Task of the Month for May 2016

**PercyLucid** · 04-28-2016 11:46 AM

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Future Task of the Month Suggestion Thread.
If you complete a current TOTM, you will be able to vote on suggestions for the next month!

Introduction:
This topic is for the Lucid Tasks that are assigned by the Lucid Task Club and the On-Topic Administrator. Please attempt any or all of these tasks throughout the month.

Report back in this thread, even if you didn't successfully accomplish the task. Your efforts should make interesting reading! This is required in order to get credit, it is no longer sufficient just to say that you did it.

Very important

When you complete a task: Go to your control panel, then to permission groups, and request to be in the group that applies to the task that you've done: either a basic or an advanced or both (specify in the description field if it was the bonus task). Of course you still need to post the dream here because we check. Please, make sure you post here your attempts both failures and successes, this will make this post much more dynamic and it will make OpheliaBlue/Gab ´s winging delivering much easier. It will be very appreciated!

Whoever completes any of these tasks gets the following goodies until the end of the month:

Your name will be displayed in ORANGE in the online members list at the bottom of the main forum page.
You will receive a special title and badge.
You will receive access to the "Lucid Task Club" which is a limited access forum for people that complete a lucid task each month. Members of this club can vote for submitted suggestions for the next month's tasks. Access to the Lucid Task Club will also grant you early access to the next month's tasks, giving you a 2-3 day window to keep your wings for the following month.

Tasks for this month:

Basic Task i - So just try to taste whichever taste is left in your mouth. The results should be interesting! (spok)
Basic Task ii - See how far you can stretch your arms.(Xanous)

Advanced Task i - Find platform 9 and 3/4 at Kings Cross Station and run through the wall. (WaltersDreams)
Advanced Task ii - Create an imaginary friend in the dream that no one else can see or interact. (Sensei)

BONUS TASK!! - Write a code for a program (it can be nonsense) and then run it. Describe what it does.(PercyLucid: Extra points if code does make sense and runs properly)(Burke/PercyLucid)

**Spock** · 04-29-2016 01:12 PM

Loving these tasks! Especially Advanced II, Bonus, and most of all Basic I (I wonder why

)...

Seriously though, the bonus task is awesome. Back when I was coding I had so many dreams about it and about running crazy programs calculating some weird stuff... Can't wait to try it in a lucid!

**PercyLucid** · 05-01-2016 12:47 PM

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**woblybil** · 05-01-2016 02:12 PM

My computer generally does not work in dreams

**FryingMan** · 05-01-2016 03:27 PM

The language is BASIC of course (who remembers [no google!]) what it stands for?). Although obviously a fairly modern dialect, since the system I learned BASIC on (at a time probably before most DV members were born) was a Data General Eclipse time-sharing system) didn't have any screens to clear (CLS)! This was back in the day when a 5MB hard disk was the size of a large soup cauldron.

**lunagoddess** · 05-01-2016 06:45 PM

I got lucid last night and was trying to remember the totm, and remembered I caught the in-between hours when there was none. So bummed! Especially because I forgot what the toty was

But I've been on an LD streak and am feeling good about this month! I'm going to try the basics and advanced task ii. I'm assuming Kings Cross Station is a Harry Potter reference? I don't feel like I know the series well enough to complete that one. And trying to write or run a program is completely over my head lol

**woblybil** · 05-01-2016 06:59 PM

Originally Posted by FryingMan

The language is BASIC of course (who remembers [no google!]) what it stands for?). Although obviously a fairly modern dialect, since the system I learned BASIC on (at a time probably before most DV members were born) was a Data General Eclipse time-sharing system) didn't have any screens to clear (CLS)! This was back in the day when a 5MB hard disk was the size of a large soup cauldron.

My programming skills are pre-Bill Gates!

