Thread: Task of the Month for January 2015

I had a DILD and walked backwards! Will DJ soon.

Walking backwards:

So I left the bathroom and recalled the backwards totm again. I was in the livingroom, and we have a giant mirror there. I looked at myself in the mirror, and just started walking backwards. Easy peasy. Although, my reflection decided to be more creative. It walked backwards properly as I did, but then it backwardsly climbed up onto some furniture that was in the reflection, but not on my side, if that makes sense. Then my reflection started to have some japanese horror little-girl look to it, and it gave me goose bumps. This is cool: I could feel them on my sleeping body, the goosebumps. And so I looked at my dream arm, but no goosebumps. I remarked how I could feel them irl, but not see them in the dream.

Whole Dream.
Also I'm not winging myself because I didn't ONLY walk backwards. I walked frontwards some too lol. If I manage to fly backwards in another LD then I'll treat myself

I was close to completing the wine task, but alarm clock woke me up right after I attained my lucidity.

Does the backwards task remind anyone else of the movie Little Big Man where except for battle, the fiercest warriors do everything in reverse?

Well that was fun, I got Advanced II.

Spoiler for Advanced II - Walking Backwards:

I don't remember what exactly, but something made me lucid. I flew for a little bit, until I finally touched down outside a Walgreen's. I remembered that I should do some tasks while I was lucid, so I thought of the walking backwards task. I started taking some steps backward, and everything seemed to be going fine (although I got some strange looks from some DCs wondering what I was doing). I realized I was slowly gaining speed, and I felt like I was about to fall backwards. I tried to move my legs faster to keep up, but I kept going faster and faster. Soon, I realized my feet weren't even touching the ground, and I was pretty much flying backwards at an alarming rate. The scene around me kind of looked like I was hitting warp speed in reverse. Then, the scene went black.

Full Dream.

Advanced Task ii - Only walk/fly backwards in a dream. - (Sensei, KestrelKat)

This requires clarification. Does "Only" mean: that if you take even one step "forwards" at any point in the dream after you become lucid, you've failed the task? Or does any segment of "walking/flying backwards" satisfy the task, regardless of whether it is preceded or followed by "forwards" movement?

I tried basic i:

Spoiler for TotM:

Recalling the fireworks TotM, I think, 'some neighbor must have some fireworks left after New Year's Eve'. I arrive at a neighboring house and indeed, there are fireworks scattered about. I need fire. There is a sheet made of a mixture of matchsticks, cotton and lumps of tar. But all the matches seem to be spent or have white, squishy heads. A friendly DC hands me a burning match. I think it too dangerous to ignite the whole heap of fireworks, so I only pick one. But where to put it? I panic and drop it to the ground, facing down the street. Some DC sets it upright on its thin wooden stick after I back away. It is going to shoot upwards and ... my memory of this dream fades.

Full dream

I guess there is plenty of time left in this month to get this working. I'll definitely give it another try.

I think i got Advanced II while attempting Advanced I. I thought about the same thing as FryingMan's "only" question when I read the tasks and planned to only go backwards just in case. The one possible variance was floating up (not backwards but not forwards either, just hovering.) I feel I acheived it even with the "only" question, but I do not have a strong opinion on how the tasks should be judged. The creators of the task or Percy/Ophelia can be the judge.

Spoiler for TOTM LD:

This dream starts as an FA in bed trying to closed eye teleport. Eventually the scene forms. I am in a mostly barren scene at first. I think about reality checking and decide to just float up a little bit which seems to also stabilize my dreams by using dream control. I decide to look closely at the few things around me (standing in place and scanning/pivoting) including this wall that seemed like a brick wall with odd shaped bricks each one a different shape...but flat on the surface forming the face of the wall. Possibly flat stones I guess. I am enjoying the details and vividness forming. I remember my plan that I have a piece of gum in the palm of my hand and I grabbed it knowing it would be there and chunk it in my mouth and start chewing. I had planned to make it a fruity bubblicious flavor so I would get the feeling of chewing it, the smell of the gum and the taste of the gum all together but I forgot to think about the flavor before sticking it in my mouth and it had no flavor much like the gum gets after chewing on it for a while. I remember my desire to do the crystal ball task and I also thought about the walking backwards one and I come up with the idea (within the dream) to work on both at the same time...not something I planned ahead of time. I decided I will walk backwards through the scene while expecting to find a crystal ball around each backwards turn. Time to get moving. I start walking backwards and then decide to go in an S-shaped pattern so that I can see what's all around me better. I am NOT finding the crystal ball but I keep telling myself that the next time I turn it will be near me. Perhaps I needed to be more specific about where it would appear exactly. There are different buildings like store fronts around me in. I'm in a large rectangular outdoor courtyard but most of the buildings are on one side of the length of a rectangular shaped courtyard. There are some loud guys towards the other side...down the length of the courtyard in front of the other set of buildings. I continue going in a backwards motion while keeping an eye on them and the scene turns more Western and the building to my left is like a two story saloon with Cowboys all around. The number of DC's has grown significantly and I think it would be fun if each of my hands are guns and I start shooting. The DC's go down but not very realistically and I don't remember seeing any blood. Kind of like playing when you were a kid you pretend that you're shot and fall down. I could see some trajectories of bullets flying out of my hands but it wasn't quite like the feeling of shooting a gun with some kick in it. There are some more Cowboys up on the balcony and I float up and start shooting them and they are falling over the tables and chairs a little more realistically. I think perhaps the saloon is a good place to find the crystal ball but then the dream starts fading and I try to stay in the dream and it seems like I have success for 10 or 20 seconds in the void before feeling myself back in bed.

