Task of the Month for October 2011

Not really sure if it counts as completing the basic task...

Spoiler for Basic task:

Became lucid during a dream in which I was putting away my guinea pigs, one of which who died many years ago. I felt the need to make sure he was safe, even though I knew it was a dream :?

This was my second attempt at the Trick or Treat task - the first time I failed because I couldn't remember the task!

I turned to a dream character and told them I was dreaming. I walked down a hallway and into a street. I crossed the road and knocked on the first door I came to, yelling Trick or Treat - yeah I've never tricked nor treated in my life so I wasn't sure what I was doing. No one answered the door so I tried the next, same problem. Then the next, again no one there. The fourth door was a lady who was having financial problems so I stopped to help her and lost lucidity.

I'll try again to see if I can get any booty off dream characters. Damn them being so stingy in my dreams :cheeky:

LMAO at the financial problems bit haha. You must be very empathetic :lol:

Awesome! I'm going to attempt one of these tonight and see how it goes. I'll post here tomorrow morning with the results. :)

Interesting, this might be the easiest task yet. Can't wait to do this :)

Can't wait to attempt this in my next lucid!
That is... If I remember the task!

I love the tasks for this month! Now I just need to actually remember to do them... >_>

Good luck, everyone! Haha Naiya, remember those tasks! Look at this thread right before bed every night :P

Well that was a bit of a failure. It was a nice vivid dream but nothing at all related to trick or treating or turning into a god of Olympus. I guess I need to keep trying. :)

I did the Basic:

I then remembered that I needed to do a Task of the Month. One Task was to go Trick-or Treating. I landed back down in my neighborhood where I Trick or Treated as a child. I seemed really big, like my neighborhood was made out of dollhouses. But I leaned close to a house and rang the doorbell. Someone opened the door and I said "Trick-or-Treat!" They put something in a bag I was holding. I didn't see it, but I knew it was a tootsie roll. I went to another house. This time the person saw me and ran away screaming. I went to another house, and they gave me another toosie roll. The person in the fourth house ran away again. I laughed and knew that they were programmed to do that.


Whole Lucid Dream:

Spoiler for :

Long LD from two nights ago:

Ed called me and told me to look at the Moon outside. I went out onto my oorch. I was at my old home in LA. I saw the full moon. It was very large. I then was what looked like a satelite passing the moon. It then sped up and brightened up until it looked like a fireball. I thanked Ed for hainvg me go out to see that.

Then I was in my kitchen. Several family members were there. There was a hole on the floor and water was leaking in. Ed was there. Marie asked him about the army.

We then went back out to the porch and my telescope was there. We pointed it at the moon and looked at it. I was amazed by all the detail I could see. I could even see red streaks on the rock which made the moon look like it was made from sandstone.

Something about this seemed odd. I wondered if this was a dream. But I knew that this was real. This was way too real to be a dream. But at the same time I decided to jump up in the air like I would in a dream because it seemed like a funny thing to do.

Well, I jumped and hovered a sec. It wasn't much, but I thought about it. I knew that in real life I wouldn't hover for even a second.

Suddenly I knew without a doubt that I was dreaming. I flew up in the air over my old neighborhood. It felt amazing. I noticed that I could feel the wind and the coolness of the night air and the feeling in my stomach of going up and down.

I wanted to go even faster, but strugged, like I usually do. I focused on rockets coming out of my feet, and I felt like I was going faster, but nothing around me moved much faster.

I then remembered that I needed to do a Task of the Month. One Task was to go Trick-or Treating. I landed back down in my neighborhood where I Trick or Treated as a child. I seemed really big, like my neighborhood was made out of dollhouses. But I leaned close to a house and rang the doorbell. Someone opened the door and I said "Trick-or-Treat!" They put something in a bag I was holding. I didn't see it, but I knew it was a tootsie roll. I went to another house. This time the person saw me and ran away screaming. I went to another house, and they gave me another toosie roll. The person in the fourth house ran away again. I laughed and knew that they were programmed to do that.


I then looked around. Things around me looked like a World of Warcraft setting. I saw these kittens all around me in various places. I thought, "Oh, that's for the new quest. If I had accepted the quest the kittens would be all sparkley." I wished I was on the quest so I could collect the kittens.

I floated up in the air again and came to a boardwalk. I landed. I saw a good looking guy and decided to kiss him. I didn't even bother to say anything to him first. I just pulled him to me and kissed him. After the kiss, he looked at me with a surprised, but not unhappy look. Then as if to get in the spirit of things, he then pulled an older lady to him and kissed her. After that kiss he looked at me to make a face, like "that wasn't really a good idea. I should have just kissed you again." So I asked him to kiss me again. but for some reason he started talking about "okra" and we never did kiss again.

I then decided to talk to some dream characters. I saw a bar next to me. I went up to the counter and saw the bartender. He was about 55 with graying hair and he was very tall and had a beer belly and stubble on his face.

