Thread: Task of the Month for February 2014

Had a nap (yay, flu!) and unexpectedly had a DILD. Attempted the tasks, for some reason thought said tasks were blow up a bomb and go invisible.

oops.

Nice tasks! I'll be trying for these this month

I think the heart one is my favorite, but they're all amazing this month!

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Yay for zombie dreams! Maybe the return of Walking Dead this month will inspire many more

Yeah, I love zombie dreams, They're something I can sink my teeth into...

I succeeded at the basic "True Love" task...

I head back through a door into the mall and encounter a grinning, friendly-looking British woman in her late 20s. I remember Task of the Month and ask her, “Who is my true love?” She says some stream of hilarious nonsense about waffles, and we both start laughing. I think she is super cool. “I’m not going to be able to remember that. Can you answer again?”

She laughs even harder and then starts singing “Polly Wolly Doodle” in a British Donald Duck voice. (The kids have an Easter toy that does this, but not with a British accent.) I can’t stop laughing and I try not to think about whether you can laugh yourself awake from a lucid dream.

... and failed at the "pull your heart out of your chest and give it to a loved one" advanced task. Fun tasks!! (I'm going to pass on the zombie kiss, though!)

“Here, watch this!” Wife keeps looking at the nearby stores instead of me. “You really need to watch. I’m only going to do this once.” She looks back and I reach my hand inside my body. I feel something about the size of a softball pulsing very softly. The movement is a bit too weak for a heart muscle, but whatever. I pull it from my chest and when I present it to her… my hand is empty!

Full dream: Be Still My Beating Heart - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Yay!! ^^

I did the opposite, I got my heart out, but I couldn't do ANY other task because I could remember a single damn one lol. I'll post and wing momentarily...

... the only task I could remember was the one I didn't really want to do: take out my heart and give it to a DC. I stood in front of the mirror, and I was wearing a red, lowcut shirt. I just stuck my thumb and first 2 fingers into the flesh just above my heart, and pushed. I didn't actually break the skin, just my fingers were phasing through the layers of skin, fat, muscle and bone, just above my left boob. It didn't hurt and there was no blood (which is customary in these types of LDs for me). After a few inches, I felt a medium sized organ, which felt appropriately shaped like a human heart. It was warm, and gooey, and suspended in warm goo. I gently wrapped my thumb and fingers around it, and slowly pulled it out of my chest. There was a long slit in my chest left behind, but again, no blood. I went to hand it to my mom, but only Brian was still there. When I went to hand it to him, he didn't want to have anything to do with it lol. He actually looked panicked. I just said "Hey man, this is just for a task. Just hold it for a second and then give it back if you want." I thought I would just spend the rest of the lucid trying to put it back in my chest. So he held it for one second and gave it right back. I don't think he even looked at it. I looked back to the mirror, and pushed my heart back into the crevice that was left behind. And that was about it. I remember feeling accomplished after that, then I woke up maybe 2 seconds later.

Whole Dream

Failed attempt at Basic II (due to faulty memory):

WILD - visit from the afterlife - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views
Teddy felt just like he always does, and the dream stabilized. Then I thought of the TOTM, and I remembered (wrongly) that Basic II was about making a DC your true love. So, naturally, I proceeded to kiss this old teddy quite passionately on the mouth. It felt exactly like kissing a teddy. He was quite unimpressed.

Yeah... that wasn't exactly the task.

First try! I woke up after a crappy dream this morning, checked what the tasks were for this month, and gave it a shot with a WBTB.

Originally Posted by Oneironaut's Matrix

Dreams from last night, in One Sentence:

2) While witnessing the apocalyptic coming of an enormous, city-destroying Lucifer, I was able to become lucid, fly to safety long enough to complete the DV Lucid Task of the Month*, kick a little demon ass and then thwart Lucifer's (then shrunken-down to size) attempt to pull me into Hell by smashing his head through a T.V.

http://www.dreamviews.com/grandfathe...ml#post2080905

I grabbed a demon and asked them who my true love was. At first, it said "The Young One", which I took to mean my daughter, but then I said "Who?!", threatening to kill the demon, as I had done to the two before him. It then frantically answered "[A friend in IRL] will bring her to you", which I took to mean that it was implying I might meet this 'true love' by way of my IRL friend, in the future.

Didn't have enough time to write up the whole entry, yet. But there's the one-sentence note. The dream was awesome, btw!

i want to try all this stuff but first the zombie task.. i can't wait

I personally am spending as much time during the day thinking about dog biscuits as possible. Hoping that I can eat one tonight in my dreams.

I can honestly say that is something I have never spent much time wishing before.

