Thread: Task of the Month for April 2013

I had a lucid dream for the first time since, like, three months or so, and I remembered that I wanted to have a go at the tasks of the month. I was able to recall basic task I and advanced task II. For some reason, I decided to attempt advanced task II first, so I grabbed a pen and paper and started drawing. My family was quite disturbing though, all of them talking in a loud voice all around me, and I also had no idea what I wanted to draw, since I did not at all expect to be lucid; so I just started by drawing the door in front of me, intending to draw someone walking through it. I woke up prematurely.

Even though I haven't completed any tasks, I consider this a great step. For the first time, I remembered to stabilize my dream before going on with my dream, and I was actually able to remember what it was I wanted to do in my lucid dream.

Originally Posted by GLaDOS

This was a triumph.. I'm making a note here: huge success.

Advanced ii... I don't know if this counts. Does it actually have to happen after you draw it? I woke too soon.

I say, "This is a dream." I realize I'm driving him in our new Dodge as I look around a bit. Mason says hey, "We have a car to keep up with people."
Confused, I say, "Huh?"
"You know. Bigger engine. That truck is fast but we could catch them."
"Well this IS a dream. I could just take you swimming like we planned or we can turn this into a car chase."
Mason looks confused, "What did you say?"
I realize my tongue got thick and I was having trouble speaking clearly. I slow down and repeat myself. "We can chase him or we can go swimming. It's up to you."
"BOTH!"
I realize I was working on a 30min limit. "No. I'll be waking up soon. We won't have time. I think I'll just take you swimming. That was the plan."
Then I start thinking about how to keep the dream interesting during the rest of the ride.
I remember something and look at Mason, "DUUUUUUDE. TASK OF THE MONTH!"
Mason seems disinterested. I look around wildly and feel the dream destabilize a bit. I calm down and look at the steering wheel thinking. Was it grant a DC a wish? No that was last month. Make a diamond! Well I'm driving. OOH. Draw what happens next!

I reach up to the glass pretending I have something in my left hand to draw with. I feel the dream starting to darken so hurry. I make a white stick figure with a simple wavy line through it like water. There. We're going swimming.

I wake to FA and get on DV to talk to CL then as I am DJing I wake up.

It wasn't my intention but I got lucid and even remembered to do Basic Task ii today. Ahh first time I finished a TOTM

I decided to skip a bit ahead, but added some explanations instead for clarification.

The lucid/important part is in red.

Spoiler for Basic Task ii:

I was now in a forest and the girl I was traveling with was nowhere to be seen, I decided to look for her in the little town that was on top of the hill. As I reached it, I discovered that it was empty and looked very shabby, I looked to my right and saw the gas station. The station had a tower where all the prices were noted down, “13:59” thats cheap for Swedish krona I thought until I realized that it was the time, “59” that must be the price, still cheap. I wondered how I could have possible mistaken the time for the price, but I didn't got lucid yet and wandered further around in the town, I wondered if the machines the cat led us into, maybe have forced us into the future where something horrible had happened but I discarded the thoughts, if I would be in the future the fuel prices would obviously be much higher!

I found a newspaper kiosk nearby and decided to check the date “13.09” that is today I just think, and decide to take a closer look at a journal but then I remember that I wouldn't probably be able to read it anyway in a dream.. dream. I get lucid through my own thoughts and look around. (I didn't once think about stabilization and/or reality check, I think thats because it surprised me that I got lucid this way and that I before sleep had no intention on trying to get lucid.)

It now looked much brighter and I think the hill was much higher now over the forest top, or at least I first discovered this fact after I got lucid. Anyway, thoughts are shooting through my head, I try to remember what I wanted to do in my next lucid, following with the flow of the dream so continuing searching the girl? Finding the Lion? I suddenly remember the task of the month and that I wanted to finish one for so long time. I try hard to remember what the task I wanted to do was for this month, and luckily enough I finally am able to remember what task it was.

In front of me was a tree with many thin branches, instead of trying to summon/finding something different I thought it would be interesting to try out eating a branch, so I broke it off the tree and made it smaller. I tried to imagine that it would taste like a pocky, I threw it into my mouth with this thought and tried to chew it, it bursted into smaller pieces, and at first it had no taste but after some seconds a really horrible bitter taste spread and I spit the branch out again. Now that this was finished I wanted to go with the flow of the dream and continuing searching for the girl to see what happens.

