Thread: Task of the Month for March 2015

Advanced Task ii - Enter a room full of DCs and freeze time to pause them all. Move someone into an awkward/incriminating position, stand back, and unfreeze. Describe the DCs' reactions. (~Dreamer~)

Reminds me of this:

Oh by the way, Verre: the trend lately is that if you complete part of an advanced task, it's worth basic wings. So fly on girly!

I did Basic Task I: Take a pill/potion that reveals the ultimate truth.

I didn't fall asleep until almost 4am, and woke up about half an hour later: I dream that I'm in a dimly lit basement or computer lab with my ex. We're sitting at a table with computers next to each other. My vision temporarily changes to black & white and slightly blurry, which makes me lucid. I remember the TOTM, and nonchalantly say to my ex, "Hey, could you give me a potion that reveals the ultimate truth?" There's a dark blue coat on his chair up against him. He reaches in the pocket, takes out a tiny white pill, and places it on the coat. I think to myself, "I wish it was a potion, but ok." I feel nervous because the room we're in feels eerie, but I take the pill and swallow it. A couple seconds later the lights above us start flickering very quickly. My vision returns to black & white, and is now very blurry. I feel scared, and look around the room. There's a tall, large man wearing a coat similar to the one my ex took the pill out of. He's standing menacingly at the doorway, and slowly walks toward me. The lights are still flickering, and it's hard to see. I try to call out for help, but it comes out as only a whisper. I look next to me, but my ex is no longer there.

Suddenly, the scary man and I are in a living room with yellow walls. I'm sitting on a dark blue couch with windows behind me. The room is cluttered with books, papers, and household objects. There's an ashtray on the coffee table with several cigarette stubs. (I don't smoke.) The man slowly walks toward me, and I try to call out for help again, but it still comes out as only a whisper. This goes on for a little while, then I wake up.

Maybe if there is an ultimate truth, I'm not ready to know it. Or I'm subconsciously afraid of what it could be.

Congrats on the totm Morningdove! Sorry it was so creepy O_O

Next time you have a lucid like that, just run up to the creepy guy and say "Wilburt!!! It's been soooo long.." and give him a big old bear hug. I find that when I do things like that, it tends to reduce the creepiness of the menacing DC in question. Plus it would be fun to see what he'd do haha.

Attempted the mirror task two times in a nap today, no luck but somewhat entertaining.
~DJ Entry~

Spoiler for Excerpt:

I say aloud, "Well, there's a mirror right there." My voice sounds exactly like Lucy, the secretary from Twin Peaks. I see there's a small mirror hung on the wall in a wooden frame. It's at the end of the hall. As I approach, I realize the hall takes a turn to the right and there becomes a small room that looks like a dining nook. It has one rectangular table in the middle set with a white runner, plates, silverware, glasses, etc. There are four or six matching chairs. The room is a stretched octogon and on one of the diagonal corners there is a larger mirror propped against the wall. It looks about like the one we have propped in our bedroom in waking right now. I sit down on the ground in front of it, grab the sides, and move my face towards it. My reflection is somewhat accurate, smiling and very happy, but with shorter hair in a shoulder-length cut I've never had before.

My reflection's face doesn't meet up with mine, but goes a little bit to my right. I had planned this during waking because I was worried my reflected self would block me from going through. I find myself staring at a replica of the room I'm sitting in, except from the angle of first entering the room from the hall. I still feel like I'm sitting and holding a mirror against my face, but I concentrate on making the objects in the mirror feel "really there". In this version of the room, the table is arranged perpindicular to the direction I am facing. As I watch, it multiplies into three identical tables and room becomes longer to accomodate. I see myself again, in a fancy black/red cocktail-ish dress, but I'm standing at the far end of the room. I keep trying, and at some point it feels like I'm looking into a room through a window, but I never feel like I'm "in" the mirror, or have gone through it. The scene eventually fades.

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I DEILD back in and I'm in our room at night. It's much different though, resembling the room we used to live in at Lucas' mom's house. The tv and lamp are on, creating a vibe of late night chilling. I am still thinking of the mirror task and I think, "There's a mirror in our bedroom." I look where it would be in waking and there it is. I pick it up and try the same crap as before. This time I have no reflection, but the mirror itself displays a very blurred image. It has all the right colors and tones for the room it's reflecting, but everythings smeared and unfocused. The only thing I can think of to do is to push harder or try to do it in a different room. I keep trying in different rooms of the house, carrying the mirror with me, but no dice. I go outside and try again, pushing harder than ever, but the mirror actually cracks and bends like plexiglass! There's a big dent where my head was.

