Thread: Task of the Month for January 2016

Aaahh! Of course I looked at a book title non-lucidly last night.. It was a marine-themed erotica with a picture of a navy-blue ding-a-ling against a background of deep dark water and the title was in big white block letters "SEA FOAM" Lmao

Hahahahaha.

Well, you are the only one to blame, it was your suggestion But that task is an "auto-win" as it is easy to find a book in a lucid dream

I bet that within 3 nights you make it!

Originally Posted by PercyLucid

Hahahahaha.

Well, you are the only one to blame, it was your suggestion But that task is an "auto-win" as it is easy to find a book in a lucid dream

I bet that within 3 nights you make it!

Haha yep, thought about it too much too early! I hope I can make it, having any memory of tasks in dream has been challenging lately..

So i got pretty late to bed and drank a fair amount of wine so this night foredoomed to fail but nevertheless after an awakening i read again the tasks i wrote down before bed. it seem that i incubated the book task too xD

Spoiler for Failed Basic I:

I am on a street? i see/know that somewhere/on Amazon there is a big book sales with 60% on all books. there is an fancy animated homepage where you click thru the books like a online photo album. i click thru the books and look on the covers, titles and authors. i dont know any of them. some seem to be sci fi or thrillers (i think the covers mixed with some moviecovers i looked up yesterday on imdb). i try to see the price but it seem that you see it after you but it in your bucket. i think i dont buy a book

Completed Basic Task II... For January 2106
And just in time too...

12/30
2:00 am..It all started when I ate two grilled cheese before going to bed but it cost me.....

I was upstairs at my old neighbors house with the mom and the girls drinking and smoking green stuff (with a gaggle of girls I was doing other things too) I just sort of became aware this was all a dream because that was years ago and there were chores (tasks) to be done.
After a couple more hits and whatever that slop was the the girls had mixed up I asked the mom I wasn't using at the time for a bicarbonate of soda cocktail..(By now I was a lizard) Just then Grandpa came home downstairs in the kitchen, She replied "There's none up here and we don't want dad to catch us like this" and I screamed "I gotta have it,Pops or no" I kinda flew downstairs to a strange kitchen with nobody in it so I rummaged for Bicarb which was non existent in dreamworld (as usual). I woke up dying of heartburn and went to the still cockeyed kitchen and got the same results. (FA..Crap) I was in too much agony to care about lucid dreaming anymore and woke up for real I hoped and went to the kitchen with the same results.. No Bicarb..!
Then I remembered I had used the last of it in the cat-box and discarded the box.
Thank God for 24 hr Walmart

Originally Posted by imazu

Haha yep, thought about it too much too early! I hope I can make it, having any memory of tasks in dream has been challenging lately..

You will be fine... When lucid, just enter in the first house or store that you see and if you do not see a book, just ask someone to give you one, or open a drawer, or whatever and pretend there is a book there, and there is You will auto-win it!

As 2015 and the December ToTM goes into the void, it is time that you, my fellow oneironaut, jump into the void as well (I lost a shoe there, please retrieve.)

So, get your butt in bed and jump into the void for a good pair of BONUS wings!

Have fun and happy 2016!!!!!

Originally Posted by PercyLucid

As 2015 and the December ToTM goes into the void, it is time that you, my fellow oneironaut, jump into the void as well (I lost a shoe there, please retrieve.)

Bonus Task. Fail?....Maybe..You be the judge. I won't apply to permission groups yet.

1/01/2016
6:00am Just floating around over empty water for no good reason I closed my eyes and fell into the void where I can usually get what I want.
I wound up floating around over some train tracks in what looked like Siberia in the summer with a DC instead (I like steam train dreams) We decided to look for a terrorist training camp somewhere up the tracks and flew up them over a train below and up around a curve we saw what looked like a militant camp hidden under the forest canopy..(How best to blow it up?) Ah-haa! We took out a section track on the curve directly in line
with the it so the train and all the souls aboard would fly off into the ordinance dump and blow them to smithereens. We looked for a place to hide and watch and went back partly around the curve and up a mountain trail but my DC friend got anxious and kept saying "It's not coming, Its not coming here at all" and went to sit in a tree overhanging the tracks but I was telling him it was coming and he had better get down outta the tree before he got blown out of it and as I was poking at him with a long pole of some kind I woke up.
I don't know if the train came or not and I didn't find Percy's stinky sneaker either

I like the basics, lucid shrooms are on my personal task list anyway, so that's nice :-)

I've also been thinking about NREM dreaming a bit recently, so the void sounds like a fun place to sojourn...

