Task of the Month for February 2015

^^ I think you're the first person whom I've ever seen reporting doing that RC. I try it on occasion when awake but have never tried it in a dream. One of these LDs I'm just going to run through every single RC I can think of. I've only ever done nose pinch (my standard), hand check (just out of curiosity, and they were WEIRD), and finger through palm (also just for fun, it went through, the hand was like stiff rubber). Oh actually I did jump gravity test once and it helped me get lucid when nose pinch was ambiguous (which is rare).

I tried it once after I was already lucid, also just out of curiosity, but I DID see the side of my nose. So it might have not helped me get lucid if I had tried it as a RC. But like with all RCs, some work for some people better than others. It's that awareness that does it the best I believe.

I accomplished BT 1!

Spoiler for DJ Excerpt:

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Unfortunately, I didn't get to experience much more fun as a dog, because I woke up. However, right before I did, (and I knew I was waking up soon), I remembered about the task of the month. I very quickly grabbed a green rubber toy crocodile from one of the storage boxes and set it down on the ground. I assumed it was sentient, so it was. While it was looking away, I scratched it across the side of its snout, and then as it looked back, I pointed to my friend and said, "He did it!" He looked at me incredulously and said, "What??" I knew it wasn't much, but it would have to do.

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2/19
5:00pm A lucid nap.......
I was naked in a hospital sort of bathroom peeing in the shower which had women's underwear hanging around in it and the shower was sprinkling all over and would not shut off so I got in and tried to close the curtain but could not stop it from spraying outside and it got in my eyes and I couldn't open them and a nurse tried to help me open them and they opened to an other world dreamscape where I knew I was lucid dreaming but then the nurse and the room were gone, I tried to remember a task but all I could come up with was the valentine one I had already done and I changed the picture several times before deciding I was wasting the entire dream trying and went looking for a girl to wreck and was having an awful time stabilizing then it all went to grey scale and I woke up....

Haha! I hate stressful bathroom dreams..

Just woke up from a short nap. Finished advanced II! First time I've ever managed one of these.

Spoiler for Dream excerpt:

So, I began the dream by the lake I was visualizing prior to falling asleep. I stared at the sky for a couple seconds, waiting for the dream to transition from visualization to true lucid dream. I looked behind me to check that I wasn't the one building the dream anymore, and I found a brown bear charging at me, full-speed. Convinced that I'm no longer just visualizing, I tumbled out of the way and TK-snapped his neck. He started rolling towards the lake and I looked behind me again, only to find about 10 more bears literally rolling down the hill. I flew out of their way and decided to attempt the TOTM. I started flying in a random direction, thinking about the city and a candy shop, but all I saw was just lots and lots of tundra. I decided to just TP and closed my eyes. When I opened them, I was inside a cartoony candy shop. Everything was pink, and cotton candy lined the walls. It was the most stereotypical candy shop I could ever think of. Behind the counter was a fat old man with a white apron on. I didn't notice anything weird about him at the time but thinking back his face was.. distorted. He had a really wide, really creepy smile on and he didn't have eyes. He had eye sockets, but his eyes were not even black, it was as if the space inside his eye sockets didn't even exist. He had this big bowl full o' candies on the counter. I walked up to him and I noticed I was suddenly much shorter than normal. I willed myself back to full size and asked him for the weirdest candy he has. He walked to the supply room and I followed. He pulled out a large piece of pink chewing gum(like, 4 feet by 2 feet) and gave it to me. I took a bite out of it and I noticed it didn't really have a taste. My tongue suddenly got smaller and the chewing gum started moving. I spit out roaches. As in, bugs. It didn't really disgust me, but it was quite creepy. I punched the weird smiling guy and he started bleeding roaches. Everywhere, roaches. I flew out the shop and just threw fire balls everywhere. By this point, roaches were already crawling from every possible crevice inside the shop. I incinerated the whole place and just flew away. I spent the rest of the dream randomly flying around until I woke up.

Typing this up, it really seems like a nightmare, but the dream actually felt ok and under control at all times. I would've wished for a better LD for my first TOTM but, oh well.

I should probably clarify, I din't have a phobia of bugs, but my dreams really like to get obssesive(1 bear rolling down the mountain -> 10 bears rolling down the mountain)

Oh my! That was an entertaining read.. Freakin' creepy roaches man! Bleh.. I would be so disgusted lmao.
And the bears rolling downhill at you = Bahahaa!!!:cackle:

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Typing this up, it really seems like a nightmare, but the dream actually felt ok and under control at all times. I would've wished for a better LD for my first TOTM but, oh well.

