Task of the Month for May 2014

That's awesome Thena! I was hoping someone would nail this task. Congrats!!

The planned basic task enhancement proved to be a bit of a pain in the butt. :shakehead:

#1 try - ld in my room spent looking for a heavy enough object to lift with tk. Nothing.

# 2 partial success - came accross a horse in a mall and lifted it for a second, then checked if it's standing in the air and saw it has stepped onto something ruining the task. :horse:

# 3 success - found two very large umbrellas and made one to lift off and fly like a kite with TK, while a friend DC was doing the same to another umbrella. My umbrella came down a bit later and I shortly lifted it again, this time using super breath. :tornado:

I had a non-lucid where I was in front of a classroom (large audience) reading limericks that I was supposed to sing. I almost became lucid because I use emotions as dream signs: fear, shame and anger. I noticed feeling nervous, but because I got caught by the singing of the limericks I didn't make reality check -_-
Still, I'm impressed by the brain's ability to create many limericks in that moment... they were like 4, of course I don't remember any of them.

BTW, where are my beautiful golden wings?? I did bonus task many days ago :armflap:

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Originally Posted by kilham

BTW, where are my beautiful golden wings?? I did bonus task many days ago :armflap:

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I'm sorry, I missed the post. Gotta use the perms request so that I can find it faster!

I got the telekinesis task and sang some Heart, Barbara Streisand, and a song from Xanadu! I even got booed because I switched from Heart to a Babs/Barry Gibb duet :chuckle:

I managed some serious summoning that I could never do before. Will post on break

Whole Dream: http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/ophe...ms-dild-57710/

Full success on the 3rd try! Lots of fun! Advanced i/musical performance. I am glad I kept this a priority as I feel it nudged me on to multiple lucids this month.

I will use spoilers to hide the other parts of the LD that weren't part of the TOTM but should be an interesting read:

Spoiler for Fun and interesting LD, TOTM and beyond:

I look over into a room down the hall and I think "that looks like M" one of my wife's good friends. I also see M by the same name who is one of my son's friends and that's when I realize this must be a dream to see both of them together in the same odd place (as opposed to a party at my house or something). I say something to that effect and I try to levitate and at first it feels
more like my simulation but then I try again with more intention and confidence and it works. I float up into the air and fly-float around the room. I continue into another room down the hall already thinking about the musical performance task of the month and there is a band already playing and an empty drum set but no drumsticks and there is a crowd gathered set up more like a cocktail lounge with tables throughout and for the most part 2 people at each table, small round tables throughout the room. I tap on the empty drum set with my finger and then turn around and face the audience and start air drumming while imagining the song and while feeling the strong emotion of it: "I can feel it coming in the air tonight" by Phil Collins as planned. The drums start to appear although a little fuzzy and I keep playing and having a blast. Recalling the additional specifics of the task, I look around at the room for the reaction and the crowd seems mostly disinterested, not paying attention. Each table seems to be talking amongst themselves. (Later after the transition in the dream I try to think of another task and I decide against trying the Limerick and I think was it something to do with getting or giving a flower, no there was Sivason's idea of creating a field of flowers but that didn't become one of the tasks, never mind just have some fun. Back to the transition.)

Spoiler for Read on! Memorable, interesting LD continuation:

