Thread: Task of the Month for November 2016

Originally Posted by Daniele

I bet Candi could show you a dance.

Oh great now if I make it there there will probably be candy cane pole dancers named Candi and Staci and there goes any hope of a calm exploration of the place.

Made some attempts this morning in Lucid

Advance 1 - Couldn't see through to the other side when putting my head through the floor ...tried a couple of times and floor was all goooy then just dark so gave up - will try agin soon

Advance 2 - asked a DC in the form of a beautiful bird ( yes been conversing with nature recently it's cool ) The bird spoke a word I couldn't understand like " Slooow" or something like that when I asked for a new method of dream control ...I realised when I woke up I didn't ask her to show me the method ...so will try this one agin soon too. Anyway I went off for a super fly and used the " Slooow " method by slowing myself right down and stopping the dream by bringing my arms down ina firm movement and stopping in mid air ( not sure what I was doing but it was awesome )

Augh! Once again, I jeopardized my chances by misconstruing a task! Shoulda remembered that Advanced Task i required peeking through the floor, not just any barrier, or a ceiling, in this case. Then again, what's a ceiling, but a floor upside down? ...right?

Spoiler for Relevant part:

Next, I turned to a wall decorated with picture/display frames. Just remembered the phasing task. First, I tried peeking though the walls, but some invisible force near them kept repelling me. Ditto when I tried floating through the ceiling. So, I looked for a way around this, when I noticed an imposing figure just beside me: Zangief from Street Fighter. That was unexpected. Still, I didn't hesitate to ask for help in this matter. He nods in agreement. In an instant, he lifts me by the back of my shirt, and tosses me right through the ceiling.

Now, I was cramped inside a small opening surrounded by wood panels. Oops, too far, I only needed my head to go through. The ceiling was close enough, so I tried peeking through, and, this time, did so easily. Eh, not much to see. Past an air grate to the right, this was just a narrow, white, featureless enclosure.

Link to entry: Log 564 - Phase Toss - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Advanced II - Asked a DC to show me a new method of dream control. So apparently if you draw a red cross on a tea-bag, then lie on the floor and stare at it, you will astrally project and/or then become permanently invisible like Hollow Man.

Hollow Man/

Originally Posted by obfusc8

Advanced II - Asked a DC to show me a new method of dream control. So apparently if you draw a red cross on a tea-bag, then lie on the floor and stare at it, you will astrally project and/or then become permanently invisible like Hollow Man.

Hollow Man/

Hey...You never know! I've seen some pretty funny ways of AP'ing..
Personal favorite AP is after a half hour of good meditation music or beats is to turn off the lights, stare at a candle flame in the dark then put it out, Stare at the red spot in front of my eyes after until it zooms in and to surround me or pass thru it and i'm on my way..If no AP it makes for interesting dreams anyways..........
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PS, I'll just ad this here three hours later..
11/06
3:30am Just after explaining here how to AP easily I tried it but without the candle and turned it into an instant lucid dream.
I'll just put it over here! http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/wobl...er-2016-78434/
And that's what I meant about making for interesting dreams

Got Basic II. I needed way more points for the competition, and I just HAD to encounter a group of girls first thing :/. At least I made it through the game...

Yay another early TOTM. Wings for almost a month for the 2nd month in a row!

Spoiler for Rock Paper Scissors:

+ LUCIDD 218 LD#218 I'm walking in a mall and people are in my way [DREAM SIGN] I'm trying to go forwards, faster, down a corridor with a sign blocking the way a narrator says the way is blocked because it's an employee smoking area I see them sitting along the very narrow corridor/walkway on the right, see the smoke, walk through it and smell it a bit, encounter another block a microwave oven and jars of things on top of it I'm trying to find a place to put my foot and step over this someone says something about me not making it (?) but I step over and recognize a guy [FALSE] and say "aren't you the guy who made the cabbage chutney?" he hands me a grey sausage I taste it it's good and beefy flavor I ask what it is he says "pork loin", I say it tastes more like beef. I think of something witty to say, I grab the now empty table in front of me in order to stabilize, it feels very solid, I'm slowly getting lucid, I turn to the guy again to say something but he's vanished and I get fully lucid from the shock of him and all the guys around him vanishing. I'm just looking around me for a second and yep they're all gone. I walk on farther down the walkway after a bend and start approaching a group of 3 girls. I stop myself. NO! Must do TOTMs! I think of them and remember rock paper scissors. I approach the girls again with RPS intentions but they get off and start hurrying somewhere to the left. I interrupt them and they say something unintelligble, but they don't want to stop. I grab one's arms and say let's play rock paper scissors and make a game move (rock) but she doesn't respond. She says something silly, they're all giggling "Tee Hee! Tee Hee!" I say again let's play and do the 1-2-3 count and make a rock fist and look down at her hands, she has made two hands, one left and right but I focus on the right and she made scissors, so I win! I say let's play again and this time I do a "paper" hand and she makes some odd gang sign/bull-horns hand with index and pinky fingers extended , I say "what's that?" she says "I don't know! Tee Hee!" So I say "OK, time to [sexual comment], Tee Hee!" and [Sexy Time ensues], I worry a bit about stability but it's stable, but when I stand up to get more points doing more TOTMs the dream fades.