Later I came across other DCs in a really shabby and nasty Inn where I tried to describe the girl but I somehow ended up losing my lucidity and suddenly found myself describing someone else and the persons dog and even found them lol. The dream faded out soon afterwards.

Nothing special but I am so happy to finally have accomplished a TOTM and I will definietly try to do an advanced task next It took me so long to write it all down in english, much longer than I expected, respect to all those who have a DJ on Dreamviews.

Thinking about TOTM made me have some non-LD dreams about drawings. Hopefully, more awareness comes to me next time...

Good job guys!

And to all: I think the point of the advanced task is to draw something, then have it happen, or partially happen. Kinda hard to judge really, but there it is.

I'll try again!

I'm excited to try the tasks, but I also know that whenever I eat stuff in dreams, usually chocolate I wake up disgusted and sick because it seems my brain makes the taste of things as if it is extract and extremely condensed and potent so eating one bite of chocolate seems like I binged on 2 tons of the stuff taste wise. waaaay too decadent.

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Good job guys!

And to all: I think the point of the advanced task is to draw something, then have it happen, or partially happen. Kinda hard to judge really, but there it is.

That helps a lot, Thanks, I have been trying to draw after the fact...

I tried to summon my partner for the LD competition, but instead it was just my Mom. I was disappointed but decided to do another TotM. I pointed at her chest and asked "What's that" she looked down and I ran my finger up her neck/face and pulled the old "Made you look!" number.

I think I managed Basic Task II

The entry in my dream journal is HERE

Let me know what you think

Great dream Sangfoot, and congratulations! That was some really convenient toast. I like how you were able to control the flavor to make it how you wanted. Most of us are like "I tasted some wood. It tasted like wood."

I ate a candy bar last night and pranked someone, but I wasn't lucid. I wonder how often that happens with people. Try again tonight.

I don't know if this would count but I drank some water.

Spoiler for Dream:

I remember climbing up some stairs, and reach the top. There is 3 blue water slides. I wanted to go down one, and only one as the climb was very long. I ask the life guard if I can go down one, he says yeah. I choose not to as it looks as if you need an intertube. I then sit down in the water, and slide down a bit, but wait for the person ahead to go. I then go down and start screaming, it was almost vertical straight down. It was extremely fun, and I remember twice going upside down somehow.
I get out of the end and walk to the parking lot. I see a funnel cake stand. I walk up and ask if they have funnel cakes. They said they have many flavors, and she listed them. I suspected these were packaged funnel cakes when she said chili flavor. I ask if they were fresh and she says no. I then walk east into a restaurant, I ordered one buffet. She asked for 10 dollars, and I realized I had no wallet. I ran out the door, and into the parking lot. I then think I become lucid, realizing I don't own a SUV where I thought I left my wallet. I reach into my back pocket and decide to make money. I felt a tag and pulled out a $5 bill. I try again and pull out a $1. I look at my five aging and now its $10. I run inside and realize I need to pay tax. There is a homeless guy on next to a table and I grab two quarters, leaving the fifty-cent piece. I slam the money on the counter, and grab my $1 dollar bill back, except that now it was 2 two dollar bills. My dream started fading, and they completely removed and replaced the floor and table. I think I realized it and went to the table to see my water glass refill itself. I drank some, it was pretty good, but also had a chemical taste.

Went lucid and didn't know what the Tasks were. GRRRR! So, I am here now to try next time. GREAT tasks Ophelia! Can't wait to try them out.

INTERFERENCE! Another fail at drawing but I was so close.

...I stand up and turn to a wall. OK I am going to draw myself becoming a werewolf and then I'll transform. I reach up but forget to summon something to write with and start drawing on a wall with my finger. Nothing. I draw harder nothing. So I use my fingernail and scratch into the paint. That works. I scratch out a horrible bad drawing of a werewolf. There, now time to transform.

At that moment my wife decides that she needs to roll over and totally wakes me up! Noooooooooooo! ...

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I wanted so badly to take a shot at Advanced Task I, but for whatever reason I had a dry spell. I finally got it. Full entry here:

I was hovering over the crowd and the building, which was amphitheater like with a strange roof-like structure that had muticolored terra-cotta tiles.

I suddenly realized that I was flying, which caused me to realize that I was dreaming. All of the colors intensified as I mentally ramped up the vividness of the dream. There were sparkling, vividly hued, multicolored chunks of glass and shiny black, hard pieces of coal suspended in the air around me. I was carrying a stack of tax forms and medical paperwork. As soon as I realized I was dreaming, I tossed them into the crowd below. I watched the hundreds of papers flutter to the earth like falling leaves, glad to have let them go.

