Task of the Month for December 2013

[OpheliaBlue]

Introduction: This topic is for the Lucid Tasks that are assigned by the Lucid Task Club and the On-Topic Administrator. Please attempt any or all 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: either a basic or an advanced or both (specify in the description field if it was the bonus task). Of course you still need to post the dream here because we check. Whoever completes any 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 a lucid task each month. Members of this club can submit suggestions for the next month's tasks. Tasks for this month: Basic Task i - Ask a DC for a present. Report what you got. Basic Task ii - Close your eyes for 10 seconds without waking up. Advanced Task i - Build a snowman and animate it. Has to be made of snow and able to move on its own. Advanced Task ii - Transfigure into an Arctic Wolf, camouflage yourself in the snow, then catch and devour an unsuspecting prey. BONUS TASK!! - Find the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present and Future and experience what each one has to show you. All 3 must be completed in order to achieve Bonus Status.

[bemistaken]

OP, The bonus task is soooo wicked! I love it! I hope I can leave 2013 with a bang by completing at least one of these task...and what a great Christmas gift it would be if I could complete that bonus task!

[woblybil]

I like them already.....

[PercyLucid]

Good tasks and well chosen tasks My To Do list: - Ask a DC for a present. Report what you got. - Build a snowman and animate it. Has to be made of snow and able to move on its own. (not doing the wolf due the last ToTY I have to work on, two transformations is too much.) - Transform into King Kong, climb to the top of the Empire State Building, and fight it out with the military. Goal: 5th of December latest. Wish me luck! If I accomplish, entire ToTY done and Dec ToTM And when done, will try Bonus... it is amazing.

[Graywolf]

Welp, out of laziness, my dream recall has kind of been deteriorating lately and I haven't even been doing reality checks or anything... Eh heh... Heh... But I will try to get back into the groove this month, and basic task I will be my LD goal every night 'til New Years.

[OpheliaBlue]

And when done, will try Bonus... it is amazing. It is RareCola's advanced task from last year. Since only one member accomplished it, I felt it deserved another chance this year, as the Bonus! Good luck everyone, and better start those lucid engines.. January is going to be here before you know it!!!

[INeverWakeUp]

I will definitely fail Basic II, I can never stay asleep when I do the closed eye method. But Basic I, Advanced II, and the Bonus all sound extremely fun. I used to turn into a werewolf a lot back in my early LDing days so Advanced II should be a breeze. Great tasks this month! I haven't had a LD in over a month until Friday night, so I'm hoping to get a bit of a close together streak going for December!

[woblybil]

Jeepers, A failure already and I just read the Tasks a few hours ago. 12/02 12:30am (Phooey) I went to bed at 11:00 like a good boy rolling over a dream plan in my head to ask a DC for a Christmas present and wound up in a field of dreams, Literally ! I dropped into a grassy opening in the forest surrounded by gnarled trees with dream balls all over the ground, They looked like shiny,chocolate-marble, ice-cream balls and as I tried to will open each one Rumplestiltskin popped up and destroyed it with a wand and seeing each one go poof in a cloud of dust I woke up before he could ruin them all......Now what do I do ? PS: I was watching the series "Once Upon A Time" Before I went to bed..I wont do that anymore, I was fully aware and yet I was powerless over him.. Not a very good DC to piss off I did it again but I didn't think to do it as a task so it don't count so I'll just add it on here .. 6:30am I fell asleep thinking of the Pixies on my desktop then I was there in the woods in a beautiful scene with the moonlight and the Pixies only about two inches tall welling up out of a hollow tree flitting around the stream dipping and lighting the woods with many colors like lighted butterflies and as they grew bolder they came closer, I sat very still remembering somewhere being told they were dangerous and they started landing on me tickling and pulling the hairs on my arms and I thought how wonderful it felt to just close my eyes and lay back against the log listening to the trickle of water and feeling them landing on me and after the longest time I fell asleep there and woke up in another dream.

