Thread: Task of the Month for August 2013

Originally Posted by Xanous

Basic Task i is all I care about this time. I was actually going to opt out this month but had a change of heart. Advanced ii sounds like it could be a wild ride but I think I'm going to be too chicken for it especially after listening to the podcast!

Gosh, what's in that podcast? I just started listening, so the tex mex intro is supposed to put you at ease before the scary stuff?

Congrats on TOTM, Xanous! Man, you are fast!

I did both basics last night in very short order. I asked a random male DC what the meaning of life was and he replied, "The opposite of death." Then I said that since I was in a dream I was going flying. He replied that flying wasn't possible, so I said offered to teach him how and I showed him how to fly. We flew a couple hundred yards and I woke up.

the tex mex intro

Did I miss something?

Did I miss something?

In the very beginning they talk about unorthodox methods to induce natural wakes, which includes eating something heavy like tex mex.

Become a shark and eat someone. Awesome! Best tasks I've seen here for a long time. Granted I've not looked in quite a while either.

Originally Posted by NyxCC

In the very beginning they talk about unorthodox methods to induce natural wakes, which includes eating something heavy like tex mex.

Oooh. If you had said massive-dump-awakening I would have remembered it better. Anyway back to TOTMs...

So, as you can tell I'm new to this website but I'm really interested in TOTM. So last night, as I became lucid, I remembered basic task I. I then asked her "what is the meaning of life?"
She replied "innocence" and kissed me really lightly on the lips. She then licked her own neck?! And kissed mine and said "if something creates a new experience, it is worth doing"
And she disappeared and I flew out a window.

Haha, licked her own neck? That's one talented DC

Great job guys, I love how you all kill these, even in the first week! Momma's gotta catch up...

Woohoooo!!
My first basic task of the month!! Second LD since I joined the DVA!! Here's the meaty part (Full dream here):

I tell her "let's try something" and go to some kind of shop and talk to someone inside that we cannot see. I ask "What's the meaning of life?" and an old man answers "I cannot get the bamboo" So I decide to ask someone else, who by his looks I think is going to answer something in the line of "Sex, drugs and rock and roll". I ask him what's the meaning of life and his answer is "Sex".

BTW, thanks for giving so many different tasks so that we the newbies can choose one that is easy for us.
And special thanks to CanisLucidus for his help at the Intro Class!

I wasn't planning to go for advanced, but there was a beach so gave it a try. You never know where you'll end up lucid after all!

Somewhere along the way, I remember the advanced TOTM which I didn't plan of doing, but may as well try. I briefly think that this dream has been going on for quite a while and I am already starting to forget it. I look to the beach in front of me, but now instead of the yellow sand and light green water, the sand is grey and the water is dark. I try to change the color of the sand, but it remains grey. I notice how violently the waves crash and the water moves. Never seen anything like this and I have no intention of going in and trying to turn into a shark under these conditions. So, I decide to wait until things improve, and find a spot on the beach where by the way the sand is turning more yellowish. I lie on the sand and think about how I am going to turn into a shark and then maybe go in the water. I try to feel my fins and my shark body (kind of big and bloated) but the dream ends.

Originally Posted by dreambh

BTW, thanks for giving so many different tasks so that we the newbies can choose one that is easy for us.

You're welcome, and congrats on the wings! I love that your DC read your mind on the "sex" answer

EDIT: REMEMBER FOLKS: If you complete a task of the month, don't forget to request to join the proper usergroup. More importantly, if you join the usergroup, or only post in here "I did the TOTM!" you WILL NOT GET CREDIT unless you either:

1.) Post the LD in this thread, either in full, or just quote the TOTM part (<< preferable)
2.) Link to the corresponding journal entry

Last month, someone requested the usergroup permissions, but failed to post the dream in here even after I reminded them, and failed to link to a journal entry that had anything to do with completing the tasks. And already this month, someone requested permission but hasn't posted anything yet. So please PLEASE share your dream in this thread so you can get your wings!

Wow! These wings feel great... maybe even addictive?

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

You're welcome, and congrats on the wings! I love that your DC read your mind on the "sex" answer

Read my mind and answered "sex"? Never!
You've read all that stuff about REM and physiology, right? IWL I'm pure and innocent

Basic Task i

Woo first task of the month completed ever for me!! So happy! Anyways, here's the clip from the DJ entry:

I was on a pirate ship at sea, the dream wasn't really stable and there was no clarity. But the one thing I remembered to do is one of the TOTMs. So I ran up to quite a young boy on the deck and hurriedly asked him what the meaning of life is. He instantly replied "Blue banana whale in time" .......wat? O.o Before I had time to question him further the realisation came that I'd just completed the task of the month, I got too excited and woke up.