Completed Basic Task II
Not the one I planned or the way I intended but it worked out just the same ......

3/04
5:00pm I was thinking about advanced task:2 when I went for an afternoon nap and then I was in a twisting vortex ..There were two distorted faces that popped out at me from the sides saying gibberish and I thought "Yay, I'm on my way". But then things turned cloudy and I thought it was over but instead of waking up I landed outside a crusty looking house in a strange dusty town (Naked as usual), Oh well, As long as I'm already here I'll take it so I paddled into the house which had no doors and there was a woman and a really-really nasty little girl wearing only tee shirts that said "Oh-Thank God! Your'e just in time, Were being flooded" I was in and out of lucidity as they dragged me to the basement with no stairs thru the hole in the floor and showed me the water running across the floor into a big sump hole with a big blue hose leading out of it and it was full of water and she said "The inspector shut the pump off". I didn't see a pump but and asked "What inspector" She said "I don't know" I asked where does the hose go and she said "I don't know" So I just turned on the pump! No switch or anything I just turned it on Nice work I thought and watched as the water began going down and swirling around the hole clockwise with stuff floating on top wondering...WTF, Where am I?, Its supposed to go the other direction and we spent the rest of the dream playing in the water with the nasty little urchin girl trying to make the water swirl the other way by moving the hose around until I was sitting at my computer where I end most lucids.
It took me another half hour to try to unravel the events into some kind of order and write it up

God, you guys are on a roll already!!! Congrats woblybil

[Shrugs] I guess I'll do Advanced Task ii, since it seems the most challenging. Might skip on the basic tasks. Hopefully I'll be more lucky than I was last month, especially once I'm no longer swamped with homework.

Does it count if I did Basic Task i but I didn't have any effects?

Originally Posted by ZacNabz

Does it count if I did Basic Task i but I didn't have any effects?

the ultimate truth = there is no ultimate truth!

BTW Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog is required (re)watching for anyone who hasn't seen it (recently). Soooo dreamy. I think visiting that world must be part of 2016 task of the year.

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

[You guys are on a roll!]

Well, I'm up to having non-lucids of *last* month's tasks (giant menacing storm in the sky, I say "Oh my God! Oh my God!" but don't get lucid, ), maybe I'll catch up in time this month.

Originally Posted by ZacNabz

Does it count if I did Basic Task i but I didn't have any effects?

Yes. Same question arose from a similar task a few years ago. If you get lucid, recall the task, and perform the task, it counts. It's fine if the effects reported is "none"

I saw this thread the other day and quite liked the look of these tasks again - I couldn't choose which to try out. So, last night, I had a night of intense dreaming and tried out four of them. I completed both basics and advanced task ii. I also tried out the bonus task - I was unsuccesful with that, but I'll include my attempt here anyway.

http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/vasiona/handful-truths-countdown-till-time-starts-again-totm-64708/

In the order I tried them:

Spoiler for Basic Task ii:

...I find my way to the window, open it, and climb out. I don’t open my eyes but in time my sight comes back to me in sync with my sense of touch, as though my eyelids don’t matter. Looking out into the street – it’s dusk out there – I think of the TotM again. The houses opposite our own are quite different in this dream to waking life. I fly a little way and then head towards one of the houses. It has a partially glass side-door which I walk up to and, without thinking much, push open.

Then I feel vaguely guilty and pull it to a little more again, and knock to alert them of my presence (although it is already open.) Still, I can see them through the glass section of the door. They don’t respond at all to my knock, or my words, or presence, so eventually I enter the room and still there’s not a stir from them – I must be invisible to them. I focus carefully on what I can see within the room. They are a man and a woman, sitting on either short side of a narrow rectangular table, as far away from each other as possible. They are conversing about something, but…silently; I don’t recall any sound. The man is of very average appearance, dressed scruffily, and the woman very thin, with limp hair and a strained expression. Something of the inside of the room reminds me of gardens or greenhouses; it’s mostly undecorated, with some plants and random construction beams propped up against the walls. Since they won’t respond to my presence, I decide to move on, turning back to the door through which I came in, and walking out into - unexpectedly - a green field.