I feel the scene fading but I still feel firmly in dreamland and I start spinning and it works again! I think the trick for me now and why I have time to do the spin is that I no longer believe that just because the scene is fading that I have to wake up)! This time I do not think of anything specific but after a short while I start to feel the sensation of floating in water (again) and the sound of the ocean, and again I tell myself I will end up in shallow water and sure enough after what feels like 10-15 seconds later I'm at the foot of the beach and look back at the water. In the
water there are two yellow objects: a small one close by and a large one that looks like an empty raft further out. I decide to go check out the smaller one close by and go back into the water and grab it and it is one of those kid's arm-floaties perhaps another childhood memory. I love smelling those rubber items because they remind me of summer water toys that have that distinct strong chemical smell and remind me of wonderful summers past . I get caught in the tide a little bit but I'm slowly being pushed closer and closer to shore before I decide to just fly / zoom on out of the water and on to the shore. I look back out to the water again and there is a big group of what I assume are natives coming ashore. They seem like a lightly dressed but advanced civilization due to their hover-like boats that they come in to shore on (& later by the way that they talk), each with their own "boat" for the most part, a few with small kids along for the ride. They don't seem to see me at first and just come on to the shore in front of me and start walking over to my right. I call out to them and one man who seems to be the leader of the group comes over to me. I ask if they can bring me two of their most beautiful women. Just behind and next to him is a beautiful woman that looks quite a bit like Natalie Portman and I say she will be perfect. She walks over to me and seems fascinated by my mole as if it is some kind of sign and she kisses me on the lips. The leader guy may be with her and he looks a little jealous and he walks over to me also taking note of the mole and reaches around to the back of my neck and feels the bone protruding at the base of the back of my neck and seems to determine something from that and looks at me like I am strange and not like them. I tell him I come from a different time and place. It seems like a different time because it feels like if it were on earth it would be something similar to an Egyptian civilization but perhaps I'm not even on earth in this dream, thus a different place. This woman is so beautiful and I just hold her standing side by side admiring her body and touching her firm buttocks. She's wearing something like an intricate string bikini with lots of extra strings/straps wrapping around her waist area and connected to the bottom piece and something similar to her top covering but less strings/straps at top. It is beige in color as is the clothing of all of them. She is a great kisser! I start looking for the second woman and there is a younger one on the ground half-naked with no top on and while looking around and all the people I start to fade back to bed and can tell that I am clearly awake now. What an awesome dream!

Or DJ: 5/9, 5/10, 5/13 Another Awesome 2 Part LD: Beach in Another Time/Place. - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Basic Task II failed. Actually I completely forgot about it which is annoying since my dream incubation during my wbtb involved me preforming the task.

as I was repeating my mantra I had a WILD when I was going for MILD and I was really paranoid in this lucid for some reason and forgot about the task completely! :O

its only a matter of time before I get it though, I shall keep trying :P

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Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

I got the telekinesis task and sang some Heart, Barbara Streisand, and a song from Xanadu! I even got booed because I switched from Heart to a Babs/Barry Gibb duet :chuckle:

I managed some serious summoning that I could never do before. Will post on break

Whole Dream: Telekinesis & Rock Star ToTMs - DILD - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

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Yay. Just lookit them wings :P

I actually managed to use the force to make my breakfast from my bed and bring it through to the room and as it came through the door, came off the tray and went everywhere, the crash was unbelievably loud and I woke up. So I dont think this counts a successful task complete lol

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Originally Posted by Soother

I actually managed to use the force to make my breakfast from my bed and bring it through to the room and as it came through the door, came off the tray and went everywhere, the crash was unbelievably loud and I woke up. So I dont think this counts a successful task complete lol

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If you were lucid it counts. You don't have to be a professional telekinesisser, just get it to happen at all.

Ah cool ☺

Lol what is that?! ☺

It's so tiny I love it!

I happy face of course lol

I jumdideldid something!!
And I have to say a huuge thank you to fogelbise and to you Ophelia. It happened like usual - I get lucid and not long afterwards I loose optics.
Normally - now I see that - normally I would have woken myself up in the belief the LD has crashed.
Now I just stayed on and in blindly, telling myself not to worry, talking instead - and it was a loong LD!!
Even while I had to fight for optics repeatedly - and then again it was so realistic that I needed several nose-pinches to keep believing it.

Anyway - despite it having been a really long one - only basic task ii
I have been dreaming before of a lesbian flirtation (no "adult content" - we were just spending my non-lucid and most of the LD together flirting). I didn't have the feeling of good control, that's why I didn't try the force - maybe I should have.
Anyway - first I got out glasses in her flat and asked for Tequila. She didn't have any and we drank something else.
But later when we went out, we entered a bar and I ordered Tequila and we drank it in full decorum - with lemon-biting and all. Brrr - I'm not a fan of the stuff - but it also was realistic!

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Edit: Day before yesterday hypnosis session and yesterday and today I got lucid! After more than two weeks dry-patch with doing nothing at all. If that goes on like it - I will resurrect my hypnosis-experiences thread!

On another note - I believe, I could have held on to it longer, but after doing the task, I was satisfied and let waking up happen. It is deceptive to believe an LD is unstable, just because of missing optics - my new insight thanks you two above mentioned!

Woohoo congrats on keeping the LD stephL!

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I have a pair of Viiinngx again!!

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Originally Posted by StephL

I jumdideldid something!!
And I have to say a huuge thank you to fogelbise and to you Ophelia. It happened like usual - I get lucid and not long afterwards I loose optics.
Normally - now I see that - normally I would have woken myself up in the belief the LD has crashed.
Now I just stayed on and in blindly, telling myself not to worry, talking instead - and it was a loong LD!!

