Task of the Month for January 2012

[zebrah]

Introduction: This topic is for the Lucid Tasks that are assigned by the Dream Guide Team or voted on by experienced dreamers. Please attempt one or both of these tasks throughout the month. Report back in this thread, even if you didn't successfully accomplish the task, your efforts should make interesting reading! This is required in order to get credit, it is no longer sufficient just to say that you did it. When you complete a task: go to your control panel, then to permission groups, and request to be in the group that applies to the task that you've done. Of course you still need to post the dream here because we check. Whoever completes either of these tasks gets the following goodies until the end of the month: Your name will be displayed in ORANGE in the online members list at the bottom of the main forum page. You will receive a special title and badge. You will receive access to the "Lucid Task Club" which is a limited access forum for people that complete the lucid task each month. Tasks for this month: Basic Task - Set off fireworks in a crowded place and record what happened/how the DCs reacted. Advanced Task - Go back in time and see yourself at the moment you became lucid.

[yuppie11975]

Awesome! I'll definetely try the basic

[Dark_Merlin]

Yes! I really like these ones! Damn Zeb, doin' a good job with the tasks

[rynkrt3]

Advanced task sounds cool.

[fOrceez]

These are great! I'd love to see the DCs reactions when I let off a barrage of fireworks >:]

[zebrah]

Yes! I really like these ones! Damn Zeb, doin' a good job with the tasks Ha thanks Merlin. I suppose I have my creative moments.

[vapidity]

The basic is explosive, the advanced is trippy... decisions decisions.. I think ill go for the basic one, after all, this is the first task of the month I've attempted, ever!

[iFatal]

Awesome tasks! What I like about them is that there both challenging even for a beginner.

[SarcasticIndeed]

For the advanced task, we go to past to see the first time we've gotten lucid or when we've gotten lucid in the dream we are?

[anderj101]

Good tasks! Hope to go lucid for long enough this month to do them.

[yuppie11975]

This sucks, I went lucid, but forgot the task!

[Zoth]

Zebrah, that's one original advanced task you've set there, really eager to try it Good luck to people, I wonder what results will I get if I don't aim the fireworks to the sky...

[Marm]

This is going to be the hardest Task of the Month for me... I had my first lucid dream when I was 4 years old, which was 13 years ago... Ummm, can I cheat? Nevertheless, these are excellent tasks. Well done Zebrah.

[whysoserious111]

I wanna do the basic task and set off the fireworks in school . Since I seem to be at school a lot in my dreams

[Emiko]

This is going to be the hardest Task of the Month for me... I had my first lucid dream when I was 4 years old, which was 13 years ago... This raises a question that I was wondering about: In the advanced task, does "the moment you became lucid" mean the moment you became lucid in that particular dream, or the very first time you became lucid in a dream in your entire life?

[fOrceez]

This raises a question that I was wondering about: In the advanced task, does "the moment you became lucid" mean the moment you became lucid in that particular dream, or the very first time you became lucid in a dream in your entire life? I assumed entire life, but seeing not everyone remembers their first lucid dream (ThePieMan) probably just the first lucid dream that you remember. Which makes me wonder if i've had lucid dreams before joining Dreamviews.. Hm. Time to test the powers of the subconscious mind!

[Aristaeus]

I completed both tasks in a rather lengthily MILD I had. I am guessing, for the advanced task, we were supposed travel back in time to the point we became lucid in the immediate dream and not a previously experienced lucid dream. Since my lucid dream was rather long, I cut the log entry short. The lucid portion of the dream is highlighted in blue, the basic task in green, the advanced task in purple. Spoiler for Dream: Second Dream Log Entry, Date, 1.7.2012 I was about eight years old again. I spent a large amount of time with some faceless individuals in a tall, hexagon-based house. Almost all of its walls were composed of glass. Surrounding the house was an endless grassland and a few towering trees. At some point, I found myself in a large van with the same individuals. All of them were locked in casual conversation--meanwhile, I kept to myself at the very back of the van. We drove through the night for an unknown time period until we ended up back at the hexagonal house, which was now surrounded by solidified mud tracks. There were also a few noticeable buildings in the background. I stayed outside while the group either disappeared or went back into the house (I know not which). I then proceeded to walk along one of the mud tracks in a playful manner. I generally behaved as most any solitary eight-year-old would until I used my Wings of the Heart to jump to another far away mud track. It was in that instant that I became lucid. Immediately remembering the Dream Views monthly task, I decided to explore the cluster of buildings I saw earlier. I flew low in the air with my Wings of the Heart until I found a large house, the door of which was missing. I entered the house to find rows and rows of hung garments as far as the eye could see. I exited the house and found another one with a missing door. I entered it to find a group of four watching a television. One of them was a female in her late teen years; the other three seemed to be younger than twelve or ten. I extended my left hand, palm open, towards the space between them and the television set and willed a bunch of fireworks to appear and ignite. As they went off, the four people simply looked at me with blank expressions. With the basic task complete, I exited the abode and thought to myself, “make time go backwards.” The small city I was in suddenly disappeared and I found myself near the hexagonal house once again. I watched as my other self walked along the mud track surrounding the house, then jumping to the same one I did before becoming lucid. As my other self landed, we traded looks. I looked somewhat differently than I did in waking life.

