Thread: Task of the Year 2017

Completed TOTY "Fly a plane and before you reach the destination, a time breach opens in front of you, fly through it. Where does it take you?"

Time for another star..
I Finally-Finally flew that airplane thru a time breach..

And yet another POW escape!
4/16
3:30pm I was in a prison camp with about 25 other POW's and was being interrogated by a WWII Japanese officer in a room with a pool table, He theatened to shoot me and pulled out his gun and I said "Go ahead and shoot you dumb shit,This is a dream so you can't hurt me and you can't shoot that straight anyways" He fired two shots at me missing both times then threw the gun at me which I grabbed and blew three holes thru his liver...I took his shirt and his keys and let the other POW's out and said "Follow me quietly" I had seen where they were using an old heavy twin for supplies at an airfield nearby and we sneaked thru the jungle to it but there were too many guys so I said, "Very quietly, Unlatch the seats and set them out and set on the floor to save weight, and remove the door too"
I was looking around the panel for something familiar, everthing was in Japanese but red is red so I hit a red breaker for the master and things started waking up. I started the engines and as soon as they caught I jammed the throttles wide open and took off across the field the way it was pointed at the time, We were in the air quick enough but then some WW II fighter planes showed up trying to shoot us down and I thought, "If ever I needed a time breach I need it NOW " And there it was, Just like "The Time Tunnel" in the movies and with fighters chasing me I flew right in and the fighters got lost in time I figured, Anyways, I expected something like a starfield on the other side but what I got looked just like jungle where we had left but maybe in another time, This was when I turned to tell the guys we made it and noticed that more than half of them were now girls and there was a sort of orgy going on on the floor of the airplane with some falling out of the missing door, A half dressed girl came up and wrapped around me and we flopped on the floor and I completely forgot about flying anymore until I woke up and remembered the dream

http://www.dreamviews.com/dreamviews...ar-2017-80820/

2 more POW dreams there too http://www.dreamviews.com/dreamviews...escapes-80821/

Woah, been away for a while. Did the Dolphin TOTY.
http://www.dreamviews.com/dreamviews...in-toty-80942/

[SPOILER]
I am laying in bed... WILD TIME! I jump out of my body/roof and into the sky. I fly up about 200 meters. I jump to the other side of the mountain and towards the ocean. I get slammed by a force field. Haha, I really need to write down the new rules to Zödra. I get tackled by 夢の先生. Forgot about him too.
I know now what he is thinking pretty well by now. He points to the ocean. I grab his hand and he throws me there. Doesn't count as breaking the speed limit if it isn't my own power. It also doesn't count as fighting because there is no injuries, so a little work around. I land in the ocean and start swim flying down. A Dolphin swims next to me with a harness and everything (I was planning that). I mount him and start swimming down. Just like in Episode 1, I go over a cliff in the ocean and there is a shining city. I start spiraling towards the city and get thrown off of my mount. There are mer-people everywhere. I Look for Triton and he is at the top of the city. I float towards him and he catches my eye. He smiles and starts swimming away. I chase after him and just barely touch his shoulder. My fly speed underwater is not really fare for chasing him down, and I am not really enjoying it much since it is not even like I am underwater. I change the feelings real fast so I feel like I am underwater. I then suck in the water, expecting the water to fill my lungs instead of the air that it felt like I had been breathing before. Water sucks in, but no burning sensation like usual, more like a cooling sensation. I then switch my legs into more of fin legs (like HP) and start swimming away from Triton, the water weight is really heavy, but I can still move well. He catches me after a bit. I swim around a little looking at the city. It is very beautiful. Then I wake up (run out of time for WILD)
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Dragon task done

http://www.dreamviews.com/dreamviews...on-task-81038/

Spoiler for Dragon Task:

I am laying in bed. Time to leave. I jump on my bed a little, doing back flips until the dream hardens. I then jump through the roof. Bounce off of a cloud toward Heijo Palace remains. I didn't realize that this isn't called a castle by Japanese, but I think it still counts.


I am planning on jumping up to the top the castle where my own Dragon will be at, but as I land on the grounds, I see that the dragon is much bigger than last time I saw him. I still don't have a name for him.
"You left me!" He screams. He is still blue, but more shinny than before. all of his scales are extended with long clear crystals, probably a normal part of his life. Still young, just a big freaking dragon tho.
"I didn't have enough ability before to take care of you." I reply, flying towards his face "I knew you would be strong enough to handle yourself. You aren't my pet. You are part of this world."

I jump onto his back. Flying through the sky toward Osaka. I create a vortex inside a cloud ahead, teleporting us to a copy of the real world and out of Zödra. Over the mountain. I head towards Osaka Castle.

