Thread: Task of the Month for July 2015

Dones

Basic ii, Advanced i, and Bonus Tasks! All in 1 Dream! Still too lazy to write it in my DJ! Maybe I'll copy and paste it lol idk.

Lucid Dream Starts Here (FILD)

I jump off my dream bunk bed without any reality check because I always know whether it's a dream or not. I examine around my room, and yep something strange is outside the window. It was starting to feel creepy, so I created a portal to one of the places I created when I was advanced-visualizing. It's like a futuristic city with freeways that touch the sky, and people on hover boards. I didn't really experience the scenery, and just on right on task. I went to a 5-star restaurant, and asked a waiter to go in because I reserved a seat a while ago. I went in and I told him that the second person that is going to be here is still in the restroom. He took me to my seat, and there was a really nice dessert already on the table ( O-O Food! O-O ) He said, "If you want it, you will have to pay for it on your bill." I said okay and I got it. My clone came out of the restroom ( Yes! I'm taking my clone to a 5-star restaurant. ) and sat in front of me. We both had awesome sunglasses, and we ate... wait I ate most of the stuff we ordered. I decided to order something that I really wanted to eat in real life, and ordered it as a whole platter. ( <: ) I ordered a whole platter of Lion King sushi's, and ate most of them in a single gulp. It was amazing!!! Anyways, after we finished all our food, ( I had no idea what my clone ordered ) the final bill was $80.84, and I paid $100 and told the waiter to keep the change. I did that because me and my clone got some final business to do. That's right! We have to invade Mona Lisa's painting! Oh look! a convenient Mona Lisa painting hanging over on that side of the restaurant. How convenient. We both jumped into the painting, and the place inside was really small. Mona Lisa started to talk, and she didn't want us here. We decided to fill up the painting with abstract art instead of Mona Lisa, because she was being unwelcoming. The painting began to fill with these rectangular strips of white art, and more of it came from the side of the painting until all of Mona Lisa was fully covered. We came out and we high-fived each other. Then the dream went downhill since I had nothing to do again ;-;

Basic task i and advanced task i Success!

All my dreams lucid and non have been really short and weak the last 2 months but I still managed to get 2 tasks done in 2 different dreams last night.

Seed task: I find myself in the living room of the tv show full house. I knew it was a dream. I vividly saw "Stephanie Tanner." I decided to leave and try the seed task. I walk out the front door and into their front yard which was pretty much just a small patch of grass. I took a little rake claw thing and dug a small hole. I dropped a seed in. Immediately a huge plant comes out of the ground....it's growing rapidly and out of control. At first it looks like a marijuana bud then forms into a corn stalk. It keeps growing and burts through the tanner family's home. It starts bursting and rains out popcorn everywhere. I wake up. Sounds cool but the visions were really weak.

Inanimate Object task: It's daytime and I'm in a cemetery alone. I know I'm deaming and once again the visions seem weak and disappointing. I walk around looking for an object to talk to. There is a patch of woods right next to the cemetery. I see a small old gravestone deep into the cemetery almost out into the woods. I think why not I'll just talk to that. I asked it why my dreams are so weak. There was a pause and it formed a cartoonish face and said I have no idea what you're talking about. It was a male voice. I asked another question, don't remember what. The ground around this old grave was warped bad and it was right next to a dip. Before it could answer my question it started to sink and fall over face first. It screamed "ahhhhh!" and hit the grass with a realistic thud sound. It never made another sound. I woke up and admittedly did laugh a little even though I was a kind of disappointed.

Originally Posted by SuckerPunch

Inanimate Object task: It's daytime and I'm in a cemetery alone. I know I'm deaming and once again the visions seem weak and disappointing. I walk around looking for an object to talk to. There is a patch of woods right next to the cemetery. I see a small old gravestone deep into the cemetery almost out into the woods. I think why not I'll just talk to that. I asked it why my dreams are so weak. There was a pause and it formed a cartoonish face and said I have no idea what you're talking about. It was a male voice. I asked another question, don't remember what. The ground around this old grave was warped bad and it was right next to a dip. Before it could answer my question it started to sink and fall over face first. It screamed "ahhhhh!" and hit the grass with a realistic thud sound. It never made another sound. I woke up and admittedly did laugh a little even though I was a kind of disappointed.

