwed this task and for a while think if I should jump again and try something different. I then pass by some cottage-like houses in the middle of the woods and find a crossroad. I decide to continue to explore and I end up finding a city! It looks modern in all senses, but little details are different. All buildings are in stone and metal. They remind me Gaudi’s architecture, with organic shapes and so on. I see no cars and people wear really simple clothes in shades of green and brown. I am totally shocked when I see a few ladies passing by with huge white moustaches. The rest looks totally normal, as if I am in Vienna or some other European capital with beautiful stone buildings. Then I see some banners of some museum, like Natural History museum and I feel curious and follow the banners indications. I pass over a canal, under an arch and arrive at this inner square where there’s a huge bunker like building with more banners announcing a very special exhibition – a temporary zoo actually. I decide to go see it, but it is really early morning and it is not open yet. There’s already people waiting by the door and I am impatient – I fear I will lose lucidity if I just stay here waiting. So I rub my hands and walk around. They finally open the door, but we still need to wait in the lobby. I think “Why do I have to wait? It’s my dream isn’t it?” But I don’t want to interfere too much or I will start projecting too obviously and the dream will not be surprising any more. So I decide to push it a little bit, by encouraging the DCs to invade the place so I can also enter it amidst the crowd. And they do! They push away the guy who’s keeping the entrance and we go along this hallway and then we must go down some stairs. Before going down the stairs I peek over to what is down there and I see the first enclosures with the first animals. To my surprise the first one holds a couple of what might be Neanderthals. They are being attended by the zoo-keepers when the first tourists/observers are already lining up against the glass wall that encircles them. The Neanderthal lady is kinda sleepy and lies down. A tourist pervert starts taking pictures of her genitals. She is actually quite hot, for a Neanderthal.
Then the second enclosure has a live T-Rex! Oh, finally a dinosaur!!! So it wasn’t totally wasted time. The T-Rex is quite small though, maybe twice the height of a human being. Either is a youngster or a degenerate midget T-Rex. I decide to go downstairs to see the rest of the dinosaurs behind the glass walls. But hen I arrive down there the zoo/museum people have put some covers blocking the view as they finalised all preparations for the visits to start. Gosh, so disappointing! But I use that time to reflect on the dream and realise in my version of the extinction of the dinosaurs, human beings were the cause of their extinction, through invasion of their natural habitat. I sit down with some ladies around the table and by now my lucidity drops to about 10% and all gets confusing and disappears.

I didn't see any asteroid hitting the earth because apparently (even I didn't know) I believe something else happened. I hope it can still be counted

Originally Posted by Mayatara

I know it is a bit late to start doing the TotY, but I want to give it a try. I started with the dinosaurs and this was the result.



I didn't see any asteroid hitting the earth because apparently (even I didn't know) I believe something else happened. I hope it can still be counted

Your dream is preposterous! Congratulations!

Opsss... totally forgot about these. I have to resume!

I'm new to lucid dreaming, but I hope i can find a way to participate in a gladiator fight!

The future completed, though unintentionally. I was lucid, though I didn't mean to witness the end of the world. Here's the dream with the end of the world part coloured.


I fall asleep soon after waking up. Now I am in a bus. Soon I remember that I'm dreaming. I check my senses. Everything except vision is working well. My vision is about as poor as it is awake. Well, theres a cure for it. Dream eyeglasses! I summon my eyeglasses and put them on. My vision goes better. Nah, these'll just get in the way, I'll use dream contact lenses! I summon my contact lenses and put them on. Problem solved. The bus stops and I get out of it holding three bags. The bus starts to leave. "Wait!" I cry at the bus driver. "I'll just check if my backbag is in there". It isn't. I try to fly, jumping in the air and going into a horizontal position. I crash on the ground, but I don't hurt myself. I get back up, deciding to walk. A girl I know and her friend leave the bus also. I start walking towards my home. They turn to a different direction. There's pretty much snow on the ground but it isn't very cold. The girls stop to a snow hill to glide on mini skis. Other one of them yells at me that I can't glide as well as they can. I go to the hill, pick up a mini ski and climb on top of it (if you are wondering, what mini skis are, they are about 40 cm long skis). The hill is about 4,5 metres high. The girl is about a metre below me. She glides down on her ski. I glide down on mine, but don't do very well. Luckily for me, I have a plan. The girl laughs at me saying something like 'you see? I'm better!'. I summon jetpacks and use them, but I only fly a few metres. "Don't laugh yet, I'm still moving", I tell her. "Hey! That's cheating!" she protests. "It isn't! It's my dream and I can do whatever I want!" I say, going some metres more. "This thing isn't working properly". I get the jetpacks working and boost myself into space. Below me the Earth explodes. Gravity pulls the pieces back together (in a way it wouldn't really do) in to a crudely shaped ball. The oceans are still left so the Earth is still recognizable. The oceans boil out, leaving the Earth. Bender's voice from futurama says something like 'not anymore'. I go back to the Earth. There's still some jungle left. I go to a village. It's very small, about 20-35 people live there. There's a narrow canal with green water in it. That's their all drinking water. The canal is separated in the middle and on the other side the water is a little bit clearer. I ask a man that is with me if that's their all drinking water. He says that it is. There's a woman that could help me somehow. My view changes on her. She is dead, lying in a campfire. I go to her and see that she really is dead. The dream ended soon after this.


