Thread: Task of the Month for August 2014

I have a good feeling about this month, gonna get all of these done and finally get in the Lucid Task Club!

Originally Posted by OneUpBoy71

I have a good feeling about this month, gonna get all of these done and finally get in the Lucid Task Club!

FYI you only need to get one of them to get into the club!

I'm going to pull out an eyeball this month. Fo' sho'

P-Pull...y-your eyeball o-out?

Oh yes, this is definitely the way I'm going to get back into lucid dreaming.

That Basic II made me laugh though LOL. Are we allowed to modify the banana, or does it just have to be this regular old banana?

Ooh, what if we Photoshop the banana before robbing the bank?

My wretched Sub-Con will turn even these into sex.. Wait and see

Hey woblybil, aren't you proud of me? I remembered to link this in the thingy

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

This picture immediately reminded me of the books Freak of Nature and Fractured Innocence, by Julia Crane. It's a sci-fi romance novel about a young girl whom was killed in an accident, then turned into a cybernetic soldier. A very unique, emotive, and haunting story, if I must say so mineself.

Anyhow, I think I will do the first Advanced Task. [Shrugs] Might skip on the Basic Tasks, though.

ok, I'm gonna try and apply something to that gurl.

Your banks are not safe from me

Originally Posted by Aristaeus

This picture immediately reminded me of the books Freak of Nature and Fractured Innocence, by Julia Crane. It's a sci-fi romance novel about a young girl whom was killed in an accident, then turned into a cybernetic soldier. A very unique, emotive, and haunting story, if I must say so mineself.

Anyhow, I think I will do the first Advanced Task. [Shrugs] Might skip on the Basic Tasks, though.

Well, you wouldn't be you without SOMEthing to [Shrugs] about now would you :heart:

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Advanced Task ii - Visit Sophie and Calcifer at Howl's Castle and turn the door dial to a random color, open the door and describe where it leads. - KestrelKat

Uh is this from, like, a cartoon or something?

/me scurries off to Google...

SammyTheSnake

I'll try BT I... AT I though... NO. ABSOLUTELY NOT. OMG.

Awesome tasks!
I will definitely do them! I have to get at least one this month!
I will probably go for Basic i, Advanced i and the bonus task
Maybe I can even find a cure for my vision problems in LD's, by performing surgery on my eyeballs
Btw, the girl is pretty hot, especially the bionic version. I might have to involve her in some of my lucids, hehe

Originally Posted by woblybil

My wretched Sub-Con will turn even these into sex.. Wait and see

I bet the pretty cashier in the bank bites the end off your banana with full eye contact :-D

SammyTheSnake

Originally Posted by SammyTheSnake

I bet the pretty cashier in the bank bites the end off your banana with full eye contact :-D

SammyTheSnake

I think you meant the 400 pound, hairy dude munching on cheez-its biting off the end of the banana while holding eye-contact, leaving poor Xanous with a trauma and nightmares for the rest of his life

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Hey woblybil, aren't you proud of me? I remembered to link this in the thingy

Yay , You're amazing...........
I'll remember you in my dreams.....

I'll most definitively do my first bonus this month - great idea ~Dreamer~ really!
Now that's exactly what I want to be able to do in general! And it has a ring of Sivason's tips for me from a long while back, about for example using a finger to blur the surface of say a table as if it was a wet oil-painting, and go on and do that in the air in front of something, and thus transform it - and end-goal - just thinking things differently and they are. And I haven't made progress with it since, didn't try except once to some meagre effect...

Yeah - and I'll rip an eye out at the side, too. Going to be far easier than the affair with the heart last Valentine's time...
But - wouldn't it be cool, if we could look back at our one-eyed selves with that eye in our hand then?!
Not exactly like this - but from the general idea:


For more of his + name - click the left link in my sig to a thread full of different painters of a "spiritual style", or call it "psychedelic nature"!

I had transformed my arm into a swan-neck with my hand as the head for the comp and lost lucidity in the process of growing the eyes into it, to try and wave it about and then see with four of them, and now I have that lodged in my head - what a coincidence...
But to try and convince my brain it needs to put in the work now and simulate a completely alien experience for me - doesn't sound trivial.
Anybody ever operated more than two eyes? Like growing two stalks with extras or something like it?

