Thread: Task of the Month for November 2012

Definitely trying basic task I.

Nice! Gonna go research what weapons I shall use >:3


EDIT: I have made up my mind. I shall use this:



A 17th century crossbow!

Can we use 17th century bombs?

You've condemned me with the second Advanced task, So how do wings work now? I missed the change.

Three Tasks down, one to go!

I'll be attempting to reach purgatory this week. I've been to hell before, so this should be very interesting

Originally Posted by h1nchm4n

I'll be attempting to reach purgatory this week. I've been to hell before, so this should be very interesting

Same here! Good luck!

Holy crap Mancon, you're magical O_O

Way to lucid!!

Advanced task ii) Spell November backwards: Completed

You know in Harry Potter 2 inside the Chamber of Secrets, Tom Riddle wrote out his full name "Tom Marvolo Riddle" with his wand in the air? Okay, so basically I did that with rebmevon.

Basic task i) Hunt Turkeys with 17th Century weapons: Incomplete

It's animal cruelty; didn't do it

Well, not true. I tried and failed miserably.

Originally Posted by LightofHeaven

Advanced task ii) Spell November backwards: Completed

You know in Harry Potter 2 inside the Chamber of Secrets, Tom Riddle wrote out his full name "Tom Marvolo Riddle" with his wand in the air? Okay, so basically I did that with rebmevon.

Basic task i) Hunt Turkeys with 17th Century weapons: Incomplete

It's animal cruelty; didn't do it

Well, not true. I tried and failed miserably.

Ooh the Tom Riddle thing sounds awesome!

Yay! Great job with the rebmevon

And your failed turkey task gave me an idea for a future task

Gonna try BT1.
I think flintlock & matchlock pistols and guns were pretty common!

Flintlock (Replica Blunderbuss):

I think you know this one.

Managed one advandced task and failed the other one twice. All in all a fun time. Will link it later.

I started to go out the front door to do something, then I remembered the tasks (finally!). I wanted to try rebmevon, so I went into the kitchen and found a pencil and paper. I wish I could count how many times I tried to do this, may have been around 10 tries. But I'd try to write it, but the lead wouldn't stick to the paper, so I just made a "rebmevon" indentation. (Btw I hope it isn't cheating that I forced myself in waking life to remember rebmevon, all the letters in order.) Anyway, with tons of concentration and lots of sribbly failures, I finally managed to brute force rebmevon on paper.

The whole chestnut: http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/ophe...l-twice-40566/

I did manage to tame a wild turky. I shot it, but upon closer inspection of the body, the bullet was hovering an inch away from the turkey. Does that count?

And i was in no way capable of writing anything. But when I got frusterated, I yelled, "NOVEMBER!" and my echo came backwards. "REBMEVON!"

Damn it. Couldn't even get a non-lucid dream tonight!

Originally Posted by Killgore

I did manage to tame a wild turky. I shot it, but upon closer inspection of the body, the bullet was hovering an inch away from the turkey. Does that count?

It should count. The task said to hunt the turkey, not kill it necessarily. Post the dream and let's see.

And i was in no way capable of writing anything. But when I got frusterated, I yelled, "NOVEMBER!" and my echo came backwards. "REBMEVON!"

That is so cool! Your echo repeated you backwards? Amazing..

I attempted the two advanced tasks last night. I failed the Purgatory Task. I did the "REBMEVON" task in a non-traditional way. Perhaps it will count.

Spoiler for Dream::

Lucid Dream:



I was at a church activity. Everyone around me was eating chocolate cake. But I couldn't eat it because I am back to eating a raw vegan diet. I kept looking at it. It looked so good. The person next to me took a bite. I could almost taste it. I finally said, "What I miss most about chocolate cake is the salty taste." As I said that, I could almost feel the cake in my mouth and I noticed how the salty taste really brought out the chocolate flavor. (In retrospect, I really don't know why I was focusing on the salty flavor. I have never associated chocolate cake with salt.)



I noticed my mom was there, and she was making a sort of an apron from a blue patterned material. I also saw a lady putting up a game in a basket ball hoop. I couldn't tell what it was, but it looked interesting.



