Thread: Task of the Month for August 2014

May I use two bananas? Just to be sure I mean.

Originally Posted by INeverWakeUp

I think I did the task last night...I don't know it's really hard to say, but I'll leave the judgment up to you Ophelia. Needless to say, it was one of my favorite lucid dreams ever.

You can all find the details to this very awkward and funny dream here.

Haha awesome dream! You should never give Fred a banana in the future lol. Congrats!

And box, you should be able to use as many bananas as possible. And if you can manage an avocado hand-grenade, I'll give you advanced wings

This is going to be madness...

Seriously laughing out loud here - you come in with such a thing as your weapons-arsenal - real bank clerks would roll on the floor laughing and give you money as a present, Box!!

You won't believe what I dreamed after I went so heavily armed to take a nap: I'm lying on my bed, in the middle of a gas station seeing a guy (who I know uses to steal things from my job but I couldn't caught him red handed so far, although today I was close for a few seconds) with his wife. He's wearing a light-blue Hawaiian shirt with white flowers and a funny toupee in a Cleopatra hairstyle. I think he may want to steal something from the cashier of the gas station. He notices I'm suspecting something when he takes out of his purse (yep, a purse), a dish with chopped bananas and extends it to me saying something like I must be hungry. I politely accept it in a good manner, and start eating the delicious chopped bananas one by one! Some of them fall on my bed and I'm having difficulties to find them, thinking to myself, there must be something with these bananas because of they taste funny, and hoping he hasn't put something to put me to sleep.

I tried the eyeball ToTM last night but failed. It's hard to purposely do something like that even though you know you're dreaming!

Then, I decided to go for the eyeball ToTM so I RCed one more time then I stuck my index and thumb on either side of my right eye and tried to pull. I was a little nervous though so I didnt pull that hard. It didn't come out and as I was doing that I woke up.

I forgot to add some stuff. It felt a little slimy. I had my fingers far enough in so I could feel the eyeball on the sides. I just didn't pull hard enough or just didn't have enough will for it to come out

DJ Entry: Failed ToTM - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Oh Box

Good try dragon! Next time imagine it's already loose, like a loose tooth and you're just helping it along.

I got so close last night. I'll write up a more complete DJ later if I have time and haven't forgotten it all by then.

I was having a weird dream about being on death row, with a touch of prelucidity (I wasn't scared of dying, but I was grumpy about how poorly organised everything was!) I had a false awakening (I only realised it was false in retrospect) then went "back to sleep" but lucid this time (does it count as a WILD if you're only False Awake? )

I ran around a scene from an earlier dream for a bit then remembered to think through my TOTM mantra ("foreign banana, eye castle, Photoshop") and picked on a nearby DC to ask for a foreign word. The first was a woman perhaps in her forties who wasn't interested in conversation.

The second was a chap about my age who looked perhaps Polish. I asked him for a word in a foreign language. He said something in German and told me what it meant. I can't remember either his word or his translation but I do remember that he translated it wrong (I know some German)

Unsatisfied I tried again and he muttered a few syllables that I couldn't quite hear, but sounded more convincingly like a dream language. I asked him to repeat it, but he was getting bored of my hassling him and wandered off.

Miffed that I'd failed, I thought about what else I could do. I didn't think about the TOTMs but did remember that I intended to interact with DCs more deliberately (it was my personal task in the competition)

I turned around and saw three girls walking together along the pavement, so I tried to start up a conversation with the one in the middle. At this point I realised how crappy I am at small talk. I said "Hey there, can we have a conversation?" She gave me an odd look and said a little uncertainly "Uh, yeah? What about?" I told her she was exactly what I find cool about lucids dreams and she looked even more cynical (I totally came across as a creep!) so I felt I ought to explain a little more, but by now my lucidity was getting a little shabby, so I explained that as my DC she had to do exactly what I said.

Not long after that, I woke up humping my spare pillow. :#(

SammyTheSnake

Ah Box - the famous TOTM non-lucids!!
Some of the most hilarious stuff tends to happen just like this, when you're incubating things, and then your dream-generator throws it all at you and in details and you just go on happily ignorant, or worse, thinking - this is strange, it seems to mean something, but well then, lets just dream on...

Good luck for the next time, Sammy and Dragon, good tries!

I'm getting lazy again, with everything - shame on me...

Anyone gonna try the photoshop task?

Originally Posted by Treetopdriver

Anyone gonna try the photoshop task?

Perhaps there's an issue with the dream licenses .

May I use Corel to vectorize the whole dreamscape? What about some Flash animations?

