Thread: Task of the Month for January 2013

Introduction:
This topic is for the Lucid Tasks that are assigned by the Dream Guide Team or voted on by experienced dreamers. Please attempt one or both of these tasks throughout the month.

Report back in this thread, even if you didn't successfully accomplish the task, your efforts should make interesting reading! This is required in order to get credit, it is no longer sufficient just to say that you did it.

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.


Whoever completes either of these tasks gets the following goodies until the end of the month:

• Your name will be displayed in ORANGE in the online members list at the bottom of the main forum page.
• You will receive a special title and badge.
• You will receive access to the "Lucid Task Club" which is a limited access forum for people that complete the lucid task each month.

Tasks for this month:
Basic Task i - Find an unfrozen lake, and freeze it using any means necessary. Then go iceskating on it.

Basic Task ii - Ask a Dream Character, "I'm thinking of a number from 1 to 100. What is it?" Report the answer that they give you.

Advanced Task i - Participate in a Winter Olympics style sport. There's a list here, but you could invent a new one. The more extreme the better.

Advanced Task ii - Create your own firework show. Create them yourself, vs. merely witnessing them.

Last night I froze a pool haha. So close!

I'd like to try the the Basic i task. Even though I have no idea how to iceskate, I'll experiment…

Great tasks! I like the extreme winter sports idea. Maybe the ski jump, off a really high cliff? Sounds like a blast.

Awesome . These will be fun to try xD.

Started out my year with a Lucid Dream, hopefully I will be able to keep it up this month!

I think I'll end up getting the sport one, since I've played hockey quite a bit in dreams, but have never played in real life.

Started the year with the amazing disappearance of my recall -_- Hope it will return soon.

Cool tasks. It's been a while, but I'm going to give these a shot!

Woo! Completed the Basic Task #2!
Here is the important excerpt which I haven't even posted yet:

I became lucid and (amazingly) remembered the lucid task that I was aiming to accomplish, which was to ask a DC the number between 1 and 100 that I was thinking of. I walked up to the nearest DC and asked him the fated question. Sadly he just gave me a weird look and walked away. Stupid uncooperating DCs . Anyways with my dream self being satisfied I left

After this I actually had a FA where I explained the dream to my dad. Urgh could have had two lucids in one night. Ah well

...I failed the Basic task i. I got distracted and left...

Wow... this has changed so much after a year!

Where is that amazing On-topic admin that I passed my On-topic admin title?

Nice to meet you OpheliaBlue

I will work on these.

I completed the second basic task and the second advanced task last night. I think it went better than I was expecting over all.

Basic Task ii; Advanced Task ii (January 1, 2013) - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Wow, another two hitter that I just woke up from.

I was walking through the back yard and found a large pond, but didn't think anything of it. Walking back toward the house I became lucid and remembered tasks of the month, so I walked back toward the pond. I said I wanted it to be frozen and it turned to ice. I raised each foot up and my shoes turned to ice skates and I skated across to the other side. Then I wanted to play hockey, but I was by myself and I commented that I wished we could get a game going. Then some people came out of the woods with two goals, sticks, and pucks, and we set everything up and got a hockey game going. I scored a couple goals and then my wife woke me up.

Originally Posted by CharlesD

Then I wanted to play hockey, but I was by myself and I commented that I wished we could get a game going. Then some people came out of the woods with two goals, sticks, and pucks, and we set everything up and got a hockey game going. I scored a couple goals and then my wife woke me up.

Wow that's some nice dream control you got there.

Originally Posted by poptartian121

Wow that's some nice dream control you got there.

And I can tell you that is not normally the case. I was pretty determined this time around though. I was even telling myself that I hoped I didn't wake up too soon.

