Thread: Task of the Month for December 2010

Fail TOTM

I am on the Moon. Hey Raven! I shout. Raven appears. I pick up some Moon dust, and make a dustball and throw it at her. She turns it into a puffball before it hits her. I summon a mound of icy moon dust balls, and throw them at her with windmill arms. She makes a reverse tornado that is spinning horizontally and I fail to hit her.

Nomad! What are you doing?

Task of the Month! Task of the Month!

What are you talking about?

I don't know. Let's go look at the koi fish.

Okay.

We stare at the koi fish in the koi pond in the Biodome. They look so real, I completely lose whatever shred of lucidity I had.

Extract from my last DJ entry.

I tried FILDing but I fell asleep.

I was in my primary school staff room (for the 100th time) and I looked at my hands and did a fingercount. Everything was normal.

Something made me look at my hand again, it was still normal, but I said "This is a dream". I went outside the room to a balcony and remembered the snowball Task of the Month, so I tried to pick up some snow from nowhere, but when I threw it, nothing came out of my hand.

I went down the stairs to a grass quadrangle, and I made snow appear on the grass, I picked it up and made it into a ball and threw it at someone. Ive never felt real snow before so it felt like the ice in a freezer.

My first task completed :3
And it's my birthday tomorrow, so this was an excellent present =D

Hey although i love my wings i didnt do this months task, so please take them away

Or just let me keep them cause ill be doing these tasks!!

I had a lucid but for some reason I thought the task of the month was to eat pizza so I did. When I woke up I was like WTF NO!

Oh and btw you never took away my wings.

I don't remember too much of what my dream was about before it was lucid, it wasnt too vivid and didnt make sense so ill start from when i became lucid!

I floated higher and higher in the air while i was thrashing my legs around. Wow it's a dream! I then took control of my flight and flew over a snowy mountain on the side of an old playground i used to play on as a child. Someone was in the gravel lot calling for me, so i flew down to the ground which had a new blanket of snow on it. I didn't know who they were but i guess we were friends and they were talking to me. I remembered the task of the month and started packing down a snowball. My dad appeared on the lot and started yelling at me asking me what i was doing, he told me not to hit my brother with a snowball. This DC didnt look like my brother though! Oh well, i tried to throw the snowball at him but he dodged it. He picked up one and threw it perpendicular to me. Stupid dream character, i thought. I tried again but he ran out of the way before it hit him. I didnt get frustrated, i just picked up a snowball and chased him around until he stopped running, i threw it at him and it crumbled all over him! Yes! I dont think im going to try that other task yet, maybe for another time, i thought. I picked up a snowball and ate it, it wasn't like any real snowball at all, it was hard to describe. After eating some snow i decided i would make it blizzard because ive never done that before! It started so lightly snow then it became thicker and thicker, soon i couldnt see anything! Then i opened my eyes to wake up.

I am having so many lucids lately BUT NO FUCKING SNOW!!!

Still attempting to perform the basic TOTM. Don't have enough experience to do the advanced.

Finished the task of the month. Posted the dream in my DJ Here.

Nice job Alter

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Nice job Alter

Thanks ^^
Just wondering but where is the Lucid Task Club at? Always looking for more difficult challenges.

Completed the task on 15/12/10.

I found myself in my house and remembered the MILD induction technique I had practiced before falling asleep, and became lucid. After staring at my hands for a few seconds, I went outside where there was already snow on the ground (most probably due to all the heavy snow that week). Walking down my street I found a man who was sweeping in the middle of the road. Seeing him, I managed to 'summon' a snowball in my hand and I threw it at him. He was very sad that I threw it at him, and I felt a little guilty afterwards. ^^

Originally Posted by Alter

Thanks ^^
Just wondering but where is the Lucid Task Club at? Always looking for more difficult challenges.

The Lucid Task Club is a subforum accessible to people who have completed a Task of the Month and who have asked to get in (instructions are in the "What to do after completing your lucid task" stickied thread in this forum). More challenges can be found in the Lucidity Power Trials Club thread.

Originally Posted by Alter

Thanks ^^
Just wondering but where is the Lucid Task Club at? Always looking for more difficult challenges.

You should see it now.

I did the basic task!

It was pretty dark outside. I'm guessing it was about midnight, but it wasn't too dark because of illumination from street lights. I was walking down some sidewalk in a neighborhood with a few people; there weren't any fences, just houses blocked here and there like normal. There was snow on the ground.

The people I was walking with were my friend from school, and Rorschach from Watchmen. He wasn't wearing his mask, but he was wearing his trench coat and hat. I have no idea what my friend was wearing.

I suddenly became lucid after walking for a few minutes, and saw the snow. Immediately I knew this would be a good time to complete the basic task of the month - to hit a DC with a snowball. I figured hitting my friend wouldn't be as interesting as Rorschach, so I picked up a clump of snow (which felt more like the fake stuff) and tossed it at him. The ball didn't break, but instead it just fell to the ground as it whacked against his hat, which fell off.

