Thread: Task of the Month for October 2011

For some reason, The TOTM permission groups don't show up as one of the "groups that are available for you to join" on my permission groups page. Have never had this problem before.. help?

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Got the Basic done last night (failed at Advanced). Will try again soon

Relevant DJ Entry Portion:

Spoiler for Basic Task of the Month:

I remembered the TOTM was to Trick or Treat, and I figured this would be easy since I was in my room at the hotel. I went outside and knocked on the door 1 room over where my co-worker Chad was staying. When he opened the door, I yelled 'Trick or Treat!' He asked me 'What flavor?' I was confused for a minute, but then I replied 'Chocolate.' He then gave me a bag of chocolate-covered doughnuts that were sitting on his desk.

After he closed the door, I walked about in the common area between the hotel rooms, munching on my doughnuts (which tasted quite delicious, btw). I decided to try the advanced TOTM, becoming one of the gods. I was going to be Zeus. I started by trying to make myself much bigger than my surroundings (not strictly necessary to complete the task, but it's how I wanted to do it). This scaling is something I have done quite often, but this time I couldn't seem to make it happen.

Full DJ Entry: Trick or Treat! (TOTM) and Advanced Task Fail

First Attempt, Success.
DJ Entry:October Cognac

Spoiler for Lucid Portion:

As I walk around the room I feel like a piece of my brain is missing.
Something feels different. Suddenly, a feeling overtook me.
Lucidity.
The room takes a different shape, and now I can make out a light switch in the dark. As I approach the light switch, the room begins to distort and twist while I stand still.
Fearing the worst, I default landscape into my driveway.

It's night time. A slight breeze tosses and turns my hair. I am walking with my friend down my driveway. As proportion and relativity becomes clear, he is talking to me about my Halloween costume. I am wearing only my swim suit. I don't feel cold, but experience occasional shivers as we walk further down the street. A pillowcase in hand, we make our way to the first house. I decide that I want to be alone, and my friend dissipates from the dreamscape. As soon as the thought had crossed my mind, it had happened so quickly I realized just moments later. I walk up to the door, and it appears to be your average colonial style frame. I start to say "trick or tr-" and the door opens. A middle aged man confronts me, and asks for a trick. The idea of being a god and using a super power pops into my head. I began to remember about the ToTM and grew excited about remembering this task. I decide to be Dionysus because I had never been drunk in a lucid before. Soon a bottle of hennessy in one hand, and a pillowcase in the other had me satisfied. As I conjured the cognac, the man at the door grew weary of my so called "trick" even though I thought it was the coolest thing. He grabbed the cognac, and shut the door on me. I was bewildered. I decided to get angry and open the door, but the handle was no longer there. As I ponder how to retaliate, ideas flooded my mind, but they were cloudy and I could not make any sense of them. I was losing grasp of lucidity, and decided not to fight it.

The next thing I know, I was awoken by my alarm.
6:00 AM

I'm gonna try these. I have a feeling the advanced task might be easier for me than the basic one, because I don't celebrate Halloween but know quite a bit about greek mythology.

Yes! I finished the Basic task, and attempted the advanced briefly before giving up!

Successful WILD! Trick or Treat and Questions About My Dream Guide - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Extract from the dream:

Oh! The Task of the Month! I faced my bedroom door, "Trick or Treat!" I said, and opened the door. It was just my family room - nothing abnormal and nothing to receive. Damn. I walked up the hallway to my parent's room. "TRICK OR TREAT!" - I reached out and went to slide the door open, and it flew off as though I had kicked it down - awesome! Inside, they are both asleep. Dad rolls over and turns on a lamp next to his bed, and I notice that as the lights come on it becomes day - that saved a bit of effort.

I walk over and stand next to my mum's side of the bed, Dad rolls over and searches next to his bed. I look at my hands - I needed to shape shift aswell, one of the gods? Zeus. I try and make a large lightning bolt in my hand, but get a blue glow and a few sparks. I don't even know how to shapeshift! I'll just do it later.

"So who IS my dreamguide?" I ask
Mum starts talking about something strange - about how when someone is sick, there is an association people make with them within society. She's rummaging through a small box, and I see a pillow with an apple sticker with "Sick - Sam" written on it - probably from my cousin being sick here sometime. Is that what she's talking about? I still don't understand. I end up holding my luggage bag - what dad was searching for over the edge of his bed - my trick or treat gift. I use the texture of the leather on the handle to stabilise while I talk. I didn't look in the bag.

EDIT: What's changed? I no longer have the options for the ToTM's in the control panel? :s

Working towards it. Just gotta finish toty. I figured out how to open the Ark of the Covenant. I just need to unite it with the Staff of Ra.

The basic task sounds pretty interesting; one could get anything, so the results could be pretty cool.

Definitely want to do the advanced one, though; sounds really cool, though I must ask, in order for it to be considered a full transformations do we have to exhibit our powers, or just take on the appearance?

