Thread: Task of the Month for April 2014

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

haha, nice dream oldblue, congrats on the TOTMs!!

I love how you were pretty sure that your sister probably ate your candy in real life at some point

Haha thanks, my DC sister unfortunately lives up to her namesake. She pranked me back as soon as I pranked my dad. Must be my subconscious screwing back with me.

So I tried an oneirogenic mix of amino acids as per this thread here: http://www.dreamviews.com/lucid-aids...ml#post2097207

I attempted the bonus task but not successfully. I thought hey, let's go out to space, and I began to rise towards the atmosphere. As I rose, points of light of many stars started to pierce through a dark cape of what seemed to be trees. The stars were definitely very beautiful, but I didn't quite make it off the planet. Felt like I got kinda close though.

Really hoping for an LD! It's been like a month! Fuck these dryspells!

Originally Posted by INeverWakeUp

Fuck these dryspells!

Yeah, they do bite. I recommend doing some dryspell research, here and on google. There's gotta be a rhyme and reason for 'em. Sleep habits, nutrition, stress, etc. I would say maybe they are more common during times when you don't want to wake up in the mornings?

Originally Posted by chajadan

I would say maybe they are more common during times when you don't want to wake up in the mornings?

That's been my biggest issue lately. Gotta get them buns up on outta bed huh!

If I had to guess it's more an issue of needing to get those buns inta bed earlier!

Originally Posted by INeverWakeUp

Really hoping for an LD! It's been like a month! Fuck these dryspells!

Yeah, F them hard. Lucid moments don't satisfy now, my new standard for "acceptable" LD is one where I have enough awareness/memory to attempt a TOTM, and it's going on a month since one of those...

Basic task II seems real interesting. I'm gonna try it when I realize I'm dreaming again. Wish me luck

/me wishes all the TOTMers the best of luck!!

I had a false awakening in my room and all my lights were on. I had headphones on blasting classical music for some reason. I’m still not aware that it’s a dream. I “go back to sleep” with my lights on and transition into another dream. I’m in a construction yard working on this half built building and for some reason I’m smoothing out this sand/ dirt with a white towel (I guess my mind told me I was smoothing out the foundation?). I see a DC doing the same thing. I ask him what we’re supposed to be doing and he gave me an answer that didn’t pertain to my question. At that moment I check my hands, instantly know, then turn around and jump in the air. My flying wasn’t as smooth as it usually is so I knew the dream was unstable and I had limited time to complete a task of the month. The half built buildings around me and all the sand on the ground remind me of a post apocalyptic world, perfect setting for a tornado. While looking in the distance during flight I shout “tornado”. Nothing happens. I shout it again and one emerges then quickly disappears. I start screaming tornado and after shouting it a few times this massive tornado appears. As I fly towards it I’m in awe of the detail. Instead of a funnel type it’s more like a massive cylinder. It was black, grey, and had electricity surging all around it. This thing is screaming from the wind cutting the air. I’ve never seen a tornado in person but this was incredibly realistic. For a better story I try to fly into this tornado, but as soon as I got remotely close it flung me back in the opposite direction, hurling me through the air like a rag doll. As I’m thrown through the air I almost transition into non-lucidity so I briefly wake up. I attempt a DEILD but my body was in an uncomfortable position so I woke up.

/me wishes the TotMers even better luck than Ophelia because Dezz is cooler

LUCID
* The dream started in my apartment complex at night in the parking lot. I was hanging out with some friend when I suddenly asked my self the question, am I dreaming? I thought at first there is no way I am dreaming this is to real, but you never know unless you check. I plugged my nose and yes I could breath, I am dreaming!! Then I started to fly showing everybody I was with that it is possible and they should do it to. Then I ended up in a house or apartment whatever thinking task of the month! I walked into a room where there was a bowl of fruit on the table. I also noticed statues of Mary and Jesus set up in this room, I thought strange that I am dreaming of them. It's always good to see holy beings in your dream no matter from what tradition I thought.

Then I started to transform actual fruits that exist until fantasy fruits that don't. At first the fruits appeared to be alter version of real fruits, but then eventually I manage to conjure something which seemed very alien. This fruit actually moved and appeared to be alive. I thought ok now I eat, but since it was alive I couldn't bring myself to do it. It looked just like a mango turned inside out that was alive, disgusting. I thought mmm well I came this far and I will probably still get my wings anyway haha.