[MissLucy]

Sounds doable even for someone who isn't all *that* experienced, like me

[INeverWakeUp]

Dude Zebra you are my favorite task creator dude! I love these! They're interesting, and the first one is something mischievous that I'd do!

[Robot_Butler]

These are both fantastic tasks. I am excited to see how the advanced task turns out. Viewing a past version of yourself sounds mind bending. What if my past self sees me, and that is what makes him lucid? Paradox... begin.

[she]

I tried to do month task yesterday, but I forgot to look at DCs's reaction. Ithink, I'll do it next time.. Spoiler for for dream: WILD I imagine that i fly on the plane - I was sitting in the seat and saw small houses in the land. I looked at my palms not to lose the awareness. Then i don't remember, but made a portal in the ground and want to transfer to other place with DCs. I was in the bus and it was summer. left it and go somwhere - there was a beautifull view on mountains, i've just a bit lost awareness but said to myself went back to bus stop. There was about 10 DCs. I put hand to my pocket to find the firewoks, but it was empty. I tried once more... the pocket was empty again. I went to the DC and said - give me fireworks please. He gave me something like grain. It was interesting DC - the face untill eyes was closed by the yashmak and he has sun glases and he smokes, but then he bend a bit, i saw that behind the glases he had light like from bright lamps I ask him to fire the grain, but he said nothing. I touched the grain to his sigarette and put it on the land. Asked other DC to move, because he stood too close to fireworks. I made two steps behind...At first firework was like silver sand but then sand has finished and became show of new year garlands - they moved on the elepsis and in a circle. the firework was without sounds and about 1.5 meters high and about 1 minute

[she]

I've DONE the basic task)) Ura!!!!!! Spoiler for for dreams: I in the bad and look through the window that near my house went company of soldies and some of them went to my yard to make pi-pi I stood up and run to the door to stop it, count fingers - 7 and on this thought I lost LD - and picture and awareness. I in my bad and look through the window near my house stood a very big and long expensive black car - about 10 meters and people from this car are in my yard. I stood and run to the door count fingers - more then 5...I remembered that i've lost previous DC and try to let the dream take me. Men were sitting in the car. Go out and cry - stop,stop -I took part in the dream show not to loose it- one of the men glad to see me, he came to me and behave himself like he is my husbend or close friend. (I've never seen him in real life). I looked around and saw more DC - enaugh to see their reaction on fireworks. I said to "husband" - let me show you firewoks? - ok. I went to the open door and took a big firework behind it. Make a fire by the palm. Firework was not big - about 5 meters - green and withowt a sound. I looked on the "husband" - normal reaction - stood and looked... Then said O-PA! - it means 'nice!'. My yard transformed to the yard of the castle. A douzen of kids appears. I said - kids, do you want to see a fireworks? Direct my palm to the sky and try to make firewarks.....I n the sky appears two big plastic new year balls and garlands... and fall on the land Some of the adult DCs opened umbrellas And kids piked up garlands and went away

[zebrah]

Congrats Aristaeus and She! Enjoy your wings Keep trying everyone else. There is still a lot of time in the month.

[vapidity]

I completed the basic task! My memory of the dream began as I stood in a long school hallway. I walked down the length of the hallway with an acquaintance from my own school, someone I rarely meet. We walk then I stop and observe the hallway. The lockers are red and the floors are linoleum. I realize that we are the only two students about, and this somehow leads me to ask the person I am with "what are we doing here?". His response is an awkward shrug and indifferent expression. That was when I realized, I was dreaming. I remembered the task straightaway, simply because I was in a school, a great place to set off fireworks. I need more people so I look down then close my eyes, and when I open them again, there are hundreds of students walking in the hallway. I laugh as I noticw all of them have the same shade of black hair, then throw a prelit cherry bomb into the crowd, then stick a bottle rocket into some jeans worn by an unfortunate passerby, also pre lit, and the fireworks begin. The cherry bomb is highly potent, it gave a loud pop and a ball of flames followed by a plume of dark smoke, and the crowd dispersed from the area in rapid waves. They acted a little irrationally, much to my amusement. As for the bottle rocket, I never saw where my "volunteer" went.

[Keris]

Phew, that advanced task. However, if you only conceive the idea to go back in time in the future, how do you ever originally conceive the idea? The instant you bec(a/o)me lucid you (would have/will) (seen/see) your future self and then (remembered/remember) to do the task, prompting the present (which soon becomes past). I think (that/those) (sentence/sentences) (works/work). This task is also formidable for grammar Nazis. (Read the first one or the second one of each choice for two different sentences) Anyway, doesn't that mean that in order to do this task (at least the immediate dream choice) your mind must link the task with lucidity? (lucidity must equal task completion or the task didn't happen) I suppose it hinges on your past self not seeing your future self(as Robot Butler said, paradox). Great idea, I'm going to have to try this when I get out of this dryspell. Sorry kind of long post, I just watched Dr.Who so I couldn't resist.