Task of the Month for February 2015

**proctree** · 02-21-2015 05:06 PM

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)

**woblybil** · 02-22-2015 05:12 AM

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)

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 !