In a fabulous night (4 LDs!!!) I remembered the foreign word task during a really intriguing LD where I almost got lost just looking at the colors on funny little cubic pillows sitting on a bed.
Summary:

I try to fix these colorful pillows firmly in my mind. The colors are so bright and amazing. Ok, what now, fly to space? I remember the foreign word task and start walking to find some people, they appear in a large open room just down the hall. I start walking up to DCs and trying to ask them but my mouth barely opens and when it does I can barely speak, and when I make a sound it seems like my mouth is full of cotton or I'm speaking underwater: the sound of my voice is heavily muffled and almost incomprehensible. One DC looks at me quizically and walks off. Another gives me a "say that again?" look and I speak slowly really enunciating as clearly as I can. She says something like "fribblety-splat" and I repeat it back to her to confirm, then I ask what it means, and she says "the kakashka is in the F. U.". I go on to find a cutie and complete the naked dare while attempting something more but wake up.

Alright DreamViews time for my wings, I did it!
I did the eyeball task and wow, was that weird

Anyways here's My Dream

Relevant Part

I remember the eyeball task and stare straight ahead. I take my right hand and move it to my right eye. I take all my five fingers and push it arround the eyeball and it comes out with slight discomfort but no pain. It makes a squishy sound and I have an eyeball in my palm. It looks pretty realistic and I get a little freaked out, although I keep looking at it. It is white with green-brown eyes (I have really dark brown eyes in WL). I can make out some little blood-vessels and the optic nerve is still attached to it and fans out in little sub nerve endings leaving it looking like a weird red fern. I also notice some liquid in my palm but then quickly decide to throw that thing away. It hits the wall and I decide to wake myself up to journal

Wellll... I attempted the bonus task and it worked a *tiny* bit! I'll let you guys decide whether this is worth wings.
I'm gonna try for some other tasks soon anyway, so I won't be too devastated if I have to try again.

Before dealing with this unwelcome colour, I remembered I wanted to try incorporating a task of the month into this dare: Bonus Task - Apply a Photoshop effect to your dream scene. I wanted to try playing with the saturation, so I tried using my finger as a slider. I moved my finger up, and the dream responded ever so slightly with increased saturation, but not to the degree I was hoping for.

Full dream: Purple Palace

Congrats guys!

Originally Posted by ~ Dreamer ~

Wellll... I attempted the bonus task and it worked a *tiny* bit! I'll let you guys decide whether this is worth wings.
I'm gonna try for some other tasks soon anyway, so I won't be too devastated if I have to try again.



Full dream: Purple Palace

Technically I think that counts. It's up to you if you want the wings now or try again to your satisfaction..

I need wings..... BAD......Broiled, Fried or fricassee'd,
I do all these things as commonplace usually but to do them for a task evades me...... why-WHY?

Me and my jokes, thinking about vectorizing the dreamscape and using animations in stead of photoshop, last night I dreamed I was in a 3D cartoon world where I was a bad wolf teacher, trying to eat my pupils who were mostly pink sheep, and a couple of little blue elephants that I left free in order to show the sheep there was nothing wrong to have them locked in a classroom... such a success incubating dreams although totally sucked for the TOTM...

I had a go at the banana task:

So I was levitating a few meters above the ground, pretending I was driving a forklift truck (bzzzzzzz!), when it dawned on me that I should do the TOTM. I landed, and reached in my back pocket for a banana. I found a very small banana, only a few centimeters, so I took it out, and it started growing. This obviously made me quite happy, I didn't think I could rob a bank with a banana smaller than my finger. While the banana was growing, though, it quickly became clear that it wouldn't end up as a big banana. It was completely white, and curling all around my hand, so I threw it away and tried again. Turned out there was another tiny banana in my back pocket, and this time while it was growing I was saying "banana, banana, banana!" It worked, I could feel it grow into quite a big banana. I could feel it, but I could not see it, for the banana was invisible. Whatever, an invisible banana will do. I then lost vision altogether . It froze into a still image, so I decided to simply close my eyes and go ahead with the task. Surely blind people have robbed banks before? I heard cars passing by, so I followed that sound to hitch a ride to the nearest bank. I then realized that the cars that I heard were probably not in my dream, but in the real world. I bumped into something, and indeed turned out to be standing in the back yard, with my thumb in the air. Shit. I woke up, but realized immediately that it was an FA, so I went for the door, being glad that I could see again. Then I woke up, this time for real.

Originally Posted by Treetopdriver

I had a go at the banana task:

At least you tried to do something. I took a nap after my last post here, became lucid and remembered I wanted to do some TOTM, but first I wanted to get rid off the stuff I had in my hand. What better idea than using Telekinesis? and wasted my precious lucid trying to make that thing work good in stead of leaving the whole stuff on the floor .

spiltmydrinklaughing.jpg A blind gangster weaponed with an invisible, but big banana!! Treetopdriver - you marvellous!!

