Task of the Month for June 2014

**StephL** · 06-15-2014 04:08 AM

Originally Posted by kilham

I had the longest LD ever (like 30 min) and completed the tasks left!!

Bonus task:
I start creating an aquarium but it is very dark and I lack some dream control because I can’t feel things very well… I want better vision and said loud “I want more light” and seconds later all the dream scene is in bright sunlight, the water is crystal-clear and I think of summoning a shark which I later changed for a pair of dolphins because it was getting scary with the sharks there, then I noticed I can see underwater, I pointed a finger to the sand and create some starfish and seaweed. At this point I feel completely inside the dream scene because I can taste the salty water and feel it spraying my face so hard that I had to cover my eyes. Again I look underwater and see that the bottom is not too deep, I can see the feet of other people that are inside, and then I see a strange animal, it’s like a very big/wide scorpion walking fast between people legs, eww it was scary also, so I got out just to appear in front of my house at the top of my car trying to remember which other task I’m missing, I stayed there for a moment trying to remember and then:

Great!!
I am so happy people are doing the aquarium task as well!
Cool.gif

And I'd wager the thought that you might you have been watching prehistoric animal features?
Once upon a time, there lived a giant sea-scorpion, the largest arthropod ever to be around, up to 6 feet long and called Eurypterid - a nasty predator.
Here is such a feature - and it's actually great - towards the end, when a fight with a Nautiloid is shown - one or the other one might not like it any more - but I do. But until then there is despite the gruesome title just some swimming about and information:

Originally Posted by 501

I kissed a dude for these wings!

Well here is an excerpt from the dream, prior to this was a battle with some bad guys in an army type scenario.

Lucid: I continued to walk with the scene for a bit and thought I would just keep flowing with the dream, then I thought I would fly straight up and lastly I remembered I wanted to do a TOTM. There was a soldier walking next to me wearing camo and a helmet, I turned him around and he was a younger guy with I assumed blonde hair but I couldn't be sure because of the helmet. I pulled him to me and planted one on him.... I smooched for a bit and it was really just like kissing a piece meat or a piece of bologna. After a few seconds I let him go and he just carried on as he was before with no comments or reactions. I said something to the effect of "That was good stuff wasn't it?". I then thought of trying the repeat task but woke up. It may have been from the excitement of completing the task.

Full dream below

TOTM for Jun 2014: Kiss a dude! - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

I am proud of you!
It wasn't transsexual and homosexual day after all - counts, too, of course, I know - but anyway!

Originally Posted by ~ Dreamer ~

Awesome dreams, everyone!

I can't wait to complete my final task!
I promised myself I wouldn't look in the Lucid Task Club until I completed every task this month... I'm sooo curious to see the suggestions!

rolleyes.gif If you have to have it difficult - hurry up then!

Originally Posted by DefineMeAsOne

I didn't want to kiss a guy so I wasn't going to do the ToTM for the Basic, but I read woblybil comment, "I will kiss a DC of the same gender IF ! ....... I can become a girl first", and I realized hey I could do that...maybe. Since I didn't know how to transform into a girl, I thought I was doomed. Well it never left my mind and I was given the right circumstances and I got it. The non-lucid dream had nothing to do with the lucid so some parts won't make sense. Here is the lucid part:

I see my body and I am an old white man. We are at a mall. As I was telling her that she could do what ever she wants and she don't have to be afraid, I see myself in the mirror. I am young now, my eyes are hazel slightly blue. I was getting distracted, this was the first time I saw my reflection in a dream. I walked a bit and turned and I am now a women. I had red hair, I had blue greenish eyes. I had wrinkles around my eyes. I am dressed in a red poke-dot skirt. I looked like a 1950s gal. I looked about 40 something years old. I had a wonderful body not too fat or too skinny. I thought about doing the challenge since I am now a girl, I could kiss another girl. I wanted to make sure that I am not a transsexual so I picked up my skirt and saw no penis. Oh yeah the little girl disappeared long time ago, I don't know when but she did. I scattered to look for a women. I saw one old lady, and another that is slightly younger, I would say about 40-50. She had grey hair. She was not attractive but she wasn't ugly. She was doing someone's nail. I rushed and grabbed her head. I first went for a light kiss, then I started doing tongue. I was slightly uncomfortable because she is old. I am old too but dam she was really old. What made it even more sickening was that she started to enjoy it.

