Thread: Task of the Month for July 2015

I DID IT! YES! THANK YOU GOD! I was able to do something that I have been wanting to do forever. I went through a painting! I have been practicing doing well timed wbtb sessions for the last week. I recall meditating during my wbtb and after a few minutes I was able to get lucid. I have my wbtb session narrowed down to only 10 minutes because any longer than that I will not be able to go back to sleep. I was determined to do something important because I have been in an epic dry spell. What a way to break a dry spell!

Spoiler for "The Old Streets of Italy"

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I was going to go through a beautiful painting that I have hung in my bedroom. I brought this painting years ago and it displays the lovely streets of old Italy. I was meditating on the couch in the den and I was two rooms away from my bedroom. I became lucid and got excited and found myself back in my body. I was able to DEILD myself back out and I told myself to please try and fly straight to my bedroom because it has been awhile. It took me a couple of times but I made it to my bedroom. I saw the painting on the wall and aimed straight for the center. Instead of going through the painting I slammed into it. I tried again...same thing...slammed straight into it. Took a step (or floated) back and rubbed my hands together because the dream was beginning to deteriorate. I thought to myself I only have one more chance and I really focused on where I wanted to enter the painting and this time I went through the painting! However, this is the tricky part about it (and I don't know if this counts by it ending up like this), I did not end up on the old streets of Italy. I ended up in some UPS type of warehouse with boxes everywhere. When I went through the painting it was like I 'fell' into the warehouse on the other side.

I decided that I didn't want to be in that spooky dark warehouse and did a superman pose and shot straight up into the air and pass a beautiful full moon. After I flew past the moon I ended up in a room where me and my sister use to sleep when we were young and she was talking in her sleep. She had said something about Pennsylvania Ave. and then I woke up.

If it doesn't count, it's ok because I'm just proud that I was able to tackle the Bonus Task.

Always humble and always thankful. One Love.

So it's like you phased through the painting and the wall behind it, and ended up somewhere else. That always happens to me with mirrors.

You deserve advanced wings for that at least, because phasing ain't easy for everybody. Congrats!

Originally Posted by bemistaken

I DID IT! YES! THANK YOU GOD! I was able to do something that I have been wanting to do forever. I went through a painting! I have been practicing doing well timed wbtb sessions for the last week. I recall meditating during my wbtb and after a few minutes I was able to get lucid. I have my wbtb session narrowed down to only 10 minutes because any longer than that I will not be able to go back to sleep. I was determined to do something important because I have been in an epic dry spell. What a way to break a dry spell!

Yep that phasing can be tricky. It's takes a certain knack that I don't always have. Great job and congrats! It looks like your found a good length of WBTB I'm a little jealous of your 10 min being so effective. Anyway, I'm super excited because I know how much you've been wanting this.

Originally Posted by Xanous

Yep that phasing can be tricky. It's takes a certain knack that I don't always have. Great job and congrats! It looks like your found a good length of WBTB I'm a little jealous of your 10 min being so effective. Anyway, I'm super excited because I know how much you've been wanting this.

Thanks Dream Buddy, couldn't do it without your constant encouragement!

I have successfully fulfilled the first basic task. Will definitely try out Advanced 1 and Bonus Task if the opportunity arises. I have copy/pasted the log entry below.

Spoiler for Dream:

Dream Log Entry, Date 16.JUL.2015

The first thing I remember is becoming lucid in the middle of a desert. I was surrounded by a square of towering walls of clay. The sun shone brightly overhead.

Knowing I didn't have much time left, I found a cubical seed and buried it in the dry dirt. Not a moment later, a leafless, skyscraper-sized tree burst from the ground. Near the base of the tree was a rectangular opening. With mine Wings of the Heart, I flew into the opening. The next thing I knew, I was in a complex metal cage. Beyond the cage, everything was black. At some point during mine trek, I fell back into non-lucidity. Mine memories of what happened after are still currently scattered.

Voting time is open:

Spread your wings wide and fly to http://www.dreamviews.com/lucid-task...ng-thread.html

Earn your wings this month to be able to reach there if you haven't already!

Sorry, I like to put the voting booths above the clouds

Advanced Task ii. Not sure it'll count but it did talk.

I am in some version of my grandparent's old house. There is some conversation with Nanny that I don't recall. I walk into a room and realize that I can see and decide that I must be dreaming. Excited, I look around the room to see what I can find. I spot and orange tabby cat. It notices me, and scurries away.

