Thread: Task of the Month for July 2011

And with the first lucid of the month for me, I played the air violin and it actually produced a sound. :3

Details:
Blue: Dream
Red: Lucid
Green: Task

Spoiler for Basic Task:

This dream starts with a storm. Drew, my dad and I were all living in a beach house, each with our own bed. I was laying in mine, worried about our safety when I remembered another dream (though I remembered it like it actually happened) and then the storm outside worsened and the house started rumbling and the windows were splashed with waves. It was like the ocean was trying to consume us all in the house. Then I remembered that I didn't actually live on a house by the beach. "For that matter, you can't see the ocean from my house." I did the nose-pinch test and the rumbling stopped, despite the water raging outside. My husband, Drew, and my dad both disappeared and the ceiling opened up. I looked up, decided to get away from the water and flew out of the house. I looked up at the sky and appreciate the dark night-time skies and when I looked back down, there was a city below me. I landed, and from here, I practiced double jumping. After messing around with gravity for a little while, I remembered the reason I wanted to go lucid in the first place, I wanted to do the Basic Task I read before bed. I heard a violin in the distance. At this point, I started to play the air-violin, just trying to keep up and, eventually, my 'invisible violin' started to produce its own sound. I floated up towards the tops of some buildings as I played my song. It wasn't long before I got so caught up in the music that I forgot that I was dreaming and lost my lucidity.

Note: I've never played anything but a guitar.

I've been taking a lot of breaks from Dreamviews lately and I decided to finally start my journal on here and get back into it! Since I have left I have suddenly had A LOT of luck in lucid dreaming and love it! I read the TOTM Earlier today and I decided to nap and give it a try!
Anyway here is my TOTM DJ:


It was nightime and the stars were illuminating the sky. Millions of little magical sparkles. I could hear cars in the distance. I look down and found I was standing on top of a skyscraper in a HUGE city. I was memorized by the beauty of the city. I always had loved cities. I looked down at a taxi driving across the busy road. Every time the Taxi hit a tiny bump the taxi grew in size. Suddenly I asked myself How I got to this roof and I realized I was dreaming! Everything sort of flickered. The lights all went off for a second and everything came back clearer then it was before. I was lucid! I was going to float down from the rooftop into the street but then I remembered the TOTM that I had just read earlier today! I remembered the play an instrument one but I couldnt remember the advanced task. I decided to stay on the city rooftop and play it while looking down at the beautiful city. I assumed a box would be on the roof with an instrument in it and when I looked around I saw one! I went over to examine it and wanted the instrument to be a flute. I opened the box and was surprised to find a trombone! I took it out and held it in my hand. It seemed really big. I put my mouth to the mouthpiece and thought about synesthesia which is the mixing of senses. I have a form of it where when I see objects move I hear a small sound, but there are many different forms of it. There's one form where when you hear sound you can see color. I decided I would try that in my dream. I blew the first note and a beautiful sound that I cant explain escaped. The city froze and a ripple of purple appeared in front of me. All of a sudden I was floating and moving slowly. I kept playing random beautiful notes and more and more colors rippled around me. I was close enough to the ground now I could see people staring up at me with a shocked expression on their faces. They stared at me in amazement. I smiled and waved at them. For a moment I even forgot I was dreaming. I was just focused on all the colors. I decided to land on the street and give the trombone to someone random. They smiled at me like they needed that trombone to survive. I sat down on a city bench and tried to remember what the advanced task was...I remembered it has something to do with a movie and....OH MY GOSH! Where the Wild things are! I was so excited I remembered the dream started fading away. But I managed to grasp onto it. Everything was little blurrier but I didn't mind as long I was still in the dream. How long had I been napping? Surely 20 minutes had passed maybe longer. The dream would end soon!

I hurried through the first door I saw and I came out in a forest. It was a lively forest with animals everywhere. I turned around and saw an owl staring down at me. I smiled at it. I had never seen the movie or even remembered the book so I had no idea what the story was about except a kid with a crown with buffalo-like friends. Suddenly I heard stomping in the forest and all the animals scattered. A HUGE wild thing came out of the bushes. It was bigger then I thought it would be! I looked up at it and touched it's finger. "I am in control of your species now." I said. It nodded and stared at me with wide green eyes. I told it to go get its friends when all of a sudden I woke up.

I was amazed that I actually completed the tasks the day that I read about them! The dream felt really unreal and I would love to go back to that city again. Thanks Ninja for such a great TOTM! I am off to a GREAT start in coming back to DreamViews.

I did it! Last night I achieved almost all of my goals! Including playing an instrument. Posting from my phone so I can't upload a full entry

I was in a rich man's house, I can't remember how I got here or why, but I was lucid and I knew my goal - the diamond ocarina. I saw a desk in the corner, large and wooden, covered in papers and objects. I rummaged through, with the intent to find my ocarina lying in the pile. I was unsuccessful.

I reached into my pocket, and grabbed something in my pocket and pulled it out. To my surprise, it wasn't an ocarina but instead a golden crystal pig, just smaller than my fist. Screw it, i figured i'd play it anyway.

I held it up to my mouth and blew into it through the snout, and expected sound. I was dissapointed, I expected it to sound like a flute, full and rich, but I had trouble getting the pig to make any noise. It sounded like a very thin whistle, and I tapped my fingers on it in the style of a recorder. I managed to make it play the Song of Time from Zelda, just like I wanted!

Hello, I joined last night, and found out about the task of the month. I was wondering if the dream has to be lucid inorder to complete the task? I tried the basic one and I managed to play an instrument last night, but my dream was not lucid. But I got it!! I'm quite excited haha, I even drew a picture of what I played. I won't bother typing it out if it must be lucid though. Thanks!