Thread: Task of the Month for November 2013

Introduction:
This topic is for the Lucid Tasks that are assigned by the Lucid Task Club and the On-Topic Administrator. Please attempt any or all of these tasks throughout the month.

Report back in this thread, even if you didn't successfully accomplish the task. Your efforts should make interesting reading! This is required in order to get credit, it is no longer sufficient just to say that you did it.

When you complete a task: go to your control panel, then to permission groups, and request to be in the group that applies to the task that you've done: either a basic or an advanced or both (specify in the description field if it was the bonus task). Of course you still need to post the dream here because we check.


Whoever completes any of these tasks gets the following goodies until the end of the month:

• Your name will be displayed in ORANGE in the online members list at the bottom of the main forum page.
• You will receive a special title and badge.
• You will receive access to the "Lucid Task Club" which is a limited access forum for people that complete a lucid task each month. Members of this club can submit suggestions for the next month's tasks.

Tasks for this month:

Basic Task i - Ask a DC what he/she is thankful for.
Basic Task ii - Throw pie in a DC's face and record the response.

Advanced Task i - Successfully count the months backwards from November to January.
Advanced Task ii - November 4th is King Tut Day. Find an Egyptian tomb and resurrect whatever is inside.

BONUS TASK!! - Be a family of turkeys, sitting down for a nice roast human dinner. Carve the human.

The bonus task sounds disturbing enough to be a Halloween-themed task.

Can't wait for new lucid dreams just to try those!

Thanks again OB! Bonus task is creepy...roast human...yikes! I still plan to try to operate on myself from last month just for fun...and try for November's basic & advanced separately.

These look tough, But I suppose My rotted subconscious mind can find something naughty to do involving a pie.....
That's one godawful ugly looking turkey

I'm game.

Well, was going to try tasks previous month, but didn't had time and broken sleeping schedule didn't helped either, but once i get back to having decent length lucids daily, or at least often enough, i surely will give those a try.
Finding tomb would be interesting one since i need dream scene change/teleport practice as well.

0_p what the heck! That is an awesome bonus task. I did rebmevon backwards last year, I am thinking about the November to january or ask a DC what they are thankful for.

I had what had to be my best lucid night so far. I was able to do the first part of my plan from the idea CanisLucidus gave me but didn't get to last months task of operating on myself...

*But I did November's Advanced II (full disclosure: I submitted the idea for the task, so that may have made it easier for me in that it was already rolling around in my mind before the it was posted as a task).

Excerpt: "Sure enough I am light as a feather where as I normally feel very heavy when getting up and know I am dreaming but my vision is very foggy so I pause and decide to do one of the TOTM I just read about last night. I recited the months from November backwards starting slowly got a few of them more quickly and going faster almost tripped me up at April to March as I thought what comes before April but slowed down and finished."

The full night's dream journal:
WILD Flight Up and Above Earth and Girl Friday, WILD M Skin on Skin, DILD - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Omg I typed the stupid bonus task wrong

Either y'all didn't notice or you think I'm even crazier

Edit: fixed. And wow, congrats fogelbise! Way to hit it right off the bat!! I admit that one will be a bit tough for me. I did rebmevoN last year and had to practice it in waking life first hehe. Great job especially for recovering after the trip up.

I knew what you meant...but I still think you're crazy!

Originally Posted by fogelbise

Thanks again OB! Bonus task is creepy...roast human...yikes! I still plan to try to operate on myself from last month just for fun...and try for November's basic & advanced separately.

Hehe - I had a non-lucid dream about performing surgery on myself:

This is a snippet I already posted next door:

I somehow thought it would be a good idea to create a pocket in my leg surgically to stow away my new "toys".
These were things for writing/drawing - with compass and all sorts of colourful practical things - bundled together into a geometrical shape - sort of a longish pyramid, with a bit of a prism structure.
So I did that - no pain - and was happy with it and the dream went on..

