Thread: Task of the Month for February 2014

Your computer!!

Don't you just love honest unconsciousnesses!!!
Good luck with chest crushing next time round and congrats on the basic, PKJacker!

Originally Posted by spd

Phone post so if spelling and stuff are crap I will fix it later

Anyway wow got out of my 2 and a half week lucid dry spell and got basic task ii done!

I was in a room when I suddenly realised I was dreaming. I went to go do the finger through the palm rc but as I was doing it I realised that my hand was practically glowing and that was good enough of an rc haha. I instantly thought of doing Basic Task ii so as I left the room I imagined my brother to be there so I could ask him who my true love is but nothing was there. I walked down the hallway untill I was in a kitchen. I was trying to summon my brother again and then I saw a fridge door that was open I tried to think my self up a story that the fridge was open because a DC was using it and my Mum came in from another room! Okay with a dc found time to ask her who my true love is. I try to ask her from across the Kitchen but words aren't coming out of my mouth properly so she never heard the question. Words would start off loud then end up quiet and my voice was croaky. This was frustrating and I remember Gab saying something about finding it hard to talk in LDs. (I think) I saw another DC, a dark skinned man with a beard looking at me. I looked back for a bit and wanted to see is reaction if I flicked him off so I did. His eyes widened I think looking back on it I can't remember I just found it funny. I went into another room that is connected to the kitchen and asked my mum again. She said "What? What is true love?" And I said "who is my true love?" She sounded frustrated and said "someone" and then returned back to what she was doing I think she was folding clothes? Haha So with the task done I figured I woud have some fun I went into the next room and the dark skinned DC and another white male DC where moving a couch. I froze the white DC yet he was still walking covered in ice haha I think I was imagining him covered in ice more than I was imagining him staying still but on the brightside compared to other DC,s I have freezed this one had a lot of ice covering it Things went black all of a sudden and I couldn't find my dream body so I woke myself up. I may of still been in the dream though...but ah well I got a task done

Also I didn't get to much sleep I naturally woke up about 4.5 after going to sleep and I couldn't go back to sleep so I stayed up a bit too and I fell asleep 2 hours later. I guess being up longer gave me more awareness haha

Yay - this pretend remembering in action again!
I love to read, how this seems to work for everybody trying it out - even when other summoning activities or searching already didn't.

I've been talking with gab about this voice problem.
Trying to shout/talk loudly gives me the same problem sometimes as you describe it. Exactly so.

It occurs, when there is a bit of a distance to cover with my voice - like you say "from across the kitchen".
I never had it directly standing close to somebody.

Since after one nightmare with having this a lot - I got told I would have talked/croaked out loud in my sleep - my theory goes that this is what happens.
Sometimes I can't vocalize loudly, because my real life speaking arrangements get involved in the business, and that is detrimental.

If I remember correctly - one of gab's tips was to simply talk quietly, or even think at them, and expect them to hear it - it's your dream after all.
But I got to admit - my dreams are ruled by my ideas how the physical world works so much, last time this happened, I was concerned about reaching that DC acoustically right now, because it was moving away behind a fence, and I feared to loose it. So I croaked my dream-lungs out again. Worked - came back.

Na well - with further realizings around what it actually means to dream, this fixation on following the physical rules will hopefully wane.

Anyway - coool - congratulation!
May I ask, why you want to freeze your DCs??

ince after one nightmare with having this a lot - I got told I would have talked/croaked out loud in my sleep - my theory goes that this is what happens.
Sometimes I can't vocalize loudly, because my real life speaking arrangements get involved in the business, and that is detrimental.

for me whenever I talk I never think about how I am talking, instead I just think of what I want to say and the dc will hear me.

