Thread: Task of the Month for September 2012

I'll be doing both tasks this month. Thanks for the visuals! My only problem is I DEILD... A LOT. I always start from getting out of bed in those LDs so I need to think of an easy was to teleport from my house to the ocean. mmmhhhh. Suggestions?

Originally Posted by Xanous

I'll be doing both tasks this month. Thanks for the visuals! My only problem is I DEILD... A LOT. I always start from getting out of bed in those LDs so I need to think of an easy was to teleport from my house to the ocean. mmmhhhh. Suggestions?

Have you ever tried portals? Ask oreo, he has alot of experience with this. I use mirrors, or open doors to change scenes. That can work in DEILDs, DILDs, WILDs, doesn't matter.

Also, am I the only one who noticed that the plesiosaur on the first page is giving birth? lol

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Also, am I the only one who noticed that the plesiosaur on the first page is giving birth? lol

Are you not inspired?

The portal idea is something I need to try. Trying to control a new scene seems to fail...

LOVE THESE TASK, especially the ocean one! the sad thing is, after seeing all these images, I'll get eaten after just a few seconds

Anyways, going to try the advanced one, that's for sure!

I've been too busy to focus on lucid dreaming, but I did have a non-lucid dream earlier this week where I was a tiny piece of cheese (kind of like shrinking myself). I was on the floor of the kitchen with a piece of bread. We (the piece of bread and I) were trying to stay hidden near the base of the cupboards since we knew if the guy in the kitchen saw us, he'd pick us up and eat us. We made it to the dining room at which point we were no longer tiny and then proceeded to play poker with the people in there. It was a really odd dream.

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Have you ever tried portals? Ask oreo, he has alot of experience with this. I use mirrors, or open doors to change scenes. That can work in DEILDs, DILDs, WILDs, doesn't matter.

It's hit and miss for me but I guess it's my best choice. I'll see what I can come up with. I'm thinking mirror or front door to Nigel's boat.

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Also, am I the only one who noticed that the plesiosaur on the first page is giving birth? lol

Eeeewwwwwww! I missed that.

Originally Posted by Xanous

It's hit and miss for me but I guess it's my best choice. I'll see what I can come up with. I'm thinking mirror or front door to Nigel's boat.

I was thinking of Nigel's boat too! At least to use it as a time machine, and maybe borrow that spherical cage and the zapper probe lol. I'm such a chicken.

Eeeewwwwwww! I missed that.

Haha I did too at first

if you always have demonic scary nightmares why are you trying to have them :/

^^ Some people like scary movies...

OMG I had a huge lucid breakthrough. Not only did I successfully WILD and have a epic LD but I did the Advanced Task for the first time ever! And Holy Shit I had to fight hard to get there! I had to swallow fear and fight confusion and use the force to get out of my house... nothing wanted to work and DCs didn't cooperate but I was so determined that I found a way. LOL.

The dream is really long but here is the TOTM part. Plus a link The Deep Blue Sea

Edit:Oh and there will be typos. You'll have to excuse that. I'll have to fix it later today. fixed... I think. Wait.. Am I the first this time?

Spoiler for The Deep Blue Sea excerpt:

I walk to the next room and see a black pod of some sort. It looks like a SCI-FI deep sleep chamber. That has to be it! I get in and lie down. The lid closes and the light dims. Nothing happens. I look by my right hand and see a control panel. I punch a few buttons and say, "Cretaceous Period!" I hear a chiming sound and a swooshing noise. Then a chiming sound and the lid opens.

I AM AT THE BOTTOM OF AN OCEAN FLOOR! I see all the fish from the Sea Monsters show. Thousands of fish swimming all over the place. I am so happy. This is way better than Nigel and his ship! I am right in it. I see a Mosasaur right off the bat. I dont see sharks. I see something like Ichthyosaurs. I see a few Xiphactinus. I also see hundreds of other things that don't belong. Like little cartoony worm like things on the floor. And cartoony looking turtles. There was so much activy and so many different things swimming around that I have hard time seeing it all. I feel like sensory over load.

I hear some silly music and a dopey voice singing. "...Here I am swimming in the deep blue sea. The deep blue see. The deep blue sea...."
I laugh my ass off at this. I laughingly repeat "The deep blue sea hahaha!"

