Task of the Month for December 2010

[ninja9578]

Introduction: This topic is for the Lucid Tasks that are assigned by me or voted on by experienced dreamers. Please attempt one or both 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. 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. Of course you still need to post the dream here because I check. Whoever completes either 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 the lucid task each month. Tasks for this month: Basic Task - Hit a DC with a snowball Advanced Task - Steal all the presents in Who-ville and toss them off of Mount Crumpit

[ninja9578]

Who-ville and Mount Crumpit are both from the Dr Suess story How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

[PercyLucid]

Ninja... That is a too "US" task. No one outside the US knows what a who is... But I guess I will have to dream it... I am focused on other goals for my lucids, but I want my wings, so tonight or very soon it will be completed. I am not excited though!

[ninja9578]

We've done Dr Suess taskes before, everyone seems to know who he is. And I just asked coworkers in France and they know the story. I'm pretty sure this is a universal task. But just in case, here is the complete text exactly how it was narrated in the movie: Xmas Fun - Christmas All Year Round!

[PercyLucid]

And how many houses do we require to loot? This one is worthy to be a task of the year! It is like, if you open a who's house is probably that you will find anything but a interior of a house (such as a beach, a mountain, etc) If we need to take several houses, it will be harder... However, I have an idea to loot all the gifts without entering the house. Home-destructions and/or gift teleporting is allowed, isn't?

[PercyLucid]

