Thread: Task of the Month for December 2013

Originally Posted by StephL

Hehe - now you triggered a picture in my head of a wolf with a cup of coffee in front of your computer - nice woblybil!

Damn Snowman.......There may really be a wolf with a cup of coffee right now..
I went to a Spaghetti dinner put on by some old hens in town and one of them showed us a little dancing snowman that sang a song, Fulla da spagetts I went home and took a nap and there sure as hell was the snowman waiting for me but I didn't make him or animate him,

Finally remembered to do TOTM in dream, done basic #2

Spoiler for Dream:

[COLOR="#FF0000"]There was some game/2D scene, two Starbound players were fighting on the bridge over lava. Equipment of one of them was weaker but he somehow manages to defeat other player. He returns in stronger armor and weapons covered in fire, they start dueling with bows. Then one of them drops the bow and i suddenly wake up there's some DC and i feel that i am dreaming, then i wake up again and get up. Dream is pretty unstable and i accidentally close eyes for a bit, that reminds me of TOTM and i close them again, and count to 10. On 10 there's weird sound and i find myself teleported to a different place, which is kinda weird small room. Then i wake up again twice.

So I've been doing my own thing lately but have kept some of these tasks as a backup plan. This morning I decided to go with the Basic i. Ask a DC for a gift. It turned out to be a really long and vivid dream with a smarter than usual DC.

Spoiler for Basic i:

]I am now in what looks like a waiting room lobby full of people. As I stroll through, I spot an extremely beautiful blonde woman lounging in an arm chair. The room darkens save for a beam of light on the woman. She appears to be from the 40's era but looks strangely like an older version of a Disney star who's name escapes me at the moment. I stop dead in my tracks with my jaw on the floor. I timidly approach the woman having real anxiety and shyness. When I get close she looks up at me. I am barely able to speak at first but my words suddenly rush out at the end, "Um hey. Um so...do you have a gift for me?" I give a nervous smile.
She smiles and nods, "Mmmm Hmmm."
I suddenly lose my nervousness at the prospect of sex, "Oh do you?"
She just rolls her eyes and gets up moving to the other side of the room. There is very large purse or cloth bag on a chair. She reaches in then pauses, "Wait. Do you have a gift for me?"
Shit! I am at a loss and begin to act like the guys in the elevator. I pat my pockets finding nothing but suddenly remember that I can just summon something. For some reason I don't want to be a show-off so I use expectation to find a gift sitting in the room. I turn around and there is a couch with people on it. I walk to the end and expect to find the present sitting on the other side. I push past a woman in a chair and reach down hoping it will appear. My hands grasp on a small box and it materializes before my eyes. It's neatly wrapped in white paper with green and red ornaments on it. Yes!

As I walk the package back to the woman I think that I had better decide what the gift is. I don't want it to be something lame. Judging by the size, I decide it should be jewellery. She's now holding a medium sized box wrapped in red paper with green stripes. We quickly exchange gifts and I tear into mine right away. It's a white box with some writing on it that looks a lot like a board game. I squint to read the yellow writing: NATIONAL LAMPOONS AND BREAKFAST CLUB TRIVIA. I ask if this is a board game and she nods smiling. "Thanks!", I say.
She now unwraps her gift revealing a black felt box. (The type you would expect to have jewellery in) Then, she asks an odd question, "Where does it go?"
I am confused and not sure I understand, "What?"
She repeats herself more clearly now, "Where... does... it go?"
Still thinking she is being very odd, I think "necklace" and trace a line on her chest near her neck. I answer, "Right there."
She smiles and begins to open the box as I take the seat next to her. She pauses, "Is it Lavender Ruby?"
I picture a white gold necklace with purple gems. Wonder what the hell is wrong with this woman I answer, "Well, It's um purple. Amethyst, I think."
She lifts the lid only slightly and quickly closes it looking a little disappointed.
Guessing her thoughts, I ask, "You're going to return it aren't you?"
Without looking at me, she gives a slight nod.
I become annoyed and a little hurt at this, "Why are you being a bitch in my dream?"
Her only response is a playful pouty-lipped-look. I feel bad about calling her a bitch and hug her then we kiss. The kiss feels odd and I suddenly break away.

Full dream: Hard To Please - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Lmao xanous. I kinda want the board game now! I will read the whole dream after work because I feel like the quoted part ended too soon...

