Thread: Task of the Month for April 2014

Tried basic ii with the egg but summoned a plastic transparent egg, not very openable, another transparent egg could be seen inside :

Finally remember a task - easter egg and remind myself I can summon one. I close my hands and try to produce an easter egg - something egg-like comes into existence, with decorations and stuff, possibly plastic. It then undergoes changes and becomes completely transparent. This kind of defeats the purpose of the task since I'm supposed to open it and I try the summon again. Once more I get some strange transparent plastic foil egg with cool colored pics on the surface and another transparent plastic egg inside. I think this is like a balloon and wonder about it being ok for the task. As I examine the pics for the journal I notice that the inside egg has now colored pictures of balloons on the surface and the outside egg some disney characters like Mickey and Pluto.

Advanced i success:

Memory gap but I'm now in my old room and remember the next task - to come up with a new plant. I approach the window and see a plant whose foliage already looks weird, the leaves are similar to pelargonium but more curled. I decide to add random red fruit there, getting a mini-mental image but this doen't change the plant accordingly. There are two plants now, and without touching them and using mind, I start to twist their leaves and stems into all sorts of shapes, trying to create some sort of different plant. In the meantime flowers appear on one of the plants - two different types but they are almost drying now. More manipulation until in the end the plant turns into a smaller plant, mix of an orchid and violet. I think about the size then conclude this experiment in botanics is enough.

And finally Advanced ii - complete weather control :

I then recall the tornado task and look out the window, thinking about one. The sky is gray and a tornado appears in the distance. It does look quite large and menacing and I briefly give in to paranoia, wondering whether I should hide since it is coming in my direction. Then I look at the opposite part of the sky and see that another one has formed. Two tornadoes, task complete and my mind is off the paranoia. Since this task is in line with my improve element manipulation goal, I wonder what else can I do here and decide that the thing to do would be to get rid of the clouds and tornadoes.

I go out on the balcony and focus on a tiny area of the sky that is blue and hold my hands up as if I'm stretching the blue sky gap, then decide to use the cover with hands tech to continue, covering the entire sky with my hands but for the gap of blue sky, so that the only thing I see and perceive is the blue sky. Allow a short while to pass, then move my hands away to see that the sky is indeed clearing up and is mostly nice blue sky. There are a few completely black clouds in one corner which I find interesting. Thinking about more element manipulation, I want to do something to the other clouds now - rearrange the sky again. I pick up a tiny white cloud and try to stretch it to the sides with my fingers (not really touching it) but end up actually holding a tiny piece of cloud in my hand.

awesome tornado dream Nyx!!!

Seeing what was inside the egg I say counts. That may seem loosey goosey, but the basic tasks are supposed to be easier than the advanced and bonus tasks, so there's more leeway there. Maybe we should word them more vague to allow for some margin of error? I'm just brainstorming here, but I think it is important to bring up since the basic tasks have been criticized for being too hard before. Let the advanced ones be more stringent.

You task-clubbers can vote and decide on that.

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

awesome tornado dream Nyx!!!

Seeing what was inside the egg I say counts. That may seem loosey goosey, but the basic tasks are supposed to be easier than the advanced and bonus tasks, so there's more leeway there. Maybe we should word them more vague to allow for some margin of error? I'm just brainstorming here, but I think it is important to bring up since the basic tasks have been criticized for being too hard before. Let the advanced ones be more stringent.

You task-clubbers can vote and decide on that.

You can't be all things to all people... One month the basic is easiest for one person and the next month the advanced is for someone else..
Sometimes I get lucky

I need to hang out in this thread more frequently and get my mojo back! I agree woblybil...and NyxCC made several of the tasks look easy!!

I know this doesn't count, but last night, because of this, I had a dream that horses were hatched from eggs.. . And when you were done riding them, you had to put them back inside the eggs to rest. (mind you, these were eggs the size of chicken's eggs)
I remember wondering about the science behind putting a giant horse inside a small chicken egg.. haha

Heheeh - even while it's a bit frustrating to not realize it - I love normal dreams with TOTM spillover.
What a sweet thing for your unconscious to make of it, Spun!