[AnotherDreamer]

I haven't tried the advanced or bonus ones yet, but I did the two basic ones Basic I: I was in my house and it was pitch black, nighttime, and i tried to turn on a light switch (wouldn't work). Instantly, I knew that I was dreaming and so I walked through the wall to get outside. Nighttime in dreams freaks me out, so I imagined a sun rising over the horizon until i eventually got it to be about dawn. I then asked for a dream person to come talk to me, and an old woman appeared in the driveway. I asked her if there was anything that she would like me to have and she pulled a magnifying glass out of her pocket. She told me that if I am ever confused about any situation, that I only need to use the magnifying glass to look closer at what is going on. With this tool, she told me, there is very little that I cannot understand. She gave me another object also, but I forgot what it was when i woke up. Basic II: I don't remember how I became lucid, but I remember that I felt like creating stuff. So I made a bunch of tropical trees and bushes pop out of the ground. I then saw a giant mushroom in the middle of a large grassy clearing, and I remembered that I wanted to try meditating in this dream. I figured, what better spot to meditate in dream land than on a giant mushroom. So I sat down on the mushroom, closed my eyes, and focused really hard on the maintaining the dream world even though it was all dark. I'm sure it lasted longer than 10 seconds, felt more like 10 minutes, but eventually it turned into another dream and I lost consciousness until I later realized that I was dreaming again and got a little upset that I couldn't hold the meditation longer. But yea, I'll try the advanced ones tonight. I've been playing around a lot with invisibility and transformation lately so the wolf one will be fun!

[StephL]

Ooh - lovely - I like them!! And I hope for a motivation-surge coming along with them as well! How is this with the Christmas Carol? I interpret it as asking my subconscious for showing me something in my past and present, that is not so nice - and have it extrapolate, where furthering these negative aspects would lead in the future. This could almost be called a dream-therapy setting, if you go about it so. I wonder, if I can gather something, which also after awakening feels like a valuable insight. This could even lead to a change of attitude in some respect, and be of a real personal benefit, I think.. Hehe - but I´ll start out basic - this time trying to do them all. Lovely present, your looking glass, anotherdreamer!! Aand - woblybil - I love pixies!! What you mean - on your desktop? Like on your pc-wallpaper or on your table, you got pixies? Congratulation - this is a most lovely decoration - and great they came alive and were nice - they probably would have done some sort of mischief in my dreams - I imagine them pulling pranks all the time - but friendly, tickly pullings of hairs - niice!

[woblybil]

And - woblybil - I love pixies!! What you mean - on your desktop? Like on your pc-wallpaper or on your table, you got pixies? Congratulation - this is a most lovely decoration - and great they came alive and were nice - they probably would have done some sort of mischief in my dreams - I imagine them pulling pranks all the time - but friendly, tickly pullings of hairs - niice! I have been told by DC's that if you even accidentally injure one by brushing it aside that they may turn aggressive.....I have them on my desktop wallpaper, I don't remember where I found them but I can PM them if anybody wants...

[StephL]

Oooh - please put the pixies here: http://www.dreamviews.com/dream-view...ml#post2063804 That would be nice!

[OpheliaBlue]

Congrats anotherdreamer!! Knock em out early this month guys! December is gonna get busy. I really want to do the eyes closed one and the wolf one. I wonder what a raw bunny would taste like. (sorry, tried to avoid the gore, didn't happen)

[Sensei]

hmmm... I think I like these. I seem to really connect with them. Gonna definitely do the 10 second one... and probably try the wolf one. I am easily a wolf, so an arctic one shouldn't be too hard... And I already eat things. Might take out some other goals by killing some enemies that way. haha. @Woblybil You should fight rumple. Shouldn't be too hard if you have watched far into the show. I can think of two different ways at least. Not to mention the other ways to fight people that are strong. Then you won't have to worry about him again.

[Tzologeist]

Noob to the site, but not new to dreaming. I am actually really interested in the asking a dream character for a gift task. I am hoping that just signing up for this site is enough to catapult me into some lucid dreaming tonight AND remember at least one of these tasks.

[Zyangur]

Awesome tasks . I remember the bonus one from last year.

[Sivason]

Very nice stuff. I want to be that arctic Wolfe and get bourghed into actually cold snow. It could close its eyes for awhile. Then I could charge a crazy animated snowman.

