Thread: Task of the Month for June 2012

I did it! I was worried when I woke up really early and couldn't get back to sleep. But then I managed to get lucid while taking a nap and finished the basic task.

Even better, I managed to take a nightmarish situation and change it into a really positive, uplifting experience. You know those dreams where you're going around naked and everyone's laughing? Here's a new twist: I found myself naked in another family member's bedroom with my very naked boyfriend, and my dad caught us. My boyfriend vanished and I was left to deal with a very angry father. I saw a bathroom vanity with a mirror and took a running leap through it to get away.

Passing through the mirror is much easier than I expected. I find myself falling through blackness at first, but then there's a lot of light. I land in the waters just off the beach of a tropical island. It looks so beautiful, like it came out of a picture postcard. My sweetie appears next to me, floating on an inflatable raft with his sunglasses on and a tropical drink in his hand. He smiles at me and says that he's been waiting for me, but he knew he wouldn't have to wait long. He had faith that I'd be able to do it.

I'll add a link to my journal entry once the database errors clear up. ETA: Here we go!

Awww Thena, how romantic. And congrats

Wow, that database error is really bugging me.

Completed the basic, was gonna do the advanced but dream collapsed. XD

Spoiler for complete dream for later use (database error too stronk):

I was swimming in a huge pool. There were many people around and there was a huge lamp embedded into the ground at the bottom of the pool. The walls were made of glass, but you couldn't see beyond it. Me and my friends were playing pool truth or dare. It was my turn, and I chose dare.
They dared me to go and touch the lamp, which was pretty deep even by my standards. Since there was no backing out, I took a huge breath and dived. At that instant, the whole world suddenly changed. There was no sounds of people, or splashing, anymore. I couldn't see above me now. It was as if a huge lid had dropped on to the pool. But somehow, I didn't pay much attention to it.
Also, the pool got considerably deeper. Following a vague thought in my mind (the lamp will save me!), I continued my was towards the bottom of the pool. Another vague thought (this must be my longest swim underwater without surfacing) but I paid no attention to it. When I was close enough, I realized the lamp wasn't really a lamp, it was more of a huge stained glass. But it wasn't an ordinary stained glass, there were people inside it. Upon a closer inspection I realized it was a mirror, but the images were not like real life, instead, there seemed to be pixels made out of colored tiles and those pixels were moving to reflect my movements.
By now I was really getting out of breath. I started to panic, my chest seemed to contract, and of course I couldn't breathe, I was underwater! I kicked on the mirror and leaped towards the top, only to encounter a huge concrete roof. I was trapped.
I started to panic even more, my eyes started to pop out. And I started to think what happened to get me here, and in that moment, I turned lucid. It was so freaking stupid of me. Took me long enough to turn lucid, I thought. I realize I still wasn't breathing. No matter, I let all the air out of my lungs, and took all the water in through my nose. A weird experience, but I'm used to it. I was no longer drowning, just breathing normally (breathing water ).
I decided I might as well go check out that mirror, but I was too lazy to actually dive again to the bottom. So, I began to flick my wrist in an upward direction. With each flick, a huge amount of water beneath me would go up, pushing me down. It was as if there was an invisible platform in the water, and the flicks were causing me to push against it.
After 4 or 5 of these flicks, I was at the bottom. Now the stained glass/mirror was gone, and replaced by a real, enormous mirror. Wasn't I supposed to do something with a mirror?
I couldn't remember what I was supposed to do, but I assumed it would be to go inside the mirror. All the previous mirror-related tasks were pretty much to go inside it. I spent two minutes trying to remember the other task, all the while sitting on top of the enormous mirror and breathing water. I finally remembered the other one, I had to ride a train!
Smiling to myself, I got up. I began to think of ways to go through that mirror. Jumping up and floating a bit above the mirror, I drew a circle in the water, imagining my fingers being similar to a tattooing machine. A huge circle appeared on the mirror. I could feel this circle in my palm.
I made a fist, crushing the imaginary circle in my hand. A small ripple went through the circle in the mirror. Realizing I was successful, I began to dive. Wait, shouldn't I stabilize it first?