I leaned toward him across the counter and asked him the first thing that came to mind, "Am I dreaming?"

"Yes." He answered.

"How do you know?" I asked.

I can't remember what he said, but he started going off on all this scientific stuff. It really surprised me to get this from a bartender. I then asked him something else that I no longer remember. This time he said, "Ask Nurse May." And he pointed to a lady standing next to him.

I leaned to her and said, "Hey, Nurse-- I mean, hi May..." And then I asked her if I was dreaming.

"Yes." she answered, and I am pretty sure she went off on a complicated explanation why she knew that.

I then asked, "What do you see when you look at me?"

She said some word that I didn't understand, "Ethano..."----something.

I then turned to someone else by me and asked then to look up that word for me since I was unfamiliar with it. They read me the definition...."one who is ruled by the hourglass."


Hmmm...that was odd.

Then the dream started to fade. I looked over to the bartender again and also at my hands and willed the dream to come back to full clarity. It seemed to do so.

Then I was back in the World of Warcraft setting. Around me were frogs. I knew the quest was to chase the frogs. But I remember somehow my sister Susan was there. I didn't want to do the quest anymore. I wanted to talk to my sister, who was dead. But then I knew that I could do both. So I said, "Self, go chase the frogs while I talk to Susan." And I saw myself go running after the frogs. And I started talking to Susan.


And that is all I remember. I am pretty sure that there were a couple of other parts of the dream that I don't remember.

Not that I visit much, but this is the first time that I have seen where the basic task looks more amusing than the advanced one.

I am going to give this a try though I question the chance I'll have of this happening being as I am new to LD'ing.

* crosses fingers *

After over a week without a lucid dream, I finally got one. The results wasn't that good, though:

Spoiler for dream:

I was dreaming that I was laying in my bed, trying to sleep, then the whole scene shifted, and I was in a little town near the sea. Beacause of this, I thought that it had to be a dream.
I immediately thought of the TOTM and ran to the nearest house to do trick or treat. Nobody was home -.- I tried another house, same result...
Then I got distracted, and forgot about trying the advanced task
Like i said, not so spectacular...

Basic task completed, I've just put my whole dream because it was a short one. If you do want to skip it however, just skim down a few lines. :)
I'm walking around my school, and I come to the science block area with the bit of grass, infront of the ramp. I see a beehive, and I fly up to avoid it, and realise I'm dreaming. (Flying triggers lucidity alot for me) I fly down, and wonder what to do, I remember I've wanted to eat something for a long time, so I focus on the wall infront of me, and I see a nut bar kind of thing stuck on it. I take hold of it and peel away the wrapper, it says "Strawberry nut bar." I take a bit, and I'm kind of dissapointed, I was hoping for something really good. I realise I haven't stabalized yet, and everything is rather blurry, I rub my hands together and shout "lucidity stabalize" I watch everything become clear, and I'm dying to have a massive fight with earthbending, flying, fire, and a bit of parkour. I decide to do this another day, because I feel my lucidity isn't that strong, and my surroundings aren't that flash. I decide to go trick or treating for task of the month, but the problem is that there isn't a single house in sight. I fly up high, expecting to see one, and spot one sitting in the middle over the oval in the primary school next to our school. I fly over, drop down about fifty metres short of the house, and run the rest of the way. I knock on the door, and an old lady comes to the door. "Trick or treat" I shout, in a hurry. "Maybe it should be trick or beat!" she says, and laughs really loudly for about ten seconds, as if she's made the funniest joke in the world. She turns around and dissapears into her house, I consider following her, but I'm a bit creeped out and decide to wait outside. She returns, and hands me a lemon ball wrapped in plastic. "Happy halloween, thank you!" I turn away and here "It's not halloween yet"
I pop the ball in my mouth, it's better than the bar, it doesn't actually taste sour, kind of like grapefruit, bitter. I wonder what to do, but I realise my dream is REALLY fuzzy, and I fall into blackness, and wake up.

hahahaha, that was great. And it's awesome that you got to try eating something good in the end as well!

Thanks man! :)
Wonder when I'll get my wings, it's near the end of the month D:

lool, I was fully lucid last night, all ready to leave house and do basic task, then I flew and got dragged by a stupid wind which made the dream collapse when I finally managed to control it. Bit frustating, but even more hilarious because I was like 10 steps away from the house door :panic::cheeky:

Very almost succeeded in becoming Hades last night.. but I got sidetracked :embarrassed:

Wings? Yay/Nay?

I'm lucid for the the third time in a row, but I'm actually thinking about the task. I really didn't look too much into the task, but I knew it had to do something with trick or treat, because it always is.

I head outside, and I can see my shadow. It looks like I'm wearing a robe with a pointy hat. So either I'm a wizard, or a kkk member. LOL, I don't care because I gotta get this done before I wake up. My bag is kinda cool though. It's an over sized half bat head. It goes from the length of the ears all the way to just before the eyes, and it's made out of some stretchy material.

