Thread: Task of the Month for December 2008

OMG
I completed the task of the month! And it was my first wild as well!(a Vild actually)

I fell asleep, when I decided to take a nap in the evening and I woke up at ~6 am. I got up, brushed my teeth and got back into bed.

I thought that I might as well try Vilding. I remembered the task of the month and decided to try imagining myself inside a bus, but my mind would keep on straying off. Then (I think I was already in a dream, but didn't realise it ) I thought that since I fail at riding inside a bus, I can just ride on top of one.

I was standing near some hill and there was some road going down the hill. Then there was one bus which was going down the hill on that road, so I just jumped on top of it.

But the road was crazy! It was all twirly and there was a pile of dirt in the middle of it, so the bus was always shifted I was suprised that we didn't crash. And then I jumped off somewhere.

The place was odd - It was like there was some stone staircase and the lower half of the stairs was crashed down. So basically there was a hole there. And to that hole little rivers were running into. So there was like a little lake or pond there(I mean little!). Then there was some guy with a costume whom said to us(my brother and his friends appeared like from nowhere. I think they might've been on the bus as well.) that we have to climb up the stairs. My little brother started climbing, but then I thought "Hey, this is a dream, so I don't need to climb 'cause I can fly!". And I flew up the stairs There was sorta like some old stone balconie there. My little brother flew up as well.

Then I started asking my little brother is he dreaming as well. He said some stupid stuff about his friends, so I wandered off. I then thought about stabilizing the dream, so I looked at my hand. I wanted to make my hand more clear. I tried so hard that I somehow opened my dream eyes and after that I opened my real eyes and realised that I'm starring at my real hand

Does it count if I got on the public transit but gained lucidity after I got on it? I completed the ride if that counts for anything.

I DID THE ADVANCED TASK FOR THE FIRST TIME!!!!!!!

Excerpt from my DJ, red=task of the month:

YYYYYYEEEEEUUUUSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FIRST TASK OF THE MONTH COMPLEEEETTTEEEEEEEDD!!!!

December 18, 2008

I RODE SANTA"S SLEIGH TO THE NORTH POLL, THAT"S RIGHT NOOOOOOOOBBBBBIIIIEEEEWOOOBIIIEEESSSSS!!!!!!!! I AM LD MASTAAAAAHH!!

But seriously. I was lucid last night, and it was the most clear, fun and successful one yet! But first i have to say the dream before it. I wrote the DJ in spanish so this is gonna suck translating lol.

Ok first thing i remember is that i had done something bad enough to have the police chase me. I was being chased by one of their german shepherds, and i was running down the sidewalk, and there was this pond to the right, and the closest part to me had a cement floor/wall. I jumped unnaturally high and the dog came with me, and as i hit the water somebody said "Oh, it sucks that that dog only has 30% insurance coverage", and there was this graph in front of my showing the dogs insurance coverage as i hit the water lol. Well after a few seconds i thought it might be safe to get out, but it wasnt so the same thing happened, and i was back underwater. I could breathe underwater

Well i was just chilling at the bottom of the pool, and there were like two other guys down there, who i guess were my friends. The dog was just swimming around on top waiting for me to come up so he could attack me. I told the other two guys, "Somebody shoot that dog", so one dude pulled out his UZI and blasted it, apparently it worked under water, i felt sorry for the dog but i'm not gonna get caught lol. So I go over to the wall, still underwater, and pick up this weird looking gun that the dog dropped when he died, and his body disappeared just like a Video Game lol, and it apparently shoots poison darts. I say this should work so i swim up to the surface, but the po-po start shooting at me before i can fire, so i am forced to go back under. I'm sitting at the bottom again, and then the gun starts malfunctioning, i'm like crap, then the gun starts shooting this mustard-looking liquid everywhere that is the poison. This dream sort of fades from here.

Next thing i know i am in some house, and that weird mexican-asian looking chick from school is in there. There are other people but i dont pay attention to them. The poison that shot out of the gun is in this bowl that i have in my hand, and so i just decide to shove it down her throat, i dont know why lol, but she doesnt die, she just laughs and acts like its a joke. I tell her "You want to go in the other room?" Thinking i might get lucky, then i get excited and i realize it's a dream.

