Thread: Task of the Month for July 2014

Wow at this thread! You know, it's been 7 years since a totm thread got past 8 pages. I think it's because y'all pick and vote on the tasks. Hence task CLUB

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Wow at this thread! You know, it's been 7 years since a totm thread got past 8 pages. I think it's because y'all pick and vote on the tasks. Hence task CLUB

There are still two more days... (I mean three... I always forget that little chant about how many days are in the months)
We could go for 10 pages!

Originally Posted by KestrelKat

There are still two more days... (I mean three... I always forget that little chant about how many days are in the months)
We could go for 10 pages!

Whelp, I have the next 2 days off, so I'm hoping to snatch that Elevator task.

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Whelp, I have the next 2 days off, so I'm hoping to snatch that Elevator task.

Lol me too, I really wanna get this one done!

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Whelp, I have the next 2 days off, so I'm hoping to snatch that Elevator task.

Same! I haven't been lucid for a while, so if I can get lucid in the next two nights, I will definitely be trying the elevator task. If not, oh well, I know there will be some awesome tasks for next month!

I did Basic Task i
Im at some kind of square with a fountain and I run up to a DC on a bench and start to rip all my clothes off, they have a scared look on their face, Im laughing my head off and I think that I randomly teleported on to a bus and ripped all my clothes off. Everyone was yelling "STOP" xD

There has got to be some sort of booby prize for completing EVERY task but all non-lucid. Last night I visited an alien planet for the first time ever, but non-lucid, which completes every July TOTM task!!!!

Originally Posted by FryingMan

There has got to be some sort of booby prize for completing EVERY task but all non-lucid. Last night I visited an alien planet for the first time ever, but non-lucid, which completes every July TOTM task!!!!

LOL, that's great! I have done all but the planet task non-lucidly this month, too.

Gah, I'm really struggling with this backlog of DJs.
Must - post - task dreams - before month ends...
God, my procrastination is terrible! This will happen, I swear!

Originally Posted by ~ Dreamer ~

LOL, that's great! I have done all but the planet task non-lucidly this month, too.

Gah, I'm really struggling with this backlog of DJs.
Must - post - task dreams - before month ends...
God, my procrastination is terrible! This will happen, I swear!

Yeah but YOU'RE sporting TWO sexy sets of wings, I'm naked!

Originally Posted by FryingMan

Yeah but YOU'RE sporting TWO sexy sets of wings, I'm naked!

More naked task incubation!

Originally Posted by ~ Dreamer ~

LOL, that's great! I have done all but the planet task non-lucidly this month, too.

Gah, I'm really struggling with this backlog of DJs.
Must - post - task dreams - before month ends...
God, my procrastination is terrible! This will happen, I swear!

Non-Lucid ?.. I just flew all over a weed field with a camera trying to take a picture of an elusive little kid and finally gave up and flew slowly back uphill over the sidewalk and the kid caught up with me and asked to fly too and I said I'd like to help you but i'm having a hard time myself and had no reason at all to think I might be dreaming....

Elevator Task! Had it during a nap. Which is funny because as I was going to take a nap, someone in irc told me to have a lucid. Wish I remember who it was, Alexa or PK or Jack. Anyway:

I "woke up" or so I had thought, and was immediately aware that a slimy egg was in my hand. But I knew that finding the egg and dropping it had been a dream, because it was a house I didn't recognize, and now I was in my real room. How was I still holding this egg? LUCID!! Now it felt like a jello egg, and I let it kinda "sploop!" out of my hands, and I got out of the bed. I recalled the elevator totm because I've been talking about it for days. I've been thinking alot lately about the power of expectation, and have come to some conclusions about it, and how I've found a mechanism that helps it to work better. I'll have to post about that sometime. Anyway, I opened my bedroom door, and as I did, I told myself, "Now that I'm in that hotel, I just need to find the elevator that's just down this hallway." Sure enough, as soon as I opened the door, a hotel hallway stretched out before me. I walked down it a bit, thinking to myself, "The elevator is right about here." On my right was the door to a room, but to my left was an elevator! "I'm going to hit the down button." And as I approached the doors to the elevator, a simple up arrow and a down arrow button appeared. I hit the down arrow and the doors opened right away. It looked like a normal elevator: wood floor, carpeted walls and a metal bar that went 3 quarters around mid height. But when I looked at the back wall of the elevator, the left part looked like it opened up into another elevator. Kinda like twin elevators, with a partial partition. When I got the the partition, I realized immediately that it was in fact a mirror, because I saw my reflection. Only it wasn't me, it was my stepdad! Wearing that same dumb blue and green plaid shirt and khaki pants lol. I screamed at first because it startled me, and jumped back. The reflection imitated me at the same time. I laughed so hard at the ridiculousness of it, that I started float-flying in the elevator, occasionally projected forward a bit by my own laughter as if each laugh acted as propulsion. So weird haha. Then I woke up.

I had an unusually long lucid dream the other day when I passed out after returning home from class, but totally forgot what the advanced tasks were, so I just ended up flying aimlessly around the city. [Shrugs] Oh well; I had fun nevertheless. I must say, playing Kid Icarus: Uprising has helped me improve mine flight ability tremendously (not that it was bad to begin with). Until now, I have only been able to fly at relatively low speeds. The wind on mine face and body just felt so real.

I do not know if this is the cause or not, but ever since I started taking this supplement called L-theanine to help me fall asleep easier (and boy, does it work), every single one of mine dreams, lucid or non-lucid, has been in high-definition. But, as a downside, I occasionally feel slightly on edge the following day. [Shrugs] Nonetheless, I think it's worth it.

[EDIT] Huh, lucky sevens.



Maybe I'll get lucky tomorrow and find a stack of banknotes on campus in the toilet stall.