Then after being done with all of that I remember talking to my brother about I hope he remember being lucid with me. As we were talking about how amazing it is to be lucid in the dream state. I had this incredible sense of calm, clarity, and power, thinking this is all a projection of my mind, this is my world.

After this I skipped to a scene where I was walking out of my kitchen. Then I turned around and asked all the older ladies in attendance. Would you all like to see something amazing? One of the ladies no we do need to doing that again. I think she was calling me out about showing off. I walked out of place and strolled around what seemed to be a place similar to Paris. I noticed the French lady from the movie inception, Leo's dead wife. I talked with her for a minute about something I now can't remember. Then again proceed to convict somebody that this is all a dream. I tried to fly a couple times until I got it. Then what happens next is strange, seeing in the reflection of a mirror that I was actually I robot. Someone said I comment like not now then shut me down with a remote. Then when that happened I was me again looking at the shut down robot strange.

I have missed DV! Making my grand return with a 5-in-1.
(Although I'm not sure if my flying through space counts as 'swimming'...)
Here's the DJ entry: http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/~+dr...onth%5D-57296/
And here's an excerpt:

Spoiler for Five Tasks of April:

I tried to focus on the visuals and found myself standing inside the classroom. It was mostly white, with some kids' pictures on the walls, and a large set of yellow drawers. I decided I was going to leave a floral decoration in the classroom for the kids, to complete the Advanced Task i - Spring Flora: Using any means necessary, create a unique plant (unique foliage, flowers, fruit or function) that does not exist in real life. I held my hands together and then slowly moved them apart, and a flower began to form between them. The twined green stem grew upwards in a twisting motion. Green bushy leaves sprouted on top, and red flowers bloomed in pine cone shapes. Small red berries appeared as a final touch. I conjured a vase and placed the flowers inside.

I went outside and found myself on a city street. My vision became a little blurry. I checked my hand and saw two of my fingers were bent out of shape. I tried to stabilise the dream by spinning, rubbing my hands, and saying "increase lucidity" and "increase clarity." My vision returned to normal.
I decided it was time to create a tornado for the Advanced Task ii - Spring Weather: Alter the weather by summoning a tornado. I moved my arms in a twirling motion and the wind began to blow and twist around me. Trees were uprooted and cars started flying. I kept twirling my arms and I looked to the sky as I was lifted up the middle of the wind tunnel. The sky became starry, and I left the tornado and the world behind me as I flew beyond Earth's atmosphere.

I flew through the darkness looking for a parallel universe, for the Bonus Task - International Astronomy Day: Get to outer space using any means necessary. "Swim" in space to your favorite planet or celestial object.
I saw an Earth-like planet in the distance and propelled myself towards it. I entered through a portal, I can't remember its exact function, but it had something to do with calibrating gravity for people visiting from other dimensions. I landed on the ground and noticed that some elements of the planet were reversed. There was grass growing above my head. All around, the sky was orange like a sunset, but apparently that was the normal colour of the daytime sky.

I saw my brother and realised it was his parallel self. I considered talking to him or trying to meet my own parallel self, but I decided to try to complete all the tasks of the month before I woke up, so I thought about what I could do for the Basic Task i - April Fool's Day: Prank a DC any way you want and record the reaction.
Bro was standing on the edge of a marshy swamp, about to don some boots so he could cross. I decided to prank him by stealing his boots... I'm not sure why I thought that was a good April Fools' Day joke, but it was the first thing I thought of. I started flying to gain momentum, then I flew past him and grabbed his boots. I flew into the sky and looked down at him. He looked a bit peeved and was waiting for me to come back, but when he realised I wasn't going to, he admitted defeat and started wading through the mud barefoot.

I flew back down to land and noticed there were some anthropomorphic animals walking around - the ones I remember were two dogs and a frog.
I looked around for an Easter egg, for the Basic Task ii - Easter: Find an Easter Egg and open it. Report what's inside. I saw one of the dogs holding a large egg, but it looked more like a real egg, like how dinosaur eggs look in movies. The dog handed the egg to me, and I cracked it in half. Most of the inside was empty space, but there was a tiny creature sitting inside that looked like a cartoon human. Most of its features were adult-like, but it was curled up like a baby, and had a huge round pregnant-looking belly. Its face looked male with beard stubble.
I looked around to see if I could find who the baby belonged to. I saw someone who looked like my friend Jodie, and she explained that human babies were grown in eggs on this planet. At first, she made it seem like it seem like it was her baby, but when I tried to give her the baby, she denied it was hers and walked away.

