Thread: Task of the Month for January 2015

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.