Thread: Task of the Month for September 2012

Originally Posted by ssalas7

I guess no one wants to tell me if I passed or failed. Okay *gives up* so much for trying...

Sorry for missing the post ssalas7, those totally count, well done!

If you achieve the tasks in the future, it helps me if you join the proper user groups because I get an alert. That way I can wing you in case I missed the post. I'd like to remind everybody about this, because not everyone remembers to join the user group, per the instructions in the first post of this thread:

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.

Originally Posted by she

TOTM with dinasaurs - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Oh god that dream!!!

You're going to have fun with the Halloween tasks next month, I predict

Attempted the Basic Task last night! Even though I failed it was a great experience and I am glad I remembered...

The Dream

As I land on the ground at the base of the trees, I become fully lucid again. I remember that I want to try the basic TOTM. There is an idea that I had and I decide go for the attempt. I get on my knees and place my head sideways laying on the ground. My field of vision is nothing but a bit of dirt and some grass. I try to make myself a part of this tiny grass mound, but I can still feel my large body. I keep trying but my lucidity is not up to the task. It is still a very cool experience having my face to the ground and feeling so small for a moment. The sky is so blue. I want to explore more but my lucidity fades...

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

You're going to have fun with the Halloween tasks next month, I predict

Please! A sneak peak! Just a little one (if you've figured it out already )

I'm going to try hard to do one of these before the months over, can't guarantee anything...

Originally Posted by Chimpertainment

Attempted the Basic Task last night! Even though I failed it was a great experience and I am glad I remembered...

The Dream

Hey, this sounds like a nice method. If I give the Basic task a go, I think that I'll definitely use this as my backup. (Going to give the Alice in Wonderland "Drink Me" potion a go first!)

One mildly crazy idea occurs to me for situations where you feel stuck with your big body. Have you ever grown new limbs before in a lucid? I got desperately stuck once and built a new torso and set of arms. It actually worked reasonably well. I wonder what would happen if you imagined a new set of tiny little arms and then rubbed your hands together to stabilize at this reduced size...?

Anyway, just sort of brainstorming. Nice technique.

Originally Posted by CanisLucidus

Hey, this sounds like a nice method. If I give the Basic task a go, I think that I'll definitely use this as my backup. (Going to give the Alice in Wonderland "Drink Me" potion a go first!)

One mildly crazy idea occurs to me for situations where you feel stuck with your big body. Have you ever grown new limbs before in a lucid? I got desperately stuck once and built a new torso and set of arms. It actually worked reasonably well. I wonder what would happen if you imagined a new set of tiny little arms and then rubbed your hands together to stabilize at this reduced size...?

Anyway, just sort of brainstorming. Nice technique.

I havent grown any limbs recently. Honestly my lucid experiences are pretty bland as far as unusual things happening. Only recently I have been able to start having some semblance of dream control. So far its just been exploration and getting my senses back.

Yeah, I like the idea of growing new limbs. Its just a matter of using my imagination to alter the dream environment. There have been a couple instances where I altered something, but not that major as of yet. My powers are still at padawan levels.

I tried the Basic Task Insect TOTM

Very cool dream VictoR, I'm inspired to attempt the basic task now. It's very interesting that spinning worked for you in terms of the transition. Anyway, well done and congratulations!

The closest I came to doing this was becoming semi-lucid where I shrank myself down to a rat and ran through piping under the streets. XD

Another failed attempt at the Basic task. Though I have to say, and this is for everyone, I think it's really great that people are achieving lucidity, and even remembering to attempt these tasks. That alone I consider to be a success. I really enjoy reading all the various approaches you guys take, regardless if you complete the tasks or not. I can't WAIT for October!

But I didn't wake up, it was a false awakening! I thought I woke up, and Danny was getting up to get ready for work, and I could hear the kids getting ready for school. But then I remembered I already went through this like 4 hours ago, I should be alone right now! So I just got up out of bed and went down the hall, ignoring the pretend family members. The hall opened into an entirely new scene. It looked like a romper room: lots of kids and a few gym teachers, multicolored foam blocks, toys and books. I suddenly remembered that I wanted to try the basic TOTM, to shrink down. I looked at one of the teachers, and asked her if she knew how to cast spells, because I want to shrink down to the size of a bug. She said "I sure do!" Then she pointed me to 4 different children, each holding a magic wand. She told me to choose which one I wanted to cast the spell on me. So I chose the boy in blue. Everyone stood around me in a circle, and the boy pointed the wand at me and said an incantation. I felt like there was an invisible power, forcing me downward. At first I thought I was shrinking, because I went from being at eye level with everyone, then knee level, then finally ankle level. But they looked the same size, so I couldn't have shrunk. I looked at everyone, then myself, and I realized all that happened was I was just sitting on the floor. Lame job there subconscious. I thought I might just grab a teacher and have some consolation sex, but my dream body that was on the floor phased into my waking body in my bed. Oh well, at least I remembered and attempted it one last time before the end of the month.

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Another failed attempt at the Basic task. Though I have to say, and this is for everyone, I think it's really great that people are achieving lucidity, and even remembering to attempt these tasks. That alone I consider to be a success. I really enjoy reading all the various approaches you guys take, regardless if you complete the tasks or not. I can't WAIT for October!

I agree. What a great motivator these tasks are. It's cool to see all the different crazy ways that people come up with to get these done. Then they share with everyone how they do it, I steal all their ideas, and I still end up with no wings. But seriously, I think you learn so much from pushing the envelope like this. Even in my failures, I hit all kinds of dream control firsts that I may not have tried otherwise (at least for a long while.)

If I don't make the Cretaceous before September's up, that's for sure going on my long-term lucid dreaming to-do list. Too cool not to try.

I finally got some of my lucid dreaming skills back and managed to complete the basic task of the month.

Basic TOTM (September 28, 2012) - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views