Thread: Task of the Month for September 2014

Hmm, for once, all the tasks seem interesting and imaginative. I guess I will do the first Basic Task. Not sure which Advanced Task I should do. [Shrugs] I suppose I'll just flip a coin.

Originally Posted by Aristaeus

Hmm, for once, all the tasks seem interesting and imaginative.

Originally Posted by Aristaeus

Hmm, for once, all the tasks seem interesting and imaginative..

Yeah, It's going to take some imagination because most if not all of my dream bathrooms have no water in the toilet

Dang, this is the earliest in the month I've finished a task. And I got two of them, at that.

Spoiler for Expecto Patronum:

The next scene was in some kind of warehouse. I was in the back trying to figure out what to do in my lucid. I remembered the TOTMs. I decided to start with the Expecto Patronum one. I first tried with just twirling my hand in the air and shouting "Expecto Patronum", but nothing happened. OK, maybe I need a wand of some kind. I happened to find a plastic straw. Well, gotta make do with what you've got. I spun the straw in the air and shouted the words, and this time I saw a trail of smoke run in a line across the floor. I tried once again, and this time the line of smoke was larger and more noticeable. I tried one last time, this time moving the "wand" in the air until I saw a blue aura around it. "Expecto Patronum!" The blue smoke shot to the ground, and suddenly a long snake appeared along the smoke line on the ground. The snake was about 15 feet long and started to move toward me. I tried to go around on the other side of it, but its mouth suddenly turned into the mouth of a crocodile and snapped at me. I dodged out of the way and kept walking.

Spoiler for Fortune Cookie:

Finally, there was a scene where I was looking for a fortune cookie for another TOTM. Well, I'll probably find one in this kitchen. I walked through a door into the kitchen at my old house. I walked to the sink, and sure enough, there was a fortune cookie there. I opened it up and ate half of it before reading the inside. I pulled out the paper and unraveled it. All it said was the word "Help". Help? That's it? I looked inside the cookie to see 3 more papers bunched up inside. I took out the first one. "Me." And the second one. "I'm." Finally, I read the last paper. "A cookie." Okay, genius, you got me... I then proceeded to rip up the papers and eat the other half of the cookie before eventually waking up.

Full dream.

Yay! I need some lucid inspiration at the moment! I can combine the bonus task with my personal goal, get a little Harry, find an interesting fortune and challenge myself with the others. I don't remember ever noticing if I am wearing shoes or not.

Originally Posted by spellbee2

OK, maybe I need a wand of some kind. I happened to find a plastic straw. Well, gotta make do with what you've got.

Good job improvising! It's funny the tricks that dreams pull on us. I once reached for my wand (I was doing a lot of HP-style magic at one point in my LDs) and was startled to find myself holding a chopstick... but like your straw, it worked just as well!

Your patronus is awesome too, although I think somebody needs to sit it down and explain that the proper role of a patronus does not involve attempting to devour the person who summoned it...

Originally Posted by spellbee2

I opened it up and ate half of it before reading the inside. I pulled out the paper and unraveled it. All it said was the word "Help". Help? That's it? I looked inside the cookie to see 3 more papers bunched up inside. I took out the first one. "Me." And the second one. "I'm." Finally, I read the last paper. "A cookie."

My DJ is posted. I only managed to tie one shoe, so no bonus wings for me yet.

Spoiler for Shoe task excerpt:

I walked through a door, back into the house I'd started in. A task came to mind: Basic Task ii - Find and put on a pair of shoes, any kind (bonus wings if you can tie both.) This was actually the task that interested me the least this month, so I thought for another minute to see if I could remember the other tasks I wanted to do first. None came to me, so I decided to get this basic task done while I had the chance.
I walked into another room where I'd been earlier in the dream, affirming that there would be a pair of shoes waiting on the floor for me. I realised that I was only wearing socks, so I didn't have to remove my own shoes. I saw a pair of men's sneakers sitting in the corner of the room, next to a pot plant. They looked too big for me, but I thought they'd be easy to slip on. I knelt down and made sure that mini-CanisLucidus was still balanced safely on my shoulder. I started sliding my foot into the first sneaker and everything seemed to be going very smoothly. I had been half-anticipating some kind of complication, and I started analysing the situation too much.
I thought, "Maybe there's some reason why everyone was so interested in this... it seems way too easy to be a bonus task if you can tie them. Maybe it's just a matter of staying in the dream for long enough..."
Sure enough, once I started thinking about this, the dream responded with a complication. The shoes now felt like they had something stuffed inside them near the toes, and it made them hard to squeeze into. I tried to ignore this sensation and focus on the task being effortless again, and I eventually got my feet in.
The laces had old half-tied knots already, so I untied them to set up for the next part of the task. I seemed to be stepping on the ends of the laces, so I stretched them out and then started to tie them. I had no trouble with the right shoe, but as I grabbed the laces from the left shoe, I heard my mum's voice, like she had just walked into the room.
I wasn't sure if this sound was coming from the dream or waking life (for some reason, the possibility of her really being in my house wasn't weird.) I was trying to think of ways to tell her that I was dreaming and needed a minute, in case I could communicate with her from within the dream.
I felt myself waking up and took a moment to decide whether to try for a DEILD, but I thought I'd better just write this DJ and look up the tasks again so I can be better prepared next time.

Full dream: Little Lego Man

Aloha friends
Managed to complete the basic task of the month (i) lastnight.

