Thread: Task of the Month for September 2011

I tryed doing the Advanced Task I'm Not Sure If It qualifies Though
Extract From my Dream Journal:

I thought of TOTM, which was to control 2/4 elements. I stuck my hands in the air and shoot electricity from my fingers. I laughed and jumped over a bit, stuck my hands in a T shape and shot electricity all through out the air. I then realised electricity isn't one of the four elements. I Move to my left a bit and stick my hands strait forward, and shoot fire from them. I see two people and aim my hands strait at them and shoot fire, they roll around on the ground covered in flames (I have often found Fire very hard to control, but I discovered that if I make the sound effects of the thing I'm trying to do, It will happen. A form of voicing your intent to the dream). I try to shoot water from my hands but it doesnt work. A older "wise" person tells me thats not how do to it. He lead me to a puddle and tells me to stcik my foot in it. I do as he commands. He then stands on one leg and kicks the air, shooting water. He then says "Now you try". I stand on my right foot and kick the air. With each kick a ball of water comes out. I kick Four balls of water.
I think that i should try complete all four of the elements. I move down into the school park, I am unsure of how to manipulate rock. I try forcing it up out of the ground, but nothing happens and I give up. (For some reason, I totally forget about Air)

I attempted the basic task. Sadly it didn't go as planned.

I looked down to see that I had rolled blades on. I skated forward a little and suddenly remembered the task of the month. I skated towards an in-ground pool that I saw earlier (it must have been a public pool because it was right in the middle of an area of grass to the left of a street.) I wondered if skating across the water would count for the task. I didn't want to waste time taking the roller blades off. Well, either way, I charged towards the pool and tried to run on top of the water, not even getting a step on it. I crashed to the bottom of the pool, still wearing my skates I lost lucidity here and thought I would drown if I didn't get the skates off in time. The dream ended as I was trying to get them off.

However I'm still glad I got as close as I did, remembering the task and even getting lucid is an accomplishment. I'm going to try again (hopefully without skates on).

Knocked out the advanced task thursday night (all 4 eles), and finally had time to journal it online. Still couldn't walk on water! (I've tried before) Frustrating, but controlling the elements made for one of the most fun lucids I've had!

Full DJ entry: Advanced Task DONE!

Relevant portion quoted here:

I decided to do the TOTM. I have had trouble before walking on water, so I decided to go straight to the advanced.

I began by summoning some wind, feeling it pick up around me. I started to make it swirl in a giant cyclone around the pond. I jumped into it and let it buffet me upward, riding the cyclone in a circle to the top. I caused it to become more of a whirlpool and let it suck me down to the water, then made it buffet me back up.

As I rode along the top of the cyclone, I began shooting fireballs from my hands. At first they were small and hard to see, but slowly I focused on making bigger and bigger fireballs, setting the trees that ringed the pond on fire, continuing to ride around the circumference of the cyclone. I began to manipulate the existing fires in the trees, causing them to grow and jump at my command.

After awhile, I floated back down and let the cyclone subside. I know I had done 2 elements, but I had planned to go ahead and do all 4 while I was at it, so I went for earth. I walked over to the burger joint drive thru, and saw some cracks in the asphalt. I caused the cracks to widen, and the earth to split apart. I did this several times, including some cracks in front of a car in the drive thru. I opened a large hole underneath the car and caused it (and its occupants, who screamed in terror) to to fall into the earth, closing the hole back up over the top.

There was a sexy girl standing at the drive thru, so I took a timeout to make some dream lovin

Then I walked back over to the pond, which was rippling as the wind was still blowing fairly strongly. I stilled the waters, which allowed me to see a fish. I tried to send a lightning bolt at the fish (something I have never done) with no luck. I caused the waters to become rough again, splashing and swirling. I figured I might as well try to walk on it... I couldn't. So I froze the water and rolled a ball across the surface in hopes of helping me believe I could walk on it. It rolled for a bit, but then fell in, which wasn't ideal. I tried to walk on the the frozen part, but I fell through. D'oh! I swear I'm gonna do this one one day!

Some pretty lame control from my part, but managed the Advanced.

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Man, I was able to do the advanced one a few months ago, but it wasn't lucid . I'll try to do it again though.

