Thread: Task of the Month for October 2014

I am so off this month. I had one lucid and one semi-lucid and the TOTM did not even come to my mind any of those times. I'm really looking forward to sucking some DC's neck and turning into a sexy vampy vamp. I must get lucid!!!

I finally had an LD where I remembered to use a mirror to help with the costume. I tried to put on a dolphin costume but I got a bee costume instead. I think I might have partially transformed into a bee because I was hovering around. Thanks Ophelia for the mirror trick! I think it's just what I need to transform. I'll try it out some more.

OOOoooo what's the mirror trick? See yourself as desired in the mirror and then it "sticks" to your "real" self?

I had a failed attempt at the pumpkin one last night. I managed to find three pumpkins, but two were so shrivelled i didn't think there could be anything inside, and the third (still shrivelled, but larger) morphed into a bunch of gourds when I picked it up

Asking a DC for a pumpkin failed (I'm still amused that she lied to me), so I look forward to trying the "fake memory" technique that so many have had good success with.

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Just gotta wait for Swakefield to address it.

If in the next week or so nothing has happened, shoot me and gab a PM about it and we'll hunt him down and tie him to a chair.

Yay, It works now...Thanks ..Not having email notifications was a pain in the butt..

I managed to fulfill the basic and advanced tasks in one fell swoop. I honestly did not think I would be able to do it, what with mine recent overwork-induced dry spell. The basic task is highlighted in green, the advanced task in purple.

Spoiler for Dream:

Dream Log Entry, Date 16 OCT 2014

The first thing I remember is becoming lucid in a dark, multicoloured scenery. The dream was rather long and I spent most of it flying around with mine Wings of the Heart.
Towards the end of the dream, I suddenly remembered the DreamViews tasks, and immediately a pumpkin the size of mine torso appeared in the air in front of me. In a swift motion, I conjured a blade out of nowhere and sliced the pumpkin vertically in half. A bunch of juice and a mysterious electrical device spilled out.
With the basic task done, I immediately flew into a nearby shelter and opened a wardrobe. Hanging neatly inside was Link's hat and tunic. With a flick of mine finger, I instantly donned the clothes, and not a second later, the scenery around me abruptly turned into the interior of the Temple of Time from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and the temple's theme began to play faintly in the background.
I walked out of the Master Sword chamber and into the altar room. The place looked exactly like it did in the game, except it was in HD, and there were several engravings of the Hyrule Royal Crest on the walls.
After several minutes of looking around, I exited the Temple of Time via the main entrance. I cannot remember what happened after that.

@Frying man:Ophelia's mirror trick ⤵

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

In your next lucid, walk past a mirror while thinking "Look at my Spiderman [or whichever] Suit! Present tense in LDs helps a lot with expectation. Saves time too.

Seems to work really well!

Originally Posted by dolphin

@Frying man:Ophelia's mirror trick ⤵


Seems to work really well!

Mirrors are always where I head for first to play faces but if theres something else it almost always starts there too, If I'm thinking im a girl and theres a girl in the mirror, Or if I want to go somewhere special thru it its just smoky and I pass thru the mirror to other worlds etc: In fact, a couple empty spaces below the end of where I edit my DJ it says "Lets go to the mirror" as a reminder.......

Originally Posted by dolphin

I finally had an LD where I remembered to use a mirror to help with the costume. I tried to put on a dolphin costume but I got a bee costume instead. I think I might have partially transformed into a bee because I was hovering around. Thanks Ophelia for the mirror trick! I think it's just what I need to transform. I'll try it out some more.

Eeeewww... bees!!!

Dolphin costume much better :p

After failing to do TOTM last month, this time I could do the basic task, though disappointed, nothing inside the pumpkin.
Basic Pumpkin Task

I had a lucid dream last night and tried to do the advanced tasks, but it ended abruptly. I was at a pool party and I noticed I was dreaming (I don't know what's with me and pool party dreams this month. I haven't been to a pool party in years). I decided to try and do the costume challenge, so I started walking towards a house that was nearby. The house was a good football field's length away and I ended up crossing paths with some girl on the way there. I decided to try and talk to her to help stabilize the dream a bit, but when I tried to talk, my words were muffled and the dream collapsed and I woke up.

I managed to have my first ever LD last night after trying for like a year, anyway I noticed It was a dream when they're was a tv on the stairs, I immediately tried doing the pumpkin task, I thought to myself that there would be a pumpkin in the cupboard, looked but wasn't there, then went outside and looked behind a tractor, still no pumpkin I pointed to the ground and yelled I want a pumpkin, some guy pulled a pumpkin out under his shirt he passed it to me and I got excited and woke up. Is this a good first LD or not? So upset I didn't get to look in it

Wooohooo Jack!!
'Course this was a good first lucid dream - you even found a pumpkin - more to the point, you remembered, that you wanted one and what for!
Very well done!!

OMG really thank you, does it get harder to have LD or easier ? And does it get more vivid I'm just new so I don't know this xD

I had several chances at a task last night and each time I would false awaken and have to start over again and ended with this, It's not a task but it's funny.

20/10 "Dang Bears"
8:00am About 5am this morning I thought I'd go over to the swamp trail and get a rabbit but it was 28 degrees out there so I ate breakfast and went back to bed..