SammyTheSnake

I like the tasks!

I'm a bit confused about the bonus task, though. Once we enter the void, does creating a random dreamscape count or does it have to be something specific?

Oooh, gravity play!!! I can't help but see some Roller Disco Truck action here!

Can't remember the last time I had wings. It's on! Woo!

I have a plan to complete 2 tasks at once, a basic and an advanced task ^^

Very cool tasks to start the year off well! Hopefully I'll be able to break my dry spell and perform some of these

These tasks will be the first ToTMs that I complete

My new years resolution is to get back into TOTM. Haven't done any since August.

Should be fun getting drunk or high, seeing as how I've done neither in waking life. Oh well... *puts down crowbar* *picks up gravity gun"

I did Basic Task II last night, although I only got buzzed, not outright drunk, so I'm not sure if I should count it.

Spoiler for Dream:

I woke up from a dream taking place at a party, then went back asleep into a DEILD. To stabilize the dream, I went to the food table and ate a piece of bleu cheese. I figured that there would be wine at the party, and sure enough, there was a bottle of wine on the table. I poured myself a glass and drank it. I then spent approximately 15 seconds staring at the candlestick on the table and trying to figure out what I should do next. I decided to look around the house I was in. At this point I felt slightly drunk (I barely weigh more than a hundred pounds, so this was realistic for me). I looked in some of the rooms in the house, but they looked normal, so I decided to go back and have another glass of wine. I woke up as I was pouring my second glass.

Yay breaking a wonderfully long dry spell I got one of the basic tasks this morning ;

Realising I am floating in my bed - after a while of laying down for my first wbtb in simply ages - it's dark as vision is not kicking in yet...I am feeling brave and decisive - I decide to make a go of it and start to scrabble towards the light coming from the open hatch in my attic room - I dive down into the study and walk with speed through to the living room. I am very exited to be LDing after a cool off and feel the need to accomplish a task. As I pass one of the book shelves I stop and reach for a book...at first it is very hard to read the title as it seems to be a super long title that doesn't make much sense....

..I try to focus a bit more on the words " half way there" it says so that must be the title I decide not to look back at the book as I know it could change and I want to remember it now...if indeed that was the tile as it probably did change anyway

I went on to do one of last months tasks when I got out side and after summoning a DC - he came around the corner on a tractor and got out when he saw me - I proceeded to laugh like crazy at him - it was fun as he laughed back at me and we had a genuine laugh ( he was extremely hunky too so the laughing became quite magnetic

Thanks for those tasks I enjoyed them.

HOORAY!! I did advanced task two last night, the first time I have ever done a TOTM and breaking a really long dry spell for proper lucids. I wasn't able to get the DC's reactions to the gravity change as they were knocked out from being forced to the ground through extreme gravity, but I hope it still counts . Before they went out they were struggling to move and gasping for air, then the pressure got to them, so I did get to see their reaction at least, even if they themselves didn't report it haha.
DJ#60: Gravity Lucid!!! - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

I got lucid last night and accomplished one of the Advanced Tasks - Maybe after reading BlairBros yesterday...anyway - I was Lucid and running up the side of a building after changing into a wolf/fox and along the top of the building I looked over at the building next to me and saw a load of people walking behind a wall and looking at me in a curiouse way So ..

I shouted over to them that this is a dream and gravity doesn't work the same in dreams so anything can happen ... They might even start floating up into the air ..So in just a moment some of them started loosing their grip and starting to lift up into the air their faces looking a little perplexed

I did try the Bonus task in an earlier lucid - I announced I was going into the void and every thing went black ..I then remembered I had to create a new place/world but things didn't exactly go to plan I will try again

I meant to ride an orca with a DV member but I rode it by myself because I forgot.

I completed Basic task I. The title of the book was "If you're trying to figure out the science of what you're trying to do, slow down."

Janauary Basic TOTM - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

I also completed the bonus task but I'll try it again. I didn't get the ocean/waterscape I wanted, just a boring room. Dolphins need water!

Got some interesting results for Basic I and Advanced I.

Spoiler for Basic I - Find a book and read the title (imazu):

I soon remember that this is just a dream, so I quickly stabilize, which makes the bugs disappear, or at least not itch anymore. I try to think of a better thing to do than flying like last time, so I decide on some TOTMs. I start with the easiest - find a book and read its title. I walk over to the bookshelf, where all my toys were stored as a kid. I finally find a book and pull it out. It’s a fairly big book, about 300 pages, and on the cover in purple text is the title:

Ensuring Your Wedding Cake is Adequately Sized and Appropriately Proportioned for Maximum Portability
(Because He's Going to be Taking It Home With Him)

I find this incredibly hilarious, so I lose control of the dream, and it transitions to a new scene.

