Thread: Task of the Month for April 2013

I'm afraid that the longer my list of goals, the higher the chance I forget all of them. But it does sound like a very motivating thing to try out. Good luck to all!

Originally Posted by NyxCC

I'm afraid that the longer my list of goals, the higher the chance I forget all of them. But it does sound like a very motivating thing to try out. Good luck to all!

I know what you mean. Whenever I try a TOTM at the start of the month, I usually just remember one basic task. Then in the next dream, I might remember one other. Then I only have 2 to try to remember if I accomplish the first two. But at the start of the month, I would be really surprised if I could recall all 4 tasks, much less get all 4 done. I might even accidentally remember a past TOTM. But I find my best successes in remembering them is to just pick 1 or 2, and make myself remember them before bed, and again after my WBTB.

I have... So many goals right now.

If I don't have many goals I don't ever remember any and I wander around in circles (which is fun in itself). If I have a ton of goals I might remember one. Haha. I am working on that right now.

im not classing my lucid last night as any real effort due to how short and rushed i was but it was a start

i used WBTB and i had my arms wrapped round my pillow it only took about 15 min untill the sensations started and suddenly i was holding a cat spinning around in the air high above lit buildings.. i couldnt control the spinning at all so i just held on any enjoyed, it was night time and i kept flying high and then ide drop and go below the floor looking up at buildings above the ground , i suddenly dropped very fast and i was stood in an expensive suit in a perfume shop in a huge shopping mall but i knew the dream wasnt very stable so i ran over kissed one of the girls working at the counter and grabbed the nearest thing to me which was some sort of achievement or medal made of a marble slab. so i gave it a huge lick but as u can imagine it was just marble so tasted of nothing and i woke up.. im trying again tonight and i want to lick something that actually has taste even if it makes me sick

Good job getting that lick in (AND a kiss) before waking up!

haha thank you the kiss was better than licking a marble slab for sure

Did both advanced in one dream.



Fully lucid now I am standing in the yard looking at the empty rock house on the corner. I decide to break in and see what I find. I rush to the side of the house and there are what look like wooden barn door. I do a flying kick and bust the doors open.

I pause remebering my tasks. I quickly draw a stick figure standing in a doorway with my finger. I step back to make sure it looks right. I faintly see it drawn in black graphite. Looks fine to me.

I step in the doorway but notice how dark it is. I summon a flash light from my back and click it on. Therr is no beam but the house is dimly lit now. It looks like and empty dirty old barn with dirt floors. I decide not to go the rest of the way in.

I walk back to my yard and remember the diamond task. I look around and see a large lump of coal about the size of a baseball by the curb. I pick it up and press my hands over it. I imagine heat and pressures focusing my energy into it. I walk around to keep the dream flowing so I dont wake up. I notice the dodge leaving in my peripherals. It pauses. I realize my wife is leaving with my patents and they are waiting for me. Let it go. The car moves on. Now I feel the coal collapse a little and dust tumbles out.

I open my hands expecting a diamond. Black dust falls out along with a small diamond. I hurry and pick it up afraid to lose it. It looks like a diamond but shaped like a mushroom with a stem. I notice the front door is open and my living room has white tiles. I throw the diamond at the glass storm door intending to break it but the dream dissolves and I decide its time to DJ.

^^ Ahhhh!! I'm so jealous! A diamond mushroom??? Show-off

I did a really lousy basic prank task:

I phased easily into another LD again, and I was able to get up, leave the bedroom, go into Chris's bedroom where I found him asleep in his bed. I couldn't think of how to prank him in an April Fool's style. All I could think of was to scare him awake. So I grabbed him and yelled "BOO!!" He woke up and yelled lol. I tried to think of one of the advanced tasks but I jus couldn't I really wanted to do the coal task. Would have been perfect because I was already in my house, and I have Kingsford in my backyard. Dadgummit. I woke up before I could really do anything else.

Whole Dream

4/17
5:30pm I came home from fishing and decided to flop on the bed and was somehow in a truck I wanted to buy and drove it to the Super Center to try it out, A younger woman Greeter handed me a cart and a note and said Welcome and the note said "Taste for the TOTM" And now knowing I was dreaming I got towels and got oil for the truck and then cat food looking at the note each time and then walked all over the entire food section never seeing a single thing I wanted to taste for the task and then I was home wondering how I got there but I remembered the note so I made toast and got a stick of butter out and put it on the cutting board when a loud motorcycle outside woke me up with vivid recall and no prize .........And hoping there's no punishment for Stoopid

Next time taste the woman greeter woblybil! Or the truck, dadgum...

Finally got the diamond task!

Spoiler for successful TOTM:

so yay I was getting a second chance! I thought of the coal task right away, and continued down the hall. Fortunately it opened up into my livingroom. I knew that all I had to do was go into the backyard by the grill, and grab a piece of Kingsford coal from the bag. Only one obstacle: the sliding glass door. If I open doors or even phase through them in LDs, most time I get a scene change. SO I just quickly opened it, and sure enough, I ended up in a random room that doesn't exist. I saw a second door that went outside, so I imagined that my grill would be on the other side, and it worked! Only it looked more like a piano. I didn't see a bag of coal, so I opened the piano grill hoping to find a semi-used piece of coal inside. Nope, just piano keys. I imagined that on the other side of the grill would be a bag of kingsford coal, and sure enough, there was a bag of coal (the 365 brand from work, fine by me!). I grabbed the first piece which was stuck to another piece, so I separated them and kept the smaller of the 2. I held the coal in my left hand and covered it with my right, and stepped into the sunlight. I wanted to see my diamond sparkle in case it worked! I saw the sun illuminate my hands, and I thought to myself "how realistic this lucid light looks." I pressed my hands together as hard as I could, and I felt the coal disintegrate immediately. It almost felt like watery mud. I pressed very hard and imagined heat helping me out. I finally felt something hard like glass amidst all the mud, so I opened my hands and blammo! There was somewhat smoky colored diamond, cut into a big fat emerald cut. I took it in my right hand and held it up to the sunny sky to see it sparkle. When I did that, a giant image of the same diamond appeared in the sky, and even took on the smokiness. Once that happened, the diamond in my hand was no longer smokey. And it was suddenly princess cut. A big, sparkly, maybe 4 or 5 carrot diamond. Man I felt proud. I just held my diamond in the sunlight, looking at its giant smokey twin in the sky, thinking "yeah, that's enough for now," and woke up.