Got Basic I and Advanced II but still can't get to Candyland which is where I really want to go.

11/6/16-Learn New Power and Dance (TOTM), Bald Man Task Fail - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

In the last two or three days i attempted some tasks:

Spoiler for Completed Basic I:

... i fly down in a clumsy way and see a guy. i land/stumble next to him. i ask him to show me a dance. i notice that he looks like a kickboxer or something. big, strong and athletic. he starts his "dance" that looks more like kicks in the air (maybe a little like capoera but really not that dancefull) i tell him "yea but i want to see a dance" and he nods telling me THIS IS a dance. okay i think and for some reason i decide to answer this with a fireball the way i learned it yesterday. and yes it works pretty straight forward without to much problems. but i have a problem throw it on him but nah who cares. he "danced" for me and now i want to put my head into some nice concrete ...

Spoiler for Failed Attempt Basic I:

...i get out of the car and approach a girl. since i found the last "show me a dance" not so convincing i ask her to the same. without a word she moves around the car and in the moment she wants to start another girl approaches her looking worried. she wants to whisper her something and i put my hand behind my ear deciding to have super hearing and i hear her loud and clear saying something about to think twice to just like that show a dance and to think about it....

DJ Entry Here and Here

Spoiler for Completed Basic II:

...i remember to play tic tac toe and ask her if she mind to play a round with me. she agrees annoyed and i throw paper and she stone. i win. i tell her we need to play until one of us has three. she roles her eyes and continue playing halfhearted. its difficult to see if she does paper or scissors because she nearly dont move her hand at all... she wins in the end. ...

Spoiler for Previous Attempt During Competition:

...so i approach this nice girl AND.... ask her if she want to tic tac toe with me she agrees but she seem very young and rashly. first time she waves to fast and i am not ready. i tell her we play 3 times. two times we have the same (often scissors). in the end i win 2:0 or 2:1 (cant remember every round anymore...). i think in the end i won with wells (beats paper) what somehow is cheating... after she looses she turns even younger to a small sulking girl....

DJ Entrys Here and Here

Spoiler for Completed Advanced I:

...now i want to put my head into some nice concrete
i look for a good place in the ground. i notice that everywhere are bigger and smaller manhole covers. i dont want to make it too easy so i look for a place where there is solid ground. i find a nice place and dive free of fear on the ground head first. i stick my head face first into the ground and i feel that the ground gets flexible pretty fast and i sink in. darkness. i want my head to go deeper so i do a hand/headstand and push this little ball of a head deeper into the ground. but i just cant see anything. its pure black darkness. i wait some moments and notice to start see some schemas like HH or looking into the sun and see little bits and balls but nothing with real structure. i decide that its time to get "my head out of sand", spit some dirt out of my mouth and continue with next totm. ...

DJ Entry Here

Spoiler for Failed Advanced II:

...i put my hand behind my back and this time feel super confident. immediately i feel a hand and ask "are you fryingman?" no answer i ask a second time and again no answer. i turn around and see a thin guy with short blond hair and light skin wearing blueish cloths standing there. i ask him directly "you are FM?" and he nods. i tell him that he wanted to show me how to get invisible last time but it didnt work out and if he can do it now. he starts to get worried like something is not right mumble something around. he seems to be torn between yes and no and i start waking up....

DJ Entry Here

Spoiler for Failed Bonus:

...okay candyland here i come.
i look to the wall and even tho there is no mirror i see a reflection of me. i see myself smiling and tell myself "behind that door is candyland" i open the door but just a floor. the setting is like an very old hospital. i move to the next door and open it and again just a random room. i continue thru several doors until i land in a room with a guy and a girl. both seem to be personal. i see two doors next to each other and i want to ask the guy which one is the door to candyland but before i can ask he opens one and enters. again just a bathroom. i go to the girl and ask her same question. she tells me "none of those but this one" and points on a bookshelf with a small wooden door. she approaches it and puts in a tissue to open the lock. while shes making around i summon a fire in my hand again. its working but with a little more willpower than the two days before. i think i´ve found a reproducible and easy way to summon a nice fireball in my hand. i am happy about it.
she opens the wooden door and i see a purplish portal behind it. without hesitation i jump inside and find myself in the void. pure blackness. i move some body parts to ground myself and not to wake up. i say again and again "candyland" and try to imagine it. this time it feels long to be in the void. after some time i start to see small circles that start to get bigger. suddenly i am in my room. for the split of a second i seem to see some candy outside but i am back in my room standing there. just to be sure i do a nosepinch and phase outside. i feel like in a different reality....