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Better LD?? Seems like a pretty dang good one to me :cheeky:
Great job on remaining calm throughout the freakyness

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Originally Posted by proctree

Just woke up from a short nap. Finished advanced II! First time I've ever managed one of these.

Spoiler for Dream excerpt:

So, I began the dream by the lake I was visualizing prior to falling asleep. I stared at the sky for a couple seconds, waiting for the dream to transition from visualization to true lucid dream. I looked behind me to check that I wasn't the one building the dream anymore, and I found a brown bear charging at me, full-speed. Convinced that I'm no longer just visualizing, I tumbled out of the way and TK-snapped his neck. He started rolling towards the lake and I looked behind me again, only to find about 10 more bears literally rolling down the hill. I flew out of their way and decided to attempt the TOTM. I started flying in a random direction, thinking about the city and a candy shop, but all I saw was just lots and lots of tundra. I decided to just TP and closed my eyes. When I opened them, I was inside a cartoony candy shop. Everything was pink, and cotton candy lined the walls. It was the most stereotypical candy shop I could ever think of. Behind the counter was a fat old man with a white apron on. I didn't notice anything weird about him at the time but thinking back his face was.. distorted. He had a really wide, really creepy smile on and he didn't have eyes. He had eye sockets, but his eyes were not even black, it was as if the space inside his eye sockets didn't even exist. He had this big bowl full o' candies on the counter. I walked up to him and I noticed I was suddenly much shorter than normal. I willed myself back to full size and asked him for the weirdest candy he has. He walked to the supply room and I followed. He pulled out a large piece of pink chewing gum(like, 4 feet by 2 feet) and gave it to me. I took a bite out of it and I noticed it didn't really have a taste. My tongue suddenly got smaller and the chewing gum started moving. I spit out roaches. As in, bugs. It didn't really disgust me, but it was quite creepy. I punched the weird smiling guy and he started bleeding roaches. Everywhere, roaches. I flew out the shop and just threw fire balls everywhere. By this point, roaches were already crawling from every possible crevice inside the shop. I incinerated the whole place and just flew away. I spent the rest of the dream randomly flying around until I woke up.

Typing this up, it really seems like a nightmare, but the dream actually felt ok and under control at all times. I would've wished for a better LD for my first TOTM but, oh well.

I should probably clarify, I din't have a phobia of bugs, but my dreams really like to get obssesive(1 bear rolling down the mountain -> 10 bears rolling down the mountain)

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You did better than me going from a well developed dream story to a task.. If the story doesn't present a chance to do a task I'm usually screwed !

Basic ii Valentine card complete :):

Spoiler for Task:

It's a bright day and I am on a very distorted version of my old street. I immediately recognize it's a dream (awareness, no trigger). There is a middle aged woman with colorful knitted clothes and I remember the valentine card task. Very aggressively and without saying anything, I expect her to produce a card for me. She holds a number of items like banknotes, little pieces of paper, etc, that I browse but nothing looks like a V-card. Disappointed, I leave her and go down the street where I see bf and one of our friends. They look invitingly at me and I quickly go to where they are and ask bf if he has a V card for me. Alas, he coldly cuts me off "No." I think about how my expectations could have influenced his answer.

Bf and the other guy continue down the street. I catch up and try again "Are you sure you don't have a V card for me? I clearly remember you were carrying one!" This seems to do the trick and he hands me the V card. I examine it to see it has a number of Chinese characters on top and some almost normal words below them. There are a few love related words that are arranged like a short poem. As I try to read the words keep changing. I even hold the card from a distance to see if this would make a difference. I remember our brain actually doesn't need to read the entire word to make out the meaning.

Bf is still here and I say to him while wondering if he could possibly be dreaming too. "The words keep changing, see? Do you know why that is? It is because it's a dream."

I wake up.

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Originally Posted by NyxCC

I examine it to see it has a number of Chinese characters on top and some almost normal words below them. There are a few love related words that are arranged like a short poem.

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Was it Doodle Toss? It's a pretty popular poem these days.

Also congrats on the TOTMs!! :mrgreen:

Lol, that^^ was hilarious. I think I even had some short nld about it after your dream. :chuckle:

I wasn't even going to write this up but it was too silly not to.