Then I bombed on the drawing task!

Spoiler for failed TOTM:

I shouldn't even be there. I bumped into my boss who said, "Well, since you're here you can go ahead and work your shift if you're feeling better." I just said, "Nah I've got other stuff to do," and I left. Now Chris was suddenly with me. I thought about the drawing task, and then I noticed something new: we were walking home, like we used to when we all lived in the apartment in Dallas. We were approaching the train station. Chris started taking off really fast, and it was starting to get dark. I panicked a little and called after him, telling him to wait up and not to run off, but he wouldn't stop. Then I just said, know what? fuck it, I'm doing the TOTM (HAH! +1). I attempted to draw with my finger on the side of the train station, when I remembered that my dream body had just come from work, and I always carry a pen and a sharpie in my pocket at work. I reached in my back pocket and found the pen! I was about to draw on the building, when I noticed to my right that there was a blank post-it note on the wall. Seriously? Is it my birthday? So I thought fast and drew a comet, with motion lines behind it, crashing onto earth. Then I looked up at the sky. It was dark now, and I could only see stars and a few wispy clouds. Then I saw a tiny illumination behind one of the clouds, and it got brighter and larger. Then something the size of a ping pong ball popped out from behind the cloud, and landed on the street in front of me, then bounced away. This happened a few more times, and each time the light behind the clouds was even more intense, suggesting that THIS time it would be a comet. Yeah right. When I finally got tired of watching ping pong balls, I just caught up with Chris and walked to the apartment. Danny had just come home from the grocery store, and was unloading groceries in the kitchen. He asked me to help him, and I started to. Then I said, "Nah, I may try the drawing task again," and left. I looked up at the sky, and there was a giant red Snoopy constellation in the night sky. I willed it to turn into a comet and crash into earth, but then I woke up.

Whole Dream.

I like the "Giant Red Snoopy Constellation" thing, Sounds like my stuff......

Oh, now there are 2 options for basic and advanced TotM? Kinda cool I think. Well I haven't tried any TotM in a year or so, I should try to do that I guess, but I still have to get lucid more often. Anyway I hope that soon I could report my first successful TotM.

I had two attempts at both a basic and an advanced. I succeeded on the basic and failed on the advanced.

Spoiler for Basic Dream Success; Lucid Prank:

Both times I am spontaneously aware that I am dreaming. Both times I find or summon a DF and ask to shake my hand which is electrified. The DF gets annoyed and tells me how much it hurts. On an embarrassing note, I attempted to do the tasting something task via sex with both attempts. As the attempts went on, I lost lucidity and never actually attempted to taste anything.

After trying and trying and trying this month, I finally succeeded at the Advanced "diamond" task!

"Totally serious," I say. "It's for a task. You just need to hand me that lump of coal that you're carrying around."

"Sure, take it!" she says, handing me a peach-sized lump of coal. Whew, glad that worked, I think to myself. Stacey and her friends watch me, intrigued. I give the coal one quick squeeze, imagining that it immediately feels sharp and hard like a diamond. I open my hand and yes it's a diamond! There are some lumps of dusty black coal-crap on it, but I quickly brush them away, revealing a sparkling, golf ball-sized, round cut diamond.

Full dream: The Diamond - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

I wanted the hall points for the 4in1 but cant seem to pull it off..
4/22
7:30am I was in a lucid dream which took a lot of work, Like a half hour of meditation, A red and black spider-web vortex and lying around on a cloud for another long time and finally popped out into another Fireman's picnic (the second for the night) and took a large spoon full of snap and shelled beans with bacon from a huge iron pot over a fire and was picking out the shelled ones I like that tasted like really good beans and leaving the green ones I dont like and a Volunteer Fireman tying up trash bags asked me what I was doing and I told him tasting beans on a quest which he thought was just great and I was waking up and just putting it on my recorder when the @#$%* cell-phone rang and blew the rest of my recall to hell.....

Congrats guys!!!

Funfact: April's birthstone is a diamond. Totally didn't think of that before posting the tasks.

I'm glad this is a full month, and I get to spend a bit longer with them.
I've grown sentimentally attached

What is this I hear about community points?

Originally Posted by BrandonBoss

What is this I hear about community points?

All 4 tasks in one night = 1000 CH points.

Last one there's a rotten egggggggggggggggggg

Why have I never heard this before? Was it earlier in the thread or is it always here?

Originally Posted by BrandonBoss

Why have I never heard this before? Was it earlier in the thread or is it always here?

I just proposed the challenge here on the spur.

If it takes off, could become a permanent thing. What do you think

I love it! That is hard though. 4 tasks. It would either take a lot of LDs in a night, one long LD, or one really creative LD. All things that are highly encouraged here.

Originally Posted by BrandonBoss

I love it! That is hard though. 4 tasks. It would either take a lot of LDs in a night, one long LD, or one really creative LD. All things that are highly encouraged here.

I know right..

Maybe an escalating thing.. 2 tasks in one, and 3 in one get points. Let me know what you think and we'll target May TOTMs.