Task of the Month for July 2015

[PercyLucid]

NEW: Do you have a Task of the Month suggestion that you would love to get chosen? Now you have the chance to suggest new tasks of the month by clicking the Future Task of the Month Suggestion Thread. If you complete a current TOTM, you will be able to vote on suggestions for the next month! Introduction: This topic is for the Lucid Tasks that are assigned by the Lucid Task Club and the On-Topic Administrator. Please attempt any or all of these tasks throughout the month. Report back in this thread, even if you didn't successfully accomplish the task. Your efforts should make interesting reading! This is required in order to get credit, it is no longer sufficient just to say that you did it. When you complete a task: go to your control panel, then to permission groups, and request to be in the group that applies to the task that you've done: either a basic or an advanced or both (specify in the description field if it was the bonus task). Of course you still need to post the dream here because we check. Whoever completes any of these tasks gets the following goodies until the end of the month: Your name will be displayed in ORANGE in the online members list at the bottom of the main forum page. You will receive a special title and badge. You will receive access to the "Lucid Task Club" which is a limited access forum for people that complete a lucid task each month. Members of this club can vote for submitted suggestions for the next month's tasks. Access to the Lucid Task Club will also grant you early access to the next month's tasks, giving you a 2-3 day window to keep your wings for the following month. Tasks for this month: Basic Task i - Plant a mysterious seed and see what grows! (RavenOfShadow) Basic Task ii - Find a 5-star restaurant and eat the food there. (AnotherDreamer) Advanced Task i - Clone yourself, and then do something to/with your clone. Bonus if you can get both perspectives at the same time. (spellbee2) Advanced Task ii - Have a conversation with something inanimate that doesn't normally produce sound (no phones, stereos, etc.) Books, tables, bottles, and toilets are acceptable. (ThreeCat) BONUS TASK!! - Dive into a painting and explore a world made entirely of paint. (Dreamer)

[PercyLucid]

