Thread: Task of the Month for October 2014

Heyo, finally got the pumpkin one. THE DAY IS MINE!

Spoiler for Pumpkin TOTM:

I walked over to a tree by the road and looked up at the many oranges on it. I reached up, pulled one down, and proceeded to stare at it for a while. It suddenly reminded me that I wanted to do the Task of the Month. I looked around for a pumpkin, and found a big display of hay bales and pumpkins for some fall festival (how incredibly convenient). I grabbed one from the ground, but it felt really mushy. Well, I can just peel this one apart, I guess. I pulled apart the pumpkin, only to find that the inside was much like the inside of an orange.


Wut.

So there I was, holding basically a giant orange. I was curious, so I took a large bite of it, and sure enough, it tasted just like an orange. It tasted decent, but I quickly grew tired of it. I tried to remember whether the task was to open a pumpkin, or to smash a pumpkin. Eh, wouldn't hurt just to be safe. I picked up another pumpkin, which felt much more like a normal pumpkin should. I took it over to the sidewalk and


Sorry, couldn't resist.

It burst open, and about 50 small coins, mostly dimes and pennies, spilled out onto the ground. Hmm, not too bad, I guess. But I enjoyed smashing these pumpkins, so I picked up another one. I could feel and hear something rattling inside, so I wasn't surprised when I threw it on the ground and more coins came out. I repeated this cycle several times. I felt like Link smashing pots or something.


Thankfully, no awkward dress/skirt thing in my dream.

When I finally grew tired of this, I began to walk off and try to think of another TOTM, but I quickly woke up.

Full Dream.

Originally Posted by spellbee2

Heyo, finally got the pumpkin one. THE DAY IS MINE!

Spoiler for Pumpkin TOTM:

I walked over to a tree by the road and looked up at the many oranges on it. I reached up, pulled one down, and proceeded to stare at it for a while. It suddenly reminded me that I wanted to do the Task of the Month. I looked around for a pumpkin, and found a big display of hay bales and pumpkins for some fall festival (how incredibly convenient). I grabbed one from the ground, but it felt really mushy. Well, I can just peel this one apart, I guess. I pulled apart the pumpkin, only to find that the inside was much like the inside of an orange.


Wut.

So there I was, holding basically a giant orange. I was curious, so I took a large bite of it, and sure enough, it tasted just like an orange. It tasted decent, but I quickly grew tired of it. I tried to remember whether the task was to open a pumpkin, or to smash a pumpkin. Eh, wouldn't hurt just to be safe. I picked up another pumpkin, which felt much more like a normal pumpkin should. I took it over to the sidewalk and


Sorry, couldn't resist.

It burst open, and about 50 small coins, mostly dimes and pennies, spilled out onto the ground. Hmm, not too bad, I guess. But I enjoyed smashing these pumpkins, so I picked up another one. I could feel and hear something rattling inside, so I wasn't surprised when I threw it on the ground and more coins came out. I repeated this cycle several times. I felt like Link smashing pots or something.


Thankfully, no awkward dress/skirt thing in my dream.

When I finally grew tired of this, I began to walk off and try to think of another TOTM, but I quickly woke up.

Full Dream.

I always felt like Link goes well with that song. "I'm not a part of your system! I threw it on the ground!"

Awesome dream.

Okay guys, does this count as completing the Advanced Task ii - confronting my greatest fear? (skip down to the end to see what I'm talking about) : Partying with Daniel Radcliffe; Dancing in the mirror - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

I'm not sure what my greatest fear is, but I'm sure that being chased by weird old men with decomposing faces probably ranks up there among the worst of them.

But then, I didn't set out to do accomplish this task with a premeditated fear theme - so does this count?

Basic Task i - Open a pumpkin. What do you find inside?