[AnotherDreamer]

I just did both the advanced ones in 1 dream (I tried these for the first time the previous night, but the dream took another turn when I gained lucidity and I didn't remember the tasks) It started with me trying to go to sleep, practicing WILD. I was trying to make it a snowland, but I've been playing a lot of AC-black flag lately, so it turned into a beautiful, tropical, Caribbean land. I managed to create the world, get into it, but i got lost in the dream pretty quickly. After a couple hours of hanging out, running around in tropical land, I spontaneously became aware that it was a dream. It was weird because there were no signs, it was like a switch went on and I knew it was a dream again. Instantly I thought, Okay! arctic wolf and snowman, go! Advanced ii: It was still tropical land so I turned a small area of it into a snowland. There was a black crater there where something had crashed, don't know what that was about. I turned myself into a wolf, and there was another wolf standing in the crater. It was giving me the evil-eye and snarling at me. So we battled and I beat him up. Then I hid in the snow and waited for a minute and a little bunny came hopping along. I jumped on it, ripped it open, and started eating it. It both tasted and had the texture of some cheap, industrial carpet. I've never eaten rabbit before, so I guess that's what my mind thought rabbit might taste like, carpet. After that, I went and hung out in a kennel that was in a tree (back in tropical land). There were two other kennels in other trees nearby with other strange dream creatures in them and we hung out and talked for awhile. I remember it started to get extremely hot with all my fur, so I changed back to a human and jumped down. Advanced i: I could feel an adrenaline rush kicking in, so I knew that I was about to wake up. I hurried and walked to a new snow patch, lifted the snow off the ground into the atomized-shape of a snowman, solidified it, and then drew a cute little face on him. I let him live and he instantly started to act like a loving cat. He bumped his snowman head against my face and started purring at me. So I pet him and gave him a hug, then I woke up. I'm excited to try the bonus one next maybe I'll try it tonight if I become lucid again

[PercyLucid]