Very funny! I like the idea of talking to a gravestone... and it got its comeuppance for not being more helpful!

Originally Posted by KestrelKat

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.

Last night was kind of a blur lucid-wise, but I do remember getting the cloning task done. The whole dream's too hazy to put in a DJ entry, so I'll just put it all here.

Spoiler for Advanced I:

I was in a Walmart. I was thinking about stuff to do in this lucid, when I remembered the cloning task. I tried to summon myself behind me, since I figured that'd be the easiest way to do it. While trying to summon myself, I looked up at the security camera monitor above the entrance doors. I could clearly see myself, but then a second me faded in right behind me. It looked more like me from 5-6 years ago when I had longer hair than I do now. I was surprised at this, and quickly turned around to see for myself, but he was gone. I turned back around to find him on my other side. He looked more like the present-day me now. I went to say something to him, but he just started dancing. He got really into it too, incorporating other customers passing by into his dance routine. I was a little embarrassed, so I started to walk away, but then remember that the task required me to do something with my clone. I sighed, realizing that this was going to look totally weird. I jumped into the mix and started dancing along with my clone. We took turns breakdancing in the middle of the foyer, with all the customers gathered around to watch. The employees finally came over to break the crowd up, so I took off running into the night, leaving my clone behind.

TL;DR Dream Clone Dance Party

Originally Posted by FryingMan

Wooho, awesome! Totally stole my thunder

There may be hope for her yet

I completed the Bonus Task and Basic Task i!

I Have Super Powers!!! and the Pube Machines - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Originally Posted by AnotherDreamer

I completed the Bonus Task and Basic Task i!

I Have Super Powers!!! and the Pube Machines - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Lol we should have a lucid DC jerk of the week or month contest. If we did, I would say your annoying dream guide definitely beat my rude gravestone.

Congrats on all the successes guys! You're really knocking them out and it hasn't even been 1 week yet.

And special congrats to Jordathar for getting them after just being here a few days. Welcome to DV! *burp*

Aaaand back to the old account. After some consulting with Gab he instructed me to re-post here and inform you all that I am now going to be using my old account. So in other words - Jordathar = Vesterguard.

“Consulting on the Nuclear Power plant – picking up my new car – TotM”

And just in case the posts by Jordathar will be deleted here is a description of my lucid time when I accomplished Basic I and Advanced II

Spoiler for Tasks:

I start getting bored so I decide to jump on the bonnet of the cars parked making a neat little run/jumping course – and I am thoroughly satisfied with the sounds and feel of pressing down the metal as I jump. I start out with just common SUVs but I eventually land on a Porsche – which for some reason is covered in a fine layer of snow – and the car following that just before the massive hummer truck as a black Lamborghini, which stops me in my tracks as it is so low that I can't possibly get up on the truck – also I am quite surprised to see 2 such expensive cars parked next to each other as Denmark isn't a cheap place to buy a car.

I move around and jump maybe 3-4 cars more before I think to myself “This is something I would do if I were dreaming”. So I look up and it all seems pretty normal, but I decide to do a reality check nonetheless. So I move my hands slightly to the sides and let myself hover above the rooftops of the cars.

Realising I am lucid I start taking to the skys, which is a habitual thought and I quickly realise that I have more important stuff to do than goof around. So I let myself drop out of flight and land on the ground again and when I do I find myself on the side walk outside the wire mesh.

