Task of the Year 2017

**obfusc8** · 02-12-2017 04:59 PM

This last one is proving difficult for me... some attempts at the saucer task from the past week, for your amusement:

Spoiler for Transformers:

Spoiler for Men in Black:

Spoiler for Taboo Waste Disposal Craft?:

**fogelbise** · 02-14-2017 02:46 AM

Car task partial success or success? I did the car one but I am not sure if it counts. I looked at the description again and like the very first time I read the description I noticed the "no tires" part. I reviewed the TOTY description several times since the first time to help me to do it right but I skipped right over the tire part somehow IWL and was focused on the part about checking under the hood and if there's an engine remove it, not giving the tires a second thought. I don't remember the car being absent of tires or anything details about the wheels, so this may not qualify. I haven't read other's car tasks so as to avoid their experiences influencing mine.

Spoiler for relevant part:

It was part of a nice, long lucid series though my notes are a bit messy and brief: OMG, WTF Nice Long Series of Mostly Lucid Dreaming in Brief, TOTY Success? - Car Without Engine - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

**gab** · 02-14-2017 03:06 AM

Originally Posted by fogelbise

Car task partial success or success? I did the car one but I am not sure if it counts. I looked at the description again and like the very first time I read the description I noticed the "no tires" part. I reviewed the TOTY description several times since the first time to help me to do it right but I skipped right over the tire part somehow IWL and was focused on the part about checking under the hood and if there's an engine remove it, not giving the tires a second thought. I don't remember the car being absent of tires or anything details about the wheels, so this may not qualify. I haven't read other's car tasks so as to avoid their experiences influencing mine.

Spoiler for relevant part:

It was part of a nice, long lucid series though my notes are a bit messy and brief: OMG, WTF Nice Long Series of Mostly Lucid Dreaming in Brief, TOTY Success? - Car Without Engine - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Mhm, removing the tires is part of the task. So I can't give you this one : (

I removed the engine same way you did, haha. Then peeled off the tires by lifting the car up with one hand and turning it as I went around. But I didn't find the key. I'll have to look under the visor next time. Thanks for the tip! Btw, making engine noise with my mouth didn't make the car go : ( Haha.

**fogelbise** · 02-14-2017 03:31 AM

No worries Gab, I agree. After posting the above, I started searching through just the car tasks in the thread and I saw that this was already discussed. I think this will be easy to do again since I've already done most of it. I am thinking the wheels will rip off just as easy as the engine, on the ground or not, but I am impressed with how you did it. On making the car go, I just willed it forward. I have made my car fly the few times I have become lucid while in a car, so willing it forward seemed like a good way to get it moving. I did pull back on the wheel (like an airplane) when making my cars fly in the past, so perhaps a foot on the gas pedal will do all the convincing that the mind needs to get the car going for you.

**fogelbise** · 02-15-2017 07:58 AM

This is the first year I am really going after TOTY other than one task a friend did in the past and I decided to try for fun. So with my limited experience with what seem a little more detailed tasks than the TOTMs, I wanted to play it safe and clarify a few points:

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Elephant-Ride an elephant through the jungle. There is a tough war going on and you have no other choice but to fight. Create havoc (from your Elephant.)

If you are stampeding DC's and things in the jungle, is that the same thing as fighting, or does this task need some specific combat interaction?

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Dolphin-Ride a dolphin through the ocean and visit Atlantis. Find a mermaid or triton and have fun with (in any ways you want…)

Is any lost underwater city that you take to be "Atlantis" fine, or does it need to possess certain specifics to qualify? No specifics mentioned, so I am guessing not. And I think there are different myths/versions of Atlantis anyway.

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Car-Drive a car that has no tires and no engine (open the hood to check, if there is an engine, remove it.) If the car stars and gives an engine noise, it will be valid as long as you previously removed the engine and you neither summoned another one. It has to spawn on its own, or start without an engine at all.

I take this to mean that it is okay if the car starts with engine noise but it isn't a requirement, the main point is to drive a car with no engine or tires - removing them once, if they are present. As long as the car drives, then it is assumed to have started and the "starting" of the car is not a factor. Basically making the last sentence read "It has to spawn on its own, or (go/drive/be driven) without an engine at all." Sound right?