Got it! Totally just nailed Advanced II in a 40-second-long DEILD.
Long story short, my dog sometimes growls at the bedroom door whenever he hears my parents going around the house and getting ready for work (since I'm still sleeping when they are and I get up after they do). After a bit of a dry spell with my lucid dreams this happened this morning, and it woke me up to a point of consciousness but not full awakeness. Just by lying still for maybe four seconds I already feel HH coming on, so I figured "hey, I haven't LD'ed in a while, even if this is short I'd might as well." Cue maybe 10 or so seconds more of utter darkness on the back of my eyelids and feeling my legs slowly rise (this happens in my HHs for some reason), then I suddenly felt my position change and I was standing up despite not seeing anything. There's that 'dreamy' feeling too, so I know I'm in the dream, and I try to fragment a scene together with my imagination, and end up in my house at the door.
I burst out the door--where I find it's nighttime--and start flying at high speeds. "Yeeess!! Happy Valentine's Day!!" (shh, my sleepy brain was only 2 days early.) I have this undefeatable burst of confidence while I'm flying and end up successfully sticking my hand through my chest with no trouble (it felt like my chest was somehow open), grabbed a bloody and pulsating heart out, and threw it up in the air in the most flamboyant and overdramatic way I could possibly manage, deciding a DC nearby was going to catch it. I didn't look back and kept flying around, enjoying the feeling of being in the air again, then eventually turned around and floated down to where I knew the DC would be.
I had no idea what they'd look like or who they were and I wondered to myself while turning around the corner to see them. She's a black girl around my age wearing quite trendy clothing and her hair well-done; her hands holding my heart. She looked a little friendly, although seemed to have this bored look on her face. Either way, I smiled and said, "I love you." (I didn't really, but you know, adds to the dramatic effect)
She doesn't say anything back, just chuckles and shakes her head amusedly. Then, my dog IWL growled again and I'm instantly woken up once again.
To be honest I think I'm most proud of how well this was timed--the whole process, from waking up the first time and starting the DEILD to waking up after the dream was over--couldn't have lasted over a minute, and I had just enough time to do the task in a rather overdramatic and humorous fashion. Even if it was a short dream, it was very fun, and I laughed when I woke up at how I chose to do it in the dream.

I took some time off from lucid dreaming (those 4 AM wake-up calls for work were not making it easy!) but I really wanted to give this month's tasks a shot. It took me a few days of warming up and working on my dream recall. And today it finally worked!

So things started off a little weird when I found myself outside in the snow with this guy who totally gave me the creeps.

Outside the door, there's a man waiting for me. He's wearing a red sweater, his dark hair is cropped and he has a round face. There's something about the way he looks at me that makes me uncomfortable. He asks, "So, how have you been taking care of yourself?" It feels intrusive… Then I cut him off to ask a question: "Who is my soul mate?"

Without any hesitation, he answers, "Gerard Butler."

"I don't even know who that is! I've never seen any of his movies," I reply. I can't even picture what the guy looks like, and I get a little upset.This is not exactly the answer I was hoping for.

Creepy Sweater shrugs. "I really don't know anything. I just took a guess," he says.

Then I try to get away from Creepy Sweater Man, the scene shifts, and I find myself in sunny, warm Italy.

I'm right near a window, and when I look outside, I see that I am in Venice. I've always wanted to come here! I can see a canal just outside this building, and I race downstairs to get closer to the water. I come out onto a balcony that is about four feet above the canal. It has the feel of being in a video game where you have to navigate three dimensional levels on a 2D screen. I see a gondola waiting on the canal and I worry about how to get there, but then a ladder appears that allows me to climb down.

Once I'm in the gondola, the gondolier sets off and starts to sing "O Sole Mio." It's a song I usually enjoy, but today I'm a little impatient. I cut him off and ask, "Who is my soul mate?"

"The gentleman waiting at the bridge, he is your soul mate. You will see him soon," says the gondolier. I'm thinking that he means the famous Bridge of Sighs. I wonder how I'm going to meet someone there because there's no access to the bridge from the canal. As if the gondolier is reading my mind, he instead takes me to the Rialto Bridge.

I don't even remember getting out of the gondola as I'm in such a hurry to get on the bridge. As I'm climbing up the bridge, I can see Benedict Cumberbatch (an actor that I am very familiar with) waiting at the top. When I get to him, I ask, "Do you know who my soul mate is?"

He looks a little surprised by my question. "Darling, it's me," he answers before leaning over to kiss me. I'm so overwhelmed that I wake up.

Maxis - perfect!!
Can really imagine you flying about and .. threw it up in the air in the most flamboyant and overdramatic way I could possibly manage, ..
She didn't know how lucky she was with catching your heart!

Oh Benedict has such a sexy voice, well done Thena! And welcome back

So I attempted basic task ii... At least, well, I kind of went to sleep with the intention of asking a certain someone this question, if he happened to show up.