I notice and am not surprised that I can breath underwater. I remember that every underwater dream I could always breath like no big deal. I begin to swim. I notice the coral life in the floor and white sand. I see a deep ocean floor valley not far away. The water is so clear and everything is amazingly beautiful. But the ocean life is so thick! None of the fish seem to notice me and I am not afraid. Even when the big fish with large teeth swim by I feel calm and they ignore me. The fish don't even bother to eat each other. This Cretaceous Ocean is tame. I am surprised at this because I thought for sure I would be eaten if I pulled this off.

I get kind of bored just swimming. I feel content that I completed my task and am happy with myself. I see woman in a bright red one piece. She is just floating like she is dead. But I see her head turn and one eye look at me. Her reddish hair flows in the water. I come to her from behind. At first I act like I am a fish and lightly bite her arm. Then I get really horny again the dream turns into the best lucid sex ever. I feel really guilty because I don't like wasting a dream on sex. I didn't care at that point. I'll leave the rest to the imagination...

Afterwards. I notice we are on a white sandy beach and I see a rock cliff. For some reason I think there is a road up there but I don't care. I really just want to wake up now and record my dream. At that thought the world fades to black.

Congratulations Xanous, and yeah you're the first this month!! (god damnit you suck)

Seriously awesome dream, you deserve the victory sex. I love how you saw different creatures from different prehistoric eras. I wish there had been a way for you to video the dream, I would love to have seen all that rich sea life. And lmao at your little song

LMAO Thanks! I wish I could draw well that would make a sweet scene!

That was a really awesome dream, I'm jealous! The 9th and the first to complete the task, people seem to be struggling again this month, haha.

I am duly impressed, Xanous! (Jealous, too.) Really nice work.

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Seriously awesome dream, you deserve the victory sex. I love how you saw different creatures from different prehistoric eras.

LOL. When I read these sentences and saw "victory sex" followed by "different creatures from different prehistoric eras", I had to really brace myself before reading Xanous' "spoiler" subsection.

I'm usually pretty good about breathing under water in dreams and feeling comfortable (I had myself fully convinced that I could fly and breathe under water when i was young lol) but this might freak me out a little bit. I'll try to do it if I can remember, I get a little engulfed in the current plot or desire of my lucid dreams so I don't often try random things that I think about in waking life...

I'm glad I watched that Nigel show, because it gave me the idea to have a plan first. In this case it was to go underwater with something around me to protect me. And to conjure a weapon (though I forgot in the dream). Anyway, I completed the advanced task! It was no where near as cool as yours Xanous, I was still pretty chicken lol. Anyway, it was a true DEILD this time, and here's the task bit:

Then I think of the advanced TOTM and I bet I can manipulate this river into a cretaceous ocean once I'm underwater. Ever since I chickened out in my last attempt, I formed a plan: find water again, have a cage or some kind of underwater enclosure that lets me see but not get hurt, and one of those electrocutey things. It's a tall order I admit, but I'm really determined! Anyway, I flew up to the river bank, and I noticed a partially sunken inflatable blue canoe, big enough for one. I landed next to it, pulled it out and it immediately popped into shape. I sat down inside it, and it shoved itself on down the river. I willed it to form a glass shell over the top, which it did (but it didn't close properly, which I will discover later). I forgot about the weapon, oops. To my right in my new "sub" is a little control panel with a few unmarked buttons. I pretend I'm punching a combination for "The Cretaceous Period" and I say it aloud as I'm pushing the buttons. The submarine sinks to the ocean floor, and it's brown and murky and a bit hard to see (a little visual snowish). But I squint and pay close attention and move forward across the prehistoric ocean floor, looking for life. Sure enough, I see something that looks like an alligator at first, but as it got closer I noticed it was a young pliosaur. It was weaving left and right along the ocean floor, then it saw me. It paused for a moment and looked at me and I froze. It looked angry, like it wanted to get to me but didn't bother trying because I was protected. Then it swam off. A whole school of pliosaurs came next, weaving back an forth like the first, all in unison. They all swam past my little nautilus, and each and every one looked at me all pissed in the same way as the first, then continued on. I was so scared, I thought I would wake up. Then they were gone, and I decided that was good enough for the task and I willed the sub to resurface. As it was moving up, it started filling with water. I just hoped it would make it up before I drowned. It didn't. But I was able to breath, I just wasn't breathing water. It felt like there was always a mask of air in front of my face, and water never came inside (which is actually normal for even my nonlucid underwater dreams, there's always a bit of air there). I could see the glimmer of the water's surface just above me when I woke up.

