Thread: Task of the Year for 2013

i am exited to try this! one thing... can i use modern day swords in the first one? (not guns and ranged weapons, obviously.) or any melee weapon? or does it have to be what they have on thier shelves?

Originally Posted by Tradl3s

i am exited to try this! one thing... can i use modern day swords in the first one? (not guns and ranged weapons, obviously.) or any melee weapon? or does it have to be what they have on thier shelves?

The task is to fight a gladiator or animal in the Colosseum. I'm pretty sure what powers or weapons you use are up to you. I think I used a magic crossbow to complete that task. Use whatever you like.

Neeto. i'll use a bow and arrow. (explosive and chemical gas tip)

My first attempt at TOTY. To sum it up, tried to go to Angel Falls by swimming forward through a wall, ended up in the middle of a lotus pond lake imposed on my room, my room took over, and I lost lucidity. Still, I am enthusiastic about it. I am thinking that trying for TOTY will help me develop a skill I need to work on – changing the scene. Looking forward to trying more of these tasks.

Here the entry: The Lotus Pond

Do you have to do the task specified exactly? (Ride Sphinx to Pyramid, Ride marine animal to Great Barrier Reef). Is it enough to go to the Sphinx/Pyrics or Great Barrier Reef?

Originally Posted by PennyRoyal

Do you have to do the task specified exactly? (Ride Sphinx to Pyramid, Ride marine animal to Great Barrier Reef). Is it enough to go to the Sphinx/Pyrics or Great Barrier Reef?

Unfortunately, these tasks are supposed to be more difficult than the TOTM. So yep, you gotta ride them

Right on, wanted to be sure before I started taking a crack at them

Fair enough... you know to be honest, they intimidate the hell out of me. Especially the underwater one.

I tried to teleport to Angel Falls with the 'spinning' technique I've been meaning to try from EWLD. I thought I started to hear the roar of the falls at first, but quickly learned it was the fan in my room and woke up

At the rate I'm having LDs this year I don't think I can do these...but who knows? But the real question is do we have to go back to the 30s for the sphinx one? It's nose got blown off in WWII!!!!

Originally Posted by ineverwakeup97

But the real question is do we have to go back to the 30s for the sphinx one? It's nose got blown off in WWII!!!!

Really? I heard it was either Muhammad Sa'im al-Dahr or Napoleon who done it.

Oh that's my bad. It was Muhammed. I think I mixed up stories, but I'm pretty sure something important in Egypt got wrecked in WWII

I made two failed attempts at the Angel Falls task this morning!

First, I tried to fly there with my son:

As we fly high enough to look over the tops of the surrounding buildings, I see that the entire city rest atop a huge mesa that rises high above an ocean. At the edge of the mesa I see a waterfall -- Angel Falls!

The Falls are a long way off, so I focus on flying faster and faster. We get up some good speed, but the dream is starting to feel thin and insubstantial. All I can think to do is speed up, but I'm not fast enough. We're still about a quarter mile away from the falls when I feel the sensation (real or imagined) of my eyeballs moving around and I'm awake.

Full dream: Sandwiches for Skeptics - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

In the second LD, I threw myself into the void and fell past the falls with lots of sound and touch, but no sight. (This was awesome but doesn't count.)

I allow myself just a moment to imagine that the top of Angel Falls is right behind me. Then I fling myself backwards as if I'm jumping off of a cliff, imagining myself going over the falls. There's a weird moment where I'm stuck upside down, my head sort of embedded in the sidewalk. After a couple of awkward seconds like this, I wind up in the void.

I rub my hands together, then imagine that I'm falling along the falls. Almost immediately I feel the spray of water against my face and arms. I point myself facefirst at the ground, arms tight to my sides. Air rushes past my skin as I gather speed. I feel myself going faster and faster, air filling my mouth.

Full dream: Dive Bomber in Darkness - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

I haven't given up on you, Task of the Year. Never surrender.

I'm still trying! I failed to find Angel Falls, instead finding a huge waterfall with an "Angel Falls" banner over it in a water park. Turned out that it was a ride.

It was a cool ride, though!

Full dream: Water Slide - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Flew over some hills CanisLucidis style to a small waterfall where I tried to feel the water falling on me as the dream fades.

Dream Hopping

Success with the South America Task of the Year! Finally, finally got to Angel Falls! I cannot tell you how bad I wanted to get this one! Very very happy.

I land close to the waterfall, realize that I'm no longer holding E's hand, and look for him. I want him to come with me, but I won't wait long. I'm too desperate to complete this task! Fortunately he's just behind me. "[E], hurry!" I tell him. "We're going over this waterfall!" He doesn't hesitate, scurrying up to the waterfall and leaping off in a clumsy-looking froggy posture. I plunge over the side, just behind him.

I'm freefalling now, soaked and yelling with excitement. I'm speeding toward a vast, green valley below me. I make no attempt to control my descent, move, or do anything apart from enjoy the sensation of falling through this curtain of water.

Suddenly I hit a pool of water below and instantly enter the void. I can still feel water all around me and for a moment I think about trying to reemerge. But no -- I did what I wanted to do. Time to wake up.

Full dream: Angel Falls - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

WOOOOOOO GREAT JOB CANIS

Failed on the North America "King Kong" task. I hadn't planned for this one in a while and my memory was all scrambled up. I wound up climbing up part of the way, taking an elevator the rest of the way, and then only remembering to transform into King Kong when I was close to the top.

Then I kinda-sorta transformed into a medium-sized, hairless gorilla, fell all the way to the street, and scuffled with some random passerby on street level.

Fun, but very very unsuccessful.

Full dream: http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/cani...-junior-49103/

I didn't get to use my Kung Fuuuuuu!