The dream kind of started on a flat meadow. Down the hill I was on, there was a village made of mostly stone huts. I was carrying a backpack with my belongings in them. I was a traveler of sorts, a seer. I traveled from village to village, helping what I could with that knowledge I gathered from other villages and what I could "see". The Kind Man was there, a specific DC that has been with me in my dreams every so often for sometime now. He was also a traveler, just happening to settle down at the same time I was. The weather was quite sunny and the village was near a lake. He invited me to travel up to the lake with him to fish a little bit, away from the village. After setting my pack down, I told him I would meet him there, but first I needed to take care of a few things at the village. I met with the village elder, and brought him news from a neighboring town of a great hunt that will be happening next month. The particular village I visited in the dream had prized hunting grounds, and thus had excellent hunters. I recommended to the elder to enter some of his finest hunters. The elder was a bit hesitant of sending one of his own far away. I told him that if it'd soothe him, I'd be willing to accompany some of his men for a price. He agreed reluctantly, and offered me some money.

After taking the money, the village elder told me that the hunting was good this season and the gathering of herbs and vegetables and whatnot was equally plentiful. He offered that if I needed to restock my provisions, I was more than welcome to. I thanked him for the generosity and set my pack down at the elder's home in order to find the Kind Man at the nearby lake. He was fishing there, with a small basket of fish already beside him. He lifted his wide-brimmed hat to look at me and smiled, saying something along the lines of "I hope the chat with the old fellow was pleasant". I told him there was nothing to worry about, taking a fish from his basket and beginning to chew on it. He didn't seem to mind and he pulled out another fish from the lake to replace it. Then he asked me if I had "gotten up to any of that human business recently". I spat out a bone and asked him why he was interested, then told him that me sleeping schedule has been a bit off. He got his sad smile look, and told me that he would be the first to know that kind of information. I pondered a bit and told him that I had something to ask him. I drank some of the lake water while thinking of how to word it, before finally looking to him and asking him if he knew who my soul-mate was.

He stared at me for a little while, then gave me that side smile of his again and asked me "who set this up for you this time?". I didn't respond to the question, and he looked back to the lake. By then, it was night and the stars were out. He pulled out another fish and placed it in his basket before speaking further. He said something like "but isn't it you who claimed to have no soul? Why ask me who would be the match for what you never had?". I looked down and felt quite sad when he said that, and he tsked under his breath and pat my shoulder in a comforting manner. He told me "maybe it would be better for you to stay with me here. It's a nice world, there is plenty of food and there isn't much suffering. You would enjoy this life.". I told him that I couldn't, and he knew it as well as I. He tsked again and then told me "then I would ask that you keep your heart here, at the very least. It's far too large for that tiny world you wake up into". I asked him how to do that, and he opened his mouth, then closed it, tapping a hand on his chin as if pausing to think. He suddenly changed topic then, and asked me if I wanted to cook fish with him. I agreed, and he left to gather wood. He came back a short while later and set up a fire.

I could explain further. We talked more about other stuff, to which I divulged to him that I had gotten the original question of the soul-mate from a place called dream-views. He asked me what I was trying to accomplish, to which I responded "answers about you and this". He gave me another sad smile and said nothing about it after that. We talked more about idle dream-stuff, such as the new hunting grounds across the mountains, and that he wanted to accompany me to the competition. A bunch of other stuff happened, but that was about all that happened that was related to the question I asked him.

I'm sorry if this is terribly long! I tried to keep it as relevant to the question as possible without diverging too much. I'm unsure what it all means, but it's certainly interesting.

Originally Posted by Soulless

So I attempted basic task ii... At least, well, I kind of went to sleep with the intention of asking a certain someone this question, if he happened to show up.



I'm sorry if this is terribly long! I tried to keep it as relevant to the question as possible without diverging too much. I'm unsure what it all means, but it's certainly interesting.

The detail... Incredible! What an interesting dream you had there, it got pretty deep!

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Oh Benedict has such a sexy voice, well done Thena! And welcome back

I saw Benedict Cumberbatch mentioned and I'm here. ._.

Mmm, dem cheekbones.

Well I tried advanced task II once again and still no luck. I was digging around in my chest cavity with the problem that I couldn't exactly get past my ribcage, I kept trying to push through it but no luck. I then gave up pushing through it and tried to go around my ribcage, basically putting my hand through my stomach and working my way up, well that would've worked except for the fact that I couldn't find my heart. I kept trying to feel its heartbeat and follow it, but even using that tactic I couldn't find it.

Finally I just ripped off my ribcage and started trying to search again but it turns out my heart is just impossible to find.....

Originally Posted by PKJacker

Well I tried advanced task II once again and still no luck. I was digging around in my chest cavity with the problem that I couldn't exactly get past my ribcage, I kept trying to push through it but no luck. I then gave up pushing through it and tried to go around my ribcage, basically putting my hand through my stomach and working my way up, well that would've worked except for the fact that I couldn't find my heart. I kept trying to feel its heartbeat and follow it, but even using that tactic I couldn't find it.