Elves, Jawas And The Pumpkin - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

...Once outside, I immediately recall the pumpkin task for the task of the month. I must have dropped my cat or it vanished because I have no other memory of her from here. I use a strong sense of expectation as I walk around to the side of the house. Just as I thought, there is a nice looking pumpkin in the driveway resting up against the house. It looks pretty solid and I briefly wonder how I am going to cut it open. I recall OpheliaBlue's dream and remember hers was sort or soft so I decide that's how mine will be. I reach down and rip the top off; it feels really pliable and half rotten. When I take a look inside, I see many smaller pumpkins among the typical stringy pumpkin guts. No seeds; just miniature pumpkins. I feel a little disappointed that I didn't find something cooler but this is kind of neat. I get the idea to open the biggest mini pumpkin, but the inside of that one was just solid pumpkin mush. I begin squishing and playing in the mess like a kid in the mud. Not far into this, I wake up and do a nose plug to be sure.

Advanced Task i - Go into a costume closet and pick out a costume. Depending on the costume you choose, the setting related to the type of costume will appear. (For example, if you choose a mermaid costume then after putting on the costume you will automatically find yourself in the ocean.)

I didn't remember the costume closet part but I nailed the rest.

Manatee Costume - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

...I remember the costume task for the task of the month and look for my manatee outfit. There is a white toy chest behind a stack of chairs. There seems to be a bunch of stuffed animals and puppets in there. This is perfect for what I need. I reach in and pull out a grey hoodie with a plush manatee head for the hood. I decided before hand that I didn't want a complicated costume but this unexpected item is genius. I find a full length door mirror so that I would have a visual ground as I slip the costume over my head. My reflection doesn't cooperate and is making funny faces at me. It's not even doing the same movements I am. I decide this DC is annoying and move to another mirror. My reflection is still making faces but at least it's cooperating. I carefully slip the hoodie on while I keep a visual on the mirror. Once I have it one with the hood up, I turn around and imagine being in the water.

The hallway behind me quickly fills with water to the roof and I start swimming. Air bubbles swirl around me as I level out and make swimming motions. The dream fades here a bit but I focus on memories of snorkeling and quickly find myself in something similar to King's Bay. I even act the part and pretend that I have fins for elbows as I 'walk' the bottom among the vegetation. after a few seconds, my vision fades to black again but I decide that I have done the task so I let myself wake up...

Pumpkinception! Cool! I can't wait to try out one of these tasks, especially the pumpkin one.

I got lucid in a very weird way last night - I had watched the series 'The Prisoner' and in my dream "Number 2" appeared and was very suspiciously trying to talk me into something. The actor of Gandalf, by the way. And I realized it, somehow I knew this was from fiction and I concluded I must be dreaming.

So I turned away and walked out of the house. There was a wooden chest on the porch and I convinced myself of pumpkins having been stored there. Opened up - yep - pumpkins. It kind of never ceases surprising me how stuff is so easy to dream up. Classical big orange ones - I took one out and pried the top loose, which was easy, too. But to my disappointment there was only pumpkin-mush in it. I remembered reading about somebody having dug into it and found more, so I did that and indeed, there was more - just nothing exciting. Black relatively flat and shiny stones of a diameter of maybe 5 cm.
Na well...

Home soon!!

I did the bonus task a couple of nights ago!
I tried to go in without any expectations for the instrument, and I got a really interesting result!

Excerpt:

Spoiler for bonus task:

I tried to remember the task again, but I had already forgotten.
CanisLucidus said, "Would you like me to play you a song?"
Nice work, CL! I was very excited by this reminder!
"YES!" I exclaimed. "Wait, no! We have to get an instrument... Come with me!"
I grabbed his hand and led him out of my room. I didn't want the size of the instrument to be limited by what Canis had on his person, so I decided we'd find it in another room. I had intentionally tried not to think about what the instrument might be in advance, hoping that the dream might surprise me!
Canis and I walked out to the hallway. The house appeared to be a cross between my current house and my old house.
I affirmed that there would be an instrument behind the door as we entered a room... but it was empty.
I led Canis to a few more rooms, but none of them even contained furniture, let alone exotic instruments.
We finally walked into the spare room from my old house. I was disappointed to find another empty room, but I decided to try using a different technique this time. I affirmed that there would be an instrument behind me, and I turned around. There was just a pile of boxes, seemingly filled with junk, but I figured the instrument must be inside! I put my hand into a box and felt something rubbery inside. I pulled out something that looked like a hollow windscreen wiper blade, bent in the middle. I blew on it and it made a sound kind of like a recorder, but then an extension fell out from the bottom and I realised there was more to the instrument! I had to attach the extension properly, which made the instrument really long. It was made of three distinct parts and seemed pretty flimsy, so I asked Canis to hold one end and help me carry it to a room with more space.
We stood in the middle of a large room, both holding the instrument. I thought it'd be cool if we could play it together, so I asked him to blow into the other end while I blew on my end. We both held a long, steady note at our natural speaking pitch. The instrument vibrated, and I could feel the air pressure starting to build inside it. It became harder to blow, but the air slowly moved towards the centre of the instrument. When our breath collided, the middle of the instrument came apart... we broke it! I figured this instrument was not meant to be played by two people...
The middle looked like it had originally been stuck together with masking tape. I reattached the parts and asked Canis to hold the other end again. This time, I just blew into it myself. It made a low pitched warbling noise, kind of like the Australian magpie, but with a higher pitched vibration at the same time, like Khoomei style Tuvan throat singing. There was also a flanging effect creating a sweeping sound that made each note dance. I only got to play a few notes before I felt myself waking up.

Full dream here

So close to getting the blood one today.

Spoiler for Failed Blood Task:

I was in my college dining hall, and there was some kind of karaoke thing going on right in the middle. One of my friends tried to convince me to do it with him, and after enough persuading, I finally caved. I went to sit down my backpack, but instead it just kind of floated and spun in mid-air, like it was in zero gravity. I quickly realized this wasn't right and became lucid. I remembered both my dare (which I though would've been hard at the moment) and the blood TOTM. Well, they undoubtedly have raw meat in the back. That's probably the best place to find blood. I wandered through the door into the back, and immediately saw a cart with shelves of vacuum-sealed ribs. That was easy, might as well go for the bonus part too. "This is dragon meat, right?" I asked to no one in particular. I tried to look at the label, but couldn't get it into focus. "Yep, it is," I said, hoping that saying it would make it true. I grabbed the top package and ripped it open, but as soon as the package opened, the cart took off running - er, rolling - away from me. I took off after it. It was pretty fast, but I used all my parkour skills (I jumped over a table) to catch up. Unfortunately, it went through another door, which locked immediately, so I couldn't get through. I turned around to see a package of raw chicken wings behind me. Meh, chicken blood will work too, I guess. I walked over, started to open the package, aaaaand woke up.

Last night I had a lucid dream and I tried to finish up the second basic task. My lucid started in my house (like most do). I had decided earlier that the supernatural creature I was going to drink the blood of was a yoshi from the Mario universe. So I tried to picture a Yoshi as I exited my front door. There was a strange dinosaur looking creature that had similar proportions to a yoshi, but it was about 9 feet tall and had features more like an actual dinosaur than a cartoon character.

I decided to go for the vampire blood drinking method. I went up to the "yoshi" and bit its neck. I couldn't get any blood to come out though and I woke up. I DEILD'd back into another lucid and realized my problem was that I didn't have any fangs. I went out my front door again but the "yoshi" wasn't there any more. I did however see a chain chomp from the Mario universe. I figured chain chomps didn't have blood, but I decided to give it a try anyway. I went over to the chain chomp. After it did its standard attack it does in the games, I went up behind it and bit hard. I tried sucking and some liquid actually started filling my mouth. I swallowed and it tasted very metallic and kind of sweet. After I backed off, I started to "transform". I put transform in quotes because the only thing that happened was that I now had large metal hoop earrings. I removed them from my ears, and then I woke up.