Before it fully fades i tell myself to rub my hands to gether, thinking its a lost cause but BOOM! All of a sudden and to my surprise i am walking around in that same house, and it feels SO real! For a second i really thought that i might have been walking around in my room while sleeping, because i could feel everything. I could feel my feet hit the ground with each step, and my clothes rub against my "body". The mexican-asian weird-but-still-hot chick was gone, but I saw N-from church and she was looking at me like she wanted me. She walked in the other room and i thought to myself "i'll be in there in a minute". I walked over to the fridge and opened it up, i think i was looking for like ketchup or syrup or something but i didnt find any, lol. Well i turn around, and the room she walked into was gone, and my aunt was sitting on the couch over there where the door used to be! I was like WTF. Well i looked over to the right and there was another room, and N- was in there, and that was a relief. I could see all these people coming out of that room that were not there before, and i was like wtf where are they coming from. I literally thought "Is she having sex with those people???". I walked into the room and there was this big box with a plastic bag around it, and people were just like spawning out of it or something. She was over there taking there hand and helping them out. So many of them came out that i couldn't see her, and pretty soon she was gone.

I was running around the room going "Has anyone seen N-?" but nobody answered me. Zach S. from church was sitting at this desk in there. I walked over to him and said have you seen her and he said "no" like he didnt care. Then i asked him "Are you dreaming?" and he just said back to me, "No, are you dreaming?" and he kept copying me and mocking me and acting like an idiot. I then realized what people mean when they say DC's are retarded. I got so mad at him, and there was this plastic fork on his desk with two prongs, and i thought about hitting him with it, but i thought no he's my friend so i just threw it at the wall. That's when i saw this big square hole in the wall five feet up the wall, and you could see a staircase through it, but you could not see where it went. I asked Mrs. D, "What is that?" and she said "It's a fireplace!", also mocking me as if i was supposed to know that that was a fireplace.

Well after that i was like, so i'm lucid now what do i do? I thought ofthe TOTM and i planned on going out and finding an airplane to fly as "public transit", but i decided santa would be more fun. I walked out the front door with this kid from my school who looked like Dylan W. I said "alright dude i need your help. Let's all go outside to try and call Santa down." I convinced him, and he he went inside and got everyone and they came out. Now begins the TOTM part of the dream. I thought that the DC's might think this is a little ridiculous, so i told them "No one is going to make fun of you, except for maybe these people (pointing to the neighboring houses)." Well everyone went outside and we were standing in the street looking up at the sky yelling "Come on down Santa!!!" Then within seconds someone said "There he is." I looked at the sky and this big red sleigh, led by only four reindeer unfortunately, was coming in for a landing. I thought "HOLY CRAP IT WORKED! WOW! i AM A GENIUS!"

Santa came in for a vertical landing in the coldasack next to the house. Everyone crowded around his sleigh except for me, and he gave this girl a plate of cookies and she gave them to people, i took one of them and ate it, and it just tasted like a regular old sugar cookie. I ate it as i walked toward the sleigh. Keep in mind i was still looking for N-. I walked up to the sleigh and sat down in the front seat. Santa did not look anything like he does in real life. Yes he still was wearing the red suit, but he did not have his hat on, he was skinny, and he wore big black framed glasses. His beard was more like a five-oclock shadow than anything. I asked him "Hey can you take me to my Girlfriends house?", referring to N-, even though she is not my girlfriend in real life. He said "Why isn't she here?" And i think i said something like "She was dissatisfied." LOL! This is kind of foggy but he said something along the lines of "Well i cant take you to her if she is dissatisfied." I was still in the Sleigh and it started lifting off the ground. I sort of made fun of him by saying "Well cant you take me to the Sun?" like he could take me to the sun but not to my gf's. He didnt say anything. We went at the speed of light suddenly and BOOM we were at the north pole!

