Thread: Task of the Month for May 2013

Ahh fun! Removing bodyparts is one of my reality checks... never put one back on though. I usually just toss it and a new one shows up. I did once spend a whole night carrying around my reproductive organ asking people to help me get it back on. I was a teenager in a horrible relationship.

I did once spend a whole night carrying around my reproductive organ asking people to help me get it back on. I was a teenager in a horrible relationship.

I can't wait to read your dream about completing the task xD

Originally Posted by FriendlyFace

I did once spend a whole night carrying around my reproductive organ asking people to help me get it back on.

Although imagining that gives me the shivers, it actually gave me an idea.. If I ever get lucid this month, I'll try to pluck off my head and employ it in practical jokes before setting it back on. :p

I decided not to go for Basic I since I'm not laying an egg, but I got Basic II.

Spoiler for Basic II:

In a mall, browsing. I walk into a Japanese trading card shop and find my friend Zach. He tells me the government has put him here as a secret agent and he is to root out illegal immigrants. Looking around, I spot a little packet with an old-fashioned Sprite logo on it and open it. Inside is a piece of music called Ultimate Sprite that is some 150 measures long. I put all I remembered down here. ultimatesprite.JPG

I ask him how much it is, and it's twenty cents. I see another one with a Tropicana logo that's 30 cents, and a Mickey mouse figurine that's $5.20. Suddenly, I realize that I won't have these things when I wake up, so I must be dreaming. I study the music a little bit to try and remember it, then walk up to another friend of mine who's Asian and his name is Troung.

"This is a dream, you know."

*evil grin*

"That means you're not real."

*So? Who cares?" *grins more evilly*

I leave before anything nightmarish happens. Whew! That's all that's relevant.

In case I happen to lucid stumble upon a mythological creature and there is no DC around, would telling the creature that it isn't real suffice for basic ii?

Originally Posted by NyxCC

In case I happen to lucid stumble upon a mythological creature and there is no DC around, would telling the creature that it isn't real suffice for basic ii?

Sure!

Have fun with the thing and get a double-hitter

All right then, hope my subcon is collaborative this month! Dream on!

Well, I haven't managed these yet, but I've actually done two of them in previous dreams, if comic book characters count. Telling DCs they aren't real is something I've enjoyed before as well. I'll have to give these a try again.

I did the second basic task! I was in the car with my dad, already lucid, and I told him how he and my mom weren't real and they both started yelling at me. He brought me to a building and showed me the picture said 2106 AD and said "Ha. That proves it's real." And I explained to him how 2106 hadn't even happened yet. It was very funny! The dream itself was very, very weird. Feel free to look at it in my DJ if you want to.

Congrats Xvaiuer! Was it fun messing with your parents haha

Originally Posted by CharlesD

Well, I haven't managed these yet, but I've actually done two of them in previous dreams, if comic book characters count. Telling DCs they aren't real is something I've enjoyed before as well. I'll have to give these a try again.

Me too, I always enjoyed the different reactions. I figured alot of the pros have done this task before, but I thought it would make a decent basic task. Most beginners are at least able to find 1 DC. Then all they have to do is remember to ask the question.

Originally Posted by ENlGMA

Gonna try to pull my arm off and see what happens. I'll report back.

That wasn't your arm ;-;
Nonetheless, congrats on the Bonus Task!

He seemed to have a dark outline around him, as if he was a sketch. I wondered if my imagination hasn't fully created him yet. He reminds me of Tobias, from the book Divergent, or Jace, from the Mortal Instruments. Either way they were both mythical book characters which lead this dream to become a TotM completion. I lightly touched his forearm to see if it was real. It felt real. Hard, like muscle. He sat up silently and got off of my bed. I saw that he was wearing a black V-neck shirt and jeans. I walked around my bed to where he was standing. He looked at me for a second, as if asking what I was going to do, yet knowing exactly what I was going to do at the same time. I lifted my arms up and around his neck and pulled his head down so that his lips collided with mine.