I head over there and find there is a man standing near what looks like a row of fireworks ready to go. He tells me I shouldn't be there. I decide to flirt with the guy instead of starting trouble… He isn't very attractive, my dream self is attractive… so I figure it would work well. I tell him I wanted to see how the magic happens, then we can watch the fireworks together. He pushes his luck and says he knows a private place we could go afterwards. I swallow my vomit and act like I like the idea. So I get closer to the fireworks. I hear the man who is Ezio's target talking, it sounds like quite a stream of bullshit. Apparently politicians have always been the same. So now it needs to go off. I ask when he sets them off. He says after the speech is done. I look closer at the fuses, and focus a little pyrokinesis to light them each. The fuses are all lit so I step away quickly. The man notices that the fuses are lit and asks what I have done, it's too soon! He says they were supposed to go off AFTER the speech! I tell him he said during the speech… he is frustrated… but it is too late now. The fireworks all go off at once, shooting up into the sky and exploding with quite a commotion. I look back out at the guy giving the speech, he is now staring up at the fireworks looking quite annoyed. The man who was supposed to set off the fireworks seems more worried about himself, says they're going to kill him for this… no… they'll have to find him first… he disappears into the crowd, who are all looking up at the fireworks now. I don't notice when it happens, but when I look back over at the guy giving the speech, and he is on the ground, apparently dead. None of his guards have even noticed yet. I find their obliviousness amusing then I wake up.

So I'm not sure if just setting off the fireworks counts... or if I have to create them like Gandalf in Lord of the Rings. If this counts, great, if not, back to the drawing board! Let me know.

Originally Posted by Raven Knight

I head over there and find there is a man standing near what looks like a row of fireworks ready to go. He tells me I shouldn't be there. I decide to flirt with the guy instead of starting trouble… He isn't very attractive, my dream self is attractive… so I figure it would work well. I tell him I wanted to see how the magic happens, then we can watch the fireworks together. He pushes his luck and says he knows a private place we could go afterwards. I swallow my vomit and act like I like the idea. So I get closer to the fireworks. I hear the man who is Ezio's target talking, it sounds like quite a stream of bullshit. Apparently politicians have always been the same. So now it needs to go off. I ask when he sets them off. He says after the speech is done. I look closer at the fuses, and focus a little pyrokinesis to light them each. The fuses are all lit so I step away quickly. The man notices that the fuses are lit and asks what I have done, it's too soon! He says they were supposed to go off AFTER the speech! I tell him he said during the speech… he is frustrated… but it is too late now. The fireworks all go off at once, shooting up into the sky and exploding with quite a commotion. I look back out at the guy giving the speech, he is now staring up at the fireworks looking quite annoyed. The man who was supposed to set off the fireworks seems more worried about himself, says they're going to kill him for this… no… they'll have to find him first… he disappears into the crowd, who are all looking up at the fireworks now. I don't notice when it happens, but when I look back over at the guy giving the speech, and he is on the ground, apparently dead. None of his guards have even noticed yet. I find their obliviousness amusing then I wake up.

So I'm not sure if just setting off the fireworks counts... or if I have to create them like Gandalf in Lord of the Rings. If this counts, great, if not, back to the drawing board! Let me know.

I should think it would count, you lit the fuses after all

Sounds awesome! (^_^) I think I tried to freeze a body of water looong ago. I'll try this with a lake I visited last month. <3 Can I also do the 2nd basic task in the same dream, or does it have to be a different one?

Originally Posted by quietness

Sounds awesome! (^_^) I think I tried to freeze a body of water looong ago. I'll try this with a lake I visited last month. <3 Can I also do the 2nd basic task in the same dream, or does it have to be a different one?

It can be in the same dream. It's the tasks of the year that have to be separate dreams

I see my avatar has wings on it... was I wrong in assuming I had to do both parts of a task before it was counted completed? Been trying for a winter sport, I just haven't had any recall the past couple nights.

Doh! That was my bad, I forgot I made that task have two parts.

And I don't have half-a-wing for you, sorry

It's cool. I'll keep trying for the other part.

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Doh! That was my bad, I forgot I made that task have 2 parts.

