Thread: Task of the Year for 2012

I have to, must finish by tomorrow!

The sputnik one:

Back to sleep.

Taking care of the plants in the garden, trying to plant something in it and making a hole, become lucid when putting the plant in since its too heavy to be a normal plant, decide I should finish the tasks so try to remember them, but can’t.

It takes a while and finish planting while thinking, but finally remember one I didn’t finish yet, the sputnik one. Teleport to Russia then realize I don’t know where the launching will be at… not good, use matrix-sense to find the place then teleport there, but as I arrive the thing is leaving, some people go and try to pin me down “You can’t be here!” they say “How long until it leaves the earth atmosphere?” they look at me and are about to point a gun at my head so teleport behind them and use the ground to bind them “How long?” one of them says 5 minutes at most since the launching, so I don’t have much time.

Start modifying my body so I won’t die from this, then jump and fly as fast as possible to the sputnik, when I am close to it try to slow down but just pass by and get on a damn cloud so can’t see it, activate the super-hearing and then fly 70 degrees of the source of sound, the sputnik is coming out from the clouds as I do that so just wait for it and sit on the top part and continue modifying my body. When we are about to get out of the atmosphere the thing starts breaking, no! Maybe sitting on it was a bad idea.

Get to the side of it and watch the top part fall, but it isn’t broken, more like it just fell off as planned, we finally get out of the atmosphere and then the sputnik stops and I just continue flying… what? Oh right, this is supposed to stop there, fly back to it and sit again then just look at the image of earth, it looks so funny from the angle I am at, like looking at a giant version of a terrain globe, but one that got moving clouds, continue admiring the scene until it’s time to wake up.

The WTC one:

Back to sleep.

I am looking at the sky, do a RC and become lucid but decide not to move yet, think about any past dreams and remember the non-lucid… that makes me sad, whatever I have goals to do.

Look again at the sky and teleport to the Twin-towers from the TOTY task, look at them and wonder if I will be able to do it, my fear of heights generally shows when in buildings… start climbing at the start, but the building is way too tall for this to work, let go of the wall and then just fly slowly, it takes me about a minute or so to get to the top, in my way notice that there is no people inside the building but there is a lot of people outside, maybe it was about to open to the public?

Look down and see the people, they are freaking out it seems and trying to make signals, I am freaking out too due to the height, try not to look down and just jump down, at first it feels funny and my stomach hurts, but a few seconds in get the fear out and just get on a comfortable position, stop myself with gravity before hitting the ground.

Sputnik:

It took a minute to think about, but I remembered I had to go to the launch site of Sputnik 1. I found it just as it was about to take off, how fortuitous. I latched on as it took off, and rode it like a horse into space.

It was moving pretty fast, and I felt like I was going to be thrown off at any second. I kept my grip as firm as I could though, and managed to make it into space. There wasn't much to see, and it was kinda boring. I wondered if there was some time limit as to how much I had to stick with this giant hunk of space metal before I could leave. I waited for about ten minutes, but we just kept moving... in some indeterminate direction. It's space, man, it's hard to tell what's up or down. I decided that I'd been here long enough, and grabbed one of Sputnik's smaller antennae and went back to the cabin. I decided it would just be better to teleport this time, so I would conserve time. I put the antennae on my mantle next to the Plant from Screamland. Then I woke up to check the ToTY and to try in the next dream.

Apollo 11:

I still had time, more than enough to finish this. Traveling back to '69, I went to the Apollo 11 launch site. The thing had just taken off, so I had to race past him. It was nice, because this made it interesting.

They were pretty fast, but I was faster. I eventually caught up with them and overtook them. I sped to the moon as fast as I possibly could, and got there.

A short entry, but all it took was to get to the moon before them, and I could've done that by traveling back a day before and coming here. This was by far the easiest task so far.

Completed the Atomic Task.