I start walking up the side walk and start looking at my hands. The first basic task is my mission and I have already planned how this one is to unfold. I am somewhat excited though as I have never actually made something appear before my eyes. But I recall the visualisation of making a seed of light appear in my hand – a seed of love and light which I intend to plant in my chest and watch how it grows inside my body – while watching my hands (It is fascinating to think that within the dream world a mental visualisation appears phenomenologically similar to how it would in the waking world, as a sort of translucent image appearing in a distinct mental space – which one could easily hypothesise being occupied by running the “world simulation” that is the dream) To start out with not much is happening in my palm which is outstretched palms towards the sky. I see my fingers in a somewhat illuminated light and start focusing. Eventually I see a bright, but tiny dot of light in the middle of my palm and as I am watching it, it grows to the size of a water drop that is perfectly spherical. As I look at it it continues to grow and spikes and sparks start appearing around it leaving a distinct burning sensation in my hand as tiny specks of fire and ice are bombarding the surface of my skin.

Soon a gust of wind appears and rips the seed from my hands and I panic and jumps after it. It lands in a corner where there is some grass, but I manage to find it rather quickly. I then go all the way into the corner to avoid getting disturbed by the wind again. I take a look at the seed, my hand still being illuminated by light that reminds me of dawn. There is no pain any longer and I think of the seed representing compassion and love, as I press it into my chest. I don't feel it entering and nothing abrupt happens. I turn my focus and visual capacity towards the inside of my body and I get a view of the inside of my shoulder, but not much more, and the bright lines of light I expected aren't really there. What is worse is as I am focusing my attention like this I sense the dream world destabilising – so I start focusing outwards. At this point the dream is gone, but I am armed with patience – I have experienced this before, I maintain my focus directed outwards – although I am also aware that it would be irritating only starting half of the TotM task and not see it to fruition (literally . (In previous dreams over the years experiencing this sensation would normally have led me to feeling disappointed and accepting the disappearance of the dream. However in one of the first lucid experiences since Ayahuasca the same thing happened – the visuals faded and I was left with nothing but internal and auditory stimuli – but here I just decided to wait instead of waking up and soon after I was pulled back into the dream world, albeit in a different spot than when I left)

I get flashes of a white rugged wall, it is plastered and I reach out to touch it and I sense it with my fingertips, but only very briefly. I start sensing the light of dawn characteristic of the dream world I was just in and I feel myself pulled back in. SWEET! I am back on the side walk and I decide to not focus more on the seed, I had already thought about the fact that it might take longer to grow than within a single dream – planting compassion and love in my own heart will still be an interesting theme to watch unfold over time.

So I start walking up the side walk to find a tree. I am however conscious that I would prefer finding a tree surrounded by nature, but looking around and having no experience with teleportation or portals I think I will have to settle for one of the trees by the side of the road.

I find a tree not far away, it is a very short tree and the trunk of it is very strange in that it narrows a lot towards the top, almost needle shaped. I place my hand on the tree and it feels chilly, not cold to the touch and I can feel the texture of the bark against my fingers, very authentic. I notice a curved line heading diagonally up from bottom left to top right on a point on the trunk. There is some dark green slime around the line and I wonder if the tree is forming a mouth. The slime should look unpleasant, but it doesn't – in fact it seems rather natural. I look away and at the tree again and the line has widened, though also thinned out a bit. The point is the changes to the line isn't gradual but jolty.

I think I look at the tree a couple of times more watching the line change, but it still isn't speaking to me and as I am about to give up hope and look away I hear a deep bassy rumble emanating from the tree.

