Thread: Task of the Month for September 2014

When I was younger I had a false awakening about getting flushed down the toilet. Let's see if I can do it while actually trying now . Also Ophelia, your dream

Oh and something cool I'd like to see or try is doing the patronus task in a nightmare to defend you from something.

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Haha which one!

That one about the eye... and the worse thing I did, there was a pretty girl in front of me and I was like " Sorry babe, I have other things to do", then I kissed her goodbye before I walked away to remember what was it that I should do in stead of thinking about having lucid sex

Completed Advanced Task #I

Down The Drain.....
9/07
10:30pm I was dreaming a girl and I were fishing and splashing around in a shallow stream where it was very hard to fish and it got night and we were tired and went and slept in a barn after we had fun in the hay and I heard a squeaking noise like a pump handle or windmill and she didnt care but I wanted to see what it was and remembered hearing the same noise earlier fishing in my own pond, I got up and went into a barn toilet that was filthy as and the bowl and tank with no top had no water in them and knew without an RC that I was dreaming because all of my dream toilets are dry and dirty and remembered the task and went down the toilet to see why no water to a small room to turn around then back up through the pipe to the tank where I saw the valve in the tank was bad and was trying to figure out how to fix it when I saw light thru the cracks of a door and it was the farmer and his helper and went to talk to him and he was going to fix the toilet and I told him it was the flopper valve in it and gave the helper a $5 out of my wallet to get one as payment for sleeping in his barn and the farmer said "There you go Sam" to the helper and then we went to a milking room office and I asked if there were more places to fish and he said "Well, There's Salt Lake" where they camp and stuff and good shore fishing where the bluegills just wrap around your finger and there's a leaky rowboat and he was writing names of lakes down for another guy too and showed me then I just woke up and lay there wondering for a minute before realizing I had done it and came to the computer to write it down.......

Lol Holy Run-on Sentence Batman. Did you type in here first instead of your DJ?

Also CONGRATS WOBLYBIL! Y'all really make me want to conquer the toilet task.

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Lol Holy Run-on Sentence Batman. Did you type in here first instead of your DJ?

Also CONGRATS WOBLYBIL! Y'all really make me want to conquer the toilet task.

Well actually no, I wrote it fast on a txt document with no breaks, Mainly because I was in a hurry not to forget anything because my recorder batteries went dead and then copy and paste and send a copy to my DJ.... But even then I forgot the first half of the dream, Like how I got fishing etc:

But after a wingless month I needed it.......

"there you go Sam" ah I love dream dialogue .

Tried the toilet task again yesterday morning. Stupid toilet fell apart, then turned into a jetpack. Flew me all around the room but no drainage!!!!!! DJ coming sometime

9/08
10:0am No Fortune Cookie....Damn SP
I was in bed starting to get up and I couldn't and recognized it as SP right off though it seldom happens to me and thought about finding a Chinese girl with a fortune cookie and tried to get the covers off then felt for my body but couldn't find it so I shook my hands to try to break out and I could float up but wound up right back in again then rolled over and saw two DC guys working on curtains on ladders in the window and a lot of naked girls on the wall and yelled "Hey, Come help me get out of bed" and they came over and one guy said first lets get these off and yanked off some strange brown sheets and lifted me up but my tee shirt came off over my head and I fell back as the other guy dressed in black started to undress and I said "What are you going to do to me?". As many times as I tried to get up I wound up back there until I finally heard the fridge running in the kitchen while the picture continued, I fought my way back in and out several times then I gave up and woke up for good .......

Originally Posted by woblybil

.../then rolled over and saw two DC guys working on curtains on ladders in the window and a lot of naked girls on the wall and yelled "Hey, Come help me get out of bed" and they came over and one guy said first lets get these off and yanked off some strange brown sheets and lifted me up but my tee shirt came off over my head and I fell back as the other guy dressed in black started to undress and I said "What are you going to do to me?"/...

Were you close of not being yourself last night?

Originally Posted by ThreeCat

Tried the toilet task again yesterday morning. Stupid toilet fell apart, then turned into a jetpack. Flew me all around the room but no drainage!!!!!! DJ coming sometime

I hate when that happens... but also you will find that sometimes your subconscious helps you instead of giving you a hard time. I recall a Dream with ToTM to get struck by a lighting. After turning lucid, I found myself under a storm without being able to recall the ToTM while I was trying my best to dodge all the bolts because I was afraid they would wake me up.... until I finally got hit by one (did not wake up) and continued with my lucid, lol.