Just in time. Ninja, I think you will like it. It ended up being a super long lucid with a non lucid cop chase and a lucid (and weird) fight with a Vampire Lord. I think it was the longest Task of the Month lucid I ever had, not the most funniest though 30.11.2010 I throw a snowball to the Vampire Lord and blow up presents at Mount Crumpit (MILD) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID I woke up from recalling fragments and I told my self I had to MILD and complete the task of the month to avoid being wingless. I tried to not focus on Astral Projection for one night, just to get my wings. I performed my Chest Technique, I focused on Who's Ville and in turning lucid until I fell asleep. I was in downtown and it was night. I was inside my car with another DC. For some reason, I jacket the car I was driving but I was still parked. A cop stopped behind me and ordered me to step away from my car. I turned on the engine and the cop gave me the last warning. I stepped on the gas and run the hell out of there. I felt it was funny as the cop was chasing me and we were making a lot of noise. The cop was shooting from his car and he blew up one tire from my car. I entered a very creepy neighbor with a lot of allies. I started to drive through them and crushed on one. I still could hear the cop car approaching so I entered a building. The cop did as well. I wanted to enter an apartment to bribe the cop. I tried to walk through the door without success. I walked to the end of the aisle and I found a dead end. I was afraid the cop would arrest me. I found a very old school elevator, so I entered it. The pannel looked huge for such a small building. It has most of the buttons from floor 1 to 10. It has some to floor one to 20, then it had one button to floor 96 and other one to 973. I pressed one button and the elevator started to go up making an odd noise. I somehow knew I was dreaming so I checked my hands. I had six fingers and I accepted that as reality, but I was not sure. I kept looking at my hands and my fingers changed to five, and then I had the thumb and two more fingers. The clarity of the dream increased and I started to focus, "As soon as this elevator opens, I will be at Who's ville." No luck. The elevator opened in a fancy floor. There was carpeting of all colors. There was violin based music and fresh flowers. The lighting was not intense at all. I looked at the carpets hoping there would be snow so I could throw a ball to someone. There were a ton of white carpets, some bigger, some smaller, some were pure white, some were more grayish, but no snow. My dream started to fade extremely fast. I somehow knew I was not going to save it. I need to fly to save it, however, I told to myself that I saved dreams in a worse situation and I was good about it. Imaginary was gone but I still felt my body in the dream. My eyes were closed and I tried to open them badly with success. I was back in the same hall. At the end of the hall, there was a big fancy bar. The tables were Sequoya wood, hand made and beautiful. There were a couple of DC at different tables. It appeared there were having a workshop of something. The bartender approached at me and offered a drink. I told him if he had some sort of iced-drink, snow drink or something. i tried to conjure snow without success so I asked him. He told me I could summon snow if I wanted to. I placed my hands on the table and I focused like if I was going to make a PSI-Ball. My hands were in the position like if I was holding a baseball. I started to fell my hands very cold and I had some short of half-melted ice on my hands. I grabbed it, threw it at the bartender and flew away from the window. I was not really happy, as I threw more ice than snow, but I felt it was half a success. I hopped to get to Who's Ville to do the task better. It was day now and the cops were gone. There was quite of traffic and my dream started to fade again. I performed same recovery than before with success. I did not want to do big efforts as I knew that my REM was about to expire and I was just prolonging the dream. I tried to catch a taxi. I had no cash, but who cares... I saw a few taxis that were full. I walked in the middle of a busy street and the light turned green. I recalled that someone a few months ago suggested to be ran by a car, but I passed as I did not do my December tasks yet. After a few failed attempts to catch a taxi, one stopped by me. It was a sports car (but on the outside it looked like a regular yellow cab) there were no back seats and the driving was sitting (almost laying) on the right middle of the car. I tried to open the door without success. I did it with more strength and I finally got in. I said, "Hi" to the taxi driver and, "I need to get to Who's Ville please!" The taxi driver looked at me like if I was nuts. I told him, "Just figure the way, I know you can get me there" We arrived to an odd place and my dream again wanted to end. I saved it with the same method. I was in a home with the taxi driver. He was in front of a TV with a PS3 controller. He told me, "This is the closer I can get you to Who's ville" I was somehow upset, but I recalled that the exercise was, "Steal all the presents in Who-ville and toss them off of Mount Crumpit" so if I did it on a "Who stole X-Mas" game, it would be fine. The taxi driver requested payment from me. I pulled something metallic from my pocket and hand it to him. It was more like a piece of junk. The taxi driver looked at me mad and said, "Real cash, please." I looked at him confused and he said, "All right then. That will be a donation! Have a good one!" He left and I grabbed the controller to complete my task. I could not find the video game's character. My dream again, tried to fade and did the same recovery ability with success. I was starting to get mad. The dream was too long and trying to end and I was not done. I felt a chill around my body and I realized I was inside the game. The ground was covered by snow and it was snowing. The place looked quite creepy, but at the same time, it looked very X-Mas. I knew I was in Who's Ville. I saw a Who's entering his house and it was very dark outside. I told to my self about how I was going to steal all the presents. I did not feel like entering home by home. I tried to make all the presents to come out the homes from the chimney. I soon started to see colored wrapped boxes... a tone of them, flying from the homes, to me. To make sure I had success, I hit the ground to break the houses. The houses broke and they were totally empty. Not even furniture, however, a few of them had Who's inside. I was wondering how the hell I was going to carry all the gifts. I suddenly saw a huge DC next to me. He wore a black cape and had a very mean look. He had claws and a black face. He had vampire teeth and red eyes. He took my stolen presents and flew away. He was very far in no time and I was upset. My dream again started to fade and I allowed it to end. Four out of five of my senses were gone, but I still felt the chill. I realized there was still chance to recover it. I felt double consciousness, as I felt my body in bed, but I focused really hard, it was a long dream and I had to end it with success. I was in a huge room on the top of a mountain. It was snowing hard and there was a dense fog. The vampire had the presents behind him and he was laughing. I approached at him but he attacked me. I avoided his attacks and saw a metallic barrel. I grabbed it and it had some sort of liquid inside. I rose it and aimed at the vampire. The vampire's face was black and metallic. He had a very mean look but I was not afraid as I was dreaming it. I approached more at him and he said, "Its fine. Do not throw that at him, get your stupid presents." The presents were piled up in a small cart and I was super happy. I was about to leave to grab the presents, however, I grabbed snow from the ground, made a ball and threw it at the Vampire's face. I was more happy as I felt that the first task was now properly done. Dream once more started to fade, I was very close to awakening, but I could stay in the dream. The clarity was not very good, and I did another RC to make sure I was grounded in the dream. The clarity increased a little. I was at the top of Mount Crumpit. I could see Who's Ville from there. It was funny because all the houses were all fine now and it did not look as creepy. The quality of the dream decreased and started to drop, so I just tossed the cart down the mountain. I was not sure if just tossing was fine or if I needed to destroy them. When the cart was going down, I made a fireball and blew up the presents to make sure I did not miss a thing. Now that I was done with both tasks I attempted to Astral Project from the lucid, but I knew I was going to fail as the dream quality now was minimum. Before I even attempted, I had a FA in my room. I could not see but I felt my wife and someone else was trying to wake me up. I could not move in bed, I could hear only my wife's voice. I woke up for real.

[Baron Samedi]

But, I like Who's! *** Wow, Percy! What is your technique for staying in a dream?

[PercyLucid]

Honestly, no idea Spinning never work and when I rubbed hands once, it only ended the dream faster. I think I just concentrate really hard on the dream and if I loose vision I tried hard to open my dream eyes. Other technique that I know it works (done in a recent dream) is flying very high (to space) and try to come back like a Meteor. Usually the sense of immense speed gets me back into the dream.