And then it all faded. I felt disappointed that this dream had come to an end before I had been able to enjoy the activity.



Then I concentrated and willed it all back.



There.



It was all back. Now I could participate.



Wait. If this was a dream, it meant that I was....lucid! Who cared about that activity--I was LUCID!



I jumped up in the air and did a very slow motion flip. I watched as the room slowly spun around me. Then I landed.



I then remembered that I really wanted to do one of the tasks. I decided to start with the one I could do the fastest--Spell "November" backwards.



I knew I had to spell it and also write it. I didn't have any paper so I decided to just make the letters appear in the air.



So I said, "R....E....M...no, no....R....E...B." I saw the letters appear in the air before me. They were blue and a little wispy and glowed slightly. I continued, "M....E....wait--is that right? Yeah, that's right." I repeated again what I had spelled out: "R...E....B...M....E" And then I ended with a fast, "V..O..N!!"



There it was all floating in the air in front of me: R E B M E V O N



"Yes!!" I shouted. I heard it echo through the gym that I was in. I was pleased that I was able to do it without much trouble.



I then decided that I needed to try another Task. The one that I thought would be interesting was the "go to Purgatory and save a soul" task. I started flying. I was in a school. I flew til I saw a vent. I stopped and decided to open the vent and fly downward. I figured all I needed was a start in the downward direction and my mind would do the rest. So I took off the vent cover. But I saw a hot blue flame inside. It made me nervous. I didn't want to fly into it. I decided I would go outside and dig a hole instead.



I flew out the doors. The scene before me was beautiful. I could see the lake. The sun was going down and shone through slits in the clouds. The sky was red. I stopped and hovered for a moment and took in the beauty. But then I noticed that the wind was blowing me away from the lake. I decided to land.



I landed on a steep grassy hill. I did the first thing that came to mind--I somersaulted all the way down. Finally I decided to start "digging". I focused on the ground with my mind. I could feel myself start to sink. It wasn't too fast--maybe a foot a second, but I felt glad that I would not have to dig with a shovel. Soon I was underground. I had created a very small space for my body, enough the the surrounding rock and dirt wasn't touching me, but not enough that I had any space to really move around. I kept going down. I started to feel claustraphobic. I wasn't seeing any people or any sign of Purgatory. So I came back up and decided to try somewhere else.



I did the same thing again with the same results, except this time as I went down I heard the some sandstone slabs above me cave in. It spooked me. So I came up again.



I saw a group of people. In the group I saw a guy I recognozed. This guy was my nenesis. He was in all my lucid dreams. (In retrospect...not true). I smiled. I flew to him and grabbed his shoulders to get his attention...then gave him a quick kiss on his forehead. I then laughed and flew off. I flew around the corner of a building...and there he was. This time he was laughing at me. Dang.



So I did the first thing that came to mind. I took off my shirt.



(And I am going to skip a little here.)



I then ran off.



I saw this creepy Jamaincan guy. He was standing by the edge of the ocean and watching me. I was buttoning up by blouse, but had only gotten the bottom two buttons. My breasts were still partly exposed. The creepy guy grabbed his crotch and told me that watching me made him hard. I gave him a little smirk and walked towards him. When I was about 10 feet away. I spread my arms out (which also spread my blouse open exposing myself again. And then I slowly floated up into the sky.



Then I woke up.

TwoShadows: That's so cool that you wrote the letters in the air and they actually stayed in the air like that. I'll have to try that one of these days. And don't feel abd about the purgatory thing, it's damn scary trying to get to the underworld on purpose O_O. When I tried the other day, I guess I dug a little too far and met Satan himself. Jolted me straight awake lol!

Anyway, congrats on the rebmevon lucid! For some reason I was thinking it was one of the basic tasks (/me edits my post)

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

TwoShadows: That's so cool that you wrote the letters in the air and they actually stayed in the air like that. I'll have to try that one of these days. And don't feel abd about the purgatory thing, it's damn scary trying to get to the underworld on purpose O_O. When I tried the other day, I guess I dug a little too far and met Satan himself. Jolted me straight awake lol!