Uneventful, but the next one was especially strange. I am not religious myself, but it took on that tone (or maybe the opposite?) and these dream characters seemed far too knowing.

Spoiler for Basic Task i:

...back in my bed, I quickly catch the false awakening and head out into the street once more, now thinking of the other basic TotM. I fly over the rooves of the nearest houses and find that I can see right through them into some of the rooms. Most are empty, unusually decorated bedrooms. Eventually I come to a house where three guys are in a room with a bed, sofa, small TV – basic, plain furniture which reminds me of a hotel room. When I enter, they act aware of my presence but don’t seem to mind it at all. I ask the guy nearest to me if he has a potion that will reveal to me the Ultimate Truth. He hands me a tiny little bottle of pale liquid, almost a bottlecap. I turn away from all of the others and prepare to drink from the bottle. I quickly down it like a shot – I don’t remember any particular taste, except perhaps a very very faint flowery taste. And then…

Blankness. I think I must black out in the dream, or something, because the next thing I know is that I’m turning back towards the guy who gave me the potion, and I have a distinct sense that something happened, something changed, yet when I look around the room I can’t see any particular difference in it. I think for a few moments, then decide it would be better to try it again for the task. I ask the same guy – “Do you have another? Perhaps something more…spiritual?” …as though there’s a great range of Ultimate Truths to choose from, of all different flavours. Without hesitation, he places a little white pill into my outstretched hand. And then a slightly larger pink pill. A purple pill, a blue pill, another pink pill…within moments my hand is full of pills. I stare at them. “Should I swallow all of these at once?”

This time it’s one of the other guys who replies, one who had been sitting on the bed occupied with something else, watching TV. He turns to look at me with a slight knowing smile. “Oh, please do,” he says. “I’d like to see this.”

I have no idea of what’s going to happen, but apparently these dream characters do. I start swallowing the pills. At first it feels like there are far too many in my mouth all at once and I might choke but I reassure myself – it’s a dream, I can swallow them with utmost ease, and there’s no way I’ll choke if I don’t want to. Then I manage to get them all down. And a moment later I’m in another scene entirely.

It’s a lush green place, a mix of forests and valleys and glades and streams, with a stone arch built over it, through it, ivy climbing up its walls. The arch is very precise, very tall, patterned perfectly with smaller stones. I wonder who would build such a thing here; whether there is a place just like this in waking life. My view of the place is bodiless, but from a perfect vantage point. The scene shifts, and then shifts again.

Sometimes I’m back in the room with the two guys, and they are showing me large pictures and directing me to look at particular places. Sometimes I’m actually within the pictures, in the places they are showing me, but without a body. In the room, looking at the original green place, one of the men asks me—“Can you find Jesus here?” Sometimes in the scene, sometimes in the room, I look. I come across a picture/place in which there are people, a hill of sorts where there is a gathering, but all the people look like they are painted. One of the guys next to me says—“Jesus is actually a woman, you know.” I find a painted traditional image of Jesus of the kind I’ve seen around many times before, but it’s extremely small. Once I point it out to the guys, it begins to zoom in, further and further, and I see that it truly is a woman’s face, and it has a rather eerie smile painted upon it. The others standing around also have eerie expressions; I think some of them may be holding knives, and “Jesus” is holding a small child. I have the idea of sacrifice. Then I’m within the image again, looking more and more closely at that eerie face, straight into its eyes – then things become extremely confused; I am outside on the street in a storm, and I am back within the room, and there is an implication that something bad happens to whoever has seen whatever it even was that I just saw. It’s all very creepy, like something out of a horror movie – something like The Ring – but I don’t really become much more unsettled by it. I simply consider the task done, and move on.

Spoiler for Advanced Task ii:

Although I remember another task almost immediately afterwards, I’m not sure whether to do it. In the end I decide to go ahead – I don’t have much of a plan, but I can make it up as I go along. I enter into yet another of the houses along the street. This one has a different look to all the others – it is more modern, and more brightly lit. There’s no-one around on the lower floor but I imagine there will be upstairs. I make my way there and sure enough, there is a group of five or six people around, most of them in one large bedroom.

