Thread: Task of the Month for May 2014

And now that I've seen what the May tasks are, I can go to bed.

...Eh, looking back, that music idea of mine sucks.

Anyhow, I guess I will be doing Basic Task II and Advanced Task I. Those two should be a cakewalk for me. If I have the opportunity, I will do the Bonus Task as well.

Originally Posted by Aristaeus

...Eh, looking back, that music idea of mine sucks.

No, uh uh. You can't complain about the tasks I picked for the last few months, then complain about your own task after it was voted for.

Now you have to complete your own task, while standing on your head for it to count.

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

No, uh uh. You can't complain about the tasks I picked for the last few months, then complain about your own task after it was voted for.

Now you have to complete your own task, while standing on your head for it to count.

Do not mind me; I am just mine own worst critic.

OOOOHHHH, MY GOSH, YES, YES, YES, YES, YES.

Excuse me. I just think these new tasks are so exciting! And aww, yeah, one of my suggestions made it in! I've made DreamViews history!!

... Though, of course, I also wish I'd gotten more of last month's tasks done... Geez, you would have thought I would have, with how early I got both of the basic tasks done then! But even in the lucid dreams from that month when I could think of one of the lucid tasks to do, I never properly got to it.

The blame is really on my own lack of motivation, though. For a lot of last month, I didn't pay that much attention to acquiring fulfilling lucid dreams, so even when I did get some, it was often nothing special. Well, I've got a new start now so I guess I should get back to that! (But I still want to do that tornado task from April.)

P.S. Oh. And the giving-birth suggestion actually made it through as the bonus task as well! Oh, goodness. I'd like to read through the posts of the people about to try that one.

Hahaha awesome tasks. I will succeed this month, I know it! (maybe not the giving birth one though) good luck to all of you, let's see who manages a task first!

Hi,

Lovely tasks... I will try as hard as I can.

First, one question... I don't know what that "limerick" is. I see it's a city, but I don't see the meaning of "create a limerick". Any similar word or an example would be appreciated.

Now, about the tasks:
- Tequila task: loving it! I'm not a tequila guy, it's been long since I had my last shot or glass, but I will certainly enjoy having it on a dream if I manage to achieve one LD in the next 30 days. In any case I think I got a tequila bottle around in the house so I may give it a try to remember how it tastes.

- Star Wars: Well... again long time without watching any of the movies but I certainly will enjoy (trying) moving an object pointing at it with my fingers.

- Stage: Ouch.... I'm public-panic... To be honest one of the things I have in my "to-do"s after managing to have long and vivid LDs is precisely to try doing something in front of a crowd. For now only really short LDs. But in any case if I manage to stabilize one and I feel I'm really lucid, I will try this one. Who knows, if I'm able to jump from a building because I know I'm dreaming (even if it's really scary), maybe I'm also able to sing in public

- Give birth: I really want to try this... even if I do it 5 months from now...

Thanks for the challenges!! Hope I can report back with something.

Regards.

LIKE but: ''Give birth in a lucid dream.'' whaat?

Well... That was too easy. I have incorporated TK into just my movements in llucid dreams, even before I LDed, I incubated the force into my dreams (star wars FTW!).

Spoiler for nerdy dream:

I am dreaming. In my parents house. Hmmm... Should check out the basement (often there in dreams, making it a base). I jump down all the stairs. Turn around the corner and there is a door. Force push it open (in my 2nd LD i found that doorsare often locked in dreams, so I force push them open to avoid having to see if it is locked. Quick time saver as well). Can't think of any goals except for some force TK and being here. I pull my phone out of my pocket and toss it in the air, I make it stay and then have it do a lap around the room). I forget about it and decide to play some Zelda (dream goal!). I can't find a controller, so I feel for my pine and have it come back to my hands. I hold it sideways (like an NES controller). Then I start the game. Cut scene. I am watching now (kind of... Two bodies, one is 3rd person in game, the other is playing the game). There is a huge crystal, like in inu yasha. It contains memories of a sort, like in tsubasa reservoir chronicles (my favorite manga). Ganondorf shatters the crystal all around hyrule. Ihit the start button and see one in hyrule field right next to me. I close the start menu. Then i stop. I was expecting a random new place, not the same hyrule as ocarina of time. I hit the start button again and look at themap. Very similar, I don'tsee anything messed up. Even the sound is perfect. I walk over and grab the crystal and hold over head "Buh, buh, buuuuh!" "These crystals 2ere scattered by ganondorf, they aren't very powerful alone, make sure that you hurry to the next one!" I sit still for a bit and listen to the hyrule field song. So similar! It is crazy how fast this world was made. I