Nah, I was good. I took a fierce dive inside the mirror, which had turned into a thick liquid. I passed it easily, although it felt a bit cold and slippery. Something like liquid mercury.
Not stabilizing was a bad idea. Violent vibrations started to shake my body up. I was in an endless black tunnel, falling into nothingness. Realizing my dream was going to collapse, I did the only thing I could do. I was being swept along the tunnel by a massive wave of invisible fluid, but I managed to hold on to the smooth, shiny black surface of the tunnel with my claws. Claws? I looked at my hands, there were indeed claws. What? How?
I didn't pay any further attention. I stuck like a baby to that wall, bracing myself against that massive current. I relaxed myself, and started to feel here and there. The current slowed down by a substantial amount. A little rubbing of my hands (claws) and the current was no longer there.
But now I was trapped inside this tube-like wormhole, and it was PITCH BLACK. I couldn't see a thing.
Keep calm, I told myself. Let's try and find a way out of here. I stood on one side of the tunnel, gravity seemed to be non existent. I started to walk along one side, feeling here and there for any doors I could open or handles I could turn.
There were none. I was trapped. I laid down and started to think about the previous day's events. And my past. I was searching for a particular type of emotion. You see, my magic doesn't work until I have an emotion to associate with it.
Found it. Anger. Cold Anger. In those moments I just keep myself calm and let my hatred flow out. Focusing my thoughts on that particular emotion, I touched my wrist. For those who don't know, there's two tattoos on my dream body that are always there. One is a series of symbols on my left wrist. I have no idea what they mean, nor have I ever tried to find their meaning. But they allow me to do magic my thinking of a particular type of magic and touching them. The other symbol is a weird tribal tattoo on my right bicep. This one I got when I discovered I could morph into a vampire. Touching this allows me to do just that, but I usually never do it. The transformation is painful and whenever I try to do it without much control the dream ends up shattering.

Back to current dream, I touched the symbols on my left wrist. It started to leak out something like black energy, only it felt like a dense liquid. It started to cover up my entire body, and soon, I was in a cocoon made up of that black energy. A second of intense pain and burning of insides later, the cocoon burst. Or, perhaps, shattered is the more accurate term. I was in a city, floating above the sky. How was I floating? Wings. Huge, black, feathery wings. By now you must be thinking that I've made this up,, but keep in mind that I'm somewhat experienced and this is child's play for me. The wings transformation is one I've undergone many times.
Here's the weird thing, whenever I learn a new skill or something in a dream, usually it sticks for the following dreams as well. For example, the first time I grew wings, they were made of feather and black. Now whenever I grow wings, they're always exactly the same. I guess my subconscious doesn't like change very much.
I was floating above a city. The wings felt natural enough, like a real part of my body. Good.

Boom. I started to fly at an incredible speed. When I say incredible, I mean really effing fast. The landscape was a blur, I was leaving a sonic boom behind me.
And suddenly, out of nowhere, the vibrations started again. Oh God. I didn't stabilize it. With nothing to hold on to in mid air, I released a final burst of energy that destroyed the ground beneath me in a circular area, and fell into the chaotic void that exists between exiting from a dream and waking up.

Spoiler for TOTM related part:

I decided I might as well go check out that mirror, but I was too lazy to actually dive again to the bottom. So, I began to flick my wrist in an upward direction. With each flick, a huge amount of water beneath me would go up, pushing me down. It was as if there was an invisible platform in the water, and the flicks were causing me to push against it.
After 4 or 5 of these flicks, I was at the bottom. Now the stained glass/mirror was gone, and replaced by a real, enormous mirror. Wasn't I supposed to do something with a mirror?
I couldn't remember what I was supposed to do, but I assumed it would be to go inside the mirror. All the previous mirror-related tasks were pretty much to go inside it. I spent two minutes trying to remember the other task, all the while sitting on top of the enormous mirror and breathing water. I finally remembered the other one, I had to ride a train!
Smiling to myself, I got up. I began to think of ways to go through that mirror. Jumping up and floating a bit above the mirror, I drew a circle in the water, imagining my fingers being similar to a tattooing machine. A huge circle appeared on the mirror. I could feel this circle in my palm.
I made a fist, crushing the imaginary circle in my hand. A small ripple went through the circle in the mirror. Realizing I was successful, I began to dive. Wait, shouldn't I stabilize it first?