May you find at least 777 banknotes then

That's cool how playing that game helped with your flying. I can always fly in LDs no problem, but I'm kind of a low and slow flyer. Maybe I should check it out!

WTF, elevators again, on the way to a pizza party where nobody I knew showed up (but there were cute girls with beautiful deep brown eyes, but I was too shy [hey who are you, and what have you done with the real FryingMan?!] to approach).

OK I'm really pissed about this month. Since I'm all about the non-lucids on all the tasks this month, can we PLEASE make sure that at least next month's tasks involve tons and tons of smoking hot sex?

edit: that came out more angry than tongue-in-cheek, which is how it was meant. I have only my pea-dreaming-brain to blame for my performance this month. Heck, had a few lucids and some great dreams all around so it's been a great month. Just wingless, boo hoo

I can try.

Originally Posted by FryingMan

WTF, elevators again, on the way to a pizza party where nobody I knew showed up (but there were cute girls with beautiful deep brown eyes, but I was too shy [hey who are you, and what have you done with the real FryingMan?!] to approach).

I usually try to put those terrible nightmares behind me, Onward and Upward

can we PLEASE make sure that at least next month's tasks involve tons and tons of smoking hot sex?

Oh-Yeah...

Aristaeus, I was dreaming about you yesterday!!!! Holy s*** I just remembered that, we were talking about DreamViews. I just looked in my DJ and it says "I am talking to some DV member called Arist.. (Can't remember the rest)" but now I know it was definitely you! Thats so weird I think you even had the same Profile Picture in my dream

Okay, finally transferred over these notes. This was from July 24th. I completed the naked task, but failed at the elevator and planet tasks.
Full entry: Naked at the Playground

Spoiler for Excerpt:

I remembered the tasks of the month.
Travelling to an alien planet sounded fun...
Riding an elevator is something I've never done in a dream before...
But then I remembered Basic Task i: Get naked in public (in front of at least 1 DC). Report the reaction. I knew this was the one I'd been looking forward to!
I looked around and saw that there were a lot more people than I realised - parents and kids just playing at the playground. I thought this was perfect, because there were so many angles of discomfort I needed to overcome.
I let go of CanisLucidus' hand and walked a little further away. I was wearing winter clothes. I pulled my arms inside my sleeves and struggled a bit - the sleeves were tighter than they should have been. I was also a little wary of pulling my top over my head, in case I lost my vision again. But I tried to do it as quickly as possible and my vision wasn't affected.
I looked around and everyone was still occupied in the playground and hadn't noticed yet. Canis had wandered off too, but I was keeping an eye on him on the other side of the playground.
I was still wearing a bra, so I started unclipping it. One of the clasps was stuck, but I made sure not to get distracted trying to fix it. I just slid it down to my waist instead.
I heard a giggle behind me and turned around to see two young girls. They were pointing at me and laughing.
I turned back around and continued with the task of removing my pants. As I pulled them down, I was horrified to realise that it was 'that time of the month' and there was a sanitary pad stuck to my undies. This almost psyched me out, but I tried to ignore the embarrassment and got on with the task at hand. I had a bit of trouble fully removing my pants because they got stuck near the bottom of my leg, but I shook them off. I'd pulled the bra down with my pants too, and checked to make sure I was completely naked. No socks or shoes, and a pretty accurate representation of my naked body.
I looked around, and now ALL the DCs had noticed. Everyone was staring at me with interest.
I did a proud pose and then wiggled my body around a bit for show.

Canis came over at this point and grabbed my hand again. I considered putting my clothes back on, but I realised it didn't matter in a dream.
Canis and I strode confidently away from the playground. I started skipping a little, enjoying the light feeling of being naked.
I thought about what task we should do next... Elevator or planet?

I chose Advanced Task i - Enter a building and take the elevator. Describe where it takes you, how it behaves, etc.
I hoped that an elevator would form around us if we started free falling. The ground opened up around us and we started floating down, but before an elevator formed, I saw a big sign in the middle of the air. We flew towards it and I saw it read 'Red Planet.'
I remembered seeing the title of INeverWakeUp's DJ entry about the blue planet (I haven't read the entry yet, I wanted to see what my own mind would come up with for the planet task) and thought it would be interesting to explore the mirror planet for Advanced Task ii - Travel to another planet and report what it is like.
I looked over at Canis as we flew, and when I looked back at the sign, I saw it now said 'Red Death' and it quickly changed again to 'Red Deant' by the time we reached it. The individual letters of the name were coming from the ground, and they were illuminated, kind of like the sign for Moron Mountain Space Jam:

The sign was coming from a small chunk of land floating in the sky, but we flew straight through the letters and missed stopping on the floating island... It was smaller than I was expecting. I thought the whole planet would be attached, but maybe it was just directions? We started flying back to make sure, and saw there were now 3 floating signs at different distances from us. They all had different words, but I can't remember what they were.
I thought there might be a portal to Red Planet near the sign, so we flew towards it once more.
I was fading from the dream by this point so I didn't get to visit the planet.

Whew!! I got the elevator task done on the last day.
Dream Competition, Invulnerability, Elevator

Originally Posted by ~ Dreamer ~

This was from July 24th. I completed the naked task.

Heh. You did the birthday suit task on my birthday :-D

SammyTheSnake

Originally Posted by SammyTheSnake

Heh. You did the birthday suit task on my birthday :-D

SammyTheSnake

If I'd known, I'd have burst out of a gift box for you.

I swear by the Whiskers On My Cat that I will not-WILL NOT! do the Bonus task the first thing next month......

Originally Posted by SammyTheSnake

Heh. You did the birthday suit task on my birthday :-D

SammyTheSnake

Awwww you had a birthday, happy late birthday!!