Anyway congrats!!

Lol Yes. It was looooong and detailed.

I like 3/4 did the basic task! A DC helped me remember the task...

"I then remembered a task of the month to ask a character for a present. I ran up to one of the people around me, but was interrupted by two girls. One young one, one who was older and familiar. The young one asked me something but the older one said I had to do something to get the gift I wanted and held out a little wrapped gift. So we like got on a motorcycle or something because we started going somewhere really fast and I asked what the present was. I opened it and inside was a mask. It was purplish pink, had a beak on it, and apparently allowed me to fly she said. It kind of looked like it had three eyes too. I stared at it hoping that I would remember so I could draw it later, but the details of it shifted and were slightly unclear. "

Basic task (i)

http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/high...96-dild-53686/

Originally Posted by Xanous

So I've been doing my own thing lately but have kept some of these tasks as a backup plan. This morning I decided to go with the Basic i. Ask a DC for a gift. It turned out to be a really long and vivid dream with a smarter than usual DC.

Spoiler for Basic i:

]I am now in what looks like a waiting room lobby full of people. As I stroll through, I spot an extremely beautiful blonde woman lounging in an arm chair. The room darkens save for a beam of light on the woman. She appears to be from the 40's era but looks strangely like an older version of a Disney star who's name escapes me at the moment. I stop dead in my tracks with my jaw on the floor. I timidly approach the woman having real anxiety and shyness. When I get close she looks up at me. I am barely able to speak at first but my words suddenly rush out at the end, "Um hey. Um so...do you have a gift for me?" I give a nervous smile.
She smiles and nods, "Mmmm Hmmm."
I suddenly lose my nervousness at the prospect of sex, "Oh do you?"
She just rolls her eyes and gets up moving to the other side of the room. There is very large purse or cloth bag on a chair. She reaches in then pauses, "Wait. Do you have a gift for me?"
Shit! I am at a loss and begin to act like the guys in the elevator. I pat my pockets finding nothing but suddenly remember that I can just summon something. For some reason I don't want to be a show-off so I use expectation to find a gift sitting in the room. I turn around and there is a couch with people on it. I walk to the end and expect to find the present sitting on the other side. I push past a woman in a chair and reach down hoping it will appear. My hands grasp on a small box and it materializes before my eyes. It's neatly wrapped in white paper with green and red ornaments on it. Yes!

As I walk the package back to the woman I think that I had better decide what the gift is. I don't want it to be something lame. Judging by the size, I decide it should be jewellery. She's now holding a medium sized box wrapped in red paper with green stripes. We quickly exchange gifts and I tear into mine right away. It's a white box with some writing on it that looks a lot like a board game. I squint to read the yellow writing: NATIONAL LAMPOONS AND BREAKFAST CLUB TRIVIA. I ask if this is a board game and she nods smiling. "Thanks!", I say.
She now unwraps her gift revealing a black felt box. (The type you would expect to have jewellery in) Then, she asks an odd question, "Where does it go?"
I am confused and not sure I understand, "What?"
She repeats herself more clearly now, "Where... does... it go?"
Still thinking she is being very odd, I think "necklace" and trace a line on her chest near her neck. I answer, "Right there."
She smiles and begins to open the box as I take the seat next to her. She pauses, "Is it Lavender Ruby?"
I picture a white gold necklace with purple gems. Wonder what the hell is wrong with this woman I answer, "Well, It's um purple. Amethyst, I think."
She lifts the lid only slightly and quickly closes it looking a little disappointed.
Guessing her thoughts, I ask, "You're going to return it aren't you?"
Without looking at me, she gives a slight nod.
I become annoyed and a little hurt at this, "Why are you being a bitch in my dream?"
Her only response is a playful pouty-lipped-look. I feel bad about calling her a bitch and hug her then we kiss. The kiss feels odd and I suddenly break away.

Full dream: Hard To Please - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Hahahaha - "NATIONAL LAMPOONS AND BREAKFAST CLUB TRIVIA" boardgame!!

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Lmao xanous. I kinda want the board game now! I will read the whole dream after work because I feel like the quoted part ended too soon...

Anyway congrats!!

Me too - thought exactly that before reading your post!