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Dragon-Fly a dragon from one castle to another. When you reach it, pulverize it.

Pulverize has a few meanings including "to defeat utterly" on one end of the spectrum to "reduce to fine particles" on the other end of the spectrum. I am guessing that reducing the castle to a pile of stones and material would be good enough and that we aren't looking for only fine sand remaining...is that right?

**gab** · 02-19-2017 01:54 AM

Originally Posted by fogelbise

This is the first year I am really going after TOTY other than one task a friend did in the past and I decided to try for fun. So with my limited experience with what seem a little more detailed tasks than the TOTMs, I wanted to play it safe and clarify a few points:

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Elephant-Ride an elephant through the jungle. There is a tough war going on and you have no other choice but to fight. Create havoc (from your Elephant.)

If you are stampeding DC's and things in the jungle, is that the same thing as fighting, or does this task need some specific combat interaction?

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Dolphin-Ride a dolphin through the ocean and visit Atlantis. Find a mermaid or triton and have fun with (in any ways you want…)

Is any lost underwater city that you take to be "Atlantis" fine, or does it need to possess certain specifics to qualify? No specifics mentioned, so I am guessing not. And I think there are different myths/versions of Atlantis anyway.

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Car-Drive a car that has no tires and no engine (open the hood to check, if there is an engine, remove it.) If the car stars and gives an engine noise, it will be valid as long as you previously removed the engine and you neither summoned another one. It has to spawn on its own, or start without an engine at all.

I take this to mean that it is okay if the car starts with engine noise but it isn't a requirement, the main point is to drive a car with no engine or tires - removing them once, if they are present. As long as the car drives, then it is assumed to have started and the "starting" of the car is not a factor. Basically making the last sentence read "It has to spawn on its own, or (go/drive/be driven) without an engine at all." Sound right?

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Dragon-Fly a dragon from one castle to another. When you reach it, pulverize it.

Pulverize has a few meanings including "to defeat utterly" on one end of the spectrum to "reduce to fine particles" on the other end of the spectrum. I am guessing that reducing the castle to a pile of stones and material would be good enough and that we aren't looking for only fine sand remaining...is that right?

Fogelbise, I think until something is stated specifically or excluded specifically, then all the possible explanations would apply.

So if it says pulverize, it could be any meaning of the word - leave no stone unturned, turn them into dust, defeat them, drop an asteroid on their heads...

Creating havoc - by anything you can - fight, stampede, drop some trees on them, break a water dam to flood them, yell at them real loud some scary things, haha...

Or the Atlantis - I think anything that will give you a feeling that you are in Atlantis would do. Any island or continent when you think to yourself "wow, this could be it" would do. I don't think we need to confirm by asking a DC what is that place, since DCs can be pretty stubborn and non-cooperative.

The tasks are not easy and they are long. So if we complete what's in the "spirit" of the task, I think it's a completion.

Like in the previous task, I was too hard on myself, when the task was "lift a car with your superstrength" but I lifted it just by thinking about lifting it. Later I thought, that could be a superstrength as well, so It should have counted. Unless it says "lift the car with your hands without any other help".

I think, ultimately it's about having fun. And we can all read the attempts and I invite everybody to chime in to help decide if the task is accepted or not.

**naturespirit** · 02-26-2017 09:44 PM

Completed Car task!

Spoiler for relevant part:

car toty - lucid 2017 DJ 34 LD #43 - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

**fogelbise** · 03-01-2017 07:48 PM

I was thinking about the TOTY's again yesterday and got back to the car task this morning. BTW, thank you gab for the thorough clarifications!

Car task success

Spoiler for relevant details:

DJ Entry: TOTY Success - Driving a Car With No Engine or Tires, 1st March 2017 - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

**Verre** · 03-10-2017 11:52 PM

It's starting to look like I have a mental block against the sledding TOTY:

Spoiler for At least I found snow this time!:

As I was falling asleep last night, at one point I became aware that I was just below the waking threshold and was able to take some control over the hypnagogic imagery. I wanted to try a TOTY and decided to attempt sledding again. I figured my problem last time was that I had gotten fixated on looking for a mountain to sled down... wouldn't it be more sensible to establish that I was on the mountain to start with? Then all I would have to do is go downhill. And find snow, of course.