Nah, I was good. I took a fierce dive inside the mirror, which had turned into a thick liquid. I passed it easily, although it felt a bit cold and slippery. Something like liquid mercury.

Feel like showing off for the advanced task since I failed this dream so hard. x)
Maybe I'll try juggling after all.

here is the LD, but cannot make DJ entry - database error

I saw a knife on the floor and understood that it was a LD. Remembered about TOTM and went to the bathroom. But the LD wasn't clear enough. I could hardly see myself in the mirror. reached out my hand through the mirror - a little blew lighting around the place where my hand passed through. I entered the mirror. and awoke but understood that it was falce awaking. went to other room - i 've got a big wardrobe with mirror doors. look at me - gender, high and hairdress was mine, but the eyes are red. easy went through the mirrow and found myself in the BIG white empty wardrobe and back wall was like old-old mirrow or metal paper. i went throgh it again and fall down in darkness and awoke.

a little blew lighting around the place where my hand passed through.

no way I get the same affect walking through things sometimes.

Congrats Max and she!!

Good to see we're getting active users completing the task again! Good on you guys, keep it up!

I have to go to work soon, so I'll just type out the dream here and post it later in my DJ.

Spoiler for complete dream:

I woke up in my bed. Everything seemed pretty normal. I opened my mobile that was lying beside my pillow, and browsed Facebook for a while. I didn't notice I couldn't read anything, but that is what happens in real life, too. Anyways, after about 2 or 3 minutes of doing this, I got up, and went to the bathroom. Leaning on the sink, (I'm tall so I have to lean, lol.) I picked up my tooth brush. My hand seemed kind of funny. It was greenish brown and the index finger had swollen to double it's original size. Weird.
I turned lucid, experiencing the same rush of excitement I always feel when I turn lucid. Telling myself too keep calm after the events of the previous lucid, I started to rub my hands. It had little effect, but I still went on with the usual stabilizing rituals anyways.
I went out of the bathroom. There was nobody inside my house. That was weird as well. Oh well. I was bored of doing normal stuff, I didn't care if my dream collapsed. I made a small circle in the air with my hand, imagining it cutting up the air in front of me in the same pattern. A glowing circle began to form in the air. When it was complete, I made a fist, and pointing it toward the circle, opened my palm. A small light appeared in the middle of the circle as I did so, and spread through the whole circle when I opened my palm.

Trains. Focusing my thought on trains, I started to walk into the circle. Wait, why was I walking? I stopped. Feeling the same energy rush I always do when I'm gathering energy for something, I made a small jerking movement with my entire body. It's quite hard to explain how to do it, but that is how you do it; the flash step. In an instant, I was through the portal, which also felt like cold liquid, and inside what appeared to be a luxury compartment in a train.

I looked outside the window. We were going through a pretty little field, it was bright, there was lots of greenery, you could add a rainbow pony and it would fit there. In short, it was beautiful countryside. I stabilized again, focusing on the environment this time and taking in every detail. I looked at the seats. Leather, and extremely comfortable. There was a mini fridge to my right that held candies and juices, an ashtray to my left, and a forty-or-so inch TV in front of me. I sat down, enjoyed some of the edibles, and almost thought about starting a movie before I realized it was a dream. I should be doing better stuff.

Making sure my dream was pretty stable, I gathered an energy ball in my hand and blasted it skywards. A hole opened in the roof of the compartment. Again, not feeling like actually climbing, I reversed gravity by imagining the sky being a huge magnet that attracts everything to itself. It worked pretty well for me, but maybe not so well for anyone taking a dump.

I made the gravity normal again when I was high enough the roof. At this point, I was floating ABOVE the train, not actually on the roof, and it was speeding ahead right below me. Turning off the anti gravity, I landed with a thump on the roof. The land was quite unexpected, as the train was moving quite fast, I was thrown back. I fell down, and the dream started to shake. I kept lying down and stabilized it again, this time feeling around the roof and repeating to myself, 'This is a dream. I am lucid.'

A hand just clamped around my throat. Not NOW. >.>
Looking at the hand, I realized it wasn't a hand, more of a claw. wut? And, it figures, there was the demon that resided in my sword. Haven't seen HIM in a while. I just created him a long while ago while experimenting with DC creation, and now I'm stuck with him.