Have fun... This month I won't be able to do the Bonus, sadly. since this is something I did already, but to inspire all of you, here is that awesome dream, where I had to dive into a painting (you can scroll to the Mona Lisa to read the portrait part) Spoiler for Carving pumpkins, playing made up instruments, fighting a dragon, visiting the zoo and finding Dreamer after several secret theaters: 07.10.2014 Carving pumpkins, playing made up instruments, fighting a dragon, visiting the zoo and finding Dreamer after several secret theaters (DILD) NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID This is probably one of the longest lucids in my life (well, I cannot remember when I was a children, but as a grown up probably it is, plus I made so many challenges tonight that I can feel them vanishing from my memories, so I got into my PC, giving up my last hour to sleep to write this whole thing down. I have been through a minor dry spell of lucids and good recall as I had some very busy days. Yesyterday, Monday the 6th of October 2014 I had the day starting pretty bad, but it had a great ending and I felt today was gonna be a good day, so I wanted to start the day awesomely with a nice lucid. I woke up at 5am and I had memories of a dream (now, with this mega-dream is totally forgotten) and I felt too tired to write it down. I went to the bathroom and then it was very hard for me to fall back asleep (this is not normal, I usually fall asleep fast.) I layed on my back to meditate (since I could not sleep) and I ended up falling asleep. I believe this lucid might have lasted about 1h 30 minutes, as I woke up from it at 7am. I do not even recall very well the non lucid part with this dream. I have vague memories of being with a friend, who was male and I believe we either were going to meditate or we were going to look for our wives. It was afternoon and it was sunny. We were in a park somewhere and we were about to go to an apartment and have a couple drinks, I believe until our wives met with us. As we were talking, I told him that I felt weird like if I was in a dream, like I did not feel awake. He started to laugh and I rose my hands. I had six fingers on each hand and no thumbs. Where the thumb was supposed to be I had a very long finger (over than one feet long) and told him, "See! I am dreaming!" I right away started to fly away from him. The dream quality was very high and I realized I was in the suburbs of some town. It was day and the air felt very clean. There was not a single cloud on the sky and I felt happy to have broken the dry spell I had. I immediately recalled I needed to get the ToTM done and so I would collect my wings, and then, I planned to get as many dares as I could also, I wanted to break my record. I recalled the first one opening a pumpkin and finding what was inside (which ended up being one of the tasks) so I saw a big house with a massive backyard (it was about 30 yards wide) and a lot of pumpkins (also pretty big.) So I floated and landed in the garden. I glided towards the pumpkins and pulled a carving knife out from my pocket (lucky me!) The pumpkin looked better than this, pretty much perfect and it was standing. As I approached it and carved the top of it, it was loaded with sour strips, different sour candy, some chewing gum and I believe I saw a mithrill vest from the lord of the rings. Even though I saw that, I felt that opening the pumpkin was good enough and wanted to get done other tasks (I did not remember that trying on a costume was another ToTM.) I heard some voices approaching at me and I figured I could do another ToTM, which it was doing trick or treat to the people living in that house (which ended up not being one of the ToTM.) So, I glided silently behind one old woman that was looking where the noise came from and I roared like a vampire. I believe I might had even vamp teeth as she freaked out for a few seconds, but then I announced "Trick or treat!" as I landed again on the ground. The lady started to laugh and to look at me with a smile and she started walking to her house. I followed her, now walking, to collect my treat. There was also an old man at the house asking what was going on. As she collected the treats (some similar candies as I found inside the pumpkin earlier) I was able to spot a goblet sitting on an altar with two candles: I figured it would have blood and I would accomplish one of the Advanced tasks of the month (which ended up being another basic task.) I found funny that my dream put that inside this house and if I would not be lucid, I would find these old couple to be very weird, lol. So I just entered the house, and I believe that this old couple was outside, they were okay with me entering the house. I approached at the Goblet and looked inside. Yep, it was blood indeed and I found also some blood over the altar. I just took a sip and it tasted pretty much like blood taste. I did not feel any effects and I was glad about it, but since it was another ToTM I went ahead and celebrated I succeeded at it. From here, I recalled that I needed to confront my greatest fear through summoning a boggart. I did not feel like doing this, for some reason I felt this could threaten my dream and provide premature awakening, so I passed on this. Since I felt I did accomplish already one advanced task, I was happy (lucky me I completed the bonus, or I would be wearing only one pair of wings...) and I focused on the last ToTM. I recalled it was a bonus tasks to play a made up instrument that does not exist in waking life. I saw laying on the ground like a large semi-transparent stick, made out of plastic. I grabbed it and pretended it was a flute, but the noise it made it was like when you try to blow air through a stick! I figured that was way too lame for a bonus task and I could do better, so I went ahead to the old man and asking him, "Can you please show me an instrument that does not exist in waking life, please?" He smiled and said, sure thing! He walked me towards the front deck of the house where he had a small portable kitchen. He turned on the fire and placed a brass bowl on the fire, filling it up with water. From here, he got some of these lab tubs and placed them inside the bowl. All the tubes were standing (despite they were placed in a bowl) and the tubes had different heights. Suddenly, after a small while, vapor started to come out from the tubes, but some tubes would release a denser vapor than others and all these had different tones of white and gray. The old man told me to start blowing through one of the handles on the brass bowl. I figured I would not burn myself. As I started blowing, I could hear some music, but it was a mix of the noises that a boat makes (just not as loud) plus the noise from a harmonica and then I believe from a bag pipe. It was some instrument alright, weird indeed but I was able to pull it off!! I still had a huge quality of the dream, so I wanted to get some dares also and hit the jackpot. First of all, I wanted to get an easy one done, since I did it on the past, so I went ahead and laid down in bed to WILD within a lucid dream in order to accomplish (Induce a dream within a dream, Inception style (Maxis) ) As I laid down, I felt the dream fading fast, but I focused in just going into a deeper layer of a lucid dream, which I successfully did. I heard some nature sounds but I had no vision, so I demanded for vision. After a while, it came back successfully completing one dare. With this dare done, I recalled that I wanted to look for the blue room that I visited back in 2011 with Dreamer. (Revisit the blue room where you first met me in your dream (early 2011.) Get me to show you how I draw portals with my finger, then jump through with me and see where it takes us! (Dreamer) ) So I started to look for a way to do this, I noticed I was with my wife and she was acting like hypnotized, she was pretty much motionless and not talking. So I told her to wake up and give me some conversation. We were