I successfully turned the hypnagogic imagery into a scene of sliding down a mountain slope. Initially it felt more like imagining than dreaming, in part because I was not yet fully embodied in the scene, only seeing it in my mind's eye. But already it was manifesting some of the ornery characteristics of dream and resisting my attempts to imagine snow, so I was sliding over bare earth. I let the scene play along and pretty soon I started to feel physical sensations: the bumps along the ground (I thought wistfully how snow would smooth out the ride!) and the surprisingly realistic smack of low hanging leaves against my face as I passed under trees. I was on a round metal saucer sled, barely big enough to seat me, but by concentrating I could prevent it from spinning out of control (unlike the similar sled I have in WL!)

Before long it started to feel like a real dream with physical embodiment, but I was still lucid enough that I was not concerned when my sled went over a steep embankment and into freefall: I just applied some mental "brakes" and came down gently, landing in the yard of someone's farm. The farmer was there, so I realized this would be a perfect opportunity to coax some snow into existence.

"Can you believe the weather we're having?" I asked the farmer. "Such thick snow! Hey, where is the snow the deepest?" I tried to make my tone convincing, despite the fact that there was still no snow in sight. Apparently this worked, because the farmer pointed into the distance, and when sledded off in that direction, soon I was surrounded by snow everywhere!

I was back in the mountain forest, but there was a slight problem. I looked around and saw no way down but steep rocky cliffs, rather than slopes that looked suitable for sledding. I figured I should just pick a cliff and sled off it anyway, since freefalling posed no real danger. But at that moment, for no good reason, I felt a subtle pang of anxiety about completing the task, and this woke me up.

Dreams are a wonderful laboratory for discovering all the ways that our own minds can get in the way of our intentions!

**AnotherDreamer** · 03-16-2017 01:33 PM

I did the dolphin one! (success)

Spoiler for Dolphin:

Hospital Stress Dream and Bryan Cranston is a Red Dolphin - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

**obfusc8** · 03-18-2017 04:22 PM

The 7th and final one completed

Spoiler for Saucer task relevant bit:

Full dream in DJ Entry

**gab** · 03-18-2017 07:55 PM

Originally Posted by obfusc8

The 7th and final one completed

so... beautiful : D

**Lang** · 03-19-2017 10:41 PM

Originally Posted by obfusc8

The 7th and final one completed

Congrats!! obfusc8!

**AnotherDreamer** · 03-22-2017 11:00 PM

I did the flying saucer and flying car tasks! (success)

Spoiler for Flying Saucer (Failed Attempt):

Spoiler for Flying Saucer (Success!):

I walked outside and there was a really bright light in front of the house. A plump british woman in victorian garb and her two red-haired children shoved me out of the way as she made her way into my house with groceries. I love when random stuff like that happens.

Unfortunately, she turned off the light and it was very dark outside again. I tried to make the sun rise and a few streaks of orange and red light spilled over the horizon before quickly disappearing. I thought to myself, "Oh well, I can do this!!!"

I ran down the street, hoping to find a flying saucer when, in the middle of a cul-de-sac, it dawned on me, there was probably one above me right then. O_O

I started to slowly float upwards. I looked up and there was an enormouse UFO above me, seriously, ENORMOUS, it looked like the mothership from independence day.

I was suddenly inside, there were dark, metallic corridors all around me. I stood by a window and started controlling the UFO. I made it fly super fast into space, through an asteroidfield, and then past numerous stars. It finally stopped at an orangish-yellow star with many gigantic rocks orbiting the star in a spiral pattern. There was a green-brown planet hidden among the rocks and I sent the flying saucer to land on it.

I was outside, my hands and face lying on brown soil, with green vegetation and strange looking plants all around me. I surveyed my surroundings, hoping to find an alien to talk to. A man, that looked very human, popped his head up from behind a mound. I had the feeling that he was either a farmer or a vagabond. He walked up to me. He appeared to have stumps for feet, but upon closer inspection I saw that he just walked on the tips of his toes, and he only had four toes on each foot as well! I said to him, "I come in peace! Please teach me yours ways!" He started pawing at some plants with his toes while he said in a strange accent that I could only describe as mix between accents from Louisiana and India, "Iron your food...iron your food is good it mix fats. It's CURRY!" I laughed really loudly, I don't know why but I thought that what he had just said was the most hilarious thing that I had heard in a dream in ages. I was scared that I would wake ~Dreamer~ up by accidentally laughing out loud and I intentionally woke myself up.

