Thread: Task of the Month for March 2015

Oh, wow. All but one task that I voted for got chosen this is gonna be a fun month. It's like 11 PM here so I'm gonna go to sleep right now and try to do the bonus task. I don't wanna fail at chaining wings, especially not this month.
Good luck all!

EDIT: Damn, I overslept and didn't wake up for WBTB. Doesn't matter, I still have plenty of time. I'll take a nap sometime this afternoon or something.

WOOOO! Second time's a charm I guess. I woke up from a nap a short while ago and I managed to do the bonus task! I was so nervous I wasn't gonna manage to do it. Anyway, here the dream I had:

Spoiler for Dream:

I used a memory of how a graveyard I've been to a while ago in order to V-WILD. This graveyard is where a significant part of the deceased in my family have been buried, and it's the only one which I can vividly recall. The sky was grey and gloomy and the there was a small church to my left. I was standing near the metal gate, the only entry to the cemetery. The graves looked oddly alike. I looked down, and noticed I was barefoot. I walked towards the one of the graves near me. I bent down and picked up a small clump of soil. It was fresh and quite damp. I dropped it and decided to practice my necromancy a bit. I summoned up some sort of reanimation force in my hand. It looked like a small, perfect ball of soil which radiated a murky dark green liquid. The liquid did not obey gravity, but it stayed around the ball somewhat. I punched the ball into the grave and the ground around it started to pulsate. The earth directly over the coffin turned green, and slowly slid off, revealing some sort of stairs. A green and slightly spectral zombie crawled out of the hole, which quickly closed after him.
Since the first reanimation was quite slow, I decided to adopt a different technique. I started shooting multiple necromantic balls throughout the cemetery. The soil started cracking with green energy. I shouted "RISE! RISE!" and looked upwards. When I looked back down, my zombies were climbing through the ground up to the surface. I must've messed with the size of the graveyard or something cause there were THOUSANDS of them. Like a sea of hordes. It was quite a sight.
I tried to order them to attack a building outside the cemetery. by pointing towards it. Surprisingly, they behaved exactly like normal DCs and followed my command. The building itself had a gigantic window which the zombies quickly broke. They started.. flowing into it. If anyone's seen World War Z, it was a bit like that. A bit of blood splashed towards me. I decided to split the horde in order to cover more ground, so I directed them to the main alley. The town I was in was a copy of my grand grand mother's town, so I was quite used to it. They started climbing the fences, and once they did, they started banging on the doors and breaking the windows. I decided to speed things up by TPing in front one of the houses and TK-smashing the door.
I wanted to spread the apocalypse throughout the country, so I concentrated on my zombies and blurred my surroundings. I closed my eyes and TPed all of us into a random city. My horde was already split up, so they went ahead and started eating everyone. Unlike in the countryside, where the loudest things were the zombies, here everyone was screaming and screaming. I watched my zombies for a bit until suddenly, an army platoon rolled in from a sidestreet. I ordered my horde to attack them but lots of them were shot down when they tried to. I decided to take matters into my own hands, so I ripped a bone from a zombie and burned it's flesh off. I jumped right into the middle of the military convoy and started fighting the soldiers. I smashed a couple heads in, then lifted up a tank and threw it at the survivors. More reinforcements came, but by this time my horde had already caught up with me. I and the zombies fought the army pretty much until my dream destabilized and faded away.

Whew! I'm so pumped up. That was hands-down one of the best dreams I've had in months. I KNEW this was gonna be an awesome TOTM. Oh, and just for reference the dream only lasted something like 10 minutes at most, but it was so vivid and intense that I had lots to write about. I love describing and writing down dreams. I have to start up another VILD in a cemetery sometime in the future. The combat felt so real that when I woke up I'm pretty sure my adrenaline was pumping.

Awesome job and awesome world war z dream hehe, well done!

Almost had an attempt at the Bonus Task!
The quality of this lucid was pretty pathetic lol..
~DJ Entry~

Spoiler for Excerpt:

At some point, still in the back yard, I see a bunch of grave stones lying around against a wooden fence. I am reminded of the Bonus TOTM for March. These headstones don't look like they have graves under them. I think about going to an actual cemetery, but that seems like a waste of what my dream has given me. I decide I'll just set these headstones up as if it were a graveyard. I can't recall if I get this done or not. Next thing I remember, I'm walking across a little boardwalk thingy to get to the front yard. And soon after I lose lucidity.

Done!!

Basic and Advanced

Mirror to the world o' jell-o to mirror the dark realm - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

No clipping for me, wohooo!

Spoiler for Dream:

28.02.2015

Mirror to the world o' jell-o to mirror the dark realm (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Been very busy with dentists and literally swamped by readings and healing sessions, I have hours worth of dream in my paper journal and I need to update here... but this one has to come as it is the ToTM!