Oh WOW ~Dreamer~!!
Stay with us, please - you're a wonderful inspiration!!
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My dream starts off in my room. I’m extremely tired and on the verge of falling asleep, but I need to go to the bathroom. I struggle to get out of bed. I do a nose plug and have myself convinced that my nose is stuffed so it’s not accurate. I barely get out my door and collapse by the stairs outside my room. At this point I’m crawling to the bathroom. When I finally make it to the bathroom it’s blocked by about six to eight chairs from my dining room. After moving the last chair that blocked the toilet, dust gets all over me and I’m pretty upset at this point. After using the restroom, I have just as hard of a time getting back to my room as I did going to the bathroom. When I make it back to my bed I noticed all of that took way too much effort.

I knew then I was dreaming. I slightly wake up so I stayed still and chained it into a DEILD. I start feeling heavy vibrations and peoples voices saying I don’t even know what, but I just reminded myself to stay cool and I’ll become lucid. I get through the voices and vibrations. Now that I’m aware I’m solely focused on the task of the month.

I phase through my room door, fly downstairs, phase through my front door and make it to the street. There are palm trees, plants, and flowers all over the place in front of all my neighbors’ houses. It’s almost like a jungle planted by a professional gardener. I try to summon a flower standing at a grill cooking burgers. I fail miserably. I walk down a cul-de-sac that intersects my street and approach a garden in front of one of the houses. I see a blue bonnet and a red flower (Maybe a red sage). I grab the blue bonnet with my left hand and the red sage like flower with my right and start pulling. As I notice them stretching I turn around and walk a couple houses down. When I turn around the flowers are twisted around each other so now I have this long, twisted red and blue flower rope that almost looks like DNA. I start whipping this thing around to see if anything interesting would happen. Nothing did, so I dropped it and had a false awakening. I felt like I completed the task but I go back outside anyways to try and alter more plants. One plant just had two big leaves and that was it. I stared at it and it the two leaves started growing at a rapid pace. I look at a palm tree but it doesn’t alter. I have a couple more false awakenings then unfortunately wake up for real. I’m really trying to make these TOTM stories interesting to read, but I’m still pretty new at LD control. Hopefully with more practice I can preset my intentions, come up with some awesome ideas, and bring them to life when lucid.

I've got to get my recall back up to par before i start attempting tasks.. but I have to say.. I'm disappointed that I can't read all the hilarious attempts about laying eggs this year

.... I said "Here I come!" and saw a boat speeding towards me. Suddenly a helicopter comes and its rotors cause me to get blown away. I pretend I'm taking apart an easter egg and suddenly become lucid.
I'm floating on the water and at the tip of my fingers, an easter egg that looks like a yellow bunny. I remember the water being deep. I opened the easter in half. The bottom portion had a green toy or figurine. The top portion had a yellow and tan toy/figurine. I took them both out and bit into each. It hurt my tooth because they were a hard plastic. I looked at them and read their information on the back of the toys. It said where they were made, by what company, copyrights, etc. I came to shore onto a facility and thought I'd prank a dream character. I said "I want a person to be here" and as I walked, I saw my cat Lucy. I added, "a person that's not Lucy!" I stepped up to the facility doors and a man asked me to identify. I know I've been there before and knew what to do and say. I said my name and that I was wearing black. I took off my duty belt which didn't have anything on it and stepped through. I saw a janitor, who was old and fat and told him to follow me outside. My plan was to make him go outside and have to get access to the facility again. He was suspicious of me and said "If you're trying to make me come out, I have a badge to get in" he then proceeded to tell me how the badge was not his and he actually stole it. I yelled at him to give me the badge but he ran away, outside of the facility and into some sort of cave. I lost lucidity and started yelling at nothing for a badge then slowly started to wake up.

4/23/2014 - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Wow, ~dreamer~, all 5 in one night? Awesome!

Great dreams yall!

Had a brief lucid dream yesterday that didn't last long enough for me to hit the tasks, but I had a much longer one this morning where I covered both advanced tasks and the bonus task.

Remembering the tornado task, I step out through the back door and look to the east. The sky is sunny, but as I focus, storm clouds appear. Then I watch the tornado form in the distance. It comes towards me as the base widens. I listen for the sounds of the storm, remembering that it's supposed to sound somewhat like a train. Instead, I hear thunder and… is that the score from the movie "Twister?" I just watched that movie the other night, and I really did like the music. I reach out to measure the width of the tornado with my hands – and find myself back indoors, holding a coiled-up rug.

