Thread: Task of the month for March 2011

I'm back, let's see if I can do this. WHERE DOING THIS MAN,

I completed the basic task although very poorly.

I slip in and out of dreams all morning and become lucid when I realize a really attractice women I don't know is swimming in my pool. I begin walking to my fridge to compelte the b-TotM but lose vision. I remain still and the dream reforms.

I again start walking to the house and the fridge and out of the corner of my eye I see a small garden behind the pool sort of. I find an apple growing on a vine and some carrots. I take a bite of the apple and its not juicy or very good. It is real dry. I wake up.

I managed to fulfill the Basic Task this morning, this time intentionally. Below, I have highlighted the lucid portion in blue.

Spoiler for Dream:

Dream Log Entry - March 8-9, 2011


Dream 1 (Type: DILD):
I walked down the brown-tiled hallway of one of my old schools, and as I did could not help but think, “I do not want to be here.” In that instant, holographic brown specks rained upward from the floor, and the end of the hallway blurred and began to glow into a yellowish-brown hue. Never altering my pace, I proceeded toward the light and soon found myself in an area I recognized to be part of a hospital I used to work in.
The place, as usual, was sharply clean. However, there was one major thing out of place: the wide, glass-walled corridor, which should have been elsewhere, was now connected to the compact, white-walled area in which I currently stood.
I looked to my right into a dormitory filled with patients. At the back of the small dormitory was a glass wall, outside of which stood a tropical tree. One patient, a small, dark-tanned, middle-aged male, looked back at me with gritted teeth that bore neither malice nor mildness. On his left hand was a curved stump where his ring finger and little finger should have been.
I turned away from the dormitory and proceeded down the glass-walled corridor, and once again the scenery changed; I now found myself in a strange, yet familiar town--it was then that I suddenly realized I was dreaming. In front of me, to the right-hand portion of the scenery, was a strip of various shops and restaurants that ran down and up the hills, as far as the eye could see. Alongside the strip of buildings ran a pebble road, which, farther ahead, began to morph into a tar road. The left portion of the scenery, bordered by a metal fence, bore an endless, sky-blue abyss. Between the edge and center of that abyss towered a hexagonal, jet-back skyscraper, on top of which stood a golden six-point star.
I was sorely tempted to fly to the top of that skyscraper, but for an unknown reason decided to tread down the pebble road. As I came near the bottom of the slope (at this point I was on the tar road) I remembered the Dream Views monthly tasks, and upon remembering looked to my right to see a small, rather parched-looking tree bearing strange fruits which strongly resembled Christmas tree ornaments. Most of them were either red or blue, though there was at least one yellow. I settled for a blue one, and with telekinetic force effortlessly willed it off its branch and into my hand. I felt like I was biting into a laminated eggplant, but after breaking the skin of the fruit found a very soft, runny interior, the taste of which I could only compare to that of diluted grape juice. Sadly, it was almost immediately after that I abruptly woke up.

completed the basic last night:
In my first lucid dream of the night (had 3) it started out and I was taking a shower, it was dark, and I was singing something, all of a sudden I was like "what am I singing? am I dreaming?" did a reality, became lucid. I got out of the shower, and had clothes on, my dad was like "what are you doing?" and I'm like "I realized I was dreaming" and ran to the front door (funny thing is I was at my moms last night) and I remembered the ToTM, so I said , when I open this door, there will be a dream fruit. I opened the door, and there were purple and red block candy things, but the purple ones were big and the red ones small, I couldn't taste the red ones but the purple one tasted bitter, sorta like if you eat a green banana? Anyways, I continued the dream but that was all regarding the ToTM. Except in my last ld last night I was about to do the advanced, but the dream ended.

awesome

failed attempt at the advanced task

it started non lucid with me helping out some asian engineers that were building mini tanks from pieces of real tanks in this park in my town. although i didnt know anything about engineering, i was allowed to hang out with them. i became semi-lucid and tried super jumping to reach this ledge. then i realized i could just fly and became fully lucid. so i remembered the task and flew up to the moon. it took like 30 seconds to get to the moon and another like 20 to fly around it to the dark side. on the light side, there were nice fine-dining restaurants. it looked like a sweet place. the dark side just looked like a bad neighborhood. it was full of back alleys, trash cans, and sketchy places. although the amount of light didnt change when i got there. i landed and met these 3 people. they are dressed in futuristic looking all white spandex things with a white skull cap. they were thugs and started giving me shit. then i woke up.

apparently i should avoid the inner-city part of the moon at night...

I thought I'd done both tasks but completely mis-recalled the advanced task! I did the basic one below. I'm so glad I've finally got good dream control!

Originally Posted by riverboy

To the best of my knowledge the task was to eat a piece of dream fruit and pick a piece of dream fruit (I now know this to be from the dark side of the moon) so headed out to do both of these things. I visualised an apple a couple of times but it wouldn't appear, so instead tried a different tactic of turning away and visualising it behind me. To my surprise this worked really well and I bit into my new found apple with joy. It tasted quite fizzy but was by far the best apple I've ever had.

