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.

I think it's more about having fun. What does or doesn't provide a "sweet outcome" is kinda subjective. What's fun/easy for one, may not be so for someone else. Even advanced tasks - some may have problem with some ability, but someone who just started out may be able to do it easily.

Tasks are picked for maximum fun and challenge for most of the people and for all levels of mastery. That should not stop anybody for setting up his personal goals.

Fail #1 Already....

11/05..2:00am I knew my rotted sub-c would get me in trouble

I'm in Aunt Marie's kitchen at the ranch who has been gone for 30 years so I figured 'm dreaming again. She was a great cook and she's baking pies and I remember the task of throwing a pie at a dc and getting the reaction when a visiting slutty neighbor farm girl walking around the kitchen in a blue baby doll asked me if I would like some pie and I smiled and nodded yes but by now throwing it was not in my plan and lucidity was on the wan, That would be mean and I don't like mean people much so I "Ate" the pie and when I looked like more the girl said there's more pie in the bedroom and after I followed her in like a dog I figured i'm going to have to try a different task, This one is not working at all and started to wake up and grab the recorder but was laughing so hard I almost lost the whole works...

There have been months where one of the advanced ones was easier for me because it fit in more with my personality or mental state in dreams, or was something I tend to do a lot already in dreams. In that case, it was more basic, at least for me, than the basic one was.

Originally Posted by CanisLucidus

Are you sure that we've always had this rule for tasks? It seems so restrictive.

For example, a great Advanced task from a long time ago was to write down a waking life memory while in a lucid dream. Incredibly easy to do in waking life, but quite advanced in an LD.

Doesn't it make more sense to just go by the difficulty of the task in an LD?

I agree, but still.... Advanced tasks should not be do-able in real life... that was a golden rule that was always followed... but I guess that now these lands are lead by new queens and kings with different ideas... and as life itself, things are become less and less challenging everyday (look at the childhood on the 80s-90s and at the current childhood

Sorry for bringing up my ideas.

PercyLucid, I appreciate the time you put into this forum before I joined and appreciate the idea of helping us to grow. Your criticism may have come across as unappreciative to those who are putting in the work now, though. Perhaps I was lazy going for the task that I did (yet I think it was more that I saw the perfect opportunity to do the task and then wanted to move on to my personal goals and I did - a flight up above Earth which was absolutely breath-taking). Perhaps many people will achieve it this month and it will give them the itch to keep coming back and try new things.

Edit: I do hope to see you around more since I can tell you have a lot of experience to bring to these forums.

Definitely trying both basics.

I didn't get good answers but I completed Basic task i. Here's the dream, one of my more interesting ones-Lucid #305-TTOM-Bad day for DCs - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

The answers I got was "Nothing" from the old man and "What!?" from the young lady. Obviously, I was having a stress dream. Though I completed the task, I'll try again for a better answer. I should have asked the clone of myself I came across in the lucid I had before this one this morning.

My phone prevented me from saying the months (although I was having a pretty hard time remembering the months anyway), but maybe next time.

Spoiler for dream:

I was in a store and I started singing "Jingle Bells". Everyone around me started singing and dancing, it was fun. I realised it was a dream, so I raised my hands to make them all shut up. Then I started "November, October, September, August, Ju... July? June... Ma... May?" and then my alarm went off.

Lucaspotter. If you have trouble, than grab a calendar and start with November, say it out loud and go on to the previous (lift the page). Should work if you believe!

Dang it. I had this dream earlier this month (on the third) and just realized the correlation. I was having trouble in waking saying them backward, so I quickly made a mnemonic device that I called Jason.
JFMAMJJASOND
^^D isn't in there. Because of December. And the rest I remember easily, so I decided with Jason I could easily go backward. That night I had this dream. Didn't recognize the connection till now. :/.

Spoiler for Jason is kind of a Douche:

I am on the cruise ship again. I look around, and it is the one from COD. I realize that I was here 5 minuted before in a dream. I RC/stabilize and decide to fly over the water and look for some cool stuff out here, like a dragon. I try to fly but am not able. Make a reason that it didn't work and a way that should fix it. I grab a fan and say that I need to have that with me to help me fly. I strap it onto my back and jump off the edge of the boat. I fly for one second and wake up.