**MilkyDance** · 05-01-2016 11:33 PM

Wow this TOTM is awesome, best I've seen so far

I might actually try some out, got a full month to get lucid

**BadAssLongCoat** · 05-02-2016 05:34 AM

Can I write the code in my DJ in my dream? Technology really lets me down while I'm asleep :3

**Burke** · 05-02-2016 06:32 PM

OK so, to my luck, I broke my dry spell last night (or rather, this morning). Had a really weird, multiple DEILD, unstable lucid that allowed me to barely program anything. My very minor knowledge on programming didn't help either. But here it is:

So finally, I have an empty powerpoint and no idea what to code. Well, lets make something that tells me if I'm lucid because, hey, it should return true, right?... RIGHT? So I typed in (to my recall) the following code:

Code:

def lucdity():
      if lucidity == True:
            print "YES!"
      else:
            print "no"
print lucidity()

So yeah, that's how I remember it. It may have been worse, may have made no sense at all. That probably doesn't actually do anything and would just error, but either way it was a code in a dream. And, as is typical for this dream, right as I'm about to run it -- or rather, as I'm looking for a way to run it in powerpoint, the dream fades. Quickly, too. So I start to spin, but of course I end up waking up. Well shit, guess we gotta DEILD one more time so I can finish the damn thing. So we repeat what we did earlier, really focusing at this point since I don't want all this work to go to waste. After what seems like forever, though I'm sure it was no more than a minute or to, I feel like I'm back in that building (it reminded me of some of the older buildings at Syracuse University, if any of you have been there before). Tentatively, I try moving around a little, open my eyes, and yes! We made it. I look back at the laptop to run my code, but it's already run. A big "True" is sitting in the comments section of powerpoint. OK, well, that's good. The dream confirming you're lucid is definitely a good thing. So we did it

I think it would've just caused an error in reality, but in a dream it worked! And it even confirmed my thoughts that I was lucid

**KestrelKat** · 05-03-2016 02:57 PM

Writing code in a dream!!! I can't wait to do this one!

**Patience108** · 05-03-2016 07:33 PM

After wbtb had some short but sweet encounters with Lucidity that enabled me to try both the Basic tasks and have success with the stretchy arms Totm

I am lucid but things are dark, visuals are not clear so I remember the stretchy arm task and start to feel my arms stretching out and out and out and out and you guested it yes - out some more. I had imagined today I might stretch them so far they go around our planet earth so I was thinking I might see earth within my arms at some point...I didn't ...but soon a saw my two hands reach each other - miles and miles away in front of me ~ they clasped each other and it looked like they were wrapped around, engulfing a huge invisible planet in space ( as the visuals were still pretty dark and space like

I then remember the taste in the mouth Totm and put my attention there trying to get something ...no ....no ...nothing except starting to wake up... Oh well. Will have to work on this one again ~ when I am Lucid again soon

**gab** · 05-04-2016 05:25 AM

Guys pls remember to say at the beginning of your post which TOTM did you succeed in - Basic, Advanced or Bonus. Thank you.

**obfusc8** · 05-07-2016 12:42 PM

Bonus task complete, with some improv... (Wrote the code on a market stall weighing scale thingy... it was the only electronic thing around. And the typing didn't really correspond to what was on the little screen, due to the whole reading-text-in-a-dream and it's gibberish thing. Still, success!

Spoiler for Bonus ToTM:

(Cut the start and just the relevant bit, since it was a long dream.)

There are umbrella things over a passageway. I start to walk down it and have to duck to shrink myself slightly. This leads into a market where there are silks with Chinese characters on them. Remembering the ToTM I see a small weighing machine and walk over to it. It's the only electronic thing around, so it'll have to do.

I tap the screen to make a keyboard fold out of it then start typing. Public static void main. var obfusc8 = new Human(); Var dracObfusc8 = new Dragon.Parse(obfusc8);. The keys being pressed don't seem to relate to the text appearing, but hopefully it'll do the job...

Someone asks what's going on. Shouting "Run" I step back from the machine. There are some special effects that whizz around, glowing lights, making it look impressive. The code-spell surrounds me and turns me into a dragon. The DCs look kinda surprised.

I say something - forget what exactly, and my voice is now a very deep rumble. Very draconic.

Nearby in a small grassy park area a bunch of freakish looking tree people are harassing some normal people. So I stomp over there feeling my increased weight and size. Then I try to breathe flame. There is a heat effect but it is clear rather than orange/red flames.

Several more attempts, still creating clear flames, manage to scare a couple of the tree people but then the others quickly rally to fight. Swiping them with my claws, one says "That wont work look at <forgotten name> she's covered in scars already, so what." I continue slashing at them and breathe on them again. This time it melts them completely.

