Thread: Task of the Month for August 2014

Originally Posted by Dark_Merlin

Might try pulling just one out and see what it is like to look at myself, looking back at myself, looking at me looking back at myself..

Ha! I was thinking that the one about the eye is a bit bizarre, and that drawing reminded me this guy here from Pan's Labyrinth:



Perhaps it would be an interesting idea to give him a visit and ask for some advice on the skill

Ok that nasty thing from Pan's Labyrinth messed me up. Esp when he bit that fairy in half :hurl:

woblybil speaks German! Awesome.
Kind of a weird dream tho, but don't we all have those from time to time
And Pans Labyrinth is a scary, scary movie! Not watching that one again

No lucids unfortunately, but have the wings ready Ms. Blue, can't be too long till I ask some weirdo DC to teach me another language

Originally Posted by lucidmats

woblybil speaks German! Awesome.

ausgezeichnet!

Originally Posted by KestrelKat

You speak German?
Also, this might sounds stupid, but is Midnight Ramens a codename for something or is it actually just eating Ramen noodles late at night?

Lets say I "did" speak German, Decent Spanish and enough Chinese to keep from being set up in a bar but I havn't used them in 40 years and if you don't use it you lose it....
And Midnight Ramens is the password to a secret society for the weird
Really they're just salty noodles and eating salty junk before bed sometimes helps the dreaming, Or a can of Sardines in Mustard Sauce will do.

Originally Posted by woblybil

Lets say I "did" speak German, Decent Spanish and enough Chinese to keep from being set up in a bar but I havn't used them in 40 years and if you don't use it you lose it....
And Midnight Ramens is the password to a secret society for the weird
Really they're just salty noodles and eating salty junk before bed sometimes helps the dreaming, Or a can of Sardines in Mustard Sauce will do.

Well, at least you remembered enough to speak it in a dream. The first time I dreamed in German I was so excited!
And I didn't know that about salty junk. Maybe I should try this. I've been having a dryspell in dreaming D:

Well I had two LDs last night and tried two different tasks.... failed them both. I am however going to get at least both of these done this month and the bank robbery!

Spoiler for Eyeball Fail:

This made me do a RC and I did a very thorough one since I wanted to be SURE I was dreaming. I sure enough counted 6 or 7 fingers on one hand. LUCID: I though of the foreign language task but then decided to do eyeball task. I turned toward my dad and put my fingers around my right eye ball. He immediately began to back away disturbed at the sight. I really focused on this and in my right eye I could see like white light shooting around blackness, kind of like when you push on your eye a bit in waking life. I was trying to get my fingers in deep enough to reach the back of my eye ball to pull it out. I didn't seem to be getting deep enough to get leverage to pull it out and began to get frustrated. The frustration caused me to wake up.

Spoiler for Word in another language and meaning failure:

I did a RC and became LUCID: I looked out the car window and thought of jumping out and the traffic and my daughter, I convinced myself again this was a dream and hopped out of the window while the truck was cruising down the road. I landed right on my feet and was facing oncoming traffic. There was a truck coming right at me and as it approached I barely kicked the bumper and it flew backwards onto the car behind it. I was pretty proud I was able to do this with ease. I then thought of the word in another language task and looked for someone. Behind me a bus was pulled over and a girl was coming out of it. She had long dark hair and I ran up to her and asked her to tell me a foreign word, I wasn't sure if this sentence came out clearly (I thought I might have slurred it), but she understood me. I cant remember the exact word but it started with F and had some Rs in it, something like Farrer or Fourier, it sounded very foreign when she said it. As soon as she said it she was walking away and I followed. I repeated the word and she said 'yes', I then ask her what it meant (still following) and lost the dream.

Second one was so close. Full dream link below.

AUG 2014 TOTM Fail - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

ausgezeichnet!

Danke...Really in the years I spent there I learned it quite well but the kids in my generation were by then allowed English in schools and I only got to use it on the older folks, Then later in life I found that in most Communist countries where English was not allowed in schools that German was and when encountering older educated Chinese or older generation Russian communist bloc folk they had German as a second language so we had a common ground but you had to first thing let then know you were American not English, .. Just saying......

Ok, here are my links,

Completed basic task: TOTM- Word-Biork - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Failed (Kind of comleted) advanced task (did not know what the story about the castle was, so made up stuff): TOTM-Failed? Did not know the story or characters. Still cool. - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Completed Bonus Task:TOTM- Photo Shop- Cars - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

I had tons of fun. Thanks for the ideas everyone!