Yata! I attempted both goals, but I can't remember actually finishing the basic, but I certainly remember advanced! I'll type it out from my journal when I get home from school tonight. Finally, I get my wings back!

After 2 failed attempts I finally managed to complete both the basic and the advanced Totm.
They can be found in my DJ (including the failed attempts):

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Basic:

For some reason I'm a bit nervous as I start walking on the water surface.
Oddly enough I seem to be afraid to fail, even though I've done it many times before.
Fortunately, it works flawlessly.
I walk on the water, deeper into the sea with my arms stretched out for additional balance.

Advanced:

I look at my right hand and make it catch on fire.
This is quite straightforwards as I have manipulated fire many times before.
But what other element could I possibly manipulate?
Water...? No. That's probably too hard.

I create an arc of lightning between two of my fingers.
I think that I have completed the Totm for a moment, but then realize that lighting isn't exactly one of the 4 elements.
What were the other ones again?
Fire, Water... Earth? I wouldn't know what to do with earth...
Wind it is.

I compress some of the air around me into my right fist and release it forwards.
This creates a shock and air is propelled forwards.
The pressure upsets the water surface.

I'm not really satisfied with the result though.
I do the same thing again, this time compressing much more air.
This time it creates a small tornado, that runs flat over the water surface.
It lifts some of it up and sprays it all over the place.

Awesome job.

You shall be wing'd!

Originally Posted by PercyLucid

Awesome job.

You shall be wing'd!

Don't I get wings?

Hey again, managed to get the water walking done and improve the pretty lame water control from the last attempt a bit =P

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I am lucid and the dream starts forming. I am in the sea, swimming around unable to get to shore, know I am dreaming, but my vision is blurry and I have limited control. I see light in the horizon out over the water and what would be a sea port town. I eventually stabilise the dream through breathing.

I am waiting for Silas or ”Crusher” (definitely a name with a C, though I will refer to him as Silas from now on) or whatever to get out of the water. I decide to finish off the TotM tasks. Walking on water was simple enough have, but I have to try a bit harder to pull out a ball of water from the ocean mentally, the water keeps rippling where I try and pull out the ball, and sling it maybe 20 metre in a forward arch (this is what I tried to do in the first lucid I had, but got interrupted).

Here it is, all typed out and ready to go

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I'm going to try to walk on water I've always wanted to walk on water and control the elements, but I always forget to when I get a lucid dream and wake up feeling disappointed in myself for forgetting. I guess I just have to keep repeating it to myself during the day or something to remember.

"I will walk on water in my next LD. I will walk on water in my next LD. I will walk on water in my next LD."

Actually, I did control water once (or some sort of blue liquid). I poured a bottle of the liquid and willed it to flow up instead of down (as seen in this dream: The Most Vivid Lucid Dream I've Had In My Life. At that point, it was in fact my longest, vividest lucid dream I'd had.)

My favourite mantra so far is "I attract dreams which help me achieve my goals of lucid dreaming"
It's worked extremely well for me - and not only does it help you remember your goals it also helps you get lucid

Did both the advanced and basic tasks last night.

I'm having a hard time remembering the non-lucid part of this dream, I'll eedit this later if I remember more.

I was near this weird looking canal. The water looked yellow from the reflections of the streetlights. In some spots there was carpet leading up to the water, and there were other things that made no sense. These tipped me off that it was a dream, I didn't even RC. I thought "what to do?" and remembered the task of the month. I used my mind to raise the water level(not sure if this counts as controlling the elements but I think it should). Then I walked around on it. I sunk a little at first, the water seemed a little goopy. But I stepped up to the top of it. This is something I've tried many times before and was never able to do it. I succeeded this time because I really focused on the fact that it was a dream and I could do anything if I believed I could.

So I'm heading out of my room, and right on the front door, there's a tiny hammer. I pulled it off, and started manipulating it. It grew in size, and I felt my power increasing. I just kept thinking to myself "I'm totally gonna Thor this". The hammer was about the the size of my palm, and barely stuck out. I kept thinking about it enlarging. The hammer increased in size even more. This metallic looking device was about the size where I wanted it to be. Just then the sky, seemingly automatic, started to change.

The sun moved it's way over the horizon, and the stars came out, and the moon rose within seconds. "The head of the hammer needs to be just a little bit bigger". I continue manipulating it, as gusts of wind hit me. All of a sudden I can hear a large noise in real life that ends up waking me up.