Originally Posted by Spun

I know this doesn't count, but last night, because of this, I had a dream that horses were hatched from eggs.. . And when you were done riding them, you had to put them back inside the eggs to rest. (mind you, these were eggs the size of chicken's eggs)
I remember wondering about the science behind putting a giant horse inside a small chicken egg.. haha

I knew it, I always suspected horses came from eggs.

A friend and I once packed a bunch of demons separately into plastic CD cases so he could release them
later and they could make it back to wherever they came from without fighting any more.
(dreamers are such nice guys)

......I began swimming around in this nothingness, not knowing exactly where to go, since everything is very far, and there’s almost nothing. I see something like a big hand appearing and pointing me to follow it (well, I didn’t quite see it, it was a combination of seeing and feeling… nevermind, it’s hard to describe what it was like) I follow it but since I’m moving too slow by swimming I increase speed with thought until something “opens” and I’m traveling very fast, I’m approaching to something big and red, I think I’m going to land inside a planet, but as I come closer I see it’s not a planet, it’s just something red with gold, a planetary nebulae (now I know the name), like this one but less dense nebulae.jpg


when I pass by it I hear a loud whoosh! I gasp because I was impressed, I’ve never seen something like that before… but I think that the sound of gasping was real because I heard it coming also from my real body, and that’s what woke me up… well, not exactly full waking, it was false awakening over false wakening several times…


Full dream: OBE/WILD? Planetary Nebulae - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

I did the basic task i and bonus task! I think I did anyways. Not sure if it counts because I didn't mean to while in the dream, it happened entirely as a result of dream incubation (I wrote down the tasks I wanted to do 7 times on paper while imagining what it would be like to do them last night). I didn't realize that the great adventures I was having were actually tasks for April until I woke up.

link to the dream: An Afternoon Lucid...in Space!! - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

I love the horse egg! I can believe it every time I look and wonder how my big son came out of my little wife! Congrats kilham and anotherdreamer!! I love space but have only been to the moon and floating near a planet. I really want to go to a beautiful nebula...actually I saw something like one when I tried the alien task last month (no aliens came to get me!). Sorry if this has been answered but do you need to swim there to qualify...I guess I could always fly or teleport and then swim/float the rest of the way, right?

Well I was having too much fun with my task in the first scene that I never went on to the other tasks before waking up. I had them all memorized in hopes of completing several of them at least. So one of the basics:

... I am back at home , most like waking life home and I tell myself to forget about the broken door since I am dreaming. I hear a woman singing lightly like she was following along with a song on the radio and I float/fly up over the fence and I do not see her in the side yard. I look up and see an open window and float up there to the second story and inside I see a man with his two young sons in a bedroom and I think of the prank task of the month and I say hey to one of the kids and duck out of sight like I am leaving but then I pop back up and scare the boy. I then go on to a lot of fun first calling the wife in to the room simply calling out hey wife come here and she even answers something like yes honey and comes into the room...at this point the father and kids disappear and I summon additional people doing additional fun games with them but not really pranks and I summon two more sets of people until the room was full with a lot of people. I may break down the details later in my dream journal...but it is a little embarrassing...nothing new I guess for my dream journal.