“You cannot, help me – even with your flatter and good intentions.”
Astonished I turn around and face it.
“but I can help you” it says.
“How?” I ask as respectfully as I can muster, which isn't difficult as I feel very humble even towards this young tree standing amidst the concrete.
“We trees see things humans aren't equipped to see” it continues.
“Amongst our roots we keep closed the gates of hell”
“Humans aren't prepared to see this – they would freak out – but we trees have watched this for ever.”
(I have taken some artistic liberties with the sentences, for which I don't recall all of them exactly, though they were perfectly linguistic, which excited me – though the meaning of the words is represented exactly as they should be. I felt it more important to convey the intelligence, wisdom and almost all encompassing and physical presence of the tree's intentions directed at me)

I thank the tree and wonder exactly how that is a help to me, not negating it – the message felt important to me, but I think I might not be able to fully grasp it yet. (upon awakening I got the feeling that the tree was trying to help me with one of the TotY – visiting the underworld, though I am unsure if there isn't a deeper more personal/spiritual message enclosed within as well). I take off into flight thinking I have done enough tasks for now, wanting to relax a little – after briefly considering doing the painting task, but giving up cause I don't feel like finding a painting at this point. However I then again think I might not have completed the basic seed task as I haven't seen anything grow yet – I quickly glance inside my body again, but don't really see anything – more a sort of translucent view of my shoulder again. And look outwards. The skies are tuning dark and I land on a rooftop covered with old roof platings. There is a lot of moss growing on the platings and I think it might be a good idea to conjure up more of aforementioned seeds so I start doing that.

The seeds seem more vigorous and self determined than before and start flying out of my hand spinning, when they have reached an appropriate size. I still feel the burns of the sparks and ice shards. One of the seeds actually jump up the slope of the roof and enter a crack between one of the platings under a ventilation hood.

I stop producing seeds and just look at the crack and wonder if there is enough soil and nutrients for the seed to grow. After a little while slowly a thin rolled up green leaf appears from under the crack and as I continue to observe the growth I see a sort of elongated cabbage shape take form along with branches with leaves growing out of the new little plant. It also starts forming a flower and end up looking like a mixture between an orchid and a cabbage. As I watch this unfold the dream starts fading and I wake up.

Everything that I ate in a LD till now tasted good and as it should. And everything I drank did not. Lets see what THIS restaurant serves up.

I'll enter a painting too. Once I teleported myself by squeezing into a postcard. Thinking of a painting I wanna enter.

I posted my dream here: http://www.dreamviews.com/lucid-expe...eam-guide.html

I don't know if it counts though, because it was accidental before I saw the ToTM. I dreamed of my dream guide in the form if a white stuffed animal. He talked to me first, then I conversed with him (I don't remember the convo). At first I didn't trust him because he seemed to have his own agency, but then it dawned on me he was my dream guide. So I asked him if that was so and he said yes and jumped into my arms hugging me.

Does this count? I don't want to apply for the permissions group if it doesn't.

Going to work on the mysterious seed dream! Hey... maybe I can jump into a painting with my clone, find a seed, talk to the seed then plant it and see what grows before I adventure the painting with my clone! That's a little advanced fir me though... I'm going to shoot for the seed.

Edit:

Added dream journal: http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/lumi...husband-67851/
Added more details from my physical dream journal in combination with what I wrote in the post linked above.

I'm going to go ahead and submit my dream for the task of the month, but if it's rejected for being accidental I understand! I didn't mean to talk to an inanimate object. In fact, it talked to me, and I didn't know about the task of the month yet, so I really don't know if this counts.

Originally Posted by lumiina

Does this count? I don't want to apply for the permissions group if it doesn't.

I don't know, on one hand it counts as a valid LD where you performed one of the tasks assigned for this month. On the other hand, the only difference that I find is that if you didn't know about it, you didn't manage to drive the dream towards a certain objective which in my view, is what counts the most for these kind of tasks. Why you don't give it another try, this time with more confidence and motivation to get more nuking results?

I hope I can get something at least brain patting...

Originally Posted by Box77

I don't know, on one hand it counts as a valid LD where you performed one of the tasks assigned for this month. On the other hand, the only difference that I find is that if you didn't know about it, you didn't manage to drive the dream towards a certain objective which in my view, is what counts the most for these kind of tasks. Why you don't give it another try, this time with more confidence and motivation to get more nuking results?

I hope I can get something at least brain patting...