Now I have the problem of working out how to freeze time. I enter into the bedroom and try to will them all to stop, to freeze, while shouting out such words. They give me (understandably) somewhat weird looks and I lose confidence a little. I don’t think using words or simply staring at the people willing them to freeze is going to work. However, there is a television in the room, resting on a dresser of sorts. It is turned on; right now it shows a music video of some kind, in black and white, with a man in a tophat and suit dancing in a place made up of black and white lines and swirls, nothing else. He continuously moves closer and further away from the camera; one moment he is a tiny speck on the screen and the next his face will fill up the entire screen. Next to the television, there is a clock. Its hands are moving impossibly fast. I focus on the clock and try to bring its racing hands to a halt. It takes a few moments and I almost give up and get out of there, but in the end, it works! Everybody and everything in the room goes still, except for myself…and except for the television. In front of the dancing man in the suit and his world of swirls and lines flashes a box – COUNTDOWN! it declares, and I see that it is showing 180 seconds, so three minutes – except of course it’s not that regular, as the numbers move up and down and out of order and at irregular speeds. Whichever way, I understand that it’s meant to be a countdown until time starts again (dream logic…)

Like the hands of the clock, it seems to go extremely fast, and so I race to try and complete the rest of the task and in doing so, lose some awareness. I know I’m dreaming but I’ve no idea what I’m doing. Instead of focusing on one dream character, I run from one to the next, dragging them around and arranging them in strange positions. I pull two of the girls into a lying position on the bed with their heads hanging upside down over the edge. Another girl on the bed, all folded up into a bizarre position as though she’d been tied up. I intend to make it look like someone else was playing a trick on them all, but again, have no real plan, and before I can figure one out, the countdown apparently runs out – because people start to move again. A man appears at the door and looks bewildered. All of them are giving me strange looks again. Everyone is very confused, and that includes myself.

My attempt at the bonus task - I got nowhere close, but it's vaguely related;
(A note of explanation: earlier in the dream I unintentionally took on another dream-character's body. I was lucid and simply acted with his body, but at the same time there was a storyline going on in the background - bits of his background, desires, feelings and thoughts kept coming to me.)

Spoiler for Bonus Task Attempt:

Moving out of the department store and considering where I might end up next, I think of the bonus task of the month. I was unsure about trying it but now I think “why not?” and set my mind on finding a graveyard. The storyline of the man whose body I inhabit is still an integral part of the dream, though. Along our path of flight to the graveyard, we come across an old abandoned plant nursery which the man has memories of – this place too was his, once – and it follows that I remember it too. In passing, we see that the plants inside are all wilted. We decide to make a stop there before continuing to the graveyard, “If only to revive my old snapdragons.” So it is that, once inside the nursery, we begin on reviving the plants. Not just the snapdragons, but all of them. We find it easy, joyful and natural – simply by directing focus and living energy towards the decaying petals, dried out stems and wilted leaves, we cause them to stand up straight, fill out and bloom, coming back to colour and life. In time the nursery is filled with plants and flowers of many kinds in full life – it is very pretty to look at. The man – and I by proxy – feels nostalgic, gratified and at home. But we’ve completed our task, so I steer us back towards the graveyard.

The story unfolds. My purpose in going to the graveyard is to resurrect someone from the dead, but his turns out to be to bury his son. Our identities begin to separate again. As we move through the half-wilderness between the nursery and graveyard, we hear a crying from the undergrowth. I take on a different body now as I move into the undergrowth to find and carry out the small child. It is the man’s son. I carry his son back to him. “He’s not dead,” I say, but the man doesn’t really respond. “You can’t be meaning to bury a child which is still alive?”

The man shrugs. “This kind of thing happens all the time,” he says, and takes the son. We keep heading in the direction of the graveyard, bawling baby in his arms. I’m thinking less and less about the task – more and more about this bizarre storyline. Around this time I notice myself beginning to wake up – the dream scene fades and darkens and I begin to sense my waking body in bed again. I never do find out whether the man really still intends to bury his son alive.

~

I'll probably try the mirrors one another night. This thread is great; I love the dreams so far. Good luck to everyone still trying tasks.