Edit: I didn't wing myself because I didn't technically swim at any point in time like the task stated. If I attempt it again this month, I'll do the same thing, but I'll scrap the sub and conjure one of those special underwater electrocutie sticks like Nigel had. Maybe two! Committing this to memory now.

Grr. I was FISHIE last night and I just now Realised why. Stupid stupid

Originally Posted by CanisLucidus

I am duly impressed, Xanous! (Jealous, too.) Really nice work.



LOL. When I read these sentences and saw "victory sex" followed by "different creatures from different prehistoric eras", I had to really brace myself before reading Xanous' "spoiler" subsection.

Well you know different strokes for different folks. Ha!

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

I'm glad I watched that Nigel show, because it gave me the idea to have a plan first. In this case it was to go underwater with something around me to protect me. And to conjure a weapon (though I forgot in the dream). Anyway, I completed the advanced task! It was no where near as cool as yours Xanous, I was still pretty chicken lol. Anyway, it was a true DEILD this time, and here's the task bit:

Edit: I didn't wing myself because I didn't technically swim at any point in time like the task stated. If I attempt it again this month, I'll do the same thing, but I'll scrap the sub and conjure one of those special underwater electrocutie sticks like Nigel had. Maybe two! Committing this to memory now.

That's a really cool dream. The canoe/sub was a good idea... Nigel is the shit. I wish I had actually found him in mine.

Completed beginner task shrink to the size of an insect and explore.

Spoiler for beginner task:

I was running from my brother and came to a dead end that looked like a car wreck. Remembering task of the month I willed myself to be the size of a fairy. This was esspecially difficult for me. I managed to fit under the wreckage but my hands and feet were still to big so I willed myself to be smaller. Staying calm helped though I was still afraid of my brother. I traveled under this big car wreck to find a kind of structure of parts. A man and lady owned the wreck and my brother bargained with them to capture me. I climbed up high and seeing a door way to a garden I ran outside. There I saw a beautiful chinese like garden with a small pond and tiny fish about the size of me. I jumped into the pond and a filtering system caught me and dragged me into the ocean. It was strange flying through such a small pipe. Theres not much else to report here.

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Edit: I didn't wing myself because I didn't technically swim at any point in time like the task stated. If I attempt it again this month, I'll do the same thing, but I'll scrap the sub and conjure one of those special underwater electrocutie sticks like Nigel had. Maybe two! Committing this to memory now.

really? so if i swim in a random river with dinosaurs that doesnt count? Give yourself some credit, come ooon

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

I pretend I'm punching a combination for "The Cretaceous Period" and I say it aloud as I'm pushing the buttons. The submarine sinks to the ocean floor, and it's brown and murky and a bit hard to see (a little visual snowish).

How is that not wing status?

Failure! I found a river that I imagined flowed into the Cretaceous ocean. The dream had nice clarity and everything was looking good for me. I flew high into the air and actually saw the (hopefully Cretaceous) ocean about a mile away. Unfortunately, the wind started blowing me around like an old sheet of newspaper. I got no closer before frustration crumpled the dream.

This is the Dream Journal entry with a more complete description of my fail.

CanisLucidus: Lol awwwwwww bummerrrrr. What a naughty wind. Sounds like I'm talking about a fart doesn't it lol. Anyway, I read the dream. I wonder why the rocket shoes didn't work, you seemed to have pretty good control otherwise. Who knows. At least your subC has formed a river and an ocean that you can aim for next time if you wish.

Chimpypoo: I think if anyone else had made it that far, I would give them wings. The main thing I personally wanted to accomplish in the TOTM (and I was thinking this as I originally posted it), that I wanted to overcome my fear of swimming in lucid water. I've made leaps and bounds though, and gone further than I ever would have dared too before, simply because of wanting to accomplish the task. If there was a half wing option of give it to myself lol. Though I gotta hand it to myself, that makeshift time-sub was pretty boss.

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

CanisLucidus: Lol awwwwwww bummerrrrr. What a naughty wind. Sounds like I'm talking about a fart doesn't it lol.

LOL. It's funny you should say that. Believe it or not, I very briefly considered trying to propel myself forward through the wind with a thunderous fart. In dream, I vaguely recalled that some guy posted about how this is how he likes to fly around in his lucid dreams.

Sadly, I discarded this for some reason and used the malfunctioning rocket shoes instead. Ah, the road not taken...

New podcast minisode is up, discussing the September Tasks of the Month and hopefully inspiring some people to achieve them!
http://www.dreamviews.com/f158/dream...r-totm-136165/