Thread: Task of the Month for March 2016

Attempted Tasks
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Advanced Task I: (failed) (full dream entry: 16-03-18_~2-30 - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views)

went back into hall, and remembered dream goal of saying "I'm ready for my dream guide"

decide to teleport to another location, so start it up by destabilizing the scene (using odd mental control); while fading, realize I should instead just ask where i am

too late, destabilizing continues before i can say words, and i end up awake

I thought this was a little funny. I was sexually minded for the first several minutes of my LD last night and had "lost" my underwear looking my favorite Girl Friday when I remembered my desire to do the dream guide TOTM again...but first underwear back on! Hehe! Unfortunately I was at the end of REM so I only got to call out "I am ready for my dream guide" before waking.

Basic Task II Fail.....Badly!
3/19
5:00pm. I dreamed I flew over to ask a girl with kids what her favorite dream was when I saw big dog tracks on the floor and asked "Where's the dog?" She said "We threw him out for making muddy tracks" The smallest boy chimed in "Yeah'n he made mom pregnant too!".. While she was trying to blubber excuses for the brat I was thinking of all the possibilities here and started laughing so hard I couldn't stand it and woke up

Well, well, well... happy Spring everybody (or fall for the southerns ) Open your wings and enjoy the first rays of sun after a chilling winter.

Those who have wings, please go and vote for Aprils´s ToTM!!!


You can do it clicking here


Since we have a lot of suggestions and maybe you have already an idea what to vote, I am adding to the following spoiler the NEW ideas suggested this month, in case you change your opinion:

Spoiler for March 2015 Suggestions:

Basic
Spit gum into a DC's hair. (litlepooky04)
Ride a motorcycle through the mall. (litlepooky04)
Play Spin the Bottle or Seven Minutes in Heaven with a group of DCs. (litlepooky04)
Eat an object that is not considered edible. Describe the flavour. (Shockabsorber)


Advanced
Literally birth something and observe what birthed from you... you could interact with her/him/it (Bonus wings if you are male) (Runaways/PercyLucid)
Create a hole all the way through the Earth, jump in, and find what's on the other side. (MinerPhill03)
Lay on a bed of clouds in the sky. (Spellbee2)
Turn invisible, find a place and fall asleep.. Report what it is like to fall sleep while you are invisible? What do you see or don't see? (~Stoic Beauty~)
Get a broom and fly above the clouds. Describe what you saw. (LiLeila)
Fill the entire room with cats. (LiLeila)
Sky-dive using a DC as your parachute. (litlepooky04)
Ride a pool noodle in the ocean. (litlepooky04)
Surf or skateboard inside a tornado. (litlepooky04)
Find someone who can see the future, and inquire how or when you are going to die. (litlepooky04)

Bonus
Flip the world upside down. (Intet)

However, you are welcome to read the entire suggestions pool if you desire, and as always, you can add new suggestions

This is actually a task that I frequently try to accomplish while lucid, and I finally have this month! Usually, when I call out for my dream guide to appear either nothing happens or my dog appears. But a few nights ago I became lucid (by doing a reality check) and I looked up at the sky and said, "I want to summon my dream guide." A fairy looking girl glides down but falls on the floor motionless-like she's unconscious. She lays there for a few seconds before 'waking up'. Obviously, I'm excited and ask her loads and loads of questions. I remember reading on a thread somewhere that it's better to ask specific questions relating to a dream rather than broad questions like "what's the meaning of life?" So I pointed to some yellow tulips I was standing near and asked, "Does the color of these flowers signify anything?" Of course, I didn't get a response because for whatever reason my dream characters are stupid as hell. Anyways, here's the funny part: My dream guide starts to walk over to some other flowers, bends down and stares at them. While she's bent over, a giant black guy walks up behind her and says, "Damn. Nice ass!" to my dream guide. Yep. My dream guide was sexually harassed. In my own dream.

Finally I have some success to report!
Had tonight the best night since many years ago in terms of LDing - 4 LDs, including some long ones!!!

I finished the dream guide advanced task (finally!) as well as the fire part of the bonus task - not sure if it's the whole bonus or half of it?

Either way, it will take more time than I have to write the DJ entry of 1.5 hours of recording... I think I will only write the dreams that had lucidity in them. I'll post it here later today.