wake up.

Originally Posted by Irreo

First, one question... I don't know what that "limerick" is. I see it's a city, but I don't see the meaning of "create a limerick". Any similar word or an example would be appreciated.

Regards.

a limerick is a poem with the pattern "aabba"... and it's normally amusing

for example:
There once was a man from Peru (a)
who dreamed he was eating his shoe (a)
he woke with a fright (b)
in the middle of the night (b)
to find that his dream had come true (a)

and:
The limerick packs laughs anatomical (a)
Into space that is quite economical. (a)
But the good ones I've seen (b)
So seldom are clean (b)
And the clean ones so seldom are comical (a)

So I didn't think I would hit one of the tasks so early in the month, but it was my day off and I managed to DEILD while sleeping in.

I really can't remember my last dream (in fact, I didn't remember anything from the cruise ship until I got up later) but I can remember only one of the tasks of the month: use the Force. I picture an inflatable blue ball, sort of like a cross between a basketball and a soccer ball. I toss it around a bit using the Force to guide it up and down, back and forth. The ball deflates and one of my coworkers appears, a woman who is not that bright. She offers to show me where I can get an air compressor. I follow her until she finds the appropriate model. Then, using the Force, I shove her away and prevent her from saying any more useless things. Then I use the Force to insert the needle attachment into the ball, connect the hose to the needle, and telekinetically flip the on switch on the air compressor.

I feel that using telekinesis just isn't enough. I let the Force flow through me, and suddenly I feel thousands of Expanded Universe characters crying out in despair over being erased in the new movie. That's a shame. I really liked Jaina Solo.

I try to think of other things I want to do, and I see a door open. Inside are a couple of men wearing suits. I remember a dilemma I was having with my boss and I summon him out of the room. Then I use the Force to pin him against a wall and tell him, "You will approve my request to supply power to the display models in my department." He looks terrified and nods in agreement. I can hear birds chirping outside and realize I'm losing the dream. The problem with using the Force for everything is that my sense of touch helps me stabilize. I summon a light saber so I can grasp the hilt. Unfortunately, instead of a "real" light saber, I get my friend's toy light saber. I feel the plastic hilt and try to focus on summoning a more realistic light saber like one from the movies, but I wake up too quickly.

Originally Posted by Nfri

LIKE but: ''Give birth in a lucid dream.'' whaat?

I'm not a mother (not yet, perhaps never at all) but I've had several non-lucid dreams about giving birth. The most memorable was the time I pulled the "I'm pregnant" prank on my coworkers on April Fool's Day and then had a dream about giving birth to a Raggedy Ann doll that night. There was another dream where I held a newborn infant in my arms and knew I was looking at my future child. It was incredibly powerful. I'm looking forward to trying it again in a lucid dream.

Originally Posted by Sensei

Well... That was too easy. I have incorporated TK into just my movements in llucid dreams, even before I LDed, I incubated the force into my dreams (star wars FTW!).