Anyway, congrats on the rebmevon lucid! For some reason I was thinking it was one of the basic tasks (/me edits my post)

Thanks. I just read your dream. I probably shouldn't have. When I was trying to get to Purgatory in my dream, I was just imagining a nice big cavern underground with a lot of people trapped there. Nothing scary. Nothing evil. More like a fairy tale kind of place. I get really creeped out when things get too real and too evil. I need to be very careful.

Anyway, good job on your "rebmevon" LD. I, too, practiced saying it in real life while I did my WBTB. As with a lot of things in LDs, it really helps to do some visualization or "homework" ahead of time.

So weird that we attempted, accomplished and failed the same exact tasks. I thought maybe you had read my dream beforehand, but yuo said you just did. Great minds yeah

Maybe if we thought of purgatory as some place between here and heaven, rather than between here and hell.. I think I'm going to read up on some mythology for lucidspiration.

Yeah, I guess we did do the same Tasks in the same order...and both tried multiple times to get down to Purgatory. After you mentioned looking it up, I did just that. And it actually wasn't exactly what I was thinking of...the people there are good people awaiting heaven, but just being refined. Okay, that shouldn't be so scary. I like your idea of going up and not down. I'll look for it on a cloud next time. Sounds much more pleasant than tunneling underground.

Love these tasks! I think that I've successfully completed the Basic Task I (turkey hunt.) Although I didn't get a clean kill, this was without question the best lucid dream of my life. Thank you to whomever came up with this task! (Ophelia, that you?)

I went with an "endless bundle of flintlock muskets" approach: Transcendental Turkey Shoot - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

I want to perform the Task of the Month which requires shooting turkeys with 17th century weaponry. I imagine that I have a huge bundle of preloaded flintlock muskets strapped to my back and it isn't long before turkeys start darting around in the crowd in front of me. I reach over my right shoulder, grab a musket, and aim it at a nearby turkey. I carefully aim and fire, the musket thundering and kicking my shoulder. The shot's a clean miss, and the DC's in the scene start running and screaming.

I toss my old musket aside and grab a new one from my "bundle". I keep catching sight of turkeys up ahead and I run after them, firing and missing time after time. I chase them onto the arena floor itself, the magical combat still raging wildly around me. I skate across a field of ice that's melting beneath the heat of a raging volcano, the floor nearly collapsing beneath me.

Also failed the "REBMEVON" task. I was surprised by how tough this one was! No matter how well I could "see" the word in my mind, my pen just started spewing garbage after a few letters. Not sure what it'll take to make me dream-literate: REBMEVON rejected - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Basic task ii) is pretty difficult. DCs don't give a fuck to what I have to say in my dreams.

Got to do two tasks in the lucid diarrhea I had yesterday:

Advanced Task ii

I point my finger over the glass, thinking about the word NOVEMBER. I start writing it backwards, creating letters by clearing the crystal fog: R-E-M... Wait what. Why did I write REM? Lol. I try again, successfully this time. R-E-B-M-E-V-O-N. Surprisingly, the letters don't change or morph. I double-check my work two more times, until I am satisfied that I spelt it right.

Basic Task i

The turkey stops by one of the ATM's in the far corner, a few feet from a dude withdrawing money from the machine. I am about 75 meters from it. I aim my crossbow at the turkey, and I fire away. There is a distinct snapping sound as the arrow shoots into the air. I realize I'm a really bad shot, because I didn't hit the turkey. Oh sh*t I just hit the dude. He limps down to the floor without a sound. Without a second thought, I aim the crossbow at the turkey again, with a new arrow magically in place. I fire, and imagine the arrow hitting the turkey. And it does. The arrow pierces the turkey's throat, and it falls to the floor, dead and bloodied. I run up to the turkey (who cares about the dude? ) and I grab it by the leg. Then some bystander who watched the whole thing yelled "WHAT ABOUT THAT POOR MAN YOU SHOT!?" I turn to the bystander, take a step back, and throw the dead turkey at him. He runs away, and I start walking away too, thinking about the awesomeness of what I just did.

Full entry: ToTMs! Turkey-Hunting and Backward-Spelling - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views