I hadn't checked in on this for quite some time, and realised you did pick the task I suggested although some people got it wrong and just ate fruit. A dreamfruit, a fruit you let your mind create without ANY expectations at all. Smell/taste/see it and describe it all. I'll share what I experienced here, but this was a long time ago, so it doesn't count.

*EDIT* Just realised quite a few of you did exactly that, so my bad.

"Now I remember! I'm supposed to try out Dreamfruit" I tell myself and I ask him for some. I expect him to reach from behind the counter and grab me the Dreamfruit I've been craving for so long. He does exactly that and hands me half of a grapefruit, filled with all kinds of different colours. I'm afraid I will lose the dream before I get to taste it and I take a big bite, peel and everything goes into my mouth, and an explosion of sour/sweet bitterness fills it. I start drooling right away as I recognise several flavours: Lime, lemon, grape and orange. The overwhelming taste sensation de-stabilizes the dream and I get one more bite (this time it's pure sweetness) before the dream fades into nothing"

I can haz TOTM?

so the dream starts out at a soccer field where i have become lucid, there is a road in front of me with some houses behind it. So i kinda like do a really long jump/fly to the road and follow it. It end up leading me to a house where a bunch of girls are. I go inside and the view switches to a view from a window. So i walk up some stairs to the top floor where this one girl is, she was laying on a bed and i approached her. (all the girls looked like dolls) she got up and started talking to me when i remembered the TOTM I immediately back up to find a bowl of fruit right next to me. As fast as i could i took a miniature watermelon from it and took a bite, then i left the house and the view returned to 1st person

Excerpt from my DJ - 13th March, 2011.
The whole entry is here: Making Up For Lost Tasks! [TotM] - Dream Journals - Dreamviews Lucid Dreaming Community & Resource

We started running again and I imagined that when we turned a corner, we would be on the moon. Instead, we appeared in a futuristic boat harbour, where one boat was standing up on its rear and looked a lot like a rocket...
We climbed into the rocket-boat, which fired up and took off into space, eventually landing on the dark side of the moon.
We got out, and I pulled a large seed from Percy's pocket that looked like a life-seed from The Neverhood. I threw it on the ground and it bounced a few times like in the game, before sprouting vines and fruit in the shape of roses. I pulled one off and took a bite, and handed it to Percy to try as well. It tasted like a cross between a strawberry and a watermelon, and had big spiky seeds that you had to be careful not to cut your tongue on.

Congrats

Due to your and my schedule craziness we did not sync our dreams this time, it would have been cool Soon soon!

Winged!!

I tried the basic TotM, here's the (relevant) part of the dream.

Spoiler for dream:

Some of my goals came to mind. At first, I wanted to summon someone (a DC, DG or SubC). Realizing that it was a bit too ambitious for a first LD in a while, I thought about the TotM. Wanting to give the basic one a try, I aproached a bakery. Shortly before the building there was a tree, it had some small green fruits and some beautiful white flowers.
Thinking about it now, it seemed to be a pear tree.
I grabed one of the fruits and it was somehow stranger in my hand. It became bloated and had black dots all over it.
I took a bite on its lower part. On the inside, the fruit was all redish and distantly tasted like guava. It was good, so I took another bite on the opposite side. To my surprise, it was now greenish inside and tasted a bit soapy.

I did the task too! I don't have a dream journal entry for it, so I'll just describe it here:

I was going in and out of lucidity; it was like a lucid dream inside of a normal dream, and every time I "woke up," I lost lucidity, but then I'd "fall asleep" and regain lucidity. Anyway, during one of the lucid moments I was in my car, in the back seat. I told myself that a plump, juicy strawberry was in my pocket. I reached into my right pocket and pulled out---big surprise!---a plump, juicy strawberry. This shocked me, because normally I suck at summoning things. Anyway, I took a bite out of the bottom of the strawberry just moments before my lucidity faded again.

I will be accepting my prize now.

I've thought about fruit several times in dreams, but am having difficulty with this one. I'm eating a big bowl of blueberries right now and each time I pick one up, I say "Ooh yummy, dream fruit!" Hopefully it works!

hopefully i can do the advanced task WOOT MY FIRST TOTM YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was so close to the basic, but a truck driver screwed this one up for me.
Full DJ entry link: Light Switches / Dream Fruit (Basic ToTM Fail)

Spoiler for Relevant part of dream:

When I turn around, the tunnel is gone but there is a strange looking bush next to the house. The branches and leaves are several shades of orange and red, almost resembling flames. There are several fruit on the bush that look like strawberries, but they are bright yellow in color. I remember the basic task of the month and reach for a fruit. As I reach, I hear a loud rumbling noise and wake up to the sound of a truck going down the road in front of my house with its Jake Brakes on. I can't help but to cuss out loud.