now in downtown, probably appeared there after from inducing a dream within a dream, so I started to look for a portal or maybe attempt to make one and see where it took me. I heard people crying and screaming and I saw a huge red dragon: I also recalled that I had to defeat a dragon for one of the anyone lucid dares (which ended up not being one neither) so I glided to the dragon and landed in front of me. He appeared to call down for some reason. I had no clue how was I going to defeat the dragon, so I hopped I had kinetic powers in my dream. I just pointed at him with the palm of my hands and he crashed in another building, roaring in pain and falling to the ground. From there, I believe it either vanished or turned into ashes... some dragon that was... what a disappointment! I told my wife that the dragon was lame and that I wanted to visit the zoo (Visit a zoo and describe the kinds of animals you come across. (That should be easy but I'm hoping you stumble across interesting or new species ~ NyxCC) I started to walk around downtown and got inside a shopping mall, as for some reason, I felt that I could find a zoo in there. The shopping mall was deserted and there were no people around. I saw a small white building that had a big panel on the top of it that was decorated like if it was a rainforest and I hopped for it to be a zoo. Tough luck, it was not. It was a pet food store that had the appearance of a zoo in order to attract customers. So big bum! I floated high as I figured I could see the zoo from the high and just fly to it. I found no zoo and I realize this whole downtown was just an island. I also saw that the waves were extremely strong, hitting the beaches entirely and creating small Tsunamis. I felt that something was very wrong with this island and felt I was loosing control of my dream. I saw the waves getting bigger until a massive wave covered my head to the point of seeing the light of the sun to vanish. A few seconds later, I saw all darkness and I could hear some noises of people, but did not see a thing. I also felt my body in bed and I knew I was on the verge of waking up. I started to focus on the dream itself and focus on the sound that people was making in order to anchor back in the dream. I then tried very hard to open my eyes, monitoring if the sounds vanished or got louder (waking vs going deeper in the dream) and I started to see day light, so I was happy as I was still dreaming. I was standing in the middle of the road and right behind me, there was a white bus, which was parked. I had a good feeling and I walked behind the bus to find this: I was like, "Awesomeness." That tile wave ported me there. I entered the zoo and recalled I would have no problems at all since it was free (it is the Chicago one that is free, I mixed both) I saw some people monitoring the entrance and we needed to walk through a small machine with a ton of LED lights and a small monochrome screen. I could see a lot of data being stored in there, including my weight and psychic gifts. I figured that since it was free, we were going to get spammed big time on our e-mails at a later time. The zoo here was indoors and I found mainly lizards. But these lizards looked weird, as they were purple and they had several legs. I also noticed some hens walking around where other people was and I could spot feathers and poop on the floor. There were a lot of people selling stuff and trying to get my attention, but I just keep focusing on the zoo to finish my task properly. I also saw a sheep, but instead of its white fuzzy appearance, it had the skin of an elephant. What a twisted blend my mind was making. I felt that was good enough of a zoo visit (I am not a huge fan of zoos in waking life, but this dream was fun and worth it, thanks for the dare!) so I really wanted to get to meet dreamer and that would accomplish all my current personal dares also. I wanted to teleport but I was not successful, so I figured I would look for some aid to be able to do this. I started to look for the color blue, and to find a blue room. I found a somewhat blue room so I entered it hopping it would be the room. But it was not, it was a movie theater. They were showing a movie, I believe it was the Fantastic Four, but I did not get distracted. I heard a noise coming from one of the walls. On the walls, I could see different pictures, all art and I found a huge Mona Lisa: But it was a bit distorted and the vividness of the paint was way more vivid than the real thing. I recalled this was another dare (Jump inside a picture of your choice, what happens? (Hukif) ) So I got excited as I was accomplishing another dare more. I just jump into it and hopped to find the blue world behind this paint. But instead, I have found another theater. I saw a small board that said, "A Secret Theater." I found that mysterious and funny. There were some people watching a different movie. I believe it was either a classic black and white movie or a documentary. But I did not want to focus on that so I kept exploring this room. On the same corner where the Mona Lisa was on the previous room I saw a small hole on the wall and like someone crossing it. You had to crawl to go through. I started to get more excited and I crossed this hole. I saw some stairs, but these were broken and it was impossible to cross, but since I was dreaming, I just glided through the stairs and walked through a door to reach... yes, you guessed, another theater... and another board that said, "An even more secret theater." There were also people inside, but the people here looked in pretty bad shape, like if they were sitting there for hours or even days, as they were dirty also. I was already getting tired of this theaters, but once again, I saw an even more tiny hole on the whole, and I somehow shrunk myself to go throught it. I got into a futuristic room, said room had like futuristic tubes that were elevators. I wondered what was going on and that I really wanted to find dreamer. I also found another board here that said, "Magic proof elevators." I was a bit worried that my dream control would not work here for some reason and I figured I could not go further. But a voice said, "You are in the elevator and you will be trapped here." I tried to break free without being successful and the voice announced me that I was going to be tossed in the huge can pools and I had to stay there. I saw four cans on the ground, but these cans were each like a 20 story building, they were massive as I could see hundreds of people swimming on each of them. Also, the entire room was blue, including the cans and there were blue crystals on the walls and there was a blue mist around. I was tossed in a can with only four-five people. I tried to fly away to look for dreamer but I was not able to do so. I felt bummed as I figured that on the can right in front of us, I would find her because it was loaded with people. While I was looking around, I heard a sweet voice saying, "Percy?" As I looked back, I realized it was Dreamer however, she did not look at all like she is on waking life, she had brown here, blue eyes and two pony tails. She also had very cheeky chicks and was smiling. She wore a brown and green swimsuit. She had a lot of curves and she approached at me. Dreamer told me, "I am glad you finally came." She looked into my eyes and hugged me, giving me a sweet kiss. I felt happy I finally accomplished this one, but my subconscious ended the task for me because Dreamer said, let's open a portal now. I figured it would not work as we were in a magic-proof place (my lucidity was fading fast) Dreamer rose her hand and a small vortex appeared on the edge of the can we were swimming at: She grabbed my hand and said, "Lets go together through it." As we traveled through it, I reached the crystal cave where I first met with her and she gave me another hug and said she was very happy. I started to look around the cave but suddenly, it became very bright until I woke up. Have fun everybody!