(I had been thinking of the October tasks.. but this wasn´t lucid..)

I gathered together these "toys" at a beautiful market - everything was very colourful - the fabric on the stalls - the things on display - people´s clothes.
I just took the things - it wasn´t necessary to pay.
And it was like putting pieces of a three-dimensional puzzle together.
I could draw this object maybe - it left a really clear picture behind.

For the surgery I used a knife with a white ceramic blade - similar to one of my kitchen knifes.
There was no room in my mind for details like pain - blood - how to close it up again.

I just made a cut - put the gadget-puzzle in - and closed the pocket by pressing the sides of the wound together.
I was convinced it would be just as easy, to open this up again.
There was a lot more - but this is all I remember from this dream.

Great ideas for the tasks!
I really want to manage them all!
Seems you are on a mission to lead the intrepid towards a state of - no fear - at least not of oneself - with your advanced tasks Ophelia!!

Do you know the movie : The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover?

Don´t click here, if you don´t want to: http://opinionatedalex.files.wordpre...-her-lover.jpg

No fear baby, I preach it all the time in life, and LDs are a great place to practice fearing not.

And I don't think I heard of that movie but I will check it out now thanks.

Edit: ok yeah I heard if it before when a friend asked me if I ever saw Helen Mirrin young and naked, besides on Excalibur lol

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

No fear baby, I preach it all the time in life, and LDs are a great place to practice fearing not.

And I don't think I heard of that movie but I will check it out now thanks.

Edit: ok yeah I heard if it before when a friend asked me if I ever saw Helen Mirrin young and naked, besides on Excalibur lol

It is a great movie by Peter Greenaway - you won´t regret it!
Great music too and fantastic optics.

Edit: May your teachings be absorbed!
And may I not stay up for too much more time now..

I just did the first basic one. I had been playing golf and had just hit a hole in one. I was so giddy with what I had done. I hit the ball on the green and then mentally guided it into the hole. I then went into a large glass building full of people at desks and I had a feeling this was my workplace. I wanted to tell everyone about my hole in one and as I was riding an escalator I went lucid because I realized I shouldn't have been able to guide the ball with my mind. My first feeling was disappointment because I knew the hole in one wasn't real. Then I took a minute just taking in the details of my surroundings and walked up to a good looking young woman sitting at a desk and asked her what she was thankful for. She replied, "Mike, you, and the guy who fixes my cars." Then I went out of the building by passing clear through the glass and I flew around for a bit until waking up.

Lol Charles. I just love those DC answers.

Yeah, they say funny things sometimes. The way she said Mike it was obvious he was a significant other, and maybe she was thankful for me because I was the boss or something.

I'm having a dry spell right now but tonight I will start trying for TOTMs This might just be the spell-breaker!

This morning I succeeded at Basic Task of the Month (asking a DC what they're thankful for.) I interpreted the response as basically "Why aren't you working on Task of the Year?"

Originally Posted by Basic Task of the Month

Far ahead of me on the path I see two ladies in their late 60s. They look almost exactly alike, with wild hair and somewhat thick glasses. Their appearance reminds me a bit of Professor Trelawney from Harry Potter. I remember the Task of the Month about asking a DC what they're thankful for. I become distressed for a moment that these DCs are too far away and I'll have trouble reaching them. I focus my vision on the two DCs and then imagine myself "zooming in" toward where they are. Immediately I'm standing right in front of them.

"Hi! What are you thankful for?" I say, my words a bit of a nervous, hurried jumble.

One lady immediately answers, "Youthful <something>."

"Youthful what?" I ask. "Can you say it again?"

"Youthful reef," she says firmly.

Huh? "What is 'youthful reef'?"

"It's an activity," she answers. Oh wait, is she talking about Task of the Year Australia? Should I be doing that one next?

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

Originally Posted by CanisLucidus

This morning I succeeded at Basic Task of the Month (asking a DC what they're thankful for.) I interpreted the response as basically "Why aren't you working on Task of the Year?"