Yep. Yeeeeeeeeeeeep. Probably my best lucid ever.
TotM Makeout Session, 2 DILD chain. - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Land of Confusion
I am lying on a towel in the middle of a green field. It is a very peaceful setting. I sit up and look around. At first I think I am alone in the field but then I see there is a man there with me. One solitary Templar. He is watching me from a distance. I figure I will ignore him but then I remember the tasks of the month. One of them is to tell a DC that they don't exist. This should be an easy one. I go over to the Templar, who seems unsure of what to expect. He says he is just there to watch, he means no harm. I say it doesn't matter. He isn't even real. He hesitates and then asks what I'm talking about. I tell him he doesn't exist. He pauses again and then says if he doesn't exist then why do I keep killing him and his friends. I ask how I can kill him if he doesn't exist. I can't kill something that doesn't exist. He pauses again. I remember the other part of the task of the month, which is to set myself on fire in front of a DC. I've already confused this Templar, why not go a bit further. I ask him if he'd like to see someone on fire. He backs away, holds his hands up, and says no, don't do that. I tell him I'm not going to set him on fire, I'm not a sociopath. I'll be the fire. I call up a small fireball and set myself on fire. It's warm but not hot. I'm on fire but not burning. The Templar just stares. He is totally speechless. He says I really am insane. I comment that I should've known. If I'm on fire he wouldn't piss on me to put me out. Typical Templar bastard. He doesn't seem to know what to respond. I hear a meow and I look down to see Grumpy Cat roasting a marshmallow on my left foot.

I summon a splash of water to extinguish my fire and then scoop up Grumpy Cat to pet the cat. Grumpy Cat submits to being picked up but looks grumpier than ever, she has a look in her eyes that says she would like to scratch my eyes out but for some reason she doesn't make any move to do so. Grumpy Cat wiggles in my arms so I put her down. She walks away, sticking her tail up as she goes as if she is flipping me the bird with her tail, telling me to fuck off. I am left alone with the confused Templar. I remember that I had been planning on checking on Nomad since I haven't heard from him for a while. I focus on opening a portal to find Nomad, and one opens. I am about to go through the portal when I wake up instead.

Originally Posted by Raven Knight

Land of Confusion I've already confused this Templar, why not go a bit further. I ask him if he'd like to see someone on fire. He backs away, holds his hands up, and says no, don't do that. I tell him I'm not going to set him on fire, I'm not a sociopath. I'll be the fire. I call up a small fireball and set myself on fire. It's warm but not hot. I'm on fire but not burning. The Templar just stares. He is totally speechless. He says I really am insane. I comment that I should've known. If I'm on fire he wouldn't piss on me to put me out. Typical Templar bastard. He doesn't seem to know what to respond. I hear a meow and I look down to see Grumpy Cat roasting a marshmallow on my left foot.

Yay, someone completed my lucid TotM task! Congrats, sounds like an awesome lucid!

Spoiler for for dream:

I was in a jim. Jumped and did exercises. i don't remember why i knew that its a LD. May be because exercises were easier then in real. I went outdoors. it was foggy, but i saw silhouette of a hill. I erased it and fog went to its place. Only few trees was on its place. I turned around and saw other mountain. i erased it too. Then i erased multistory building. I was proud of myself. It was real goal! Then i remembered about additional task of the month. I'm good at beheading, so i desided to cut my head. I went to construction site, found a projector - it gave my shadow on the wall. In fact when i became to think about the shadow i immediately had it. I looked at my shadow and it became a mirrow, so i looked at myself. I draw a line on my neck - tried to move my head - nothing. I pushed a button on the neck and put off my head. i had it in my hands and looked at my face with open eyes and absolutely natural Then i put my head on my neck back and as i didn't remember any tasks - went to the real.

To paraphrase -- DC was telling me that he is all powerful and I could do nothing to him. I took him for a ride in the air and told him that it was all happening in my mind. Does that count for basic?

Awesome she!!

And Penny: if you were lucid then it counts. It's about telling the DC and then witnessing the reaction. Checking your DJ in a sec.

Here's my craziness from this morning! I'll spoiler it because it is TLDR:

Spoiler for DJ excerpt:

I drifted off, and was suddenly aware that I was at work, in the PFDS department. I saw a woman walk up to me, and it hit me that I had just fallen asleep like 2 seconds ago. (note: This is happening to me more and more lately. Instead of WILDing seamlessly from awake to lucid dream, I'm losing my awareness for a few seconds, while the dream forms itself, then I quickly realize that I was just falling asleep in my bed a few seconds ago. No vibrations or HH that I'm aware of. Just a super quick DILD. No complaints.)

Anyway, I fell the dream slip a little upon awareness, so I just focus on the woman coming up to me which helps. The lay an egg task bursts into my mind, so I ask her point blank, "Hey, wanna watch me lay an egg?" She stops and says, "Ok..?" I pull my pants down just to my knees and squat. I push but not too hard (some of you members brought up the accident thing and apparently it crept into my dream, spanks a heap!).