Spoiler for Another Failed Half-Hearted Attempt:

i phase into a car and push out a granny again (dont know why i have a high affinity to cars that much at the moment and why there are always grannys inside...) i say out loud: "navigation on, bring me to candyland." and immediately a blueish arrow shows the direction. i start driving the car and hear music in the background. i accelerate and decide to drive to a place i know and get out there. but because i think about something else i land in a different location and i get out and everything is game-like.

DJ Entry Here

It's really interesting that people are having issues with the head through the ground thing! I guess our deeply ingrained schema that there's just dirt down there is hard to overcome! I can't wait to give it a try myself!

Originally Posted by FryingMan

It's really interesting that people are having issues with the head through the ground thing! I guess our deeply ingrained schema that there's just dirt down there is hard to overcome! I can't wait to give it a try myself!

for me phasing thru walls and vertical stuff is kind of second nature now because i practiced it a lot. but i never attempted horizontal stuff. i know some people teleport by jumping into the ground and similarities. only thing i´ve done so far was drawing portals on the ground and then jumping in. ah and one time sinking into a mirror i placed on the ground. but sofar i ran completely thru everything and the idea to peak head first is an interesting option i think. you can check things and if you dont like them undo them. i am also interested in phasing thru the ground more often now because i think its a neat thing when you can do it just like that and land in the void or even the location you want to go!

and i get what you mean with "issues" that there is just dirt. but i did it without expecting anything and get exactly that. same with last month totm put your hands in your pocket. there a lot of people also noticed that nothing is in there if you dont expect anything so next time maybe i will expect something to be there and then put my head there. and i am pretty sure then i will found something. maybe i expect there to be a rabbits hole and maybe i will go inside?!

Keep up the great work everyone!!

I like the idea of checking out the other side of the floor. That one could be really interesting.

Another DILD, yay, briefly thought of having a DC show me how to look through the floor, but woke. Pretty happy I caught this one.

Spoiler for DILD, LD#219:

+ LUCIDD 219 LD#219 FA in a hotel bed (with best male friend [on a business trip?])
and I could see in the hallway that several of the paintings had been turned around the face the wall
I had a brief sense of foreboding about this, but then like "ahh...." and did a slow, careful nose pinch being pretty much already lucid, yep, then got up (some brief resistance but got up easily), stood by the sliding glass door [DREAM SIGN] covered by curtains so couldn't see outside, I thought "should I go outside and do some night flying?" nope, wanted more TOTMs. I woke my friend up with a shock "HEY MR GET UP!" he shocked awake suddenly and comically shot out of bed rolling on the ground with that "moving faster than possible in WL" dream-y movement I walked around the room, came across another room with a TV playing inappropriate sexual themed activities for young people (did a double take when I saw it, lots of oral activities going on), and a pretentious sounding announcer saying something like "The James McFadden collection, for when [something pretentious, like "...quality is not enough"]". I walked back into the bedroom where M was on the floor and I walked by him, spanking his butt once and it felt solid. I wanted M to show me how to stick your head in the ground for the TOTM, but the dream fades and I RC and I'm awake.

Originally Posted by FryingMan

Another DILD, yay, briefly thought of having a DC show me how to look through the floor, but woke. Pretty happy I caught this one.

Spoiler for DILD, LD#219:

+ LUCIDD 219 LD#219 FA in a hotel bed (with best male friend [on a business trip?])
and I could see in the hallway that several of the paintings had been turned around the face the wall
I had a brief sense of foreboding about this, but then like "ahh...." and did a slow, careful nose pinch being pretty much already lucid, yep, then got up (some brief resistance but got up easily), stood by the sliding glass door [DREAM SIGN] covered by curtains so couldn't see outside, I thought "should I go outside and do some night flying?" nope, wanted more TOTMs. I woke my friend up with a shock "HEY MR GET UP!" he shocked awake suddenly and comically shot out of bed rolling on the ground with that "moving faster than possible in WL" dream-y movement I walked around the room, came across another room with a TV playing inappropriate sexual themed activities for young people (did a double take when I saw it, lots of oral activities going on), and a pretentious sounding announcer saying something like "The James McFadden collection, for when [something pretentious, like "...quality is not enough"]". I walked back into the bedroom where M was on the floor and I walked by him, spanking his butt once and it felt solid. I wanted M to show me how to stick your head in the ground for the TOTM, but the dream fades and I RC and I'm awake.