Anyway, I head next door, which is only a few feet, and there's no house. The dog who's constantly chained outside is there, and he barks over and over as I approach. There's nothing left but a grave.

I head down the street again and it's the same thing. No house, grave but the freaking dog is there too. I turn around...the dog is still at the last house...wtf. I fly down to the next house because I know I don't have much time. SAME FREAKING THING. Huge grave site with monument sticking out, dog tied up to something sticking out of the ground, but there's a sign. I read it, and woke up.

(I think this happened because I had the Halloween town song stuck in my head playing throughout the dream)

I have been working on the basic task all month long and finally did it the other night! It was DILD and I even woke up very briefly once during the course of the dream, fell back asleep and continued the dream but I can't remember exactly what point that this happened. What I got after saying "trick or treat" was a little disappointing, all I got were 2 tootsie rolls that the lady I said trick or treat to unwrapped and dumped into my bag. But the rolls were so tiny! Like the size of a grain of rice. Here is the whole dream. . .

Spoiler for dream:

The first thing I remember from my dreams that night was leaving a house that was somewhere in my neighborhood. It was nighttime and rainy. I walked very quickly through down front lawn and onto the street. I had no shoes on. I began running. I don't know what I was running from but I could feel some sort of urgency to get away from wherever I had been before. I could feel the wet street underneath my feet, the rocks and sticks that I was running over. The heightened sense of my feet and the fact that I was running away (a very common theme in my dreams is running from something, usually from some crazy person(s) that are trying to kill me, i guess those would be considered nightmares) causes me to become somewhat lucid. At this point, it was no longer dark, but daytime. I then realized that my bare feet were uncomfortable running on the street and wished for something softer to run on. Many puddles appeared in the street and I began running and splashing in them. I am now completely LUCID! After running, I eventually end up in front of house that I have never seen before and am no longer in my neighborhood. I now remember that I need to do the task of the month! The house in front of me does not have any doors, just wide open holes in the shapes of large doors in which I can see through to the house inside. There is no one in the house so I go into the backyard. I see that the house is on the water and that there is a pier and boat. There are no other houses around, so I decide I need to get into that boat to find some houses to trick or treat. I get to the end of the pier and find that there is a man in the boat and it is just out of reach. I will have to jump on the boat. I am hesitant. I keep telling myself that I am dreaming and can make it, but I jumped and landed in the water in front of the boat. It is strange, I have flown twice in my dreams but sometimes still have trouble ignoring the laws of gravity in other dreams. Anyways, after landing in the water, I was scrambling to get back on the boat but the man who was in the boat was trying to push me away. I let go and sunk back into the water. At first I held my breath before going under, but then I was like why I am holding my breath? I'm dreaming! So I floated for a few seconds just to enjoy the fact that I was breathing underwater and could see the air bubbles in front of my face floating to the surface. But then the man from the boat was suddenly underneath me! Grabbing at me and trying to pull me down when I was trying to get onto the boat. I was scared of him and kept having to remind myself that I was dreaming. He kept grabbing me and I kept kicking him off, still scared and annoyed that I couldn't get rid of him. I eventually made it onto the boat. I am pretty sure this is the point that I awoke briefly and went back to sleep to continue my dream because I have no recollection of how I got to the next place, I was just there suddenly. I was standing in front of three houses on a hill. I had a bag in my hand. Very excited! I was going to do it! I looked back and forth between all three houses trying to decide which house to go to. I saw another girl going up some long front steps to the house on my right. I followed her up the steps and when she left, it was my turn. I walked up to an older woman with dark hair, and said "trick or treat!" with a big smile on my face. The whole time I was with her, she was mumbling and the only word I could discern was 'car'. The woman opened up 2 tootsie rolls and inside were these teeny tiny little tootsie rolls the size of grains of rice! She emptied them into my bad and then pocketed the wrappers. She then began to seem very creepy and asked me to go into her house and get the rest of her candy, I started to but then decided to move on to the next house. When I arrived, a little girl and her mother opened the door but did not care at all that I was trick or treating, they were in a rush, putting on their shoes. At this point I forgot that I was dreaming and was swept away into another dream with this mother and daughter... which is a whole other story! Sorry that was so long thanks for reading!

So no wings?

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Originally Posted by yuppie11975

So no wings?

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hehe, they're lazy as fuck with that unless you complete it in the first week or so.
I remember once I didn't get mine until the 28th or something and got like 2 days in the secret forum.

There used to be a system Ninja ran to more quickly wing task completers but that fell apart.

Amazing, guys!

I was reading your dreams and completed tasks and i can't wait to get mine!
;D

I understand they have lives and jobs and stuff, but the problem is, that I have none of those two :(
I kid, just kind of irritates me, I could have done something better with my time in a lucid..