[Verre]

Have fun... This month I won't be able to do the Bonus, sadly. since this is something I did already, but to inspire all of you, here is that awesome dream, where I had to dive into a painting (you can scroll to the Mona Lisa to read the portrait part) No reason you can't do it again! A different painting—not to mention a different dream—will surely give a completely fresh experience. If you want to raise the stakes, try it with an abstract painting!

[spellbee2]

No reason you can't do it again! A different painting—not to mention a different dream—will surely give a completely fresh experience. If you want to raise the stakes, try it with an abstract painting! Agreed. Different dreams are sure to bring about different results and experiences. I'd say give it another go! As for the rest, a lot of good tasks this month. Cloning myself has been something I've wanted to do for a while now (hence why I suggested it), and I always love me some dream food - it's always fat free! If I'm feeling adventurous, I might give the bonus a shot. Especially if the painting in question is "Dogs Playing Poker".

[Box77]

I hope I find some surreal paintings gallery right on the corner. Definitively one painting won't be enough for me.

[Icyice]

These tasks look fum, particuliarly the advanced and bonus ones. Can't wait to have an intense philosophical argument with a rock.

[SuckerPunch]

I'm really into the mysterious seed and advanced task with the inanimate object. Can't wait to read some of those conversations.... I don't think I've ever talked to an object in my dreams before. I did get yelled at by a porcupine once and attacked by a filing cabnit but....eh... who hasn't? Good luck everyone!

[KestrelKat]

I was really hoping for the planet task, but paintings are cool... maybe next month?

[PercyLucid]

No reason you can't do it again! A different painting—not to mention a different dream—will surely give a completely fresh experience. If you want to raise the stakes, try it with an abstract painting! Agreed. Different dreams are sure to bring about different results and experiences. I'd say give it another go! As for the rest, a lot of good tasks this month. Cloning myself has been something I've wanted to do for a while now (hence why I suggested it), and I always love me some dream food - it's always fat free! If I'm feeling adventurous, I might give the bonus a shot. Especially if the painting in question is "Dogs Playing Poker". Thanks. I will sure give it another shot. I was really hoping for the planet task, but paintings are cool... maybe next month? That one will start with a head start next month, make sure to vote it again so it is 2 votes already. If enough people vote it to be the most voted, it will happen!

[~Dreamer~]

I tried the advanced cloning task, but it seems I was having an off day with my dream control... All of my attempts to summon myself failed: looking behind me, holding my hand behind my back, spinning, transforming another DC into me. The closest I came was leaving my own body like a ghost, but I still felt partially shackled to my body so I couldn't fully turn around to see myself. I gave up on that task and went flying instead, and ate some cotton candy clouds to console myself. I thought about having a conversation with a cloud for the other advanced task, but I woke up before I could.