Yeah, I'm thinking it doesn't count because I didn't consciously think, "This is the dream goal," and go towards it, as that's the whole point of these. I'll go send a message to OpheliaBlue reject my application. I did write in my application too that it was accidental, since I didn't know about the task of the month yet.

Oh well! I was being over-excited, heh. What a coincidence though.

Edit: All taken care of! I straightened things out so I didn't get the award.

Completed Basic Task 1: Seed

i had 2 very short ld where i remembered the task but couldnt complete it because one time i get woke up by the girl next to me (-.-) and the second time i wanted to look up a place where i can place the seed on a computer.... and got nonlucid xD

but tonight:

Spoiler for Basic Task I:

Have a NLD where i get a FA because my alarm rings. i look at the watch and the minutes run way to fast. i am confused and look at my hand and pinch my nose. -->lucid. interestingly the fact that my roommate lies next to my in the bed is not the confusing part xD but i recognize he is wearing different glases. i am sure that i am dreaming so i go to the window which is tilt upsidedown. i open it and jump out. i hear again the alarm clock in the room and hope my roomate wont wake me up but i ignore it and keep going (you see, i was not 100% clearminded) i am barefeet and there is snow on the roof i jumped on. i jump further on the street and run across it. i have the feeling i realy need to hurry because every second i might get waken up. i try to fly but it dont work i try to run way faster but i slip because barefeet and wet street. so i keep running in normal speed and reach a street where on the right site is a little green area. i remember the task and start searching in my right pocket for the seeds. nope not there, i look in my left pocket and nope none. a elder guy on a bike drives in my direction and i ask him if he had some seeds? he dont understand me right and offers me a cigaret. i decline and finaly feel a small plastic bag in my left pocket. there are the seeds. brownish like weedseeds but 5 times that big. i start seeding them some i put deep in the ground some i just throw there and the elder guy helps me. he talks alot... like you need these and that and maybe you should to it that way blablabla. he lifts a material cardboard from a area on the soil and i throw some seeds under there too. i turn to him and he keeps talking and then i turn around and there are 2 bushes which werent there before but those are not my plants. i look behind them and the 2 first seeds i planted growth like waist-high. they look a little like basil plants with some purpleish acents. i say " grow faster grow faster" and i turn around again to him because i want them to growth way faster and higher and i think it works when i dont look (it seems that i expected more a Jack and the Beanstalk kind of plant ) i wake up for real because i hear the waterboiler in the kitchen. i kept still and not moving with my eyes closed but was to exited to DEILD so i write it down and fall asleep again for 30min before i had to stand up. i hoped to see a more mysterious and way bigger plant but what you gone do... still completed the task. YAY

Did Basic I

I'm lucid with C and some random DCs, just having fun in some weird-looking building when suddenly my awareness spikes upward and I remember the seed task. I immediately start walking outside. I find myself on a strip of dirt and grass about two feet wide with tall chain-link fences on either side. I see a dandelion growing near my feet so I reach down and pinch off a piece of the middle of a bloom. I change this into a seed in between my fingers. I walk a few more steps, then plant it in the ground. I find more seeds in my hand so I plant them at different depths further along the path. I turn around at the end and look back where I planted everything. There's nothing coming up yet so I raise my hands up slowly and powerfully, willing, pulling the plants up out of the ground. Three scraggly bushes come up, two of which are green. The one I'd focused the most on, the one in the middle, is completely brown and dead and as I continue to pull up it comes right out of the ground and falls over. I frown and walk away.

Definitely not very exciting lol.. that's my subC's fault I guess

Didn't do the tasks.

Got a WILD and few DEILDs tonight but didn't remember the goals. Happy though because I had such a long dry spell.

I think I need more detailed goal. So I was practicing entering a picture of some futuristic Mars colony, or some pretty meadow with grass and flowers. I still have to think what seed do I want to plant and what will grow. And where would the restaurant be and what we would eat. Details seem to help me remember and accomplish.