So my next thought is to start flying but my wings seem ineffective for the increased weight and getting into the air is a struggle. Eventually I manage it and fly towards a house.

Inside there is a beam. I hang upside down from it and then looking up see my body has reverted back. Also, no shirt, just my bare human flesh-coloured chest.

(and we'll leave it there as there were DC girls watching me, and I got kinda distracted after that)

**imazu** · 05-08-2016 10:15 PM

Did the Basic task to taste what's left in your mouth:

WILD after WBTB into a blurry, radially shifting scene. It seems like early sunset w/ the sun behind and to the left of me. There is a large, pretty field and a small white building. Farther off is forest. I am feeling clear-headed and immediately think of the basic task to taste the inside of my mouth. I move my tongue around and don't taste anything at first. I keep trying and get a vaguely metallic flavor, similar to pennies but not. After this I kinda just fly off and go nuts...

**Intet** · 05-08-2016 11:36 PM

Basic II fail:

I was with my parents, walking up the street where I live toward my house. I noticed that some of the trees between me and my house were on fire, but the fire looked unrealistic. This caused me to become lucid, and I did a nose pinch to confirm that I was dreaming. I levitated briefly, but decided to go home with a different method instead. I made my legs stretch so long that each step I took was the length of a city block, and walked to my house in just three steps. I then remembered that one of the Tasks of the Month was to stretch my arms as long as possible, and tried to stretch my arms out in front of me. However, the dream was becoming unstable at this point; the scenery was changing back and forth between my front porch and my living room. I woke up before I could stretch my arms any further than their usual length.

**Elaineylane** · 05-10-2016 05:21 PM

Basic Task I & II Complete! This is my first time I get to post one.

My husband woke me up when he went to the bathroom around 3:15 am so since I had been up reading I had just been asleep about 30 minutes or so because I laid there trying to meditate & think about how to incorporate the TOTM into my dreams after reading some of "The Untethered Soul" by Michael A. Singer.

Spoiler for SPOILER:

Dream #1- I tried again to go back to sleep & failed at the task but did have a non-lucid dream which was nice & vivid. I was in this house w/ high ceilings & was by the beach. It was a really BIG house! I was there with my grown kids & we were just hanging out. My husband was there too. It was really beautiful w/ the sun & waves rolling into the beach. We were walking on the beach & going in & out of the house like we were on vacation. We were getting all ready to go swimming & the winner of the show "The Voice" from last season was there which was weird. I told him to take his shirt off & he told me he only had 2 of them & that I had more. I told him most of my clothes don't fit me because women keep clothes from when they were really skinny just in case they lose weight. Then I realized it was weird I was asking him for the shirt & that he was actually taking his off, lol... I felt bad cuz he was a really heavy guy & probably didn't want to have it off at the beach which was why he was so hesitant. Then I realized I was dreaming & became lucid because Jordan was there & couldn't do anything to stabilize the dream because I had to pee in real life & it woke me completely up so my TOTM failed. But of course I still had to go back to sleep in order to attempt again.

