Thread: Task of the Month for June 2014

Sivason, you are definitely allowed to brag! Well deserved back patting.

The meteor one seems very interesting I'm gonna try it

So I got lucid last night and went about summoning my meteor. Something round came down from the sky, really fast, and I was pretty pleased with myself - looking forward to major catastrophic events with flood wave and earth crust igniting and whatnot.
Nope - the thing bounced off the ground several times, and when I followed it - it was a simple harmless football.
Damn. Guess, that doesn't count...

Originally Posted by StephL

So I got lucid last night and went about summoning my meteor. Something round came down from the sky, really fast, and I was pretty pleased with myself - looking forward to major catastrophic events with flood wave and earth crust igniting and whatnot.
Nope - the thing bounced off the ground several times, and when I followed it - it was a simple harmless football.
Damn. Guess, that doesn't count...

Great start though!

I've been just reading your wonderful, wonderful aquarium dream, Sivason!
Makes me really happy - you are such an inspiration, you really are!!

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I was eating breakfast and thinking about dreaming and stuff, and suddenly I realized that I may have had a lucid dream, but I don't remember any of it. I just remember doing the repeating task with my friend, but that's it and I don't know if I was actually lucid or not. at least that task is on my mind.

Originally Posted by DragonMaster21

I was eating breakfast and thinking about dreaming and stuff, and suddenly I realized that I may have had a lucid dream, but I don't remember any of it. I just remember doing the repeating task with my friend, but that's it and I don't know if I was actually lucid or not. at least that task is on my mind.

I love those moments when recall hits you all of a sudden like that, most of my "Hey, Wait! I dreamed about <something>!" happen in the shower.

I was having a non lucid about tornados AGAIN, and didn't get lucid from that dream sign, but got lucid when I took off flying to get away from them lol. It was a short DILD and I woke up before thinking about any tasks.

^^Hey, at least you got lucid. Last night, I was asking a DC whether or not he realized that the floors in his house were slanted 30 degrees. He wanted to borrow $10,000 from me at 10% interest so he could pay the cooks to feed his large family. Then I was chased and got stuck in a teleporting fireplace, I noticed how it was odd that when we closed the door to teleport away from our pursuers, there was snow on the ground, and when the pursuers opened the door later the snow was gone. I figured I had been trapped in time, naturally. Not a single frickin thought about how I might be dreaming.

I'm going to have to fixate on another task than that damned kissing one..I have had several dreams both lucid and non becoming a girl and kissing another girl and every time I become so obsessed with myself or the DC that I forget all about any kind of task's until I'm near the point of starting to grow head hair in the palms of my hands but what a way to go .....

Maybe the repeat one, How could what's left of my mind possibly turn that into sex

My DCs and their sense of humor...

Task of the Month

I was at home, when I noticed an alarm going off in the dining room. I looked at the time - 5:50pm already? No...it couldn't be. I did a reality check - dreaming. After being attacked, I wasn't in the mood to find James anymore, so I decided to do the Task of the Month. I couldn't remember exactly what it was, but I did remember reading someone's entry about repeating what their DC said, so I decided to try that one.

I walked to the living room, and found my target: my friend's girlfriend.

Me: "Hey"

Her: "Hey"

Me: "Hey"

Her: "...Sup?"

Me: "Sup"

Her: "...HEY SUP WHATEVER"

Me: "HEY SUP WHATEVER"

Her: "SKLJSLKSD" *speaking in tongues*

Me: "SKLJSLKSD" *speaking in tongues*

She caught on to what I was doing and twisted it, the little bitch.

Her: "Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh YYEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS," she moaned.

God dammit

Me: "Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh YYEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!"

Her: "Oh my god! You're SO INAPPROPRIATE, Zukin!!" She yelled and stormed off.

Originally Posted by woblybil

I'm going to have to fixate on another task than that damned kissing one..I have had several dreams both lucid and non becoming a girl and kissing another girl and every time I become so obsessed with myself or the DC that I forget all about any kind of task's until I'm near the point of starting to grow head hair in the palms of my hands but what a way to go .....