My brain was not wanting to let me suceed at LDing last night. I reached SP and HIs twice but could not initiate an LD until my 3rd attempt at the 9 hours of sleep point. I had put in ear plugs as it was 10 am by this point. It reached a solid SP with HIs in about 20 minutes, but it then took about an hour of gently trying to start an LD for it to work. I had been at a point for half of that time where I could feel myself move around and even dance around but the HIs would only form ghost like clumsy images that were almost not there. I could say that all of this stuff counts as a low grade LD, but I won't include it in the duration of the dream; it was just warming up.
Finally a dream started to form and I could honestly feel as if I were there moving around and looking at things. I wanted to watch the atomic test for the task of the year thing. I created an image of a field and a trench with men in it. I heard a voice (by expecting to) do the count down. I saw the standard blast and cloud thing and my mind flashed the classic images of the buildings getting shredded. I was disappointed with the effect. Every thing was black and white, thew soldiers looked like shadows, and the whole thing seemed more like just watching it on tv. I decided that I would not count this as completing the task. The task thing is not a competition, but a fun way for people to get ideas to challenge themselves. I had wanted to experience the atomic test and this was more like watching old footage of it.
I decided to let the dream go free form for awhile and get random DCs and plots, until the imagery had intensified. The random HIs came back and I played with things like skating alond through it, turning into a snake, turning into a bird, and spinning around in circles. A forest had appeared but was very dream like and not vivid. I spent about 3 minutes doing every stabliizing technique I could come up with. I felt with my hands all the magor body joints and rubbed them. I looked very close at small objects like the gravel on the ground. When I looked up fairly clear scenery had evolved.
This portion of the dream I let randomly take me through a story with DCs. I was at a university. I went inside and people I apparently were friends with are all gathered. They were talking about things we should do. I only caught on something about hosting an event and serving lots of food. The crowd broke up into smaller groups and I tagged along with one. We wentthrough about 3 dream scenes in various parts of the college and I mostly just watched. I wanted to do something more interesting, but decided to see where this would go. It then turns out that terrorists are planning to attack the school and we are FBI types in disguise looking for clues. I went around trying to get close to the football players when one asked what I was doing. I looked down and was holding a big mass of floopy spegetti noodles. There we go,some real randomness. I pretended I was making shoe laces out of them.
At that point I decided I would go back to trying the atomic task again. I turned into a bird and flew up above the hills. I circled few times then saw a big plain beyond the hills and there was a structure in the middle. I landed over there in human form. I went to the structure and blended in with a group of workers who were inspectin a giant artillery shell suspended from scafolding. I floated up and ran my hands along the tailfins and the rivets. Then I teleported to the trenches were people were ducking down and giving thumbs up signs. Every one was wearing sunglasses. I got in the trench and the count down started. I realized I wanted to be out there in the blast and jumped out of the trench. I could see the buildings they constructed to get blown apart, I appeared over there..
The bomb exploded and a wave of force hit me and the buildings. I felt myself flying backwards and getting shredded into powder (vaporized) but it was fun, not painful. I reformed my body and jumped off the force wave and flew to where the cloud was starting to shoot up ward. I grabed it as if it were a big tree, and it yanked me rapidly skyward. I plunged through the mushroom top of the cloud, and this was like being pulled under white water rapids. Then I was on top of the rising explosion and at the same time could see the mushroom cloud from the side. It spread out under me and stopped pushing me up.
I realized my real body was having a problem, I felt like my mouth was very dry and trying to wake me. I focused on the atomic cloud to try and save thedream, but then I ended up coughing and woke up. Dur~20 minutes .

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Best. Dream. Ever. Longest one I've ever had, most epic, and I may have found my DG, who consequently kicked my ass. Here's the excerpt pertaining to the tasks:

At this point the blimp finally crashed into the ground. The force threw me forward into the windshield, but it didn't break. Ow... The cockpit I was in finally caught on fire, and it was even hotter than the other room. I could feel my skin starting to melt, but it didn't hurt, just uncomfortable, like when you get a moderate cramp, only it was all over my body. I wanted to get out. Now. I pushed my way through the burning wreckage and punched out the window. I could barely squeeze through but there was a small openeing right on the ground about 2 feet high. I crawled out and walked into the bright sun. I turned around at the hindenburg and it was only a shell of what was once the greatest airship ever. I must've been the only one out.

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hukif- what methods do you use?
And how many lucid do you have on average?

Originally Posted by yuppie11975

hukif- what methods do you use?
And how many lucid do you have on average?

I just DILD, sometimes will WILD for fun but thats rare.
And "takes calc out" it says 4/day on average.

In order, this goes like this: Zeppelin one, Telescope one, Volcano one and finally Atomic bomb one.

It took me a while but finally slipped into a dream, teleport to the Zeppelin while warping time, end at the top part of it but it doesn’t looks like what I expected at all, some small balloon in the middle of the sky, it’s really cold so have to start modifying my body to not freeze.