02/23
2:00am I was in a strange unfinished attic room in in an abandon house in the woods and I had just closed the curtains and started to lay down on a bed when I heard rustling noises in the house below and thought "Bears" I didnt want to be bothered by them so I went over to the screen door on the room and picked up something and began slapping the wall with it to frighten them off. Then I noticed the end wall of the room was gone so I went out to look and there was a dreamscape of tall, brown grasses outside and thought "Oh-Boy.....A lucid dream". The rustling continued and I heard whispering from the grasses saying, "The mouses, The mouses, Oh-The mouses" Instead of trying to spin out to better scenes my curiosity got the best of me and I floated out to the edge of the grasses and the whispering continued "The mouses,The mouses" and looking out thru some bushes past the grasses I saw a large brown and white bird patrolling a dusty trail and thought of "Kestrel"... But it was too big for a Kestrel so I wondered maybe a large hawk? I watched for awhile as the rustling and whispering continued then abruptly woke up with no chance even to try to keep the dream going.. I lay very still trying to recall maybe how I had gotten to the beginning and what the rustling noise could have been and even tried a mantra but could hear only the refrigerator in the kitchen.. Then :P
I heard the silly cat rustling in her sand box full of new litter in the bathroom.
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Better late than never. Tried to complete basic task. I haven't did anything naughty, but DC blamed it into a person I pointed. Also summoned a storm, but when I was close I couldn't fly higher to reach it. Would it count?

ToTM and a bunch of non lucids - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

4 more days to month end, are you guys ready to chain them wings? :flyaway:

Voting for March is live in the lucid task club for those who have completed this month's tasks:

http://www.dreamviews.com/lucid-task...ng-thread.html

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Better late than never. Tried to complete basic task. I haven't did anything naughty, but DC blamed it into a person I pointed. Also summoned a storm, but when I was close I couldn't fly higher to reach it. Would it count?

ToTM and a bunch of non lucids - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

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Still counts as basic, since you summoned the storm at least. Congrats!

Great job guys!!!

Those who have completed the ToTM, remember to vote for March's tasks in the Lucid Club! And those who have yet to complete it (and of course, those who completed it also) remember to make suggestions for future ToTM!! Your suggestion could be picked up and become a future ToTM!

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Next month voting will open on the 20th, which I will notify when the day comes of course!

I was on the couch sleeping and completed the Basic ii

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I walked down the sidewalk, towards the mailbox (which I couldn't see yet and which doesn't exist irl anyway, because we have those stupid group mailboxes on every block like they do now in alot of neighborhoods). I was thinking of the valentine card totm. I got to the end of the sidewalk, fully expecting to feel for a mailbox, blind or not, when I got some vision back. It was super sunny. I looked all directions but saw nothing, then when I turned around, I couldn't see any houses at all lol. Then I turned around again, and saw a little house that could count as mine. So I walked up to the porch and had a hard time seeing again. I felt along the wall by the door, thinking to myself "I know that mailbox is right about HERE" and then I found one of those little mailboxes that you hang on the wall. I reached inside and felt a few things in a stack. The first was a letter and the rest were poofy pink and red heart stickers. On the outside of the letter, it was written in pencil and clearly a child's handwriting. It was alot of letters, but it didn't make up any words. I opened it and inside was a little valentine cartoon comic. The first frame was a purple hippo, pointing to the right. The caption underneath said "The shortest time pointing ever!" The last frame was a pink dog with little red hearts all around his head, like he was in love with the purple hippo or something. Then it said "Happy Valentine's Day," but no signature.

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Whole dream.

Awww, that's so cute! :smitten: Congrats!

Hello everyone, I did the basic task 2! My first one ever 😁
This is what happened:
I woke up, after a previous dream in the same setting, on my parents' bed
in my old house, thinking "if I'm in my old house it must be a dream!" And it was!
So I thought about the task. There was nobody to ask a Valentine card. So I walked in
my old room. I turned around expecting to find a cute blond guy that would be so nice
to give me a V-card. But I just saw a shape of a person, no one there. Whatevs.
I started walking around in my panties to the rhythm of "Stayin' alive", moving to the beat.
Legit dream action.. Everything was so solid and realistic, it is the first time
that I have such a lucid dream. Then I went into the dining room and found a guy with
the largest shoulders. I asked him if he could give me a V-card and sat on his lap like a little
girl to convince him saying "pls pls pls!!" He fake gave me a card, I knew he had nothing
in his hand. But I expected so hard to find a card in my hand so I did. It was a very small one
and there were two lists of words on each side of the card. One in pink and the other in grey.
I tried to remember as much as I could. They didn't seem to have a connection:
girl, babe, Carlotta (the name of one of my old friends), castle, nose..
What a weird Valentine card.. 😪

Hope it counts!