I made another attempt at the Advanced Task II and pulled it off fully this time! Full dream: Time Stop + Sphere

Portion relevant to TOTM:

Spoiler for Time Stop:

Meanwhile I'm walking away from the bar toward the restaurant area. There are a lot of people in the room, which reminds me—hey! I could try the TOTM again, see if I can do it properly this time.

"Freeze!" I say loudly, but people keep going about their business. I remember the difficulty I had with this last time, and it also reminds me that I'm supposed to be stopping time, so I switch wording. "Time stop!" I command. I say it a few times, still not getting much result, so I decide an explanation is needed, addressing the room in a loud voice so that everyone can hear. "I said 'time stop!' That means everybody stops moving. Time stop! Time stop, everybody!"

I look around and find that everyone has frozen in place. Okay, this is better, I seem to have gotten the point across. Now I'm supposed to put someone in an embarassing position. I didn't plan ahead for this, so I'm going to have to come up with an idea on the fly. My gaze falls on a stout old lady in the middle of the room. I walk over and unbutton her light blue jacket and white blouse. Inside, she's wearing a pink bra, and I'm relieved to see that it has a front closure, so I unhook it and reveal her breasts. I hope I'm not being too mean, but remind myself that it's just a dream so there will be no lasting harm.

Now I have to get everyone moving again. What's the opposite of "time stop"? I try some variants: "Uhhh... go. Start. Start moving." This works, but meanwhile I had taken my eyes off the old lady to check whether everyone else was back in motion, and when I look at her again, her clothes are already back in order and no one is reacting as if they had seen anything unusual. I chide myself for not paying closer attention. I'd better try again.

"Time stop! Time stop!" This time the DCs react much more promptly, like they're getting the hang of it. Okay, what should I do this time? I look around for ideas. Among a group of people in one corner are two meathead-looking guys. I go over and start posing them really close together, much closer than a couple of straight men would normally be comfortable with. As I move and angle their bodies, I notice that it doesn't feel so much like time has stopped as that they are just playing along while I reposition them, and there's some difficulty, maybe even slight resistance, as I lean their faces together as though they were about to kiss. Finally I get it just how I want, so that their lips are almost touching. Then I step back a few paces so that when I restart time, I'll have a clear view of both their reactions and the people around them.

This time I restart the scene with more confidence, like I'm getting the hang of this too. "Okay, renew!" I command, punctuating the signal by clapping the first two fingers of my right hand into the palm of my left. It feels like being a movie director.

I watch closely as people start moving again. I was hoping the two guys would either react with comic embarrassment or, even better, be overcome by a latent attraction and really start kissing. Instead, they simply draw away from one another without any expression or commentary, and no one around them takes any visible notice. I'm disappointed with the blasé behavior of all these DCs, but I have to admit it makes sense: they're projections of my own mind, after all, and I'm fairly blasé myself most of the time.

Observing a dog walking through the room, I momentarily wonder if I should try again, but the lackluster reactions of the DCs has sapped my motivation, and I feel that I have adequately performed the TOTM. I wonder if I should wake up and write... but the dream seems stable, and I'm reluctant to end it earlier than I have to. However, I'm aware how easy it is to start forgetting the details if I don't record them promptly, so I do the next best thing and start verbally recounting my memories of the scene, to help fix them in mind for later. As I'm doing this I end up waking anyway.

@MorningDove: I think you may have received an ultimate truth! Perhaps the tall figure represented fear...from the tiniest fears to the most overwhelming fears, they often play a significant part in the decisions we make in life.

I have been a stranger around DV lately. There is good inspiration in these tasks to make me refocus some efforts into this! The ultimate truth matches up with my recent wishes to explore my subconscious. I have had interesting results going into random houses. Freezing time can be interesting but I love this twist...I may have to get real "compromising!" And I have never walked through a mirror...got to try that sometime, so no better time than now!

Completed Advanced i!

