Thread: Task of the Month for January 2014

Cool tasks . Can't wait to try them if I get a chance.

Pretty excited this is the first time I have been able to participate and I was able to complete the basic. Tried part of the advanced but failed. Here is excerpts from Dream Journal.

Basic:
I climbed some stairs in front of me and entered some glass doors into the first shop I found. As I entered the shop there was a rack of coats by the door, I touched them to anchor myself further and yelled “focus” again as I turned a corner. I saw 2 guys and a customer (girl from the boat) at the counter. They were all looking at me since I just shouted a moment earlier. I thought of the new years TOTM again and walked up to the guy at the counter behind the register. I asked him “what is your new years resolution” he was very perplexed with this question. After a few seconds of him thinking he said got out …. “To think” and I said sarcastically “you want to think?”, the then said “ well I have an inspection coming up”…. “To pass inspection”. I was good with this answer and then backed up. I had a plan for the opposite TOTM. I stood on my hand (this was not graceful like I imagined, more like a neck/handish stand than a full on hand stand). I said “gravity is reversed today”. This was less dramatic than I anticipated as well but they did float up in the air like they were in space. I flipped back around content with this and as I left I told them “opposite day is later this month”.

Advanced:
Across the street were a dirt parking lot and a restaurant there. I flew over and landed in the lot. There were a few RVs in the lot and the restaurant was a seafood restaurant and it was up some stairs and off of a wooden deck. I decided to make myself invisible then. I closed my eyes and thought about brining my hand in front of my face and not being able to see it. I felt I was invisible and my eyes were still closed, right before I opened them again I thought about people who said that they can’t close their eyes when they are in a lucid or they wake up. I thought about me doing it just finds and at that moment woke up.

For full Journal entry

First TOTM and many Lucids courtesy of supplements? - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Did the New Years resolution task. The results were...interesting.

Nightmare(Feat. Merle Dixon), and Task of the Month

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Haha good way of looking at it.

I really wanted to see what you guys would do with a more vague task. Or a task with loose parameters. I think it's pretty amazing if someone can remember to do an "opposite day" task in a lucid, and then have the cognitive skills in the dream to come up with a way to do it. Unless maybe you pre-decided to do this or that. I don't know if what I'm saying makes sense, but you guys are great and creative and imaginative. No such thing as boundaries around here!

Aww, Aint that nice.. She winged me anyway, But I'll make it up. I'll sneak in someplace naughty also. (I usually do )
Dream logic is not like waking logic or it wouldn't be any fun.

Basic Task I: The New Year Resolutions!
I walk up to a man on the street, who has a striking resemblance to me. I ask him the question, and he answers with a humble, "Live life more fully."
I stare at him with admiration, and move on with my dream. This actually stuck with me, and I am currently wondering if that is really my sub conscious telling me to live life more fully, as our dreamscape is really all connected in one way, that it's actually you. Didn't mean to get all deep on you guys, time to carry on.

Advanced Task I & II:

AI: I use a cloak of invisibility that I stumbled upon while looking through the wardrobe of the host's house. I am at a fancy party, in a large mansion. I hear foot steps outside, and quickly realize that I shouldn't be here, so I slam myself into the closet, and wait until the host walks in. I haven't seen who it is, but I know it's the host.
A beautiful young women walks through the door, and I hear the other guests saying their goodbyes downstairs. The women faces her back toward the closet, and gets out of her slim, black dress. Oh god, what do I do, she will see me. Oh wait, I have a cloak of invisibility! I slip it on, and she turns around. Oh, that's a treat. I stare in odd at her naked body, then soon realize she will open the closet. Uh, uhm, what do I do. Oh god. OH GOD. Here she comes! She opens the door, and I flee the scene, shedding my cloak and running like hell. That was fun.

AII: I stand at the edge of the forest, summoning for the large beast to appear. As he appears, I waste no time. I take water from the nearby plant life, and place it in my pouch. I run closer, using firebending to boost my momentum, and then take the water from my pouch and cover the large beast with it. I freeze the water into ice, then shatter it with all my strength. The beast shatters into millions of pieces, and I know my job has been finished. I didn't think it would be over that quick, and I soon go on my way to find what else I could do.

Bonus Task: Using the same technique (And during the same dream.) as I did to defeat the Balrog, I freeze the large lake infront of me with waterbending, and test to make sure it is thick enough. I soon use waterbending to melt a medium sized whole in the ice. I summon an ice-fishing pole and wait. Within a few seconds, I got a bite! I pull it up to discover ANOTHER human. He says cheerfully, "Blup blup, I'm a fish!" My face fills with terror, I leave my pole and run off fast. That was creepy.

Originally Posted by woblybil

Aww, Aint that nice.. She winged me anyway, But I'll make it up. I'll sneak in someplace naughty also. (I usually do )
Dream logic is not like waking logic or it wouldn't be any fun.