Originally Posted by woblybil

9/08
10:0am No Fortune Cookie....Damn SP
I was in bed starting to get up and I couldn't and recognized it as SP right off though it seldom happens to me and thought about finding a Chinese girl with a fortune cookie and tried to get the covers off then felt for my body but couldn't find it so I shook my hands to try to break out and I could float up but wound up right back in again then rolled over and saw two DC guys working on curtains on ladders in the window and a lot of naked girls on the wall and yelled "Hey, Come help me get out of bed" and they came over and one guy said first lets get these off and yanked off some strange brown sheets and lifted me up but my tee shirt came off over my head and I fell back as the other guy dressed in black started to undress and I said "What are you going to do to me?". As many times as I tried to get up I wound up back there until I finally heard the fridge running in the kitchen while the picture continued, I fought my way back in and out several times then I gave up and woke up for good .......

Ah hahahah! Good thing that bite of potato I was swallowing was small when I read "What are you going to do to me?" I practically inhaled it with a LOL! Should have had the girls come on over then no reason to get out of bed.... Bil, your dreams are hilarious.

Originally Posted by FryingMan

Ah hahahah! Good thing that bite of potato I was swallowing was small when I read "What are you going to do to me?" I practically inhaled it with a LOL! Should have had the girls come on over then no reason to get out of bed.... Bil, your dreams are hilarious.

Yeah, I saw the one girl's Fortune Cookie but she was hung on the wall and I couldn't get it

Originally Posted by PercyLucid

I hate when that happens... but also you will find that sometimes your subconscious helps you instead of giving you a hard time. I recall a Dream with ToTM to get struck by a lighting. After turning lucid, I found myself under a storm without being able to recall the ToTM while I was trying my best to dodge all the bolts because I was afraid they would wake me up.... until I finally got hit by one (did not wake up) and continued with my lucid, lol.

Hey, thanks Percy! I have been having some issues with the toilet task--I may not get a good opportunity to try again until the weekend, but next time I am in dreamland I will remember your words

Gonna try the fortune cookie one

I'm gonna nail this toilet task, even if I have to jump in poo!

Holy TOTM-fest, Batman! A brilliant, perhaps best of all time vivid stable LD featuring 4 different task attempts (fortune, shoe, tie, patronus), they all worked to some extent but I'm claiming just shoe+tie success because I want to do better on fortune and patronus. As much as I'm lusting after my first set of advanced wings I want to see what my animal looks like.

full DJ: http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/fryi...rgument-60646/

Fabulous night of dreaming, but not scientific: I combined in one WBTB: Dreamer's MILD, Zipplord47's WBTB self-hypnosis, and 20 drops of wormwood tincture. Which one did the trick? WHO CARES!? Heck I'll gladly do them all every time (well maybe not the wormwood, that stuff's nasty).

DJ for the night will probably take at least an hour, so wil be up later today. Quick summary of this dream:

I fly to the ceiling and look back down at the floor and get lucid. I land roughly and immediately think of TOTMs. I'm in a classroom, I go to the teachers desk, look him right in the face up close and tel him to give me my fortune cookies (I like this form of summon, worked for the wand, too!) he starts leading me to the right side of the room, as we're walking i tell an adult man sitting at a desk to take off his shoes and have them ready for me to wear later (DC summon #2! How's that for thinking ahead!? ). to an empty desk with about 5 regular looking fortune cookies in plastic wrappers. I open one and pick up a traditional loking fortune slip of rectangular white paper see small faint Chinese Kanji. I turn the small white paper over and read some text which seems garbled and nonsense. At this point some more people are joining to enjoy the hilarious fortunes. They're now on crumpled brown paper lunch sack pieces and multiplying on the desk top. I pick up a large one and it's from "Leticia" who's going on and on about Jesus in terrible uneven small child's handwriting in different colors). I decide to move on and cross the room to the left side, picking up the shoes the DC made ready for me, with laces. Im really happy and having a great time. I sit down on the floor, put on the shoes (beige loafers but with laces) and tie the shoes. I start tying a girl's shoes and have trouble but remember I've already tied my own. Ok, what's next? I don't give toilet any thought-- patronus! I stand up and look across the room, 3 witches male and female, old, are there in full black robes standing and looking at me! I think for a second about a wand but just stretch out my arm, point my finger,, and shout EXPECTO PATRONUM!! Some white mist shoots out of my finger forming a small cloud and there's some fizzling but no animal, it dissipates quickly. I go over to one and say "oh, you're the good guys, aren't you?!" and "you've brought my wand, give it to me" (DC summon #3!), she takes out a wand from her robes and hands it to me, it's beautiful: black, about 18 inches in length, tapered wide at bottom to narrow at top, covered in indentations, and some iridescent colors like blue & orange are visible, I run my hand up the wand and am well pleased, it's time to go bad guy hunting and run out if the room into the hallway. Unfortunately, at the last second I call back for the girl who's shoes I tied and she comes to me, I pick her up in my arms so that she wraps her legs about my waist, kiss her, and hold/carry her there the rest of the dream where I'm running down stairs and enter a large open area that seems to turn into a bowling alley at the end. Fogelbise would be proud, I accomplished his trademark Reach Down For Moisture (there was a lot) before the dream ended. I really wish I had avoided that because frankly the task and adventure part of the dream was so much more fun. Real incentive to avoid caveman in the future.

An amazing experience. I just sat there on the ground of the classroom, rapturous about everything I saw, having a great time, there's more detail, I'll put it in the DJ.

P.s. tapped out on iPad, all typos Apple's fault.

WOW what an amazing lucid!!! Congrats FryingMan

Nice work FryingMan, and I'm happy that you're feeling positive about the MILD practices!

Here is my failed toilet task attempt, due to dream instability:

Spoiler for Toilet Fail Excerpt:

Colour code: Lucid / DEILD Transition / Non-Lucid

A cave appeared in the distance, and I could see a misty blue lake through the entrance. The rest of the environment looked like a bleak desert, and I felt like this cave was calling us to explore it. Canis and I joined hands and ran towards the cave.
We wandered inside and found ourselves surrounded by multiple wells full of bright blue water, with a sun beam shining down from the ceiling. It was a really beautiful setting.
I didn't feel completely stable in the dream so I plugged my nose... I could only breathe out, not in, and I wondered if my nose was blocked in waking life. I did some deep breathing anyway, and spun around while trying to remember the tasks of the month. I remembered Advanced Task i - Flush yourself down a toilet, and describe the experience. Since there wasn't a toilet immediately available, I tried to remember another task for backup. I couldn't think of the other tasks, so I decided to try working on creating a toilet from one of the wells.
Canis was standing at the cave entrance, waiting for me to perform some dream magic. He looked excited.

I started fading from the dream and felt myself in bed, lying on my side. I tried to remain still so I could re-enter the dream.
I was just focusing on staying relaxed to start with, but then I heard Canis' voice reminding me to visualise the scene:
"We're going to do the toilet task, think about the running water in those wells flushing us down!"
I visualised the wells from the previous dream, and the scene appeared as though I was looking down on it from a bird's eye perspective. The picture was very clear, but the edges were faded into black, like a vignetting effect.
I heard water gushing really loudly, as though I was inside the well.
I could feel myself holding Canis' hand, but I didn't have a body in the scene yet.
The well had morphed almost completely into a large stone toilet. I tried to imagine the feeling of being flushed down the toilet with Canis.

I lost lucidity at some point before being flushed. I was now standing somewhere in the cave, telling someone about the previous dream with the video game characters.

Full entry: The Cave

I'll get it next time! CanisLucidus: I'll be flushing you down the toilet with me, prepare yourself!