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

LOL! Or did she mean "Youthful Reefer?" No matter what...great job!

Originally Posted by bemistaken

LOL! Or did she mean "Youthful Reefer?" No matter what...great job!

LOL. That's a better interpretation than my dreaming brain came up with! After all, she did say "It's an activity".

Omg CL that's hillarious. Can't believe she actually said reef. Guess you better listen to her

Oh and congrats!

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Advanced Task i - Successfully count the months backwards from November to January.

Kinda lame for an advance task don't you think, come on. LOL. Advanced tasked are supposed to not be do-able in waking life.

You did not choose any of my suggestions

Pouring gravy on the pumpkin pie would be fun

I'll guess is time to get busy... rush through the task and then, some real lucid dreaming Like that old "Ride a Unicorn" lame task a few years ago lol.

Originally Posted by PercyLucid

Kinda lame for an advance task don't you think, come on. LOL. Advanced tasked are supposed to not be do-able in waking life.

You did not choose any of my suggestions

Pouring gravy on the pumpkin pie would be fun

I'll guess is time to get busy... rush through the task and then, some real lucid dreaming Like that old "Ride a Unicorn" lame task a few years ago lol.

I believe that the tasks are supposed to just be hard to do in a lucid. Waking life memory is normally lacking in lucids, but if you can pull out waking life memories like that in lucids it is a good step in a lucid journey, or if you can just incubate it into your dreams, than that is a good step in your incubation journey. You are well along into lucidity, so you probably are a lot better at pulling waking life memories than most here. Honestly one of the things I struggle with the most. I am great at pulling memories if I remember to pull them, normally I just walk around doing things from previous lucids or goals from previous lucid that I didn't finish last time. Something I am trying to get better at. Normally when I try to get better though, I start losing frequency. :/

Originally Posted by BrandonBoss

I believe that the tasks are supposed to just be hard to do in a lucid. Waking life memory is normally lacking in lucids, but if you can pull out waking life memories like that in lucids it is a good step in a lucid journey, or if you can just incubate it into your dreams, than that is a good step in your incubation journey. You are well along into lucidity, so you probably are a lot better at pulling waking life memories than most here. Honestly one of the things I struggle with the most. I am great at pulling memories if I remember to pull them, normally I just walk around doing things from previous lucids or goals from previous lucid that I didn't finish last time. Something I am trying to get better at. Normally when I try to get better though, I start losing frequency. :/

Wrong... We have always had a golden rule for these tasks:

- Basic: Something do-able in real life that will add a partial challenge to force your memory to recall your task.
- Advanced: Something that it is impossible to do in waking life and require at least one or two dream abilities, plus recalling the task and some thinking.
- Task of the Year: Something that requires several dream abilities, dream control and huge memory recall in addition of some thinking.

Sorry, chanting a few months is a basic task... and a very, very basic one actually... Even though it is an easy task throwing a pie is actually much harder that saying the months backwards (maybe you will need to spawn a pie and/or you need the actual pie in the dream,) so it needs a bit of dream incubation or the ability to spawn a pie if you can't find one.

Originally Posted by PercyLucid

Wrong... We have always had a golden rule for these tasks:

- Basic: Something do-able in real life that will add a partial challenge to force your memory to recall your task.
- Advanced: Something that it is impossible to do in waking life and require at least one or two dream abilities, plus recalling the task and some thinking.
- Task of the Year: Something that requires several dream abilities, dream control and huge memory recall in addition of some thinking.

Sorry, chanting a few months is a basic task... and a very, very basic one actually... Even though it is an easy task throwing a pie is actually much harder that saying the months backwards (maybe you will need to spawn a pie and/or you need the actual pie in the dream,) so it needs a bit of dream incubation or the ability to spawn a pie if you can't find one.

Woah! I didn't know that there was a rule for those. If that is the rules, then you are right. You can easily do that in waking life.