Thread: Task of the Month for April 2013

I've got two questions:
1 What is "pull a prank"? is it play a joke?
2 Taste the first edible object, or lick for example stone or tree?

Originally Posted by she

I've got two questions:
1 What is "pull a prank"? is it play a joke?
2 Taste the first edible object, or lick for example stone or tree?

1. Yes, it can be simple as tripping them so they fall, or handing them a lit stick of dynamite and telling them it's just a candle.
2. Yes, a rock or tree or person or wall or toilet seat.

Have fun with these, man I'm excited!

I guess i'll go for Basic II first, i have never tasted something in an lucid dream yet so it's a good opportunity to try, question though, does it really needs to be very first object i see in the lucid dream?

Originally Posted by Checker666

I guess i'll go for Basic II first, i have never tasted something in an lucid dream yet so it's a good opportunity to try, question though, does it really needs to be very first object i see in the lucid dream?

Haha nah, I just said that to help make it a basic task. Some beginners might only have enough time and/or summoning skills to literally grab and lick the first thing they see. But if you want to take a little longer in your lucid to find something a bit more.. appetizing, then by all means

You guys ask such great questions haha

Autocannibalism is not the answer

Originally Posted by PostScript99

Autocannibalism is not the answer

well, i usually have extra fingers, so its not a big deal

I've never taken part in Task of the Month before and I think it's about time I did. Definitely going for a basic and an advanced task. I look forward to sleeping tonight.

Good ones! If I can manage a lucid, I'm totally eating a finger.

Ah I got Advanced 2 a couple of days ago, assuming narrating it in your head counts. Maybe I can try it again. The tasting one also seems very... interesting... to say the least.

Yummy
I can hardly wait....

Basic Task i and ii complete! Didn't think I'd get them done so fast.


I was having a nightmare that I lived on a beach and there was a tsunami. My house kept getting hit by waves and me and my sister were hiding inside. I was clinging onto my dog and wouldn't let him go but I think my cat ran outside and possibly died . After a while it suddenly hit me. I don't live on the beach, we don't get tsunami's in this country, this is ridiculous. I left the house, much to my sisters horror, and suddenly it all stopped.
I saw an old man trying to pick up some of his furniture that had floated out of his home. I went over and asked if he wanted help. He kept thanking me for being kind but I couldn't see any other DC's about so I had to prank him. I resorted to childish playground tricks. The one where you say "hey there's something on your shirt" and you point. He looked down and I moved my hand up swiftly and smacked him in the nose. Actually I smacked him quite hard in my anticipation and he fell backwards and just sat holding his nose on the floor. Next I tried to find something to lick. There was a big crane type thing next to us which was bright yellow. I licked it hoping perhaps that with it being bright yellow it might taste of something like banana. No...it just tasted like a metal crane. It was cold and wet from all the water and had bits of grit stuck to it. It left a horrible taste in my mouth. I decided I needed to find something to take the taste away and as if I hadn't abused the old man enough I broke into his home and raided his fridge where I found a caramel milkshake. That tasted of, well, caramel lol.

Hopefully tonight I'll go for the advanced tasks.

Haha, awesome job man! I found your dream very entertaining. Poor old man I'm like you and sometimes I feel a little sorry for a DC, but I remind myself that he's not real and I'll wake up eventually and no harm done. Can't let them DCs ruin our fun!

Anyway, congrats again

I completed a single task, but I'm not sure if this is valid.
I don't recall whether both of the tasks need to be done, as it's been a while since I've done these.
Here is the DJ entry: Grim Reaper Lucid - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views
Or here is the relevant excerpt: "I walked up to a man and a woman. Evidently shopping for their daily groceries. I lick the many's shirt, and it tastes a peculiar bitterness, with a really strong sour flavour. (It wasn't as disgusting as it sounds, considering I knew it was just a dream) I went up the lady, and asked if I could smell her neck, she obliged, and I soon discovered that she was wearing a really sweet perfume."
Obviously I was misguided, on the second thing. (If you read the entry, it explains why.)
Anyway, yeah. I'll refrain from attempting to join the group, until you tell me what's up.
I won't hold it against you or anything, I'll only take a few of your possessions when I rob you.
Thanks!

Yeah you totally nailed the "taste an object" task. Congratulations!! I don't know why you went on to smell another DC, but ok.. an extra pat on the back for engaging more of your senses

I read your entry, still loving the pistol part

Interesting tasks! I think I will go for the tasting or licking part too

Drawing what happens next in the dream - does it also have to come true?

My shot at Basic Task II (the whole dream journal entry is here):

I am in a basement bedroom of some sort. It's very clean, with white walls. I'm standing on the bed. There is a small window high above me that is letting sunlight in. The window frame is made of dark wood.

I bounce up and down on the bed, peering out of the window. It is a brilliant fall day outside and the trees are vivid red and orange. There are leaves all over the ground; some dried and brown, others still brightly colored.

I haul myself through the window frame, ignoring the glass and making it insubstantial. Even though it ought to be to small for me to fit through, I still manage to wriggle through it. The sunlight is super bright and temporarily blinds me with a lense-flare effect as I haul myself out of the window well.

"LEEEEAAAAAAVES!" I crow triumphantly and plow into a pile of red and orange leaves. I roll around in them, kicking my legs and sending a whirlwind of leaves all over the place. I flop my arms around in them and rub my face in them. I remember my lucid goal and begin enthusiastically shoving leaves into my mouth. They are very thin and papery and taste like stale crackers, with a hint of glue. I sit up and spit out a mouthful of leaves. I wake up.

My lucid self cracks me up sometimes. I'm in complete control of my faculties, but I'm so enthusiastic about absolutely everything.

In most lucid dreams I do these things inadvertently, But remembering I am there on a quest and what it may be is a bit more evasive.

Basic task 2.*

I'm running through a Shopping Centre and become Lucid.*
I look at some Shelves in front of me full of nice looking things to eat and I'm thinking what to have.*
I then remember something I read on this Forum or maybe somewhere else on the Net about someone eating Glass as a Dream Stabiliser so think I'll try that.*
I can't see any Glass but see a Light Brown China Pot so grab it and take a bite using the side of my Teeth.*
A big chunk snaps off and I start to crunch it, it feels very much like you would expect but at first I can't really taste anything.*
After about 10 seconds or so though I start to get a strong taste of Metal, like when a Folk or something touches you teeth and it's pretty rank.*

I got so close to the basic task last night!

A DC was being a jerk in my lucid, so I wanted to lick him and freak him out. I woke up before I could get a taste though

Originally Posted by PennyRoyal

I got so close to the basic task last night!

A DC was being a jerk in my lucid, so I wanted to lick him and freak him out. I woke up before I could get a taste though

Gotta learn to lick faster Warren!!

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Gotta learn to lick faster Warren!!

Hahahah, duly noted.

I tried the desk capboard. It was like real, without taste, a bit rough like ordinary wood.

My family and i lied on the bed. Something clicked under the bed. I said DCs that its a toy frog turned on, but i guessed that its a LD. I stood up and remembered about TOTM and licked the desk capboard. Nothing interesting.

That didn't work very well
I went to sleep with a well rehearsed plan in mind and did as I should like a good boy, I Started to dream different stuff than I had planned and changed it but everything came out like a charcoal sketched cartoon, I and a little straw girl caught a straw fish and I tried to place it on the sand to make an impression and then finish drawing it with a stick but my straw hands went right thru the stick, Nothing performed as advertised, Maybe something I ate Only 2:00am, I will try again :

Good job she! Sorry your dream capboard wasn't very interesting