Thread: Task of the Month for August 2012

I am so going for this.

Can't wait to see people's experiences with these ones! Good luck to all and hopefully I can get one of them done early again this month

Yeah you two came up with some good ones. There were alot of good ones and it was hard to choose. But the surgery one? Haha you don't have to feel guilty if the patient doesn't make it. I'm going to attempt a vasectomy.

Haha awesome! Not sure how well I can recall waking life in a dream tho

I'll do the basic next time i have a lucid, I'll probably kill some poor DC's while I play doctor do

Basic:This will be fun

I must say, I'm an upcoming medical student. I've shadowed surgeons before and done basic procedures.. I think I MAY have to pass on this one. I mean, who dreams of doing their job? Especially when they're lucid and can do anything! If I get lucky enough to have several lucid dreams, I will post back if I do this.

This is my birthday month so im going to try my hardest to do both basic and advance task

I was in my room, and looked at my clock which said it was E:EE o'clock, which pretty much told me I was in a dream. I opened up my laptop which was already had my lucid dreaming notepad there (as it does in waking life) and I wrote about watching the British rowing team getting a gold medal, and Victoria Pendleton getting disqualified. I heard a voice say "You're in a dream, what are you doing?" The disembodied voice freaked me out a little, so I woke up.

Oh man, just reading the basic task made my heart thump.
Totally passed out during that one episode of House in season 7 where he surgeries his own leg in his bathtub >.<
Gasp. Breathe.
Perhaps a waking journal entry in dream would be more tolerant to my intolerance's lol
Up, Up and away!

On second thought, think I'll retry july's till I drink somethin funny

These look quite interesting. *begs myself for a few lucid moments.

Ack, just the thought of performing surgery makes me queasy. Maybe I'll try the advanced task, but I don't know if it'd be worth using a lucid on.

I did the basic task!!

Spoiler for the good parts:

"Abandon this project, I'm dreaming! " I stood in the kitchen, kinda bouncing with excitement, trying to remember the basic TOTM. It hit me right away, "Perform Surgery!!" One issue with this task is if you want to go full on and transport to a hospital, it may take a bit of time and control, and I wasn't sure what time it was irl. The alarm could go off at any moment, so I wanted to waste no time whatsoever. So I went to the living room couch and tried to summon a patient. Nothing. I went to my son's room, hoping to find a patient sleeping in there. I found Chris asleep in there, but no way was I going to perform surgery on him. At no time did I loose lucidity, I even remembered that he was at my mom's irl, but no way am I gonna cut up my son in a dream. And you can cross Danny off that list as well. I went back to the kitchen, trying to figure out what I was going to do, when I glanced at the window and saw the reflection of a man behind me!! I whipped around and it was a tall, slender Hispanic man with a very pallid expression on his face. I asked him right away "Are you here for some surgery?" He said "Yeah." I said, "Well you're in luck, because I'm a wiz with knives," and I proceeded to the kitchen and grabbed my chef knife, fillet knife, and paring knife. I told him to lie on the couch and explain to me what was wrong. He said that a previous doctor had fixed a "kink" in his intestines with a bandaid, and put a little microchip in there as well. I guess to monitor the kink or something. He said the microchip was causing him extraordinary pain and wanted it removed. He laid down on the couch for a moment, then got up and said he was going to his car real quick because he brought his own anesthetic. I told him that's fine, I have some too just in case (I knew I didn't have any, so I was going to just put water in a little flask and will it to work as anesthesia). He came back and said he didn't bring it, so I went to the kitchen and got the water. I held it up and said "I will this water to act as an anesthetic." It didn't look any different, but I didn't care. I wasn't the one who was going to drink it! I gave it to the man and he took a swallow, but choked on it a little bit. Then he took his shirt off and laid back down. It looked like he was drifting off a bit, but he was kinda restless. So I starting rubbing his chest gently, speaking softly, "Sleep, sleeeeeeeeep..." Of course this action produced an erection and I took advantage of it a little bit. I'll skip those details. (I was hoping it would help him pass out!!) It didn't work, he was still conscious. He even asked me if after the surgery, maybe we go out to dinner sometime lol. I said suuuure, why not. He wasn't going completely out, and I was running out of time. So I said I need to start cutting anyway, but he'd be just fine. I held him down with one hand, took the little pairing knife with the other, cringed, and made an incision in his belly. He groaned in pain and tried to sit up, but I pushed him back down. There was no blood. But I could immediately see the loop of intestine with the bandaid. Turned out it was kinda good that he was still conscious, because he was able to talk me through it a bit, and didn't seem to be in pain anymore. (I guess my subC is too squeamish.) I pulled out the little loop of intestine, and noticed the little microchip, which looked more like a tiny stone, sandwiched between 2 of the baindaids. He said just to remove the chip and leave the bandaid, so I did. I was just about to push the intestine back in and sew him back up, when Danny coughed irl and woke me up. Still success! I can't believe I could cut the guy, especially while he was conscious! Surgery went well overall I'd say though.

Well... i don't really want to see blood and i'm not interested in surgery.... and the advanced one is a bit too boring to waste my lucid on :/

But maybe i'll try the basic one if i'll be in a mood like that.

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

I did the basic task!!