Lay still... RC (try to levitate)... nothing. Slip into a DEILD.

I imagine myself floating over the sea with awesome boats going every which way, some steam punk, some sci fi, some just old like pirates of the Caribbean style. I realize now that I am seeing these and almost fully in the dream. I rub my hands together and can feel the sea wind in my face. I look behind me and see hundreds of people flying with me. The scenery suddenly changes and everyone is levitating a little over the ground, and the ocean is gone, I am now at a school yard, like a high school. Everyone lands on the ground and starts acting like we weren't all flying. I pass by someone standing near a tree that looks familiar. It is RDC! I stop and turn around. I grab RDC's hand and tell RDC that we need to talk about these dreams. RDC shakes head and transforms into a kid that I know from church. I just leave and talk to Koharo, he is in an opening in the building that doesn't have a roof. I tell him that we should do a task, but he shows me something on a laptop. It is a picture of Jason (WHO IS JASON?). He says that Jason has put himself on all computers in dreams and can do anything he wants with them, he controls the lucid internet. I am surprised to see Jason walking down with the flow of people that seem to be making the same flowy walk that the people flying before were. I grab him and ask him how he got on the internet. Some kid comes and interrupts me, he keeps pestering me and I set him in a corner and draw out a barrier.
"If you try to leave this, you will be teleported away." I say to him, the barrier is invisible, but I can see a scratch on the wall where I drew it.
Jason is trying to leave again and I grab him.
"How did you get yourself on the internet in here?" I ask. He rolls his eyes and replies:
"I just kept uploading memes on the internet down here of myself and it just happened." he walked away.
"Why would you lie to me?" I ask, sensing that there is more to it.
"You don't need to know." He says and jumps onto the ceiling.
Koharo:
Looked like his avatar, was a bit taller than me, which is strange since I am normally taller than all DCs.
Jason:
Long brown hair, reminds me of sunshine from Remember the Titans.
Tall, at least a foot taller than me 6'1, which would be 7'1. Er... 186 CM vs him being 216 CM
Confident.
Smug.

Failed again, but at least I had a lucid dream again last night.

Spoiler for dream:

I tried to summon myself, but summoning myself seems to be harder than I thought. I summoned a mirror instead, cause I figured I could talk to my reflection. Turns out I can't. So I decided to try the months thing again... I started with "Dectober". Then I remembered that "Dectober" is the last month, and I'm supposed to start with "Noctober". I finally got it right with "November", then I went to "October", then "Septober"... I realised there was something wrong with that, so I started again... "November", "October", "September!!!", "August", "July" and I woke up.

After this LD i want to eat a pie with jam
I was near my village house, understood that its a dream, made RC and flew a bit. Then remembered TOTM with pies. I had several DCs near me, so i summoned pie and threw in the nearest. But missed. I summoned a lot of pies (about 20) but only 2 or 3 hit the DC's face. But DCs didn't react on me. i don't like it because i wanted the pies destroyed and theese pies jumped from the taget like balls. So i summoned a bottle with cherry jam. Put it with my hand and throw in the nearest man. It was in the white shirt. And in his daughter. i saw red spots from my jam on their clothes. The man came to me and spit in my face. But missed and the spit was on my hair. I went to the road, transformed the road into the river and washed the spit. and exit to real.

I'm not quite sure if I made the basic task in which you have to ask a DC what they're thankful for.

Spoiler for Basic Task (completed?):

The dream got started by my nightmare ( Grudge girl) but I was surprised that she actually assisted me to become lucid(Not that I was scared which I wasn't) by telling me :"You can become lucid if you truly believe so".Iv been lucid for about for one minute when I exit a store in a shopping mall. I see a woman approaching me, shes a wearing pink shirt and tight jeans, I guess shes about 30-years-old. I go invite her to sit with me to a bench near to us and we sit down. I quietly (but not like a creep) whisper in her ear : " What are you thankful for?" She starts sobbing a bit,I get confused and after three seconds she replies :"Don't you ever dare to love somebody more than you love yourself, because every time you do, love for yourself slowly fades away--" ~ Can't remember the rest of what she said but it felt important. And so far I haven't loved anybody more than I love myself (I'm not a narcissist). So I guess she meant shes grateful for me loving myself? After receiving the answer I boosted to the sky like Neo and after a while I lost my lucidity.