I reached up and grasped a shiny black chunk of coal. It was smooth and hard, and despite being black, it shimmered. I brought both hands together and imagined immense pressure and heat. I imagined that the entire universe was exerting pressure on it. The coal between my hands began to feel hot.

I opened my hands. The coal had fused somewhat into a yellow piece of glass, but it wasn't a diamond yet. I wasn't bothered by this - it was a process, after all. I closed my hands, pressed them together around the coal/glass, and imagined the immense pressure and heat again. I imagined that all of existence was compressing around this single object. The dream rippled around me. I heard a sound like a shock-wave, or sub-bass.

I opened my hands and looked again. There was an almond-shaped yellow diamond in my hands, roughly the size of an egg. The surface was polished and smooth, and I could see into the translucent diamond and see all of the facets and the inner structure of the diamond catching the light. I gently released it and it rose into the air, joining the suspended pieces of coal and shards of glass, sparkling brilliantly in the sunlight.

Damn that was a cool dream. You made a champagne diamond, and even managed a tear-drop facet.

I'm jealous, I really want to do this task next. I was kinda hoping that I could manage to create one already faceted like you did, instead of just a chunk of glass looking thing.

Anyway congratulations Bubble!

I had success last night. I was with a friend and just went lucid. I told him I was dreaming, anything goes, and asked if there was anything he wanted to do. Then I remembered the tasks and looked around. We were in a room and there was what looked like spots of wet paint on the wall, like a paint can had exploded. I went over and got some of the paint on my finger and put my finger in my mouth. It turned out to not be paint but cream cheese icing. Mmmmmmm. Then my friend said he wanted to go to London, so I said we could just fly there. He asked if we were going to the airport and I said, "No, like this." and jumped into the air. We few over to another building and went inside. I was having trouble getting altitude with my flight and thought if we got to the top of a building we could jump off.

We got to a very tall building and went inside to use the elevator, got in and pushed the button for floor 102. When we got off the elevator there were a bunch of rooms and twisting hallways and there was a cleaning lady going around from room to room. I said, "Watch this." and jumped up onto the ceiling and went into the room she was headed into. When she came in, she wasn't looking up and didn't see me up there on the ceiling. I shouted at her from the ceiling and scared the living daylights out of her, then jumped down. My friend was laughing and saying that was the best prank he had ever seen and I noticed that there was something on the floor next to the passed out cleaning lady. It was a small lump of coal. I put it between my hands and gave it a good squeeze and got a rather crude uncut diamond for my efforts. I gave it to my friend and told him he could find a girl to give it to and he said that he would rather have it in the form of a ring, so I picked up the diamond and pushed my finger through the middle and shaped it into a ring, so now it was quite literally a diamond ring. He put it on his finger, said he was going to go find a girl to give it to, and took off. I jumped out of the building and flew around for about a minute before waking up. Then I realized I had just done three of the tasks in one dream.

I derped. I swear I am going to get this before the end of the month.

...Blutbad time! I fully transform and see my hands become wolf-like with claws. My right hand looks a little too human and I have to focus some more fur on it. That's better. I try to let out a deep roar but I actually howl instead. I kind of laugh and try again. That one was better. Oh shit I forgot to draw it first! I turn around to draw on the outside of the house but when I reach up I see my werewolf hand. Doh I can't think of anything else to draw and I know that if I spend too much time on it I will wake up, so I move on...

The funny part about mine is that I wasn't thinking about the prank at the time. I'm just a natural practical joker and I'm always looking for ways to pull pranks. After I woke up and started going through the dream, thinking I had done two tasks, I realized I had done a third without realizing it.

Damn Charles!

That may be the first 3-hitter I've seen. I'll give 1000 hall points to the first member to get all 4 in one.

Does "tasting" something also include flesh? Like, say kissing a girl. Or even dirtier stuff?

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Damn Charles!

That may be the first 3-hitter I've seen. I'll give 1000 hall points to the first member to get all 4 in one.

Whoa...hold on. *RCs* Really?! That gives me a new incentive.

Originally Posted by Kruse

Does "tasting" something also include flesh? Like, say kissing a girl. Or even dirtier stuff?

If you can put it in your mouth and describe the flavor, then you got it.