I've been very busy to post my dream from weeks ago!! but here it is before the month finishes:

It all began with the tsunami, my dream indicator. I stopped it and changed the dream scene. Next thing I'm doing is that I'm walking by the side of a nice river. I wasted my lucid time in things like putting my hands into the water and feeling the coolness of it... then I found a coin inside the river, took it to analize it closely and it was funny to see how my brain was mananing to create a 3D coin, the back of the coin was somehow overlapped with the number I usually see at the front of it, the letters were appearing and dissapearing also. I tried to remember the tasks but it took time... then I saw a couple of girls sitting over some rocks and I asked one of them "do you have a V-card for me?", she looked at me for a moment and then took the card from under her butt, lol. It was a plain white envelope. I opened it and the title disappeared before I had time to read it. It was very difficult to read because the letters kept changing without making any coherent sentence... that despaired me. I threw it away and kept walking until I reached a market on the street, there was a women selling some beautiful skirts. I told to myself "well, this is a dream, I'll take one of them without paying for it", so I put it on and walked away while the woman from the stall looked at me with disbelief.

Hey guys, had these nice lucids a while back but haven't had the time to translate them because of school! Anyway lucidity is always a priority too!! :)

Spoiler for Advanced II:

So I had a DILD after a WBTW, fell asleep using simple affirmations. This time I was really surprised I was dreaming, once lucid the feeling of freedom was awesome!

Headed out of the house, flying, while stabilizing the dream. Everything looked like real life except there was a school that's not there... Headed to the school to mess with some high school students but remembered the storm task! I landed right in front of the school in an immense field (when the dream started it was daytime but now it was night time for some reason), opened my arms with my palms facing upward just knowing that I was going to feel rain. And I did, I started to feel rain! It felt super real and then I just started to "know" it was going to get stronger and stronger until it turned into a hurricane. And it did! I started hearing really strong storm noises, heavy rain, lightning and all that stuff; I also started to feel it and the strong wind was literally just dragging me around in the air.

At this moment I just started to feel irrational fear. Because of those strong emotions I lost all my visuals (because I was so scared of my own creation), but I was still feeling and hearing everything... The wind just pushing me at high speed in the air and my belly feeling all weird, it was awesome!

I then stabilized and wanted to mess around with some girls from that high school to celebrate but I woke up... haha

Spoiler for Advanced I:

I flew out of my window in an OBE style lucid and began searching for a candy shop!
I looked for about two minutes without finding anything, only one thing looked like it could be a candy shop but it turned out to be a movie theater (the ticket buying area).

Anyway I kept flying until I found a Pirate themed candy shop! It looked really cool and there was a very manly, pirate looking guy at the cash register. I asked him for the weirdest candy and he just looked at me not saying a word and then kept talking to another customer. I was like "what the...?" Haha so I asked another dude who was also behind the employee area but he was working with a computer. This one at least listened to me and said "sure thing, man". But the dude took a candy out of a box and then he just placed it there before giving it to me... right by the box, really far from me (in the employees-only area).
I went like "comee onnn" and hopped the counter into the employees area and took the candy myself.

It turned out to be a citrus flavor taffy-like candy that never ended, I kept chewing it and chewing and I could never completely swallow it, to the point it was kinda uncomfortable... Haha it was weird!

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Originally Posted by PRtitohp5

I asked him for the weirdest candy and he just looked at me not saying a word and then kept talking to another customer. I was like "what the...?" Haha so I asked another dude who was also behind the employee area but he was working with a computer. This one at least listened to me and said "sure thing, man". But the dude took a candy out of a box and then he just placed it there before giving it to me... right by the box, really far from me (in the employees-only area).
I went like "comee onnn" and hopped the counter into the employees area and took the candy myself.

It turned out to be a citrus flavor taffy-like candy that never ended, I kept chewing it and chewing and I could never completely swallow it, to the point it was kinda uncomfortable... Haha it was weird!

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Oh wow, those guys were super uncooperative and rude lmao
I love what your candy turned out like! Sounds yummy, even if a little annoying lol

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Originally Posted by blobularwindmil

I love what your candy turned out like! Sounds yummy, even if a little annoying lol

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Yeah! It was yummy, definitely. It just never ended!! Haha, I know that might be the perfect candy for some people but I wanted to try some other stuff around the pirate themed candy shop! (I woke up before I could)

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Sure is quiet out here.


We need a "Waiting" Smiley...

Yeah, last quarter has been terrible for TOTM for me. Dreaming's been mostly really great, increasing vividness & recall, but lucidity either short-iived or low awareness or dominated by caveman, and too infrequent to get in more attempts. I almost always make at least basic when I remember it, but last time I got sufficiently aware I couldn't remember the tasks and just moved on.