'I'm bored.', he said, hand still around my throat. It was starting to hurt.
'Me too.', I replied.
He smiled. 'Good then.', he said standing up. I was lifted by my throat and was hanging a feet above the ground.
'You really wanna do this?', I said smiling. 'I'm feeling sleepy today so I can let you go.'

He started laughing. I said the exact same thing that gets him angry every time, and I did it just to infuriate him. He flapped his wings once, and started floating above the train, still holding my neck. This was going to be good. I knew him too well, and I knew his next move. I made a repelling shield around my body by quickly remembering the related emotion (my parents when I was a kid) and touching my left wrist. An instant later, like I knew he would, he slammed my face into the moving train. The shield broke with an enormous burst of energy, and he was forced back. My throat being free of his grip, I flash stepped a few meters back, both of us now on the opposite sides of a huge hole in the train's roof.
I started to shake violently, and my vision began to spin. I was loosing consciousness, but then the demon came flying at me, catching me by the face and taking me up high into the air. Like, really, really high, I couldn't even see the ground!
Okay, that was enough. I bet he realized it too, as his grip suddenly loosened. I was falling. Really? Now I was angry. I imagined an invisible platform right beneath me, and made it slow down. Now I was standing in the air. My demon friend here was floating a few meters ahead of me, now a little hesitant but still smiling that evil smile.

I touched the tattoo on my right. Bad move, the transformation was really enormous. I was doing it after a very long time, and I forgot how painful it was or how much energy it took. My back started to pain, my muscles began to rip apart and then redefine, my vision was getting blurry. Realizing I wouldn't actually complete the transformation this time, I flash stepped right behind him. I had no need to actually prepare for the flash step, as I was overflowing with energy already. I sprouted wings off my back, which means I was still in the middle of the transformation. My jaws began to ache, and my vision began to go in negative colors.
I touched my opponent of the back of the neck, right on the center of it's base. A huge burst of energy from my fingers, and he crumpled to ashes. This burst actually stopped the transformation, I have no idea why.

I landed back on ground, not realizing I had actually transformed into my vampire form, I know that now because I had wings that I used to land. But I was unaware of it then, everything felt too natural. There was a cute red head sitting on a picnic chair ahead of me, and during the love making session, I got too excited, and woke up. Bummer.

Spoiler for TOTM part:

Trains. Focusing my thought on trains, I started to walk into the circle. Wait, why was I walking? I stopped. Feeling the same energy rush I always do when I'm gathering energy for something, I made a small jerking movement with my entire body. It's quite hard to explain how to do it, but that is how you do it; the flash step. In an instant, I was through the portal, which also felt like cold liquid, and inside what appeared to be a luxury compartment in a train.

I looked outside the window. We were going through a pretty little field, it was bright, there was lots of greenery, you could add a rainbow pony and it would fit there. In short, it was beautiful countryside. I stabilized again, focusing on the environment this time and taking in every detail. I looked at the seats. Leather, and extremely comfortable. There was a mini fridge to my right that held candies and juices, an ashtray to my left, and a forty-or-so inch TV in front of me. I sat down, enjoyed some of the edibles, and almost thought about starting a movie before I realized it was a dream. I should be doing better stuff.

Making sure my dream was pretty stable, I gathered an energy ball in my hand and blasted it skywards. A hole opened in the roof of the compartment. Again, not feeling like actually climbing, I reversed gravity by imagining the sky being a huge magnet that attracts everything to itself. It worked pretty well for me, but maybe not so well for anyone taking a dump.

I made the gravity normal again when I was high enough the roof. At this point, I was floating ABOVE the train, not actually on the roof, and it was speeding ahead right below me. Turning off the anti gravity, I landed with a thump on the roof. The land was quite unexpected, as the train was moving quite fast, I was thrown back. I fell down, and the dream started to shake. I kept lying down and stabilized it again, this time feeling around the roof and repeating to myself, 'This is a dream. I am lucid.'

Completed the basic..will post dream later.

No choo-choo train last night. I was lucid though, tonight I'm going for it.