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I've actually been having a similar problem. In the past, whenever I found myself lucid, I would immediately wake up and tell myself, "Well, there's not much I can do with that." Or sometimes, I would become lucid, start waffling over what I wanted to do in my lucid dream, and watch helplessly as it faded away. Well, today I managed to relax and let the dream stabilize enough to do something with it. There was a point where everything faded and I could feel my body lying in bed, and I thought I had lost it. But I managed to stay relaxed and focused, and the dream eventually continued.

Thank goodness it did. I really wanted to hit the bonus task, and I finally did with some interesting results.

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I find myself in a hospital birthing suite, lying on a bed, preparing to give birth. There's no pain. In fact, there's no pressure or any other sensation that I would have expected. Really, I just feel happy that I'm finally about to do this. The baby comes out -- except it's not a baby, but a six-foot-tall man wearing swim trunks. He's very tan and has extremely light blond hair that looks like it's been bleached by the sun. He looks at me and says, "Bro, I've gotta catch some waves. See you later!" before taking off.
(Pregnant Lady Coming Through (Bonus Task of the Month) - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views)

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Lmfao Thena!

Well.... I though I was about to do it, but nothing. I think it's my 2nd or 3rd LD this month, but is the only one I could remember: "Hey, the TOTM!!". Anyhow, my main problem is that the few DILDs I get are at the end of my REM, so they last little.

I was going up on an elevator which was scenario for many nightmare during my childwood. It has 17 floors but today it marked a number 18, so that was it. As the doors were about to open I though on seeing some kind of beach and music, but I appeared inside the building of my office. I just flew through a big glass (window), and as I was about to fly around doing nothing, I remembered the TOTM.

I went to a bar that is there, and as I was walking I saw 2 girls on the street and asked one of them: "hey, want some tequila shots?". She said "no". I went to the bar and sit with another girl that was there, but my mistake is that I took her and sit her over me. Soon I started getting a really unconfortable hard-on that was trapped there under her jeans, she said "hey, your hard!" while wiggling her ass, which it didn't help.

My vision went completely blurry, not dark, I just couldn't see a thing. I touched the table, cold, I tried to look away from her (still feeling her weight and body over me), and vision came back. I could see the small round table perfectly. I smiled at her trying to act normal (you know, is like you're some kind of tourist on another world and you can't tell about it), but then I got blinded... and this time I woke up.

So no tequila shots for me tonight :(


PS: Next time I'll challenge some random guy...

Yeah - but beware Irreo - I had a lesbian flirt out with me for drinking - and I am usually just a regular married woman irl.
But as far as I can see - males have much more problems with trying out the same sex in their dreams - nobody curious?

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Originally Posted by StephL

(...) males have much more problems with trying out the same sex in their dreams - nobody curious?

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I have a personal theory, but I may be wrong... Based on my own (little) experience. I think that our problem (men) is that we have that... piece, which even being a lot of fun sometimes, can be a pain some others. It needs its space.

On a LD dream I had some weeks ago (I think I posted it around here) I really had to take it out (well, I was helping two girls do it), but it was a weird feeling, because no matter how much I would try to get my pants down, only a bit of it would go out. I woke up some seconds after that, finding that my underwear was on a really unconfortable position for my "toy".

So, I decided to sleep without underwear (just in case ..) , now that summer approaches and nights are not cold. Anyway, these last weeks I found myself having to put pijama pants because it wasn't hot enough, and tonight has been one of those nights. I think I was laying on my back, and maybe my pants "blocked" somehow, and that's why I felt trapped there... not sure.

Also, even if I had my sex experiences in the past, it's been some time completely dry, so I guess that this also "helps" to make the dream fade away if becoming too excited. In my case, it's also due to LD starting in late REM, because even if it's not sex in it, they don't last too long.

Just... a dangeour cocktail :lol:

Weell - first of all - I would get a night-gown - there are such things meant for men, and in the past they were even quite common.
You can't put the erotic tinging of so many LDs down to having such an extraordinary toy alone. :wink:
Probably the distraction tends to be more common and intensive for you guys, though.
But I crashed several LDs in just that same way, too. Attachment 7084
Patting myself down, like it is sometimes recommended, is a baad idea in my case for example.
Let me be blunt - all you guys and gals concerned - why not go about self-made pre-satisfaction in WBTB, until feeling properly satiated?
Does anybody do that maybe? Veery personal question, I know, just ignore me, if it's going too far.
I'm not bothered enough by the phenomenon to take preventive action - at least for now.
But there is a phenomenon - no doubt about that.

