Thread: Task of the Month for June 2013

Totm - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

I headed down the street, and saw a group of Spanish DC's. They were fishing at a stream. They were speaking Spanish, and well I decided to speak gibberish. They replied in Spanish like they knew what I was saying. Whatever. I headed over their fish and released them back into the water. They weren't too happy with that, but I was waking up.

So yeah, after nearly 3 years, a freaking task has been done. Maybe I'll try the advanced one next.

Congrats Auron! I love that you freed the fish.

And a double hitter, great job CharlesD! I love it that you guys are remembering to do a task, and if the lucid is still going after that, you're able to think of another task and complete it as well. Keep working out them lucid muscles!!

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I have been lucid dreaming for many years. I recall having control over my dreams since I was a young boy. I joined the site a little over three years ago when I was curious as to what being able to manipulate my dreams was called, lucid dreaming, and I joined the site and ordered a few books on Amazon. I haven’t been active on the site in a few years. I’ve been having more frequent lucid dreams, DILD mostly, and thought I would come back to the site to fine tune these a bit and I discovered this thread on task of the month and found it interesting. I wonder how many I can pull off, hopefully a few?

Yay she!! Congrats I'm so sorry about the egg, that would have been awesome if you had been able to hatch it!

Also, welcome back LuckyLuke

Hmm, would a Yoshi egg count as a dinosaur? That would make things easier..

Originally Posted by PostScript99

Hmm, would a Yoshi egg count as a dinosaur? That would make things easier..

Yeah I don't see why not.

What is it with you people and your T-shirts? Wear a velcro-fastened stripper suit in your dreams and get on with it!

(Yeah, still bitter about my premature mirror dream)

You know, a common thing I have in non lucids is that I will try to get naked for whatever reason, taking a shower or sex, and I will keep finding another layer of clothing under what I just removed. There will be another shirt, another pair of underwear, and when I remove that there will be another one there.

Originally Posted by PostScript99

Hmm, would a Yoshi egg count as a dinosaur? That would make things easier..

It might be safer than a T-Rex.....

I hate that. I get something similar when I start a lucid dream in my bed, then I try to get up but there's neverending blankets and pillows on me. As soon as I leave the bedroom though, it's usually enough of a scene change that all the bedding gets left behind at the door, thankfully.

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

I hate that. I get something similar when I start a lucid dream in my bed, then I try to get up but there's neverending blankets and pillows on me. As soon as I leave the bedroom though, it's usually enough of a scene change that all the bedding gets left behind at the door, thankfully.

Yeah I've had lucid FAs with pillows stuck to my face. Frustrating beyond belief.

I have a dream journal tag called "trapped or restrained" for my endless variations on that kind of obstacle.
I'm beginning to wonder if it's a metaphor for life.

I succeeded at Basic Task of the Month (speaking gibberish to a DC.) Barely managed to remember the Task at the last minute!

A sour-looking girl of about eight with brown hair and freckles is waiting nearby, sitting on a piece of luggage. "Ooooooga booga booga!" I exclaim.

She looks very annoyed. "Can we please just skip the whole 'Mess with DCs' show?" I hear her fine, but her response shocks me into just saying, "What?" She sighs dramatically and repeats herself: "I said can we skip the whole 'Mess with DCs' show? Have you seen how long this line is? I am not in the mood."

Full dream: Reservations - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Nice CL. Remind me to send your subC a gift basket this Christmas, just for being such an ass.

Well, I tried to parasail over the ocean, but it was more of a lake, and there were no boats in sight. I started to fly off after instructing my friend (who had turned into a hippo) to grab on. In the dream I was convinced I was parasailing, but, alas, not quite there.

I'm back after a month or so break to get the juices flowing again. In fact, the thing that got me back is that I had a debate today, and I thought that the best way to start the day would be with an LD. I was not expecting to get one by any means after not trying for a month, and the fact that I achieved an LD and remembered the Basic TOTM is quite surprising to me.

Induction method: 2-minute WBTB (Sounds like a brand of noodles), DILD.