I did it YAY! didi the advanced one, I think. Longest Lucid Yet, After a Week and Half Dry Spell - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views here is the link

I don't know how to put it in a spoiler thingy so here is the main part with the task.

I sit and meditate and think as much as I can on the floor. I enjoy and notice how everything feels so real. I push myself to make everything more vivid. once I feel like the world is as vivid as real life and all my senses are getting a good dose of real feel, I start to think about what I want to do now that I am lucid. Suddenly I remember the advanced TOTM I walk outside and start to fly up. I then Fly to the north, and remember the train tracks that I know of are in another town further north. I also notice that the world is getting fuzzy and dull so I scream for Lucidity and Clarity. Sure enough it helps, but only after my vision is flickered white a few times. I then think a train will appear a train will appear. I then hear one, Its to the west, and I'm flying north so I change direction and head that way. I see it is also traveling north and i fly closer to it. I then land on it and start slipping around. there are no rails or anything to hold onto and it is moving fairly fast. I slide off and almost hit the ground before I catch myself and make my fly. I decide that one of the carts up ahead will have rails to hold onto better. I then fly alongside it. I get so overwhelmed with joy and a love for the feeling of flying I scream really loud for no reason. I then ponder if I made any noise with my real body and how real the dream feels. I decide I have flown far enough and fly upward so I can see the top of the train, and sure enough it has rails now. I fly up and land on the train again, this time holding on the rails on one side of the car. I then start walking further and further up toward the front of the train. I jump from one cart to another a few times and then I notice a little hatch on the floor. Its pitch-black on the inside of the train but I decide to jump in anyways. I start to float and can's see anything its all black, and I feel like I am coming out of my dream.

Really really cool dream zerocook. Just the kind I was hoping to read about when I posted the task!

I can't even recall the last time I saw a train in a dream.

Congratulations to some great dreamers!

Nice tasks. Maybe for the first time ever, I might try these. Because I have the whole month to try achieving lucidity. (I'm on a vacation ) I might have trouble with the first one though, because mirrors creep me out in real life sometimes.

Originally Posted by melanieb

I can't even recall the last time I saw a train in a dream.

Congratulations to some great dreamers!

I had weeks of train dreams a while back after studying a train schedule in preparation for a trip. There were dreams of being on the train, dreams of waiting at train stations, even a dream where I went to dinner with family and took the train home when they left without me. Hopefully, it will keep going so I can get a shot at the advanced task.

Ophelia, I think you missed my advances task entry

I forgot to do it again in my lucid. -__-

Hmmmm I think I'm gonna try to do these. This is the first time I'll attempt to do the TOTM since my lucids are usually just short, and I thought Hey why not? I've got nothing to lose.

I don't know - count it or not, because i get on the train during stop and didn't stand on it. but in any way - there are a lot of time till the end of the month to make this task again

i went to the road to find the train. I often have trains which ride just in the street. so i saw one and tried to jump to it just from the ground, but didn't succed because there was strong wind of its speed and i need to fly. I thought in the dream that fly and jump its something different and went to the stop. the next supernew train came and stop and i from the second attempt JUMP on the top. In real i wanted to stay on one feet. In the task there was to stand on the top. But the speed of the train was so strong that i just haven't got opotunity to sit. in one or two minutes we stoped on the bus- stop and I "got out". after i cross the street and tried to went in back direction, but the train was like cars .

Originally Posted by Max ツ

Ophelia, I think you missed my advances task entry

Whoops!

*the sound of a hammer, squawking, and then flapping...*

There ya go!

Lots of successes and it's only the very beginning of June. I want to try these if I get a chance. Haven't gotten lucid in such a long time, though.

I'm gonna try these. I haven't been lucid in a while, so if I do have a LD I'll try the basic one first. I'm not very experienced and all my LD's seem to end in seconds, but I'll try my best~

I don't know if this counts, but I had a lucid last night and found a mirror, but it was only big enough where I could stick my head through. What I saw on the other side, was a dark tunnel that was made out of the same material as the mirror.

Originally Posted by Aledrea

I don't know if this counts, but I had a lucid last night and found a mirror, but it was only big enough where I could stick my head through. What I saw on the other side, was a dark tunnel that was made out of the same material as the mirror.

Totally counts, since the main object was to be able to report what was on the other side.

Well done!