Thread: Task of the Month for August 2016

Hey ur all doing good stuff

I like all these tasks and I'm gonna get some done soon! Talking to DC's is one of my most favourite things n Lucids!

I saw priceless's task to look in the window etc when the suggestion was made and did it some time ago - except it was a train and I flew on the out side waving in at the people sitting on the seats - they freaked out and I found it very funny

Originally Posted by RelaxAndDream

How come that my nick isn't orange?

It's the Bots, They get mad me and cut off my email notifications on the 3rd of each month, If not that they fix it so I can't edit or something else to get even with me (us)

Originally Posted by RelaxAndDream

How come that my nick isn't orange? I thought you have found an work around for it? Past two months it was not orange :-\ :-)

Soooo needy

Originally Posted by DoubleHelix

Hmmm...Gotta tell you those tasks seem pretty daunting to a beginner. In one instance, you need to conjure a microscope, and another an airplane? Jeez.

I feel you and I are at the same level but I had the opposite thought about the tasks. I was surprised that flying was part of an advanced task since most people fly in their LD's frequently. I have been beginning all of my recent LD's with flying because I feel it helps to stabilize and lengthen the dream. It probably also helps exercise your control. So the only extra thing to do is look around expecting to see a plane.

Originally Posted by DoubleHelix

I'm still at the stage where I wander around in the dream and merely observe or let the dream take it's own course and hope to stay engaged so it doesn't fade too quickly or result in a spontaneous awakening.

I also do this and think you should continue to do it no matter what stage you're at, but combining it with flying might engage your senses enough to stabilize things more.

Lucid dreams appear in the strangest of places..Just had one halfway thru a nap where I was so happy with the story that I forgot about tasks

Originally Posted by woblybil

Lucid dreams appear in the strangest of places. Just had one halfway thru a nap where I was so happy with the story that I forgot about tasks

Sometimes that happens to me.

I made my first attempt at a task this morning and kind of half way succeeded:

....after leaving the building I find myself sitting on the path leading down the hill and sliding down it like a slippery slide. I become aware that I'm dreaming and will myself to continue sliding faster. I remind myself "I'm dreaming" and take a moment to stabilise by engaging my senses. It's windy and I notice how the cool air feels blowing around my arms and body. I'm in a more open area now and remember the task to fly and find a plane. I look up into the sky and see a white plane, something like a Cessna.

I jump into the air and start floating and moving slowly, then will myself to speed up. Then I notice in another part of the sky a red and white biplane.

Then a second one, a third, and altogether about seven in a group all doing different manoeuvres. Two of them are doing loop-the-loops. I decide I'll fly over to them but then see a red helicopter pass in front of me, then a second one.

They seem closer so I decide to follow them. (I've never seen so many aircraft in the sky at once - my SubC is really helping me but giving me too many choices!). I try speeding up and catching up to them when I see one has landed in the area where I was previously standing. I see a man get out and start walking away. I land and go up to him. He's wearing a cap with something written on it and I take it off his head. I wake realising I got distracted from the second part of the task.

Originally Posted by gab

Soooo needy

now i feel bad about it... i know it makes no difference same as the wings but nevertheless its kinda cool ...

Spoiler for Failed Advanced II::

... i walk behind her and she approaches a bus and wants to enter. i hold her and tell her "we can go there soon but first i want to do the TOTM. we have to fly and find a plane and look inside or enter. like we wish" we start flying hand in hand and the sky gets really bright like when you look into the sun and then somewhere else. i feel like the dream destabilize and i start to fly straight down to accelerate to the ground but before i reach it i wake up.

DJ Entry

Originally Posted by RelaxAndDream

now i feel bad about it... i know it makes no difference same as the wings but nevertheless its kinda cool ...

You always look very cool RelaxAnDream but even more now it's true!

My post was sposed to come out Orange but didn't ...honestly!

Originally Posted by RelaxAndDream

now i feel bad about it... i know it makes no difference same as the wings but nevertheless its kinda cool ...

No need, I was kitting kidding Covering up a "my bad", since I didn't notice lack of orange.

I appreciate when you guys let me know something is amiss, be it lack of wings or colors or anything else.

Happy dreams!

OMG! I'm just recalling something from last night, feels like a lucid. What was iiiiiit!?

I got Basic 1 and advance 1 this morning in Lucid's

I was with some DC's and remember to ask one if they have a secret form one of the folks on Dream Views - he shakes his head - so I continue asking " ok what about Dolphin...anything about him?" Nope he says ..." Ok I ask - how about RelaxAndDream...anything about him?" He stops to ponder and says he has a secret about RelaxAndDream I am intruiged but have a feeling the DC is messing with me
" He's got 3 noses! " says the DC - I laugh and laugh and wake up laughing

I have to type up dream as was pretty long Lucid - going a long with the plot mostly but then doing some tasks every now and then - I met a girl later on and asked her if she would acompany me throught the dream and help accomplish tasks and she said ok soooo

2 tasks done and more to come I hope

Airplane Task complete. Gonna shoot for all four others before the Summer Competition ends. That leaves... one day to do as much. Um...