Sigh became lucid in the middle of the dream, and did one of my goals. As I landed (from epic flight around city) a DC talked to me and my RC failed making me loose lucidity. Just a few more minutes and would have done the basic task

Grr I failed last months task which broke my streak. I wil this one though. I wonder what god I should try and be.

I did the basic task this morning.

Spoiler for the dream:

10.08.2011

Trick or Treat? (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I am out of town with my mom at my sister's and brother in law's house and I slept in my neices bed so It probably helped me get lucid to be in a diferent place.

I was in a non lucid and I forgot it now. Later on I was at my house and I realized it was a dream. I decided to do the Task of the Month. I needed to go trick or treat at someones house. I couldn't do that without a costume and sense my tf2 spy costume isn't made yet I decided to do something a little easier. I ran down the hall and stabilized as I went. I turned the corner into my room. It was dark and I flipped the switch but like always the lights didn't go on. That didn't bother me though. I grabed the foam monkey mask that I got at the zoo In third grade. I thoght it would be pretty fitting seeing as I am MadMonkey. I put it on and bent part of the mask wasn't a problem in the dream and it fit fine.

I went outside and flew down the streat looking for a good house to trick or treat at. It was mid afternoon and I was extremly hungry. I was craving rice for some reason. I saw a house that looked good enough so I flew down and rang the door bell. A woman answered the door so I said, "Trick or treat?". I saw that the family was eating dinner. She handed me a blue lollipop. It looked tasty but then I noticed they had a bowl of rice on their table. It looked sooooo good! I asked if I could trade my lollipop for a little bit of their rice and the woman yelled no as if I had done something offensive. She snatched the candy out of my hand and slammed the door in my face. I said, "I guess that you choose trick instead of treat." ............

Click for the full dream.

Edit: for some reason the permisons group thing won't give me the option to join new groups. It just shows the groups I am already in. What should I do?

Dry spell....

Thank's percy! I've been experiencing a lucid almost every night now. It was very sudden but now i'm having quite a lot.

Good job everyone!

Great job everyone, keep it up!

Edit: Yuppie, XD, I didn't realize I just said the same thing that you said above.

I did the task for last month. Why isn't it september anymore, haha?

By the way, good job dreamers! And good luck to everyone, sweet dreams!

Attempted the advanced task and failed.

I wanted to become Neptune, so I teleported to a sea. I was just about to jump right in, when I noticed it was a huge, dark, stormy ocean and I called it quits.
I can't even swim irl D:

Ohh, I'm so going to try this out!!!

Shoot, I just want to recreate Mancon's dream REGARDLESS of the TOTM lol.

Was lucid last night for the first time, and remembered the task of the month I walked down the street and knocked on a door. My grandfather opened the door in his pajamas and told me to come back later tonight (It was morning) he never gave me anything

Managed to pull off the basic task last night; red is dream, blue is lucid.

I was in a city that appears often in my dreams; it's a fairly scary place to begin with, and the dream started out with me running from some sort of monster. I ran into an alley, where one of my friends was waiting; he said not to worry, it was a dream. Becoming lucid, I stepped outside of the alley, the monster now gone. I wandered a little before remember the task of the month, so I walked up to a random house, knocked, and upon the door opening, yelled trick or treat. He stared at me for a moment, then said 'what the hell' and pulled out a Milky Way about as big as me. Having completed that task, I went to a door carrying my prize, and teleported to a grassy field. Apparently heat works in dreams, as the bar melted under the sun, causing me to end the dream falling down a hill on a chocolate slide.

Complete the basic, was pretty hilarious!!!

Fancy party, TOTM, flying, powers - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Spoiler for Dream:

I close the front door, then knock.

The door is elevated above me, and I can peer through the shutters on the door. I see a tan older lady with curly gray hair approaching, I can only see her face because of the angle, and think it would be funny if the ground caused an illusion and she was actually only as tall as her head.

The door opens and what I imagine is true, she is basically a real life Mrs.Potato-head. I yell "Trick or Treat!", laughing! She says something(smiling/laughing) like "Oh let me give you..." and reaching into a black plastic cauldron, but I am still freaked out and back away, then I realize she looks very throwable and grab her and heave her like a football parallel to the street, and she screams the whole flights and lands in some bushes.

***Note, I can also not request permission to the TOTM groups for some reason. I got the tasks last month***

Originally Posted by Dark_Merlin

EDIT: What's changed? I no longer have the options for the ToTM's in the control panel? :s

The dream guides took over when I left staff, I don't think anyone other than them have it. I noticed that too a while ago when I tried to add someone.

Everyone who completed a task is now winged

Also, the control panel thing ended up disabled in the process of changing management. I'll re-enable it to prevent more confusion

I'll try my hardest to remember to do this. Wish me luck.

I need to get seriously back in to LDing again.
I'm such a lazy asshole.

Ok, I will open the door and say trick or treat?
And will become Aphrodite