Thread: Task of the Month for July 2013

Originally Posted by Brony

Would punching a god count? Or does it have to be someone mortal? I kinda wanna punch Deimos or Phobos.

We'll make that a future task

I'd like to punch a centaur, personally

I, of course, couldn't remember any of the other tasks except for the bonus one. My dream self thought it would be a good idea to order the random DCs milling about to build a volcano.
I have a weird habit of making the DCs do my landscaping for me, when I am too lazy to do it myself. Come back to a building and find that it isn't as tall as you want it? Start yelling at everybody to build a taller one. Not enough trees in a random field? Begin ordering people to build trees.
I began telling everybody to build a volcano. When they didn't obey, I began screaming "MORE LUCIDITY MORE LUCIDITY!" They were a little reluctant to start, but all I got out of it was a small mound of earth. Yeah, that wasn't going to cut it.

Originally Posted by Silvernighthawk

I, of course, couldn't remember any of the other tasks except for the bonus one.

An idea that might help is bringing your memory along as some sort of DC like a hawk or make it into a notebook, and when you want to remember something just ask the DC or check the notebook.

Originally Posted by Brony

An idea that might help is bringing your memory along as some sort of DC like a hawk or make it into a notebook, and when you want to remember something just ask the DC or check the notebook.

That is an epic idea. I have to try that, thanks!

DC labor? That's brilliant!!

What a way to utilize your resources!

Spoiler for for dream:

i ate sweets and my tooth fell out. I was upset that i need to go to dentist, count fingers....felt relief .About half a minute i rememberd the TOTM, and then decided to hug somebody. It was night. I saw a company of young women. They came and i hug one of them. The reaction was normal, like we are friends, but the girl was pregnant...i hug the other girl but she was pregnant too. I didn't like it and i became to loose control and woke up. I felt real but decided don't move to have DEILD.

DEILD I was in the same place, looked at my hand - there were so many fingers, that i needn't to count. I desided to eat fireworks. I went to the table - there were a lot of things, and fireworks too. I took one, the size of my fist. But i couldn't swallow it - it was too big. I took small little firework - like candy and swallow it. Then i tried to shoot it from the fingers, and in some time i had small sparks I tried to make sparks from the mouth. I could and the sparks was bigger. I opened the door in the wall intended a volcano behind it. Made a step and there was big town under the big volcano. There was big black smoke column. I began to climb the volcano but there was a splash of lava and when it touch the ground it turns into red squirrels!!!! There were a lot of red squirrels and red kittens around me!!! I felt that something took me into real and awoke.

I succeeded at Basic Task of the Month (hug a DC) and failed the Advanced Task of the Month (punch a President) by summoning NewArtemis, hugging her, and then having her help me to kick the ass of a 12-foot-tall Woodrow Wilson. To my everlasting shame, I got sort of scared and woke up.

Full dream: Woodrow the Giant - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

I to my surprise got another LD last night!!

I think I may have possibly succeeded at the Basic Task Of The Month - Visit a beach and write your name in the sand. It was kind of a beach, more like a lake which had sand round the edge. Also I failed Advanced Task Of The Month - Punch a president.

The dream is here, see if you think I succeeded or not

I failed the punch a president task, but it was still a vivid LD and right on track, but it ended too soon. Silly me, for trying to work up a whole story line.

07-03-13 WILD Almost completed TOTM - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Hopefully I can LD tonight. I've had a change of heart though. I'm gonna punch Kim Jong Uen instead of Obama. Then eat fireworks and shoot them in honor of Independence Day.

I completed my first task of the month! I hug dc's a lot now so hugging another one was easy. I was hoping I would be able to hug some cute girl but I had to hug my dog I used to have instead, because it was the first dc I saw . After I hugged it licked my face and looked like it was happy to see me. Lucid #191-basic Totm success - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

That dream was so sweet with the dog and everything, it made my day <3

You know, I usually have NONlucids about past pets, so I wake up sad. Having a lucid about a past pet seems like it would be really cathartic though. Future TOTM idea, thanks for the inspiration

So getting back into LDing has been a little hard I won't lie. But I can feel it in me. Tonight has got to be the night!!!

Originally Posted by ineverwakeup97

So getting back into LDing has been a little hard I won't lie. But I can feel it in me. Tonight has got to be the night!!!

Trust me, I know how you feel. I also know that you will get it

Ok basic i was easy:

I am driving from that I think was the beach. Was is the Georgia trip? It starts snowing ridiculously hard and the scene whites out.