Spoiler for relevant parts:

The visuals were clear. I was flying high above in a cloudy blue sky. Yes, just as I wanted!

...

Just recalled the airplane TOTM. I looked around for such, and hoped they'd show up from nowhere. And, just like that, I heard, and from my peripheral vision, saw, several combat jets flying overhead. But, I also heard machine guns firing, and was forced into evasive maneuvers. As I pressed onwards, some silvery, disk-nosed, Star Wars-esque fighter came in view, hovering in reverse at my pace. It fires a barrage of energy beams at me, each way off the mark. I flew over the cockpit. Through a shaded dome, I see the pilot, a man in an orange jumpsuit and modern day flight helmet (complete with visors and breathing apparatus). I pointed my hands at the guy to zap him. The pilot, in turn, frantically hits some dials, and in an instant, the craft flies away at warp speed.

Log 471 - Summer Lucid Competition - Day 15 - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Finally I completed some tasks of the month without being too lazy to translate them!
Here they are:

Spoiler for Advanced task i and basic task ii:

...After calming myself down, I went out looking for a dream character, hoping to find a female one (here it goes). It was dark out, as in early morning. Surprisingly fast, I saw the faint shape of a female dream character by the neighbor's house. All I could see was that she was tall and had dark hair. As I approached her, I willingly tried to make her shape appear "hotter."

When I was close enough, as to see her clearly, I notice that she is girl a I used to know from high school. That was completely random, as I didn't even think about her (or any specific girl for that matter). But she was indeed good looking, so I permitted my libido to take over for a few seconds while maintaining a high level of awareness, as to not let blind desire completely consume me and to loose my lucidity as a result.

When that was taken care of, I asked the girl to be my assistant for todays task and she kindly agreed without using any words (at least of the Verbal kind). I asked another dream character that was in sight where I could find a microscope and she pointed to a specific house close by.

I was hoping for the house to be an awesome crazy scientist's place but it wasn't and there weren’t any microscopes to be seen. I really wanted to complete the task so I acquired a bunch of junk (including an empty glass of water, Energizer batteries, and a magnifying glass), jumbled them up together in my hands, really hoping to magically create the microscope.

A part of me doubted my success, but I did it! I created a weird looking little microscope. Maybe the female DC beside me increased my performance. Anyway, I looked through the microscope to see something already in close up. It was something similar to what I saw in my BIOL class (chloroplasts). I decided to keep zooming in, not touching anything in the microscope, just using my will.

I zoomed in and in and in, until I found myself looking at what I can only describe as a "dance of energy." A bunch of floating, dancing and hypnotizing atoms, or quarks. Whatever it was that I was seeing, it was very colorful.

I wanted to show this thing to my DC assistant, but before I knew it, I lost myself in the now almost psychedelic "dance of energy" and off I went into non-lucidity (until I woke up, not long afterwards).

Full dream: AUG 2014 basic task 2 and advanced task 1 - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Btw: I requested permission to join this group a while back but haven't got an approval... Really don't understand this permission groups thing yet, sorry if I cause any trouble.

Anyways, I've completed two more tasks (Advanced task ii and basic i) and failed one (Bonus task). I will post them shortly

Did you try PMing gab about it? I'm sure she would be happy give you wings. Good luck everyone!!

Sure is lonely out here...

Originally Posted by woblybil

Sure is lonely out here...

in the last days i attempted Advanced II two times and tonight the bonus task. all fails:

Spoiler for Advanced II:

-i remember the totm. i look up in the sky and its completely blue. i look out for a plane and i see one with contrails. i start flying but its sluggish and i slowly gain height. i approach the plane but the contrails start to morph, get bigger and make the the sky and the contrails an abstract picture. and i loose focus...
- i jump out of my window and want to approach advanced II. i look up in the sky. its dark. i start flying but again it wont work properly. while in the air i notice the dream destabilizes. i rub my hands but its pretty dark and colorless. so i close my eyes and imagine the sun goes up. its getting a little brighter but i have problems with vision now. i let crash myself down on the ground what "grounds" me in the dream and stabilizes again. i look up in the sky and there are more details now. i see planes everywhere a lot of lights and contrails everywhere. i start flying to one and while approaching it the contrails/plane morphes into two birds that just fly away. i approach another one but suddenly a plane crashes down in my direction next to me to the ground. its a small jet and i try to stop it with TK but i cant. before the plane hits the ground i look up again and focus on getting near a plane. but they are all just small dots in the sky and i dont know how to reach them. i give up with this task...