Spoiler for Mirror Portals:

I found where the large room connected to the hallway that was actually in my house, and walked to the end of it, looking at my hands to stabilize the dream and just for shiggles really; they were frozen in this spread out position even when I moved my fingers. Like they were glitching. I turned around and, expecting to find my actual living room when I went back, headed back. I did indeed find my real living room when I returned, and my parents were there. I took hold of the trim on the corner of the wall, and slowly floated myself upward so I was horizontal. I slowly floated up to rest on the ceiling; I was chilling on the ceiling as if I were underwater, and gravity was flipped. My parents just smiled up at me. I thought about attempting another ceiling portal, but remembered the Advanced ToTM about pushing yourself through a mirror as a portal. So I instantly turned off this weird gravity and landed on the ground, and went down the hall again, and turning around with the intention of finding that large room with the mirror again. I did find it when I returned, and sat against the mirror again. Everyone was gone from the room now, so I closed my eyes, imagined that I was going on a mystery journey, and just let myself sink into the mirror. I slowly phased through it as I fell backward, and I let myself tumble out into whatever new place I had discovered. A rainbow passed through me, and then it was crazy; I was in a strange cave-like place that wasn't actually a cave. Where ever I looked, my eyes were like lasers that sprouted flowers and rainbows and stars would shoot out and spread around the area. It was fairly dark but where I looked would illuminate to reveal a dark blue rock-face thing. I liked this so far. I found a small star chart on a podium, and investigated it. The first thing that caught my eye was a rubber chicken. WTF, I thought, and then found a telescope next to the podium. I wanted to get a look at this for myself, so I looked through the telescope, pointing it where the rubber chicken would be. I had been assuming it was a constellation made by weirder people than me, but when I spotted it in the viewfinder... it was ACTUALLY a huge rubber chicken in space. Like, I could tell it was light years away, but it was as big as a huge planet. I felt the dream fading, and let it go because I was happy with the results.

Full Dream

Originally Posted by KestrelKat

I closed my eyes, imagined that I was going on a mystery journey, and just let myself sink into the mirror. I slowly phased through it as I fell backward, and I let myself tumble out into whatever new place I had discovered. A rainbow passed through me, and then it was crazy; I was in a strange cave-like place that wasn't actually a cave. Where ever I looked, my eyes were like lasers that sprouted flowers and rainbows and stars would shoot out and spread around the area. It was fairly dark but where I looked would illuminate to reveal a dark blue rock-face thing.

That's so trippy and awesome! I love your falling back/sinking in technique, sounds fun!

Originally Posted by KestrelKat

it was ACTUALLY a huge rubber chicken in space. Like, I could tell it was light years away, but it was as big as a huge planet.

So. Awesome. Lmao!

I don't know if we want to count this. I can do a better mirror task.

I wake up and notice that I am in vibrations already. I go ahead and do some phase cycles and when I get to the rolling one, I fall out of bed. I still feel some attachment to my waking body as is some kind of super stretchy tar is clinging to me. I hit the floor and let out a yell of delight. I don't recall the exact order of events during this initial phase, but I basically spend a lot of time enjoying the feeling of being a disembodied spirit floating around the bedroom doing various, random things. Everything is way too dark, but at one point I float to my closet, open the door and scream into hoping for something scary to be in there. Nothings shows up so I close the door and float back up. During most of this I am overly aware of the feeling of the silver cord holding me close to my physical body though I don't bother to visually confirm this — I really don't want to give it too much attention. I eventually make it out the front door in a blind rush, but feel a pull back to my body by means of the cord.

I do another quick DEILD and this time I am able to get up fairly easily. I think of the mirror TOTM and head to the bathroom. The dream starts to clarify and lighten up as I turn to look at my reflection. I look mostly like myself but I have my son's eyes and my hair is much longer. I spend a moment taking a long close look while chuckling to myself then dive right on in the mirror. There is some resistance, but I get in fairly easy. To my disappointment, I have entered the void. It's not that the dream has gone dark because I can hold my hands up and can see them just fine. I rush forward and grope around for something 'physical' in the void. My hands come across a strong feminine jawline. I feel the lips and kiss them as my hand works down to other parts. After a second I can clearly see this woman and she looks strangely familiar yet not familiar. I later realize she is a compilation of all my past lovers. I continue to make out with her/them, but I feel no real sexual stimulation and it all seems so wrong. However, I continue just for the purpose of stabilization. It's not long until something external wakes me up.

I'm really enjoying reading about these freeze tasks!
I'll try to write mine up later, I completed it last night.