Maybe there should be a link to somewhere for people to watch Howl's Moving Castle or something... a lot of people don't know what it is D:

Ok, homework time for me on this thread!

sorry to make things complicated for you owo

Originally Posted by KestrelKat

sorry to make things complicated for you owo

D'aaaaaaaawwww not complicated! Just whenever a bunch of things happen in here all at once, I gotta make sure I don't forget to address each one. It's one of my favorite things to do when I'm winding down the day

I always find Ghibli sudios films to be very dreamy, I don't get tired of watching them again and again...

I tried out the basic task i last night… I would like to note first that I did make a mistake, having only skimmed this thread a few days ago and forgotten the exact wording of the task, so that when I asked each of the dream characters for a word, I left out the word “foreign”; but then, I was still asking them with the intention of hearing a foreign or made-up word. Would this still count? If not, I’d be happy to try it again, or another task as I planned to do anyway

Here are my attempts:

Lucidity was spontaneous, and I found myself surrounded by people. The scene around me changed from that of the school to the town centre. As having so many people around was unusual, I thought of asking them something – and remembered the basic DV task of the month.

I approached one of the dream characters to ask she could tell me a word and its meaning, but everything she said was unclear; I couldn’t make out anything. Giving up on trying to understand, I moved onto a different dream character, who was simply standing there looking around with a slightly dazed expression. Asked her, as I had asked the previous character, to tell me a word.

“Yumuma,” she replied, not quite looking directly at me.

“What does that mean?” I asked her.

She looked slowly around us before replying, her mouth slightly open, eyes wide. Finally she turned back to me. “It means,” she said, “that this whole world is just a huge hallucination.”

This quite amazed me, as it’d been a while since I’d encountered a dream character so aware…on hindsight I wish I’d stayed and talked to her a little more, but instead I only leaned in and gave her a hug (she looked so bewildered, and I was suddenly curious as to how it would feel; extremely realistic, as I found out.) I was a little wary as in the past dream characters have attacked in the past when I’ve tried to do such things as hugged them, but I stayed calm and she did nothing to hurt me, even looked pleased. Then, my mind still on the task, I moved on, enjoying this and still wanting to see if I could get some good answers from other DCs. I approached a skinny blonde girl a little younger than me and asked her to give me a word.

“I don’t know,” she said, looking a little annoyed.

“Please?”

“I don’t know.”

“Just one word…”

“I don’t know.”

She seemed incapable of saying anything else. I noticed that there was another dream character lying casually on the ground (but they did not seem injured or hurt.) The dream character who had been replying “I don’t know” over and over again sat down on them at some point. They didn’t seem to mind. I gave up and moved away again. At this point the town centre was almost empty except for some people in uniform. One of them called out to me to ask if I could do them a favour and check there were no newspapers on the ground – another extremely unusual thing in my lucid dreams, for a dream character to suddenly ask me something like that. I did so, pointed out to them that there was newspapers neatly tucked in under chairs arranged against the walls of the hall; they said “Oh, that’s okay. Those are reserved.”

That conversation over, my mind went back to the task yet again. I approached one dream character, this time a middle-aged, thin man in uniform, but unfortunately it seemed that he was quite busy and in a rush to get somewhere. I tried anyway:

“Would you mind if I asked you a couple of questions?”

“I don’t have the time for such things,” he replied, and increased his pace.

“I only have two questions; they would take less than a minute.”

He shook his head. “I need to get some things done, still. Meet me on the bus later if you really want to ask me questions, once I can afford to be doing things at a slower pace.” And he disappeared through a doorway into a room which looked like some kind of office for the workers there.

I finally gave up on the task. The dream continued for a short while and I mostly focused on walking while paying attention to all my senses, observing what was around me and then trying to get to a place with a dream-character version of my friend while flying. Halfway through trying this last thing, I woke up.

If Yumuma then Hakuna matata

Lmao @ Yumuma

I managed to fulfill the first Advanced Task this morning. I have copy/pasted the log entry below. The lucid portion is highlighted in blue, the task in purple. I had actually completed the task several days earlier, but mine memory was far too hazy to know for certain whether I was lucid or non-lucid, so I did the task again.

Spoiler for Dream:

Dream Log Entry, Date 7.AUG.2014



The last thing I remember was being in a pocket dimension, atop a small floating piece of land. Said land was covered in lush grass and other plant life. The sky was a deep blue. At one end of the floating island was a small cottage, at the opposite end was a lush tree. In the middle of the island was a large pond containing various exotic water-dwelling creatures, namely crocodiles and anacondas. I was in the pocket dimension with a few other people.
At some point, one of us poured some kind of magick water from an amphora into the pond. Upon doing so, the crocodiles soon transformed into a hideous creature that was part-reptile, part-bug. It had several long, tentacle-like arms bearing long, razor-sharp pincers. I watched as one pincer, with the speed of a snake, effortlessly snipped someone's lower leg clean off. As the creature wreaked havoc, we all fled into the cottage. I conjured a portal using mine Dream Chalk, and we all fled into the portal.
I found mineself standing alone in an open area. Throughout said area was lush plant life and what looked to be the rubble of an old castle. Whilst I traversed the area, I spontaneously became lucid.
I immediately projected mine Wings of the Heart and took flight. As I flew, I attempted to spread mine arms, but I felt like I was bound by a sheet of fabric. Perhaps I was trying to move mine real arms. Before I did something stupid and lost the dream, I focused on mine dream body, and was eventually able to move mine arms freely.
At some point, whilst still airborne, I remembered the Dream Views task. With telekinetic force, I easily extracted mine right eye from its socket and held it in mine right hand. The eye was a little oddly shaped, and it felt sticky and mushy in mine hand. The iris was a light purple. I attempted to put the eye back in its socket, but in doing so accidentally opened mine real eyes and woke up.

Photoshop filter! Haha!

I'm gonna try to pull my eyeball out and then look at the world through that eyeball. Should be fun ;D

So, this is my plan for my next lucid:

1) conjure up a cucumber (summoning)
2) eat the cucumber (I hate cucumber - dare, + eat something)
3) conjure a flame to burn the evil cucumber, then manipulate it into Calcifer the fire demon (summoning, element manipulation, transformation)
4) "remember" that calcifer lives in the castle and Sophie is there, too (advanced summoning, advanced TOTM!)
5) have an interesting conversation with anyone who's around, asking them to teach me a foreign language (personal goal, basic TOTM)

I reckon that this plan will be easy to follow through, because each step leads on from the last, and most elements get me points in thecompetition from several angles simultaneously!

Woo!

Now all I need is to get lucid and remember the first step in the plan. Hmm, start visualising salads, I guess :-D

SammyTheSnake

Originally Posted by SammyTheSnake

So, this is my plan for my next lucid:

4) "remember" that calcifer lives in the castle and Sophie is there, too (advanced summoning, advanced TOTM!)

Don't forget to spin the dial and go through the door . . . .

Got basic i and was seconds away from completing Howl's castle.

Spoiler for Basic i:

My voice is barely coming out as I say the adventure sentence and I wonder if it would count if I ask him about the basic task telepathically. But how is he going to answer? Too complicated and I decide to go with normal speech, struggle to speak but finally ask him.

His reply is "Woof" which sounds as if he is barking.

Me: "Woof?", are you sure?

He: Uhum. (as in yes)

Me: Ok, then. So what does that mean?

He: Hoof.

I ask for confirmation and he gives me another uhum.

Spoiler for Howl's Castle almost:

Contrary to other times when I have entered the other room, it now turns to a different place altogether. At first I don't catch the clues, but after more examination of the classical wooden furniture, it clicks how this place can indeed be the interior of Howl's castle.

Without any intention from my side, I notice that there is a fireplace to the side and the fire is as real as it gets. It dawns on me after seeing it that it is calficer. I approach the dream fire with astonishment for it is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. It's not just a regular fire - there is so much light in it, it shines like a little star, while at the same time being surrounded by flames. I feel almost mesmerized by the sight of it and am so happy to have it in the dream.

Spontaneously, I place my hands around the fire and try to absorb some of its heat and energy. As my hands get closer to the little fire, there is slight tension as in heat related sensation but insignificant to dwell on. In the meantime, the fire gets smaller and smaller as if this process is really draining it. I don't want to do away with it altogether so stop whatever it is I'm doing. The thought crosses my mind that I have spent way too long playing around and risk not completing the task because of that.

I face the room and see that the girl is here again. Now she has a pony tail, blue top and and slightly disturbing facial hair. As I approach her, her face clears a bit and I ask her couple of times if she is Sophie, to which she replies yes.
Perfect, now all I need is a door.

There's a small door on the wall that I open, but it turns more into a small window, plus I need to turn the color dial wheel first. I face the other wall where there is a white door and look to see if there is a dial next to it - there isn't. I recall couple of techniques I thought of using in such case, but instinctively pick another one. Bf's DC is just nearby so I ask him to hand me a dial wheel to put next to the door.

He gives me a round knob-like white object that I place next to the door, cover with my hands and start spinning, until the second layer of it starts to reveal multiple colors. Initially it stops on blue, then it moves to orange. I feel like I want to pick a particular color but am not quite sure which one. I rotate it to yellow, remarking to myself this is taking way too much time. Curious whether the outside will be the same as what can be seen through the nearby window (garden), I think it's high time to stop messing with the wheel dial and open the door.

But it's too late - the dream abruptly ends and I find myself in bed, moving my hand and feels like I've lost the opportunity to go back and complete the task.

Calcifer DJ Entry 08 Aug

woof means hoof?