Spoiler for Bonus:

... and land again. i remember the bonus task. for a second i am confused because i mix the second weekly task from the spellbee competition where one should put in ones own personality into a pill and let it a dc swallow to see what happen and the bonus task. i approach a pharmacy and enter. a dude is talking to the female pharmacist. i want to lift and throw him away with TK but i cant lift him. he "trys to help" and starts jumping up and down one or two times. i ignore him and tell the pharmacist i need a pill thats shrinks me down so i can jump into someone and see whats inside. she starts doing things and the guy approaches me again. takes me by the side and talks around. after some time i think he wants to tell me a joke and i start listening. but in the end its something about two different metals you glue together and to implant it into a penis so he gets a boner or something?! i again start to ignore him and approach the pharmacist again. she gives me a pretty big pill and i try to swallow it but its to big. i take some whater from a random DC that stands next to me and try to flush it down my throat but i cant manage it. i start to push it down my throat with my bare fingers because i probably wont puke in a lucid but i push and push and it wont work too well. i start to wake up

Originally Posted by RelaxAndDream

in the last days i attempted Advanced II two times and tonight the bonus task. all fails:

Not a total failure... You started my email notifications working again

Originally Posted by woblybil

Sure is lonely out here...

Yup. Dreaming's generally great but LDs are holding distant still. Turning up the heat on the intent now.

Originally Posted by FryingMan

Yup. Dreaming's generally great but LDs are holding distant still. Turning up the heat on the intent now.

My LD's are gone off track too..For awhile there I was telling my DC's "Don't worry, Its just a big dream" And then thinking, "What did just say?" Worked every time but like all good things it don't last forever.

Well a DC asked me if I would take him with me where I was trying to teleport and I said "I guess". Does that count for that advanced task? Probably not :p

I completed the Basic Task i & Advanced Task ii.

Here: http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/ibea...24-2016-77203/

Originally Posted by Ibeauty

I completed the Basic Task i & Advanced Task ii.

Here: http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/ibea...24-2016-77203/

there is always a lack of permission if i try to read _any_ of your DJ-links too bad because i think you have pretty cool dreams... is there a way to change that or is this completely intentional?

^^^Same here.

BTW, have the September TOTM's been published anywhere yet?

Sorry!! Here:

Spoiler for Completed Tasks:

Lucid: Task of the month: Basic Task i and the Advanced Task ii WILD: It started out when I was in my bed as I was aware of my sleeping body. At the same time, I felt like I was sucked up thru a vortex and into my next dream scene. I landed in a chair in a luxurious hotel with a thud. Apparently, I needed to get ready for a runway job. In the dream, a makeup artist was putting body makeup on me. The makeup itself felt like a light mask. The makeup artist used the Airbrush Makeup. I recall that my entire family was waiting in the audience. There was a Dream Character who looked a lot like the actor, Robert Morse who walked into the backstage and started to stare at me while I was getting dressed. I recall that I closed my eyes, the scene changed and then found myself in an old rundown house. There was a dream character there who reminded me of the actor, James Dean. He expressed his love for me but, I didn't feel the same about him. At this point, I knew that I was dreaming because James Dean has been dead for many years. So, I quickly did my RC and went on. I remembered that I needed to do one of my task of the month so, I summoned my brother and his son, Mikey. I asked my nephew what was Gab's secret was but, he refused to tell me her secret because he thought it was a silly question. Then I decided to leave the room. Then I found myself running thru the hallways and when I finally got to the front door, there was a crowd of DCs in the front yard. I recall that these DCs were calling me a freak. At this point, I yelled, "Fuck it!!"
Then I began to levitate 10 feet off the ground. People scream and scattered. While others froze in their place and stared at me. Then stretched my arms and then I took off. I recall that I need to find a plane of the TOTM. Luckily there was a plane that appeared out of nowhere. I flew like superman to this plane.
Apparently, I was late for the flight in the dream. I flew to one of the windows and looked in. I remember seeing a DC staring back at me. Then she screamed, "ALIEN!!" Then she fainted in her seat.
Just then, I almost got sucked into a turbine in the plane. So, I phased thru the plane and ended up in an empty seat next to my friends. I noticed that there was a little boy that was sitting in the seat in front gasped and said to his mother, "Mommy!! That lady appeared out of nowhere!!" The mother answered with, "That's nice, Honey!" She clearly had a headache and didn't want to hear it from the small boy.
The scene changed once again. I found my dream self in a hospital somewhere in Tibet. Apparently, people there wanted me to "Heal" them. Then the scene changed, and I found myself back the old house again. This time, I was in the living room watching the dream all over again.