Edit: below are the two relevant dreams:

Spoiler for Color Key:

Real life notes - black
Falling asleep / visualization / HH - green
Non lucid dream - brown
Kinda lucid dream - purple
Lucid dream - blue

Spoiler for Bonus Task:

1st post-WBTB dream:

I was in a car, driven by my dad, in the front sit. We drove towards my university, like I do every day IRL (sometimes with him, sometimes myself, etc). We talked about random stuff. Then I looked at the sky. The weather was supposed to be nice and most of the sky is covered with nice feathery clouds. But just next to the sun (which was still low in the sky), there was a nearly black wall of thunderclouds, and we were headed towards it (driving parallel to the shore towards the mountain). I saw it to dad, and based on the fogginess below it he said "it seems that a heavy rain is going where we headed". I told him I left my umbrella at home and wasn't dressed for that. Then I heard my grandma's voice scream from the back sit. Looking back I realized that both her and mom are also in the car. I looked out of the right window and to the back to see what she's screaming about. A tornado was ravishing the city, separated from us by one or two rows of buildings (btw, we where driving via a different route then in RL, it's slower but goes thru the nice commercial center with many impressive buildings). Anyway, mom also noticed the tornado and started screaming at dad to drive faster. I looked more carefully into it and notice several penguins (~5) going up its vortex among other debris. I realized it must have destroyed the statue with penguins that is near by (IRL it not that near by, but it exists). In all of the panic I was mumbling, "this couldn't be happening! It was supposed to be a day with great weather! We don't even get tornadoes here!!!"

Then suddenly a thought crossed my mind - 'wait a second, I don't think I remember how I got here!' After some more thinking, it became clear to me that the last memory I have is doing WILD after a long WBTB to try lucid dream. Suddenly everything became clear and RCs weren't required. But the tornado and screaming were still going on, and my heart rate was off the charts, and the car was flying thru traffic into the black wall of clouds away from the tornado. Everything was getting dark until I lost all vision. I kept "calm", and analysed what I can still feel - the bumps of the road, the screaming in the same voices, the roar of the engine, and then a new sound joined the mix - like a monster roar that was chasing us. I focused on getting vision back, and started to focusing on opening the eyes, but stopped to not open the real eyes (and wake up). I tried to 'ordering' the dream to put the lights on and soon after (while still in the chase), I could see two foggy spots - one in front of each eye (like 20 degrees wide). I could see that I'm running now, and saw the road I'm on - like the lane markings, etc. I could still hear the engine and mom and grandma, but couldn't see them. The monster was still chasing me. I felt like I'm about to wake up, and still had impaired vision - so decided to do the fire TOTM to kill two birds with one stone - both getting more light and doing the task. Unlike the previous time I lit up my hands, I couldn't make the flame to originate from my shoulder, so I had to try a different way. I started snapping my left hand fingers and focused on causing sparks (sound ridiculous if done IRL, right?), the sparks appeared and lit up the whole palm - but not like last time - not like a flame throwing thing - rather like it's on fire. The fire was hot, but not uncomfortably so, and the flames were red - orange. To lit up the other hand I had to "snap sparkles on it", since just touching hands didn't work. I then started slowing down, and the fire made more things visible, but it was like I was surrounded by fog. The roar kept going, but it's like the monster was hiding in the fog. Then I just woke up when the fog covered everything again.

Then I woke up and tried to DEILD back, but failed. Tried to WILD again, but failed and it was pretty hard to get into a dream and took sometime until I finally fall asleep (but lost awareness).

Spoiler for Advanced Task I:

4nd post-WBTB dream:

The next dream was starting to appear with me being lucid from the start. A crack of light appeared, and then it became like a rectangular - like it's the light of a brighter space coming in from behind a cracked door. I pulled the black "door", and entered the lit up space. It was a hall, with it's floor and walls and decor being like the one of my bed room (it was basically a thin and long version of my room without the furniture in it). On the other side there is another door - cream brown. I go to it, and decide it's the perfect chance to do the TOTM of summoning my dream guide, whoever it is. [In this dream I also had very great recall, and at first had this confused feeling of being afraid to wake up due to amazement of this being my third LD of the night, but then I took it under control... I also remembered the previous dreams including that I already did the fire task]

I focused on my DG being on the other side of that door. Really really focused. I crack the door open, and as it screeched, a serpent's head looks out at me from the crack. I jumped back in surprise, but wasn't afraid. The snake was very large, a constrictor of some sort [later in RL, I checked some images online - it's either a Burmese python or a Reticulated python], and it appeared to be very large - maybe 10 meters in length (hard to tell since most of it's body was on the floor curled up). Its head was at the level of my chest (and the neck supporting it, like and old brontosaur photo). The neck was as thick as my upper arm, the head bigger them my opem palm, and body thicker then my thighs - a BIG snake. It was somewhat albino or at least brighter than usual, with orange-red eyes, and bright yellow - orange markings on a cream white background. It was doing the split tongue thing to taste the air, and looked at me.