Today I was really happy because I did basic task 1, maybe it doesn't seem much but I hadn't had a lucid dream for at least 6 months. I wanted to get started again and was reading on DV for some motivation and also read the TOTM because I like the tasks you guys make up.

Here goes; I was walking in my hometown and it was warm and sunny, in an instant I knew I was dreaming and did a quick RC to be sure. Then I remembered the basic task and saw a man riding a bicycle and holding a present. I didn't have to ask for it because he just puts it on the ground and cycles away. It was a big present with a nice wrapping, I pick it up and open it, inside there are lots of brownies and cupcakes and I start eating.
I guess I was hungry when I dreamed about it

breaking a dry spell of not sleeping - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Closed my eyes for 10 seconds.

Wow once more BrandonBoss - just read it!!
Aand - loving your sig, Chicken - is that from a movie? And if - which one?


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Originally Posted by StephL

Aand - loving your sig, Chicken - is that from a movie? And if - which one?

It's Doctor Who of course!

Thanks - which one?

Completed basic task I.... Kind of?

"I know you were sent here from the devil." The dog spoke, but it was jumbled and hard to hear. I threw the dog into the lake to drown. When i turn around and see a random lady, I remember I am dreaming and remember basic task i. I ask this lady "Can I have a present?" And the lady says "A present?! You have pissed me off. Here's your present." This is where she proceeds to strangle me. I kick her to the ground, and lose some lucidity.

The Devil's Closet - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

A present is a present?

HAHahaaa, sounds like you got it.

Not sure if this counts but I think I completed the basic 1 task of asking a DC for a gift. Here is my dream:

After about 30 minutes of petting my cat I am allowed to fall back asleep. Before I roll over in bed I tell my self to do a rc because I am dreaming. Of course I do the nose plug, but I can not quite get my fingers on my nose so I switch to the hand rc and count my fingers. At first there is only 5 but as I count the 3rd finger more start to show up. I get excited again but tell my self to calm down before I wake. When I exit the room again I try to remember another task. I deiced to try and get a gift from a dc again. As I am walking down the stairs I get excited again that I am dreaming in the new home. When I get to the bottom hubs calls out to me from the living room. I tell him not to worry about what I am doing because I am dreaming. I open the front door and walk out amazed to see I bunch of people camped out in the field. I love this and deiced to walk up to one and ask them for a gift. At first the male dc it confused then say oh yah I do have these to give you from a friend. He hands me three stacked round tins. The top one has what I assume is my name and look at the label, it says it is dark chocolate covered something. I try to open the tin but end up squishing it. I wonder if this is enough to say I complete the task and soon forget the totm. I turn to leave this group but get an idea. I turn back to the male dc I asked the gifts for. I ask him if he knows a person named U. He asks me why I am looking for him. I tell him no reason just wanted to meet him. I then ask if he knows M he gets up set about this a tries to dismiss me by walking away. I call after him what about A do you know her? Now most of the people in the camp are getting worried and trying to leave. I lost lucidity here. I follow the male dc I was talking to with another female dc by my side he calls over his shoulder to stop following him. I tell him not until her answers my questions and tells me where they are. We look to the side of this dirt mountain we are walking on to see some cars come racing to a stop. I get the dream knowledge these please are after me. So I turn and run telling the others to follow me I know a way out. Somehow I run into a building and find some stairs and start running down them as fast as I can. When I finally get to the bottom I exit out into an office lobby. I know this lobby from one of my other dreams. Before I can do anything else I wake

I tried the white wolf one a couple night ago, but I never fully completed the transformation. I was outside in an unfamiliar area when I remembered the task. I tired to shape shift into a wolf, and I manage to make claws grow out of my finger tips, nice sharp white claws, and I could feel long fangs growing out of my mouth, and I could tell the ground was getting a little further away, not quite right, but I guess werewolf is close enough. There also wasn't any snow, but I figured just turning into a wolf at will was at least part of the task, and then I could pounce and kill something else. But no matter how hard I tried I just couldn't finish, so I gave up and decided to try one of the basic tasks again, which is the ask a dream character for a gift, as this one actually interests me even more than the wolf thing (I transform into other people and animals quite frequently during many non-lucid dreams, so it doesn't really seem especially interesting to me) I don't remember what the dream character looked like, I want to say it looked like a woman wearing winter clothes, like a scarf and a wool hat. I ask her to give me a present, and she hands me something, and I take it. It's invisible but feels like it's the shape of an egg. She never says anything. I sort of feel unsatisfied with the gift.

