Thread: Task of the Month for November 2012

Love these tasks! I think that I've successfully completed the Basic Task I (turkey hunt.) Although I didn't get a clean kill, this was without question the best lucid dream of my life. Thank you to whomever came up with this task! (Ophelia, that you?)

I went with an "endless bundle of flintlock muskets" approach: Transcendental Turkey Shoot - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

I want to perform the Task of the Month which requires shooting turkeys with 17th century weaponry. I imagine that I have a huge bundle of preloaded flintlock muskets strapped to my back and it isn't long before turkeys start darting around in the crowd in front of me. I reach over my right shoulder, grab a musket, and aim it at a nearby turkey. I carefully aim and fire, the musket thundering and kicking my shoulder. The shot's a clean miss, and the DC's in the scene start running and screaming.

I toss my old musket aside and grab a new one from my "bundle". I keep catching sight of turkeys up ahead and I run after them, firing and missing time after time. I chase them onto the arena floor itself, the magical combat still raging wildly around me. I skate across a field of ice that's melting beneath the heat of a raging volcano, the floor nearly collapsing beneath me.

Also failed the "REBMEVON" task. I was surprised by how tough this one was! No matter how well I could "see" the word in my mind, my pen just started spewing garbage after a few letters. Not sure what it'll take to make me dream-literate: REBMEVON rejected - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Basic task ii) is pretty difficult. DCs don't give a fuck to what I have to say in my dreams.

Got to do two tasks in the lucid diarrhea I had yesterday:

Advanced Task ii

I point my finger over the glass, thinking about the word NOVEMBER. I start writing it backwards, creating letters by clearing the crystal fog: R-E-M... Wait what. Why did I write REM? Lol. I try again, successfully this time. R-E-B-M-E-V-O-N. Surprisingly, the letters don't change or morph. I double-check my work two more times, until I am satisfied that I spelt it right.

Basic Task i

The turkey stops by one of the ATM's in the far corner, a few feet from a dude withdrawing money from the machine. I am about 75 meters from it. I aim my crossbow at the turkey, and I fire away. There is a distinct snapping sound as the arrow shoots into the air. I realize I'm a really bad shot, because I didn't hit the turkey. Oh sh*t I just hit the dude. He limps down to the floor without a sound. Without a second thought, I aim the crossbow at the turkey again, with a new arrow magically in place. I fire, and imagine the arrow hitting the turkey. And it does. The arrow pierces the turkey's throat, and it falls to the floor, dead and bloodied. I run up to the turkey (who cares about the dude? ) and I grab it by the leg. Then some bystander who watched the whole thing yelled "WHAT ABOUT THAT POOR MAN YOU SHOT!?" I turn to the bystander, take a step back, and throw the dead turkey at him. He runs away, and I start walking away too, thinking about the awesomeness of what I just did.

Full entry: ToTMs! Turkey-Hunting and Backward-Spelling - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Your turkey had a bank account?

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Your turkey had a bank account?

Probably! Hahaha

Another fun double-fail:

so I was happy that I went straight into a lucid on the first cycle of vibrations I opened my eyes into the usual overly dark bedroom scene, and my eyes blinked on and off. I eventually could see fine, and so I got up out of bed, but I was entangled in blankets again. I just stayed calm, and kept getting up and moving toward the bedroom door. I left the room, and thought about the celebrity chef task. I went into the living room and saw a man that could easily have been Tyler Florence. I said "Tyler?" But he ignored me. "Hello, Tyler? Tyler Florence??!!" But he just kept looking in pantries and drawers, like he was focused on getting used to my kitchen. I should have been patient, because he might have still cooked something. But I wanted more attention So I said screw it and got on the floor to try the purgatory task again. I stuck my face on the floor, but it was hard and cold. I tried another area of the floor, and it went through just fine. Like the last time, a column of floor and earth broke away, revealing a fiery depth. I yelled something into the tunnel, forgot what it was. I was having more fun than focusing on actually accomplishing the task. I yelled something twice, and both times a hell hound appeared at the bottom and jumped up through the tunnel, trying to get me. But as soon as they reached the summit, they vaporized. I considered going into the tunnel.. maybe there would be levels and I could find purgatory. I stuck my head in really far, and I felt this sensation, like a force gently pulling me. I think I could have really shot through that tunnel had I let myself, but I pussed out again and woke up lol.