...and here's the full DJ entry for anyone wanting to read the other dreams I had that night: Task Of The Month Complete? - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

I'm going to try the task again even though I've completed it. I just want the dream more clear and vivid so maybe I can stay around longer to question them about what they said

Ok, I tried and failed with the devil thing again.. fun ride though:

Spoiler for attempted Basic i and Advanced i:

I got up and left the room. When I went down the hall and into the livingroom, it looked completely different, like that of a small apartment. There were a bunch of scattered papers on the kitchen counter, and I remember thinking at that moment "I know I wrote down the tasks of the month on one of these pieces of paper...." So I began rummaging through them. I couldn't find what I wanted, and I kinda got clear there for a second, questioning the validity of these papers. Then the Hell TOTM struck my brain, and I immediately got down on all fours. I pressed my face through the floor, and that obedient tunnel to hell appeared instantly. A moment of fear swept through me (if you haven't read any of my tunnel to hell dreams before, this is #4.. and if you can imagine for real, a dark, creepy tunnel that goes way down deep, with some fiery orange glow, and sounds from the deep not unlike the Balrog of Moria, then you'll know why I chickened out the first two times and didn't go in). The moment passed quickly, because I've been psyching myself for it in waking life. Alot. No fear, it's a dream, MY dream...

The past few days, since my last attempt at this task, I decided that I would manifest a rope to get down, because flying/hovering/climbing are not at the top of my lucid skills. Obediently, a sturdy rope appeared in front of me, perfectly in the center of the tunnel. I grabbed it and tugged, it seemed to be fastened at the top somehow, but I didn't look up. My focus was down down down. I grabbed the rope with my arms AND legs like a spider, and began to slide down. I felt a little like I was going down a really creepy well. "The Well from Hell" haha, sounds like a scary B movie. Or a documentary: "Hell's Wells, Have They Dried Up? Story at 11." Ok I'm done

Anyway, I started sliding down the rope, which should have burned my hands, so I'm glad I didn't have that as a distraction in this dream. I focused hard to see a bottom to the tunnel, because that's where I failed last time (it ended up being an endless tunnel and I woke up before finding the bottom). Two times I had to focus and say, "I'm approaching the bottom, I'm approaching the bottom," and my feet finally found the ground. In retrospect, I don't remember any heat at all. I had a lucky, pain free trip to Hell. Almost immediately, a figure approached me. (My memory is a little foggy from this point on, so I'll do my best. I think my memory tends to be a bit better when I'm super focused, like descending the tunnel, since I was so set on tackling that. So when I got to a point I hadn't got to before, I stopped trying to control everything, and just let the story take over. But as a reflex, I may be dropping too much focus as well, and forgetting stuff. Gotta work on that in the future.)

Alright, so a figure approached me, and he seemed to be made up of half smoke, and half something corporeal. But he seemed to phase in and out of it. I think I asked if he was the devil, but I don't remember an answer. I remember him getting super close to me though. He was handsome, when he wasn't a billowy cloud of smoke. And I remembered Dianeva's idea to ask him the meaning of life! (Sadly, the beer never popped into my head, aside from which, even if I had succeeded in this basic task, that's a pretty long as fucking way of getting to it, to then fail at the advanced!) So I asked him "What is the meaning of life, oh Dark Lord?" (kidding, I didn't say the dark lord part ) I know he had an answer, I just KNOW it, but I don't remember. All I remember is he swooped me up in wings of smoke, and the next thing I remember, I was standing on earth.

Oreo face? I think so!!

Apparently I'm not even good enough for hell, and the devil himself kicked me right out. Wow. So the last thing I remember is seeing 2 DCs that I have a hunch that I recognized. I'm pretty much nonlucid at this point I think. I hug them both tightly, then wake up.

OB, Congrats on the ld and brave high quality attempt to do advanced! Excellent stuff! And the fact that you couldn't remember the beer part only means we will be reading more of these entries this month.

Oh you can count on it NyxCC. Even if August passes before I get there, I got a date with the Devil.

I could have quickly and easily completed the two basic tasks, and had the perfect chance to, but apparently instead of talking to a person right in front of me, I should make the effort to fly all the way over to a different place and talk to someone

Middle School Teacher Teaching me how to WILD - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Oh, gosh, I thought Basic task II had said "ask a DC how.." not "teach a DC how.." Oops :V That's okay though, because teaching a DC how to do something sounds even more fun. 'u'

I dunno what I'll teach them. Maybe how to firebend or something...