Yes, there were survivors, but so there is in the Christian end of the world, as there is in Ragnarok, the end of the world from Norse mythology.

CONGRATULATIONS!

From my DJ... don't remember whether or not I did the moon one already though <.<

After that, recalled about the task of the year and decided I would do it, since I was already there. Put my hands pointing to the front and then teleported the astronaut there, then teleported to him and kicked him out of my way, destroyed his ship and put him on the ground as if he were the flag “Did it!” I yelled, then wake up due to the noise of the TV.

Originally Posted by Walms

From my DJ... don't remember whether or not I did the moon one already though <.<

congratulations!

Awesome

Ive ben holding off on doing this untill the first of the year!!! Im so excited!!

I did one this morning, forgetting it was already too late. Here it is anyway!

08.01.2011

Going to see the Pyramids (DEILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Somewhere between dreams this morning, I remembered the task of the year I'd been neglecting. Unfortunately I didn't remember that it was in fact next year, and there were new tasks I hadn't seen yet. Oh well, it was fun anyway!

After my previous dream about Cheryl Cole, I woke up into some kind of recording studio. I was lying on a comfy chair, in a circle with about ten other people. One of them was my friend Kay from work. We were all hooked up to one of those dream-sharing devices from Inception. Kay said something, but I ignored him, thinking about my last dream and how awesome it was. I tried to do a DEILD back into it, and a little loading icon appeared at the bottom of my vision. I paused, thinking of something more worthwhile I could be doing, like the task of the year on Dreamviews. I strained to remember what they were, and recalled that Egypt was definitely involved. Then it came to me. There were two related to Egypt- finding out how the pyramids were built, and watching the Exodus. I snapped awake back into the studio and stood up. After telling Kay of my plan, I went outside to the street. It was a huge crossroads, filled with people and the occasional car. I kneeled down in a patch of gravel and sketched out a (very) rough drawing of two pyramids and the Nile using my fingers. I looked at it very intently, visualising it in front of me. I lost touch with the crossroads, but felt Kay coming up behind me.
"Good luck," he said calmly.

By now I had a cartoon-ish picture of Egypt in my mind, and was trying to insert myself. I realised it would be hard to insert myself at the P.O.V. I had drawn, because I usually needed some sort of tactile sensation to pull myself into a scenario. The P.O.V. was in the sky. My vision zoomed down to the ground, on a sand dune. There was a tall wire fence along the top of it, separating me from Egypt. I wondered what it could be doing there, but used it anyway. I moved towards the fence and grasped it tightly. I got my whole body involved in climbing up and over the fence, and my surroundings got a lot clearer. When I was on the ground on the other side, I jumped up and down for a few seconds to make sure there was no chance I was going to lose touch with the dream from poor integration.



I found myself in a quarry. It was a huge hole in the ground, but nothing was happening. It was eerily quiet. I took off and flew downhill in the direction I assumed the pyramids were. I ended up following a wooden train track, which I thought must be for the transport of big blocks of stone for building work. After clearing one last tall sand dune, I saw an Egyptian city. There was one small pyramid, with a much larger one in the early stages of construction. I landed on a ridge overlooking the scene. Around me were a number of large stone blocks, each about the size of a car. It looked like they had been abandoned here. I went over for a closer look and laid my hands on one. It immediately turned a bright bronze-like colour, and looked a lot like metal. Many of the nearby blocks did the same. I flew off the edge of the ridge, and down into the city. I landed at the edge of the unfinished pyramid building site. Nothing seemed to be going on, again. I was curious for an explanation. There were people staring down at me from balconies and rooftops. I shouted,
"Pharaoh!" A man on the roof of a large building raised his arm. I jumped and flew over to him. He was very old, and wearing a ceremonial headress/crown thing. He didn't seem to want to communicate with me at all anymore. Another man on a different rooftop gestured for me to come over. I ran and hopped to his building. I had a long conversation with this man, who turned out to be the Pharaoh's son. He explained that production had halted on the pyramids, and that his father wouldn't allow him to go to university until it had resumed. I remember he said,
"What does he know anyway, he's basically mummified already!" I laughed. But down to business.
"How are the pyramids made?" I asked.
"Come and see," said the prince, and showed me to the edge of the rooftop. There were lights coming down from the sky through the clouds. Spotlights, which seemed to be scanning the blocks in the area. On finally stopped to scan a block I had turned into bronze earlier. The block then transformed into a bronze golem, which immediately got to work stacking blocks on the base of the unfinished pyramid. A voice boomed down from the sky,
"He has repaired our equipment. Construction can recommence." The people on rooftops and balconies all around me cheered. The prince turned to me and asked if I could fix a few more blocks before I left. I agreed, and jumped down to the building site. I placed my hands on a huge pile of blocks. They all turned bronze and transformed into golems. After a few seconds, the whole area was buzzing. The golems were lifting, pushing and hammering the blocks of the new pyramid into place.

I stood back, satisfied. I thought then of waking up into the previous dream level and going back into the gameshow for another round with Cheryl Cole, but I wanted to wake up and remember this dream accurately. I turned and waved. The Pharaoh and prince waved back. I closed my eyes and roughly three seconds later, I woke up.

Wow, that is quite amazing. Hordes of bronze golems building the pyramids. Shame this year is over, or I would've tried some of these awesome prompts.

Awesome dream, forgot to close this up