Edit: And envious about your cartoon-dreaming, Box - never ever had such a thing, but sounds like great fun. Besides - time with telekinesis training isn't really wasted time. I need to practise that as well - what I managed in the comp was neglectable - a cushion levitating 2 cm and swirling some dry leaves and that's all I got in the respective resume...
Need practice there myself...

Originally Posted by StephL

Edit: And envious about your cartoon-dreaming, Box - never ever had such a thing, but sounds like great fun. Besides - time with telekinesis training isn't really wasted time. I need to practise that as well - what I managed in the comp was neglectable - a cushion levitating 2 cm and swirling some dry leaves and that's all I got in the respective resume...
Need practise there myself...

I was hungry like hell and those pink sheep looked pretty tasty!!

Ok, you're right, perhaps it wasn't that bad, although it wasn't the first time I remembered about the TOTM during a lucid and got distracted with something else. Anyway, maybe next time, there are still 12 days to come and it would be nice being able to accomplish at least one task for the first time during the month...

Long ago a friend of mine asked me to draw a guy pulling his eye out with a tea spoon I think he was the only one who laughed so hard in the classroom because of the other guys were like " Yeah, that's funny"

By the way, I forgot to mention that I ate the banana. Invisible banana's taste surprisingly good.

Originally Posted by woblybil

I need wings..... BAD......Broiled, Fried or fricassee'd,
I do all these things as commonplace usually but to do them for a task evades me...... why-WHY?

tommy want wingy.jpg

WOW that was fun. I haven't been lucid in a whole month or so. I tried WILDing and this is what happened:

Tasks: Howl's Castle and Word in a Different Language

Spoiler for Teh Dream:

I'd woke up in the night, and decided to try WILDing again... I closed my eyes, relaxed my body and my breathing, and envisioned walking along a mountain ridge...



It wasn't long before I had started dreaming; I wasn't aware of that fact, though. I was simply walking along this beautiful mountain ridge; the Big City was to my left, and the sky was blue with a few wispy clouds. I had the impression that I was supposed to be doing something, and then I saw a man in colorful clothing; I realized it was the Face, and looked down at my hands: I was dreaming!

I walked up to him, remembering the TOTMs, and asked, "Where's Howl's castle right now?"

He simply grinned, pointed ahead of him (which was to my right, over the mountains), and I grinned right back at him. I jumped off the ridge and started flying in the direction he'd pointed. I passed a few landmarks I recognized from my dream map (an aspen forest and a small hut).

Then I heard the familiar sound of Howl's Castle (that clip starts with the sound) and descended to where I then spotted it. I banged on the door, and yelled, "Sophie, are you home?!"

After a few seconds, the door opened, but it was Zukin inside the castle, not Sophie. Oh well, that worked just fine.

I went inside and looekd around; the room was different than it is in the movie, but I spotted a fireplace to the left, and approached it. "Calcipher?" I asked, and the flame blinked at me.

"Yeah, what's it to you?"
"Is Sophie home?"
"No, she's out learning to fish with Howl. Romantic, isn't it?"
I grinned. "Oh. Well, can you tell me a word in a different language?" I asked, suddenly remembering the other task.
Calcipher flickered a bit and at first didn't say anything. For a moment I thought I might be losing control, because things started to fizzle out a bit, so I touched the hearth, rubbing my hands along it. I thought about putting my hand in the fire, but I figured that would be rude to Calcipher.
He finally answered: "Berzzit."

"Berwhat? Can you spell that?"
"B-E-R-Z-Z-I-T."
"Oh. Berzzit. What does that mean?"
"It means when you wake up and are so groggy that you walk into the doorframe on your way out of your room." Oddly specific, there.
"Huh."

I turned from Calcipher and looked around the room again. The door through which I'd come was closed again, and Zukin had disappeared. I went to the door, and opened it: Still mountains, where I'd entered. I closed it again, and looked at the dial. I knew what everything was supposed to look like because I've seen the movie so many times, and so I knew what to expect. There were five colors though, instead of four, on the dial. It was currently on green. There was also a black, blue, yellow and orange. Naturally I turned it to the orange.

I put my hand on the door handle, closed my eyes, took a breath, not knowing what to expect on the other side. I hoped it was be cool... I opened the door, and opened my eyes.

Boy was it cool. I stepped out into a small clearing in a forest of pines. I turned around to look at where the door was. I was expecting to see a small hut of some sort, but the door just stood on it's own.

I turned back to the clearing, and noticed there were kittens and platypuses all over the place. The Face was also there; he was sitting in the grass, playing with a kitten. "Where are we?" I asked, sitting next to him. He didn't respond, only played with the kitten some more. I picked up the nearest platypus to me, and held it in my lap. I got so distracted with playing with the animals that I lost lucidity and mindlessly frolicked in the clearing with the Face. There may have been other activity beginning with an F, but I can't remember too well... ;D