But then I suddenly woke up (or so I thought). I was lying on the bed on my side, facing Danny, and I felt my pants fill up with something warm. Oh shit. I said "Oh no, I just tried the egg task and I think I crapped myself!" I told Danny. He laughed and said he didn't even want to know. I felt so embarrassed, but at the same time, it didn't really feel like poop in my pants. More like, wadded up cloth. So I reached down the back of my pants and felt what seemed to be some wadded up material. I pulled it out and it was a purple t-shirt with Disney characters on the front, dressed in Halloween costumes. At this moment, I believed that I had somehow carried something from my dream into reality. Danny asked me what the hell it was. I just said forget it and tossed the shirt onto the floor, feeling really confused. But then he got up and took it, and when I asked what he did with it, he said he threw it "over the ledge." Ledge, what ledge? Suddenly he was a black man, WEARING the shirt I had just laid. And our bed was suddenly a table with weird food all over it, that I was furiously trying to sort through. All this confusion finally reached a hilt and I questioned my reality.

I'm still fucking dreaming. I pooped a shirt but it was still in the dream! I looked at black Danny, and the second basic task popped into my head:

Me: Hey, I'm dreaming and you're a character in my-
Him: SHUT UP!!!!!
Me: Heh, ok you're a dream character and this is MY-
Him: No YOU'RE A DREAM CHARACTER!!!!!!
Me: No, YOU are a character in MY dream dumbass
Him: *pinches the spot where his nose meets his forehead, as if he has a horrible headache*
Me: Careful, this is where my DCs' heads usually explode. *I makes gesture with my hands of an exploding head*
Him: *jolts in surprise, but head doesn't explode*
Me: Hehee, keep the shirt*

* I didn't really say "Keep the shirt" but I wish I had! I thought it added to the humor.

Finally did one. Basic 2.

Spoiler for dream segment:

...I become lucid anyway because I recognize how dream like this all is. I get up and walk into the kitchen. The light is on.
I see someone that looks like my mom in the sun room. She spots me and hides in a dark corner. I think of the task again. I say "Hey. Hey you." She won't come out. I spot a pitcher of water by the sink and I take it up and slash her. Her only reaction is that now she has the mop bucket and shes coming around into the kitchen to splash me back.
I laugh at her and say, "You're not real."
She comes into the light and looks like a very creepy version of my mom. She forgets the bucket and answers, "That's insubstantial and inconsequential." She rattles off a bunch of other big words that my dreaming mind didn't catch (I have trouble just trying to remember the first part of that) then says, "My Aunt warned me about you. You're a maniacal energy draining vampire." The dream starts to fade and I need to stabilize. So I follow her suggestions and throw myself on her to suck, not her blood, but her energy. As I do so the dream fades.

I have another false awakening but this time I put more thought into the nose plug. I cleanly blow out and laugh a little to myself. I'm very pleased that I didn't fall for the FA...

Full dream: The Manical Vampire and the Teleporting Driver - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Will wing on break or toilet!

Advanced Task II:
I was standing in my kitchen, lucid. I said to myself, "OK, I don't see any dream characters here, so I'll try somewhere else." I walked into the dining room, where I saw my parents talking to each other. I marched up to my dad, and looked down at my feet to see a torch on my hand. I threw down the torch at my feet and looked at my dad again to see the results as the fire began to engulf me. The fire was pleasantly warm and smelled nice, like the smell of burning wood. My dad was still talking to my mom but was staring at me, before going "AB-BU-BU-BU..." Then he began to laugh hysterically while I just stood there, on fire. The fire died out and I turned to my mom.
"Hey mom, mom, guess what. You aren't real." I said to her.
"Stop it! You have to wake up soon. You don't have time for this." My mom quickly berated me.

I have been out of town a few days and look what happens....
Asking me to have a date with a mythological DC is like giving "Wilie Sutton" a key to the bank......
Actually I had one last night but it was before I knew the task so I cant count it.

Nice double-hitter Silvernighthawk!

For the bonus task, could we do the reverse? As in add a limb and then take it off?

5/09
2:00am This is awful, Just awful.....
I knew I was dreaming because I told myself I had a task to perform before falling asleep, I thought of a favorite witch I know to date that owned a store and went to her store and told her I was dreaming and was supposed to date a mythical entity and she said show me you're dreaming so I tried to will a door open and the whole wall fell down, I tried to make an A frame sign stand up by levitation and it went flap so I walked over and set it up and it went flap, Then I tried to levitate a chair and it fell over so I picked it up and set it straight and a leg fell off and it fell over again and other things I tried failed and I was having a tantrum like a three year old and people were laughing at me and pointing so I got mad and woke up......... Jeez

Originally Posted by poptartian121

For the bonus task, could we do the reverse? As in add a limb and then take it off?

I don't see why not.. odd that you even thought of this. Is it because you are too scared to take off an existing limb, so creating a false one would be "safer" to remove? Or did you just think of it because you like to think outside the box? The latter would be cool, the former is just plain chicken.