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Another fun double-fail:

Your lucid dreams are getting crazy! I'm jealous, sounds awesome.

Spoiler for Advanced Task i) Journey to Purgatory and bring back soul:

Almost as soon as I became lucid last night, I thought about going the spirit world. I opened the front door of my apartment, and stepped outside. To my amazement the doorway led me to a grassy plane where I was greeted by a Native American shaman (notice I didn't even intend this to happen; all credits given to my subconscious). He referred to the spirit world as the 'Outworld' and said that he knew I wanted to go there. Then he reached into a pocket in his robe and pulled out a dodecahedron crystal. He explained to me that it contains the arcane energies of the Outworld and if shattered will create a powerful distortion that will allow a corporeal being to temporarily travel and exist in that dimension. He handed it to me. I peered into the center of the structure; it was basically like a diamond will light-blue energy swirling in its core. After staring into it for a while, I threw the crystal onto the ground. It ruptured with tremendous force and cataclysmic energies were released. The winds of the plane howled and the moon in the night sky eclipsed. The moonlight was replaced by a vortex of blue energy which enveloped me completely. I felt my body being distorted and compressed. My very being started to collapse into a void at the heart of the vortex.

The Outworld was an ethereal dimension is made up of stone walkways with a few larger land masses and arcs, all of these things floating in an infinite expanse of emptiness. Also, it has an unparalleled sky, meaning any being in the air unbound by gravity is unable to return to the ground easily. At this point I started to lose focus and had somewhat of a dreamskip. I remembered that I walked a very long distance and somehow managed to convince the spirit of John Lennon to come back to Earth with me. We talked for a bit (huh, how cool is that? Had a conversation with John Lennon..) then I asked him how we can go back to the corporeal realm. He said that only the Outworld Guardians, these winged gargoyle like creatures, have the power to create the portal that bridges the two dimensions together. He said he knew where one of them resides and we walked for what seemed like weeks to that location. When we got there I saw the winged creature perched on top of an arc. Without saying anything, its eyes glowed with the same color as the crystal I had shattered earlier in the dream a huge portal started to form beneath the walkway we were standing on; in the empty expanse ahead. We walked all the way until there was no walkway left and prepared to jump. I looked down into it and sure enough, the mortal realm was on the other side. It looked something like this:

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We jumped through the portal once we appeared on the other side, in the real world, we were flying above Manhattan in New York. The opening of the portal created an intense storm. As we were descending, lightning flickered across the night sky and started to rain. As I looked up this is what I saw:

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The ethereal light from the Outworld diminished as the portal started to close.

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I kinda lost it after this, but whatever.. I brought back a soul. It was a very unique and interesting experience.

A thank you to whoever came up with this task.

Originally Posted by LightofHeaven

A thank you to whoever came up with this task.

That would be paigeyemps!

Thanks paige.

Your idea led me to have one of the best lucid dreams I've experienced in over two years. You get a

Originally Posted by LightofHeaven

Thanks paige.

Your idea led me to have one of the best lucid dreams I've experienced in over two years. You get a

My first time achieving the Advanced Task! I'm so excited!

Link to DJ entry

I had a fairly detailed lucid so here's the link to my DJ entry: War, Lucid, and Stupidity - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

But I didn't have a celebrity cook cook for me *facepalm* I don't know any. I guess that doesn't count though, huh?
I did do the "November" backwards one though. If I do have another I plan to stab that turkey with a rapier

This is my first time achieving a TOTM - and after a dryspell too! I was having a normal dream where I was partially lucid and then remembered the basic TOTM, which kicked me up to full lucidity. I did a really effective scene change by imagining my dream was in google chrome and I was opening a new tab. I was in a rainy coniferous forest and I was with some hunters and we all had flintlock muskets. After walking a few metres a turkey appeared, and I shot it with haste. Feeling guilty, I decided to imagine up a memorial, to which we held a funeral where all the Eulogies were in gibberish turkey sounds.

So yeah, the dream was really bizarre but on something like my 4th attempt at the basic Task of the Month my attempts paid off. Conveniently, this was after a one week dryspell. Also, when I first did the scene change before I stabilized I had the weird feeling of being aware of the bed sheets and at the same time still dreaming.

Congrats you guys! I'll wing you when I get off work

On a Sunday? Unlucky.

Did my first task!!! YAY!!!

Tell me if I did something wrong.