I had some other lucid moments so I will try to put up my full DJ later.

^^ Awesome dream! I'm starting to feel like: Will I ever get lucid again? Jeez….

Fogelbise
And in my lucid moments I can see that my heart is the weakest part of me.

Originally Posted by FryingMan

^^ Awesome dream! I'm starting to feel like: Will I ever get lucid again? Jeez….

Man, you are going to be lightin' up the cities when you find your full on groove!! I can see it in the groundwork you are laying...you'll be rocketing by. I was starting to wonder similar things during my recent dry streak.

Originally Posted by Sensei

Fogelbise
And in my lucid moments I can see that my heart is the weakest part of me.

I thought I recognized that (lyrics)! And I see you have a new podcast to listen to!

I think the fair thing, since the backwards task DOES say "only," that's what makes it advanced. But if you manage to walk or fly a bit backwards but not for the whole lucid, then you should get basic wings for it.

You guys and Percy can decide, that's just my idea.

Originally Posted by fogelbise

I thought I recognized that (lyrics)! And I see you have a new podcast to listen to!

Yep! Noah and the whale! A bit of a strange band. But I like quite a bit of their stuff. That song is quite... depressing, but interesting.

Ophelia
Indeed, when I thought of the task, I thought it would be challenging because you either have to remember the goal before you move or get lucky. Remembering before you move means that I have to stop when I become lucid. Which is what I do to remember goals. Stop and think.

Originally Posted by fogelbise

Man, you are going to be lightin' up the cities when you find your full on groove!! I can see it in the groundwork you are laying...you'll be rocketing by. I was starting to wonder similar things during my recent dry streak.

Thanks for the kind words. Yes, gotta get my groove on!

Hmm, I guess I'll do the wine task and the crystal ball one. [Shrugs] Assuming I don't have another dry spell.

Managed to do Basic Task II (breaking a dry spell in the process ).

Background story: I read about the tasks yesterday and realised that the wine-drinking task could be used to stabilise the dream environment ("drinking wine from a bottle, will make the dream more stable!") So I decided to do that during my next LD, and reminded myself of this quite a few times over the rest of the day. Luck would have it that the next lucid dream came only a few hours later.

Dream: I raved aimlessly around in a saloon-like room, and became lucid. Immediately I remembered the wine-task and looked around for a bottle. One appeared in my hand while I was looking (dreams can be so accommodating ), and I equally easily got hold of a cork screw.

Unscrewing the cork was quick, but troublesome, as the cork almost split in two during the process. I managed to get it out in one piece, however, and - being the LD wino that I am - started to gulp the wine down. It was red wine, and it tasted like red wine - although rather sweet - and there was an awful lot of it, so drinking it took quite a while. All the while I kept reminding myself of the dream stabilising more and more, the more wine I drank.

During this, various people moved around the saloon, but they did not bother me, and I was only vaguely aware of them. Eventually, the bottle was empty, and a guy came up to me. For some reason, I decided to be an annoying show-off, so I threw the bottle right across the room - making sure that it bounced off of the floor, and a chair, a couple of times, before it fell neatly into a waste bin.

After that I left the saloon, only to find myself chased by a tsunami outside. But there you go: what can you expect after drinking a whole bottle of red wine in one go?

Originally Posted by FryingMan

Thanks for the kind words. Yes, gotta get my groove on!

You and me both

In fact my groove was so bad it made the needle skip on the old record player..
My email notifications just started working again this month so that's a help...Reading on here helps put me in the "Groove" for lucid dreaming where without it I go kinda dormant.
Only the God's of cyberspace know why my email notifications quit until the 6th of every month..

My dream
I did basic task 1 and 2 and advaced task 1.

http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/wind...k-month-63322/

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

I think the fair thing, since the backwards task DOES say "only," that's what makes it advanced. But if you manage to walk or fly a bit backwards but not for the whole lucid, then you should get basic wings for it.

You guys and Percy can decide, that's just my idea.

I agree. I think the whole purpose is to do the whole dream, or task part of the dream backwards, but a small step forward shall not fail the whole task. I think it should be done for a reasonable amount of time on the dream, like taking a whole flight backwards, then you can venture into your next tasks/goals the way you please

Originally Posted by PercyLucid

I agree. I think the whole purpose is to do the whole dream, or task part of the dream backwards, but a small step forward shall not fail the whole task. I think it should be done for a reasonable amount of time on the dream, like taking a whole flight backwards, then you can venture into your next tasks/goals the way you please

Yeah, Just think! If you did the backwards task last you might undo all the other ones you did! Or, if you did it first the rest of your task's would be backwards or, Oh-You know what I mean

Anyways, I almost made it, I was sitting on a curb in the city naked and two hookers in short skirts grabbed my hands from behind and dragged me backwards up a stairs into their lair and molested me

lol wb

woblybil that's just great ahaha!

Still no lucids this week for me : /
I've been trying Calea Z, and have had some really vivid, long dreams, but no lucids yet... still hoping to try for that crystal ball!

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

lol wb

Originally Posted by KestrelKat

woblybil that's just great ahaha!

Yeah, It's getting so it's not even safe to drink beer sitting on the curb naked anymore.

i'm okay. ok

in not on a curb anymore but i'm ok.