Thread: Task of the Month for June 2012

Ahh I had a lucid last night and I felt a strange drawing to the bathroom and even studied myself in the mirror, but I forgot the ToTM

I've been aiming at beating the advanced task and getting close but not quite. I've had trains show up in my dreams for the past few nights, but haven't gotten lucid. One was a really slow-moving train, and the second time I was riding in the train. I'll just cross my fingers and hope that the third time's the charm!

It just irritates me that autosuggestion works so well for for me when it comes to dream content, but not so much for achieving lucidity.

Originally Posted by Thena

It just irritates me that autosuggestion works so well for for me when it comes to dream content, but not so much for achieving lucidity.

That's very interesting. I mean, I guess I have had the occasional non-lucid based on something someone said, but very few and far between. What is your usual induction method of choice, if I may ask?

^^I typically use MILD, sometimes combined with dream incubation if there's something specific I want to accomplish. It usually works for me when I have time to visualize a bit before falling asleep, but lately I seem to be dropping off the moment my head hits the pillow.

Although I have done something very similar, I've never jumped on top of a train before... until last night

Advanced Task

Spoiler for Advanced Task:

The second I got inside of my dream, I created a very strange reality. The time seemed to be around the 1980's, and I was in a rather poor neighborhood, inside of a poor house. I suddenly noticed that a man was knocking on the door. I looked through the window and I saw him. He had long brown hair and a black mustache; he was wielding a gun. I jumped through a window into a backyard that was full of dead pine needles and black tarps. I hid under one of the tarps and patiently waited. I heard the man step around as he crunched on the tarps and the pine needles as I held my breath. I then changed my perspective to a bird's eye view, and watched the man circle me. After he left, I jumped through the window of the neighboring house, where I found my girlfriend's youngest sister simply sitting down (she might have been watching T.V.). She was wearing a super old fashion button down blue dress that had the very top button missing. I cupped my hands around hers and told her that she needed to get somewhere safe. After doing that, I teleported.

I teleported to a GIANT parking lot. I saw that at the end of the parking lot was a giant building, a building that I recognized to be a hotel. Suddenly my girlfriend was there, and I held her hand as we walked inside of the hotel. Upon entering the hotel, I could see a mob of terrorists approaching the building.I grabbed her hand tighter and ran towards the elevator. I went inside and looked for the biggest number, which was 32, and pressed it. We went up slowly but surely (this was the first time I've ever ridden an elevator in a lucid dream;it was epic.) until we reached the top. At the top, a small bed and table were lying around, along with a giant closed glass window on one of the walls that allowed us to see the entire parking lot. I could see terrorists and police disputing outside. I decided that I had to get to further safety. I teleported my girlfriend and I to a bus stop, where I guided her onto a school bus. I got a very strange feeling, a feeling that I cannot explained and have been pondering all night, and watched as the bus drove away.

After watching the bus leave, I teleported to a street. It was a street that I've never seen before, but it was somewhere I didn't want to be. The neighborhood was almost exactly the same as the one I was in before, and I needed to get out of there. I felt a presence near me, but there was nobody around. As I walked down the street, I noticed a cul-de-sac, the same one that I was in before. I saw the suspicious man, and he saw me. As he ran towards me, I thought to do the best thing I knew to get away; teleport. I was unable to. I then tried to fly as far as I could; I couldn't fly (this was a very scary moment because I've been able to flawlessly fly for about a year now [it might have been the fact that I emulated a new gravity from riding the elevator.]). I started to sprint. I ran for what seemed to be a mile, and the man was still right behind me. I noticed a bridge, and I knew that was where I had to run to. The closer I got to the bridge, the more clear everything was, and I was able to see a speeding train on it's way right under the bridge. When I ran onto the middle of the bridge, I jumped off the side. I landed on the train with a very hard force, I felt like I dented the top of it as I rolled to retard the fall. As I stood up, I saw the man who was chasing me. He was not longer chasing me, just watching me from the bridge as I rode the train.

The train ride was amazing. I could feel the wind going through my hair as the train was moving. I could hear it as it went along the rails. I could feel the cold metal under my bare feet, and I could see my own reflection in the sheen of the roof. As the train approached a tunnel, I became alarmed. I soon became calm as I noticed the tunnel was quite large. I took a sear on the roof of the train, and looked straight up as we entered the tunnel. I could see the lighted above, quickly darting past me. I could hear the sound of the train speeding through the tunnel, and I could hear the echo that it left behind. I noticed that the train was slowing down. It eventually came to a stop, where I heard the doors open, with a mellow ring following it. As I jumped off the train, I looked inside of the cars; nobody was inside of them. When I looked forward, the man that was chasing me was right in front of me.

After seeing the man, I woke up. I eventually fell asleep again, but the following dreams weren't as exciting or as nightmarish as that one.

Anyway, I hope my dream was as entertaining to read as it was to experience, because that was one hell of a dream. I hope to see some more great stories about this epic adventure, and I plan on completing the basic task tonight

I keep seeing train tracks, but no train. Next lucid, I'm train hopping!