Maybe the repeat one, How could what's left of my mind possibly turn that into sex

Sounds good to me! Being a girl, being a girl in a girl-on-girl, TOTM be da@%ed

I succeeded at the "repeat" basic Task of the Month, breaking my dry spell!

I approach a balding, blonde-haired guy with glasses in his early 40s. He’s wearing a t-shirt that says something about the Windows registry and he’s looking at me like he wants to tell me something.

“Talk to me!” I say.

He happily launches into an explanation of something about computers, but he’s speaking too rapidly for me to follow. I eventually start catching him mid-sentence. “If you have a memory block that…” and I babble back “If you have a memory block that!”

He scowls at the interruption. “You know what? I don’t think you’re actually into this!” And with that, he turns and walks away, looking offended.

Full dream: The Guadalupe Airport - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Tl;dr - successful basic task and a failed attempt at an advanced task

Also, my subconscious is a douche

Last night, I decided that a week of trying to get lucid with no success meant I was trying to hard so I decided to give myself a night or two off to recuperate and try again the next night. Last night I got lucid!

As with petty much all my lucids I got lucid spontaneously. I was in some kind of well lit warehouse or factory type space. I was surprised to be lucid because I hadn't expected it, but I had presence of mind enough to try to stabilise the dream by fondling various textures (cellophane, concrete, denim, hair) I spent a little time being distracted by a pretty girl but then remembered to think about my lucid goals.

First, I chose one of the DCs to try repeating, he was a slightly weaselly chap who didn't really have anything interesting to say, but u repeated a few sentences of it anyway. (I can't remember what he said, it was a touch more interesting than "hey" but not much!)

After that I thought of have a go at summoning a meteor strike, so I headed outside. It was just turning dark outside as I walked down the street looking for inspiration on the meteoric bombardment front and I decided to climb some scaffolding on a building nearby to get a better view of the sky.

I started getting distracted by various twisting paths through the building and scaffolding and ended up switching to a classic non lucid dream about cycling through the same bit of pah multiple times until the chain wore out and needed fixing...

So, a small step forward, but still a bit frustrating

SammyTheSnake

Quick question, do you do both basic task to get the wings? for the advance one too?

Only one basic task is needed to get basic wings, which qualifies you to join in the club for the rest of the month. Advanced wings I assume work the same way. Not sure of the bonus task counts for anything on its own...

SammyTheSnake

Thanks for the information SammyTheSnake.

Advanced Task Meteor...close enough. I almost love it when things don't work right.

...I step out the front door and see the sun rising in the east. The amount of light is just enough that I don't have to struggle to see for once. For some reason, I am really surprised how pleasantly cool the air feels. Why did I think it would be hot? I chuckle and comment something out loud. To start up the task, I begin looking around at the sky with expectation. I try to imagine and visualize a fireball plummeting to the Earth but nothing forms. I even try making fiery sounds with my mouth, but sounds really lame and kiddish. The steet is empty of all traffic and people and the clouds seem extra colorful and fluffy. I am tempted to try flying, but I remain focused on the task.

I decide to walk around the area some still expecting a meteor. I notice that I haven't taken a step this whole dream. I just glide everywhere. Somehow, this gives me a though to Hulk jump to a new area, but it becomes more of a puny moon hop. I try flapping my arms to try to gain more height and I only hover a few feet in the air. Ok I give up.

Whatever travel took place during all this, was actually more that I had thought as I am now in front of the high school stadium, several blocks away. There are no people around, save for an middle aged Asian woman behind a classic lemonade stand. I can't see what she is selling but she is wiping down the counter as if trying to keep busy. I think maybe I will ask her to summon the meteor for me as I cross the street. When I am near enough to speak, she doesn't look at me though I feel she saw me. Before I can open my mouth, I see a bright fiery flash of light to my left. Realizing that of course no words are necessary, I smile and wave at the woman and turn to the meteor impact.