[ruba]

It used to be my favorite movie back when I was only about 8 yrs old (I live in Belgium)! I am definitely going to try these the next time I get lucid, cool tasks! Also, PercyLucid's story was really awesome!

[Wristblade56]

cool advanced task! i plan on taking my first Chaos Emerald from one of their Christmas trees (expecting them to be using it as one of there ornaments) and then use Chaos Control to teleport all presents to Mt. Crumpet, then myself. if any kids come out thinking i'm Santa i'll use Chaos Spear on them.

[Puffin]

Hmm... I think I'm going to skip the TOTM this time around, they don't seem that exciting. That's just me though. Good luck to everyone else. ^.^

[Brunor2]

Hmm... I think I'm going to skip the TOTM this time around, they don't seem that exciting. That's just me though. Good luck to everyone else. ^.^ Same here. I didn't like the last month's tasks, neither the one of this month. I'll wait until something interesting appears.

[MadMonkey]

I think their are interesting but I doubt I will take the time to go to whoville I have more important things to do.

[Perlinfalcon]

Same here. I didn't like the last month's tasks, neither the one of this month. I'll wait until something interesting appears. I'm kind of in this camp myself. I might decide to throw a snowball just for the heck of it though, because it shouldn't distract me from my own goals. I might do it just to get some wings. I've been doing the tasks just to get into the task club and help with task selection and suggestion, but that doesn't seem to be the way it works anymore. I thought some people have had some good suggestions in there, but none of them get used.

[Brunor2]

I'm kind of in this camp myself. I might decide to throw a snowball just for the heck of it though, because it shouldn't distract me from my own goals. I might do it just to get some wings. I've been doing the tasks just to get into the task club and help with task selection and suggestion, but that doesn't seem to be the way it works anymore. I thought some people have had some good suggestions in there, but none of them get used. Yep, looks like it's the administration who decide now. When I was with my wings, I saw some suggestions too, but other tasks were used.

[ninja9578]

The admins have no say in what task gets chosen, I pick them. And I do usually pick from things suggested, this time the picking was scarce so I come up with them

[Snowboy]

Sounds cool! The Who-Ville one will be hard, though, since I'm still working on clarity and stabilization.

[PercyLucid]

Yep, looks like it's the administration who decide now. When I was with my wings, I saw some suggestions too, but other tasks were used. Yeah. We are "powerless" here... I in fact did not like the tasks at all, even though I had a long lucid about this xD (Ninja, I still remember very clear that vampire's face... that will be hard to forget!"

[ninja9578]

You know, it's already the 9th and I don't see any suggestions for next month

[Snowboy]

OK, I'll make a suggestion. Go to New York City on New Year's Eve; watch the... er... big, metal thing drop. I forgot what it was called. This task will take me a while... I have only become lucid for a few seconds at a time so far. At least I still have 21 nights left!

[XeL]

I have no idea what the advanced task means. I'll go for the basic one though.

[Emiko]

I had a really long (well, for me, anyway), really stable lucid last night. I decided to attempt to complete the Task of the Month. The problem I ran into was that there's no snow in my dream world! I actually complained about this aloud, while I was dreaming. I said, “I know I've lived in Southern California all my life, but come on! Can't I have some imagination?” I think the absence of snow in my dream world can be explained by the absence of snow in my waking world. I've never spent a winter in an area where it snows, so my mind can't re-create snow very easily, because I've only experienced it in real life a couple of times, so I don't know what it's like very well. I will continue trying, though.

[iFatal]

For the TOTM do you have to complete both tasks or can you just complete one of the tasks?

[Clairvoyance]

I'll give these a try if I become lucid. But I have my doubts about that, even.

[PercyLucid]

You know, it's already the 9th and I don't see any suggestions for next month Lol.... yeah... I am lonely at the Lucid Task Club. The bartender does not even request my V.I.P. card anymore. She knows I am a regular and most of my drinks at the Lucid Task Club are on the house. Come one people, the basic one at least is easy. If you live in a city where it snows, think about your neighborhood and try to make that your last thought before going to sleep. As easy as that... turn lucid and throw the snowball to any DC you see. I want some company here! As I said, I even surprised myself, specially with the bad start I had (throwing ice instead of snow and dream trying to end) but I guess my will-to-have the wings it is to powerful. I think the latest it took me to complete one of these, was one task that it was done on the 4th. For the TOTM do you have to complete both tasks or can you just complete one of the tasks? One or both is fine. Silver pair of wings for basic, golden pain of wings for advance. Both pairs of wings for both task. You will gain access to the lucid club if you get at least one pair of wings.