Spoiler for Flying Car (Success!):

http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/anot...mon-tea-80552/

**gab** · 03-24-2017 01:34 PM

Originally Posted by AnotherDreamer

I did the flying saucer and flying car tasks! (success)

Spoiler for Flying Saucer (Failed Attempt):

Spoiler for Flying Saucer (Success!):

I walked outside and there was a really bright light in front of the house. A plump british woman in victorian garb and her two red-haired children shoved me out of the way as she made her way into my house with groceries. I love when random stuff like that happens.

Unfortunately, she turned off the light and it was very dark outside again. I tried to make the sun rise and a few streaks of orange and red light spilled over the horizon before quickly disappearing. I thought to myself, "Oh well, I can do this!!!"

I ran down the street, hoping to find a flying saucer when, in the middle of a cul-de-sac, it dawned on me, there was probably one above me right then. O_O

I started to slowly float upwards. I looked up and there was an enormouse UFO above me, seriously, ENORMOUS, it looked like the mothership from independence day.

I was suddenly inside, there were dark, metallic corridors all around me. I stood by a window and started controlling the UFO. I made it fly super fast into space, through an asteroidfield, and then past numerous stars. It finally stopped at an orangish-yellow star with many gigantic rocks orbiting the star in a spiral pattern. There was a green-brown planet hidden among the rocks and I sent the flying saucer to land on it.

I was outside, my hands and face lying on brown soil, with green vegetation and strange looking plants all around me. I surveyed my surroundings, hoping to find an alien to talk to. A man, that looked very human, popped his head up from behind a mound. I had the feeling that he was either a farmer or a vagabond. He walked up to me. He appeared to have stumps for feet, but upon closer inspection I saw that he just walked on the tips of his toes, and he only had four toes on each foot as well! I said to him, "I come in peace! Please teach me yours ways!" He started pawing at some plants with his toes while he said in a strange accent that I could only describe as mix between accents from Louisiana and India, "Iron your food...iron your food is good it mix fats. It's CURRY!" I laughed really loudly, I don't know why but I thought that what he had just said was the most hilarious thing that I had heard in a dream in ages. I was scared that I would wake ~Dreamer~ up by accidentally laughing out loud and I intentionally woke myself up.

Spoiler for Flying Car (Success!):

Flying Car, a UFO, and Lemon Tea! - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Nice!

UFO is a pass, but the car was suppose to be driven, after checking the engine and taking it out and ripping the wheels off.

Still, awesome lucids, congrats!

**gab** · 03-24-2017 07:45 PM

Wooo, my first ever TOTY!

7. Drive a car (rip out engine and wheels) - success - TOTY

I remember another TOTM (actually a TOTY but I don't know that). And I feel the urgency as I feel like I may be waking up.

I actually remember this task when I see a huge, old type, german car with no top parked by the sidewalk. It's matte black with some gothic looking style. It's a bit menacing.

I open the hood and it's empty, so I open another and another. Seems like the hoods are layered, haha. But there is no engine in any of the compartments.

I walk around to the other side and look at the wheels. They are huge, rugged, black, dirty and warn out from heavy use. I KNOW it's easy to rip them off, so I grab one and pull it off. It comes off right away. I move to the next one and do the same. The belly of a car is dirty from many roads it traveled. I see something that looks like another wheel deep under the car. But I dismiss it knowing that it doesn't belong there, it's just my subC messing with me. Besides, I didn't want to get dirty climbing under to get it. As I think that, I don't see it any more.

The car is full of people all dressed in clothes from era of the car. I'm thinking pre-WWII, Germany. First and I think second row is taken, so I sit in the second or third. I will make it work, even if I'm not behind the wheel.

