Thread: Task of the Month for September 2014

Originally Posted by Box77

I did something, I know I did something...

Spoiler for : Related to the Basic Task ii and Advanced Task ii:

.../I see my shoes and I remember the related TOTM. I think I'll find a pair of shoes in the next space. Crossing the doorframe, I turn to my right and see a pair of velcro shoes, for men this time, next to a waterway. I don't waste my time and sit next to them to take mine out. I start with my right foot and just pull the shoe out. The laces just follow the motion, like it was not tied. I do the same with the left foot and see that the laces seem to be tied around my ankle again. I just pull it harder and goes out with no problem. I put the velcro shoes on and stand up to see the tapes are not properly adjusted. A minor detail I think then I turn and start walking somewhere when I remember the Expecto Patronus task! I want to do this one since it seems to be pretty easy. I hold a stick from the ground thinking that it may work good for a wand, point it to the front and say the words. I see a bit of smoke rising from the tip like it is an incense stick. I go to the next space and repeat it again more confidently. More smoke rises from the tip. The place is still empty, no animal, no bug, nothing. I turn and see inside a mirror hanging on the wall of what apparently was a room. I see a blurry reflection of me, and remember that I must feel specially happy to do this task. My first thought is sex! Ok, I think about the good feeling and say the words louder. My throat hurts a little. More smoke and I start looking around to see something, when I see the shadow of an eagle moving on the floor. I turn to the skies to see it, but it's a dark night sky. Then I hear it screeching, like it's flying away. I don't know if it counts but I decide to properly adjust my shoes when I start feeling the whole dream is fading.

Well, I don't know how far did I get this time... It seems to me that at least I completed the Basic Task ii, but the Advanced one could be incomplete because of I didn't directly see the animal, I just saw the shadow of an eagle and heard it screeching.

Wheeee, congrats!! Is this your first TotM?
Did you do anything differently for incubation? I'm not sure if you've started on those practices we spoke about yet.
The wings suit you! Many more to come, I bet!

Another awesome TOTM-worthy LD (I think it was a WILD!), my first thoughts were: retry fortune? patronus? Nah, instead summoned a lightsaber and waved it around and went looking for Sensei for a duel, never found him though. Then I flew over an astonishingly vivid beautiful city scape and flew over a football field where players were running around, it was really cool, until I thought "....football? CHEERleaders!" and that finished that dream up right quick.

Originally Posted by ~ Dreamer ~

Wheeee, congrats!! Is this your first TotM?
Did you do anything differently for incubation? I'm not sure if you've started on those practices we spoke about yet.
The wings suit you! Many more to come, I bet!

Wings Now I have a happier thought to do a better spell!! It's my first succeeded TOTM before the expiration date actually. Definitively I couldn't been able to do it without your support. My recall is getting better, specially to put in order the usual crap I use to dream about, and curiously my awareness has increased by far more than usual.

Looking forward to find that eagle, if it was not just a casual visitor... now, to the nap!

Wooohooo Box!!

Feels great, doesn't it? To fly about on the forum with these beautiful wiiinx!! Softly wafting in the breeze...
This is such a genial use of psychology - all of it, up to being allowed to make new suggestions, when winged!
I know, it's been very important for me to keep at it, very effective, maybe even crucial!

Originally Posted by StephL

Wooohooo Box!!

Feels great, doesn't it? To fly about on the forum with these beautiful wiiinx!! Softly wafting in the breeze...
This is such a genial use of psychology - all of it, up to being allowed to make new suggestions, when winged!
I know, it's been very important for me to keep at it, very effective, maybe even crucial!

Yeah!! I have even a funny idea to work with my avatar , although apparently there's some technical issues to update it, I'll check it back later anyway, when the month is over. By now, I'll try to complete the other tasks (including your lucid dare ).
Talking about the psychological part, apparently it has echoed in my dream world too. During the nap, there was a black panther in our apartment which I recently got to be friends!!! I was worried about the kids carelessly running around it, because of I thought it could harm them if it decided to play with them. Does it have something to do with the black cat and the black fox I saw in some other dreams? Is the eagle coming back?