Completed the task of having a beer with the devil!

Spoiler for Welcome to Hell:

Welcome to Hell
I find myself sitting on the bottom of a pool of water. It is warm and comfortable there. It seems I was just here, and now I am back here again. I have a desire to stay here. So I just sit on the bottom of the pool for a while until Nomad swims down beside me and looks at me. He speaks telepathically since speaking underwater doesn't work very well. He tells me to come to the surface, we can go take care of the task of the month. He says I'm the one who says I know the devil, or the Lord of the Pitt, or whatever he calls himself. I say ok, and then swim up to the surface. It seems harder to get to the surface than I had thought it would be. I get to the surface and pull myself out onto the land. Alex is gone, and for that I am grateful. The memories of the previous dream are still with me, and I remember hugging Alex when I clearly shouldn't have, clearly he didn't want me to do that… I lead Nomad into the tower and to the communications room. I activate the communicator and get a connection with the Courts of Chaos, which is an area most people refer to as Hell. I get in touch with an old friend, Pilgrim, who is also known as the Lord of Darkness.

She looks like Pilgrim from the Spawn series with large black bat wings. Pilgrim comments on the fact it has been quite a while since we have talked, and we spend a bit of time talking to each other, and Nomad, too. I finally get to the point where I ask if the Pitt is around, to which Pilgrim says she believes he is. She says he's not around too often, having quite a few other multiverses to deal with, but he is around right now. I tell her that is great, I'm bringing Nomad through. One of the mirror portals opens and both Nomad and I go through it.

On the other side of the portal Nomad and I are standing in a place that definitely looks like Hell, like the biblical version of hell. There is fire everywhere, the sky is red and choked with smoke clouds. I see open flows of lava that flow like rivers and streams. Smoking volcanoes riddle the surrounding mountains, a couple of them are actively erupting. Pilgrim is right there to meet us. She says it has been so long since any of us have been out here that the Pitt can spare a bit of time if we want to meet with him. She comes with us towards what looks like a large fortress. A foreboding fortress. We go inside and to a large room where there is an even larger demon. Lord of the Pitt is sitting on what looks like a throne, well he is really more kicked back on the throne and relaxing. Nomad transforms into a somewhat demonic looking form and walks right over to the Pitt and starts talking to him as if they were old friends. The Pitt doesn't seem to mind. Nomad says that the round of drinks is on him.

He summons up some beers, different sizes dependent on the size of the person drinking it. Pilgrim and my beers are normal size, his is medium since his demon form is a bit larger than a human, and the Pitt's is HUGE. So the four of us sit there in the throne room of Hell with the devil himself drinking beers and chatting for a while. I'm not sure how long this goes on for. I don't remember any details of what we talked about, though. Not sure how much time passes before I finally wake.

^^ Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah I hate you!

Seriously though, awesome, awesome LD. This is one of my favorite tasks so far, so congrats a million for getting there. And without fear! *highfive* at you woman!!

I did my first TOTM! So after I became Lucid I ran into my neighbors house and asked them if they wanted to learn how to fly. It was weird because this DC was a completely different ethnicity then my actual neighbor but nonetheless they were like "okay!..?" so I said "okay I'll do it right here!" and i got really excited because I've wanted to float again for the past couple weeks and i felt my heart pounding (this excitement is probably why my dream was so short). I do my technique for flying, which is to run, jump, do a 180, then become parallel to the ground with my back to the floor and float before hitting the ground, or in this case before hitting the countertop I jumped over. As I floated up and touched back down on the ground the DC looked a little shocked and said "so thats all I do?" and then I woke up. That was my first good lucid dream since three weeks ago but I only wish it was a longer. I usually rub my hands together and feel my surroundings a lot more before attempting any flying. I'll remember that next time !

Might I just say, I LOVE the bonus task. Eating a dream character, after morphing into a shark. THAT sounds like a blast! Can't wait til' I get a few more lucid dreams under my belt. Still, if/when I get lucid, I'm not letting my inexperience stop me from trying

~SilverWolf~

Tonight's the night! I can do this! *Starts jumping and punching in place* *Rocky music begins playing* I'm gonna have a lucid and get this shit done!!! I can do this! Yes I can!!! YES...I...CAN!!!

So far the only task I can remember when i'm dreaming is the "Meaning of life" and that one has gotten me poked in the nose and pee'd on by a critter. This just aint goin my way..

ps: It was funny so I put it in my DJ anyways...http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/woblybil/bad-dcs-49617/