06/08/14 ToTM Basic II Full dream: "Kiss from same sex" - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Tse on the kissing - well done anyway - the hard way!
But I love this:

Originally Posted by DefineMeAsOne

They congratulated her about revealing the truth on the military corruption. She humbly tells them she couldn't have done it without Carina. She turns and gestures to her friend Carina. The guy that was about to give her a reward said, "Sorry? There is no one next to you. Is Carina around? Linda quickly turned around and frighten with what she saw, nobody was behind her. Then she looks at the man. He started to flicker, like those horror movie style, until he disappeared. As a spectator in dream, I commented as if I am watching a movie.

I thought, "Is she schizophrenic? And did she just see the illusions that her mind made up?" She started to run in fear. She went into the night not know what is real or fake. As she went into the tunnel her illusions became vivid. She saw different color animals come at her, such as bears. Some of them clowns. I all of sudden became her. I felt her fear and desperation of answers. I spectated again, and thought if only she realized it is a dream. I became lucid and I became one of her hallucinations. An English man with one eyeglass, and a big hat.

And it is fascinating - I don't think, I ever dream third person perspective...

**woblybil** · 06-15-2014 06:18 AM

Originally Posted by DefineMeAsOne

I didn't want to kiss a guy so I wasn't going to do the ToTM for the Basic, but I read woblybil comment, "I will kiss a DC of the same gender IF ! ....... I can become a girl first", and I realized hey I could do that...maybe. Since I didn't know how to transform into a girl, I thought I was doomed. Well it never left my mind and I was given the right circumstances and I got it. The non-lucid dream had nothing to do with the lucid so some parts won't make sense. Here is the lucid part:

06/08/14 ToTM Basic II Full dream: "Kiss from same sex" - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

I love it. My last try turned out so nasty I cant post it....

**Zyangur** · 06-15-2014 01:58 PM

Finally got the repeating task

It was pretty dark and for some reason I thought I might be dreaming so I did an RC and confirmed it. Some things happened and I ended up in a room my with sister it was dark and the tv was on. I said, "Hey say something.
She said "what"
I responded "what"
My sister: "what"
Me: "what"
My sister: "what"
Me: "what"
My Sister: "I don't have time for this I'm trying to go to sleep
Me: "I don't have time for this I'm trying to go to sleep

Then she didn't respond, so I tried to go somewhere else but I don't remember much of what happened after

**StephL** · 06-15-2014 03:37 PM

I say captain - you say what...biggrin.gif

**SammyTheSnake** · 06-17-2014 08:54 AM

Woo hoo! Advanced task, baby!

I became lucid spontaneously, as is most common for me. I'm in the middle of a sunny pedestrianised street. There's a general old-timey feel to the scene, perhaps mediaeval? The scene is very vague and I feel like perhaps I'm halfway between dreaming and visualising while awake. I decide to try to stabilise my connection to the dream scene and ignore any hint of waking life experience that might bring me back to the waking world. I fondle some surfaces and look intently at a few things. I try sniffing for smells but all I get is a slightly stuffy nose feeling.

I spot the moon in the blue sky and feel drawn to stare at it. The thought crosses my mind that focusing on a specific object sometimes brings it closer, which starts to happen. As it comes closer it looks more like Earth. I decide that another planet is basically just a really big meteorite by the time it enters the atmosphere, so I will it to come faster and faster. It's silent which I consider trying to fix but realise it's probably coming multiple times faster than the speed of sound so I wouldn't be able to hear it before it arrives!

The other-earth smashes into the ground over the horizon and there's a moment of silence before the ground leaps up in waves a couple of hundred metres high and the atmosphere explodes into flame. The waves of earth get steep enough that they "break" with the tips curving enough that they no longer bend, but snap into a million clods of earth and rubble.

And all that I didn't recall until I was on my bike cycling to the train station, having already jornaled a not so impressive NLD!

So proud of myself! Special thanks go to Ms Blue and the others on the chat shortly before I went to bed, I'm sure those conversations helped my mind be in the right place to achieve this

SammyTheSnake

**StephL** · 06-17-2014 04:33 PM

Wow!!
Now that's what I wanted from my meteorites - full apocalyptic show - not just a hole in a garden!
Congratulation SammyTheSnake!!