Is there a way to improve my recall for dialogues that Iv had with dream characters? This is a problem for me

Originally Posted by Mikasan527

I'm not quite sure if I made the basic task in which you have to ask a DC what they're thankful for.

Spoiler for Basic Task (completed?):

The dream got started by my nightmare ( Grudge girl) but I was surprised that she actually assisted me to become lucid(Not that I was scared which I wasn't) by telling me :"You can become lucid if you truly believe so".Iv been lucid for about for one minute when I exit a store in a shopping mall. I see a woman approaching me, shes a wearing pink shirt and tight jeans, I guess shes about 30-years-old. I go invite her to sit with me to a bench near to us and we sit down. I quietly (but not like a creep) whisper in her ear : " What are you thankful for?" She starts sobbing a bit,I get confused and after three seconds she replies :"Don't you ever dare to love somebody more than you love yourself, because every time you do, love for yourself slowly fades away--" ~ Can't remember the rest of what she said but it felt important. And so far I haven't loved anybody more than I love myself (I'm not a narcissist). So I guess she meant shes grateful for me loving myself? After receiving the answer I boosted to the sky like Neo and after a while I lost my lucidity.

Is there a way to improve my recall for dialogues that Iv had with dream characters? This is a problem for me

Some people struggle with remembering different things during dreams. For me, all conversations are the first thing I forget, so if I have a lucid with interesting conversations with a DC, I write that down first. If you improve your recall overall, it will improve your recall during lucids as well. If you are confused about tags to write during the night when you wake up from a lucid, write the thing that you will forger first and then a theme for the dream, and then the word lucid. I have had a bunch of times that I wake up and think that I had no lucids, saw the note, the theme, and the thing that I thought I would forget, instantly it rushes back to me.

Completed Basic Task 1
And I may need these wings before its over

11/10
7:30am I had the old plane taken out of mothballs after ten years to fly to my niece's for thanksgiving and left here with it but when I got there I was flying without one and figured I was dreaming but it was fun, She was waiting to pick me up and said she saw my lights when I turned final and thought it was so cool how I landed and taxied up and shut down the engines without even an airplane..She took me to her house and we were sitting around with everybody talking at once and I remembered the task and asked what she was thankful for this thanksgiving and she said she was thankful I had finally come home for Thanksgiving dinner..........
ps: (Food for thought) ATC told me to plan a left base approach without an airplane.

^^ d'awwwwwwwwwww, that is so sweet. Congrats on the basic! You and Mikasan, she, Dolphin, Charles and CL. And to fogelbise on the advanced. I'm starting to bite my nails here.....

I finally had another lucid to ask what a DC was thankful for. I was in culinary school when I became lucid while a teacher was putting on an impressive performance of Mozart's sonata for 2 pianos in D. The teacher said, "I'm thankful you came to join us, especially in the kitchen."

I'll try the advanced task.

I'm going to work really hard at the first basic task. Been so long since lucid dreaming even came to mind but I have faith in myself. It seems simple enough.

Here you go... One ToTY and the ToTMs done...

Riding a turtle, biting and breaking a shark in two and completing the ToTM underwater. - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

13.11.2013

Riding a turtle, biting and breaking a shark in two and completing the ToTM underwater. (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Both tasks of the month and third task of the year done... only 3 ToTY to go (hence I started working on them on mid October!) However, I L-DEILDed into a brand new dream and did a 4th Task of the Year, which I will report in a different one.


I was with some friends outside doing some camping and we were chatting about ET beings and ESP. One of them, had firecrackers and lit one that looked like a tennis ball. it blew up a few times and then, it turned into a grayish tennis ball. I was told that it would take between 3-4 minutes to blow up. We started to play catch and playing the game "bomb" with it. I felt it was dangerous as we were kicking it and grabbing it with our hands, it could blow away one of our hands if we were unlucky, talk about a risky "bomb" game. I had the guts to run down so stairs, grab it with my hand and fling it away. I successfully did and it went to one of my friends. As my friend hit it, it started to explote but did not hurt my friend. It went under my car and I was worried it would blow up my car, but nothing happened.