[KestrelKat]

Completed Basic I, Advanced I and Bonus tasks in an amazing night of lucidity! Spoiler for Bonus: Jump Into A Painting: I was walking through an art museum, and saw Van Gogh's Starry Night. I'd been planning on jumping into this painting, so I'm glad I saw it and got lucid after a quick RC. I pretty much ran at the wall, expecting to get sucked into the painting, and jumped in. Everything was in the texture of the painting, with lines and multi-colored. I looked up and there were swirls moving around through the stars and moon. It was beautiful. There was also a giant dildo in the sky, though. Spoiler for Basic i: Plant a Mysterious Seed: Remembering the second task on my planned sequence, I rustled around in my pockets, expecting that what I pulled out would be an odd seed. I found one shaped like those candies the soot sprites were eating in Spirited Away. It was larger though, and had spots that started pink but were changing to blues and greens, all neon-ish. I dug a small hole and planted it, and willed it to grow. The result was petty interesting. It grew a gay strip club. Woot woot!! Spoiler for Advanced i: Clone Yourself: I knew the next thing I wanted to do was clone myself, so I looked into the window of the club at my reflection, and imagined there were two of me. I remembered how this had worked in Zukin's dream. My reflection kept morphing and did eventually show two of me... I looked next to me and there I was. I went with myself into the strip club, expecting to find the main men for my next task: Hercules and Dionysus. It was very distracting in there but I had recited the order of things to do so many times before I fell asleep (STD but with C in it for clone lol) that I only stopped to watch the strippers for a little while, clone by my side. I tried seeing through both of our eyes, but we were seeing the same things so I don't think that worked... I tried to get her to come with me to find the God of Wine and his competitor, but she wanted to stay with the strippers. I left her there, and shortly after, in the back of the club, I saw two shirtless men (maybe they were workers there on their break). I asked if they were Dionysus and Hercules, and they said they were. I challenged them to a drinking battle, and Dionysus was like "Sweetie, I'm the God of Wine. Bring it on." He scooted over for me to sit in the booth with them. The Full Dream

[~Dreamer~]

Spoiler for Bonus: Jump Into A Painting: I was walking through an art museum, and saw Van Gogh's Starry Night. I'd been planning on jumping into this painting, so I'm glad I saw it and got lucid after a quick RC. I pretty much ran at the wall, expecting to get sucked into the painting, and jumped in. Everything was in the texture of the painting, with lines and multi-colored. I looked up and there were swirls moving around through the stars and moon. It was beautiful. There was also a giant dildo in the sky, though. LOL Kestrel, your patronus returns! I did the bonus and the advanced (inanimate object) tasks last night: DJ: The NeverEnding Painting Spoiler for Bonus: I looked behind me and saw a painting on the wall. It was an infinite painting within a painting, starting with a vivid blue sky above a green field, with some bushes and a person standing at an easel on the left-hand side. The same picture was painted on the easel, with a smaller copy of the painting on the left-hand side of that picture. I jumped into the painting, but everything went black and I fell through the air. (Later...) I looked at the wall and saw the same painting as before, except it was a bit darker and more shadowy than the original. We jumped into it and descended from above the clouds. The colours were bright and vivid like the first picture, and the clouds were very defined. Dreamy was still wrapped around me, and I held his hands as we flew towards the field. When we got close to the ground, Dreamy held out our hands and made flapping motions to lift us higher in the sky. I saw the easel with the painting-within-a-painting on it, so we flew into that to enter the next picture. This world had the same bright colours, but everything was made of large square pixels like in Minecraft. The clouds still had a roundish appearance, with big cartoon bubble shapes. Dreamy and I remained attached and did some stunt flying. Spoiler for Advanced ii: I remembered in my previous TotM attempt, I had thought about interacting with a cloud for the advanced TotM. We flew above the clouds and landed on top of one. I said "hello", and the cloud morphed into a luck dragon and said "hi" back. I asked what his name was and he told me it was Nick. We had a brief conversation, but Nick mostly responded with one-word answers. He seemed very kind and friendly though, and I hugged his neck as he flew us around. I forgot about the world actually being made of paint, and I'd also love to chat with a completely inanimate object like the suggestions in the OP, so I might redo them later in the month if I feel like it.

