Thread: Task of the Year for 2013

The Challenge:
This year the theme is visiting a famous landmark on each continent. There will be 7 tasks, each corresponding to a different continent. Your challenge is to complete all 7 tasks before 2014.


The Rules:
You must complete each task in a separate lucid dream; you can't do more than one in the same dream.


The Tasks:
Rome (Europe) - Have a "fight to the death" with a DC in the Colosseum. Either with a gladiator, or a vicious animal.

China (Asia) - Vandalize the Great Wall of China. Defend yourself against authorities using Kung Fu.

New York City (North America) - Transform into King Kong, climb to the top of the Empire State Building, and fight it out with the military.

Venezuela (South America) - Float or plunge from the top of Angel Falls (the world's highest waterfall) to the bottom.

Great Barrier Reef (Australia) - Hitch a ride on a sea turtle, dolphin, or humpback whale and explore the Great Barrier Reef. Bite a great white shark and don't die. Then return Mel Gibson (jk).

The Great Pyramid of Giza/Khufu/Cheops (Africa) - Bring the Great Sphinx to life and fix her nose. Then ride her to the top of The Great Pyramid.

South Pole (Antarctica) - Arrive at the South Pole and dig from the center of the Earth all the way through to the North Pole using any means. Describe what you see along the way.


Good luck:
Feel free to post any attempts and accomplishments in this thread. Good luck and have fun!

Spoiler for Members who have completed the task:

Oreo
PercyLucid

Wooo! I was up on New Years waiting for it to be posted, but then I realized since I'm in New Zealand it would only be posted the next day.
Now here it is! I can't wait to do this year's TOTY! I wanted to do last year's one, but I didn't really like the theme.
Task of the Year 2013, HERE I COME!

Pretty exciting. I had originally planned to start these today. I think I will start later though. More practice needed now.

Oh I meant to add that these were basically CanisLucidus's ideas. I only added a tiny bit to them for shits and giggles.

Thanks for the lucidspiration my friend

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Oh I meant to add that these were basically CanisLucidus's ideas. I only added a tiny bit to them for shits and giggles.

Thanks for the lucidspiration my friend

Thanks for the credit, my friend, but I think that several of these are much improved from my originals! You especially killed it on the Asia task. Great job as usual.

But perhaps I can't be trusted to give a completely impartial opinion. So for an unbiased view on these tasks, I've asked a mutual friend of ours for his opinion before he returns to his country of origin later this year:



I'll see you all around the globe!

I've been looking for some goals to get back into dreaming with... these should work great.

The china goal sounds pretty hilarious, I think I'll try that one first once I'm comfortable with stabilization and whatnot

It was another failure but really really close!

Spoiler for Gladiator Rome Task:

That was unpleasant so I try something else. I go back to "ooooooohm". It quieting my internal chatter. I begin to visualize my own right hand holding a Gladius. Soon it becomes very vivid. I repeat a sideway slash over and over. Soon it becomes more natural to swing up and down in a tomahawk chopping action. I am in the dark void and I can vividly see the hilt of the sword with a brass ball at the end. It is not shiny and smooth but pock marked and dull from heavy use. I can't see the blade because it is more above my head.



I begin to hear things. A solider shouts something in another language. It sounds like he is gruffly barking orders. Then I hear a pounding noise. It sounds a deep drum beat and people stomping all in unison to my over-head-chopping. Each downward slice is a beat. Boom... Boom... Boom... I remain calm and relax more.

Again I vividly hear the solider shouting orders. I am reminded of soldiers in formation for battle but I think, "No. I am in a Colosseum. I am fighting one man." I think maybe those in charge are just getting things ready and that's who I hear.

Now, along with the drum beat and foot stopping, I hear a very large crowd get excited and cheer. It sounds like thousands of people.

I don't over think things here but I just expect to see a Colosseum now. I had prepared before hand how I was going to visualize this. I thought of a simple geometric shape as a building block for the dream scene. I visualize this now. It was a simple curved line to form a wall in front of me like a half circle. Like looking across to the other end of a stadium.

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The darkness parts in the middle of my vision like a curtain. My vision is very blurry but I can see enough. The sun is high in mid day. There ground is brown dirt and scattered gravel. Still the crowd is in an uproar. The booming may have stopped I am not sure. I continue my chopping action.

Soon a a figure materializes before me. Still blurry but I see a man that looks a lot like The Prince of Persia.



He wastes no time. He jumps in the air does a downward diagonal slash with his Scimitar. I reflexively put my Gladius up and deftly parry the blow. The impact sends a shock up my arm and startles me. I feel my entire physical body jerk and the scene colapses.

Yeahh I'm gonna try for China first as well. I'm gonna try to vandal DV members' names if I can remember to

This is going to be awesome... I'm a major ancient history and Latin buff so the Rome task is really going to appeal to me, but I have a bit of a fear of killing people in my dream, it makes me cry (literally...).

EDIT: I just realised that quite a few of these tasks will force me to face some of my dream fears:

Europe: Killing a person.
Asia: Getting attacked by sharp pointy knives.
Nth America: Getting shot at by guns.
Sth America: Heights
Australia: Swimming in open oceans.
Africa: Heights
Antarctica: I'd rather not lose my bearings by travelling underground...