I put the rug down and find a flower pot. It's already filled with soil, and I drop a single seed into it. Nothing happens at first, so I wave my hands over the pot as if I can make it grow. A single stalk shoots out, followed by two more, but there's nothing on them. I force the shoots to retreat back into the soil and come back as something more interesting. The second time, it comes out with a single daffodil. Much better. I wonder if there's anything else I can get out of this that would be more interesting, so I send the daffodil back into the soil. On the third try, an oak tree starts growing out of the pot and shoots upwards. My first thought is that I should climb it, since climbing trees is something I've done before in lucid dreams but it's not something I can do in waking life anymore.

This tree isn't so easy to climb, as the branches are too far apart for me to get both a handhold or a foothold, but I manage to get up into it. I look up and see stars above me, which reminds me of the bonus task. Could I climb the tree all the way up into space?… I watch as the planets zoom past me, first Mars, then Jupiter and Saturn, until I get to my destination: the moons of Uranus. I picked this planet because its moons have Shakespearean names, and one of them happens to be my given name. I land on "my" moon, which seems awfully tiny. It's like I'm standing on a large boulder. I stay on it for three orbits around the planet. This starts to get a little boring after a while, so I start spinning to see where I end up at random. I find myself on the surface of a moon. This time, the moon is large enough that I can see the lunar landscape all the way to the horizon. The sky above me is dark and full of stars. I can even see Jupiter and at this distance, it's as large as the sun appears on Earth.

I managed to have the longest LD I've ever had today. The stabalization techniques from the Dream Views podcast helped out a lot. I managed a couple tasks so I'm pretty exited. Bonus Task and Jack and the Beanstalk TOTY - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

/me is a little behind, sorry

Wings coming soon

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

/me is a little behind, sorry

Wings coming soon

The Dr told me to lay off the wings for awhile anyways..
But every since I got home from that hospital my dreams are a wreck...

Hi there,

I'm happy to say that I managed to achieve one basic task. Not sure if I have to complete the two of them to do the things on the Control Panel, but honestly right now I don't care, because I'm not an experienced LDer and even if this was a short (1-2 min) dream, I enjoyed it.


I think I had some rounds of FAs. It was around 8 in the morning and I was trying to get lucid after 8-9 hours of sleep. I woke up at 7am, 7.40, 8.10 ... and from this last dream I woke up around 8.45.

So, in my dream, or chain of small dreams, I was also waking up and trying to sleep back. One of those times on my nose pinch RC I realized I was dreaming. The room was dark, I could feel myself really sleepy, and it was the room of a house I used to live almost 20 years ago.

I went to the room door, which was closed. I was happy to see that sunlight was trying to enter the door. I though "Well... let's see what I find next...". I told to myself that it was a mistake to think that, because then the dream could take control. Well, nothing happened. I headed to the room that was used by my father, all sunlight.

This building was a 17 story one, and we lived on the 17th floor. I headed to the balcony, and went outside. I could clearly see all the cars down there, people, and the landscape with mountains. It was all clear, with light, and vivid, as I remember.

I was about to jump down, but as this is something "big" I pinched nose again, and also tried some dream control. I looked at one of those big electric cables towers, it was green and it was on mountain area. Looking at it and using my mind I crushed it. It went down as if it was made of paper. Funny thing is it didn't make any noise, and I also noticed this as strange in the dream.

"Well, lets do this", and I jumped. I felt the gravity on my body and stomach, and when I was some meters to hit the ground I just went horizontal, flying. I started screaming in joy, like in a roller-coaster.

Now, I remembered the TOTM, and that I wanted to prank a DC. I stoped there and "landed" next to a pedestrian crossing on the street. To be honest I though on what pranks to do before, and this one I though about 1-2 weeks ago. There was a man there, and I called him: "hey!, man, could you help me?". As he walked towards me, the floor under him vanished (as if some hidden sewer entrance was there) and he just fell to water (I heard the splash). I laughed, walked to the hole edge and gave him my hand: "Sorry man, I was just pranking you.. here (hand), and don't worry it's a sunny day, you'll dry soon".

Suddenly all starts to go dark and I wake up. By the way the darkness came as I was looking at the hole, which was dark and with no aparent shape. When looking at it and while going to help the man out, I noticed that the dream world, the one I was not looking at anymore, started to vanish.

That's all

OK-I ready for next month's TOTM's, I been doping off here... Need a real challenge to see I still have what it takes