Whew, I did something naughty alright, Within 2 hours of the last post I became invisible and sneaked into the women's side of a prison hospital and did something so naughty that I cant even put it on here, But I already been winged anyways.....

I succeeded at Basic Task of the Month! (New Year's resolution)

Now I’m out on the street. Across the street I see a man standing under the branches of an oak. He looks Hawaiian, heavy-set with a salt-and-pepper hair and a neatly trimmed mustache. I remember the Task of the Month, and approach him asking, “What’s your New Year’s Resolution?”

He’s incredibly eager to answer, and a smile spreads across his face. “To make the most of things, <something something>, and…” He grabs one of my hands in both of his and finished triumphantly: “To cook with more cinnamon!”

His enthusiasm is contagious and I joyously shout, “Thank you for that great answer!” I pause for a moment. “But could you repeat that part in the middle?” He doesn’t seem interested in doing this, though, and wanders away.

Full dream: The Dome of Stars - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

SinisterDezz, you sound like a major BA in the Balrog dream Nice one!

CanisLucidus, Ha! That's probably the funniest resolution I've read yet! Too bad he didn't repeat the middle part

Bonus:

First tried it in a hot tub, spent a long time trying to freeze the water but it kept thawing before I could fish. Probably because it was a hot tub. The second time I came to a large river and froze it by touching it with my hands and then spraying ice all over it out of my hands. I punched a hole in the frozen river and a dream friend grabbed a large stick and stuck a worm on it for me. I dropped the worm in the hole and within a few seconds a baby rainbow trout grabbed onto the stick like a baby onto it's mother's teat. I pulled the trout off and it made a big Popping noise then flew out of my hands from all the flopping around. It fell back into the river hole and I quickly reached in and grabbed it before it could swim away. I started shaking the fish around, begging it to tell me something cool but it just made those fish eyes and gasped for air.

Advanced ii:

I had DEILD'd back into a school and I knew that I wanted to battle the Balrog of Moria. So I walked around and muttered, "show yourself you foul beast". When I got outside I saw it emerge out of a thicket of trees across the road. I grabbed a giant stone mallet about twice my size and ran towards it. I leapt into the air, dodging the Balrog's blows and started smashing its head in with the mallet. It wasn't slowing it down though, the balrog started to grow its head back from the flames. So I summoned water from above it's head and as it poured down upon the beast, it put out all of the balrog's flames. I wound up my mallet and smashed it into the Balrog one more time and it exploded into thousands of wet rocks. GG balrog.

Blast, I came close to defeating Balrog this morning, but unfortunately I woke up. I really wish more of mine lucids would last longer than two bloody minutes. [Shrugs] Oh well, at least I do not have the dry spell anymore. I guess I will try again tonight.

Originally Posted by CanisLucidus

I succeeded at Basic Task of the Month! (New Year's resolution)



Full dream: The Dome of Stars - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

so basically your DC just wants to add more "swag" to his plate
hehehe
heh

Originally Posted by anotherdreamer

Bonus:

First tried it in a hot tub, spent a long time trying to freeze the water but it kept thawing before I could fish. Probably because it was a hot tub. The second time I came to a large river and froze it by touching it with my hands and then spraying ice all over it out of my hands. I punched a hole in the frozen river and a dream friend grabbed a large stick and stuck a worm on it for me. I dropped the worm in the hole and within a few seconds a baby rainbow trout grabbed onto the stick like a baby onto it's mother's teat. I pulled the trout off and it made a big Popping noise then flew out of my hands from all the flopping around. It fell back into the river hole and I quickly reached in and grabbed it before it could swim away. I started shaking the fish around, begging it to tell me something cool but it just made those fish eyes and gasped for air.

Advanced ii:

I had DEILD'd back into a school and I knew that I wanted to battle the Balrog of Moria. So I walked around and muttered, "show yourself you foul beast". When I got outside I saw it emerge out of a thicket of trees across the road. I grabbed a giant stone mallet about twice my size and ran towards it. I leapt into the air, dodging the Balrog's blows and started smashing its head in with the mallet. It wasn't slowing it down though, the balrog started to grow its head back from the flames. So I summoned water from above it's head and as it poured down upon the beast, it put out all of the balrog's flames. I wound up my mallet and smashed it into the Balrog one more time and it exploded into thousands of wet rocks. GG balrog.

Bad Demons don't seem to do well with water, I accidentally pee'd on one and it melted like wax with an awful commotion...

It's been awhile, but I decided to try a TOTM this month, and I went for Advanced Task I.
When I became lucid, I was continently in front of a weird military town/ base, so I decided I would get in.
I hope this still counts, but I got in using a invisible Bentley, which I drove past the gate and into the middle of the town.
When I got out of the car, I had no clothes and was shot to death. (Yay)
That was fun....