To be continued...

Originally Posted by FryingMan

Another awesome TOTM-worthy LD (I think it was a WILD!), my first thoughts were: retry fortune? patronus? Nah, instead summoned a lightsaber and waved it around and went looking for Sensei for a duel, never found him though. Then I flew over an astonishingly vivid beautiful city scape and flew over a football field where players were running around, it was really cool, until I thought "....football? CHEERleaders!" and that finished that dream up right quick.

Sounds like a really cool dream, especially the part that you said it may have been a WILD. Gawd I miss WILD's. I haven't attempted one in a while. Mostly been enjoying about 3-4 DILDs a month lately but this weekend I think I'll trying WILDing. =-)

^^ It was great. I just happened to hit on the balance of everything: drowsiness, awareness, intention, letting go, not trying too hard, etc. Hopefully this means I'll be able to get some more of these!

Originally Posted by starletdreamer

Sounds like a really cool dream, especially the part that you said it may have been a WILD. Gawd I miss WILD's. I haven't attempted one in a while. Mostly been enjoying about 3-4 DILDs a month lately but this weekend I think I'll trying WILDing. =-)

I attempt to WILD pretty much every night but I've only been half-way successful once, and that wasn't even a true WILD. I say half-success because I got lucid haha.

Way to go Box!

Originally Posted by KestrelKat

I attempt to WILD pretty much every night but I've only been half-way successful once, and that wasn't even a true WILD. I say half-success because I got lucid haha.

Tried again this morning, got back to sleep *twice* from late morning, first dream time was really vivid but I was way too tangled up in the almost-nightmare level upsetting events, second time were less aware kind of random short scenes. I'm going to keep on with the WILD attempts

I tried the patronus task in one of my lucids today. I waved my finger around, saying "expecto patronum". From the purple sparkles which were swirling around a butterfly appeared. Then, the butterfly transformed into an attractive girl. This girl approached me, gave me an object that sent a sharp pain throughout my entire body and stormed off! Then I lost lucidity. I forgot the part about the happy thought apparently. Weird dream!

She was really cute though

1:00pm I took a short nap intending to do the Patronus (Patrone) task and wound up trying to get light blue boyshorts type underpants off a girl that seemed to have six legs and as soon as I got one leg out she grew another and it was an awful fight...
(She won too)

Originally Posted by dolphin

I tried the patronus task in one of my lucids today. I waved my finger around, saying "expecto patronum". From the purple sparkles which were swirling around a butterfly appeared. Then, the butterfly transformed into an attractive girl. This girl approached me, gave me an object that sent a sharp pain throughout my entire body and stormed off! Then I lost lucidity. I forgot the part about the happy thought apparently. Weird dream!

She was really cute though

Do you recall what was the object? That is a strong symbolic situation and possible message from your inner self!

I think it was sort of a star shaped metal object, a bit bigger than the size of my hand. I didn't get a chance to really look at it.

As far as interpreting the dream, I was a bit sore from golfing 36 holes that day. Maybe my inner self was rewarding me with a star for the exercise. That might explain the pain upon receiving the star.

Well, my intuition tells me that you might be a bit too hard on yourself in life (or maybe in golfing since you say you play it) and the star represents a message of "trust a little more the universe and you shall shine."

Just what I feel it might be, but you know better probably

Well, even though I had both tasks done, I still wanted to do the toilet one, and here it is.

Also, I have completed a couple more DARES, and at least, Box77 is getting dared So you may want to check it out when you have a chance!

Spoiler for Dream Entry ~ Scroll down to the toilet photo to find the task:

21.09.2014

The morphing toilet by the dark mirror takes me to call Sensei instead of finding the blue world after failing to Astral project. (WILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID ASTRAL SEPARATION ASTRAL

After a brief visit to bathroom at 2am I decided to Astral Project. I relaxed my entire physical body in bed. My mind was already relaxed enough that I could focus well on this task. Within what felt a couple minutes, I started hearing a buzzing within my eyes. I focused on the buzzing in order to make it grow and become more intense. It got to a point that it was decently loud and I experienced vibrations around my entire body. I recalled that a couple of nights ago I was using the same technique (it is a new technique I am working on) and it kind of blew me off due an overcharge of energy (you may want to read here as a reference)

Overcharging my body for Astral Projection and failing - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

So I decided not to be -energy greedy- as just start the separation process out.