Spoiler for Advanced I - Meet someone in person who you only know online in waking life. (imazu):

I’m now on this weird island, heading to go crash some kind of wedding. I remember that I’m dreaming, so I try to think of the next task to complete. I decide to summon Sensei, both to fulfill the TOTM and to get some help with dream control. I tell myself he’s somewhere at this wedding reception. My vision zeroes in on this one tall, stocky blonde guy (which I know for a fact isn’t what Sensei looks like IRL, but whatever), so I walk over to him.

“Hey Sensei.”
He laughs. “No one’s called me that out loud in a long time.”
“So I still need help with firebending. I just can’t get it down consistently.”
“Well, show me how you’ve done it.”

I do my normal motion, which is kind of a forward thrust of my wrist, like Spiderman launching a web. Much like usual, nothing happens, even after two or three tries. “Ah, I think I see your problem. It's not so much a thrusting motion as it is a throwing one… Have you ever tried throwing playing cards?”

He hands me a deck of cards, and sets up a few bottles on a table near us. He then shouts “Go!”, and starts throwing the cards like ninja stars at the bottles. Not to be left behind, I start throwing them as well. After a few throws, I get the hang of it and quickly pick up speed. I exhaust the deck and slam the empty box on the table. Sensei smiles and tosses his last few cards at me. “Now try it.”

I back up a few steps and try the card-throwing motion, and manage to successfully create a large fireball. “Better,” he says. He then snaps his fingers, and the cards that are scattered all over the table and the floor start floating and go back into their boxes, kinda like the dishes in that one scene of The Sorcerer's Apprentice.

“Man, how do you get that good at dream control?”
“Lots of practice.”

I reach over and take a slice of cake from the table next to me, and I'm about to stick it in my mouth, but I wake up.

Full dream(s).

Originally Posted by spellbee2

Got some interesting results for Basic I and Advanced I.

Spoiler for Basic I - Find a book and read the title (imazu):

I soon remember that this is just a dream, so I quickly stabilize, which makes the bugs disappear, or at least not itch anymore. I try to think of a better thing to do than flying like last time, so I decide on some TOTMs. I start with the easiest - find a book and read its title. I walk over to the bookshelf, where all my toys were stored as a kid. I finally find a book and pull it out. It’s a fairly big book, about 300 pages, and on the cover in purple text is the title:

Ensuring Your Wedding Cake is Adequately Sized and Appropriately Proportioned for Maximum Portability
(Because He's Going to be Taking It Home With Him)

I find this incredibly hilarious, so I lose control of the dream, and it transitions to a new scene.

Spoiler for Advanced I - Meet someone in person who you only know online in waking life. (imazu):

I’m now on this weird island, heading to go crash some kind of wedding. I remember that I’m dreaming, so I try to think of the next task to complete. I decide to summon Sensei, both to fulfill the TOTM and to get some help with dream control. I tell myself he’s somewhere at this wedding reception. My vision zeroes in on this one tall, stocky blonde guy (which I know for a fact isn’t what Sensei looks like IRL, but whatever), so I walk over to him.

“Hey Sensei.”
He laughs. “No one’s called me that out loud in a long time.”
“So I still need help with firebending. I just can’t get it down consistently.”
“Well, show me how you’ve done it.”

I do my normal motion, which is kind of a forward thrust of my wrist, like Spiderman launching a web. Much like usual, nothing happens, even after two or three tries. “Ah, I think I see your problem. It's not so much a thrusting motion as it is a throwing one… Have you ever tried throwing playing cards?”

He hands me a deck of cards, and sets up a few bottles on a table near us. He then shouts “Go!”, and starts throwing the cards like ninja stars at the bottles. Not to be left behind, I start throwing them as well. After a few throws, I get the hang of it and quickly pick up speed. I exhaust the deck and slam the empty box on the table. Sensei smiles and tosses his last few cards at me. “Now try it.”

I back up a few steps and try the card-throwing motion, and manage to successfully create a large fireball. “Better,” he says. He then snaps his fingers, and the cards that are scattered all over the table and the floor start floating and go back into their boxes, kinda like the dishes in that one scene of The Sorcerer's Apprentice.

“Man, how do you get that good at dream control?”
“Lots of practice.”

I reach over and take a slice of cake from the table next to me, and I'm about to stick it in my mouth, but I wake up.

Full dream(s).

Hilarious