Alright! I finally got one! It's about time. I've already been halfway through the month with nothing accomplished; what a letdown with how early I got that pair last month... The main couple of problems this month for me have been the infrequency of my lucid dreams (which I feel that I could really increase if I'd just practiced more/better) and how short and out-of-control my more recent lucid dreams have tended to be. Last time I had a lucid dream, I remembered the task-of-the-month but didn't get to take care of it because of how soon I lost the dream - hardly got it done this time! But, well, without further ado...

Basic Task ii - Star Wars Day: Use The Force in any of its well-known uses, i.e. telekinesis, mind control. - AstralVagabond ;-)

Before I'd done this task, I honestly wanted to do it in a way that was fancy and above the necessary. Firstly, rather than using just one of the uses of The Force once, I wanted to use both on multiple instances and I'd hoped to set up and actual 'Star Wars'-related setting to do it in. But by now, I'm glad to at least have gotten it done.

As I become lucid, I find myself in a dream model of my bedroom, as I quite often do. I spend a bit of time trying to stabilise the scene and make sure that it's safe for me to practice in because I remember the problems I've been having with that - but even before I've achieved a perfect result, I remember that task-of-the-month that I should really do as soon as possible, before I lose the time. So, standing near the window (which apparently doesn't have a window pane, looking at how I'm about to use it), I look over to the other side of the room and see a table (that isn't really the kind of table that I have here in real life). I decide to telekinetically raise the table with The Force that connects all things (or my subconscious mind, in my dream) and dramatically raise my hands, hoping that the table will move up with them. It does. That moment feels pretty cool.

With the table hovering in mid-air, I then decide to move it out of my dream bedroom (which is really never an accurate model of my real bedroom, is it? :huh:), through the window, so I stand aside and move my hands to the right, moving the table (which has now suddenly become a smaller version my bed) towards the window. However, I can't move it totally through as the window gate is still closed, so I keep the table/bed hovering for a moment, get the key for the gate and open it. (I first tried to see if the bed was so small that it could actually move through one of the square gaps in the window gate without having to open it. It wasn't. At least things didn't get that ridiculous.) (Or was that in my previous lucid dream when I used a key to open the gate with me simply being to open it with a handle in this one?) After doing so, I successfully move the bed out of the window and drop it. The dream basically goes downhill from there so it's good that the task has been completed by now.

I almost did the shots task, but woke up before I could do it.

I was outside of my school, but it was like a mixture of my old school and new school. It was like my new school in the location of my old school. I immediately thought 'Wait a second, I was just somewhere else before.' and I knew I was dreaming. I didn't really need to, but I plugged my nose for the RC because I think it feels cool :P. Then, I didn't know what to do so I just ran around. I found a group of friends and remembered the task of the month. I said, "Hey, want to do some shots? I have glasses right here in my left pocket." and I reached into my pocket and felt the glasses, but for some reason I was having trouble pulling them out then I woke up.


A bunch of your attempts at this ToTM have been hilarious and have left me laughing out loud. Great job :D

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Originally Posted by StephL

Weell - first of all - I would get a night-gown - there are such things meant for men, and in the past they were even quite common.
You can't put the erotic tinging of so many LDs down to having such an extraordinary toy alone. :wink:
Probably the distraction tends to be more common and intensive for you guys, though.
But I crashed several LDs in just that same way, too. Attachment 7084
Patting myself down, like it is sometimes recommended, is a baad idea in my case for example.
Let me be blunt - all you guys and gals concerned - why not go about self-made pre-satisfaction in WBTB, until feeling properly satiated?
Does anybody do that maybe? Veery personal question, I know, just ignore me, if it's going too far.
I'm not bothered enough by the phenomenon to take preventive action - at least for now.
But there is a phenomenon - no doubt about that.

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Didn't know about those night-gowns. Anyway, I think I'll stick to my t-shirt :cheeky:

About the pre-satisfaction, it's funny you mention it, because a couple of times I had the dilema (before going to bed), if do it, or hold it, because I don't exactly know how it affects one situation or the other, in the case something erotic happens in an LD.

In any case, I'll try to avoid such situations when doing the TOTM, specially keeping in mind that my LDs use to be really really short.