Last ToTY done!!!!!!! I can't believe myself... I had my doubts in pulling off the last one 03.12.2013 The Legend of Zelda, Asking for a present and trampling over New York as King Kong. (MILD) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID A C C O M P L I S H E D!!!! Last ToTY and both ToTM December!!! Sometimes I cannot believe my subconscious how it helps me! Dream Incubation works like a charm... pulled the Advanced II in a very easy way! And did some others too! Wohooo. Task of the Year done in less than a month an a half... just amazing. I was in some weird house with people I did not know anything about. The house was very big, but even though from the inside looked like a house, it was an apartment. All the walls were gray, like made out of concrete without any painting. All the furniture looked kind of old and with a lot of dust. I was playing The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess... And those of you have played, you know that Link transformed into a wolf in several events of the game... sure this was not an arctic wolf... just a weird type of wolf. I realized I was dreaming, because I did not know the place where I was at and because I beat that game years ago. I looked at my hands and they looked pretty big, plus the fact that my thumb was like a feet away from my Index finger, and my Index, was wavy. I stood up flinging away the ps3 controller but realized that I had half of one of the task done. I first visualized the game scenario to be around me instead of in the tv (did this in the past already, and if I am not mistaken, this was in other ToTM December, lol) I found myself into the game, but the game scenario changed, it was all full of snow, I could not even see a fragment of green on the trees. Link (either normal and wolf form) was gone, but the Twilight princess was still there, looking at me (for those who you do now know, she both rode link as a wolf and had something to transform him into a wolf if I recall well) I asked her to please transform me into an Artic Wolf, not the regular one. I heard her odd metallic laugh and she hit me with a stone until all I could see was the snow. My dream started to fade fast and I started to run, looking up in the sky, but I felt weird. I realized she successfully turned me into an artic wolf. I saw a bush full of snow and I decided to hide inside of it, until I was completely camouflaged. I saw a weird looking orc (hey, it is still a pray...) with a wooden sword... I jumped on him and started biting him until it banished. It actually banished instead of just dying and/or living a body. Advanced II done. I now wanted to go back home and keep working on the tasks, so I closed my eyes a few times (not during 10 seconds and neither wanted to try, that is an almost sure waking up... not for me) until I was back home, as a human, but I was confused and my dream faded. I had a false awakening in bed, it looked like my bedroom, but I knew I was not in my house. Which helped me to turn lucid again. My wife was still in bed and I went to the living room. I started to look into some drawers for a cigar. I do not smoke cigars, but I felt I needed to do something with one, until I heard my wife moving out from bed and going to the bathroom. I recalled the basic task of asking for a gift. I ran to my wife and told her, "Can you give me a Christmas gift please?" She smiled at me and said, "Sure." She went to the living room and spawned a bag out of nowhere. She pulled three small alarm clocks. She said that those three were my gift. She smiled at me and said, "Look, it is 1:32 am" I knew in waking life it was much later, but whatever. I also sang a Christmas Carol. as I thought it was another of the basic tasks as well... With both ToTM done, I focused on the last task of the Year. I was going to leave my house, and as I was leaving, my dream started to fade really quick to the point of almost awakening. I pulled off my best stabilization technique. Grabbing something from the Dream World and focusing on it. I grabbed onto the staircase handrail. It was metallic and very cold, lucky me! I started to see the dream again, until the dream quality went great again. As I exited the building, there was a doorman who said, "Sir, grab your free coffee!" I turned back and replied, "No need, I am sleeping." The doorman looked at me like if I was nuts. I took of for a small flight to make the dream quality increase. I started to walk down the street and I was focusing on teleporting to New York. As I kept walking, I saw snow and turned right on a street and saw a ton of huge buildings. I was next to a random DC who apparently, was my friend. She said to me, "Look, the Empire State Building, and it is not destroyed!" It made sense to me in the moment and I grabbed it and started to climb it. I grew up in size like 10 times. My arms were as wide as the building itself, but I was still in human form. As I climbed the building, I started to roar and make monkey noises. After a while climbing, my arms started to become thick and hairy. Suddenly, my arms were covered in dark brown hair and so my entire body and kept transforming until I was an ape... and since I was giant, well, I was King Kong. I kept climbing until I reached the top. The very top of the Empire State Building was not bigger than my hand, and I started to roar even harder. There was a small speaker on the empire state building, and a very annoying intense alarm started to sound, it was like one of those apartment fire alarms. I heard the sound of jets around me and police cars on the street. I started to move one of my ape arms while the other one was holding onto the building. I knocked down a couple of jets and then, jumped from the building to the ground, smashing some cop cars. I was almost as big as the building and started to run, breaking other buildings around. I started to run away from downtown until I was back to normal size again and (I believe) human again. I kept running and thinking what else I needed to do, but the dream started to fade even faster. I tried to save it, but I was feeling my body in bed and even hearing waking world noises until I woke up.

[StephL]