Originally Posted by nayrki

... (in most of my lucids, i'm not aware that its a dream but I am aware that I am an immortal being with whatever powers I can imagine)...

I am one of the first to admit there are varying levels of lucidity, but if you are not aware that it's a dream at all, then it's not really lucid is it?

I frequently have "semi-lucid" dreams like this where I have superpowers and lots of control, but I still think it is reality.

Originally Posted by zhineTech

I am one of the first to admit there are varying levels of lucidity, but if you are not aware that it's a dream at all, then it's not really lucid is it?

Dream control does not mean lucidity, or for that matter does the other way around. They tend to correlate, but if a predictor is to be chosen then lucidity normally would be a better predictor of dream control, than would the other way around. To avoid regressing the conversation off topic though, there might be an argument that dream incubation is equally as hard (maybe even harder) as active dream control and if you manage to incubate a scenario incorporating both tasks IMO it should still count, regardles of it being lucid or not ^^

We did walk on water as a task a looong time ago. But I guess I can try it again. I'm sad I ran out of time to do the chocolate factory one for last month...maybe I'll do it again anyway.

Ah! I just realized I did the advanced task without even realizing it in a non-lucid last night! Oh well, it was still pretty cool.

What a waste of time, I read every single post on here
I don't even know why.
Congratulations to everyone!

I'll try! Both sound sort of difficult to me. I've just had my first LD in a loooong time (you can check it out in my DJ), and I'm looking for tasks to do since when I was in the dream I was kind of like "...ok, what now?" I'll definitely try though, walking on water sounds difficult just because I have sort of a hard time visualizing it and imagining it, but yeah. I'll letya know.

Originally Posted by Naiya

We did walk on water as a task a looong time ago. But I guess I can try it again. I'm sad I ran out of time to do the chocolate factory one for last month...maybe I'll do it again anyway.

Me too. I tried to do it after I walked on water but I woke up.

Completed both tasks in a single dream.

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Excerpts:

Basic:

Remembering the task to walk on water, I start looking at the containers in the room, expecting them to be full of water.
Eventually a beige bucket is there and is full of water. I step onto the sides of the bucket, then fall on top of the water.
I expected to land hard like concrete, but instead it feels like balancing on two floating devices. It is not easy to stand still, I walk back and forth across the water, then jump down.

Advanced:

I decide to attempt the advanced task. Holding my hands outward, separated and cupping, I conjure a small flame in the space between them. I then shoot my hands outward and the flame spirals away out of control.
I then look at a high, round table with a bunch of glasses/bottles on it. I say "WIND!" and jut my hands outward and left to right, some glasses break and others fly off of the table as if blown by a strong breeze.
I then say "EARTH!" and try to summon a boulder out of the ground, jutting upwards, but it doesn't work and my attention is drawn to the next "room".

Completed the basic task last night. I have tried to waterwalk several times over the past couple of months and have been very frustrated in my failures. I even tried and failed the other day in the dream where I completed the advanced (easily and without a hitch). I was quite annoyed that I couldn't walk on water.. but now that I've gotten past whatever mental block that was hindering me.. it should be easy enough to do again

Full DJ entry: Successful Waterwalking (FINALLY!)

Relevant portion:

I look over and see a small pond with a rail fence around half of it. I have been trying (and failing) to walk on water for several attempts over a few months, so I decide I should walk on the water. Successfully this time. I fly over to the water, wave my hand to send a couple of sheep flying off in the distance (this is almost force of habit now. If I have a DC - human or animal - near me while I'm about to attempt something, I dismissively send them flying away from me immediately).

I had an idea of how to make the water walking work while in the waking world. I'm good at flying/floating, so I figured I would start by floating on the top of the water, then try walking. I grabbed the rail fence and stepped onto the water, keeping myself hovering over it. I lowered myself until I could feel the water touching my feet, then I let go of the fence and started to walk.. It was working! Finally!

As I crossed the pond, I began to every-so-slowly sink into the water a bit. I focused on levitating myself up a couple of inches, and continued to walk until I crossed the pond. At the other side, I took a deep breath, stabilized, and repeated the process. This time I made it back across without a hitch. I was so excited that the dream started to fade... I sat patiently, telling myself that it would come back as my world faded to black..