I become deeply introspective for awhile and lose my lucidity. I don't recall much of this, but my thoughts come back around to being at my grandparent's house. The last time I was here was right after they... OH! I remember that I have no surviving grandparents and being here brings me back to full lucidity. I think about searching them out, but really don't want to revisit the emotions, so I abandon the idea. I see the cat again, but like last time, it's runs off. I think to chase it, but remember I had a goal in mind. I want to get an inanimate object to talk to me. I happen to have an empty drinking glass in my right hand so I decide to talk to that, "Hello. How are you?" To my surprise, someone has drawn a face on the glass with a permanent marker. Ha! This is great!
I listen, but can only hear a faint, "Hello."
I talk to the glass again, but this time put it to my ear. There is no sound. I try a third time, but can't get anything else out of the glass. I become overly frustrated and and shout, "Talk to me you SOB!" I then squeeze the glass with both hands until it pops and shatters. Oops. I let it fall to the floor and search for something else, but I quickly wake up.

Oh Xanous, that's a 7-year dry spell for breaking a dream mirror O_O

Another advanced task II for today! In a really great, bright, fun, fairly long (for me) LD.

I fly out the window and almost instantly realize I'm dreaming. I reach down and run my right-hand fingers through the green leaves of a Eucalyptus tree as I pass over it. There is almost no sensation, so I grab a handful of leaves and crush them in a fist and start to get some sensation and as I do this there is a cool, weird transition back to my childhood home living room. Almost immediately I think to do a TOTM, I'm really happy I have good waking memory, but as I walk around the basic tasks are right there on the tip of my tongue and just can't recall either of them. I did remember then advanced II, as it's the task that most strongly resonated with me. I walk into the dining room and crouch down in front of the marble-topped chest of drawers, and say "Hi, what's your name?". I imagine a face forming and answering me but instead it quickly transforms into a plain black rectangle and the whole thing fades away and disappears. So I stand up and move back to the living room, where I see a coat rack (false memory). I say, "Hi there, what's your name?". I get the impression of a face forming and it replies "I'm Hank, and my son is Frank!" (I see it is decorated in lights?) A few moments later I'm flying again outside and looking down into the living room through a window and see Hank there (he is now a humanoid being with a large head, like a small Ent or a large mushroom man), and ask him to turn on his lights for me, he looks at me and shakes his head "no," and he's holding up in both arms strings of Christmas tree lights to show me, and I think he's already finished for the day and taken off his lights, and decide not to force the issue.

The dream goes on (squeezing the boobs of a girl at an ice cream stand then avoiding the authorities, slicing up a kid's clarinet with a lightsabre, etc. ), the rest will be in the DJ

edit: full DJ entry: http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/fryi...oatrack-68444/

Originally Posted by FryingMan

I get the impression of a face forming and it replies "I'm Hank, and my son is Frank!"

Haha, I love this! Very poetic.
My inanimate object was quick to transform into a living creature, too... I guess we have a hard time identifying with things that don't have a face, even in our dreams.

Originally Posted by Xanous

Advanced Task ii. Not sure it'll count but it did talk.

Love it! Congratulations Dream Buddy!

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Completed Advanced task I

Will this get me wings of some kind, Oh-Pleeez ! You can see from the dream that I need wings badly .....

Anyways, 7/20
4:00pm We were standing in a weed field of some kind, I was holding a girl DC from behind, We we were naked and I was getting ready to do dirt to her when another men DC came up behind her and tried to get her too but the other man was me! Realizing this was from third person perspective I thought of the cloning task and said "This otter be easy". I looked down for hands and they appeared along with the rest of me slowly but now there were two of us wanting the same girl so I pushed her aside and said to him "Get back or I'll piss on your feet" and he replied "But I want her" so I peed on his feet as the girl wailed "Please someone help me, I dont care who!". Then I bent her forward over something like a fence and drilled her but then feared I had killed her and paddled madly about the wreckage of the girl in circles flapping some kind of wings and looking for some sign of life, Then still fearing I had killed my DC I woke up with a start

Oh yeah, This one right before...
2:30pm In an old west desert scene I was peeing down a hillside and a covered wagon with people I knew were dead for 20 years on a trail below got flooded out and slipped off into deep ruts and the old lady in the wagon seat was sitting butthole deep in pee so I flew downhill and picked her up and carried her uphill to safety then me and her husband lifted the wagon back up out of the ruts to higher ground and I returned her to her seat and nowhere did I see any reason to think I might be dreaming

Originally Posted by woblybil

Completed Advanced task I

Will this get me wings of some kind, Oh-Pleeez ! You can see from the dream that I need wings badly .....