Originally Posted by John11

Last night I had a lucid dream and I tried to finish up the second basic task. My lucid started in my house (like most do). I had decided earlier that the supernatural creature I was going to drink the blood of was a yoshi from the Mario universe. So I tried to picture a Yoshi as I exited my front door. There was a strange dinosaur looking creature that had similar proportions to a yoshi, but it was about 9 feet tall and had features more like an actual dinosaur than a cartoon character.

I decided to go for the vampire blood drinking method. I went up to the "yoshi" and bit its neck. I couldn't get any blood to come out though and I woke up. I DEILD'd back into another lucid and realized my problem was that I didn't have any fangs. I went out my front door again but the "yoshi" wasn't there any more. I did however see a chain chomp from the Mario universe. I figured chain chomps didn't have blood, but I decided to give it a try anyway. I went over to the chain chomp. After it did its standard attack it does in the games, I went up behind it and bit hard. I tried sucking and some liquid actually started filling my mouth. I swallowed and it tasted very metallic and kind of sweet. After I backed off, I started to "transform". I put transform in quotes because the only thing that happened was that I now had large metal hoop earrings. I removed them from my ears, and then I woke up.

This is awesome haha typical dream humour with the hoop earrings !

Originally Posted by StephL

I got lucid in a very weird way last night - I had watched the series 'The Prisoner' and in my dream "Number 2" appeared and was very suspiciously trying to talk me into something. The actor of Gandalf, by the way. And I realized it, somehow I knew this was from fiction and I concluded I must be dreaming.
...

We were on the same track I guess......I started out lost in an old (Maybe English) castle which is a story in itself and went thru a door to middle earth (Jules Verne style)and all the strange stuff there...The sky was made of stone with several moons including one really big one half risen over a glassy,golden sea and rocky beaches lined with tan palms and strange eyes peeping out of them, But you were not there dammit

I've been thinking so much about the bonus task that I've been playing my WL instrument in dreams a lot. Here's my DJ from 2 nights ago, a massive recall night aided by wormwood and galantamine and multiple wakings (no full lucids though), the music master class is the last one:

00:00 Monday 2014-10-13 multi-epics: Sadistic Genie, Porn shoot, destroy villain, master class - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Last night I had a 10-15 LD DEILD chain (my first ever) that was dominated by themes that Woblybil and fogelbise would appreciate. Kept trying and kept waking and kept returning to try again. Finally had some measure of success! I'll write that one up later today.

Oh - unlucky woblybil! You're saying you didn't notice, right? Sounds like a fantastic normal dream, though!

Great lucids everybody - so hilarious, you and Canis with this tuby instrument, Dreamer - I can almost see and hear it in my imagination!
Lovely also to chose a Yoshi for a supernatural creature and transformation into somebody with hoop-earrings - niice!
Good luck spellbee may your blood not roll away from you the next time!
Congrats Fryingman - you did it, didn't you? Was a bit too lazy to read all your monster-recall there, admirable. I'm always writing in it now I start again and it stays a singular entry. Maybe I'll journal a bit for last night later.

Happy birthday Ophelia in hindsight - and please gimme wiinx for my quite disappointing pumpkin!

Wow first experience with galantamine / choline combo was incredible (4mg galantamine/ 200mg choline)! Finally got the pumpkin TOTM although not that spectacular I will continue to work on the others

Spoiler for TOTM (pumpkin):