There is a dude sitting behind me and he does something that I can't even say what : D

So I sit down and I'm looking at the lady behind the wheel. I ask for the keys. I have to ask again and someone turns to me with keys in his hand. I take them and I ask for ignition. I ask again and it appears in the headrest of the seat in front of me. I put the key in and turn it. The car starts. I look at the wheel and I make it turn the way I want. We cross the intersection where I helped that nun cross the street when the street dips down. I will it to fly over it, realizing we should be on the surface, so after the dip (which looks like construction site of a highrise) we kinda land on the street again.

Here I wake up and decide to write it all down.

**AnotherDreamer** · 03-25-2017 12:14 AM

Congrats gab!

Just for clarification though, flying isn't considered driving, even if it's just hovering slightly above the ground? The car base needs to be scraping across the ground?

**gab** · 03-25-2017 12:36 AM

Originally Posted by AnotherDreamer

Congrats gab!

Just for clarification though, flying isn't considered driving, even if it's just hovering slightly above the ground? The car base needs to be scraping across the ground?

Oh, I see what you mean. Since no wheels... haha. I didn't consider that. I will ask the others to chime in, it may be a success. It just seemed to me a bit too far removed from the task description. I will link your post and this one in TOTM Off topic and ask others to give opinion.

I double checked the task, and now I know why I never thought of it as flying. It says no tires, not no wheels. I know I say in mine "wheels" but what I meant was "tires", that were black and dirty and worn from heavy use. I think that was in my first attempt as well.

Let's see what others say. http://www.dreamviews.com/tasks-mont...ml#post2214196

**woblybil** · 03-25-2017 03:52 AM

Originally Posted by gab

Oh, I see what you mean. Since no wheels... haha. I didn't consider that. I will ask the others to chime in, it may be a success. It just seemed to me a bit too far removed from the task description. I will link your post and this one in TOTM Off topic and ask others to give opinion.

I double checked the task, and now I know why I never thought of it as flying. It says no tires, not no wheels. I know I say in mine "wheels" but what I meant was "tires", that were black and dirty and worn from heavy use. I think that was in my first attempt as well.

Let's see what others say. http://www.dreamviews.com/tasks-mont...ml#post2214196

I would give her a yes

She did it lucid and as a task..As far as it flying goes, I don't think we're that trivial, Most of my cars fly in dreams anyways and mostly without a road , some made by a six year old from orange crates and used nails.. I would give it to her ..

**AnotherDreamer** · 03-29-2017 11:55 AM

I think I did the plane task, maybe? I'm not sure though! What do you guys think?

Spoiler for Plane Task:

Tsunami, Floating City, and a Creepy Dog - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

**gab** · 03-30-2017 07:03 PM

Originally Posted by AnotherDreamer

I think I did the plane task, maybe? I'm not sure though! What do you guys think?

Sounds like the clouds were the time breach, so it's a yes. And wobly says yes to the car dream too, so that's 5 stars, ey? Congrats!

**gab** · 03-30-2017 07:05 PM

And one more doubly from me.

Dolphin-Ride a dolphin through the ocean and visit Atlantis. Find a mermaid or triton and have fun with (in any ways you want...) - fail

4. Ride a dolphin to Atlantis and have fun with merfolk - TOTY - fail
I finally come to seashore. But the water is not of the blue color that I love. So I walk a bit to find it. I look for dolphins and I see something stirring the water and some sea creature is poking out. I assume it's a dolphin and I jump in. To be sure though, I figure I should summon one. I call "here, dolphin dolphin" and one looking just like the other one shows up.

I tell them to take me to Atlantis, k? I jump on and off we go. They go under the water but it's very murky and I can't see almost anything. I tell them to swim on the surface. But it's not better here either. I think I'm losing my vision here. We go under water again and there is a normal city. I'm kinda disappointed because I want to see corals and sea life.

Suddenly we are walking through some city, dolphin next to me on his tail fin. I understand that land is in our way and we have to get through it to water again. We come to water again and swim some more. Now it's nighttime. I lose it somewhere here and I find myself looking for sex again. (Next time I have to "see" and island of Atlantis in near distance and that's where we will need to go)

http://www.dreamviews.com/dreamviews...attempt-80621/
Link will go live on 1st, since it has some April TOTM in it as well.