Thread: Task of the Year 2014

Hold on. In the task for The Lord of The Rings (which I love no matter what the answer is), do you have to be a character from the canon of the novel or can you be your own character, from one of Middle Earth's races? For example, I definitely want to be a wizard; but can I be my own wizard or do I have to be Gandalf or another of the five Istari?

sounds like that is up to you to decide Dr.

I think that it is race, not a specific person.

Originally Posted by BrandonBoss

sounds like that is up to you to decide Dr.

I think that it is race, not a specific person.

Well, I wouldn't want to do the task as a character of my own conception and then find out that it wasn't within the rules of the task. But I guess my entry probably won't be invalid then, so. Setting character designs for the raddest Istar of all.

Originally Posted by AstralVagabond

Hold on. In the task for The Lord of The Rings (which I love no matter what the answer is), do you have to be a character from the canon of the novel or can you be your own character, from one of Middle Earth's races? For example, I definitely want to be a wizard; but can I be my own wizard or do I have to be Gandalf or another of the five Istari?

Yes, what Brandon said. You could be a random wizard and win with a staff, or some random hobbit and throw a mug of ale at him, or be an Orc and kill smaug to death with your ugliness

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Yes, what Brandon said. You could be a random wizard and win with a staff, or some random hobbit and throw a mug of ale at him, or be an Orc and kill smaug to death with your ugliness

Cool. I'll do that, then. Although boy, that would have to be one deadly mug of ale...

I had another close call failure valiant attempt! I've really got to work on managing my excitement. (This one was on the Aladdin task.)

Immediately I start attempting the lamp summon by “finding” it behind my back, but my hand just keeps coming back empty. After three failures, I’m really frustrated by this. On the last attempt my hand comes back with some little piece of dirty, wooden-looking junk about the size of a sugar cube. This time I pretend that this is the lamp but it’s just way too small. “Bigger… bigger…” and do a little magician-esque gesture. It plumps up nicely into a real magic lamp! It’s way too light to be realistic, but who cares, next step!

I rub the lamp, wishing for the magic carpet. I decide to be really specific, saying, “A magic carpet. Make it rolled up.” A simple little rolled-up rug appears on the ground. I immediately think, Why’d you ask for it rolled up? That’s just a pain in the ass. I expect the magic carpet to unroll and it does, so I quickly sit down. As I do, it lifts me up into the air and starts flying leisurely forward.

For my second wish, I quickly say “Delicious cookie!” and a tiny little sliver of cookie appears in my hand, like someone had already eaten most of it. I find this awfully stingy for a magic lamp but I stuff it in my mouth. It’s chocolate chip, not bad at all.

I think about how close I am to completing the task and the excitement gets the best of me. I get one last look at the roof of a one-story building as I float over it before the dream ends.

Full dream: Magic Carpet School - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

^^ That was awesome, you are amazing! I think it's completely unnecessary to bold or even write down the world failure too (your subcon's watching).

Originally Posted by NyxCC

^^ That was awesome, you are amazing! I think it's completely unnecessary to bold or even write down the world failure too (your subcon's watching).

Ha ha, thanks! And that's a good suggestion. Let me just fix that right up!

Awesome dream CL!

A mini-try for Jack and the beanstalk :

There's a small black hound-like dog running around that distracts me and I try to ignore it as much as possible, while thinking about the beanstalk. I see some sort of bean-like seeds on the ground and take them, looking for a good place to plant them. I open my palm and see them undergoing many changes - all sorts of colors and shapes and try to make them a particular sort of beans again. After some struggle they look like dark red beans and I place them on the steps where there is a lot of muddy soil and cover them with it. One stone's hanging above and I think it will mess up how they grow, because of my thoughts. Anyways, I start to think about them growing and they grow into small shoots. The dream fades.

Here is valiant attempt #2 at the Jack and the Beanstalk task. I'm trying! I'm really trying! One of these days...

The [movie] theater is large but there are only five seats right next to each other... I start going for Jack and the Beanstalk Task of the Year. I perform a behind-the-back summon of seeds, and my hand comes back with little nuggets attached to long wisps of cotton. I just go ahead like this is good enough and start digging into the floor. The concrete floor scoops easily aside, leaving a nice, shallow hole for the seeds. I stuff them into the dirt, cover it back over, and start looking for my beanstalk to grow.

The shoots start emerging, but when they get to be about 4-5 inches long, they flop over onto their side on the floor. I tug at them a bit but they just feel like limp, frayed green carpet. I give them a tug and try to imagine them shooting skyward, but I’m not able to get tons of energy behind this thought.

Now I see Wife walking in through the doors of the theater. There’s a sensation that’s sort of like waking up and then I find myself in my in-laws’ house. I “realize” that all of what I just experienced took place inside Unreal Engine 4 and I’ve now returned to the real world.

Full dream: Indoor Gardening - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Toty fail... Should have used my phone instead of asking a DC to remind me of my goals.

I WILD and am trying to decide what to do. An old dude in a van pulls up and asks if I want to do a toty. He pulls some stuff out of the back of the van starts connecting it up. We were standing in the back of a car and I couldn't remember a task like this. He set his phone up
old man: record a John Mayer song.
Me: That isn't a task
old man: It is, just do it.
I couldn't remember any John Mayer songs anyways. I get frustrated and tell him to forget about it. I decide to walk away and he keeps bothering me. I am getting ready to fly off and he jumps me and stops me from flying. That makes me angry.
"You don't even exist!" My voice echoes through the whole world and he gets angry, his body disappears going from toe to head, and the last thing I can see is his face in anger. I walk slowly down the sidewalk and look at the park and the sky, pretty beautiful, I walk down for like ten minutes. Not thinking of any goals, I fly off and wake up a few seconds later.