Last night I went to sleep with the task of completing both the basic task, and one of the tasks of the year, so this dream was very much to the point.

Basic Task

As I climbed the glacier that I used to climb every night, I think hard about the task at hand. Once I reach the top, I am at my school. There is nobody there - which is odd - as I walk around, I hear nothing, see nothing, feel nothing. I come to the quick realization that this is because I did not want to adventure tonight, I simply wanted to complete the tasks at hand. I decide to have some fun and fly to my house (I tried flying with wings for the first time; I prefer no winged flight) in order to fall asleep and dive deeper within my subconscious. When I fall asleep in my bed, I wake up in a very old room. The room seemed like it could be in a castle somewhere, but the technology in the room seemed out of place, since there was a Brownie Camera (the first TOTY) sitting on top of a small wooden desk. Directly in front of me, was a mirror. I could see what I was wearing: A black spy suit, with a hood over my head (very splinter cell-esque) and the camera in my hand. I took a picture of myself looking into the mirror with the camera. Since this is a dream, the camera functioned like a Polaroid camera (I actually have no idea if this is how the actual Brownie Camera functions) and instantly gave me the picture. There was no dimension in the picture, it was simply flattened and very 2-D. The strangest part, however, was the fact that I was not in the picture. The mirror did not show my reflection, but simply what was behind the camera, which was a picture of a knight in a suit of armor. After I put the camera down, I knew it was time to enter my reflection. As I got closer, I could see the outline of my body slowly shake. I put my hand inside of the mirror, and I felt a cool sensation. As I went more and more inside of the mirror, the sensation grew, until I was fully emerged in a cool liquid. When I opened my eyes, I noticed that I was surrounded by water now. I could see the sunlight above, and swam towards it. Around me, there were icebergs and nothing else. I quickly teleported to safety, and awoke from my slumber.

The basic task reminds me of the first TOTM I tried, when I first joined. : D I'll give it a shot if I can remember.

Lol XD once my alarm clock came into my dream [it was beeping in the real world] and in my dream I thought it was a train; I rode the train, but woke up late XD

I done the advanced task in my lucid last night, despite my subconscious cheating and making it really easy! The dream's in my journal: 20th June 2012 - Seventh Lucid Dream [Partial WILD & Advanced Task of the Month] - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Originally Posted by RareCola

I done the advanced task in my lucid last night, despite my subconscious cheating and making it really easy! The dream's in my journal: 20th June 2012 - Seventh Lucid Dream [Partial WILD & Advanced Task of the Month] - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

That is awesome how you got to the train setting through focusing on that toy, a very literal interpretation of activating your train schema It's a great idea, wherever you want to go, pull a related object out of your pocket and focus on it until the scene changes, I'm definitely going to try it

Well, I hopped on top of a speeding freight train in one of my dreams a couple of nights ago. I wasn't lucid though and conciously thinking of the TOTM but it was really vivid and I stayed on for a while. Does this count?

Spoiler for My dream:

The Runaway Train



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I entered the dream standing at the railyards. I was with some people from school. Anyways, there is an overpass that goes over the train tracks. We climbed up to the top and jumped onto a speeding freight train as it passed under. We were then told that we all had to make it to the engine from the middle where we had jumped on. We all started advancing and eventually made it to the engine. I asked one of my friends why we had to get here and he said I would see in a second. Literally a second later we passed under a low tunnel and one of the guys who didn't quite make it to the engine (which was lower than the coal cars) was... evaporated... you might say. Just went poof. None of us seemed concerned for some reason though and then we recieved a radio transmission through the train's radio. We were told we had to get the train off the tracks and keep it going faster then 56 mph or else, although I'm still not really sure what "or else" was. (kind of like the movie "Speed" if you have seen it I guess) Suddenly all the freight cars derailed and the train was on its own. We went really fast around a corner and the engine derailed as well. Then it kind of converted into a semi. As we careened helplessly through the streets concerned our speed would go below 56 mph we came up with a plan. There were 3 of us. *Don't laugh at this next part, it was just one of those completely random things in a dream. Apparently it is a bad idea to play too much of one game right before bed because our plan involved collecting rings and killing little animal shaped robots. Ya my Steam profile says I played Sonic 4 Ep II from 8:30 - 10:00 last night. I went to bed right after lol. * OK so anyways one guy was responsible for killing the robots before they hit the train and slowed it down. The next guy was responsible for radio communication w/ HQ or whoever the heck told us we needed to stay going that fast anyways. The last guy, me, was responsible for collecting any passing rings and getting at least 50. So we did this for a few minutes and eventually had collected the required amount. "Well, what now?" I said. My firend said we should go ask someone who would know about these things and so we went to the college track. Don't ask me how we got off the train and stuff but we were just there all of a sudden. Anyways, we walked around for a bit to find this professor who supposedly knew what to do. We finally found him and he was wearing some type of Haloween costume. Before we could go ask him though we were back on the train/semi thing. We were now all hopelessly lost because our speed was now 60 mph and we were almost too slow. Then I suddenly remembered what to use the 50 rings for. I said we would just use them to have SuperSonic push the train for us. *thank God I grinded out that last Steam achivement huh?* For some reason this didn't really seem to say "DUDE, YOU ARE DREAMING." Well I guess none of the rest made sense either but ya, should of become lucid right then. Then the dream randomly changed before anything happened. .