There's a blue and white townhouse on fire opposite of the stadium and several people are running around making a huge commotion, but no one seems to know what to do. I glide over to the house and stop at the unpainted picket fence. A man seems overly frantic so I give him a job, “Hey. Why don't you go call 911?” The man nods and runs off. I shrug and float closer to the house, but something weird happens.

I am now standing in front of an extra large doll house that's nearly as tall as myself. I am amused and a little annoyed that the townhouse shrunk like this, but I think I can still finish the task. The entire thing still burning and the fire has become translucent and hardly noticeable. I see a large hole in the roof and another in the floor of the second level. I reach in to try to grab a the meteor though I don't really see it. It doesn't matter because it's like I am a ghost and my hand passes through anything I touch. An adolescent boy runs up, pushes past me and takes something out of the house. He turns to examine his cupped hands and I assume he grabbed the meteor as I look over his shoulder. I am surprised when I see he just has something like a large sliver of dark brownish glass like from a broken beer bottle. I hear a chiming noise that shatters all dream content. I wake, cursing myself for not silencing my cell phone before going to bed.

full dream: Meteor - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Xanous - just an idea - if I try to fly by arm-flapping - that doesn't work. Probably because I can't see a way that could possibly have an effect, physically. Try to make swimming motions instead and imagine and feel a resistance, like in water. Never fails me, ever. I fly in ever lucid, actually, because I like it so much.

Good luck and congratulation on the meteor!

Originally Posted by StephL

Xanous - just an idea - if I try to fly by arm-flapping - that doesn't work. Probably because I can't see a way that could possibly have an effect, physically. Try to make swimming motions instead and imagine and feel a resistance, like in water. Never fails me, ever. I fly in ever lucid, actually, because I like it so much.

Good luck and congratulation on the meteor!

I probably use the swimming method more than anything but it doesnt always work. I dont know why but I suck at flying most of the
time.

lol ophelia i only learned about you and tornados after listening to the dv podcasts on youtube a few months back (those are great btw )

uggh i feel like im learning lucid dreaming from scratch nowadays, i haven't had a single lucid dream since january... it usually takes me like 2hrs to fall asleep then i just wake up without remembering anything at all...

I guess it still counts even if it was a stolen kiss...
I become lucid swimming in the sea, I see a nice-looking guy and I approach him for a kiss, then I remember the task is to kiss someone from the same gender, so I see a girl next to him and asked her if I could kiss her but she said no... so I had to steal her a kiss. She wasn't very happy about it but I didn't care, the task was done.

Originally Posted by Marm

lol ophelia i only learned about you and tornados after listening to the dv podcasts on youtube a few months back (those are great btw )

uggh i feel like im learning lucid dreaming from scratch nowadays, i haven't had a single lucid dream since january... it usually takes me like 2hrs to fall asleep then i just wake up without remembering anything at all...

Take it with a grain of salt, of course - but if you seriously spend two hours in order to fall asleep - my advice would be - take 3-6 mg Melatonin a quarter of an hour before you want to be asleep. That is a very low dose - see below - and it completely does the trick against my own considerable problems with insomnia (~1 hour was what I needed). In most countries, like the USA for example, you can simply get it over the counter. It is a substance your pineal gland produces on it's own every night, so it is nothing artificial, no unwanted side effects, not addictive, too. Even in much higher doses it only makes you more tired. High doses are even used as antioxidant (like vitamin C) in cancer patients.
How it affects REM is seemingly not clear - but it's used for dreaming purposes anyway. Some people on here say, it lowers REM time in the beginning of sleep and prolongs REM later on, which is also good - Wikipedia says the following on the topic:

Some supplemental melatonin users report an increase in vivid dreaming. Extremely high doses of melatonin (50 mg) dramatically increased REM sleep time and dream activity in people both with and without narcolepsy.

Worth a try - good luck - who wants to waste hours of lifetime waiting for sleep? Not me!

Got the impregnation task but wanted to do the meteor one in the same dream but a false awakening got in the way...will report back soon.