Last night tried out one of the August basic tasks. The full dream report is in my DJ (8/3/14: "Foreign Words"), but my DJ entries tend to be extremely long, so here's just the part relevant to the task:

The two of us sat down on the couch, and for a moment my dream libido took over, and I started making out with him. But as things got more intense I recognized that this was a distraction and would accomplish nothing useful. Didn't I have tasks to do? I remembered that last night I had been on DV looking over the monthly tasks for August, and there had been one that I particularly wanted to try out. This seemed like the perfect opportunity. So I disentangled myself from moose-cat-man's embrace and said firmly, "Tell me a word in a foreign language."

It was hard to make out what he said at first. It sounded like "Arab mormon."

"What?" I wasn't sure if I had heard him correctly.

This time he distinctly just said, "Mormon."

It didn't sound like a word in a foreign language, but whatever. Run with it. "Alright, now tell me what it means."

"A married man."

I wasn't very satisfied with this result and wanted to try again. Another DC was in this room, sitting on another small couch further along the same wall, so I went and sat down next to him. This time I made sure my instructions were more explicit from the start: "I want you to tell me a word in a foreign language, and then tell me what it means."

"Sprenn," he said promptly.

"Spread?" I repeated what I had thought I heard at first.

"Sprenn," he clarified, and helpfully spelled it for me. "S-P-R-E-N-N."

"Okay, what does it mean?"

At this he smiled coyly, as if embarrassed. "I'll... tell you later."

I had the impression it must be a word for something naughty, but I needed to find out. "Please?" I wheedled. He shook his head.

I decided to be more forceful. "Come on, you have to tell me!" I tried to think of how to back this up, and added, "It's my homework assignment."

He tried to explain in a roundabout way: "It has to do with the city of Myrkbalik, and the laws of Garibaldi."

The two names he mentioned sounded complicated, so I wanted to make sure I had heard them correctly. "What was the name of the city? Mrkbalik?" He nodded. "And the second name? Garibaldi? Garifaldo?" This reminded me of a name I had heard in waking life, so I tried to remember, then joked with him, "The laws of Janeane Garofolo?"

He laughed, though it wasn't clear whether or not he recognized the pop culture reference, and repeated the name for me. It still sounded closer to "Garibaldi" than anything, though I had so much to remember at this point that I didn't dare ask him to try to spell it. Already in the back of my mind I was cycling through data points "mormon... married man... sprenn... mrkbalik..." trying to make sure I would be able to preserve them through waking.

Mrkbalik... that's how it sounded, and I didn't ask him to confirm the spelling of that one either. But he had said it was a city name, and to my ears it sounded Russian or Eastern European. I had a sudden insight about this DC, and asked him, "You majored in Slavic studies, didn't you?" He confirmed this.

I might try visiting Sophie and Calcifer--do they have to be present for the task to be a success? What if I get to the castle and no one is home?

Ophelia get the wings ready!

Ooh, nice tasks

Funny story - I pulled my eyeball out in a NLD once. Let's see if I can find the DJ entry...

My eye bothers me. I look at it in the mirror. I rub at it and discover that it falls out pretty easily. It feels hard and smooth and is oval. I look in the mirror and see an empty socket, but I can't say my depth perception is off. I try putting my eye back in, but it's in incorrectly, and feels weird. Rinse and repeat.

Heh, maybe I should try that again, but in a LD this time.

The banana bank robbery sounds like a lot of fun! Now I have a reason to sleep haha.

Going to have to pass on basic task ii as I'm not very good at conjuring objects or places - unless a bank happens to be nearby, in which case I'll give it a try.

Passing on Advance Task i, because ripping my eyeball out sounds horrifying, even in a dream. I have no idea what Advanced Task ii is about.

Basic Task I it is then! Although the bonus task looks pretty good too.

Originally Posted by SammyTheSnake

Uh is this from, like, a cartoon or something?

/me scurries off to Google...

SammyTheSnake

It's from the Studio Ghibli movie Howl's Moving Castle I recommend watching it, even if animated movies aren't your thing. Actually, watch any of the Studio Ghibli movies, they're great. And pretty.

I love the eyeball task! I am definitely doing that one. I better be sure that I'm lucid, though.