As I focused in my Astral body lifting from my physical body, I could feel the vibrations very intense, but for some reason, I was not completely able to come out. I decided to ask for assistance (you may do this if you struggle to leave your body) and I felt there was an entity around me (I asked who this one and it was one of my Spirit Guides.) I asked her to pull my Astral Body out. I felt here working on my feet and literally like she was pulling my feet, even that it felt physical at some degree, I know it was my Astral Body being pulled. I was able to separate and I found myself floating over my physical body. I had with my dad a conversation about my previous event and he told me that the same would happen to him and that once he projected out, he would charge his physical body with energy for it to feed further the Astral body) As I attempted this, I focused way too much on my physical body and I did return to my physical body.

I was back in my body, but still in the WILD stage, so I figured I would once again, pull myself down after charging a bit more extra energy. During the process, my mind lost focus and I found myself thinking about a couple Dares I wanted to complete.

I found myself floating above what appeared to be downtown. It was day so I realized that I was not Astral Traveling anymore but I did fall asleep during the process, which I was still happy since I was lucid. Not what I was looking for, but no complains neither!

I decided to land as the dream was very stable. I recalled I wanted to work on some dares, since the thread is almost dead. So I entered a building and I wanted to look for a bathroom in order to do "Find a mirror and talk with your reflection." Once I got inside of the building, it appeared like a hardware store and there was almost right by the entrance a toilet and next to it, a sync with a mirror. So I got myself in front of the mirror and said, "Hi, whats up?" It looked like me, but like if on the other side of the mirror there was no light, or like if light did not reflect at all, because it was the same looking as me but it was really dark (in colors, not that it was evil, just like a person looks like in the darkness.) I did not hear any reply, so I attempted again and visualized being answered. This time, I could hear a faint voice coming from the mirror that it said "Mario Party" (what the heck???) and I did not feel like staring more into the mirror and wake up, since it replied to me, I figured it was valid.

I also recalled the Advanced task of the Month. Even though I already completed it within the first week (my super-lousy lame patronus

Expecto Patronum at Downtown - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

) I wanted to complete also the toilet one as I told to Ophelia, and well... I had a (not so beautiful and dirty toilet) right next to me. An awesome gift from my subconscious. It was not extremely gross, just dirty and old looking:







I just step over it after opening the lid and I hoped it would not break, as I recalled someone trying to do this and getting the toilet broken in the process, thus failing the task. Luckily it did not break. I visualized getting pulled inside the toilet. I could feel my feet shrinking and getting wet and I started to be pulled in, until most of my body was inside the toilet, only my upper chest and head were out. I knew I needed to enter it entirely to pass, so I pulled myself further in, but I was stuck. I tried hard to get in, but I was not successful, I realized the toilet turned into a Urinal:







It was sparking clean but I was completely stuck. I tried to flush a few times but the water would come out from it around me. I was thinking what was going on with all the dream toilets for everybody. I jumped out of it and it morphed back into the same old dirty toilet. Since I was in a hardware store I looked for something to help me. I realized that if I could find one of those shrinking mushrooms from Mario it would help a ton:







I was able to find some, but they looked like real mushrooms with leaves. I grabbed a bunch of them and step over the toilet right now (and I believe it got bigger) I ate the mushrooms and I shrunk immediately, falling inside the toilet. It flushed itself and I travelled through the pipes at a very hight speed. There were some religious figurines that they were cut in half (I bet I know where this comes from, Ophelia lol) and some other stuff, but the water was not gross at all.

I then appeared at some place else, right back in down town. I was happy I did the toilet thing, even though I already had the Advanced ToTM wings.

I then focused on Dreamers lucid dare and started to look for the blue dreamworld. I entered another building, pretending it would take me there, but I had no success. It took me to an almost empty office, with just a desk and a pc:







But it was much bigger than this. I started to open different doors and going through different rooms. Apparently, I was not inspired enough and did not think to open a portal as I gave up on it and told me I would do it other night.