I then went to an airport for some reason with my wife and we traeveled to Australia. As soon as I entered the plane, I was in australia already (there was no plane... the door to the plane it ported me to Australia.) We were going to some sort of hotel and I realized there was some sort of event. I felt it was about Psychic Mediumship and wondered if I could join the class to sharpen my skills. I saw a couple people chatting and it appeared it was a Christian gathering. I felt threathened as most Christians dislike Psychics. One of the gals who was very friendly tried to flirt with me, but I was not interested and left.

I went into some building that had a 12 feet deep pool, but it was like a cave. I found a lot of gold coins and started to fill up my pockets excited because I could make some good money selling them.

As I was picking up the coins, I wondered how I would take them out from the dream world into real life, and then, realized that it was impossible to do that. I decided to work on the Tasks of the Year. I was in Australia after all!

I started to swin within this cave alike pool and focused on appearing at the Great Barrier Reef. As I came out from the water, there I was. Funny enough, there was a weird sign that said Great Barr*& R4th or something like that... who cares... I was there.

I saw a sea turtle and I sat on the top of it. The turtle (that was swimming) started to sink, but it was moving forward still. The shell was very slipery, but I was able to ride it for a while. Check.

I then started to swim with my wife and I saw a great white shark. I recalled I had to kill one, so I placed one arm right above his head and the other arm on the tail. I tried to break the shark in half like if it was a wooden stick. The shark was moving nonstop, but it was not slippery, it was dry and hard like a rock. I recalled I had to bite it also. So I munched on the back of the shark and chewed a small piece. The texture was like a gummy shark, but it had a taste of salt, fish and blood. It was a bit gross.... Upon doing it, I kept pushing both ends of the shark until I head a "crack" and the shark was like a triangle on my hands... the actual skin did not break nor there was blood or anything, but the skelleton broke in two. A few seconds later, the shark vanished within my hands... weird... oh well, 3rd task of the year done.

I took a swim with my wife and while underwater, told my wife that the task was done and told her I could still do another one. As I was speaking, I remembed that it was only one ToTY per dream. I wondered what I needed to do.

My wife told me, "How about the Task of the Month." Without excitement I replied, "Oh... yeah..." and with a silly and mockery voice I told her, "What are you grateful for?" She replied, "I am grateful for my success." I said, "Good.... Now that silly months thing... November, October, September, August, July, June, May, April, March, February, January." ToTMs done...

I emerged from the water and exited the bulding. I saw a giant turkey in front of a store. The turkey was made out of plush. I believed I had to carve a turkey too, so I spawned a huge knife and pulled out some plush from it (it is a turkey, not specified it had to me an edible one, but this was not a ToTM anyway, the ones done were, so who cares.) I also remembered there was a hard ToTM to get done, something about some Pharao but I could not recall well.

My dream started to fade, so I allowed it to happen but focus on doing my own L-DEILD technique (Lucid-Dream Exit Induced Lucid Dream, a 100% success rate for a DEILD starting from a Lucid Dream.

I kept repeating to myself, "I won't move when I wake up and I will enter another lucid dream." The dream faded completely and I woke up with sleep paralysis... Then another lucid started to form. But this goes in the next dream... other ToTY done...

Finally the basic task! A DILD: I asked a DC what he was thankful for, and he stared straight ahead, and cupped the air in front of him with each hand as if he were imagining breasts, and said,

"I'm thankful for those gigantic, white, soft, fluffy...... flying kittens."

I patted him on the back of his shoulder and lolled. I just love these guys

Whole dream http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/ophe...m-basic-52593/

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

"I'm thankful for those gigantic, white, soft, fluffy...... flying kittens."

I love it! I think I will make that my new code word and no one will have any idea what I am talking about! "mmm...flying kittens"

I counted the months, from November to January! DJ.

Spoiler for for LD:

I was in a bus and my mum was near me. We spoke about lucid dreaming and i understood that its a dream. I said it to DC of my mum and began count the months backwards. it was easy and i add December in the end. The bus was running in the street with exotic plants and i enjoy the view. Then i suddenly ( i don't know why) shaked my head in dream and awoke.