In a dream from last night I become lucid again, and can only remember the gift giving quest, so I try that again. This time I am given a toy bull, although the dream character calls it a cow. It's sort of like one of those stress balls, it's outside is made of a sort of gooey rubber, and filled with what feels like sand. It's brown, mostly, and sort of crummy looking, but very distinctly it's supposed to be a bull. I am happy with this gift, as I can see it and tell what it is.

The third effort for my snowman finally worked out:

Flew around a bit - looking for snow - and it worked again, that from seeing something white - I was able to transform the landscape a bit in the difference into a winter-scene with thick snow lying on the ground.
No need to let it snow.
On the way - twice a DC wanted to lure me into doing something else - but I told them, I had no time.
Then I tried to transform into an arctic wolf.
The only thing I managed was feeling white hair growing from my body everywhere - and that took ages - somehow I gave up - thinking - common - December almost through - do at least that snowman.

And I did - a small one - maybe 40 cm all in all - but from real snow, and this time I had some stones and branches for a face and it looked nice and friendly.
Then I animated it - that was quite easy - I just pretended it was a dancing decoration snowman already - and it started dancing - it had two snow-ball feet (not from me..) and hopped from one to the other to a melody which he somehow caused himself.

Congrats on the task completion, Steph! Your determination was so strong that it affected my dream recall even before it happened. :bravo:

This is from the 25th:

I finally recall the snowman task. It's dark and there is already some snow on the street but it's not enough. I scan the area, looking for a place with more snow. Initially see these kids that are playing with the snow, in the process of building a snowman. I have a mix of real and false memories, where I remember that this is how Steph completed the TOTM, she built the snowman together with some kids. I don't want the task execution to be exactly the same, therefore I go to another place.

Here there's also lots of snow on the ground, cars and there are two snowmen in progress. I'm also thinking about journalling at this point and whether it is ok to use the half-ready snowmen. I decide to add the finishing touches on one of them and decorate the head. Conveniently, there are a number of items right next to the snowmen, so I just pick up the carrot nose and also put a woolen blue hat on it. I get some sort of dream memory from the hat and remark that the snowman looks very much like D (a schoolmate, who also makes lots of appearances in my dreams, come to think about it he does wear a blue hat). Two other classmates are now here and we are discussing this, while I am also thinking about how to journal this dream.

Without much effort and while I am not looking at him, the snowman turns into the real D and looks kind of pissed off. We irritate him more by making laughing noises behind his back. Can't recall the conversations. Another classmate appears, D is now friendlier I address them both to help me draw the wall of China.

Snowman D

OB, thank you for the Santa. Happy Holidays to all!

So weird, I didn't add that smiley O_O Maybe gab beat me to it, or it was already there. I was going to find one that looked like Santa's head or maybe a xmas tree or something after work.

Anyway, congrats on the snowman!

Originally Posted by StephL

The third effort for my snowman finally worked out:

You Snowman experience was so neat! Congrats!

I did the basic task i with 3 days to spare! I've been trying to officially do one of these for so long! Woohoo!

"... I remember I didn't quite complete the ToTM so I ask my DC mom who happens to be there for a present. She go grabs one out of a stack of presents that I apparently missed, and hands it to me. The wrapping paper on it was your average Christmas pattern of a color with trees all over it, and when I tore it open, there was another set of wrapping paper there, but this one was silver, and had these oval logos on it all saying "Dragon Force". I tore open this paper and inside was a box saying "Dragon Force" on it and inside the box were several dragon shaped gummies. I grabbed one and took a bite, and it tasted like a fruit roll-up. I looked underneath the dragons and there was another set of gummies that looked like transformers and also Galactus. I start laughing at the utter randomness that the gift turned out to be. ..."

I tried the Snowman task awhile back but it fell apart pretty quickly. Oh well. You win some you lose some!

sNOwman - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Enjoy your wings for one more day folks! I have a major holiday reset today so you'll have to wait for the next TOTM and TOTY installments until tomorrow.

Use the extra day to visit the task club and submit ideas if you wish. And Happy New Year Lucid Dreamers!!!