Thread: Task of the Month for November 2014

I couldn't sleep last night or all day so tonight I try for the turkey and if you can't guess the fate of the turkey,
Just ask "Daisy Duck" what happened to her.

WILD: I enter dreamland but it's all very dark, the ceiling is very high, maybe it was a church or something like that. As usual, my dream control sucks when I lucid dream by WILD method, I try to imagine a pile of leaves appearing but since it's very dark I know it's going to be very difficult, so instead I search for a DC (90% of my DC are always kids, so there's no problem). I find the kid and tell him it's a dream and he answered: then why don't you wake up mommy??
---- totally unexpected lol.

Sure is quiet around here, ...

Well mostly vivid dreams continuing but sleep still entirely broken, I passed out last night at 9:30pm and woke around 2:30am, now it's 4:30am I'm in my kitchen in the dark (other than the screen) after having a mug of warm milk and trying not to get freaked out by the surprising reflections of my cat's eyes

Have some LDs now!!!

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Have some LDs now!!!

Thanks for the good thoughts - I did make it back to sleep for a decent time (3 hours?) but recall was short and hazy. Did I mention recently that jet lag SUCKS!?

Originally Posted by FryingMan

Thanks for the good thoughts - I did make it back to sleep for a decent time (3 hours?) but recall was short and hazy. Did I mention recently that jet lag SUCKS!?

Jet lag tricky but easy to deal with! Sure it does impact at a physical level, but you can counter that and re-adjust fast. The trick when you step into the plane.

Time does not exist and neither does Jet Lag! I have traveled from europe to US a lot. When you get into the plane, set the clock on your destination time and start living normally. Fight the will to sleep / eat until it becomes the (destination time) to do so. Do not even think "wonder what times is at home" or "whatever place I was" and just think of current time. You won't have jet lag.

Originally Posted by PercyLucid

Jet lag tricky but easy to deal with! Sure it does impact at a physical level, but you can counter that and re-adjust fast. The trick when you step into the plane.

Time does not exist and neither does Jet Lag! I have traveled from europe to US a lot. When you get into the plane, set the clock on your destination time and start living normally. Fight the will to sleep / eat until it becomes the (destination time) to do so. Do not even think "wonder what times is at home" or "whatever place I was" and just think of current time. You won't have jet lag.

I have just about the worst possible: 11-12 hours, basically exactly half a day, making it pretty much impossible to pretend you've gone forwards or backwards a day. I don't care what time it is anywhere else, I'm just exhausted all the time. I've found it takes about 2 weeks to get completely over a 12 hour change, hopefully this one will be done with soon.

Dreaming had already been starting to get awesome again all this week, just had a bit of a slow night last night. So here's to hoping it keeps getting better... thanks for the advice, though!

Originally Posted by FryingMan

I have just about the worst possible: 11-12 hours, basically exactly half a day, making it pretty much impossible to pretend you've gone forwards or backwards a day. I don't care what time it is anywhere else, I'm just exhausted all the time. I've found it takes about 2 weeks to get completely over a 12 hour change, hopefully this one will be done with soon.

Dreaming had already been starting to get awesome again all this week, just had a bit of a slow night last night. So here's to hoping it keeps getting better... thanks for the advice, though!

Dang... my biggest is 10 hours lol.

What I did is skipping half a day of sleep or one whole day, or try to sleep after a few hours of being awake.

Once, my plane took of at 1pm (my, california time) and as I got into the plane, my watch started to say 10pm (9 hours jetlag on this one) so at 3pm Cali time I went to sleep. Sure, I did not sleep a bit, maybe a little, but at least, to have my eyes closed, etc. Got to destination at 8am. Sure, I was tired, but did not sleep the entire day, fought the drive to. At night, I had one of those pills (not from behind the counter of course) to help you to sleep. Slept like a baby the whole night (meh dreams tho) next day, especially at a stomach level I was a bit messed up, but followed the schedule. Sleep at night again (without pill) and went through the day normally. No jet.

Other time it was the other way around. Plane took of 9pm, which was 6am (it was again going from cali to europe) and for that one I pretty much skipped sleep, until the night of Europe (and was much easier that above situation.)

Now, 12 hours might be harder tho... also, maybe is the bed/pillow that is giving you a hard time? That also make a huge difference, since it's not your own pillow/bed.

Basic ii - completed (Hopefully I'll update the full entry in my DJ)

.../Became lucid while running on a mountain partially covered in snow. Now I'm going downhill and get into the street of the old cinemas from my Grandparent's town. I remember there are some tasks to do and try to remember some of them on the run. I remember the kids task and feel a little bit annoyed because of I was surrounded by a lot of kids playing on a graveyard in the previous dream and I didn't notice it. Anyway, I look to the front and see a group of men talking together. I guess there must be some kids around when a little kid comes out from the group. Apparently he's having a temper tantrum. I get close to him, pick him up and tell him " It's a dream!!!". Then he stops crying and look around kind of surprised. I'm expecting he's going to do something interesting when he starts to cry again. Oops!! I put him down and go away before some of the guys notices that I made him cry louder. Then I think perhaps I could give it one more try. I turn and come back, pick the kid again and tell him once more " Hey!! It's a dream!!!" Once again he stops crying to curiously look around. Then he starts to cry louder than before screaming " DREEEEAAAAAM!!!!!" Ok, that's enough. I put him down and walk away/...