When I woke up, I kicked myself for missing this one. I was making music with fruit and meat.
Full DJ Entry link: Real-time Music Composition w/ Food

Spoiler for Part of dream:

I am composing a musical piece in real-time on an interactive video drafting table by arranging various pieces of food on top of the table. The table is a large flat-screen TV with thin wooden slats arranged in an 8 by 16 matrix to hold the food in place. Pieces of fruit represent the vocal sections and different pieces of meat are the musical elements. Pork chops, hamburgers, and hot dogs make up the beat sequence and bacon is a bass line.

Here's a failed attempt for your amusement.

Black = Normal
Blue = Lucid

I was in an orchard with nothing unusual at all going on other than the fact I was in an unfamiliar place. I simply realized I was dreaming which is a first for me. Every other LD for me has been triggered by noticing weirdness. I tested my state by floating a foot or so off the ground successfully. Next I struggled to fly up about 40 feet (my flying skills are rusty!). Once up there I looked down and remembered that Patricia Garfield wrote of diving down for fun, so I aimed myself downward for a good swoop. Right as I headed down, I changed my plan and decided on doing something I've never done. I chose to "burn in" on purpose to see how my brain would deal with the experience. ("Burning in" is a skydiving term that means to hit the ground at a high rate of speed.) So I dropped down and at the last second slowed down as if by air brakes and landed ever so softly. I laughed as I looked at blades of grass inches from my face. Then I got up and looked around at the trees. I remembered the TOTM and looked around for an apple tree. I immediately found a shelf with tomatoes, covered with flies.

I lost my lucidity at this point, distracted I believe by the disgusting thought of eating a tomatoe covered with flies! My dream scene then morphed into something completely different and the dream continued in a normal non-lucid fashion...

I accomplished this task the other day. And I sort of completed to advance task too.
I pretty much asked the first DC I saw to give me an apple for me to eat. I then proceeded to go and plant the seeds from the apple on the moon. The tree grew about halfway before I woke up.

I am not really interesting in gaining the username colour and that. So I'll not post my dream journal entry.

WooHoo! I got the basic task last night! :yumdumdoodledum:

DJ section relevant to basic task of the month:
The bartender comes back and hands me a very unusual looking drink. It's a slightly green margarita that's in a large fish bowl shaped stem glass and it has some dry ice in it. There is heavy steam bubbling out of the drink that is rolling down the glass and across the bar. I take a sip and it tastes like a green Jolly Rancher. I blow into the steam and see that there is a strawberry on a stick in the middle of the drink. I smile and remember the basic task of the month, then grab the stick and eat the strawberry. It tastes like chocolate and has a very gritty consistency. Once I swallow it, I set the stick down and look around the bar.

LINK to full DJ entry

advanced task....kinda.

i became lucid in this classroom while failing at this assignment. I busted out the window and started flying towards the sky. everything turned to stars pretty quickly and i went to go find the moon. after a small course adjustment i was headed to a crescent-shaped moon. however, when i got close, the moon turned out to be a 50 inch television set. it was just floating there. i decided to make do with my dream "moon". when i landed i had to balance because too much weight to one side of the TV would tip it over. there were already some fruits on it and i grabbed one of the seeds. i watched it start to sprout and i looked away to make it go quicker. some zelda-like music started playing. kind of like a montage while the plant was growing. when i looked back, it turned into this vine thing. the fruit off of it looked like a rotten apple with some hairy part on the side. i took a bite out of the most normal looking part and it tasted...well....like a soft apple. i was disappointed with my fruit so i grabbed one of the fruits that was already there. they looked like very large nectarines. those tasted very citrusy. i would say it was kind of like a lemon mixed with an orange. then i free-falled back down to earth. but unlike what mental was saying above, i didnt slow down. i impacted the ground with a lot of force but it didnt hurt. and when i stood up, i woke up.

ok. so i tried for a tree on the moon but it turned out to be a vine on a TV in space...haha not sure if that counts.

I ALMOST accomplished the totm for the first time. I was in my sixth grade classroom and I grabbed a banana out of somebody's lunch box but something happened that got my attention and I lost my lucidity. I'm getting better!

Originally Posted by HeritageDreamer

I ALMOST accomplished the totm for the first time. I was in my sixth grade classroom and I grabbed a banana out of somebody's lunch box but something happened that got my attention and I lost my lucidity. I'm getting better!

For your 7th LD that's a pretty good effort Around that point I kept waking up instantly upon lucidity!

Did the basic last night. Here is the relevant part of the dream:

Suddenly I remember the TotM. I think, "dream fruit"! I stand up and start looking through the junk on the dresser. In the dim light I can see three or four old-looking nectarines. I pick one up and bite into it. It tastes just like an old nectarine. Longing for something exotic, I push aside some more of the stuff on the dresser and find some stranger fruits. They are the size and shape of a brazil nut in its shell, but with the color and texture of a starfruit. I pick one up and bite into it. The skin is waxy but edible and the pulp tastes like a cross between a mango and a lemon. What a brilliant taste, I think to myself.

You guys are having some awesome dream