...I enter through some invisible threshold and the area changes. I see The Great Wall before me stretched across a wilderness countryside. I float over to it and immediately begin punching large blocks off. It falls easily like a stack of child play blocks. I float up on top and begin back handed swings knocking large parapet sections off. Some areas begin to change and look like a wooden deck but I deny that I believe its all stone. I decide I've done enough damage and move to a roofed section. I imagine a large gong there and summon a large drumstick without looking. I swing and connect. *GONG* The sound rings out loud and clear. There are some steps leading down to another invisible threshold in the middle of thin air. I can see a different and artificial light coming from it. I watch expecting the authorities to show up. At that moment I feel my physical body and the dream collapses. My dream voice shouts, "NOOOOOOOO!" I wake up.

The Not So Great Wall Of China - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

#3 try for Angel Falls

I get the weird idea that I will turn this building top into the top of Angel Falls then jump, but I feel the need to have something stable below me to start with. It's a bit like I am sitting on a wobbly chair on top of pile of crap right now.

I look to my left and see that a beautiful river is flowing through the nearby part of neighborhood. There is also a small waterfall in the middle of it, too small, but inspiring enough. I want to go down there, I have no idea how and where I but get and reach to this branch and once again use the tree branch swinging method of moving. I swing forward and land exactly where I wanted to - down where the river is. I start thinking about turning this into Angel Falls. The river starts to change and at some point I find myself right in the middle of it, observing how the now dark water flows down a slope. There are dark rocks as well, and the current is way too fast, so I feel kind of uncomfortable being in the water. Somehow though I am dry and not moving with the current? This is not quite like what it is supposed to be and I concentrate on the landscape to cut off the water and make it flow into an abyss just ahead of me. Despite my efforts the river changes just a bit. I get it, it is just not working right now and I also become tired so give up. The thought quickly flashes that I might try to turn the end of the river flow into a beach, but now lack the mood for that. I begin reviewing other tasks I have memorized but the the dream ends just as I go through them.

I also came across this really sweet scene change tutorial and am posting it here as a reminder to self and also for everybody who is interested in learning how to change the scene, checking out new techs or just reviewing some of the good techs out there.

Changing your dream scene

I made a couple of failed tries for the Australia Task of the Year (Great Barrier Reef ride on a turtle or sea creature of your choice, bite a shark.)

In the first dream, I managed to swim in an ocean that I believed to be the Great Barrier Reef and followed a sea turtle around, but the little sucker was too quick for me. But I was pleased that I had no trouble breathing underwater!
The dream: The Turtle - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

In the second dream, I tried a new form of teleport from the void where I imagined myself falling back into water. Effective, but in an interesting way. I wound up in a completely underwater version of my house!
The dream: Oceanfront Property - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

4.5 months to go. It's getting tight! Looking for another victory over here!

Sphinx
I was in a room, became awareness, and decided to make TOTY Bring the Great Sphinx to life and fix her nose... I tried to make a portal in the floor, but each time found myself in the room and at last awoke, but tried to DEILD.
DEILD.
I walked along the road and tried to stabilize a dream. rub arms and so on. I made a portal and found myself in the wood, but i knew, that its a place there piramids were. i went and soon saw the sphinx, but she was black and not so big and thiner. I looked on the ground and found some black stone with a blue pattern. I decided that it was her nose, took it, and flew with it to her face. I put the nose on its place and want the sphinx to live, then i sat on her back and wanted to go to the top of piramid. The sphinx was made of some black metal and went very slowly. ( i thought i would loose awarenes ) soon we went to the foot of piramid and began to klimb. And went to the top, but on the top there were workers, who ended to build a piramid and a lot of tourist. I saw feilds, hils and even a river. I had a chat with one of the workers and decided to awake.

AF try #4 summary:

Thought about Angel Falls, turned back on the sound of running water and expected the waterfall to be there, turned again to see lots of watery things like geysers, puddles, etc, also an inland beach and a valley leading to the sea. Decided to take advantage and try for TOTM advanced, but before I could reach the inland beach woke up.

Animals

Success with the Asia (Great Wall of China) Task of the Year!! My kung-fu was pretty embarrassing, but I am super proud of my vandalism. This was also one of the more vivid LDs I've had in a while. I'm really pleased! I've got a lot more work ahead of me, but this was good for my confidence.

Advancing right to the wall, I haul back and punch it once, hoping that this will break a piece off. Nothing much happens. I grab at the wall with my fingers and manage to break a tiny piece off, but this doesn't feel like the serious vandalism I was going for. I decide to go with my premeditated plan of tagging up the Great Wall with spray paint. I summon an aerosol can into my hand and start spraying out some letters:

"DV 4 LIFE"

The paint runs and blurs a lot and generally looks like a mess, but I'm still incredibly pleased. Okay, the final piece of this dream is to defend myself against the authorities with kung-fu. I turn around, expecting an enemy... and find myself face to face with a pale, doughy guy in his 40s. He's wearing glasses and is dressed in brown slacks and a rather tight white cardigan that emphasizes his belly and spindly arms.

"So you're 'the authorities'?" I ask, trying to lead him to say yes.

"Certainly," he says curtly in a British accent. He stares proudly back at me.

Immediately I try to do some "kung-fu" on him. I do this atrocious little low kick that clips the side of his left knee. Then I throw another little kick that misses entirely. This time I scream something like, "A-GOCK!!" to make it seem more like I'm doing kung-fu. It comes out really shrieky but the effect is kung-fuey. My opponent does an awkward little hopping kick that misses by a mile. We both kick at the same time and kind of clash feet. We keep throwing these terrible little kicks at each other and I keep shrieking "A-GOCK!!" Finally my awful little kicks get the better of his awful little kicks and he seems to lose interest, and after a moment wanders away entirely.

Full dream: The Great Wall of China - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views