*SIGH* another Rome failure.

You can check out the full thing in my DJ. Basically, I had a DEILD and went outside. I just couldn't pull off teleporting so I decided to fly there. I used the Robert Waggoner technique of flying and it became a type of short range teleporting. I kept focusing on distant trees and would fly point to point a warp speed. At one point I saw a distant mountain and teleported there. I decided it was far enough and dropped into the middle of the Colosseum. It became dark and a spot light lit up behind me. I drew my sword and waited for the battle while the invisible crown cheered and chanted. I could only see my shadow on the ground. I was very muscular and standing in a battle ready stance with a drawn Gladius. I guess I waited around too much because the dream collapsed after that and I went on to other things in my next DEILDs.

Originally Posted by Xanous

I drew my sword and waited for the battle while the invisible crown cheered and chanted. I could only see my shadow on the ground. I was very muscular and standing in a battle ready stance with a drawn Gladius.

That shadow part is sooooo cool!

I don't think I'd even want to wake up if my shadow was all super sexy

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

That shadow part is sooooo cool!

I don't think I'd even want to wake up if my shadow was all super sexy

I just wanted to kill something. But yeah it was pretty cool.

A little inspiration for the Rome task. I watched it on Netflix today. Sometimes it helps.

These tasks sound fun! I'll definitely add them to my list of dream goals!

Man I wish I had the skill to do these tasks, they all sound like epic LD's

Originally Posted by BossMan

Man I wish I had the skill to do these tasks, they all sound like epic LD's

Practice! my friend, and You'll get to it.
Great tasks! Rome, here I come

Originally Posted by areyoume

Practice! my friend, and You'll get to it.
Great tasks! Rome, here I come

For sure, my two biggest inspirations for LD'ing was a chance to visit Ancient Rome & Space the way I imagined it.

So accomplishing this part of the TOTY would mean a lot to me. I'll definitely practice and hopefully get there before 2014!

I am definitely going to be concentrating on these this year. I can't wait!

This is great incentive for me to continue learning to lucid dream. Thanks!

Well yesterday I tried doing a WILD to complete the Angel Falls one, but I never got into the dream

get her next time.. imagine something like a turned on water faucet in your bathroom or kitchen growing into the Angel Falls

I woke up too soon. Roman task failed.

Spoiler for The Lucid Part:

...then I realize that this is just too weird and I become lucid. I laugh at the arm situation but the fact that this is a dream seems impossible at first. All I can think is that I just peed and it all felt so real. I decide not to worry about what that might mean in the waking world. I forget about my arms.

I want out of the house. I turn around and see a full window. I notice this window should be in the girls room not the bathroom. I shrug it off and dive through the glass. The top half of me pushes through fine but I get stuck at the waist. I tell myself the glass is not there and push down from the outside with my hands. I grunt as my waist and legs slowly come free. I come outside and land on my hands. I quickly get up and notice how It seems like dawn or dust but is the light well enough to see fine. (Small victory for an easy exit and light!)

Now I am standing outside. This part of my yard and driveway look normal. I don't focus on it too much but the neighborhood looks about right too. I think how I want to do the Rome TOTY. I need to teleport so first, I try to rip a whole in the fabric of this reality. I reach up in front of myself and make a tearing motion with my hands. I try to imagine the scene ripping like paper and opening into a dark void. I thought I saw something for a second but it was like trying to imagine something while awake. Nothing would happen. I felt really stupid making hand motions in the air so I thought to try something else.

I tried to spin to see if the scene would change. Every thing blurred in motion and then went dark. I fell to my hands and knees. I was not happy but told myself not to worry. Just wait and try to imagine a Roman Colosseum. I waited sightless feeling the ground with my hands, straining to see something.

After a moment, I see I am back in my front yard. There is a large red truck with a camper shell parked on the street. I think of how I used a "vehicle" in the September TOTM to travel. I decide to make this work. I hurry around the side of the truck. I feel rushed as I have no idea how much time I have. I pull on the driver side handle. Unlocked, Yes!

I don't even look at the ignition because I worry that I won't see a key. I reach and expect to feel it there. It is. I start the truck. I focus on the street outside so that I keep focused and don't loose my vision again. I feel around the steering wheel for buttons. I push random ones like in Sept TOTM and say, "Roman Colosseum." I see the buttons light up but nothing happens. I push the gas and expect to see light blur and streak like a Star Trek warp but, to my disappointment, the engine just revs.

I say, "OK,We will do this Back-To-The-Future style." I throw the shifter into drive and punch the gas. I see the street in front of me begin to darken but I just focus on the speedometer. I don't see any numbers but I have and idea of where 88 MPH is. I repeat "Roman Colosseum" over and over as I accelerate. The engine is making a horrible noise like the truck has no muffler. I find it odd but ignore it. As I am waiting to reach speed as the dream fades to black and I wake up.

I have completed the Angel Falls task!

Angel Falls TOTY (January 5, 2013) - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views