Spoiler for nerdy dream:

I am dreaming. In my parents house. Hmmm... Should check out the basement (often there in dreams, making it a base). I jump down all the stairs. Turn around the corner and there is a door. Force push it open (in my 2nd LD i found that doorsare often locked in dreams, so I force push them open to avoid having to see if it is locked. Quick time saver as well). Can't think of any goals except for some force TK and being here. I pull my phone out of my pocket and toss it in the air, I make it stay and then have it do a lap around the room). I forget about it and decide to play some Zelda (dream goal!). I can't find a controller, so I feel for my pine and have it come back to my hands. I hold it sideways (like an NES controller). Then I start the game. Cut scene. I am watching now (kind of... Two bodies, one is 3rd person in game, the other is playing the game). There is a huge crystal, like in inu yasha. It contains memories of a sort, like in tsubasa reservoir chronicles (my favorite manga). Ganondorf shatters the crystal all around hyrule. Ihit the start button and see one in hyrule field right next to me. I close the start menu. Then i stop. I was expecting a random new place, not the same hyrule as ocarina of time. I hit the start button again and look at themap. Very similar, I don'tsee anything messed up. Even the sound is perfect. I walk over and grab the crystal and hold over head "Buh, buh, buuuuh!" "These crystals 2ere scattered by ganondorf, they aren't very powerful alone, make sure that you hurry to the next one!" I sit still for a bit and listen to the hyrule field song. So similar! It is crazy how fast this world was made. I

wake up.

Too easy for a basic task??
Come on - remember people's attempts from the comp - you are not exactly a good measure for newbies (meant as compliment).
It is completely different from asking a DC for her middle name or some such - something really easily achievable, so that if you manage to get lucid - you are relatively assured to also get the first set of them pretty wings, too.
At least one basic task I would imagine should be pretty trivial - and I have my doubts about the tequila as well, since you need not only a DC, but also summon the stuff.

On the other hand - it is also good to have people stretch maybe - not shy away from trying something like this - could well be it's all really a piece of cake.
And I guess, I try to write a Limerick irl first - to see, if that is any likely to be in my grasp..
But I sure don't want to complain - I love the TOTMs!!
Just a bit worried for a wing-scarcity..






Edit: Okaay - I wrote one - it's not funny, but clean, I suppose - so that for one was easier than thought:

Dream humour is of a special sort
Born where all of the schemes contort
Metaphors in confusion
Anyway all an illusion
Now that at least is comfort


So - confidence babies - taking my worries back a bit!

I can't believe that after a week with no luck, I managed to complete bonus task the first day!!

It was: WILD-FA-DEILD. On the first part I am outside my house looking for DC's for the tequila shots. Unfortunately my moral mind comes with me in my dreams and I missed my chance because the only DC's I saw where three cute little children riding their bicycles, birds flying around them... (if you can imagine the cuteness), so I think: "I can't make this kids drink tequila with me..." one of them stops to fix something and when I ask him "what do you represent?", he gives me that brief panic/shy look that children give to strangers and not answering me he left. The dream starts to fade, I spin but that technique has never worked for me, I stay a long moment waiting for new scene to appear but I only hear sounds and feel the rubbing of my hands, suddenly I'm in my bed again, I get up and look out the window, it's very dark and I remember there was already daylight when I began with the WILD, so I try passing through the window and there it is...still on dreamworld. Now I don't have time to waste, there are no DC's and I have to remember a task where I don't need them.

I see a car is parking, but I'm not waiting for DC's to come out of the car, so I take a native, squatting position (yes, right there on the street), and even when I don't have a big pregnant belly I imagine there's definitively going to appear a baby coming out there. I push hard and began hearing baby cries, I feel there's something coming out, and it doesn't hurts, then I see the baby is completely out but I can't take him further because the cord it's very short and (I imagine) the placenta is still very attached, I try pulling it but now that hurts!!, I think "hey, it's a dream, I can handle this pain", but the more I pull the more I feel that pain. (I would describe it but there are men that would be like: no, no details please), that pulling pain feels very real and I woke up.

I thought that was going to be a difficult task, never imagined I'll make that one first!!, also never imagined it would be like that. Sorry about the coldness of the task lol. I consider myself as a motherly person, but there was no romantic, cute or loving feeling outcome on this one. I don't know why, maybe this time my subconscious took it just as a task to be done!

True StepL. I didn't think about that.