Woke up after that.

Originally Posted by woblybil

Sure is quiet around here, ...

Seems we are all having some dry spells hahaha. I have been coding like a maniac, so I know my issue with my delay... but... I have done it last night.

Well, here comes my work both both tasks (and a dare):

Speed-run ToTM and a dare dream, one-shot killing a turkey and brief chat with a DC - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Spoiler for Speed-run ToTM and a dare dream, one-shot killing a turkey and brief chat with a DC:

13.11.2014

Speed-run ToTM and a dare dream, one-shot killing a turkey and brief chat with a DC (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I believe this is possibly the lamest ToTM I have ever worked on, and to be honest, I did not even see this coming. I have been coding for a new dream journal software like a maniac... and well, every time I woke up in the middle of the night, all I had in my mind was a bunch of code (that I wont paste here lol) and yet, I got a lucid dream. I naturally woke up around 7:30am (alarm clock triggers at 8:00am) and I was laying on my back, just relaxing to wait for the clock. After a while I found myself driving down the street. I was in what I believe to be a manual transmission car, as I had to switch gears manually. I got inside a building and I was driving down the stars, but now, I was riding a red bike:







I was driving through aisles and up and down the stairs, and yet, I had a manual transmission strick to switch gears, realizing how it could be even possible... realizing that it was impossible for a bike and realizing that my car just turned into a bike and I was indoors, so I turned lucid.

I was surprised by the dream, and feared that anytime soon the alarm clock was going to trigger. I saw a small child in the middle of a big empty room and I asked him:
- "What are you grateful for?"
- Chocolate! - he replied.

I was like, okay... and then realized that asking that was not a ToTM.
- What is my name? - I asked him.
- Manolo, like the supermarket - He replied (That is not my name nor I have seen a super market named like that.

I recalled I had to tell him that it was a dream, so:
- This is a dream - I exalted.
- No, I am awake, we are not dreaming - He replied.

I rose my hand and showed it to him, claiming we were in a dream. My hand looked perfectly fine, five perfect fingers... so I was like, what the hell. I looked at my hand again, perfect... another false positive. I knew we were dreaming because of the bike, I looked a third time and then, two of my fingers were overlaying each other and they were like holograms. I realized that the child was doing his own business, but since he replied, I was done.

I then decided to walk backwards, as I believed it was a dare. Simple task... I walked a good 50 steps backwards, but nothing out of the blue happened.

I then went ahead to remember the other ToTM without much success... so much coding, so little reading I told to myself. I believed that the bonus task was to steal the turkey that the President saved and decide its fate. I figured if I tried to fly outside the building and look for the White House I was not going to make it in time and the alarm clock would ruin it. I pretended that behind a door I was going to find the White House.

I opened the door and I could see grass and heard birds chirping. I was able to see the White House (even though it was a mix of the white house and Congress, looking something like this







I saw the President, but it was not Obama. It was a made up African American dude, dressed in business attire. The First lady was next to him, but also made up. I think she looked Chinese. There was a turkey standing next to them, so I figured it was the turkey they saved. I started feeling my cats in bed and started to feel I was waking up rapidly, so I had to do something... I just grabbed the turkey's neck and said, "Your fate is to die." I started to strangle it and little after, I woke up. Since the dare is to decide the fate, I'd say I completed it, as I have decided it would die. I wouldn't have made the choice though if I wasn't waking up, I would have done something much more exciting. This is somewhat short entry, this dream felt quick, very quick.

Originally Posted by PercyLucid

Seems we are all having some dry spells hahaha. I have been coding like a maniac, so I know my issue with my delay... but... I have done it last night.

I think it's something to do with school being back in session for some of us. I know my dry spell started pretty much after about a month into the semester.

Challenge accepted.

I'm rather busy, real-life wise, and my latest two lucky strikes without prep went into trying to lucidly practise my darts-proficiency. Which is exasperatingly difficult. One was over almost when it began, and in the other I didn't manage to get physics, esp. ballistics right. But ToTMs don't quite take my fancy this month...

Originally Posted by StephL

I'm rather busy, real-life wise, and my latest two lucky strikes without prep went into trying to lucidly practise my darts-proficiency. Which is exasperatingly difficult. One was over almost when it began, and in the other I didn't manage to get physics, esp. ballistics right. But ToTMs don't quite take my fancy this month...

Do you find that lucid practice helps WL proficiency? I haven't tested this myself...