It doesn’t takes long for the fire to start, I think someone tried to kill someone else and then they let a candle fall close to an oil barrel that set on fire, or at least matrix-sense said so. A few seconds after can see some smoke come out of the Zeppelin, look down and see a big town down there, the houses are made of wood so they will also set on fire if the thing descends, make a hole below me and fall to a big room with like 20 people inside, they stop fighting and stare at me “Yeah you are all so smart, fighting while the place burns away” they are about to attack me when I fly to the command center and change the direction from the town to the small lake close to it, the captain starts yelling at me for this “You will only make the catastrophe worse than it already is” I tell him, he tries to kill me instead.

Run back to the first room I was at, the smoke and fire are much stronger now and people are having trouble breathing, go to a window close by and put my hand on it then blast it away “Anyone who wants to stay alive?” some people actually look my way, so just jump after that and make a small path so the water-hit won’t kill anyone, also make it so the smoke will come out quickly from the window in case they want to jump and be saved, and if not, their problem; while going down also turn around and shot a wind-bullet at the Zeppelin so it will fall faster to the lake, before everyone is set on fire then wake up.

Back to sleep.

Alright I managed the WILD! But before anything else, do a RC. So now have another 3 tasks to finish, and it must be done today or won’t be done at all. Quickly make a barrier and move through time again, this time to when the telescope got damaged and before someone was sent to repair it.

When I arrive a ship is preparing to leave, no good, teleport above the ship and strike it with a gravity-wave, the ship is pushed down and becomes a nice white plate, start flying to the sky but then decide I should do this fast, the dream is unstable. Teleport form some bacteria that is still alive in the telescope while making myself a barrier, do a reading of the thing to try and figure out the problem but it’s no good, can’t understand anything of how this works though, so just put some energy into the telescope and call my TARDIS, give him some energy and let him connect with it, they are both machines so this should be easy for him. Feel like I am waking up… ask the TARDIS if he is done “Was done a while ago” he says “Tell me that sooner…” teleport us both back to earth and then teleport the TARDIS back home, I go to the computer checking the images the telescope gets, it is working properly again so can wake up.

Back to sleep.

Inside a weird room, do a RC while trying to find a door, it is useless to try and find it without any light though… so get some fire and find there is no door, put the fire out as soon as I notice that, will be oxygen deprived at this rate. Go over to one of the walls and use matrix-sense, apparently someone wants to keep me inside this thing? Teleport out of the prison, a few kilometers above the ground is enough to get out of the cell but not out of the building, who the hell bothers to build something that useless anyway?

Teleport out of the building and think about what my next goal is… right, the volcano, they will learn this way. Warp space-time and bring the whole building with me to the island, island? Whatever, there is an island with a volcano, the island is close to a beach and a small city and the people from the prison go out and start yelling but don’t care. Give the volcano some energy and help it explode faster, make myself a barrier and wait right where I am, the first explosion threw a lot of lava out and some will fall on me, coincidentally the prison people want me inside so they are attacking, even better, my barrier allows them to get a body part inside but the rest will stay outside. When they try to capture me their hands get stuck and the lava falls, I look at their bodies melting and just start walking towards the prison, put my palm on it and make it vibrate, that plus the lava makes it melt quickly, the thing becomes a giant wall of metal and melted rock that protects the city from the lava but not so much from the poisonous gas or the ash. Also make sure the lava doesn’t burn any plants that might be on the ground by putting barriers around them. Continue watching the scene until I feel like it is time to wake up.

Back to sleep.

YAWN! What a good night so far, I really like to sleep. Now then, why am I outside the house if it feels like I just woke up? Do a RC, since I don’t trust my memory in dreams. Alright last task of the DV, I think it had something to do with war… right, the nuclear explosion on New Mexico, teleport to the place and then move over time to before the explosion.

Alright, the explosion is gone, the nuclear bomb going down and me waiting there, now just need to remember if I need be at the center of the explosion or anywhere else is fine, teleportation would save me easily but then the task would be way too easy,

So the missile gets down, there is a flash of light and I instinctively teleport back and make a barrier, but the barrier starts breaking and by the time I gain vision am already around lots of flames, can’t hear anything either, despite the barrier blocking the sound-wave too, how interesting, make a time-barrier to not die and walk to the middle of the explosion, once it is gone look at how it destroyed a nice part of the desert, so rewind time for anything living and take the radiation myself and wake up due to that.