Originally Posted by TearsOfAWhisper

It's been awhile, but I decided to try a TOTM this month, and I went for Advanced Task I.
When I became lucid, I was continently in front of a weird military town/ base, so I decided I would get in.
I hope this still counts, but I got in using a invisible Bentley, which I drove past the gate and into the middle of the town.
When I got out of the car, I had no clothes and was shot to death. (Yay)
That was fun....

Sure sounds like a good time

Am I not good enough for the gold tag? Awesome, I see how it is

I'm paying off my gold wings, Three sneaking Lucid's in one week

Anyway, Its over here... http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/wobl...-dreams-54461/

Originally Posted by SinisterDezz

Am I not good enough for the gold tag? Awesome, I see how it is

I'm sorry Dezz! I clicked your buttons wrong in the CP

And damn you're hot this month woblybil!!

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

I'm sorry Dezz! I clicked your buttons wrong in the CP

And damn you're hot this month woblybil!!

Just joking around haha. No big deal

Ok. I did one basic just this morning. I was walking around in a strange house with my wife's best friend's 17 year old son. The inside of the house was dark like night time, but when we walked out a door it was bright daylight outside. That's when I went lucid and told him that I was dreaming. I started to wake up at that point but I fought a bit to stay in the dream by focusing on my surroundings and it got clearer for a bit. He came walking up to me and said, "There you are." Then I asked him what his resolution was and he looked embarrassed and didn't want to tell me. I got pushy and even told him that he had to tell me because it was my dream. So he replied, "successness." I asked him if he meant success and he replied that successness was better than regular success, that it was succeeding in life but doing it spectacularly. Then I woke up for good and came in here to type this.

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Haha good way of looking at it.

I really wanted to see what you guys would do with a more vague task. Or a task with loose parameters. I think it's pretty amazing if someone can remember to do an "opposite day" task in a lucid, and then have the cognitive skills in the dream to come up with a way to do it. Unless maybe you pre-decided to do this or that. I don't know if what I'm saying makes sense, but you guys are great and creative and imaginative. No such thing as boundaries around here!

Okaay - now that surely is more advanced - to just plan on remembering, to stage an opposite day - but what exactly to do - decide within the dream - a really great idea!
Didn't really know, what to make of it - good you mention this thought!

Originally Posted by SinisterDezz

.. I soon use waterbending to melt a medium sized whole in the ice. I summon an ice-fishing pole and wait. Within a few seconds, I got a bite! I pull it up to discover ANOTHER human. He says cheerfully, "Blup blup, I'm a fish!" My face fills with terror, I leave my pole and run off fast. That was creepy.

Great stuff - it all!
Waterbending - the way you say this - sounds like a specific dream-control feat of yours - how do you mean it?
Aaand - why did you get creeped out by this fish-delusioned water-human?
Was he nasty in some way?
Why not fish him out and have a chat?

Originally Posted by woblybil

Bad Demons don't seem to do well with water, I accidentally pee'd on one and it melted like wax with an awful commotion...

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Originally Posted by CharlesD

Ok. I did one basic just this morning. I was walking around in a strange house with my wife's best friend's 17 year old son. The inside of the house was dark like night time, but when we walked out a door it was bright daylight outside. That's when I went lucid and told him that I was dreaming. I started to wake up at that point but I fought a bit to stay in the dream by focusing on my surroundings and it got clearer for a bit. He came walking up to me and said, "There you are." Then I asked him what his resolution was and he looked embarrassed and didn't want to tell me. I got pushy and even told him that he had to tell me because it was my dream. So he replied, "successness." I asked him if he meant success and he replied that successness was better than regular success, that it was succeeding in life but doing it spectacularly. Then I woke up for good and came in here to type this.

That's the spirit!!
I also want successness now!

The funny thing about the made up word is that I'm a bit of a grammar nazi and I don't really care for made up words and improper grammar, and then that word pops up in a dream. Weird.

It`s technically a neologism - with a nice personal meaning, I think!

I miss having the time to actively keep up with and participate in threads like this one...just a fun-loving group! Thank you Ophelia for keeping these TOTMs going! Here's to much "successness!"

Originally Posted by StephL

Okaay - now that surely is more advanced - to just plan on remembering, to stage an opposite day - but what exactly to do - decide within the dream - a really great idea!
Didn't really know, what to make of it - good you mention this thought!



Great stuff - it all!
Waterbending - the way you say this - sounds like a specific dream-control feat of yours - how do you mean it?
Aaand - why did you get creeped out by this fish-delusioned water-human?
Was he nasty in some way?
Why not fish him out and have a chat?



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That's the spirit!!
I also want successness now!

His face had some kind of.... Awkward feature... It was scarier in the dream lol.

Waterbending refers to waterbending from Avatar: The Last Airbender. I perfected the elements a few months ago.