I looked around, and instead of santa there was a black elf riding in the back. I was like "Santa must have got off back there", but the elf didnt say anything except, "Well i'll see you later, i've got to get back to work." And he hopped off the sleigh. The sleigh was headed towards this hole in the wall where i guess they store it, so i hopped off too. I looked to my left and there was this Robot Santa carrying an undecorated Christmas Tree. Then i looked to my right, and there was a door leading inside, as i was in sort of a courtyard surrounded by buildings, and it was snowing everywhere. I walked through the door and the black elf was in there with his family, and they were sitting down to eat at a table because it was a restaurant. They looked like normal people inside. I said "Hey how are you?" and he said "Good". I said "That's your wife?" but he didnt answer. i looked at his wife who was also black and fat,and said "I'm Zach." She said "That's nice" but kept on acting like i wasnt there and she didnt like me.

Well after that i looked over and all my friends from the christmas party-thing that came out of a plastic bag were sitting at the table eating dinner. I tried to walk over to them, but there was this rail thing in the way, and the dream faded out.

That was awesome!

PS: i think this dream was influenced because i watched "Fred Clause" yesterday and the North Pole sort of looked like the one in that movie.

So do i get the prize?

Originally Posted by tommo

I reckon that counts. Since your sub conscious kind of made that as where he was going to take you. Maybe. lol I dunno was just thinking since he told you to say goodbye and when you did the dream faded. Just a guess. He was taking you into the Christmas cheer! oh god....

Hmm.. That would be awesome, but I don't think it counts. There wasn't actually a sleigh anywhere. Santa and I were going to fly to the North Pole, and from there I would find the sleigh. I'll just keep trying.

"Christmas cheer"?


Congrats, Hurcuflea and Ivi. :]


edit: Aww, thanks for the sleigh! Are you sure my dream counts? I mean, I'm not complaining or anything...

Finally! I finally got one! jeez I hoped in the subway and somehow i ended up on the outside of the ISS. I just walked out the door and i was floating in space.

Originally Posted by Hercuflea

I DID THE ADVANCED TASK FOR THE FIRST TIME!!!!!!!

Excerpt from my DJ, red=task of the month:

YYYYYYEEEEEUUUUSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FIRST TASK OF THE MONTH COMPLEEEETTTEEEEEEEDD!!!!

Dude, you ARE a dream Maastaah! nicely done, thanks for sharing.

Cool im going to try and do the basic task in a couple of hours hopefully if i become lucid. Im just doing the WBTB Method right now ( which happened to work best for me so far) but i need to wait a bit more because im not tired.

For January maybe the advanced task should be go into the future or ride on a dragon?

became lucid after looking at my hands and counting my fingers, 6 on one hand, counted again and this time there were 7. I was in the front yard of a childhood friend. There was a car pulled up to the curb. It was turquise colored. I got in the passenger seat and saw that my mom was the driver. She started driving and I told her that I was lucid dreaming right now. She asked me what the farthest I had ever traveled was and I said I had been to outer space, she didn't believe me but said she would like to go to the moon. We were now driving up a hilly area and I told her to drive really fast up the hill and that we would fly when we got to the top and that we could go to the moon. She drove up the hill and the car went up at an angle into the air. We flew for a while, but I must of lost lucidity because I don't remember what happened next and had some non lucid dreams and false awakenings.

Originally Posted by LovingLucidity

Dude, you ARE a dream Maastaah! nicely done, thanks for sharing.

Lol yeah i was really excited about that one since it was my first TOTM

Originally Posted by goldentheponygirl

became lucid after looking at my hands and counting my fingers, 6 on one hand, counted again and this time there were 7. I was in the front yard of a childhood friend. There was a car pulled up to the curb. It was turquise colored. I got in the passenger seat and saw that my mom was the driver. She started driving and I told her that I was lucid dreaming right now. She asked me what the farthest I had ever traveled was and I said I had been to outer space, she didn't believe me but said she would like to go to the moon. We were now driving up a hilly area and I told her to drive really fast up the hill and that we would fly when we got to the top and that we could go to the moon. She drove up the hill and the car went up at an angle into the air. We flew for a while, but I must of lost lucidity because I don't remember what happened next and had some non lucid dreams and false awakenings.

Does a car count as public transit if your mom is driving?