Finally completed the tasks I was looking for!! Cookie and patronus:

I repeated the mantra “I notice this is a dream” before sleeping my last couple of hours… moments later I notice I’m lying in my bed but having strong auditory hallucinations, great! Just a matter of seconds and I’ll be inside a dream. Sure enough, I land god knows where, lacking the perception of touch, so I began to crawl all over the floor until I felt the coldness of it.
I looked at a bookshelf in front of me and searched for a fortune cookie in every corner of it but no luck, I continue crawling in the floor to maintain dream stability while saying “I’ll find a fortune cookie around this corner”, but nothing happened, so I shouted to my subC “I want a fortune cookie to appear!!”, then I look at my side and there’s a girl eating her own fortune cookie, I stopped her and tell her “hey, can you give me one?”, she looked at me and gave me the long strip of paper she was holding of her cookie but I shook my head and said “no, a new one please”, so she looked in her pocket and gave me a new one, I opened it and had trouble unwrapping the paper, damn!, but finally I made it and it was a long list of names.. there was my mother’s name and one of my friend’s name, then everything became blurry and got out of the dream, I remained still and got into the dream again, still holding the paper!, it now says: “Welcome to Mexico’s International Airport”, lol . I’m disappointed because I expected awesome wisdom advice and I got this shitty message… BTW the cookie tasted great!,ok, just like a normal fortune cookie flavor but I get too excited with the realness of things in LDs.

Anyway, I now attempt to do the patronus task, point my finger to the space in front of me and yelled “expecto patronum”, but nothing happens, I hate my dream control in summoning things, it’s the same when I want to create portals… I look for a wand to make it easier but all I have in front of me is a pencil case, so I improvise with a pencil and think “when I’m not looking at it, it’ll become a wand”, well… it wasn’t exactly a fancy nice wand but it helped, I shouted again “expecto patronum” and after many attempts a very, VERY faint cloud of white smoke began to form in the shape of a horse and disappeared very fast.
I really wanted it to be a brilliant sparkling patronus like the ones in the movie, but my subC isn’t that cooperative so far, I also didn’t expect a horse, that was weird, but I was remembering this morning (after waking up) that when I’m having bad times in real life, I often dream with a tall white horse that tells me (telephatically) that everything is going to be okay…. So it was indeed a cute detail of my subC isn’t it??

I finished those two tasks and continue walking until I’m on a restaurant I went the other day, very nice view BTW:

I asked the boy in my left: “what’s the thing you like the most in life?”, he answered excitedly “the movie”, me: “which movie?”, the boy: “black swan!”, me: “ohhh, yeah, that one it’s great” (of course, I mean, it’s my own mind I’m talking to, and I do love that movie). Suddenly I’m having some drinks with my sister and other friends, my sister is worried about not having money for all the drinks, I tell her not to worry because this is a dream and I can make dollars pop out of thin air, in fact I take them from under the table every time we order for a drink. I wanted to do another task but I can’t remember any of the other tasks, I do remember the toilet one but ewww no, I prefer to stay here, drinking my cool cocktails with my friends and looking at a beautiful blue tree, thinking how I enjoy to be concentrated on living in the present moment even if I’m in a dream.

Congrats Kilham, beautiful dream! You know, I wasn't expecting a unicorn patronus in mine. I was hoping for a dragon, but I'll take the unicorn haha. I hope everyone gets this task because I wanna see what cool animals are conjured.

Loved it Especially the end, living in the moment with dreams is amazing. I suck at summoning portals too, but my patronus, lucky me, worked fine. Not as cool as the movie tho.

You all made me have a good laugh this month!!:

Originally Posted by spellbee2

"A cookie."

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

I need to have a happy thought too, along with the expectation. It is EXPECTo Patronum, after all.

I completely forgot about the happy thought!! I'll have to try it next time.

Originally Posted by PercyLucid

Done!

Not my brightest job due the simplicity of the basic one and not feeling inspire into what to do with the Expecto Patronum thingy I spawned.

loved your wand!! I had to improvise with a pencil

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Congrats Kilham, beautiful dream! You know, I wasn't expecting a unicorn patronus in mine. I was hoping for a dragon, but I'll take the unicorn haha. I hope everyone gets this task because I wanna see what cool animals are conjured.

I loooved your purple unicorn!!, just as you said, best girl fantasy ever!!

Originally Posted by PercyLucid

Loved it Especially the end, living in the moment with dreams is amazing. I suck at summoning portals too, but my patronus, lucky me, worked fine. Not as cool as the movie tho.

Some day we'll be kick-ass at making portals!! and sparkling patronus

As far as portals go, does phasing through things work for you? I phase through mirrors when I want a portal. I don't always know where we're going haha, but it's effective.