I was going to some meeting with a friend. It was some sort of meeting to do a banishing ritual in a house, as they had some evil spirits messing up with their lifes and I had to get rid of them. My twim flame was with me to do the work and we were driving to the house. Out of this, I turned lucid because I realized that it was a different car that my own or my twin's, and upon checking my hand, I was able to validate that I was dreaming.

The dream quality was okay, not amazing so I took a flight to bring more quality into it. After flying for a while, I recalled the ToTM so I landed in some suburbian area. Most of the houses were brown and white with small bushes and cacti as their front yards. I went to the house I had the closest to me. I opened the door (I believe it was like an indoors door, a regular door to a bedroom) and luckily, I was able to open it with no issues apparently going on.

Inside the house, there was a small dog, who apparently was super happy to see me. The house did not have a lot of furniture, but it did have a x-mas tree and a lot of crystals, mainly quartz. I went to a couple rooms to find no one, but furniture. The house looked like one of those model homes that you can see when you want to buy a new house, as each room was featured with one theme and it was spotless and lifeless.

Satisfied with the basic done, I looked for the bathroom (I believe there was a mirror in one of the bedrooms but did not think of it.) I placed myself in front of the mirror and pushed it with my hands and head. At first nothing happened, but then it felt like jell-o and it started to move in an odd way. I started to fly through it and I got inside of the mirror. Everything was super blurry and wavy and I almost woke up. After a while, I was in another room, said room was very old, dusty and very dark, even though I could see fine. There was a huge wardrobe that had one old school creepy mirror:



Much more creepier and very dusty but can't find a better one. This whole world was made of jell-o as all the stuff was waivy. I thought of exiting the house as it would be cool to see the world I was in, but I decided to go through the creepy mirror once more. I was able to easily get inside this one and I was in a void of nothingness... all darkness, I could feel wind in my face, as now I was flying, but it was all blackness until I woke up.

Man, you guys are quick! I think I'll try some breaking-and-entering this month . . . .

Good luck folks!!!

Good luck all!
February was a hellish month for dreams but I did get lucid last night, so hopefully March will offer some nice chances to get lucid!
But there's no hope for my wings I think lol

Bye bye wings, see you again soon hopefully!

Mirrors are my dream home..And putting DC's into compromising positions is my best piece of work...... Here we go again FM

Ok, I see at least one of these I can do (at least that is what I'm saying now). Let's do this!

I'm going to try some of the tasks this night. They're great this month (especially bonus)!

Yes these look interesting this month! I thought the "compromising position" one would get woblybil's attention . Tally-Ho(e)!

I DID THE MIRROR TASK! YEAH!

CLICK HERE: http://www.dreamviews.com/intro-clas...ml#post2150023

So far I have found that lurking behind the ladies room mirror waiting for them does not work!
(but it was a good idea, I'll try it again)

I was preparing my dream incubation for a mirror task. I tried also MILD and short WBTB, but all I can recall from the night is a short fragment about school. Maybe I'll try the bonus task tonight.

Well after 2 failed attempts, I got a basic one done. The dream was not nearly as cool as I would have hoped but done none the less. Very excited about the mirror one this month, this is something I have been trying to do for a bit now. Even more motivation to get it done.

Spoiler for Entering a House:

It was night and in my mind it was really late like everyone should be sleeping late. I found a little neighborhood with some smaller houses very close to where I was, I was reminding myself to remain calm. I went into the first one I could get to and as I was entering I was trying to think of something weird that the people inside might be doing. Along with that there was a worry that no one would be in the house. I went into the first bedroom to find no one, then the second bedroom to find no one, at this point I was a little erratic and panicky, in the last bedroom I was really focusing on there being someone in bed. I entered the last room and there were people in the bed. I went up to the beds and it was a small figure, a kid and the kids was made of like a grey and black marble. I am not sure if the kids were real or slept through me doing this but I picked them both up and they remained in their sleeping poses, I even made some weird shrill noise when I picked them up to try to startle them awake.

Where?............Where is everybody?

asleep ... trying to burglarize houses ...

…and cutting a guy's throat who wouldn't die, watching robots practice knife throwing, walking in on people doing it, and trying to catch a 20-foot hovering catfish. Just non-lucid, is all…

Originally Posted by PercyLucid

Basic Task i - Take a pill/potion that will reveal the ultimate truth to you. Describe the effects. (~Dreamer~)

This one looks like a really fun task to do! Describing ultimate truth correctly might be a little tricky, but we'll see how it goes :-)

Partial success on one of the advanced tasks. Unfortunately I only remembered to do the first step! Full dream: "Freeze!"

Spoiler for Portion relevant to TOTM::

As the conversation continues, I suddenly notice: hey, I'm in a room with DCs, this would be a perfect opportunity to try the "freeze" TOTM. I mean, okay, there's only two of them, but we are in a room, so that should qualify as a "roomful."