Ok, third LD with hopeful attempt at the task of the month. Did a WBTB with MILD.

Don't remember the moment of lucidity and it was short, about one minute.

I was in a high rise building. "Knew" people were after me. Wanted to leave. Ran and found elevator. (second elevator this month, lol).

This is the cool part. Since was being chased I phased through the elevator door and left the guys behind. I was falling down the shaft and was going to slow stop at bottom but saw an elevator coming up. I "knew" there were reinforcements inside to get me and decided to phase through the oncoming car. I did...it was crazy cool, like a ghost [assing through, they never saw me pass. Then another car was coming up the shaft and I phased through it. Then I did a slow landing at the bottom and phased through the door's to go out.

In the lobby I saw a girl and was aroused and went to her. My heart started racing and I woke up!!! WTF! I can decend an elevator shaft fifty flights and no effect on heart rate but a moment of passion and pffffttttt, dream gone. That stinks.

But it was still TOO cool to jump down the elevator shaft and worth a mention.

I did this on my very first properly controlled lucid dream. (I've had LDs before, but I've never been conscious enough in them to DO anything).

I was in my kitchen, dreaming of the L Word, particularly Shane, and there were a load of people there and I was talking to them and Shane was sulking because they were being mean to her and someone said something like “Another hussy deserves it” (I’m not sure exactly) and Shane got all upset and walked off and my friend Nikita burst into tears and ran into the lounge.

I looked at the room I was in (which had transformed into the dining room) and I thought “This has got to be a dream” coz, yaknow, Shane was there.

As soon as I realised it was a dream things started to fade. It didn’t feel real anymore. So I remembered one of the dream stabilising techniques I read about on DreamViews and I spun around in circles. When I stopped everything was clear but really dark and hard to see. So I went across to the light and turned it on and the dining room lit up loads and I could see, but there were these weird shadows on the walls. So I thought, as it was a dream, I’d walk into the lounge and see if Nikita was okay and if I could talk to her.

So I walked through to the lounge and found Nikita sat by the tree on the floor (the tree was odd; short, triangular and lit up really bright) but before I got to her I looked through the window and saw Santa’s Sleigh across the road and I thought about the DreamViews challenge to ride on Santa’s sleigh in a lucid dream. But it was through the window. So it took a deep dream-breath and stepped through the window. I was so excited by then.

I ran across the road to Santa’s sleigh and stopped nearby because the sleigh was still really santa’y but Santa was different. So I looked away and back and he changed and I did it again and he changed again but normal Santa wouldn't return. He was an old guy in a dark red coat with white trimmings. I decided this was obviously the best Santa my dream would get and thusly I climbed aboard!

I got on and before I’d even got my leg fully on (part of my slipper’d foot was on the step-up bit) Santa took off and we went flying up into the sky and through the air towards the city (I don't live in a city, but there was one there and I’m not going to complain). We flew around some tower blocks (with me trying to transform him into someone else, but the stubborn old man refused to do anything except get naked and really gross) until I saw this house with my mom sat in it so I decided to go down there. Next thing I knew I was in that house and Santa (I think) told me to sit on the wall and wait for my Christmas present. I walked across, sat down and I realised I needed the bathroom. The dream started to fade and I woke up.

It was brilliant!!! Does this count? Did I do it?

Nice job and to DV!

Did I do it, then? Did I do the challenge? o.o

I just had my first fully lucid dream, ever. A DILD!
And I've completed the advanced task of the month too (I think) ! YAY!

Here's what's written in my dream journal:
The lucid part:

I'm flying over the city, semi-lucid when it occures to me I should become fully lucid. I do a reality check (wel try to, I plug my nose but I forgot to try to breath, lol) but I think, what the hell, I'm lucid anyway.
I fly some more and decide to land. I think, now that I'm lucid, I should waste it just flying. So I think why not try the task of the month, though I was planning on doing other things it seemed really smart of me at the moment.
I turned around, closed my eyes and try to make Santa and his sleigh appear. Almost immediately I hear a Jingle Bell behind me, I turn around there is a big red sleigh facing the other side. I walk next to it so I can see Santa.
For some reason he looks Indian, and I don't think he had a beard, but I ask: "Can I go with you?". He says that's okay so I hop in.
We fly, without reindeer by the way, only about two metres above the ground, but nobody can see us. We fly right on front of a man and he doesn't seem to notice us.
We start to sing Jingle Bells loudly, but once we come to the first verse, I don't know the lines, so neither does Santa lol. We start singing La La La La La, in the melody of the verse. But then Santa remembers and he starts singing something like: "All the mortals...", so either I subconsiously know the lines, or my mind made it up.
The ending of the dream was really mean: I hear a noise, as if someone said: "Shh", I think it may have been my dad, but Santa, who is on my left, looks to the right of me and when I look too I wake up

And that's how it went. The sleigh didn't take me anywhere but that's not the task is it?

I'm so proud of myself lol

Originally Posted by bassairmoon

Did I do it, then? Did I do the challenge? o.o

Yes you did it, you'll get wings soon.

Tried and failed at the sleigh task, last night.
Just happy to have had a good lucid after so long, though.

Originally Posted by Oneironaut's Matrix

...I went phasing through the walls and doors, trying to find something interesting to do. Nothing really seemed to come to mind, immediately, and then I thought of the Tasks of the Month. It still took me a moment to remember what the tasks were, but I remembered that one of them was to ride on Santa’s sleigh. Heading outside, I flew up to the roof, which was actually quite tough to land on because it had one of those high-angled, church-type rooftops, and my feet kept trying to slide down it. I got to the top, though, and looked out over the lake.

It was dark out, but a pretty clear night. And warm. It didn’t seem very Christmas-y, and I really wanted to set the mood, if I was going to try to summon Santa and/or his sleigh. I began to visualize winds coming in from my right, and a blanket of snow streaming down over the grass and dark water of the lake. The winds slowly began to pick up, and I was sort of directing it in as if I was using telekinesis. I would focus on drawing it in from the right, inhaling and tensing a bit as I drew my hands from right to left. Then, relaxing, I sifted my hands back over to the right again, then drawing back to the left while ‘pulling’ the wind across the scene. I could hear waves being born on the lake, growing with intensity, the more I tried to pull the snow and winds in. All I was able to get were a few dashes of white on the dark surfaces beneath me. No true snow storm. Finally, I figured that I was using up too much energy in trying to do this, and I wanted to have some fun with this lucid before it was over. After a few more tries I gave up, and floated back down off the roof...

Last night I did the mass transit task but I wasn't lucid!

I was on the side of the rode and my friend left me and was meet me downtown. I needed to get there. I saw a bus stop. I went in a store to buy a ticket. A woman at the register gave me several...they were as small as a thumb nail. I asked was this the right kind and she said yea they are making them smaller now.

I was going out and the bus was there. It was night. I was about to miss it. I ran through some grass to the road. There was a woman inside telling the woman driver to wait. She wanted to drive off and was trying to shut the door but the other woman wouldn't let her. I got to the door right when it was shutting and got my hand in just in time. I forced the door open and got on and handed her the small ticket. She was reluctant but took it.

I walked inside but it didn't have aisles like a bus. It was like a square room with plastic fold out tables like you might have at a family gathering. I sat down across from an older woman and we talked but I cant recall the convo,
We were moving like a bus does and I could see outside the street going by.

Then I woke up. It was my last dream just before I got up. The dream was epic long before this but all faded fast and all I could remember was this.

However. I am very pleased with the dream. I recalled the most important part. I achieved some dream incubation in that I dreamed the task being fulfilled. I have said all along that a bus would be the mass transit and I had never been on a bus in a dream ever before. So, very cool and worht sharing. Not a completed task but still an accomplishment!

I'm a little late but I still have a couple days

I'm so happy! I did the Advanced Task! Here's the dream:

I was in my room and my friend was talking to me. We were sitting on the bed in front of the window. The shining brightly through some tree's. My buddy was telling me something but wasn't really making sense. He said he came over here "this morning" to tell me something. That stood out because the sun set's in my room. I said you said this morning but it is evening. (based on the sun out my window. He said he didn't say that, I said yes you did. He said can he finish what he was saying. Then I thought the only explanation is that I'm dreaming and BAM I was lucid.