Teleporting into a different location and time might be hard... it tends to worsen my dreams' quality. I tried to do the 20s task but failed

I become lucid. I go to the apartment where the party is. There I decide to to one of the TotYs. I decide to do the one where you have to take a picture with that old camera. I decide to leap through the window into the 1900s, but when I'm about to jump I decide to do the one where you have to watch tv. My brother and his friend are playing Play Station on a modern television. I decide to turn that into an older one. "Look at what I'm doing!" I say to them. I point at the television very dramatically and say TADAM. A shock wave from the television throws me back and I wake up.

Lol I noticed I used the verb decide a lot in that one

What the hell! How are you doing these so fast! And here I am thinking I'm doing well with 2 down in one week...

*pouts about in his living room*

Been training in LDing since I was 5, so yeah. And aww don't pout, you will get there eventually.
Anyway I am done with the task, and barely made it in time.

I am amazed. All I can say is fantastic work, I can't believe you did them all so fast! Have you ever/do you still keep a DJ? I can't imagine how many books you would have gone through by now

I do "Tales of the Inheritor, Hukif" is the title, just google it and there you go. But damn it was harder than expected to do all that, shouldn't have said a week <.<

My goal is mainly just to complete it, but as a little extra incentive I'll push for the end of february, maybe even january if I get a streak of lucids.

Am in, Zebrah

LOL
"It was harder than I thought too do that"
You cocky bastard
No one else in the world could do that in a week and a half roughly..

OMG HUKIF I love your dj!

Ah, if only I was any good at Lucid Dreaming. Totally would want to take a crack at fixing a telescope in Space. ;D

I fucking hate you Hukif! Just kidding. It makes more sense, I saw you joined in 2008 and thought "DAMN! HOW?!" But the over 4000 lucids makes sense now. I'm at...141...since I started counting in 2009...

Did the moon landing one! I almost let them beat me out too

...They (the astronauts) started fighting again, arguing over who should go out. Getting rather annoyed by this I snapped my fingers and summoned another space suit so they could all go out at once. The pilot then looked at me as if he was expecting something. I had no clue what he was thinking and just stared at him while the other were putting their suits on. *Snap!* "Oh! The TotY! Thanks man, you're the best!" I said. I had to beat Neil down, why would I help them out? I walked over to the door, opened it up and jumped right out. The others, who had just finished putting their space suits on, saw me get out and all sprinted towards the door to be the 2nd man out. If they weren't first, they sure as hell weren't going to be last.

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Quite liking these new goals; I'm going try to get them done by April, probably because I've ran out of ideas to do in my LDs xD

Best of luck to all trying to get this done.

Congrats Hukif! You've got the orange you worked so hard for.

Good luck to everyone else.

Damn... Failed at the 1900s one... three times... that was the fourth time I failed at those

I become lucid. I decide to do the 1900s TotY. I jump into the air and start to fly. The sky turns black and I'm in space. I see a spiral galaxy (Milky Way?) in front of me. In the spiral arms there are numbers for different decades. I go nearer towards the beginning of the 20th century. Now I have a tape measure in my hand. I look for 1900. I get there. I appear in a castle. There is an unfinished painting in front of me. I start painting, but then I realise that I've come to the 12th century. I even have a 12th century outfit on. I try to get to the year 1900. I close my eyes and try to teleport, but it wakes me up.

So, we are in our front yard looking at several Moons when I become lucid. Again I jump into the sky and get the tape measure in my hand. Now I search for 1900. I find it and teleport. My eyes are shut. A voice tells me that I should get a confirmation that I have arrived at the right place. Someone takes my hand. I become aware of my body... and wake up.

The good thing is that it's been a while since I last had two lds in one night.

Just finished the world trade center one after having a 5 day long dry spell of no recall nor lucidity. Glad to get another one done though As long as we didn't necessarily have to use parachute, that is. I, instead, made a massive crater Excerpt:

I took a few steps back, gathered my breath, and sprinted right over the edge. I did a few acrobatic flips and such, until I leveled out into a normal sky diving position. The only problem was, I had only gone down a few feet. "C'mon gravity! I'm not gonna make it!" But I just floated there, nothing happening. I started getting a little annoyed and yelled as loud as I could, "Gravity on please!!" After a couple seconds I started falling straight down, like some body should when they jump off of anything. "Thank you!" I yelled. It took me about 15 seconds to reach the halfway point, at which time I heard people screaming down at the ground. I looked down trying to see something with the wind blowing into my eyes like this. I noticed they were all looking and pointing straight up at me! Well, they're going to be in for a treat!