Spoiler for Advanced Task II:

I had a false awakening and I was listening to music. I thought that I was in bed trying to sleep, so I closed my eyes and I started trying to sleep. I started spinning around like a disc and then I popped up right at my parents front yard. I had a little trouble seeing, so I spun a bit. It cleared up and looked about like real life. I knew I wanted a pencil because I was going to try the task of the month. I went inside and found one on the table. I tried writing november backwards, but every time it would go away at the end. I did it 4 times and finally got it written on a piece of paper. I then went back outside but the garage was closed. I hit the opener and then thought "I should see if I can stop it with telekinesis!" I imagined it stopping and then I shoved it open again. I started losing my sight and my eyes started blinking (like you do if there is a bug in your eye) I stopped and spun really fast and fixed my vision. There were a lot of cleaning people outside and I was looking for my wife. I couldn't find her, so I took one of the cleaning ladies that was really old and tried imagining her changing to my wife. She changed to a beautiful young women with white hair and blue eyes and red red lips. I was shocked for a second and I tried again. Nothing happened this time, but I woke up a few seconds later.

Yay Brandon! 4 times isn't bad at all, seemed like it took me 10 times to get rebmevon right because the letters kept vanishing on me.

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Yay Brandon! 4 times isn't bad at all, seemed like it took me 10 times to get rebmevon right because the letters kept vanishing on me.

Well it was the second dream I had tried it on.

Spoiler for failed TOTM:

I was in a Quick Trip (gas station/convenience store) and I realized I was in a dream. I checked my hands and realized I only had 3 fingers

Spoiler for 1:

oppa alien style

I then started trying to draw Rebmevon in the air with fire but it didn't stick. I then tried drawing it on a bagged mattress (don't know where that came from) It didn't stick so I started looking for a pencil but I woke up. Forgot to stabilize.

Interesting! In my very first attempt, I tried writing on paper with a pencil but the lead didn't work. So it just left indentations in the paper, but I really wanted it to count so I tried again.

Fun stuff. Also, congratulations again. Sometimes I have to try a task in a second or even 3rd dream. It's amazing enough to have the wherewithal to attempt a totm once, but in a subsequent dream? Well I find that remarkable so well done!

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Interesting! In my very first attempt, I tried writing on paper with a pencil but the lead didn't work. So it just left indentations in the paper, but I really wanted it to count so I tried again.

Fun stuff. Also, congratulations again. Sometimes I have to try a task in a second or even 3rd dream. It's amazing enough to have the wherewithal to attempt a totm once, but in a subsequent dream? Well I find that remarkable so well done!

Thanks! I am still pretty excited about it. Hoping to do some celebrating in my LD tonight. How would you celebrate in a dream?

I enjoy the absolute freedom that comes with lucid dreaming. Being completely unrestricted by the laws of physics or society.

I finally managed to write REBMEVON! I spent some time incubating it during my WBTB and I was pleased to find the handwriting coming so much more naturally to me this time. It was such a relief to move past my dream illiteracy.

This room's a study hall that has a narrow desk with hotel stationery and a white pen on it. The hotel stationery has indentations on it like somebody has written on it before. I can't see what the person wrote, but the indentations look similar to my own handwriting! The effect is so realistic that I nose pinch and finger-through-palm RC one after the other. I remember the Task of the Month (write "November" spelled backwards), so I sit down at the desk, grab the pen, and start writing. With vividness so high, my confidence is really solid. I immediately write down "REBMEVON" all the way through and the letters come out correctly (unlike last time.)

Full DJ entry: Rollercoasters and REBMEVON - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

It was one of my longer, more memorable dreams and near the end I remembered to try for Purgatory. I ran out of REM, though, and didn't make it. I still really want to do that one!

I completed the basic tasks last night!
I had just become lucid and was riding a horse through my downtown. I remembered the task and that I had wanted to do it so I pull a crossbow out of the air and loaded it. As I was riding the horse, I looked up and down the streets for the turkey. I finally found one and jumped off the horse and shot it through the neck! I ran over and grabbed it, then started riding off in order to find Alton Brown to get him to cook it for me as a thanksgiving dinner. Unfortunately I started to loose lucidity and couldn't have him complete the meal for me. Oh well! It was close enough.

Would it count if you walked into a liquor store with a matchlock musket and blew away a bottle of Wild Turkey?