[PercyLucid]

Have fun!!!

[martakartus]

Cloning myself sounds amusing but scary at the same time.... MUST TRY I'm really into the tasks of this month!

[FryingMan]

Looks like a good month for TOTM, and now that I've broken my month-long dry spell I'll start work on incubating these...

[Aristaeus]

[Shrugs] I s'pose I'll do Basic 1 and Advanced 1, since they seem to be the harder ones. Perhaps if I get back into the habit of practising mine induction techniques, I'll have better success than I did last month.

[imazu]

OH my god, these ALL look fun!! Don't know whether I should do the Bonus first or start at the top and work my way down.. urgh!

[SuckerPunch]

This one doesn't count bc I wasn't lucid but seed task was on my mind bc I planted one and a zombie popped up attached to a plant lol. I said yikes no more planting those and I went to put it down and it got loose.

[Lang]

This one doesn't count bc I wasn't lucid but seed task was on my mind bc I planted one and a zombie popped up attached to a plant lol. I said yikes no more planting those and I went to put it down and it got loose. That reminds me of a short called,"Randy the Vegetarian Zombie" (Short) Starring, voice actress Tara Strong.

[woblybil]

I have had more than one conversation with the toilet

[Box77]

Two epic fails last night!!! First one, got lucid while having a panoramic view of some buildings under construction which I wanted to take a photo and thought that being lucid was all the task to be done in spite of I saw myself wearing women clothes carrying a purse.... The second one, got lucid after a FA in my grand parents house, went down stairs using some doors on the floor until I remembered I've already done that task and thought that I must climb a raimbow in stead, thinking about it as it was a tree, but left that for another time because I was getting into dark closed places. Thought perhaps I could find a door out but irremediably woke up some minutes before the alarm wife, I mean clock, and couldn't get back for more that I was easily visualizing a strange seed on my hand...

[imazu]

Had a memory fail last night, here it is for your entertainment~ Spoiler for False TOTM: Card Trick: I've just become lucid, not sure how, and I'm walking into a restaurant. Sadly, this does not remind me of the 5-star restaurant totm. For some reason I think that the totm is to perform a card trick on some DCs (guess I was remembering the magic show one from last month..). I walk through the front of the place, heading towards the back, and I see my friend J sitting alone at a round table. I am determined to stay lucid, so when she says hi I return it quickly and keep walking right on past. She has distracted me before. I reach the back of the room and there are many more DCs. The hum of conversation fills the air. 3 or 4 people are sitting around another round table laughing and playing cards. A very large deck of neat-looking cards are spread haphazardly in the middle of the table. I approach and stand to the right of the dealer, a red-headed character I'm not sure is male or female. He/she explains to the player across the table that the next card he/she deals will be an "anti-cabbage" or "no cabbage" card and that he should not worry. I decide that I'm gonna replace it with a cabbage card! Muahahahaaa.. So, the dealer shuffles a big chunk of the deck (most of it is still lying all over the table), holds it forward and prepares to hand the top card to the player. I hold up my two fingers in front of me as if I'm holding a card. I see nothing, but kind of feel something and have confidence that it will work. I quickly slide my invisible cabbage card under the dealer's fingers and watch as the player receives and looks at the card. His face registers shock and a bit of anger at the "lying" dealer. I laugh and run off. The front of the restaurant has become a grocery store and I'm navigating through the shelves. My lucidity and recall takes a downward turn and all I remember is someone is chasing me and I'm running away with a strange mix of excitement and fear.

[Verre]