I dove down, head first, into a full on dive. I waited until I was about 50 feet from the ground and quickly flattened out into a normal sky diving position again. I wanted to make a big crater in the ground since that seems to keep happening in all the fights I've been in recently. After only a split second since I had flattened out I hit the ground going full speed. It didn't hurt at all and felt like one of those big coushions used in movies where somebody jumps out of a building. Once I came to a complete stop I looked up and noticed I was in about a 25 feet deep crater. New personal record! I say everybody lined around the edge looking down at me with disbelief that I was still alive.

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Chalk two more down for me! Got both in the same LD Mount St. Helens:

I quickly flew up to the peak of the mountain and got ready for the eruption. Wanting to make it fun, I summoned a sled, like you would use on snow. I sat down and said, "Whenever you're ready!" At that moment, the entire ground beneath me started to move. I slowly started to slide down when I saw gysers of rock and dust popping up all over the place in front of me. I leaned back and forth, left and right avoiding these mini eruptions. I was about halfway down the mountain and suddenly I was pushed up straight into the air, about 50 feet. A hole had opened up right below me! I started falling to the ground when I pulled up on the tip of the sled, trying to make it fly. I leaned back, trying to lift up, and when I was about 10 feet off the ground it finally started to rise. At this point I just made a B-line for the bottom hovering several feet above the ground, still trying to avoid the gysers. It was much easer in the air, slicing through air instead of dirt and rocks. It took me a minute, but I finally made it to the bottom. I didn't want to miss the show so I dropped the sled and flew up to about 200 feet and just hovered there, watching the eruption. A huge chunk of the side of the mountain was missing and massive amounts of ash and soot were pouring out of the hole. The cloud was enormous, thousands of feet high, maybe even miles. It stretched well into the clouds. I looked down at the ground behind me and saw a pyrocalstic flow blowing through the forest.

And the brownie camera (at first I had photo bombed this family's picture, but then I decided to make up for it by taking their photo myself):

"Okay, I think I got it," I told him. "Smile!" I told the family. They didn't make any facial expression, and I pressed the button for the flash while also pressing the large button on the camera. I counted in my head, "1, 2, 3..." and when I got to 10 I let go. "Okay, now I pull this lever?" I asked the man. He nodded and I pushed down on the lever. A small piece of paper came out with a faded image on it. "How do I get the picture to look clearer?" I asked the man. "Oh, you have to soak it in a special solution, here, give it to me." I handed it over to him and he placed it in a small pool of an orange liquid. The family whom I had just taken a picture of leaned over my shoulder as I leaned over the photographers, trying to see what he was doing. After about 12 seconds he took the picture out and placed it in a towel. He rubbed off all the excess residue and handed me the photo. I looked at it, and could see it clear as day. It looked just like the family, only as clear as a modern digital picture. It was still in black and white, however. "Oh, how lovely," the woman said. I assume she was the mother. "Here," I said, giving it to them. "I hope this makes up for the other one." I told them. "Oh, it certainly does," said the woman.

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I loved the volcano one! Nice work

Finished the Hubble Telescope one Almost got the Titanic one as well but I ended up waking up before I could do anything DJ excerpt:

"Okay, well... how do I fix it?" I asked them. "All you have to do is bend it back! I should look almost flat but a tiny bit concave." The voice said. I looked at the mirrors again and noticed that one of them was bent way out of shape, the opposite way they were supposed to be shaped. I floated over to it and pushed down on the mirror. Forgetting I was in space I just pushed it without anchoring myself to it at all. I ended up just floating back a bit and the telescope didn't move, at least from my perspective. I floated back to the telescope to give it another try. Floating in space was a lot like flying in a dream in general. I just thought of where I wanted to go and I went there.

This time I put both my hands around the edge of the mirror and used my knees to push the glass. I started off gently, not wanting to break it, and then pushed harder and harder as it refused to move. I had to push extremely hard just to get it to bend. I'm glad we didn't have to break it . I looked over at the other mirror and tried to match its angle. Once I thought I had gotten it right I radioed back down to earth, "There, is that better?" I asked. "One second, we're taking a picture of the moon." They said. After a few seconds I got a reply, "Alright, it looks good. Good job fixing your own mistake." Jeez, they're mean .

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