**Graywolf** · 06-18-2014 03:22 AM

I haven't been here in a while! But I think I'll try the first two basic tasks

**kilham** · 06-18-2014 03:48 AM

Originally Posted by StephL

Great!!
I am so happy people are doing the aquarium task as well!

And I'd wager the thought that you might you have been watching prehistoric animal features?
Once upon a time, there lived a giant sea-scorpion, the largest arthropod ever to be around, up to 6 feet long and called Eurypterid - a nasty predator.
Here is such a feature - and it's actually great - towards the end, when a fight with a Nautiloid is shown - one or the other one might not like it any more - but I do. But until then there is despite the gruesome title just some swimming about and information

It was something like that StephL! but it didn't swim. I don't remember watching anything about prehistoric animals...

**INeverWakeUp** · 06-18-2014 04:50 AM

Gah the dryspells! I hope to have a lucid soon!

**FryingMan** · 06-18-2014 06:41 AM

Originally Posted by INeverWakeUp

Gah the dryspells! I hope to have a lucid soon!

Recall and dream awareness is up, I had either a semi or a fake lucid 2 nights ago that finished with a fake OBE return to body, so I must be getting close!

**~Dreamer~** · 06-20-2014 03:28 PM

I'm just going to leave a link here, because it's pretty graphic!
This is probably the only summary you need:

Originally Posted by ~ Dreamer ~

Too bad I forgot about the Father's Day task - I totally could have made Canis grow a pregnant belly!!

Originally Posted by CanisLucidus

LOL at your father's day plans for me! If my DC could have then completed delivery, I'd have also scooped up those wings I missed in May.

Originally Posted by ~ Dreamer ~

I feel like I've been issued a challenge!

So my final June task, Father's Day, is complete.

**FryingMan** · 06-20-2014 03:59 PM

^^Awesome dream, but you bypassed the fun part of the task

**~Dreamer~** · 06-20-2014 04:17 PM

Originally Posted by FryingMan

^^Awesome dream, but you bypassed the fun part of the task

Haha, perhaps next time I should pick an unmarried DC!

**FryingMan** · 06-21-2014 09:27 AM

Well, hoo-f^&*in-ray, I finally got lucid. Weak TOTM but I did it, my own task. I've been plagued by dreams of gay guys getting it on all month long, including last night, I should not have kept telling myself "I *won't* do that gay kissing task", my mind probably dropped the negation and made it my primary dream incubation!

I'm outside in daylight, I see KH [WL childhood crush], I reach for her, turn her towards me, I want to kiss her but I want to bring her into my arms first, as she comes in I get lucid, decide to kiss her quickly, pull back, look at her, hold the dream, feels unstable, I ask her "do you want to walk around?" [WL plan for next lucid, walk around with a dream girl exploring the dream] She doesn't answer. I remember TOTM, I say "say something." She says "something." I say "something." Satisfied, I relax, and the dream ends.

**~Dreamer~** · 06-21-2014 10:59 AM

Congrats on breaking your dry spell, FryingMan!
Plenty more to come, I bet!

**FryingMan** · 06-21-2014 01:48 PM

Thanks, ~Dreamer~, I know there will be, because, I'm Good Enough, I'm Smart Enough, and Doggone It, [Dreams] Like Me!

**anderj101** · 06-22-2014 07:41 PM

Had my first lucid in over a year, but couldn't remember the tasks. I had nearly given up, but now the game is on!!!

**~Dreamer~** · 06-22-2014 08:49 PM

Congrats anderj101, that's awesome news!

**KestrelKat** · 06-22-2014 11:53 PM

Basic Task: National Repeat Day

Okay, so, I don't know whether to post the whole dream or just the part where I tried the task...

[[ long story short, I was with my parents up north, camping, and thought I saw one of my friends, Alex. It didn't look exactly like him, but I thought maybe it was him, and then he ended up telling my parents (really creepily) that I, a "little SLUT" wasn't as innocent as my parents thought. They flipped (which wouldn't happen IRL) and made me get tested by a doctor, who told them I wasn't a virgin. They left, angry/crying/ignoring everything I said. ]]

So I'm laying in the hospital bed in the empty room, and the door opens. Maybe-Alex comes in, and I look at him, hurt. "Why did you do that? What did I do to make you call me a little slut?!" He would never do that IRL. Especially not in the tone he'd used. His voice was so malicious, so manipulating and cold.