He sets the bottom ablaze and continues to spread the fire all around the base. I motion for him to back up and create a quick barrier around the castle, then I create another one around a much bigger area, forcing all of the oxygen from the bigger one directly towards the flame, causing the entire castle to burst into flames even more. Then the oxygen ran out and there was just a heap of ash on the rocks. I use the barrier and incinerate the inside, the molecules all losing their connections to each other and no two connected atoms inside after it is done.

Completed the sled ride this morning (finally!) Full dream here: Sled Ride

There is a lot of extraneous detail in my write-up, but here is the section specifically relevant to the completion of the task:

I remembered the last few times I had attempted the sled task, and how I had overcomplicated it to the point where I kept waking up before I could finish. This time I decided I'd better just get it done, even if my solutions weren't elegant. So instead of going to the trouble of finding or manifesting the necessary sled and mountaintop, I just asserted these conditions into existence. I'm on a sled, riding down a mountain. As is typical when I "brute force" things in dream, initially it felt like a fiction, but soon I began to feel plausible sensations of sitting on a sled and sliding down the snowy slope. It was far from my best work, but it sufficed.

I was sufficiently familiar with the task that before I had even intended it, my sled slipped through an irregular opening like the mouth of a cave, into a wide dark space. But then I wondered if this was good enough—I hadn't read the terms of the task in ages. Would a cave suffice, or did it have to be a proper hole through the surface of the earth? I couldn't remember, so I decided to play it safe and conjured a perfectly round hole, like the sort of thing you might see in a cartoon, just in front of me on the lower floor of the cave. My sled and I slipped right through, and at this point my interest perked up, because I didn't know what to expect, and had not planned or intended anything past this point.

It was dark down here, and I had no sense of the borders of the space, yet I could see the details nearest me perfectly well in the nonlight of dream. The place felt public and even familiar—familiar as a type rather than a specific location—but I can't think of how to relate it to anything in WL. A "town square" might be the closest analogue, but of course in WL town squares don't tend to be in enormous caverns underground.

I completed the elephant task. It was so much fun and ended with a beautiful view that almost brought me to tears.

Spoiler for lucid part in blue, task relevant part in bold:

…"I wonder what you would call me?" and she just smiles. I was thinking something like Uncle or Brother and it looks like she was thinking boyfriend. Anyway we go into the school and it transitions to looking more like a hospital and more than a few horror scenes with injuries etc but I don't seem to be bothered by it. I'm mainly concerned with where she went and I ask one of the people we're with and they said that they think she walked down that way, so I walked down the hall with all of these open bays with patients in them and I must have realized how crazy this was or my lucidity just came to me and I realize that none of this matters, I am dreaming, and I just start dancing there in the hospital to the song of the summer "standing in the bright lights" whatever the name of the song is. At some point it transitions to a classic rock song from maybe the 70s. One of those pop rock songs. After a bit of dancing I think about the task of the year and try the same thing I tried before and this time it works! I basically say "that sounds like an elephant" and sure enough I start hearing the sound of an elephant, it's bugle cry and stampeding feet and it hasn't fully materialized last yet but I can hear it more and more and the hospital scene around me has turned gray and I see a flash of gray and I jump up floating up in the air and land on what I take to be the elephant until it materializes and I go riding off in what now is an open plains area and I say there is the jungle up ahead and shortly after I'm stampeding through a jungle on the back of this elephant. I remember how the task mentioned what sounded like a bit of a violent romp through the jungle and I didn't think that would be my kind of thing but it was quite a bit of fun especially knowing that none of this is real, no one's really being hurt. I now intentionally seek to trample villagers and small huts on my path through the jungle and I succeed in doing so but the joy was really in just the brisk gallop through the jungle. I get to this ridgeline and I'm looking down over this beautiful valley where the jungle starts to clear and I am taken by how clear and vivid and beautiful all of this is, much like I was taken by the extreme vividness of what I took to be HHs when I was first going back to sleep after short wbtb. In hindsight I think I was already dreaming at that "HH" point, probably NREM and then nothing before the REM started. By the beginning of REM my awareness wasn't there but it came back to me towards the end maybe 5 minutes before waking. Anyway back to the Jungle scene: I'm almost in tears at the beauty and completeness of the scene below me and I consider making myself wake up to recall everything fully. I don't remember making the decision to wake up but I wake up shortly after, whatever the reason. The strong set of grassy sea practices during wake back to bed, even if wake back to bed is short like in this case, seems to be a very effective for producing strong lucidity.

TOTY Success - Rampage on an Elephant, Very Beautiful View - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

I completed the sled task, relevant part in bold:

Spoiler for The lucid:

I go back to sleep fairly quickly so once again I have an NLD before brief wakefulness and then DEILD entry with eye clench (to confirm strength of vibrations) then visualization to try to influence scene. Seems NREM visuals...an extended period of flying through odd visions mostly like space-scapes, not that different from those on Twin Peaks The Return episode 8 which was mostly trippy visions. There were voices; I couldn't make out what they were saying. Towards end my mind recalled some of the creepiness of Twin Peaks from last night and the little bit of schema poisoning teased and then dumped in a DV thread recently (I just remembered after seeing a cheetah on TV IWL that among the last ethereal scenes included panther eyes in the dark) but I handled all of the creepiness well with a sense of my own power much like facing creepy spaces IWL. Weird scenes blur out, as part of my subconscious solution I'm guessing. Then exploring some darkish rooms and halls with DC's.