Finally I just ripped off my ribcage and started trying to search again but it turns out my heart is just impossible to find.....

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I have to think of Voldmer (correctly written I hope..?) and his comment, that if we would get cited outside of DV, and out of context - we would seem a right bunch of lunatics!!!
Got to try the heart task as well - loving the results!
I also want to do something flamboyant and hyperbole with it - in case I manage to locate one in the first place!

Originally Posted by Wishfulthinker

I saw Benedict Cumberbatch mentioned and I'm here. ._.

Mmm, dem cheekbones.

And he's my soul mate!

Apparently Benedict was photographed with Gerard Butler at the Hugo Boss show yesterday in New York. I've been laughing so much every time I see that picture. I think I did make the better choice.

I was watching skiing last night before going to bed and thought about attempting the bonus task. Sadly, I woke up at my normal time (on my day off) and couldn't get back to sleep.

2/13

The dream began with me and a girl walking down a hallway of a school. She asked me if I was pregnant (this is one of my dream signs because I always have really strange dreams where I am pregnant) so I knew that I was dreaming right away!

I was excited to explore the dream environment so I ran down the hallway with the girl. My vision was clear at first, but it began to become very blurry. I stopped to look at my hands and I asked the girl to wait for me. She turned around and said, "not a chance." Anyways, I looked at my hands and that improved my vision. I went on exploring the school looking for a DC because I wanted to complete a TOTM. I came across a room full of people and I nicely asked a girl who my soul mate was. She was furious. She got in my face and said, "YOU THINK THAT I WOULD KNOW WHO YOU'RE SOUL MATE IS? NO. I DON'T. ALL I KNOW IS THAT YOU SLEPT WITH MY BOYFRIEND." This was not the response I was looking for haha so I walked away. (These DCs really weren't fond of me ) I left the school and outside of it there was a neighborhood. I wanted to change my surroundings so I laying down on the ground, closed my eyes, and expected to wake up on a beach.

Instead, I woke up the lawn of my own house. Sometime after this I lost lucidity because I actually thought that I had woken up on my lawn.

Hey Ophelia, wings for advanced i?

Originally Posted by imrossed

Hey Ophelia, wings for advanced i?

Sorryyyyyy....

I am dropped into some neighborhood area, and am already lucid. I instantly figure that I am dreaming. But just to be sure I do a really long nose pinch RC to confirm it. I then proceed to lay down some stabilization techniques such as shouting "increase clarity", "max clarity" and rubbing my hands together. As I stabilize the dream some more it becomes my own neighborhood rather than some random neighborhood.
I begin walking north along the eastern side of my sub. As I do, I notice that I feel somewhat weighted down, like I am wearing heavy clothing. I noticed that the dream world still feels rather muffled and separate, and I want to feel it more. I look and see that I am wearing headphones. I throw those off my head and drop them on the sidewalk.
I am also wearing a black hoodie. I take that off to reveal that I am wearing a white T-Shirt underneath. I took my phone and wallet out of my pocket and dropped them onto the ground.
I recalled the TOTM, or the one I had set my sights on, to ask a dream character who my soulmate was. I thought about manifesting one of my persistent dream characters, as they may offer the most interesting response. I tried to manifest them by turning around and having them appear. Nopes.
I decide to try and see if there are any dream characters and K's house. It's quite a ways away and I don't want to waste precious dream time, so I terraskate most of the way there. I also took note that my house was next to K's house. I thought about going in there instead, but stuck to my plan of going to K's house.
I stopped terraskating and walked up to their house. They had a black metal bench in their frontyard that I ran my hand across as I walked past to stabilize the dream some more. I was amazed at how real the bench felt.
I opened the door and K's mom was there, and here's the funny part, K was like seven or eight years old, and there was a clone of me, like seven or eight years old and the two were playing together, like when I had first met K. I interrupted the play and asked the younger K how old she was. She said that she was two. (lol)
I went out on the back porch with K's mom. I was going to ask her the question on my mind. I recalled it agian and had it ready. Their back porch was rather weird, they had a large wooden roof over it (not there in RL). K's mom was barbecuing something.
So I asked her.
"Who do you think my soulmate is?"
"I don't know what a soulmate is. Would you like to hear some interesting things about brain research and memory. I can explain to you why I don't know."
Not a very concise or interesting answer. I thought about leaving and asking another dream character. But at that moment, something exploded, and the wooden roof fell down on top of me "killing" me and ending the dream.

Kind of a lame answer, want to try it again with another dream character.