Anyways, 7/20
4:00pm We were standing in a weed field of some kind, I was holding a girl DC from behind, We we were naked and I was getting ready to do dirt to her when another men DC came up behind her and tried to get her too but the other man was me! Realizing this was from third person perspective I thought of the cloning task and said "This otter be easy". I looked down for hands and they appeared along with the rest of me slowly but now there were two of us wanting the same girl so I pushed her aside and said to him "Get back or I'll piss on your feet" and he replied "But I want her" so I peed on his feet as the girl wailed "Please someone help me, I dont care who!". Then I bent her forward over something like a fence and drilled her but then feared I had killed her and paddled madly about the wreckage of the girl in circles flapping some kind of wings and looking for some sign of life, Then still fearing I had killed my DC I woke up with a start

Oh yeah, This one right before...
2:30pm In an old west desert scene I was peeing down a hillside and a covered wagon with people I knew were dead for 20 years on a trail below got flooded out and slipped off into deep ruts and the old lady in the wagon seat was sitting butthole deep in pee so I flew downhill and picked her up and carried her uphill to safety then me and her husband lifted the wagon back up out of the ruts to higher ground and I returned her to her seat and nowhere did I see any reason to think I might be dreaming

"I'll have one of whatever he's having, please...."

I think I may have completed the basic task i last night. As usual, don't have much time to write the whole dream in my journal. I let you here a summary:

Spoiler for Basic Task i: Plant a misterious seed...:

Became lucid going out of a restaurant when I made the whole scene stop to show some girl friend from school something about how things may change just by changing some event in the past (it was funny to see all the DC's, cars, etc. going back to their initial position, like extras in a film). The first task that popped out in my head was the seed one. I knew it was in my pocket but it was a little bit difficult to hold it with my fingers. I was able to take it but got damaged, it was the texture of a single blackberry fruit. I put it in a planter that conveniently appeared in front of me. It grew a sort of spider plant with strong leaves. I was not satisfied because of the seed got somehow broken. Tried it once more. This time the seed was bigger and harder like a double nut (hard to describe). This time I got problems covering it with enough soil. At the end I got to cover it with whatever I find in the planter. little stones, a toy car, pieces of a brick, some soil, etc. Then it starts to grow sort of beanstalk really fast. I continue seeing how it grows as it was a video in my iPad. It gets really high when I realize I'm not seeing the plant out of the iPad. I decide to take it out, hold it with my fingers and it turns into a piece of thin rope. I know there are other tasks but it's hard to remember. I got to remember something about eating in a restaurant. I invite somebody to come. I start going downstairs, I realize I'm in my Aunt's house. I try to feel it as real as possible while going downstairs but finally the dream fades out when I noticed it has too many floors and I should be already out in the street.

Woohoo big night last night for TOTM for everybody!

Hurry up OB, This one's a cinch....

Originally Posted by FryingMan

"I'll have one of whatever he's having, please...."

Originally Posted by FryingMan

"The dream goes on (squeezing the boobs of a girl at an ice cream stand then avoiding the authorities"

Youre not doing so badly

I don't get it... you gave FM a boob?

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

I don't get it... you gave FM a boob?

Sueezing boobs is ok but he could have stolen her ice cream too

Originally Posted by woblybil

Sueezing boobs is ok but he could have stolen her ice cream too

Indeed.

I see you can delete posts again so yay.

Jumping in really late in the month..hope I can at least complete a couple of these!

Originally Posted by woblybil

Sueezing boobs is ok but he could have stolen her ice cream too

Hey I have my standards even in caveman mode

7/22
2:00am Advanced II fail.
Since I saw a video on Facebook of a dog licking a baby it must have become stuck in my sub-c and I sometimes find myself licking my DC's..

Anyways, I ate horrible greasy donuts before bed and rolled around for awhile in misery until I found myself cruising just under the ceiling of the astral plane and I knew this place so I was looking down for something (A toilet) to talk to, The ground down there was grassy lavender and green..I zoomed down closer and in the middle of a field just where I expected there was a toilet bowl with tank and not even too dirty and I asked it what it was doing in the middle of a field..It kinda twisted into contortions like maybe it was trying to answer me but said nothing, Convinced I could do better I looked up and flew up to the top of the realm and rolled over backward flying backward in the dream to repeat it with some improvements
but this time as I went back down the grass was all brown and the tank was gone, only the toilet bowl remained and it was dirty..

(when I repeat dreams my sub-c makes errors then compounds them with each repeat until not much remains of the original dream)

I didn't ask it again thinking it would only get worse and remembering I left a really nice girl on my monitor I flew back up thru the ceiling of the realm to my computer where lucid's usually end and she was there but kind of pudgy, (Like baby fat) wearing way too tight a bikini top and bikini underpants that cut into her thighs so I started looking for scissors to cut them off so I could lick her properly when I thought.... "Oh-boy,What if I wake up here, I better get back to bed"... As I turned to head for the bedroom I was waking up in bed anyways wondering how I did that, Now I'm awake for the night...Ratz

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Indeed.

I see you can delete posts again so yay.

Hey, by the way... I watched a good part of the movie "Zeitgeist" Really quite interesting.