Then I saw one in the trail and shot it but it didn't move, I was going to shoot it again but knew I saw fur fly so I put the gun in the truck and drove down to the rabbit, He just sat there dead as a door-nail. I tossed it in the back of the truck and went to another trail and had hung it from a tree limb to skin when along came a good sized bear to challenge me for the rabbit, (She won) I got in the truck and watched as the bear reached with claws and neatly skinned the rabbit and was woofing around with the skin when I grabbed the gun and fired into the air out of the window and the bear took off with the skin in its mouth and I got out and took my nicely cleaned rabbit and went home, I washed it up in the sink and was getting out a frying pan when the morning train came rumbling thru and woke me up..
Given time I would have had a food dream also

Originally Posted by Jack2245

OMG really thank you, does it get harder to have LD or easier ? And does it get more vivid I'm just new so I don't know this xD

Hi Jack,
Getting lucid always takes effort. But if you never give up and perform proper day and night practice diligently, they will come more and more frequently.

Originally Posted by Aristaeus

I managed to fulfill the basic and advanced tasks in one fell swoop. I honestly did not think I would be able to do it, what with mine recent overwork-induced dry spell. The basic task is highlighted in green, the advanced task in purple.

Spoiler for Dream:

Dream Log Entry, Date 16 OCT 2014

The first thing I remember is becoming lucid in a dark, multicoloured scenery. The dream was rather long and I spent most of it flying around with mine Wings of the Heart.
Towards the end of the dream, I suddenly remembered the DreamViews tasks, and immediately a pumpkin the size of mine torso appeared in the air in front of me. In a swift motion, I conjured a blade out of nowhere and sliced the pumpkin vertically in half. A bunch of juice and a mysterious electrical device spilled out.
With the basic task done, I immediately flew into a nearby shelter and opened a wardrobe. Hanging neatly inside was Link's hat and tunic. With a flick of mine finger, I instantly donned the clothes, and not a second later, the scenery around me abruptly turned into the interior of the Temple of Time from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and the temple's theme began to play faintly in the background.
I walked out of the Master Sword chamber and into the altar room. The place looked exactly like it did in the game, except it was in HD, and there were several engravings of the Hyrule Royal Crest on the walls.
After several minutes of looking around, I exited the Temple of Time via the main entrance. I cannot remember what happened after that.

This is sooo freaking awesome!!! You entered the Legend of Zelda in your lucid. Congrats!

I got lucid several times last night, and even tried to recall the tasks. But somehow I thought 2 of them were:

- Teach something to, or learn something from a DC
- Eat a booger

And I told myself I wasn't gonna do either one, so I went flying instead haha.

Eat a booger!
TotM fails are my favourite!
Speaking of which... where is Canis at? He's tried relentlessly for the bonus task this month with at least one near-success...

non-lucid ToTM-bation: squishy pumpkins on the driveway at my childhood home. For some reason everyone is encountering squishy pumpkins, mine was firm .

Canis be lurkin

Heh, yes I do have some fails! I attempted the "play an instrument that doesn't exist IWL" Task of the Month, and even got some help from Dreamer but totally failed to capitalize! This was a close one, though.

I finally remember my intent to do the “play a musical instrument that doesn’t exist in waking life” task and ask Dreamer if she has an instrument for me. She says, “Well, I have this violin!” She produces a violin from out of nowhere and somehow plays a few notes with no bow. Now she plucks 3 notes pizzicato.

I tell her that this is cool but that we need to have an instrument that doesn’t exist in waking life.

Full dream: Long Shot - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

I also incorrectly remembered that a task this month was to prank a DC, so I came up with a rather bizarre prank on the fly.

As a prank, I decide to pretend that the window is sucking me out into the night. I act scared and start shouting as I phase through, landing on the corner of a nearby section of roof. I complete the prank by humping the corner of the roof.

Full dream: Open Your Eyes - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

I have failed multiple times the advanced tasks but last night I managed to do the bonus task!!!

Spoiler for Bonus Task:

I had a weird dream and woke up, I was going to write it down in my DJ but I was to tired, apparently, and fell asleep. Then, out of nowhere, I accidentally found myself fully lucid in the same dream I was before.

I was in a hotel room with my sister and some dream character (which in the previous dream was my cousin, but now just a stranger). I didn't know what to do in this spontaneous lucid, so I was about to follow the dream plot (we were going to a party), but realized it was a stupid idea and remembered the bonus task. I got back in the hotel room (which looked like my room, because it had a bunk bed). I started looking for an instrument and by a sink I found a weird extraterrestrial looking seashell, I blew on it, I did everything but nothing happened. Then, close by, I found a "maraca" looking thing and again nothing... But then, at a high place in the room, I saw a small treasure chest looking device which had speakers. I climbed up, sat up there and I started sending the music mentally into the chest and then the music from a jack-in-the-box toy started playing, very low volume (I was the only one in the room who could heart it), I did it again and again because I expected something different... And then I started creating the coolest music I've ever heard, man. It was like as a cross between "bassnectar" and "clams casino" (instrumental music), it had the trippy dubstep-vibe from bassnectar and the mellow dreamy-vibe from clammy clams. It started off with low volume, but it gradually started increasing, until everybody in the room could hear it. The music was awesome and I thought thats how a DJ might feel like!! I felt very euphoric and started moving around the hotel room listening/creating the music! I wish I could manifest music like that on "real life"!! I still can't believe that we are capable of doing stuff like this!

Then I was planning on waking up to write down the dream, but had an awkward semi lucid moment in which the DC that was in the room convinced me to walk him to his room. I started doing it out of compassion, but then realized, "dude this is my dream, f*** you!" haha and woke up to write the dream down.

Hey guys, just wanted to say I'm going to take a break from TOTM until I get my LD rhythm back on track. I'm only having about one to two lucids per month, and I don't want to feel obligated to do tasks with such a scarcity of lucidity. Don't worry! I'll be back!