Spoiler for the good parts:

"Abandon this project, I'm dreaming! " I stood in the kitchen, kinda bouncing with excitement, trying to remember the basic TOTM. It hit me right away, "Perform Surgery!!" One issue with this task is if you want to go full on and transport to a hospital, it may take a bit of time and control, and I wasn't sure what time it was irl. The alarm could go off at any moment, so I wanted to waste no time whatsoever. So I went to the living room couch and tried to summon a patient. Nothing. I went to my son's room, hoping to find a patient sleeping in there. I found Chris asleep in there, but no way was I going to perform surgery on him. At no time did I loose lucidity, I even remembered that he was at my mom's irl, but no way am I gonna cut up my son in a dream. And you can cross Danny off that list as well. I went back to the kitchen, trying to figure out what I was going to do, when I glanced at the window and saw the reflection of a man behind me!! I whipped around and it was a tall, slender Hispanic man with a very pallid expression on his face. I asked him right away "Are you here for some surgery?" He said "Yeah." I said, "Well you're in luck, because I'm a wiz with knives," and I proceeded to the kitchen and grabbed my chef knife, fillet knife, and paring knife. I told him to lie on the couch and explain to me what was wrong. He said that a previous doctor had fixed a "kink" in his intestines with a bandaid, and put a little microchip in there as well. I guess to monitor the kink or something. He said the microchip was causing him extraordinary pain and wanted it removed. He laid down on the couch for a moment, then got up and said he was going to his car real quick because he brought his own anesthetic. I told him that's fine, I have some too just in case (I knew I didn't have any, so I was going to just put water in a little flask and will it to work as anesthesia). He came back and said he didn't bring it, so I went to the kitchen and got the water. I held it up and said "I will this water to act as an anesthetic." It didn't look any different, but I didn't care. I wasn't the one who was going to drink it! I gave it to the man and he took a swallow, but choked on it a little bit. Then he took his shirt off and laid back down. It looked like he was drifting off a bit, but he was kinda restless. So I starting rubbing his chest gently, speaking softly, "Sleep, sleeeeeeeeep..." Of course this action produced an erection and I took advantage of it a little bit. I'll skip those details. (I was hoping it would help him pass out!!) It didn't work, he was still conscious. He even asked me if after the surgery, maybe we go out to dinner sometime lol. I said suuuure, why not. He wasn't going completely out, and I was running out of time. So I said I need to start cutting anyway, but he'd be just fine. I held him down with one hand, took the little pairing knife with the other, cringed, and made an incision in his belly. He groaned in pain and tried to sit up, but I pushed him back down. There was no blood. But I could immediately see the loop of intestine with the bandaid. Turned out it was kinda good that he was still conscious, because he was able to talk me through it a bit, and didn't seem to be in pain anymore. (I guess my subC is too squeamish.) I pulled out the little loop of intestine, and noticed the little microchip, which looked more like a tiny stone, sandwiched between 2 of the baindaids. He said just to remove the chip and leave the bandaid, so I did. I was just about to push the intestine back in and sew him back up, when Danny coughed irl and woke me up. Still success! I can't believe I could cut the guy, especially while he was conscious! Surgery went well overall I'd say though.

Taking advantage of the poor man! Lol :l

Really great task though, I'd never be able to rip someone's intestines out, let alone while they're groaning in pain.

Sounds awesome! Gonna try my best to achieve these

I did the basic task yesterday and finally made myself write about it. Rather than doing it on another patient though, I did the surgery on my own hand.

Spoiler for the dream:

I vaguely remember being in a battle with a large black dragon. Larger than I am anyway. I think I've been fighting with the same dragon in recent dreams. I don't really remember the fight, I just know it happened. I also know that the dragon really tore up my right hand. He most likely bit it and tried to rip it off.

So I was in a sort of forest biome. I was running, though I'm not sure if I was chasing something or running from something. Most likely the latter. I was holding my right hand which was of course bleeding and in a lot of pain. I stopped and kneeled down in front of a rock. I rested my hand on it and examined it. There were a few cuts and a large gash on the back of it. It also looked kind of deformed like the bones had been broken or displaced.

I decided that I would attempt to perform surgery on my own hand right there. It wasn't exactly the right place or time or equipment to do something like surgery, but I felt like doing it anyways. I figured the cuts weren't as urgent as the gash that all of my blood was pouring out of. Since there was already a hole in my hand though I thought I might as well try to fix up the bones.

Before I began I thought, "Am I really capable of performing surgery? Well I did have a few dreams where I was a doctor or went to medical school. I suppose 'dream doctor' is a good enough qualification."

So the first thing I did was transform my left hand into a dragon hand. I used my claw to cut open the wound a little more. There were several broken bone fragments lying in the wrong places. I poked at them and tried moving them back to where I thought they belonged. When I moved a fragment back into place it kind of snapped back together with the other bones. It was a little more painful when I did that.

After a few minutes I managed to get all of my bone fragments back into their place. I pretty much cheated for the next part of the surgery. I simply used my healing magic to close the wound in the back of my hand. My hand wasn't hurting much anymore and was fully functional. I can't remember much after that. I think left the other cuts alone and started running again.

I wasn't really expecting so many people to take a pass on this task.

Sweet! I'll wing us in a little bit!

Very, very close. I had a non-lucid in the direction of the first task.

Spoiler for Non-Lucid Attempt:

I am in an office, and I see a big book that looks just like my waking-life journal. I keep one hand on it while I am gesturing to the people in the room with the other hand. I can't recall what I was talking about, but I remember their eyes drifting to the book.

At least my sub-conscious is working with me on this one.

So I hung out with Hugh Laurie for a few hours and cured an incurable condition. Close enough for government work

Originally Posted by DorianMask

So I hung out with Hugh Laurie for a few hours and cured an incurable condition. Close enough for government work

Lol at you and Hugh Laurie joy riding. That was a really sweet dream though, how you saved his life and got an close and stuff <3

Awe thankya ma'am, one of the most emotional ones I've had in a good while

Aw, I wish I master at lucid dreaming already Performing surgery on someone would be beyond surreal!
Fingers crossed for tonight!

I have written down my dreams in a dream journal in a FA... but it wasn't because I was intentionally doing this task of the month! It was merely because I write down my dreams immediately upon waking up, and roll back asleep.