"Freeze!" I say suddenly, interrupting whatever else we were talking about. The girls stare at me with looks that say "WTF." They're still moving normally, so I issue the command again, attempting to focus my will by tensing my body. That doesn't work either, and I realize that I have the wrong approach. I need to be focusing my mind, not my body. "Freeeeeze," I say cajolingly, drawing out the word. At this point they do stop moving, but I have the impression that they're just playing along. I decide to try the narration technique. "Your body feels so heavy, you can't move. You're paralyzed, like when you sleep." That reminds me, of course we're not completely paralyzed when we sleep, and I'd better not kill them by overdoing it. I hastily add, "You can breathe, of course, just like when you're sleeping."

The girls seem to be complying now, so I study them closely to be sure. I also remember that I should take conscious note of their names, which I had instinctively known earlier in the dream but had almost forgotten on going lucid. The smaller one on the left, with the dark hair... I think back and all I can come up with is "Calm." It sounds odd, but that's the only name that I remember for her. The plumper girl on the right, a blonde, I know for sure is called "Amy."

The smaller girl seems completely comatose now. I lift her arm and drop it, and it falls with satisfying limpness. The larger girl is also lying still, but I get the impression she's just pretending: one of her arms is in a position that could only be maintained by exerting muscle control. I lift it and it is stiff in my grasp.

Then I realize I'm going about this all wrong. I try to remember the specifics of the TOTM. Was I just supposed to freeze them in place, or was there something about actually stopping time? I can't clearly remember the wording. I decide I'd better try the latter in any case, it might work better—and I won't have to worry about the girls accidentally suffocating if time itself has stopped.

"Freeze!" I shout, now indicating not only the two of them but the whole environment, with only myself as an exception. I find that the logical impossibility of this trouble me: if I continue moving normally, then in what sense can time itself be said to have stopped? It doesn't make any sense. I remind myself that this is a dream, and I'm not obliged to work out the physics of it. I look at Amy to see if my new strategy has resulted in any improvement. No, although she is lying quite still, and her arm looks properly limp now, she's actually tapping the fingers of one hand.

"Freeze!" I shout again, looking directly at her hand. Still tapping. "Freeze!" I yell, glaring at the hand. Tap... tap... tap. "Freeze!" I insist, mustering all my intent. The hand finally goes limp. It occurs to me that at some point I'm going to need to write all this up, and the thought wakes me.

Forgive meeeeeeeeeeee... worked 7 days straight and I'm really just fekking tired. Off tomorrow for the dewinging. Finally.

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Forgive meeeeeeeeeeee... worked 7 days straight and I'm really just fekking tired. Off tomorrow for the dewinging. Finally.

Thats ok, I been flying low just in case

Yesterday, I got on this thread and started making a post about how long it had been since I had done a Task of the Month, and how much I liked doing the tasks, and how I used to be so good at saying, "I should do the task tonight" and I would get lucid that night and do the task. And how that never happened anymore. How I was on a horrible dry spell.

Anyway, I got interrupted and never posted that post.

But something must have clicked in my brain, because last night I did get lucid and had the longest LD I have had in over a year. And one of the things I was able to accomplish was the Basic Task ii.

Here is my experience:

..........After doing this for some time, I decided that my dream was going to last long enough to do a Task of the Month. I thought I would start with the easiest one--walk into a random house and describe what was inside.

I now found myself next to some apartments. I saw a door near me on the ground floor. For a second I felt a little timid. But I told myself that it was just a dream and that it didn't matter. So I turned the doorknob and boldly walked through the door. I found myself in a small living room. There were several couches that were full of people....several older Navajo women and quite a few children. One of the ladies saw me and good naturedly joked how surprised I must be about walking into a house full of brown children. But I decided to act like it was no mistake at all. I smiled and , "Hi, how are all of you doing.?" And I smiled down at one of the children that was standing near me and asked her a question. I was able to put everyone at ease. We talked a few minutes. I don't remember details of the conversation. But by the time I left, we all felt happy.

I then found myself in what looked like an alley. There were more doors in a building next to me. I decided to do this again. This time as I opened the door I found myself in an old motel room. In front of me sitting on the edge of a bed was woman who looked to be in her 60s and was either Navajo or Mexican. She was smoking something. I tried to talk to her, but I soon saw that she was totally out of it. She never made eye contact or responded to me in any way. She looked quite messed up. I also noticed that there was some kind of white plastic thing in one of her nostrils.

I kind of got the creeps just being with her, and I knew that we wouldn't be having any sort of conversation, so I left......................


Anyway, I feel like it was good luck to try to post my intentions yesterday even though I never actually posted.

So we will try this again. Tonight I will have another LD, and this time I will do the Mirror Portal task. I have had such mixed luck with that in the past. But I need to have some positive experiences with it so my brain starts trusting mirrors again.