Completed 'Basic Task i', no effects though

Spoiler for Basic Task i:

I was in the same FA scene (Still oblivious to the fact that it was a FA), I continued the same process as the last DEILD and went back into the dream within the dream. I was still at the exact same industrial rig, I decided I would do the “Take a pill/potion that will reveal the ultimate truth to you. Describe the effects.” ToTM, I summoned someone that appeared with a long black robe kind of like the grim reaper but no scythe, he handed me a potion, I drank it but nothing happened. I start fading out and just let it happen so I can DEILD again.

I was in the living room with dead relative and dead dog and thinking they were both dead and gone, and that it had to be a dream. I pulled up my hands, and kept looking at them the whole time, there were all sorts of missing fingers partial fingers and thready fingers from time to time, I think the least was like 2 or 3 per hand and the most 22 or 23. I would put them down pull them back up always different. I remembered to go to the nearest house. So headed across the street to what looked like an apartment building with a long corridor just inside the row of doors, when I went in it turned to be like the lounge of a smoking club for middle aged people, there was someone who looked like a religious costumed figure with one of those smoke generating things on a chain where all the white smoke comes out when you swing it and pull on it. (used in religious ceremonies) there was a huge entrance room and there were many chairs and middle aged people sitting in like a huge open circle of chairs. The whole place reeked of smoke. I headed towards the bar area of the lounge, filled with middle aged smokers. I kept pulling up my hands, I began to look at the tiny wrinkles of my palms, and then the dream faded away, I just let it go. I would have fought hard if it was a place full of smoking hotties, but smoking middle aged (better luck next time)

total lucid time 2.5 - 3.5 mintues

I managed to fulfill the basic and advanced task the other night. All the relevant parts are highlighted in blue.

Spoiler for Dream Log Entry, Date 6.MAR.2015:

I vaguely remember becoming lucid in an open field with hills covered in lush grass. Cutting across the field was a wide river. The scenery reminded me of Wales. For what seemed like hours, I flew across the fields using mine Wings of the Heart.
At some point, I recalled the Dream Views task of the month. I went inside a nearby building and found a small group of teenage girls goofing off. With a flick of mine wrist, I froze them all in place. I then focused mine attention on a teen whom was dressed in a black, padded coat with a hoodie, matched with a pair of jeans and cheap shoes. With telekinetic force, I lifted her in the air and turned her upside down. When I unfroze them all, she fell ingloriously to the floor and lay motionless on her front.
After that was done with, I continued flying around until I woke up to mine radio playing Jupiter, Bringer of Jollity by Gustav Holst.

[EDIT] Oh my. Don't we have bugs.

ToTM Advanced i: I manged to go into the mirror and out but the experience changed me physically rather than my environment.
Here is the link to full dream: Monster & Mirror

Spoiler for ToTM Adv I:

I walk into my room. I have a huge mirror. I look at my reflection. It is surprisingly realistic. I look closer and I noticed that my eyes are pitch black with a silverfish reflection no white part. In movies that meant I am possessed.


I ignored it. I got on the counter top and went inside the mirror. I felt my skin get pulled from me. I walk out of the mirror and it is an exact replica of the room I was in, my room. I look back at the mirror. I am white! My hair is brown curly and kind of long to my neck. I have a beard. I was amazed. I look at my hands, the dream is still consistent still white. I walked out my room. My sister laughs at me for being too white, pale I guess. I see that I am in some sort of reception. People from my church are there. They ask me what my name is. I told them. They looked at me weird and said, "what a strange name for a white man". I laughed it off. I gave one of the lovely ladies a kiss to the hands, like a real gentleman, as if to ask her to dance with me. I woke up soon after.

Originally Posted by DefineMeAsOne

ToTM Advanced i: I manged to go into the mirror and out but the experience changed me physically rather than my environment.
Here is the link to full dream: Monster & Mirror
[COLOR="#FF0000"] I walk into my room. I have a huge mirror. I look at my reflection. It is surprisingly realistic. I look closer and I noticed that my eyes are pitch black with a silverfish reflection no white part. In movies that meant I am possessed.

Many of my girl DC's have those beautiful,big,black eyes.
Which means they are all demons of sorts, Benevolent demons but demons nonetheless.. Changelings! They seldom ever appear in their demon form because it is a lot of work to change....