I was close. I need a lot more practice on dream control.
Jack and the Beanstalk FAIL - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

After about 20 seconds of flying I find a hole that had been refilled that is next to a house. I figure it's probably easier to use that than dig a brand new hole. I took off my gloves and dug in. I tried to summon a shovel or something, and then I realized: how was I suppose to dispose of the giant if I didn't have any weapons? I closed my eyes and tried to visualize a bazooka, beside me, and I immediately realized my mistake. DO NOT CLOSE YOUR EYES IN A LD. I struggled to open my eyes; I did open them, but it was too late. The dream went into a FA.

I do realize now that closing my eyes doesn't have to end the dream but I'm still pretty n00b

Finally!! Success on the Jack and the Beanstalk task! I'm so psyched to get one of these at last.

I dig a quick hole and everything’s feeling very vivid now. I do a behind-the-back summon of a seed which feels very half-hearted but fortunately still does yield a tiny seed. I quickly cover it over with dirt.

For water I move my hands in a little sprinkling motion over the little mound and a few drops of “rain” fall. The plant immediately springs up through the ground and stretches skyward. It looks like a normal vine at first but as it continues up it looks more like a twisting rope bridge that goes all the way up into the clouds.
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“So you’re the giant?” I ask leadingly.

“That’s right,” he says and immediately takes a swing at me. His punch catches me square in the face but I decide that it will have no effect. I wind up not feeling anything or even falling back and it kind of feels like cheating. I strike at the man, trying what I for some reason think is a “kidney punch” but actually hit him in the side of the gut. He winces a bit but doesn’t move much.

I follow this up with a kick to the body and the giant clutches at his chest. I feel like this is working but I become paranoid about losing the dream, so I leap up and grab onto the giant’s face. I try to do this thing where I burn him with my hands but it completely fails. The failure makes me kind of vicious and desperate, so I gouge at his left eye with my right thumb and then strike him on the neck with my forearm. He collapses hard to the ground and I go with him. As I’m picking myself up to see what’s next, the dream ends.

Full dream: The Giant Killer - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

I managed to have the longest LD I've ever had today. The stabalization techniques from the Dream Views podcast helped out a lot. I managed a couple tasks so I'm pretty exited. Bonus Task and Jack and the Beanstalk TOTY - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Congratulations, CL! You got it!

Yeah CL!!

Took on the Beauty and the Beast task with interesting results:

I find myself in a dark room where the only light is from the fireplace. There are bookshelves lining the walls and two armchairs in front of the fire. Someone comes from behind and guides me towards one of the chairs, murmuring something about how I must be cold. This must be the beast. I turn so I can see his face, except he doesn't seem to have a head. Wrong story -- this isn't supposed to be Sleepy Hollow.

The beast sits down in one of the chairs and pulls me into his lap. This time when I look, he really is a proper beast with a head and everything. To my surprise, he looks like the one from the Disney movie (I had hoped my subconscious would be a bit more original than that). But he has very soft fur and I spend a lot of time stroking it before whispering, "I love you." He's a bit too tall for me to kiss while I'm sitting, so I have to shift around so that I'm straddling his lap. But I do manage to kiss him, even managing to slip in a little bit of tongue even though there was no French kissing in the movie. I break off the kiss and pull away to see what the beast has turned into now that the curse is broken, and I find that I've just kissed Fabio.

My gut reaction is, "EW!" because I really don't find Fabio all that attractive. He's more like a caricature of the type of guy I do not like. I'm so shocked that I somehow find myself standing in front of the linen closet in the upstairs hallway. I reach for a towel, then notice that there's an odd light at the back of the closet. Something tells me that it's a portal and that I should take it, so I slide between the shelves to get to the back of the closet. I find myself face-down in mud. Someone picks me up and guides me towards a waterfall cascading into a pool of water. Fabio is waiting there with a bottle of shampoo. I immediately think, "No way." The scene shifts and I'm back into the room with the fireplace. This time, Sherlock Holmes (the Cumberbatch version) is sitting in the chair opposite me. He starts trying to psychoanalyze my unusual reaction to finding out that Fabio was my un-cursed prince and he seems amused that I'd rather talk to him than play in the waterfall with Fabio.

lmao ^^

Fabio and a waterfall and shampoo, should be a dream come true

Hahaha, you're welcome to take Fabio for your own dreams if you'd like! He's not exactly my dream guy.

How is the year already 1/3 over, what is this witchcraft.
Eh, whatever, I'll just rush it all in the last 3 months of the year like I do with everything else because I'm the best procrastinator ever.
(To be fair, though, I have been busy with school lately, which isn't quite the best thing for lucid dreaming.)

Failed the Hansel and Gretel task when I lost lucidity.

I know I have to go in search on the witch who is holding Hansel hostage. I start out in my kitchen, trying to figure out how to get to the witch's cottage, and the easiest way seems to be to search by air. I fly up through the ceiling, crash through the roof, and flew Superman-style through the air until I spot the cottage.

Once I got inside, the witch chases me around a large table, trying to get me close enough to the oven to push me in. My clothes have changed at this point. I am wearing some kind of blue and white peasant dress that is really low-cut. This seems to get the witch to change tactics; before cooking me, she is going to pimp me out to make some extra cash. Now that's really evil. She brings in the first "customer" and I run away from them. Somehow find myself running past two coworkers. They are hiding merchandise in a locker, and I am curious about what they are doing. I find a larger group of coworkers and notice that one of them has changed her hair color. I tell her how much nicer it looks.

^^Lol, Thena, your subcon's interpretation of the tasks is hilarious!

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

or be an Orc and kill smaug to death with your ugliness

Now that is the best idea I've heard for this one. If I manage to get to it, that's my plan lmao.