i see what you are trying. two totms with one action yea? neat idea. but is "showing how to look thru the ground" really a "ability" to get shown by a dc? in the first moment i would say no but when i think longer about it... probably yes. i mean what is Dreamcontrol? to do things that are not possible in waking life?!
for me most of the time its something more special like fireballs or teleport of flying or stuff but i think i need to rethink my definition of dreamcontrol. feel free to give me yours

Actually, doubling TOTMs was not my intention at all, I only had the look through the ground task on my mind. And yes, of course, asking a DC is absolutely valid dream control. What is dream control? Causing something you want to happen in a dream to happen. Period. Means is irrelevant. Using DCs is an excellent approach, by introducing an element of indirection, you're bypassing the need to suspend disbelief of having to yourself do something "impossible", to simply believing that the DC already has the thing you want, or has the ability to do what you want. There is no difference to having a DC do something than using your phone in the dream to do something, or waving a magic wand, etc.

And technically, if I had doubling on my mind, I would see these as two separate things: 1) friend shows me how to do it, then 2) doing it myself

Yeah I get you. But I didn't mean that using a dc is not a dream control. I meant that let him show you how to stick your head into the ground would be advanced ll (and sticking the head into the ground would be kind of a dream control by itself that gets shown by a dc) And with that it would be kinda Two tasks in one.
Asking DCs for things is pretty cool. Like you said it's way easier to do something when you see that it is possible. This is the way i learned to change say into nighttime

If the DC showed by example by doing it first, then you do it, in two discrete steps, I'd say they were different. If they showed you by pushing your head under the ground, then I'd agree it was one task.

I got Advanced I but still can't get to Candyland.
11/13/16-UFO Darkens Earth-TOTM Cavemen Underground - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

During a very long WILD this morning I also explored Candyland. HERE the DJ entry

Thanks for proposing that one, it has been fun !

Cheers !

Originally Posted by GenghisKhan

During a very long WILD this morning I also explored Candyland. HERE the DJ entry

Thanks for proposing that one, it has been fun !

Cheers !

You might need to PM Gab for your wings..Sometimes they oversleep

i think i completed the bonus task even tho it was not "THE" candyland. but i am satisfied

Spoiler for Bonus:

...outside i get lucid and i meet my GF (that turns later to a friend A.) and the mail girl. i tell them "okay listen i have two goals: 1. visit candyland and 2. let me teach by somebody how to do short distance teleportation. what do you wanne do?`" both girls decide for candyland and so i go with it and "candyland it is! how do we get there?"
we take each others hands and stand in a circle. i look down to the ground and we wave our hands once. for a short instance i start seeing some colorful things on the ground that might be some candy but instantly my rational mind kicks in "hey we didnt even teleport or changed location whatsoever..." and everything looks mundane again. we move around and the girls are in a good mood talking alot and jumping around. i still look out for some candy and instead of candy i see colorfull lights sparkling here and there on the ground. i try to hold the thought that we ARE in candyland already and all i have to do is find the right corner. i tell them "hey here is no candy..." and they answer "not yet..." and we keep going. we past by a christmas tree with some colored lights. the girls talk about some school stuff from the past i think. there is some not too pleasant metal/punk music in the background.
i remember a DV-Thread where they talked about expectation and the example of sivasion with the summon of a banana. okay so i pretend to see some candy on the ground and pick it up and put it in my mouth. as expected i see feel and taste nothing... nevermind i chew and chew and dont stop chewing and imagine chewing some chocolate and after about 10-15 seconds i suddenly taste sweet and "candyland" or my version of it appears. i start seeing some egg formed foiled chocolates inbetween some grass [more like eastern-themed]. and not only one or two but now a lot of candy on the ground. i move around and see chocolate easter-bunnys and little santa clauses and several more sweets. i taste some and feel super happy about it. ...

Spoiler for Advanced II fail:

...i think about if i might use them as items for performing short distance teleportation? i say "hey girls listen stop this discussion i want to practice short distance teleportation. lets say i want to go there to the xY [i look around and try to find a pregnant location and point at something]" the girls laugh because i pointed on something else or called it wrong or something? "oh come on you know what i mean i want to get there how may i teleport there easy who can show me?" i think about my recall and how bad it would be if i lose something from it and instantly i wake up [damn it!]...

DJ Entry

@GAB: so maybe i might get an orange name and a fancy custom user title? Gab, hm, what do you say, hm?

Failed TOTM attempt.
Occasionally my control just refuses to work properly.
You can see the lucid dream here http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/natu...ty-fail-78617/

Originally Posted by naturespirit

Failed TOTM attempt.
Occasionally my control just refuses to work properly.
You can see the lucid dream here TOTM Fail TOTD Fail TOTY Fail - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Don't give up! Keep on trying!

I like the paper scissors rock one. I'm so silly to have only come to see these halfway through the month. -_- Small chance of being able to get it done now, lol.