Wow congratulation and thank you two - I find this so interesting to read!! I just did both the advanced ones in 1 dream (I tried these for the first time the previous night, but the dream took another turn when I gained lucidity and I didn't remember the tasks) It started with me trying to go to sleep, practicing WILD. I was trying to make it a snowland, but I've been playing a lot of AC-black flag lately, so it turned into a beautiful, tropical, Caribbean land. I managed to create the world, get into it, but i got lost in the dream pretty quickly. After a couple hours of hanging out, running around in tropical land, I spontaneously became aware that it was a dream. It was weird because there were no signs, it was like a switch went on and I knew it was a dream again. Instantly I thought, Okay! arctic wolf and snowman, go! Advanced ii: It was still tropical land so I turned a small area of it into a snowland. There was a black crater there where something had crashed, don't know what that was about. I turned myself into a wolf, and there was another wolf standing in the crater. It was giving me the evil-eye and snarling at me. So we battled and I beat him up. Then I hid in the snow and waited for a minute and a little bunny came hopping along. I jumped on it, ripped it open, and started eating it. It both tasted and had the texture of some cheap, industrial carpet. I've never eaten rabbit before, so I guess that's what my mind thought rabbit might taste like, carpet. After that, I went and hung out in a kennel that was in a tree (back in tropical land). There were two other kennels in other trees nearby with other strange dream creatures in them and we hung out and talked for awhile. I remember it started to get extremely hot with all my fur, so I changed back to a human and jumped down. Advanced i: I could feel an adrenaline rush kicking in, so I knew that I was about to wake up. I hurried and walked to a new snow patch, lifted the snow off the ground into the atomized-shape of a snowman, solidified it, and then drew a cute little face on him. I let him live and he instantly started to act like a loving cat. He bumped his snowman head against my face and started purring at me. So I pet him and gave him a hug, then I woke up. I'm excited to try the bonus one next maybe I'll try it tonight if I become lucid again I was wondering - if I do this - I might be a bit repulsed by too life-like a taste of warm blood. Maybe I would taste something else as well - but not after posting this .. Also - if the dying would be realistic - but do it fast sounds like a good idea .. But petting friendly and purring beings is quite popular, I noticed - including myself here.. Last ToTY done!!!!!!! I can't believe myself... I had my doubts in pulling off the last one 03.12.2013 The Legend of Zelda, Asking for a present and trampling over New York as King Kong. (MILD) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID A C C O M P L I S H E D!!!! Last ToTY and both ToTM December!!! Sometimes I cannot believe my subconscious how it helps me! Dream Incubation works like a charm... pulled the Advanced II in a very easy way! And did some others too! Wohooo. Task of the Year done in less than a month an a half... just amazing. I was in some weird house with people I did not know anything about. The house was very big, but even though from the inside looked like a house, it was an apartment. All the walls were gray, like made out of concrete without any painting. All the furniture looked kind of old and with a lot of dust. I was playing The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess... And those of you have played, you know that Link transformed into a wolf in several events of the game... sure this was not an arctic wolf... just a weird type of wolf. I realized I was dreaming, because I did not know the place where I was at and because I beat that game years ago. I looked at my hands and they looked pretty big, plus the fact that my thumb was like a feet away from my Index finger, and my Index, was wavy. I stood up flinging away the ps3 controller but realized that I had half of one of the task done. I first visualized the game scenario to be around me instead of in the tv (did this in the past already, and if I am not mistaken, this was in other ToTM December, lol) I found myself into the game, but the game scenario changed, it was all full of snow, I could not even see a fragment of green on the trees. Link (either normal and wolf form) was gone, but the Twilight princess was still there, looking at me (for those who you do now know, she both rode link as a wolf and had something to transform him into a wolf if I recall well) I asked her to please transform me into an Artic Wolf, not the regular one. I heard her odd metallic laugh and she hit me with a stone until all I could see was the snow. My dream started to fade fast and I started to run, looking up in the sky, but I felt weird. I realized she successfully turned me into an artic wolf. I saw a bush full of snow and I decided to hide inside of it, until I was completely camouflaged. I saw a weird looking orc (hey, it is still a pray...) with a wooden sword... I jumped on him and started biting him until it banished. It actually banished instead of just dying and/or living a body. Advanced II done. I now wanted to go back home and keep working on the tasks, so I closed my eyes a few times (not during 10 seconds and neither wanted to try, that is an almost sure waking up... not for me) until I was back home, as a human, but I was confused and my dream faded. I had a false awakening in bed, it looked like my bedroom, but I knew I was not in my house. Which helped me to turn lucid again. My wife was still in bed and I went to the living room. I started to look into some drawers for a cigar. I do not smoke cigars, but I felt I needed to do something with one, until I heard my wife moving out from bed and going to the bathroom. I recalled the basic task of asking for a gift. I ran to my wife and told her, "Can you give me a Christmas gift please?" She smiled at me and said, "Sure." She went to the living room and spawned a bag out of nowhere. She pulled three small alarm clocks. She said that those three were my gift. She smiled at me and said, "Look, it is 1:32 am" I knew in waking life it was much later, but whatever. I also sang a Christmas Carol. as I thought it was another of the basic tasks as well... With both ToTM done, I focused on the last task of the Year. I was going to leave my house, and as I was leaving, my dream started to fade really quick to the point of almost awakening. I pulled off my best stabilization technique. Grabbing something from the Dream World and focusing on it. I grabbed onto the staircase handrail. It was metallic and very cold, lucky me! I started to see the dream again, until the dream quality went great again. As I exited the building, there was a doorman who said, "Sir, grab your free coffee!" I turned back and replied, "No need, I am sleeping." The doorman looked at me like if I was nuts. I took of for a small flight to make the dream quality increase. I started to walk down the street and I was focusing on teleporting to New York. As I kept walking, I saw snow and turned right on a street and saw a ton of huge buildings. I was next to a random DC who apparently, was my friend. She said to me, "Look, the Empire State Building, and it is not destroyed!" It made sense to me in the moment and I grabbed it and started to climb it. I grew up in size like 10 times. My arms were as wide as the building itself, but I was still in human form. As I climbed the building, I started to roar and make monkey noises. After a while climbing, my arms started to become thick and hairy. Suddenly, my arms were covered in dark brown hair and so my entire body and kept transforming until I was an ape... and since I was giant, well, I was King Kong. I kept climbing until I reached the top. The very top of the Empire State Building was not bigger than my hand, and I started to roar even harder. There was a small speaker on the empire state building, and a very annoying intense alarm started to sound, it was like one of those apartment fire alarms. I heard the sound of jets around me and police cars on the street. I started to move one of my ape arms while the other one was holding onto the building. I knocked down a couple of jets and then, jumped from the building to the ground, smashing some cop cars. I was almost as big as the building and started to run, breaking other buildings around. I started to run away from downtown until I was back to normal size again and (I believe) human again. I kept running and thinking what else I needed to do, but the dream started to fade even faster. I tried to save it, but I was feeling my body in bed and even hearing waking world noises until I woke up. What I have wondered - is it often, that you false awake from lucid dreams and come back to lucidity by that means of recognising it? Are you in the habit to check every awakening in some way? And - throwing stones is not what she does in the game, or does she? Nasty.. Will remember the grabbing something! I said "Carol" - hehe, soz, if connected - I am not actually acquainted with this story a lot - might go ahead and read or watch something! Something especially for Ophelia and your dark tastes: Translation: Rabbit: Oh my god - this does hurt like shit! Snowman: Told you so! And created by translated from german: notfunny