Basic I and Advanced II done. Also, my 50th lucid of the year.

Spoiler for Basic I - Seed Task:

I was now the only person in the house, so I decided to do some tasks. There’s a plant in a pot next to me in the living room with a couple seeds on it. I go to grab one. OUCH FREAKING HECK. The seeds are incredibly sharp to the touch, almost like a large sand spur. I try to find a less sharp one on the plant to no avail. I just decide to pull a seed out of my pocket, and sure enough, I find a small orange-seed-looking seed. I plant it in this small corner of my living room that is made of dirt. I turn around and back again to find a small tree in its place. It’s very short, but the trunk is very big around. A small stem with 3 leaves stuck out the top. I figured that was good enough.

Spoiler for Advanced II - Inanimate Object Task:

I next wanted to talk to an inanimate object. I flew up to the attic for some reason, but had no luck talking to anything there. I tried a couple different objects around the house, but still nothing. I kind of forget what all happened next, but I ended up with a fairly heavy trash bag of something (I vaguely remember that it might have been the chopped down tree, but it could have been something worse like a body). I walked a bit out the front door and tossed the trash bag to this large tree with a face that was growing in my front yard. As it landed at the base of the tree, I shouted out at it.
“Thanks, tree!”
“No problem, boss.”

Full Dream.

You're awesome bee! And you still have half the year to go.

We need to get crazy on these totm suggestions. I'm talking some serious lucidspiration here!

I'm going to be really disappointed if I don't get to read an OpheliaBlue dream about talking to inanimate object this month. Pleeeease do this one.

I tried the Advanced 2, but I didn't get any responses.

Spoiler for Advanced II - Talk to an inanimate object attempt:

I decided to try the have a conversation with an inanimate object task. I picked up a rock, and said very loudly, "Hello rock!". I sat there for a bit, but nothing happened, so I threw the rock in to the water and yelled, "See ya rock!" and climbed back up the cliffs. I noticed a small building and decided I would talk to that. I decided to try and be a little more casual and natural, like I was talking to a friend. I went up to the building and said, "Hey building, how's it going". I waited a little bit, and then the front started morphing. The two windows in the front turned in to eyes and a large dome thing spread out from the door. I noticed it looked a monkey face. I said, "What's up?" and moved a little closer. The dome that came out from the door lifted up in the air a bit and moved closer to me. It was like that game, Hungry Hungry Hippos, where you press the button thing and your hippos mouth lifts up and you have to try and eat the white marble things. I tried a couple more times to talk to it, and it did that motion every time. I gave up and walked away. I went behind the building, but as I was doing so, my dream faded.

Here's the full dj entry

The dry spell I'm in is beyond EPIC. I'm putting myself out there believing by doing this (along with everything else I do) I will get lucid. I have been trying to get into a painting for the longest so here is my chance...fingers are crossed!

I attempted Basic ii:

Spoiler for Basic ii:

I'm in a restaurant with people I'm supposed to know. We sit at a long table for ~20 people. I think of things that would be weird to do and realize that I could in fact do them because it is all a dream. I walk over to a woman with long dark hair and remember the restaurant TotM. “How many stars does this restaurant have?” I ask. Conveniently, she answers “Five”. I take a piece of bread and taste it. It's garlic buttered and tastes good, my sense of taste is strong and clear. The knowledge that I'm supposed to get a main dish pops into my head. I see an image of some stew with meat; the gravy doesn't really look tasty. While I wait for my food to be served, I continue to eat the garlic bread. I fade back into non-lucidity when my grandparents arrive and I greet them.

Well, this restaurant didn't really deserve it's 5 stars. I'll have another attempt for my wings. But next time I might just steal some food from someone else's plate - waiting for DCs seems to kill my lucidity.

Originally Posted by SuckerPunch

I'm going to be really disappointed if I don't get to read an OpheliaBlue dream about talking to inanimate object this month. Pleeeease do this one.

Lol I will do my best.