Easiest way to get DC and tequila. I would just ask a couple DCs if they have Tequila and shot glasses. Odd are that one of them will say that they will get them and never come back, but if you ask a couple you might get one helpful DC.

The limerick one is interesting to me. I will definitely ask a DC. They are always coming up with songs and poems and strange things. I will have to wake myself up right afterward in order to remember the words, because words (sounds) are the first things I forget upon waking. Even when I remember, I can't really hear it, but I remember the words that I have used to describe it. :/

Originally Posted by Sensei

Well... That was too easy. I have incorporated TK into just my movements in llucid dreams, even before I LDed, I incubated the force into my dreams (star wars FTW!).

I know what you mean, had a mini-ld this morning (before checking the task) where I pushed a few bottles down with TK. (NO WINGS yet please, I want to do it again!) Maybe we should improve on the task by doing something using lots of the force, like Mass TK, multiple objects or something heavy?

Here is more on different uses of the force if someone's interested:

Force power - Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Wiki

All the best limericks begin with:

There once was a man from Nantucket.....

As in (extemporaneously made up):

There once was a man from Nantucket.....
Who carried his <beep> in a bucket...
Then one glorious day,
A Girl came his way,
...fill in the rest...

Originally Posted by NyxCC

I know what you mean, had a mini-ld this morning (before checking the task) where I pushed a few bottles down with TK. (NO WINGS yet please, I want to do it again!) Maybe we should improve on the task by doing something using lots of the force, like Mass TK, multiple objects or something heavy?

Here is more on different uses of the force if someone's interested:

Force power - Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Wiki

Feel free to "improve" the difficulty for yourself, for those of us n00bs just hoping for a LD with awareness & memory (heck I'd take just a vivid non-lucid even), the basics are PLENTY involved .

Sure thing! Well, you never know what you're capable of unless you try. Still, maybe there are easier uses of the force than tk? SW fans please chime in!

At any rate the tasks are really exciting! Looking forward to reading lots of cool experiences and may the force be with you!

Indeed....and may the frickin LUCIDS be with us all!

"No Time Freeze" Ratz....
With the likes of me skulking about dreamworld they likely knew where it would lead
Oh well, Back to the music. I have many music dreams with large audiences and I did it once I can do it again..
Otherwise I may have to go back to wingless flight..

I better get rehearsing for my musical act! And then when everyone hates it I'll force choke them and go get drunk on tequila shots. Improvising people...improvising...

My reaction to seeing two of the tasks:

Basic Task i - Cinco de Mayo: Do tequila shots/slammers with a DC. - kilham

"...Oh, God."

BONUS TASK!! - Mother's Day: Give birth in a lucid dream. - Thena

"...Oh, God."

One of my dream goals has been to get drunk/do drugs/etc. in a lucid dream and see what happens, so I'm definitely doing Basic I. I'm not sure about that bonus... sounds like it would be interesting, but my subconscious would probably just make me feel like I've been struck by lightning. Honestly, I want to see a guy do that task, and then describe what happened. Haha.
As for advanced, don't know which one I'll do, maybe both; I like both composing and poetry, so it would be interesting to see what I'd come up with.

(Ey, I know I always say I'll do ToTMs and don't end up doing them; blame school for that, not me. Hopefully I won't do the same this month. )

I had another music dream, Unfortunately it wasn't lucid and kind of uninteresting,
I was supposed to play in a small Church in PA with a friend just as a favor and had showered and was in my bedroom pulling a shirt over my head when I felt the cat on my bare butt and turned and she was holding the cat up to tickle me and was laughing then we carried my 160 lb of steel guitar and amp into the church and played and she played rhythm while they sang hymns from books with joy it seemed, They don't applaud in church but we got many comments and then went to lunch with a ride in the country after and it continued in mundane Sunday stuff so I'll quit.

ps: I have played some instrument or other both professional and non for most of my life and have many music dreams so it's only a matter of time until I become lucid in one of them, Maybe I wont have to eat Walmart wings after all..

@Nyxcc I might try to become one with the force! That would basically be like becoming omnipotent, but when I come back... I am ethereal blue >_>