I found myself in what was suppose to my room but something was off...it was extremely stretched out and my bed was on the opposite side of the room. I nearly lost the dream but I ran a quick nose plug RC and found it to stabilize. Immediately I remembered the task of the month because I write them down every night before bed so I can recall them when in dream. I told myself that I had left my pumpkins outside of my bedroom door and sure enough there were two pumpkins sitting right there when I opened it. It was fairly dark in the hallway so I couldn't see which one was larger but just picked up the one closest to me. When I brought it into the light I saw that it was a small midget pumpkin with those green spots you sometimes find on top of them. I thought up a reasonable plan to open the pumpkin and to enlarge it a tad. I made my way to the kitchen which was fairly similar to waking life and sure enough with a little of mind power when I emerged off the dark staircase the pumpkin had doubled in size. I set it down on the table downstairs turned around and sure enough the top was sliced off. I reached my hands into the pumpkin and at first it was just the guts and goo but then I found my phone in the depths of the pumpkin. I didn't even want to look at my shitty optimus elite, not even in a dream. Anyways I go on to do some other personal tasks but I will be trying a few more TOTMs before the end of the month!

Well, I played an instrument in the dream that does exist in WL (at least I thought I was) and I wasn't lucid so no, that's not a bonus success. But I'm on the right wavelength!

Back from my birthday extravaganza! I am now starting a diet =/

Anyway, thanks for putting up with me guys. I tried to wing you guys from my phone, but it's so easy to miss some of you that way. So thanks for giving me the necessary nudges for y'all's wings And hooray, look at all the pumpkin tasks! Looks like some members are getting that expectation thing to work well.

Uii - that was fast! Thanks!

Sorry, couldn't resist.

LOL!!!! Is that you in the picture? This picture made me giggle at work.


Thankfully, no awkward dress/skirt thing in my dream.

Link! I love TLOZ!

Congrats on smashing pumpkins. Reminds me of the band by the same name.

Got lucid last night and had to mess it up with sex stuff. lol Reminds me of wolybil. :-p

My turn!! I managed to do the pumpkin task twice, although I don't remember what was there in my second attempt

Spoiler for - Basic Task i: The pumpkin task:

Somehow I start walking on an open field, and find some candies spread on the floor. I see one has a peculiar shape. I pick it up to see through its partially transparent wrapper, it has the shape of a pumpkin. I remember there's something about it and pick it up while trying to remember what was it. I remember it was a task of the Month! I notice finally it's a dream because of I was regularly RC'ing during my WL every time I saw a pumpkin here and there, specially in the supermarkets this month. Now I remember, it's not about something with the shape of a pumpkin. I must find one. I turn to see on the grass, there's a small one almost in front of me. I pick it up and draw a cut with my finger on its top as I planned to do because of I used to open portals that way. It's not difficult to get the top of the pumpkin cut. I lift the small lid to see inside. It looks like the interior of an orange. Actually the skin of the pumpkin turns flexible and I manage to get a big orange out of the pumpkin turning it upside down. The big orange falls on my hand and it has the same cut on the top. What a big imagination! I was hoping to find something more "expectacular". I think I can do it better. I turn to see somewhere else, and find a bigger pumpkin to my side. I pick it up and make the same cut drawing with my finger, wondering why some people need knifes to do this task. I lift its lid to see once again/...


* Dream fades to black. I'm still trying to remember what was there the second time I did it. I think perhaps it was something similar because of I stopped paying attention.

Yay lots of pumpkins this month! So glad for a non-scary task

Originally Posted by starletdreamer

Sorry, couldn't resist.

LOL!!!! Is that you in the picture? This picture made me giggle at work.


Thankfully, no awkward dress/skirt thing in my dream.

Link! I love TLOZ!

Congrats on smashing pumpkins. Reminds me of the band by the same name.

Got lucid last night and had to mess it up with sex stuff. lol Reminds me of wolybil. :-p

I got a few TLOZ dreams myself lately, lol You might enjoy a read or two!

And awesome job guys, pretty awesome dreams!

Originally Posted by starletdreamer

Sorry, couldn't resist.

LOL!!!! Is that you in the picture? This picture made me giggle at work.

No, that's not me, but you're one of today's lucky 10,000.

Originally Posted by woblybil

Any way of finding out why I don't get email replies from any threads on DV since Oct 1st ?........ I put it on Bugs & Fixes but (Naturally) No reply

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.