Inadvertently got lucid last night and although I could barely remember anything about waking life, such as where or when I might have fallen asleep, luckily I was able to recall a couple of the new TOTMs, and completed Advanced Task i. Full dream here: Kissing Clones (DILD). Cloning myself was unexpectedly easy, but then things got freaky! Spoiler for Clones: I don't want to waste the dream wandering around aimlessly, so I pause and try to think of a task. What were those new TOTMs? Plant a seed? I want to do that one, but I'd rather save it for some time when I find myself outside. Hmm... there was the one about cloning. It might be tough, given my usual difficulties summoning DCs, but I figure it is worth a try. I notice a tall mirror in the room and decide to use my reflection as the basis for the clone. The reflection looks satisfyingly accurate, and I see that I am wearing a loose ankle-length white dress. My hair is down but held back from my face with a headband. I decide that the simplicity of my appearance will make it easier to create the clone, so I simplify it further by removing the headband. I consider trying to pull my reflection out of the mirror to serve as the clone, but reason that a clone is not the same thing as a reflection, so instead I focus on recreating a copy of myself in the same room. This goes surprisingly well. I turn and look expectantly to my right, and there she is! I take my double's left hand in my right, and side by side we start walking together. I recall the TOTM instructed that we are supposed to perform some activity together, either cooperative or competitive. Walking is an activity, I suppose, but not very interesting one, so I suggest, "Let's skip!" Hand in hand we skip along for a few paces. Then we stop and look at each other. I am fascinated by the conviction that she really does look just like me. I should check, though... maybe she has a different idea of the situation. "Who are you?" I inquire, watching closely to observe her response. She briefly considers the question. "You're here," she replies, touching her fingers to the center of her chest. I am touched and delighted by her confirmation of our bond, our shared identity. At the same time, I start to feel something unexpected. The longer I look at her, the more attractive I think she is... more attractive than I usually see myself. Is it strange to be attracted to your own double? Does this reflect on me in some way? Moved by growing desire, I ignore the psychological quandaries and step very close to her. "Can I?" I ask suggestively, letting the question trail off. "Like, sexually?" She seems to understand what I am hinting at, but wants confirmation. At my nod she indicates that she is willing, so we embrace and start kissing one another. Our desire is mutually reinforcing, and things are heating up fast. At the same time, the clinical part of my mind is reasoning that this is very odd and unexpected, on both our parts, since I am not normally someone with a strong libido. But we all know how raunchy dreams can be! Still standing, my clone and I paw and grind against one another until I orgasm and wake up.

[FryingMan]

Inadvertently got lucid last night and although I could barely remember anything about waking life, such as where or when I might have fallen asleep, luckily I was able to recall a couple of the new TOTMs, and completed Advanced Task i. Full dream here: Kissing Clones (DILD). Cloning myself was unexpectedly easy, but then things got freaky! Spoiler for Clones: I don't want to waste the dream wandering around aimlessly, so I pause and try to think of a task. What were those new TOTMs? Plant a seed? I want to do that one, but I'd rather save it for some time when I find myself outside. Hmm... there was the one about cloning. It might be tough, given my usual difficulties summoning DCs, but I figure it is worth a try. I notice a tall mirror in the room and decide to use my reflection as the basis for the clone. The reflection looks satisfyingly accurate, and I see that I am wearing a loose ankle-length white dress. My hair is down but held back from my face with a headband. I decide that the simplicity of my appearance will make it easier to create the clone, so I simplify it further by removing the headband. I consider trying to pull my reflection out of the mirror to serve as the clone, but reason that a clone is not the same thing as a reflection, so instead I focus on recreating a copy of myself in the same room. This goes surprisingly well. I turn and look expectantly to my right, and there she is! I take my double's left hand in my right, and side by side we start walking together. I recall the TOTM instructed that we are supposed to perform some activity together, either cooperative or competitive. Walking is an activity, I suppose, but not very interesting one, so I suggest, "Let's skip!" Hand in hand we skip along for a few paces. Then we stop and look at each other. I am fascinated by the conviction that she really does look just like me. I should check, though... maybe she has a different idea of the situation. "Who are you?" I inquire, watching closely to observe her response. She briefly considers the question. "You're here," she replies, touching her fingers to the center of her chest. I am touched and delighted by her confirmation of our bond, our shared identity. At the same time, I start to feel something unexpected. The longer I look at her, the more attractive I think she is... more attractive than I usually see myself. Is it strange to be attracted to your own double? Does this reflect on me in some way? Moved by growing desire, I ignore the psychological quandaries and step very close to her. "Can I?" I ask suggestively, letting the question trail off. "Like, sexually?" She seems to understand what I am hinting at, but wants confirmation. At my nod she indicates that she is willing, so we embrace and start kissing one another. Our desire is mutually reinforcing, and things are heating up fast. At the same time, the clinical part of my mind is reasoning that this is very odd and unexpected, on both our parts, since I am not normally someone with a strong libido. But we all know how raunchy dreams can be! Still standing, my clone and I paw and grind against one another until I orgasm and wake up. Wooho, awesome! Totally stole my thunder

[woblybil]

Wooho, awesome! Totally stole my thunder There may be hope for her yet