I did basic task ii, and advanced task i, so this will be my first advanced task here at dreamviews =)

basic task ii:
I'm in a lucid dream and I wind up walking into my mom's room (a room I haven't seen before), and as I walk in there is a basket of easter eggs on a dresser. I walk over and picked from the multiple color choices and pick one out. They are the plastic kinda that split in half to store treats. I open it up and inside and different color M&Ms, pastel color.

advanced task i:
So I'm lucid and think to do this advanced task. I'm outside and I see an area of concrete where I can try to spring out some custom foliage. I pick and spot, but then it seems like there is already something in the space, so I pick another spot. I have to do this a few times. Then I see and spot and it is completely devoid of anything, pure concrete, but again as I start to focus in on it, I seem to have overlooked something, and I'm like, alright, that's just gonna be my beginning then, since I'm doing that anyway. I just kinda spring up a plant and then I begin shaping it with my mind. I try a few different things, and the process is going fairly quickly, with the plant in lots of fast motion, as it cycles through the ideas I'm spitting out. The final result I decided was my success was a large non-tree plant, as tall as a tree. The foliage was all a darker red. It's hard for me to describe, but, there were multiple shafts that, althought much bigger, would be very roughly similar to aloe, in that there's a central bulge, but the tips become finer to a point. A those tips there was a kinda of bun-knot, or something. It's didn't just taper, it was like, a sewer's tie off knot. There were tendrils that ran the entire length of the shafts, like spaghetti in a sense, and the texture of those red tendrils was particular, like velvety, springy, soft, but cool to the touch if you tried, like cool rubbery.

I really really really like advanced task i, and think I'll try it again a few times.

This so lovely, chajadan!!

Now I also want to do it as fast as possible - sounds phantastic!
Wouldn't it be nice sometimes to be able to make snapshots to remember and share..?

Been painting interesting flowers on pieces of wood last night - supposedly a job, in the basement of a shopping-centre, sitting on long benches with other Easter decoration handicrafters. Na well - sort of a start.
After ages, I also had a short lucid moment, at the end of a dream - but not connected to the flowers - and all I managed was hover, loose optics and wake up..

I had a nonlucid dream that I was discussing the difference between SP and Rem Atonia with some members attempting the TOTM

It's because of the wiki page, curse you

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

I had a nonlucid dream that I was discussing the difference between SP and Rem Atonia with some members attempting the TOTM

It's because of the wiki page, curse you

Difference is easy: Both is REM Atonia in principle - but SP is REM Atonia, while you are conscious.

I managed to fulfill the Basic Task and Advance Task this morning. The Basic Task is highlighted in green, the Advanced Task in purple.

Mine dreams have been very hazy as of late... I guess mine fatigue has finally caught up with me.

Spoiler for Dream:

Dream Log Entry, Date 15 APR 2014

In one dream, I spontaneously became lucid in what looked like an empty void cluttered with a mysterious grey material; it reminded me of the lint you often see built up in a dryer vent. Before I became lucid, I was stuffing mine face with ice cream sandwiches, cookies, and other desserts. Immediately remembering the Dream Views task, I began to look for an Easter Egg. No more than five seconds later, I spotted an indigo Easter Egg about the size of mine fist. I floated towards it, grabbed it with mine right hand, and popped it open. In the egg was a miniature football with a typical pattern of black and white hexagons, and an egg-shaped wiffle ball. I was rather confused by this, as I am really not a sports person.
After that, I attempted to do the Advanced Task, but could not remember what it was. In mine delirious state of mind, I thought the Advanced Task was "cast a spell", so I was trying to do magick. Mine memories are far too hazy to remember what happened after that.
In a separate dream after that, I found mineself in the lounge of a house I lived in when I was very little. I spontaneously became lucid when I found mineself walking right through the wall and into the pebbles that bordered the side of the house. To mine left, there was a tall tree stump shaped like a crocodile's mouth. It kept opening and snapping shut. Remembering the Advanced Task, I extended mine right arm, palm open, toward the stump, and soon after the makeshift mouth opened wide, sprouting a leafless tree with curly branches bearing round, transparent fruit of various colours. I picked a bite-sized, pink fruit from the tree and popped it in mine mouth. It was salty!
After that was done with, I set off to complete the Bonus Task. I walked to the front of the house and prepared to open a portal to outer space with mine Dream Chalk, but before I could do so I either woke up or fell back into non-lucidity; I do not remember which.

Congrats Aristaeus!