So I had several dreams before the lucid, some of which I can remember, but most have faded into the cloud of ambiguity. I started off in my hometown, and there had been some disease outbreak, probably zombies. Me and my extended family were scavenging to live, and had turned our boat into a land vehicle of sorts. The dream slowly morphed into a new scene, and a large city near me replaced the current setting, which made me subconsciously doubt whether I was conscious. It was still post-breakdown of society, and my school had rebuilt itself. The new rule was that high school wasn't compulsory, but me and my friend stayed anyway. After school, I went and started fighting crime for some reason, and I flew a helicopter from the helipad on a skyscraper, but quickly smashed into the building. This didn't shatter any glass, which also made me doubt the validity of that experience. Eventually I found myself walking down some sort of alleyway and stepping into a long hospital ward, and I immediately snapped to lucidity.

There was no trigger, it just sort of happened. I guess I was remembering how I set my intentions, and how I did a WBTB not long ago. Also, for the past month, every once in a while for no reason at all I'd just start doubting whether what I was doing was real, or if life is just a dream. It sounds pretty crazy, but I've just had really random existential crises every once in a while :p. I guess this habit could serve me well for DILD's.

Anyway, back to the hospital ward.
I wasn't too amazed by lucidity, as this is probably around my 20th proper LD, and the dream wasn't deconstructing, so I forwent my stabilization. I also didn't do an RC, but I probably forgot. I was fairly confident I was dreaming anyway.
So I decided that I never really gave flying a proper attempt, and I did a superman dive forward. I didn't think about belly flopping luckily, so I kept going and I flew down the ward really quickly. I got to the corner and remembered the basic TOTM II, so I decided to spin around in the form of a jumping 360 degree roundhouse kick to summon a mirror, don't ask me why, it seemed appropriate xD. I couldn't see a mirror, so I was a tad disappointed, until closer inspection revealed a small room that looked like a cross between an office cubicle and bathroom.
Feeling lucky, I decided to give it a shot. As I walked in, a mirror materialised. Remembering how my last attempts to look at my lucid self in the mirror created... destabilising shock and fear, I reminded myself that it was just my brain being a dumbass.

It was a laughable attempt at anatomy, try harder next time, brain.
My face was wrinkly, and had darker patches that changed shade. Everything except for my main features were swirling around like a disturbed bowl of soup. I had no ears, eyes in my sockets, or hair to speak of. My nostrils were large enough to put 50 cent pieces through, and inside my mouth was one giant blue eye, not even close to my normal eye colour. By this stage I decided I was pretty much done, and the dream was destabilising, so rather than wake up (I was feeling lazy :I) I decided to let go of lucidity and let a new dream form.

So yeah, I'm really happy with this. I'm going to give another task a shot tonight, probably the gibberish one, it sounds like it will be funny knowing my less than predictable DC's.

Originally Posted by Sibyline

Come on! I did basic II yesterday!

I know that feel bro

Naked but for a bra and sang along.

But then I notice that lots of DCs are sitting behind a table, starring at me, much like a jury. It dawns on me that this is the perfect opportunity to get naked. I look down/stretch my clothes and with a relief see that this time I am wearing an easy long white polo-style dress. I am still worried that I will wake up once it gets on my eyes, so talk to the DCs first. I tell them to sing along, I want to use the sound as an anchor. I keep repeating, now incorporating a melody "Sing along" as I take my dress off. I now go to take my panties off. Panties gone. I do feel a little weird after these actions, a DC woman is looking at me surprised. I really hope that this isn't for real. I am all naked but for a bra that I try to take off as I wake up.

Sing along

Having mocked others for their failed attempts at getting naked, the goddess of lucidity punished me for my hubris:

I looked down and saw that I was wearing a black crushed velvet dress. [...] I decided to get naked first and then look for an audience afterwards (the DCs from before had disappeared). I was just about to pull the dress over my head when I remembered having made fun of people for getting tangled in their t-shirts on this very assignment. I wasn't going to fall for that! So i decided to rip it open instead. Unfortunately, as I grabbed hold of the fabric and pulled, I thought, "This fabric is too thick," and of course nothing happened.

I fumbled some more after that, and got sidetracked. Let the ridiculing commence!

What if you imagined yourself growing larger, so that you burst through your clothes? You know, Hulk style.

Yes, we women love growing larger, don't we? How about shrinking?

Actually, it was an elastic dress with a big neck opening. I could just have pulled it down.

Originally Posted by Sibyline

Yes, we women love growing larger, don't we? How about shrinking?

Fair enough

Actually, it was an elastic dress with a big neck opening. I could just have pulled it down.

Or, get a particularly eye-easy DC to help

DANG ! I thought it would be Related Because Man of Steel Comes out this month