You can find the full dream here

Aliens Attack the Airport (Pt1) (*Lucid) (TOTM) - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Very stoked with myself,making steady progress

Welcome to the Lucid Task Club, Kaizen!
Congrats on completing your first TotM!

I want my patronus to be a majestic tiger!

Originally Posted by spellbee2

I pulled out the paper and unraveled it. All it said was the word "Help". Help? That's it? I looked inside the cookie to see 3 more papers bunched up inside. I took out the first one. "Me." And the second one. "I'm." Finally, I read the last paper. "A cookie." Okay, genius, you got me... I then proceeded to rip up the papers and eat the other half of the cookie before eventually waking up.

That's great! It reminded me of an actual fortune I got that just said, "Help, I'm trapped in a fortune factory!" I didn't really know what to do about that one.

"Help me I'm a cookie!!!!"

I laughed out loud in my living room in front of people at that

Hey. Patronus. I was working on that over the weekend. Motivation!

I completed the toilet task. My first advanced TOTM! My little toilet adventure - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Whohoo, basic task i! A fortune cookie
I can't remember the words, but I hope that this still counts.

Originally Posted by spellbee2

Finally, there was a scene where I was looking for a fortune cookie for another TOTM. Well, I'll probably find one in this kitchen. I walked through a door into the kitchen at my old house. I walked to the sink, and sure enough, there was a fortune cookie there. I opened it up and ate half of it before reading the inside. I pulled out the paper and unraveled it. All it said was the word "Help". Help? That's it? I looked inside the cookie to see 3 more papers bunched up inside. I took out the first one. "Me." And the second one. "I'm." Finally, I read the last paper. "A cookie." Okay, genius, you got me... I then proceeded to rip up the papers and eat the other half of the cookie before eventually waking up.

That was the best thing I've ever read. I actually laughed IRL.

I got the Patronus and the fortune cookie! And a toilet fail. Because all y'all kept talking about dirty gross toilets, thanks heaps

Originally Posted by Patronus

I picked up something that looked like a long, thin cone. I thought it would work as a magic wand. As I was deliberating over it, I noticed an unsavory shadowy figure in the room. I decided to test a Patronus on him. I aimed the wand at him and yelled "Expecto Patronum!" fully expecting a Dragon Patronus like I wanted. Nothin. I need to have a happy thought too, along with the expectation. It is EXPECTo Patronum, after all. I did it again, louder, and thinking of a certain someone (KM) from college. A bunch of silvery-purple sparkles appeared in the air just in front of my wand, then dropped to the floor. I thought they were about to condense and form some animal Patronus. But all they did was turn into an army of He-man toys that started coming at me haha! I ran across the room and tried again, louder, with an even stronger feeling in my heart along with the memory of KM. I mean I SCREAMED the incantation. A silvery-purple outline of a large animal formed, studded with silvery-purple sparkles. It got denser until it took on the shape of silvery-purple cloudlike Unicorn! A UNICORN!!! Best little girl fantasy ever!!!

It was galloping toward me as it was becoming more corporeal. I just held out my arms because I wanted to pet it and hug it sooooooooo bad, but then she vanished. And I woke up.

Originally Posted by fortune cookie

I recalled that Chris has some fast food, so I went into the kitchen, saying to myself "I'm going to look in one of the boxes of left over Chinese food that's still in there." And sure enough, there were some styro-foam boxes stacked up on the kitchen floor. I opened the first one and set it on the stove, and there were wrapped fortune cookies right inside. *highfive subC!* Some were broken, but at least 2 were in tact. I opened the first one, and at first I saw the word "Important" on the little white strip of paper. But when I unfolded it all the way, it just said "2, 3, uhhh, 4" Wow. I opened the second one, and a large square of paper was inside. Here's what it said:

So, you think you're a dirty boy?

DOODLE DOODLE TOSS TOSS
DOODLE DOODLE TOSS TOSS
DOODLE DOODLE TOSS TOSS
DOODLE DOODLE TOSS TOSS
(972) ###-####

After reading that, I just propped up my head on the stove and laughed so hard. I laughed until I could feel my eyes crying, in the dream. A true lucid cry laugh haha. Wow. I know now what my subC truly thinks of me: I'm either so lost that I can't even count properly, or I'm a dirty boy. Or at least I think I am. Doodle doodle toss toss, ladies and gentlemen.

Whole Dream.

^^ You're my hero! DOODLE DOODLE TOSS TOSS!

Man my dreams have been boring recently. I was ARRANGING FURNITURE last night, puh-LEEZ.

I will just need to live vicariously through other's dreams until the wacky/wild/bizarre returns. Yours will keep me in stitches for days to come, that fortune's got to be in the 2014 year's highlights. Hey is there a year's highlights message? We should do one at year's end! This is right up there with my "You don't want to run with the buffalo!"

You've inspired me, Ophie:

We should so do a year's highlights!

And holy rofl spellbee

OMG Ophelia. That was great. Wow.
And that gif spellbee. It's magical.

Originally Posted by spellbee2

You've inspired me, Ophie:

Without a doubt, a dirty boy

That was such an awesome string of dreams Ophelia, and that fortune cookie was hilarious! Love it!
And yes, pleeease, let's do TotM highlights!

Oh, I almost forgot, I tried and failed the toilet task last night. I'll post it later!

^^ I was actually thinking site-wide highlights sort of the academy award of dreams, various categories (funny/scary/longest/sexiest/etc.), could be done with polling for example. Could be done just for TOTM/TOTY I suppose as well. Either one would be fun!