Sorry SuperSonicFan, rules state that you have to be lucid. But that's about as close as you can get to the TOTM without lucidity! Almost there though, especially if you're carrying over the thought and action of TOTM into a nonlucid. Pretty rare actually.

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Sorry SuperSonicFan, rules state that you have to be lucid. But that's about as close as you can get to the TOTM without lucidity! Almost there though, especially if you're carrying over the thought and action of TOTM into a nonlucid. Pretty rare actually.

Ok so I logged in this morning and I had wings. Um... what?? Lol. I seriously don't mind if someone takes them away because I didn't earn it but I'm just curious how they got there.

Originally Posted by SuperSonicFan

Ok so I logged in this morning and I had wings. Um... what?? Lol. I seriously don't mind if someone takes them away because I didn't earn it but I'm just curious how they got there.

No worries, all our wings should be removed today, considering it's July 1st.

TOTM for July will be posted this evening. I didn't get a break at work like I hoped, since it's 4th of July weekend. So hold on to your shorts folks until I get home!

And yes littlezoe, I will endeavor to make them more exciting than jumping on a train, your highness

Originally Posted by SuperSonicFan

Ok so I logged in this morning and I had wings. Um... what?? Lol. I seriously don't mind if someone takes them away because I didn't earn it but I'm just curious how they got there.

I will fix that shortly.

I really enjoyed both of the tasks from June, especially the train one. You could always add other elements to the tasks to make them more exciting. I stood on top of a speeding train while fighting off goblins. Was a lot of fun for me.

I don't know if this is good enough. Its really weak. But I at least got my head in for a brief moment. It was just dark in there. LOL. And the other part is a little embarrassing.

Then of course, I get horny. I walk into the womens locker room. Shower. I hear a woman scream. But the shower is empty. I keep looking and hear little girly shrieks. I run to another room and see a bath tub shower curtain. I move the shower curtain and it sounds like little girls but they run like a vampires. Like flesh colored streaks. They are just so ethereal and ghostly. I look for them and cant find them. One went behind me and one strait through the wall in the shower. I turn around and see a sink and mirror and door in the direction the one went but the door is boarded over and shut.

Wait! What the hell? These are little girls anyway and thats gross. I'm lucid and I'm waisting it on being horny!?

I look around again. OMG MIRROR TOTM! I walk to the mirror and look closely at myself. I am wereing a plain grey hoodie. My face and hair look pretty much normal. For some reason I am making really crazy looking faces at myself but I don't feel it on my face. I look closer and I look normal but not normal. Kinda blurry.

OK enough. Go into the mirror. CAN'T. SOLID! I move back the mirror got smaller. Like the size of my laptop screen. I look and find another mirror on the wall. I place my head into. SOLID. I press really hard. I feel something give and I look around but it is just black darkness and then I am pushed back out. I try again but it solid once more. I notice that I can feel no sensation on my head so I really am dreaming. I wont why I can do in. I move back. No I am holding the mirror and there is a giant wall mirror behind a metal rack thing. I look at myself again. Trying to clear things up and really see. I look the same with a goofy expression. I press my head in again. SOLID.

Rofl at you making crazy expressions at yourself.

I guess it was funny now you mention it. But at the time it was a little shocking and worrying. I thought maybe my dream self is a crazed psycho! LOL.

You know... i would've been freaked out at those ghostly girls going through walls.... Weird/scary childen are my worst nightmare

Originally Posted by littlezoe

Weird/scary childen are my worst nightmare

^ THIS.
I am not scared from anything, insects, ghosts, murderers, you name it. But little children that go BLAGHHHH, they're just fucked up. .___.

Originally Posted by littlezoe

You know... i would've been freaked out at those ghostly girls going through walls.... Weird/scary childen are my worst nightmare

Originally Posted by Max ツ

^ THIS.
I am not scared from anything, insects, ghosts, murderers, you name it. But little children that go BLAGHHHH, they're just fucked up. .___.

Nothing really gets to me in dreams anymore. Especially being lucid. I guess all this has really helped me with my nightmares.

Ophelia, can we have something to do with water/swimming/sea in the next task? Please? Pretty please? Gorgeous please?

Yay RommiH!!!!! Congrats

Originally Posted by Max ツ

Ophelia, can we have something to do with water/swimming/sea in the next task? Please? Pretty please? Gorgeous please?

I was going to adhere to Mancon's thread with the task suggestions, so I'll see if there's a water themed one. Also, it might be fOrceez's turn to choose for July. So you may be buttering up the wrong staff member this time