"I had to be sure the mother of my child is hated by her parents; that way she has no where to turn but to me." He was so calm and cold.

"And you think I'm having your baby?" I rolled my eyes.

"I know you're going to have my baby." And he locked the door. He came toward me with a really wicked grin on his face, and I suddenly felt very, very scared. "There's no way you're Alex..."

"Nope~" He said in a singsongy voice, and I realized I must have been dreaming. I did a Reality Check, and it turned out I was dreaming.

I stared at whoever this guy was, and asked him, "are you The Face?" [[a DC I've encountered a few times, but don't know the real identity of ]]

"That may have been me. But that's not my name." He'd sat down at the edge of the bed, no longer threatening. He was still grinning a bit maliciously, though. Maybe it was more mischievous.

"Well what is your name?"

"You can call me whatever you want."

"I want to call you by your name."

"Not this time~"

I narrowed my eyes at him and suddenly remembered the challenge of the month. I decided to try it, so I repeated, with the same singsongy intonation, "Not this time~"

He just raised his eyebrow and stared at me, silently. I couldn't tell if he was confused or just blank. I waited so long for him to say something else that I could repeat, that the dream destabilized and I woke up.

Does that even count? lol
If I remember correctly, we started making silly faces at each other before I woke up.

**Nightfeather** · 06-23-2014 07:09 PM

Yesterday I attempted/completed(?) the basic task i

I have a FA in my house; it is night. I remember a previous dream, but still think that it really happened. I go to the bathroom and try to talk to a DC about that dream, but he ignores my question and tells me that there are algae on my arm. I'm confused: Why should plants grow on my arm? It would be too dark to see them anyway. I suspect that I could be dreaming. Do I have enough fingers? I throw myself against the wall in an attempt to tunnel through it and fail. I look at my arm and see green and red sticker-like thingies on it. Now I'm sure that I'm dreaming and leave the room. I briefly try to stabilize by focusing on my senses and surrounding. I notice my mom and remember the repeat TOTM. She says 'Good morning!' and I repeat it. She asks 'Where have you been?' and says more, but I can't remember what. I repeat each sentence. I wake up while we are still talking.

I'm not sure if that counts, because I couldn't remember the full 'conversation' and the dream destabilized before my DC gave up.
(comment: It seems that I can't link to the full DJ entry because I'm not registered long enough. Or I don't find the right button.)

**INeverWakeUp** · 06-24-2014 04:11 AM

Well it's been over a month since my last lucid. A month and a half in fact. I think part of it is my lack of time spent on DV. I could be logging all my non-lucids(which I'm about to post some). Maybe that'll help. Any tips? I'm not stressed since school's out, I do ADA on a normal basis and RC a lot throughout the day. I don't even really think about it in bed, as I've heard that can help.

**Sensei** · 06-24-2014 05:14 AM

Had an interesting dream this afternoon, not lucid, but I made a baby. Here is the dream:

Spoiler for Dream 18+:

Not lucid, so no count, but I thought that some of ya'll might be interested.

**FryingMan** · 06-24-2014 06:46 AM

Originally Posted by INeverWakeUp

Well it's been over a month since my last lucid. A month and a half in fact. I think part of it is my lack of time spent on DV. I could be logging all my non-lucids(which I'm about to post some). Maybe that'll help. Any tips? I'm not stressed since school's out, I do ADA on a normal basis and RC a lot throughout the day. I don't even really think about it in bed, as I've heard that can help.

I recommend the recent threads from Ctharlie on intention & breaking dry spells, and mindfulness. I had an almost month-long dry spell (3 weeks was previously my longest) that thankfully was broken this week. I stopped stressing/worrying about LDs, I focused on recall and loving my dreams, creating only positive thoughts about dreaming, telling myself I'm an awesome lucid dreamer. Remove negative thoughts, know that the lucids will come. And in my case I needed to step up the night work (waking, recall, recording, WBTB, WILD attempts). And set strong intention to lucid dream. You can do it!