I have a FA and I know that I am dreaming. I am in the house from my late teenage years. My parents are milling about not paying attention to me. I remember the task to hug a DC. My dad is the closest and I reach out and hug him tightly. I remember negative feelings I have toward him and I let them go. I say, "I love you, Dad." He doesn't really seem to react much to this but I feel good telling him that and I continue down stairs...

Advance ii not so much:

...I have another FA. I nose plug and continue out of the room. There is a long hallway in the darkness and as I walk it begins to grow and stretch longer and longer. My crotch feels odd and I get the feeling like some force is holding me back. I start to panic. I realize this is turning nightmarish so I relax, calm myself and focus on moving forward. Almost instantly I am at the end. There is really large living room with a kitchen bar to the left. Where am I this time? It's too dark to see but I notice some red led on the wall. Must be a smoke detector I reach on the adjacent wall and feel for a light switch. I flip it expectantly and a the light on a ceiling fan brightens the room. The room looks alien yet familiar. It feels like some apartment. I yell making funny sounds just to hear the odd dream sound of my voice. Then, I try to think what to do and all I can remember is the fireworks task. I spot a buffet with a lot of junk on it. I start rummaging around and pick up a match. I say, "There's the matches." Then I see a single bottle rocket. I looks just like a Moon Traveler. "There's the firework." I put the match in my mouth and then the bottle rocket. I have to break the stick to get it to fit and have a hard time swallowing. I feel like I might choke so I just let it sit there and it quickly dissolves. Now I point my finger across the room at some glass sliding doors. I feel uncertain how this so I just point and wait. I try to focus on the bottle rocket shooting out of my finger tip but I wake up before anything happens.

Full dream: http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/xano...r-eater-48283/

What do you do when you unexpectedly find yourself dreaming on a lazy Sunday morning? Try another basic task followed by an advanced one! I even tried for the bonus task but ran into some trouble.

I find myself on a beach at the base of a mountain cliff. There's some dim light in the sky, but it looks like the sun has just disappeared behind the horizon. I decide that I'm going to write my name in the sand. First, though, I need to find a good place to do it. The strip of beach I'm on is very narrow, and there are waves washing up from both the sea and, oddly enough, there are waves coming in the opposite direction from the mountain. I walk down the beach until I found a wider stretch. Then I proceed to write my given name in the sand. The sand itself feels almost liquidy as I spell out my name. When I'm done, the sand starts to bubble like boiling water until my name is no longer there. It's kind of funny to me since I'm not really fond of my given name anyway. Once the sand settles, I go back and write my nickname "Thena" in the sand. I accidentally walk over the "n" and "a" at the end, but I'm able to fix them. This time, the name stays put.

I want to try one more task, and I struggle to remember the details of the volcano task. But when I turn to scan the horizon for a volcano, I find Obama standing right behind me. His proportions are a little bit off. He's only an inch or two taller than me (I'm barely 5' tall while I'm sure the real Obama is over 6' tall) and his head seems slightly larger than the rest of his body, like a bobblehead. I immediately start repeating, "Oh my god, I am so sorry." This isn't who I planned on punching when I first read the task! But I have to do it because I'm not sure when I'll get another chance. So I punch Obama with my fist making impact with the right side of his face. I don't think my punch has all that much power, but Obama reacts as though I really hurt him. He even spits out a tooth that was knocked loose. He gives me this icy glare as though he's really angry. Then he turns around and walks away.

I try again to remember what was involved in the volcano task, but I'm fuzzy about the details. I remember climbing a tree in a previous lucid dream just because I could, so this time I climb straight up the side of the cliff. When I reach the top, I look around for a volcano, but there isn't one. Then I dive off the cliff into the sea. I go straight down into the water before surfacing. This time, I see a sunny island right in front of me with a single mountain peak that dominates the whole island. There's smoke rising from the top, so I know this has to be an active volcano. Something that amuses me at the time is that I can even hear Hawaiian music. I decide that I'm going climb the side of the mountain, but it bothers me that I can't remember what I'm supposed to once I reach the top. But the sides of the mountain are so smooth and so perfectly sloped that it feels a bit like climbing up a slide.

I typically average about one lucid dream a month, so I figured that I was done since I had one earlier in the week. Also, I just learned that my work hours are going to change so that I'll be starting at 7 AM five days a week. I was actually worried that I was going to lose chances to have more lucid dreams if I can't sleep in on a regular basis. Guess this was my subconscious mind's way of telling me not to give up.

Completed the bonus task! Very convincing volcano! OUCH!!!