Now go post some ideas in the lucid task club and wow us

Spoiler for for dream:

I found a baby and decided what to do. I met my friend and told her and showed the baby. Then said – it can’t be true. It’s a dream. Count fingers – a lot. It was the most charming baby in the world and I wanted to be with her but I decided to grow a plant with mellow elephants (like in CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2. I looked at the ground and the plant became growing. It has long sharp leaves and at last appeared a box or a flower. The box was opening and several watermelon - elephants jumped on my palm. They were the size of a nut or so. They were alive and moved. So funny with the trunks!!! I wanted more and another green elephants jumped from the box and I awoke.

Originally Posted by she

It has long sharp leaves and at last appeared a box or a flower. The box was opening and several watermelon - elephants jumped on my palm. They were the size of a nut or so. They were alive and moved. So funny with the trunks!!! I wanted more and another green elephants jumped from the box and I awoke.

Adorable dream, she!!
I can vividly imagine it - soo sweet!


Finally something from me as well - the "prank" basic - mainly happy I finally became lucid!
I was talking to a little girl - maybe 7 years - and explaining some maths to her, when the realization came.
Thinking of the task - I kept talking for a little while, and then played the most stupid prank on her - just shouting booooh and jumping up and down and making faces.

She squeaked and jumped back and then started crying and quite bitterly.
There was a mirror on the wall, and I looked at myself, and what looked back was a really fierce human-bear-mix face.
The picture became blurry, while normalizing concerning the humanity of it - I decided to leave that be, and went out.

On a parking lot with pebbles some small plants were growing. Among them a little group of green bulbs, maybe 5 cm in height, and with red stars on top of them - almost like these pinned on fake cactus flowers.
I knelt down and tried to hypnotize them into magnificence - nope.
They just ignored me.
And I woke up.

Next time I will try other things - like telling them what to do, or pretend-remembering, that it was just the time for them to go into seasonal transformation, or do some turning away from and back to them.
Not just staring, in any case - I should know better by now ..

Do we post the tasks of the month experience here or wait to be accepted to the group?

I post first and then go request to join and submit the direct link to my post to make it quicker on them, though you can get by with any order, just both are required.

Originally Posted by OldBlue646

Do we post the tasks of the month experience here or wait to be accepted to the group?

Before I went to sleep I made it a goal to complete the basic tasks of the month. I had planned to ask the first DC I saw for my Easter egg and planned to crack it over his head to kill two birds with one stone. I was flying in an LD with a friend (This is the first time I’ve ever seen an DC fly) when I remembered the basic tasks of the month. I slightly woke up and remained still and pulled of a DEILD. I “woke up” in my parent’s house and apparently this was a pretty messed up LD because when I opened my door and went downstairs my mom had left my dad in the middle of the night. My dad was emotionally distraught, but I knew that in reality my parents were still happily married. I asked him for my Easter egg and he gave me a look of anger and confusion and said, “What?!”. Knowing I couldn’t get him to give me an Easter egg I just decide to prank him. I grabbed a normal egg out of the fridge, went to where he was by the stairs, and cracked it over his head. As the yoke ran down his face, he gave me a look of utter sadness, like I just made the worst day of his life ten times more miserable. I knew none of it was real, but I felt bad and hugged him and said, “happy lucid day.” He smiled and responded with the same phrase. At that moment my sister came down stairs and I asked her for an Easter egg. She gave me one of those shitty light blue Easter eggs that snap together like the ones you hunt for as a kid. This was insanely realistic because of course when I opened the egg it was empty. I guess my mind told me that she had already eaten the chocolate inside, something I’m pretty sure that actually happened before. I tried to fly upstairs to find another egg in her room to see if I could find something else in one of them, but the dream became unstable and I woke up. I tried to stay still to attempt another DEILD. I heard a loud rumbling noise and figured I would transition into another LD, but I guess the excitement of completing the tasks woke me up.

Thanks