I instead tried to recall more dares to do, as I want to complete all of them. I recalled an easy one, Call Sensei on the phone. I pulled out my cell phone and pushed the call button (dialing is so overrated and unnecessary, lol.) I could hear a voice that said, "Sensei is here..." I said, hello, what's up and I Sensei said something like, "Habla espanol? Alo alo? Mexico?" and suddenly my phone turned off. Well, I did call Sensei, so I guess it is valid, despite the weird call, lol. I then tried something interesting, and I tried to connect with my subconscious through my phone in order to come here and check out more dares as I could not recall any. I was able to get to the dreamviews page, but it looked like an app and I could only see our logo.







A little afte that, I managed to get to the thread "Task of the month for September. And I saw some of Box77's posts. I tried hard to look for more dares (never realized that I was in a different thread, my lucidty was falling fast) but I was unsuccessful. I realized I was staring way too much at my phone until I entirely lost lucidity and something related to apples was going on, but I woke up almost immediately right after that.

So after trying for a few weeks, I finally had my first lucid dream that I've had in a very long time! I was drifting back to sleep this morning and I felt sleep paralysis start to come on. It went on and off for a bit and then finally stuck. I tried to roll out of bed like I used to, but that didn't work for some reason. So instead I tried to sit up and that worked. I did the nose RC to make sure I was still asleep. I couldn't see anything yet, so I wandered around my room for a bit and then visuals started coming. I didn't try and force it like I used to, and I think that actually really helped. So then I went over to my closet and opened the door and grabbed a pair of shoes. I tried slipping the first one on while kind of crouched over, but it was harder than I expected and I ended up falling over onto my back. I got the first shoe on, and then the second shoe wasn't as hard. I got up and walked into a room behind my bedroom which doesn't actually exist and then I woke up.
Then I DEILD'd back into another LD. Again I sat up in my bed. I walked over to my desk. I tapped on the glass and pushed my monitors around while I waited for some visuals to appear. Once they did I opened the fortune cookie that was sitting on my desk from ordering Chinese last night. It had two pieces of paper inside. One was big and the other was small. The small one fell out and I took the big one and unfolded it. It was about the size of a postcard, and in the middle it had one word "yeah". I looked again and the word changed a round a bit but stabilized on "damn". Next I turned it over and it was a postcard. It had address lines and a bunch of stuff written on that side, but the words kept changing and I can't recall what any of them said. After that I ate the cookie as I walked out of my house to continue the LD for a bit.

Originally Posted by PercyLucid

I knew I needed to enter it entirely to pass, so I pulled myself further in, but I was stuck.

next time look for the button next to the toilet:

Originally Posted by Box77

next time look for the button next to the toilet:

Indeed hahaha.

But lucky me I found the shrinking mushrooms and accomplished it. It is funny, with all your toilet struggles folks made my dream more challenging, because this was an easy way for me to teleport haha.

I have compiled a list of everyone's patronus appearances. I'll keep an eye out for any more and post the list near the end of the month!
I'm doing pictures too, so if you have a google pic that looks like your patronus, post 'em here or PM me.

I had an amusing attempt at the Patronus task where Dreamer had a good line.

Originally Posted by Attempt

“Oh, I almost forgot!” I say, and give [Dreamer] a hug. It’s nice and I remember how she used thoughts of our friendship to produce her patronus. I also remember her words of “encouragement” a few nights ago for my own patronus attempt:

“I wonder if your patronus will be a giant turd!”

Chuckling a little, I extend my left hand out while continuing the hug with my right arm. Dreamer and I are both watching my outstretched fingers with anticipation but when I try to shout, “Expecto patronum!” I do a choking gurgle instead. I get antsy and lose the dream.

Ok folks, if someone meets a patronus after flushing through the toilet, it must be named after Harry "Pooter"

Hope I can have a lucid tonight!

Originally Posted by INeverWakeUp

Hope I can have a lucid tonight!

Yes, oh yes you do and where have you beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen?!!1!#$^!!