Great moment of lucidity. Sitting in front of a window with the sun shining in seems so symbolic.

So I got up went into the hall, not my house anymore, and was standing there thinking what should I do next. I was blank for a moment. Then the task of the month came to mind. Santa's Sleigh I thought! I want to ride Santa's Sleigh.

So I walked over to the balcony area and was thinking I need to get outside to find the sleigh. I could see down to the next level outside and saw Santa's Sleigh right outside! I jumped off the balcony and was going to do a slow landing. But it felt out of control, like slow fall and when I landed it was jolting. I hoped I wouldn't wake up because it was quite a realistic slam to the ground. I even hoped I didn't hurt my knee.

I didn't wake up. I went outside. So excited. But the sleigh turned out to be a large yard Christmas ornament. t was a hollow wire frame. I thought maybe I could ride this, but there was no Santa and I just knew this wouldn't due.
I was thinking It needs to be a real sleigh with Santa! There was another Sleigh ornament and I went over to check it out.

Just then I heard bells and "Ho Ho Ho" and from high above Santa's Sleigh rounded the house! I was thrilled. It didnt have Reinder but it was a big Sled.

I flew up to it and was going to get on but it was moving fast and sort of erratic. I think I yelled out can I ride please? Then he came to me like a bus would pull up beside you. His Sleigh was Black and dark green. The rails at the bottom were black. It had several rows. When he pulled up Santa passed me. He looked very odd. Sort of mechanical. His suit was blackish and he was smiling and had a beard but it looked like wires.

I was standing at about the fourth aisle. I thought about going to his seat but didn't want to miss the chance to get on. So I got on this aisle.

His sleigh took off at incredible speed. and was zooming through the air and I must have thought it felt like a roller coaster because the next thing I new it was on a track going down a hill into a loop. There were to girls sitting beside me now and one in front of os facing us. The sensation was completely like a coaster and I yelled just like I do on them in terror! LOL

After the loop the Sleigh slowed down and was approaching the loading dock like on a coaster. The girls were talking to each other and the one next to me was beautiful. I kept taking a glance at her and we would make eye contact. I thought I see how you could fall in love in a dream.

Then it started to fade. It went black and I was feeling aware of my body. I tried to rub my hands but it was way to late.

I laid still hoping to start another dream but it didn't. I was going over my lucid and must have fell back to sleep. When I woke I could remember two more non lucid dreams after this LD.

I'm so thrilled! I did the advanced task! Even if it is the last day of the month I did it. I remember reading about these task and they seemed so beyond me. But I did it!

Whew!

How cool to start the new year off with THIS! Thank you dreamviews.

The task are awesome because they give you something to reach for. I've learned many lessons and did new things this month regarding Lucid Dreaming all because I set my mind to do these task.

Thanks again and Happy New Year everyone!

nice job

Hahaha, nice. Right on time. I gave up on doing it this month. I want to do next month's. ^^ I'm hoping for a lucid tonight (though I'm absolutely sure *pokes consciousness* that I'll have one) and I'm also going to nap. >D I got 14 hours of sleep yesterday because I went to bed early (but also got up early) and I think I slept from 9 PM to 8 AM... 11 hours. Plus 3 hours of trying to have a WILD nap. ^__^;

Originally Posted by ninja9578

nice job

Do the wings only last a day since it is the last day of the month?

Just wondering if I will see them at all.

Originally Posted by thedreamingwolfess

Hahaha, nice. Right on time. I gave up on doing it this month. I want to do next month's. ^^ I'm hoping for a lucid tonight (though I'm absolutely sure *pokes consciousness* that I'll have one) and I'm also going to nap. >D I got 14 hours of sleep yesterday because I went to bed early (but also got up early) and I think I slept from 9 PM to 8 AM... 11 hours. Plus 3 hours of trying to have a WILD nap. ^__^;

Thanks...

Santa looked so weird. This was very cool. A friggin roller coaster to boot. Heck, I could see riding a roller coaster as a task and I got that as a bonus!

Actually I did a lot of new things this month trying for this task.