Full entry:
Snowballing Rorshach and Flying - Dream Journals - Dreamviews Lucid Dreaming Community & Resource

The dream starts and all i see is white. I think of the task of the month and make it to where the white turns into snow and i see a village around me. Everything looks old and yet futureistic. The howses were small and not square it was more oblong.

Im only weraring a black T-Shirt and pants but i dont feel cold. I walk forward and around a little building. Jazz music is playing but all the windows are dark. I find a big ben of gifts, all of them were wrapped. I start pushing the giant bin up over a hill. When i get to the top I see a much larger mountain.

I think to myself "now this is the mountain everyone is talking about". I take a step back from the bin and i see that its now a lot bigger than it was a few sdeconds ago.

I use TK and lift the bin onto the tip of the large mountain. It is literally balancing on the tip like it would a cartoon.

Now that i have found a way to fly. (about 6 lucids ago) i imagine using TK on myself and lifting me to my destination.

I fly to the bin, im really stiff and i feel like one of thoose dreams that you are trying to get away from something but you bare stuck. Anyway i get on top of the bin and think that it would be a lot funner to ride the bin of presents too its doom than just watch it slide down the hill.

I rock back and forth untill the bin starts down the hill. At first the speed starts rising gradually but the more i go the faster i go. There is a bit of a cliff and then a straight fall. I hit the ramb and even though it was a small one the stupid dream logic made me fly. I went soaring over all of the who houses. Looking at the village from above it now has a bunch of christmas decorations and looks a little larger.

There is another mountain right in front of me. I jump off of the bin and watch it clam into the mountain. Boxes smash and metal tangles. There is a large crunch and then i hit the mountain. I start spinning and getting disoriantated. Then i wake up. I go into annother lucid using DEILD.

Easy is boring and the hard overly complex. Interesting dreams though...

Hopefully next month will be good enough to help with my resolution: Lucid Dream again.

Wings wings wings!

Originally Posted by Puffin

Wings wings wings!

I didnt get my wings eather.

Neither
Oh well, it's 2011 and looking forward to a fresh TOTY and TOTM!!

Countdown to new tasks and a new year!

• [Awake] - [Dream] - [Lucid] - [Questions] •

In real life, I have been very sick for the last few days and had just come home from hospital on New Year’s Eve. I was expecting a house-call from some nurses the following morning.

As I slept through the last hours of 2010, I dreamt that it was morning and the nurses had arrived.
The non-lucid dream details are a bit hazy, but I remember the situation getting pretty uncomfortable and hectic - there were a lot more medical staff than I was expecting; all male, and none of them were acting very nicely so I felt stressed and scared. I remember they started trying to lecture me about religion, among other things. I realised that it was a bit unrealistic so I tried to do a reality check by looking at my hands, but one of the nurses grabbed me and restrained me before I could. So I closed my mouth and blocked my nose (with no hands) and tried to inhale, and sure enough, I could still breathe...

I realised I was dreaming, so I focused my mind on making all the nurses freeze and become neutral, and they did, so I was safe and no longer restrained.
Then I experienced something I never have when becoming lucid before, because at that moment, I felt myself being sucked from my own body backwards into blackness, and then I re-appeared in another room in my house with a simplified version of my own body standing in front of me (facing me.) ***
I wish I had stayed and experimented with this more, but I was mainly concerned about trying to change the setting from my house, because I still had uncomfortable feelings about the medical staff being in the other room and didn’t want to slip back into a nightmare.
It has been a few months since my last lucid dream so I was really struggling to change my location. I was able to change the scene briefly a couple of times by covering and uncovering my eyes, but as soon as I started moving anywhere, it would change back to my house again. I was getting really frustrated and tried to focus in more before I woke up.
I walked around a corner to my front door and remembered reading about December's Task of the Month: hit a dream character with a snowball, and decided there would be snow behind the door.
I opened it and sure enough, there was snow, and a few random people standing around in my front yard, all fairly neutral-looking. I walked outside and quickly scooped up some snow and made a snowball (surprisingly easily, considering I have never seen real snow) and threw it at the closest dream character - a stocky, middle-aged man, dressed like a plumber. He laughed when the snowball hit him and seemed to enjoy it. I saw that I was wearing snow gloves and still had a bit of snow remaining in one hand, and wasn't quite sure what to do next. I walked up to the plumber man and he didn't do much, so I ruffled his hair with the snow still in my hand as a joke... He didn't like that as much and got a bit grumpy.

I don't remember what happened after that, or how I woke up... I think there was a loud noise that brought me out suddenly, but I made sure to jot down some notes so I could write about it today.

It was definitely a great start to the year, since my resolution is to start lucid dreaming regularly again!
(More info about my history of lucid dreaming in my profile bio.)
I'm looking forward to refining my skills this year... here's to many more lucid dreams to come!

*** Does anyone know what the deal was there? Is this a common experience? What would you suggest trying if it happens in the future?

That's all folks!