It was remarkably similar to this photo I found online:
Attachment 9191

"Hi, don't be afraid, come in", he said (in a masculine voice).
"I'm just surprised - I was expecting my Dream Guide to be behind this door." I replied coming inside.

In the room there is this old TV (very thick and heavy looking) on a shelf, and the python is retreating into it in reverse (i.e. tail first). At that point 1/2 of his body was inside the TV (which is working...), and that half was disappearing behind the left side of the frame of the TV. Apart from the snake (and half of him picking out of it), on the screen it was some kind of news show, with reports and a military base.

"You found him then." he whispered.
"Are you an anaconda or something?" I asked.
"A python." He then yawned showing off his curved teeth. "Ahhh... What am I doing here?"
"I have a task on a lucid dreamer community to see how do you look like."
"What is this nonsense? How do I look like... It's irrelevant. I look like whatever I want." He said while still slowly retreating into the screen. The details of the room were disappearing, apart from the snake and TV.
"I see..." I replied. "I don't care how this works, but could you try to have a specific appearance?"
"Like what?" He asked, and I proceeded to describe him the synthetic DG I had in mind [I have a thread about this goal on DV].
He seemed to recognize the form I was talking about, and said, "sure... We'll see next time". But his response didn't sound overly honest or convincing.
"Before you go" I told him, since he kept retreating in, "can you stay a bit longer so I can memorize as much as I can from this dream before it ends?"
"Sure, I'll do it slower, just don't follow me"

By that point most of his neck was "inside" the screen, and the body out of frame. I kept observing for details - the language of the show was Russian (which I know IRL), and I recognized the logo on the screen, it was of the channel 'НТВ Мир' (reads "NTV World"). I touched the TV - the case was solid, but the screen "rippled" upon touch. The dream was getting dimmer and dimmer and about to end. I think I asked him what was his name, just before he disappeared completely out of the screen - but I don't recall if I received a reply or what was it... I then woke up in my bed. It was a FA, which is where the final dream of the night started.

Full DJ: Lucids of 22.03.2016: penguinado; melted electronics; python DG; random stuff

3/24
6:00pm........... A Dream Views Dream....
It started in a Dream Views workshop, A large white, building with three overhead bay doors where we were supposed to build dream things, I was supposed to be building a wooden car from orange crates and needed some sort of rules to go by so I looked for a book in a desk drawer and then asked a supervisor leaning against a large something or other and she said the rules had sort of fallen thru the cracks but there may be a book left in a back room and offered to get it but I said "I'll Get it just because you look so cute leaning there".
I flew to to the back room and came back with the only book there but by then she had turned into a he and not so cute so I got out an airnailer I needed and it was rusty (all of the tools were rusty), I sprayed it with WD-40 in hiding because I did not want them to see me and make a habit of it! Looking for an air-hose I saw that someone had suspended them from the ceiling with a retractable cord (nice idea) Just as I looked around at the supervisor again He/She turned back into a girl and I found myself in bed wondering what the rest of the dream could have been.

Well, this is it. Nearly two years after I decided to get into lucid dreaming and discovered DreamViews, I've accomplished my first task of the month. Feels pretty good. Thanks for being here and being awesome.

Spoiler for dream guide:

Somehow lucid, I call out "this is a dream!" and pass my hands through each other to check. I'm in this huge, dark room with metal walls. I remember my intention and call out to the dream "I'm ready for my dream guide!"

As often happens when I make such requests, I'm pulled off my feet and start flying through the room. I end up outside in a city scene, next to a chain link fence. I can sense my dream guide is in a direction blocked off by the fence and I try to phase through but can't. I call out to the dream "I'm ready for my dream guide" or maybe "where is my dream guide?" and a DC (or several?) points in the direction I already knew and says "you have to walk!"

Next thing I remember I'm in a room with many DCs, one of whom is a short Asian girl I somehow know (or am told?) is my dream guide. I ask, "do you represent the part of me that knows about dreaming?" and she says, "I guess."

We then have some kind of conversation about dreaming (along with some of the other DCs in the room). At some point one of them says something about how, if you have something in your eye in real life, you can "blow it out" of your eye in the dream. At around this point I notice there is, indeed, something stuck in my eye, like a small piece of wood or something. I decide to try the method and start sort of blowing upward, and I do indeed have a feeling like I'm sort of affecting my real body. I worry that by focusing on my physical body I'll wake up, but I've become concerned with this thing in my eye and keep trying to blow it out. At some point I get confused and wake up (although in retrospect I think this was a false awakening).

[Fire and Ice Task]

I then thought of the Task of the Month. I figured if I wasn't going to the moon, I could at least try that. I remembered that the goal was to create fire/ice in your hands. I looked down and saw that my feet were generating jets of flame, but my hands were not.

