Thread: Task of the Month for November 2013

The purpose of these are to exploit the ability of the oneironaut through challenge (tasks) motivation (making the oneironaut feel motivated) and rewarding (the wings.) For this reason, we always had some guidelines, these tasks should be more studied to make sure you meet them both.

- You can see how basic i and ii are in similar of difficulty. One for those more holiday themed and the other for those more mischievous and funny.

- Advance i is way too simple and neither does not provide a sweet outcome (such as throwing a pie or like I suggested, gravy in the pumpkin pie, something doable in waking, but that no one sane would do.) You can see a HUGE difference in dream-ability between both advanced i advanced ii. The human being is lazy by nature, and only a very few will try to do the advanced ii, due it's advanced requirement if you can just say the months backwards. This will result in less people trying the hard advanced and those who accomplish it, will have a not-so-valued reward... true, it is the same wings, but if you can earn $100 for one hour work and the same $100 for ten hours work... why wouldn't you work 1 hours if you get the same prize? This is the very reason you have a second pair of wings for those who complete the advanced tasks.

- Both basic must be at the same level and so, both advanced as well. In fact, advanced ii could meet the challenge of a lucid task of the year, as it requires several abilities, there is a huge unbalance here and only those who are very skilled will do the advance ii but the average have an easy way to earn the second pair of wings... and it is not about the wings, but the development of the oneironaut.

I have been the MILD teacher for this community and on topic admin for a reason (until I ran out of time.) If you see the tasks I assigned two years ago, they have been carefully picked to meet these guidelines, and in the long run, means more development for our oneironauts, which should be the goal of these.

Just my two cents.

Originally Posted by PercyLucid

The purpose of these are to exploit the ability of the oneironaut through challenge (tasks) motivation (making the oneironaut feel motivated) and rewarding (the wings.) For this reason, we always had some guidelines, these tasks should be more studied to make sure you meet them both.

- You can see how basic i and ii are in similar of difficulty. One for those more holiday themed and the other for those more mischievous and funny.

- Advance i is way too simple and neither does not provide a sweet outcome (such as throwing a pie or like I suggested, gravy in the pumpkin pie, something doable in waking, but that no one sane would do.) You can see a HUGE difference in dream-ability between both advanced i advanced ii. The human being is lazy by nature, and only a very few will try to do the advanced ii, due it's advanced requirement if you can just say the months backwards. This will result in less people trying the hard advanced and those who accomplish it, will have a not-so-valued reward... true, it is the same wings, but if you can earn $100 for one hour work and the same $100 for ten hours work... why wouldn't you work 1 hours if you get the same prize? This is the very reason you have a second pair of wings for those who complete the advanced tasks.

- Both basic must be at the same level and so, both advanced as well. In fact, advanced ii could meet the challenge of a lucid task of the year, as it requires several abilities, there is a huge unbalance here and only those who are very skilled will do the advance ii but the average have an easy way to earn the second pair of wings... and it is not about the wings, but the development of the oneironaut.

I have been the MILD teacher for this community and on topic admin for a reason (until I ran out of time.) If you see the tasks I assigned two years ago, they have been carefully picked to meet these guidelines, and in the long run, means more development for our oneironauts, which should be the goal of these.

Just my two cents.

I empathize.

Personally, I think counting months backwards in waking life is a difficult and uninteresting task, so, why would I want to do it in a dream?

We can do literally almost anything in a dream. We can visit other planets, morph into mythical beasts, wield superpowers, shoot fire out of our fingertips, and lightning out of our eyeballs. I personally suggest that all tasks of the month/tasks of the year be things that are impossible to do in waking life. I have found that easy tasks that I can do in waking life are actually extremely difficult to do, because they bore me. When a task is exciting and fun, I find it's much easier to get that to incubate deep into my subconscious mind. When I first came to DV some years ago, I found the ToTM to be well thought out, challenging, fun, and interesting. One year, I was one of only three or four people to complete the ToTY. That same year I also did almost every ToTM. I became frustrated, over time, when it seemed to me like no one's suggestions for the ToTM or the ToTY were being considered, even people who had completed many of the tasks of the year and month over and over like myself.

My suggestions to improve the ToTM: polls. For example: the staff posts 5 different choices for each category for ToTM two weeks beforehand, and whichever one gets voted up becomes the task.