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Sorryyyyyy....

It's all good in the hood :shade wink:

Originally Posted by JadeGreen

... As I do, I notice that I feel somewhat weighted down, like I am wearing heavy clothing. I noticed that the dream world still feels rather muffled and separate, and I want to feel it more. I look and see that I am wearing headphones. I throw those off my head and drop them on the sidewalk.
I am also wearing a black hoodie. I take that off to reveal that I am wearing a white T-Shirt underneath. I took my phone and wallet out of my pocket and dropped them onto the ground....

That part seemed kinda like an interesting problem. Does that feeling normally happen to you? And did taking all that stuff off fix it?

I gave it a shot, but it ended in failure .

Essentially, I became lucid, remembered the Task of the Month, but couldn't find any DCs to ask who my true love is or to give my heart to.

Full dream here.

I'll just try again when I get the chance.

Well in my dreamIt was exposed ground and then it ,bam snowing out (just because I was here but non-lucid) while I was in my car so as my father drove up the hill I skiid up the car while the car was going up the hill. Clipping through the passenger seat. I assume that I was skiing sort of.

Wow, I can't believe I actually managed to do it before the end of the month. Hold on for a minute because I'm trying to figure out how to do that "Read More" thing. ((Edit: well I can't figure it out so here is all of the text without a read more, lol)

...At some other point, I'm standing in a room with a model wooden ship and a man. Out of habit, I do a reality check, and realize that I'm actually dreaming. Remembering the task of the month, I look at the man and say, "who's my soul mate?" He hesitates for a moment, and, disappointed, I think that he won't answer. Then he looks at me and says, "you should sell all your plates." I'm amused, and I don't ask him further. I walk past him to examine the model ship, reminding myself that Im' lucid. However, next, something happens which I don't quite remember, which is so interesting and engrossing that I forget to remind myself that I'm lucid, and I fall back into a regular dream...

...At some other point, I'm standing on the top of a tall building, with another man in front of me. Out of habit, I do a reality check, and, again, realize that I'm lucid. Since the last time was sort of unsatisfactory, I ask again who my soul mate is. The man, the only one in the vicinity, looks at me and says, "that guy" without pointing or otherwise indicating who "that guy" might be. Giving up, I jump off the building and try to fly just by thinking about it, but it isn't working, so I flap my arms (my whole arm, like a bird, not just the hands, as it had been when I wasn't lucid) and go higher and higher, and I try to shape shift into an eagle or something, but it isn't really working, and either I fall back into a regular, non-lucid dream, or I wake up. I can't remember.

The entire dream: http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/gray...rywhere-55414/

Tonight's the night! I can feel it baby! A lucid dream!

I completed both the advanced and the bonus lucid tasks last night! Proud of myself.

I got lucid in a hotel room on a high floor. I looked out the window hoping to see mountains, but saw only a town. I tried various techniques to change the scenery so that there was at least one mountain, and finally succeeded by "painting" it with my hand. I used the same method to paint falling snow on the whole scene, and was satisfied when the mountain was covered.

I took the elevator down to the lobby and exited the hotel, and saw the snowy mountain before me. I noticed that the mountain face I had approached was completely vertical. I saw I had ski's on, so I was ready to try skiing up. I jumped and pressed my feet against the rock...only to fall onto my back. I tried again, this time applying one ski at a time to the rock, knowing they would stick. They did, and I was now stuck to the side of the mountain looking up. I called upon the feeling I get when I fly in dreams, and essentially flew up the mountain with my ski's touching the rock face the whole time. Once at the top, I ski'd back down the other side.

At the bottom, I met a female DC. At this point I remembered the advanced tasks, and tried to imagine her as a zombie. She became more grotesque, and I decided to try the other advanced task instead. Now that she looked like a normal girl again, I focused on trying to extract my heart. I grabbed at my chest, hoping my hand would pass through its wall. No luck - I came away having grasped nothing. I tried again, focusing harder on passing my hand through my sternum. It seemed to work, and it came out grasping a heart-sized flesh-colored ball. I visualized it looking more like a heart, and it became one. The DC refused to take it, so I simply tucked it into the front of her low-cut tank top.

I hope the second one counts, haha.

If one of my characters says a weird answer I will know that that is somebody's nickname, and they are making a joke. (IDon'tKnow is on third) kind of thing. So I will tell my characters that the first question I ask them is supposed to be "Who is my soulmate." It's flawless[wink]

Originally Posted by strinky

The DC refused to take it, so I simply tucked it into the front of her low-cut tank top.

I admire your guts.