I did a 180 in the air and flipped around, creating flames in my hands and using those to propel me, essentially doing a handstand in the air. Just like with my feet, where my right side projects blue flame and my left projects orange, my hands apparently did the same thing. I then focused in on capturing the details. The flames didn't look all that spectacular, the colors seemed kind of washed out. (The whole dream had a color palate of blues and grays though.) But really projecting fire is nothing new to me. It has the sensation of sort of pushing your energy or chi down your arm and manifesting it as the flame, and you maybe feel a little heat on your hands or feet. I wondered why I was even bothering since march was almost over and there would be a new TOTM soon, but I could at least have wings for a couple days. Wings... Maybe that's a good TOTM for next time I thought to myself. Grow or Manifest wings in a dream.

Okay, but I want to do fire AND ice. I then focused on the right hand switching to projecting ice. The dream went third person as the blue flame changed into a puff of snowflakes, and with a jet of fire on only one hand I lost control and fell from the sky. Back to first person. I fell into the street head first. Thankfully the street cracked rather than my skull.

Full DJ (I forget if I need it or not)

http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/jade...-ld-265-74212/

Completed Advanced Task II
3/26 I crossed an ocean to another continent but I did it the hard way

11:30am I was in bed in some sort of hospital, They were bunk beds really close together, I was naked under some blankets when a girl came to change the sheets, I wrapped up in a sheet and floated off the bed and thought to check my hands and my fingers were all crazy.
Wrapped in the sheet floating about two feet off the floor and paddling with my feet I went up to a group of oriental doctor looking guys jabbering over a piece of paper, When they saw me wrapped in a sheet floating off the floor they jabbered louder and ran..I took off thru the wall behind me to look for a bathroom, I ended up in a tunnel with many doorways and found an open one and pee'd on the floor then went back to the tunnel and flew down it looking out thru the walls for home but I saw an ocean in one place and stuck just my head thru first to see if it was safe,
There was an ocean of dark,evil looking water with an orange sky stretching to the horizon, (Like maybe a middle earth ocean) On my side there were cliffs and jungle with the tree tops moving like something was in there and it made an awful roar and I shot out over the ocean in my best motorcycle crouch to look for safer place, In a matter of seconds I saw brown mountains in the distance, "Another Continent" (A Task) Oh-Yeah"
There was a sandy beach and rocky terrain before mountains and all desert tan, Not a blade of grass or green thing anywhere, I decided to spin and asked for an oasis and as one began to appear I started to feel my bed under me.
I really hated waking up, That was fun

Well folks!

Spread those wings and fly towards the S.... I mean, the Lucid Task Club and find your challenge for April: ToTM for April 2016

You still got a few more nights to try that element bending tasks assigned

I had a TOTM attempt few days ago:

13/03/16 | LD - Wardrobe and TOTM attempt - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Originally Posted by Lileila's DJ

I recalled a TOTM (basic II, DC's favourite dream) so I went to my mom's room. I wanted to ask her about her fav dream but during talk I wasn't sure if this is a dream. I tried to fly but I couldn't. I think that also nose plug failed. She told me that I should go if I don't want anything. So I did. I don't remember anything else so I probably woke up.

I'm not trying to count this, it was semi-lucid at best and I think it was only influenced by the (ask a DC their favorite dream) task, but I really enjoyed this and I think it is a great idea to tie the task into a new way to bring up lucid dreaming with acquaintances:

In my dream last night I am talking to a friend who I don't think I've discussed lucid dreaming with before and ask him if he's ever had one of them moments where he said "pinch me I must be dreaming." (They could either give you a waking example or dreaming one.) He says yes, I was in a movie theater and the projector started coming down from the projector box above and I'm freaking out like what's going on? He is describing it with such wonder in his eyes that I wonder if he had vivid dream that he's mistaking for waking memory but it becomes more apparent he knows it was a dream. He says he then sees a little blonde girl in a white dress and earrings and it was just so bizarre. I said what if I told you that you could take control of that dream, you rescue the little girl and she takes you back to her mom who is so appreciative that she has sex with you right there and then asks you if you still have energy because she has a sister, a twin sister. I then tell him that I have had some amazing dreams on some mind blowing beaches, alien beaches and I tear up a little just starting to picture them in my mind as I talk. I can go there when a dream seems to be fading...see when you think the dream is ending, never say I'm waking up, instead start thinking and imagining where you want to be next! In those situations I often like to think of a beautiful beach hearing the gentle waves lapping but often end up in the water. It really felt like I was there in the dream.

Well done guys!!!