Well - I hope so, I hope it would. But I only managed twice to even give it a try. First was quite a long while back, and that one last week, which didn't immediately break down, had some weird physics. Like the dart flying in slow motion, me being unsure about the proportions, distance of the oche for instance, and I've been wary to trust the gravity. Haha - definitely dream-gravity is not half-gravity, though.
Been a bit blurry, too, optically, and it didn't last for long, but I won't give up just yet. There's been a feature on German TV about LDing, and they had a professional gymnast praising lucid training for it, including for double bars, or how it's called in English. Anyway - you need correct gravity for that as well.
So more realism should do the trick. I "dream of" (irl) doing an OBE-style WILD, and then animating my "sleeping body" to be my personal trainer, or at least to watch her throw, see if I can identify mistakes. Best would be double perspective then, of course, but third would be great as well - watching myself.
So many ideas - like maybe let her "overlay me", while throwing, imagining, she'd shape my throw, while doing it, if that's comprehensible, what I mean. And doing slow-mo, but the throw, not the path of the dart, and notice any little flaws.

Probably I'll put up a camera in real life as the next step, though.

Edit: While I'm at it, with off-topicing: I won my last ranking event on Saturday, three wins 3:0, 3:0, 3:1 and a loss 2:3. Very happy - that puts me in the A league now.

Originally Posted by StephL

Well - I hope so, I hope it would. But I only managed twice to even give it a try. First was quite a long while back, and that one last week, which didn't immediately break down, had some weird physics. Like the dart flying in slow motion, me being unsure about the proportions, distance of the oche for instance, and I've been wary to trust the gravity. Haha - definitely dream-gravity is not half-gravity, though.
Been a bit blurry, too, optically, and it didn't last for long, but I won't give up just yet. There's been a feature on German TV about LDing, and they had a professional gymnast praising lucid training for it, including for double bars, or how it's called in English. Anyway - you need correct gravity for that as well.
So more realism should do the trick. I "dream of" (irl) doing an OBE-style WILD, and then animating my "sleeping body" to be my personal trainer, or at least to watch her throw, see if I can identify mistakes. Best would be double perspective then, of course, but third would be great as well - watching myself.
So many ideas - like maybe let her "overlay me", while throwing, imagining, she'd shape my throw, while doing it, if that's comprehensible, what I mean. And doing slow-mo, but the throw, not the path of the dart, and notice any little flaws.

Probably I'll put up a camera in real life as the next step, though.

Edit: While I'm at it, with off-topicing: I won my last ranking event on Saturday, three wins 3:0, 3:0, 3:1 and a loss 2:3. Very happy - that puts me in the A league now.

I think when practicing those skills during a lucid dream you could gain more experience in dream control rather than any other thing. The camera idea during your WL is a good option as I see it, and much better if it's one of those that can catch thousands of frames per second, I think that could give you a more accurate perspective into what's really happening.

Sorry to stay off-topic... any other attempts so far?

Well I flew lucidly through some leaves last night, but they were still attached to the tree. First "flying into the lucid sunset" dream, the pure essence of orange is beyond description....

Here we go again, No email notifications since the 8th, Whats with this thing ? ............

Woohoo, FryingMan! Sounds like an awesome experience. I will have to try that sometime (flying into the sunset that is, not jet lag).

Here we go again, No email notifications since the 8th, Whats with this thing ? ............

Did you check your spam filter? Sometimes they go there to hide...

Originally Posted by ThreeCat

Woohoo, FryingMan! Sounds like an awesome experience. I will have to try that sometime (flying into the sunset that is, not jet lag).



Did you check your spam filter? Sometimes they go there to hide...

At the inception of public internet I was the 4 millionth person on it with a 286 computer and DOS 3.0... did I check the spam filter indeed!
Actually as I remember I dumped the history on the 8th and likely some poison cookies from a redirect mirror site.

^^ At least you weren't trying to unsuccessfully ( fortunately for the phone bill of the house) connect your isolated Commodore 128 using Quantum Link...

Nope - not yet, Box, but I banged in a maximum of 180 after a long drought just yesternight, going to do the camera thing next week, no time today...

You all go on - happy and (task-)fulfilling dreams I wish you, and I'll put my darting exploits into the passion thread, if I keep on not being able to help myself bragging about it...

Basic i completed. Entered dream through WILD, was flying backwards through a street, and remembered the leaves bit, fall leaves started falling in piles in a row as i flew down the street, remembered that I actually had to jump in one, so I did, but it was on top of the pavement and wasn't really big enough to go really dive in, so I just jumped on top of it a few times XD Hope that counts.

Tried to do basic ii, but only saw one kid as I was flying through a cafeteria, and he was with some adult leading him away. I flew after them for a short while but gave up

Originally Posted by Tiny

Basic i completed. Entered dream through WILD, was flying backwards through a street, and remembered the leaves bit, fall leaves started falling in piles in a row as i flew down the street, remembered that I actually had to jump in one, so I did, but it was on top of the pavement and wasn't really big enough to go really dive in, so I just jumped on top of it a few times XD Hope that counts.

Tried to do basic ii, but only saw one kid as I was flying through a cafeteria, and he was with some adult leading him away. I flew after them for a short while but gave up

Completely off topic, but I LOVE your Nyanko-Sensei avatar!!! That is actually pretty much my all-time favorite anime ever in like a million years. I only have to imagine him drunkenly saying "Tadaimaaaaaaaa" and I giggle and people give me weird looks :/