Dream #2- I was dreaming this horrible dream so it may be almost classified as a nightmare in the beginning but changed later on. I was in this town but it wasn't a town, it was in this big place with the structure of isles like a "Sam's Club" so the shelves were warehouse style. There were so many people because like I said, it was like a whole town full of people in there. There were kids & parents & older people. Just all kinds of people! There were just so many of them! At some point I start to realize that the amount of people have diminished just a little bit & everyone there is still going about their lives like we were all little worker bees, so to speak. We are shelving things & pulling stuff off shelves to get them down for other people & families. It was like we were all now living in this "Sam's Club" store because something awful happened outside but I never saw any windows or cash registers. Suddenly I was noticing some jerky movements by some of the workers, kind of like when people in movies are doing shady stuff & they are looking around like they are trying to not get caught so I start to follow a couple of these people & see what is going on. When I get near them I realize that the job itself seemed to change. They were telling people to put these things in there mouths to keep them safe & someone recognizes me & tells me to put one in my mouth so I do. It's like some kind of breathing apparatus that filters stuff out of the air but you stick it in your mouth & it's about the size of a pacifier but it's a rectangle & it's yellow. But then I notice they are putting blue ones in other people's mouths & telling them the same thing but they are taking them into another room, like a storage room & the people aren't coming out. So, I look into one of these rooms & the people are dead! So I'm starting to panic but I realize I had the one that must filter stuff so I'm okay. There is a gas like substance in the air now but they are like clouds in the isles of this poisonous stuff like a fog. So I start looking for places where they have hidden these good breathing things on the shelves & it occurs to me that I'm dreaming because this is becoming all so weird, so now I'm lucid & instantly think that I'm tasting something in small doses. I start to look at my arms & realize I have got to stretch out my arms but I'm in this warehouse & I've already woke up once so I have to do the task in the warehouse for fear of waking up before I complete the task. So I do what I would do in real life if I could actually do this in this sort of situation. I start stretching my arms down the isles & I am reminded of those blow up things out in front of businesses that blown in the wind. It's a guy w/ floppy arms & legs & stuff so it briefly makes me laugh but then I see my arms are just like rubber & they don't hurt or anything but they can still detect these good breathing things some how & I pull my arm & hand back & I've got some in my hand so I go looking for people to give them too. As I'm giving them to some people I have to pull them down with me crouching on the floor because those guys who are killing people almost see me. So I give them the rest of what I have & tell them what I've saw & tell them to help other people & to try & find a safe place to hide. I then go back down a few more isles & realize there are becoming even less people in the store & there is more gas in the air now. I have to crouch down & hide behind things over & over because there are so many of these bad people killing people. Even though I'm lucid I'm thinking man this would be really bad if something like this really happened!. So I see a group of 5 people & they have a couple of little kids so I'm feeling like a super hero now with my long ass arms so I see how far I can reach without being seen. I held on to the end of an isle in case my arm does something weird & I get off balance but that didn't happen. I reached my long rubbery but light feeling arm down the isle picking up the breathing things on higher & lower shelves & I attempt to try to go to the next isle but I stop & pull my arm back. I start to think I have grabbed so many I'm going to drop them. So I pull my arm back & dispense to these people what I have start to look for more people but there are just not many people left but I do find a couple of them & explain all over again what is happening but by now they already knew & just wanted to breathe & get out of there so I stretched out my arm again but this time I made my hand larger because I was afraid this dream was going on for quite some time with me being lucid & it was starting get more foggy in there. It had a claustrophobic feeling now. But, this time since my hand was bigger I was able to hold more so I went all the way down the isle & around it & grabbed stuff off the next isle over first & then came back & grabbed from the isle I was in & I got a bigger handful this time. My arm felt different this time because it went around the corner it felt like it pulled on my shoulder more but more of an upward motion & my arm was kind of like if you had a really long ribbon but not quite that light, more like a kids lightweight jump rope but thicker & flatter. So I have these things in my hands & as I round the next corner I run right into those bad guys who are not so happy with me. But lucky for me, Meesha Cat woke me up & I didn't have to deal with them at all! Meesha is my real life Maine Coon kitty cat who likes to wake me up, each & every day except on the weekends where she wakes up my husband, lol. I also noticed that my mouth tasted like the smell of cockroach traps which was I guess how my brain computed the gas from in my dream so that's Basic Task #1 & Basic Task #2 Complete Complete!

Non-Lucid-Green
Lucid-Red
Explanation of details-Blue
Side Notes-Purple

**Twoshadows** · 05-11-2016 10:35 PM

I completed the two Basic Tasks of the Month last night. My lucid moment was tucked in the middle of a bunch of other dreams and I don't remember what exactly lead up to lucidity or how it faded.

I do remember that I was lucid and wanting to do the Tasks. I thought of the one to taste in my mouth whatever I had eaten last. At first I didn't think I could do this since I didn't remember eating anything in the dream. But I tried anyway. I worked my tongue around in my mouth until I noticed that I had some crackers in my mouth...mostly in my teeth, as if I had just chewed one up and swallowed most of it. It tasted like a butter cracker, and what was left was kind of smooth and slippery.