[woblybil]

Oooh - please put the pixies here: http://www.dreamviews.com/dream-view...ml#post2063804 That would be nice! Asked is done..noite de fadas coloridas Vetor - ForWallpaper.com

[INeverWakeUp]

I did the wolf task last night, but not too sure if I did it 100% right. I'll leave the judgement up to you Ophelia, but I personally think I was pretty close. Shit Everywhere, Deer Attack, and Possible TOTM Success

[OpheliaBlue]

Awww I can't see the image, Steph, probably because you linked it directly from your gmail. And congrats Percy!!! I love that you attacked an Orc And ineverwakeup: that was... wow. I've never eaten a person in a lucid dream. What did poor Corey taste like? Also, congrats!

[Tzologeist]

December 3rd: Basic Task 1: I was inside my bedroom (but the location was one when I lived with my parents when I was a kid) and I look outside my window and wonder if I am dreaming. My method of checking is if I can press myself through the window, I CAN, and I sort of slither/droop out and pool to the ground (I guess I turned into pudding for a bit there), and when I on the ground I pull myself together (my window was pretty high off the ground but it was not a two story house) there I encounter a sort of otter/man monster. It is wearing a lot of clothes, something like armor. I ask it if it will give me a gift, and it disappears for a moment around the corned of the house and returns in a few seconds extending its hand/paw and I take a round metal object from it. It is about the size of a quarter, about one eighth on an inch thick, a matte gold color and concave. It is very like a button without any sort of holes to sew a thread to. I don't remember if I said thank you or not.

[INeverWakeUp]

Poor Corey, he tasted like chicken actually lol. But I've done this numerous times when I used to play around as a werewolf. Your dreams alter it every time. First two times it tasted like water chestnuts(gross), the next time was expired jelly(really gross), and the only other time I remember it tasted like pita bread(okay). Poor DCs.