Here it is, 07-06-13 Hot Tubs and the Lava. TOTM WILD - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Thanks OpheliaBlue, it was actually a total blast! I am running out of goals (have none, need to sit down and dream some up) so it is nice to do some you come up with. Good fun.


EDIT: Did not realize I was supposed to drink some lava. Oh well.

Originally Posted by Brony

An idea that might help is bringing your memory along as some sort of DC like a hawk or make it into a notebook, and when you want to remember something just ask the DC or check the notebook.

I actually tried that. It sort of worked, but not quite how I expected it to:

Originally Posted by Sibyline

Now I couldn't remember what else I wanted to do. But I had prepared for this. My cousin appeared and reminded me of the notebook I had prepared IWL. I had made a few pages of simple drawings of dream goals, and now I was going to see if I would remember anything in a dream. I have to say that even at this point I doubted that it would work, so that's what happened. My cousin handed me the notebook, and it looked wrong. It was too big and looked worn. I opened it, and it was full of useless scribbles. Nevertheless, I did suddenly remember one goal! I wanted to see if my subconscious could help me find a misplaced item, so I... don't know exactly how I asked, but I found myself at a table in the kitchen, holding a box.

I still have the notebook, and I intend to use it again when I have trouble with my WL recall.

Aside from not obtaining lucidity very much latly I made it a very determined goal to complete 1 task this month I'm almost imbarrest to say for as long as I have been practicing my dream recall and obtaining lucidity I haven't ever completed a TOTM :-( this month I will .......

Completed Basic Task I and the Bonus task.
I was in some sort of dark building, and I became lucid. After doing my usual "Oh, this is a dream!" statement, I remembered the first Basic Task. The building was pretty small, and there was only one DC, so I approach him. He's a tall, buff guy in his thirties, wearing a gray muscle shirt. He has really short buzz cut hair and big, defined muscles Basically the one person in the gym you wouldn't want to mess with. I approach him slowly and cautiously, and give him a hug. I only come up to just below his chest. After the quick hug, I pull away, and he has an awkward, shy smile on his face. I turn away from him and I walk out of the building, with the guy following me. I come into an abandoned parking lot in front of what I can only assume is a school building. I turn around to glance at the DC that I hugged, but he has turned into a fat lady wearing pink.
I remember the bonus task, so I point a finger at the school rooftop, and yell, "VOLCANO!" I don't look at the school, and I imagine a volcano growing out of the top with lava pouring down its sides. I climb up, to find a tiny little volcano top growing out of the roof. A splat of lava flies out and lands near my feet. It is the color of melted cheddar cheese. I'm briefly afraid of it burning me, but I push aside my fear-it will only be hot if I think it is hot. I step inside the volcano top and into the lava, which is a pleasantly warm temperature. I reach down and grab a handful of the lava, which acts exactly like melted cheese-it starts to slip out of my fingers. I stuff a big handful in my mouth-and surprise!-it tastes like mild, melted, cheddar cheese. I marvel that you can taste things in dreams, and I stuff another handful in my mouth, while other DCs look at me strangely.

Damnit Ophelia, No naked tasks?

Still going to attempt last months get naked in front of a bunch of people, or hug a DC naked?

We'll see.

Originally Posted by EmptyBucket

Damnit Ophelia, No naked tasks?

Still going to attempt last months get naked in front of a bunch of people, or hug a DC naked?

We'll see.

I thought the whole reason for dreaming was to be able to run around naked without getting arrested

Haha you guys are killing these! No worries @Sivason. It at least counts as advanced, even if you didn't remember to drink the lava.

I got some basic tasks this morning myself:

The hall opened into a sunny little play room that doesn't exist irl. A 3-year old version of my son Chris was playing on the floor with some colorful blocks. Perfect! [A little side note about 3-year old Chris: that was the age he was when we had to go to a shelter, and he had regressed somewhat during all the turmoil. Point is, it was during a crappy time for me too, so I feel in many ways that me and Chris missed out on a lot of fun during his 3-year old time. When I was 3 and my parents were split up, my mom took me to Disneyland. Alot.] Happy to see cute lil Chris, I just bent down and picked him up and hugged him super hard and long. Best feeling ever

Then I thought of the write name in sand task, and I noticed that part of the playroom had a sand pit. I won't really count this task because it was indoor sand, but I told myself at that time that in case I don't find a beach later, I'll just try it here. I wrote "Lisa" fairly easily, then "Ophelia" next to it .

Whole Dream (including the part where I tried to jump into Mount Fuji for the Bonus)

Now, off to the wing factory!!

Ok, I did too but I left it on the recorder to go fishing...... I go fix. BRB