And I don't have half-a-wing for you, sorry

Well it took me 12 days to remember to do it, but I did complete the advanced challenge of an Olympic winter sport. Of course it was not like the olympics, because I did the down hill combined with ski jumps, but it is a dream so why not get all sorts of crazy. I started the run at the top of the ski lodge's roof, and did my first jump from the second story. Here is the entery, 01/12/13 ToTM Extreme Sports - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

I finally got the winter sport one done! I had planned on doing figure skating, but ended up with skiing.

Spoiler for Full Dream:

01/14/13

Skiing Races
I am in my Fire Valkyrie flying over the moon. I land on the moon and look around just long enough to be sure the dream is stable before opening a portal to somewhere I need to be. I go through the portal to a very cold place. There is snow on the ground all around and I see people skiing down a pretty steep slope. I watch the people for a while and then I decide I can use skiing for the winter sport for the task of the month from DV.

I just have to go to the top of the slope and see how I do on skis in a dream. I go to the top of the slope where I see some people I'd rather not see. A group of three men talking closely to themselves… all of them marked with the symbol of the Templars. I sneak a bit closer and see they are doing something with a strange device that is shaped like a pyramid and is about the size of a tennis ball. I don't know what it is but I get the idea it's nothing good. One of them takes the device and heads down the slope on skis. I can accomplish two things at once! I head down the slope after the Templar with the device, though not as gracefully as I would have liked. I end up bungling around for a bit, not sure if I look stupid or if I am managing interesting moves, but whichever it was I ended up getting attention. The Templar I am following speeds up to get away and the other two come after me, one of them yelling to the guy with the device to not let the bitch have it. I am managing to keep my feet under me better now, this skiing isn't as complicated as I had expected… probably because it's a dream. I crouch down low to pick up speed like I have seen people do on television and I start outdistancing the Templars behind me, but barely staying even with the one in front of me. He starts weaving around between other skiers and getting a lot of cursing in response to his recklessness. I follow after him acting far more reckless than I would ever be in waking life. He cuts a guy off and makes him fall, that pisses the guy off big time. He calls the Templar a fucking asshole and throws his pole like a javelin. The pole isn't made to fly like a javelin, however, and it spins in the air before hitting the Templar sideways in the back with enough force to knock him on his face. He gets up quickly but I have gained a lot of ground. The guy asks what the fuck is wrong with us crazy people as I go past him. He throws his other pole at me but misses. I have almost caught up to the Templar. I hear more cursing from the man behind me, telling me the other two Templars aren't far behind me. I go over a small jump and find I am even with the Templar I have been chasing. I see the device sticking out of his pocket. I hear a crack. Someone is shooting at me! Apparently they miss, and their partner beside me isn't pleased about it either. He yells back that the other two Templars are morons, that shot almost hit him! They don't listen and fire again, this bullet passes close enough to my right ear to hear it. The Templar near me is muttering about how stupid his partners are. I get really close to him while he is focused on that, close enough to reach out and use a bit of telekinesis to take the pyramid device right from his pocket with a , "Yoink!" I swerve away as he issues a puzzled sounding, "Yoink?" Someone behind me is still shooting at me. I crouch down to make a smaller target and go faster, though I half expect a bullet in the back at any given time. I find I have gone into a slalom course, zipping between flags and getting booed a lot.

I must have intruded on a race… oops… The Templars aren't greeted any more warmly, in fact the people seem even more pissed with each additional skier that comes along. I skid to a stop in the finish area. We are all getting pelted with snowballs now. One of the Templars starts to take out a gun but the other one stops him, indicating the crowd all watching. He says they'll get it back later, smacking the one who lost the device in the head with his pole and then making a rude gesture at me. The judges of the race are trying to figure out how many rules the Templars and I have broken. I tell them I am sorry to interrupt; I just had to get somewhere fast. I head towards the far end of the finish area as I wake up.