Then I decided to do the other task which was to stretch your arms and seeing how far they could reach. I noticed I was on a road or alley. I could see walls on either side of the road. They were about 20 (or a little more) feet apart. I figured this would work nicely. I started with my right arm I reached out toward the wall. Since I had never tired this before I wasn't sure how easy or hard this would be. I just concentrated on my hand touching the wall. I could see it getting closer until finally I could feel the wall. I pressed my hand against the wall and then held out my left hand. I did the same thing, focusing on my hand touching the other wall. It didn't take long until that hand was pressed up against the wall as well.

It didn't really feel like I was stretching, but I could see both hands on the walls that were 20 or so feet apart. So I had accomplished the task. It was cool to know that I had the ability to do that.

**Saizaphod** · 05-13-2016 04:49 PM

Basic task II completed

I look up and there's power lines on the right. Without hesitation and doubt I go and extend my right arm towards them and it stretches and stretches to about twenty meters high. I go and grab the power line. I feel nothing, but I see blue and white electricity moving down on my arm and it hits my body. The energy makes me levitate and it is making my body buzz gently. I then let go and take flight again to a nearby small hill. My arm has instantly returned to it's usual length.

Full entry

**Intet** · 05-14-2016 01:16 AM

Code:

def lucdity():
      if lucidity == True:
            print "YES!"
      else:
            print "no"
print lucidity()

Burke, I just tried running your dream code in Python IWL, and it returned "no."

**Burke** · 05-14-2016 03:52 AM

Originally Posted by Intet

Code:

def lucdity():
      if lucidity == True:
            print "YES!"
      else:
            print "no"
print lucidity()

Burke, I just tried running your dream code in Python IWL, and it returned "no."

Well that's because you're not dreaming!

**FryingMan** · 05-14-2016 09:15 PM

actually, it prints (with spelling fixed and an extra line break inserted before the print in order to properly finish the function definition)

no
None

because the function lucidity() prints "no" because the function lucidity is not == True
and does not return a value and so the return value is assigned the value None, which the "print" statement then displays

**RelaxAndDream** · 05-16-2016 11:02 AM

Originally Posted by FryingMan

actually, it prints (with spelling fixed and an extra line break inserted before the print in order to properly finish the function definition)

no
None

because the function lucidity() prints "no" because the function lucidity is not == True
and does not return a value and so the return value is assigned the value None, which the "print" statement then displays

ehm.... okay... dont get a thing^^ so no bonus task for me this month

nevertheless i completed Basic I and II some nights ago:

Spoiler for Completed Basic I & II:

Edit: Would love to see someone attempt the Advanced II. i think it is still on my to do. maybe i can incubate something that will work for me

**FryingMan** · 05-16-2016 11:31 AM

Originally Posted by RelaxAndDream

ehm.... okay... dont get a thing^^ so no bonus task for me this month

I was just wearing my geek hat on the code fragment, not judging the TOTM-worthiness of the dream. I'd say it's worthy in fact.

**woblybil** · 05-16-2016 07:51 PM

Completed Basic Task I

5?16
8:00am
This was a long-long dream but most of it was just flying around. There were silvery,translucent garbage bags hanging around and then I saw they were filled with people, I tried to get into one by ripping at it with my hands but it was pretty tough and I flew off for awhile into tan dust like a dust storm and then thought "This has got to be a dream" First off I need wings, A task,Whats that taste in my mouth? "There is no taste in my mouth,None!....Then I wanted to yell out for a girl, (Yelling out to the dream for a dream guide was the best task ever) I was afraid it might not be a dream and the neighbors would hear me so I checked my fingers and they looked almost real but not quite real enough! First there were three, then four, then five and they were kinda stubby but the killer was my one short finger was the all there so I yelled out "Hey dream, I want a girl" (Nothing) I yelled again and slowly a girl, Like a charcoal sketch girl came toward me and I caught and held her and for a drawing she felt pretty good and we were done with what we wanted to do in seconds it seemed and I heard a faint "Woo" Somewhere like an owl and then a "Wooo-Woo-Woo" and though"Thats a train but there's no tracks and as the Woo-ing got louder I was afraid I was on the tracks in the dark and couldn't see the train and I was first at my computer desk then thought "I better get back to bed before I wake up here" and just as I started to get out of the chair I woke up to the real train across the highway......