Full-entry for my previous dream.

Dreamwalker Chronicles: 02/04/2014 - "Giving the Devil His Due" (Lucid)

There are some great dreams popping up around these tasks! Time to get one of these for myself tonight!

Never was able to see the attraction in watching zombies in movies - kissing one in a dream - nope!
And asking who my true love is and posting it - hm, hm, hm* - I'll go for dog-cookies and ripping my heart out, if I find the lucid time!


*who knows, what comes out of that!! A zombie?

I'm not sure what it is, but I always seem to get LDs when I least expect it, yet never when I have a goal in mind or in general want to.

Maybe I'm doubting myself too much . One thing's for sure, I'm not gonna stop until I get these tasks done.

Originally Posted by StephL

And asking who my true love is and posting it - hm, hm, hm*

I think this sounds like a fun one. You could always keep the result to yourself or just say something like "A from S" or "(name withheld to protect the living)"...

Originally Posted by Maxis

I'm not sure what it is, but I always seem to get LDs when I least expect it, yet never when I have a goal in mind or in general want to.

Maybe I'm doubting myself too much . One thing's for sure, I'm not gonna stop until I get these tasks done.

I strongly recommend the WBTB method. Whenever I want to try a TOTM, or just incubate a certain theme or goal, I have a much higher success rate if I combine it with WBTB (by waking up and then focusing on the goal before going BACK to sleep), as opposed to just whenever I go to sleep for the night.

Awesome new tasks after returning,

I have talked to my subconscious lately but thats a thing I will make a post about now. :3

Originally Posted by Oneironaut Zero

I strongly recommend the WBTB method. Whenever I want to try a TOTM, or just incubate a certain theme or goal, I have a much higher success rate if I combine it with WBTB (by waking up and then focusing on the goal before going BACK to sleep), as opposed to just whenever I go to sleep for the night.

YES same here

Well, I got one of the basic ones last night. I was flying around and became lucid, so I flew lower until I could spot a person walking on the ground. I saw a young woman and asked her who my soul mate was and she replied, "It's not me, but I wish it was. Maybe it's you." I replied that I can't be my own soul mate and she said that it could be Carren. (My wife's name) Then I told her she would find hers if she kept looking and I flew off. I woke up shortly after to roll over.

TOTM Basic I; athough I took a bite and it didn't seem to taste though of anything.


http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/high...tm-dild-55165/

"I’m now standing on the open field which reminds me like a park. I think of the TOTM.
I wonder if I can find a biscuit on the field initially.
I see a man in his late 30s or 40s in front across from me on the green field walking a big dog. (I think this is a chance.) I ask him for a dog biscuit.
He says, “No!” (Like he didn’t have one on him.) I turn around where on the left I see a bloke walking a biggish dog on a lead down the bit of a grassy slope on the common. He is a middle-aged man with grey hair, dressed in a blue patterned shirt. I decide to ask him.
I say, “Excuse me, have you got a dog biscuit?” He replies “Erm, (yes)” or something? I ask him to repeat. He says, “Yes.” I was going to swap it for some money initially then a dog.
He hands me one. It looks like a long narrow sausage roll, about 8 to 9 inches in length and 1 to 1.5 inches wide. The pastry looks a bit pale. (I think 'great' as it looked quite edible!)
I hold it and take a bite out of the end of it to taste. It doesn’t seem to have a taste as I suddenly feel myself waking up at that point."

Originally Posted by Oneironaut Zero

I strongly recommend the WBTB method. Whenever I want to try a TOTM, or just incubate a certain theme or goal, I have a much higher success rate if I combine it with WBTB (by waking up and then focusing on the goal before going BACK to sleep), as opposed to just whenever I go to sleep for the night.

Insomniac over here, unfortunately WBTB rarely ever works for me. If I wake up in the middle of the night for LDing purposes, it's only to WILD (very carefully so), since waking up to a certain point makes it very hard for me to fall back to sleep--I'll just toss and turn for ages.

Lucid dreaming and sleep disorders have quite the unstable relationship with each other, but I'm their marriage counselor trying to make it work out.

One of my Ex's made her own dog biscuits because her dogs were so big, And actually they don't taste all that bad,
But can I bite one in a lucid, Hell no !

I took a shot at Basic II. Of the five DCs I asked about true love, four of them went silent and stared at me like I shouldn't be asking that. The other one had the answer written on a piece of paper - but she crumpled it up and tossed it out a car window!

Whole dream.

Hey, the point was, you asked and got an answer. Even if you didn't get to read the answer.

I wonder if bribing DCs would work in the future in this kind of situation?