I want to do another TOTY so I spin while imagining a snow covered mountain for the sled task. I find myself in the snow at the top of a mountain with snow blowing and not giving me much to look at. I form my sled with my hands motioning the outline of a small one man sled. I get on and I go down at a medium speed. As I approach the bottom I imagine the earth opening up and I go down further which leads to calm endless ocean that I float above for a bit.

I want to do this again and see if I can make it more interesting by going down faster and I'll make it notably cold while I'm at it. I spin again and imagine being back at the top and feeling the cold and it works again. I notice the cold air and this time I just assume the sled is already in my hands and I hop on it in mid-air while aiming down hill. This time it feels fast, out of control and much more thrilling. I still didn't try to influence what I got at the bottom but after having the ground at the bottom open up it leads me to something different this time. It leads to shallow stream with lots of pebbles visible through the clear water that I float just above following the stream. Water both times interestingly, though vastly different bodies of water.

After flying a bit I find myself indoors. I explore.

Spoiler for sexual content:

I get some bj's and also I am back to intercourse this time, in a hallway. Going around looking for sexy DC's. One group sitting around a table and I choose one for a bj.

I wake after a good amount of fun.

http://www.dreamviews.com/dreamviews...epeated-81633/

As you may notice, I put some focus into getting back to these tasks. I completed the saucer task:

Spoiler for Saucer task:

This is a DEILD where the dream forms outdoors with not much around. I think about the alien task of the year. I confidently know the flying saucer is up ahead. I see it by a rock formation. The ship is somewhat oval shaped with rigid panels. I enter and sit and there are lighted controls above me that I press to get the ship moving. I explain to my copilot who is already inside what I'll say when we get to the planet as my way of reminding myself the points of the task. It is not long before we arrive. We stop and I get out of the ship. This alien planet is not very interesting. Its dark, I'm on ridge at a ranch-like setting with less around, overlooking a bland desert city somewhat lit up in the distance, below and well out from the ridge. The aliens are seemingly formless. I'm making out only a watery shimmer in the space I assume they occupy. I hold up peace fingers and say my line "I come in peace and I want to learn your ways" and then I ask them to teach me something…I am led to a small garden, up ahead near some possible living structure, growing something like vegetables and they telepathically tell me "food and family (are what it's all about)." I think more about their appearance as the scene fades and I get an image of a black draped and black crepe-faced or masked figure. The craft was quite cool but the planet was not very exciting. I should have let my mind run wild with all of the exciting possibilities for where I would land, which might have produced something more spectacular.

TOTY Success - Saucer - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Damn fogelbrise, you have a run here. Didn't know you are so good at this stuff, don't seem to have to many try and errors.

You seem to incubate most part of the dream beforehand?

^I feel like I'm in a good place with my practice right now but that is usually when I start coasting too much and have a dry spell, so I must stay diligent to keep good streaks going. I did have some failed attempts that I haven't posted though. My favorite mode of dream control is "knowing" something until it "becomes."

Yes, I do incubate and rehearse tasks in many cases, which is very helpful.

I'll have to put some more thought into the best ways for me to achieve the dragon and dolphin tasks.

Awesome!! Keep up the great work, everyone!

I completed the Atlantis task!

Spoiler for relevant part:

I descend to Atlantis with a dolphin' assistance.
In the air bubble, I land in a strip shopping center next to a road. The shops are all a hospital or doctor center. Thousands of people dressed on blue are swarming in and out, and I feel terrified. I run to the left and right, only to be confronted by more. I did not feel like a medical check up, so I retreat to a Juice Bar.
There is a large queue and I am unsure what to order.
While I am waiting I have some fun...

Atlantis - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Task of the Year - Plane - Success

Spoiler for dream:

I remember the Task of the Years, and I run down the hall to beat up the pilots and fly it myself for a while until we go through the time warp and stop in a futuristic tunnel like place where the plane becomes a train again.

I am in a new city. I exit the plane, fly above the city and watch the sunrise. It is daytime now, and I can tell that this is a futuristic dystopian city of extreme order and control by the layout of the buildings and the bizarre architecture.

Didn't even intend that night to get this one complete, it just sort of happened! This happened on the 10th of October.

only 6 to go, haha.

Happy dreams!

2017 is now complete. Prepare for your next challenge: http://www.dreamviews.com/tasks-mont...ar-2018-a.html