Thread: Task of the Month for September 2015

Mystery Bus ?...Whats the mystery?
I took ride on a mystery train ride once upon a time (back in the day) An excursion train down thru the woods and hills,, When dinner was served (Not bad either) suddenly it was announced that there had been a murder on the train and it was up to the passengers to solve the mystery (with the help of some actors)

Is a "Mystery Bus" the same thing?

Originally Posted by FryingMan

Oh, and what's supposed to be "mysterious" about the bus tour? The bus is weird? Nobody knows what the tour is about? If "mystery" is lacking does it still count?

Originally Posted by woblybil

Mystery Bus ?...Whats the mystery?
I took ride on a mystery train ride once upon a time (back in the day) An excursion train down thru the woods and hills,, When dinner was served (Not bad either) suddenly it was announced that there had been a murder on the train and it was up to the passengers to solve the mystery (with the help of some actors)

Is a "Mystery Bus" the same thing?

By "mystery", I just meant whatever location the dreamworld conjures up.
I personally want to get in the bus and see where it takes me, without having a set destination in mind. You can interpret it however you like though.

Originally Posted by ~Dreamer~

By "mystery", I just meant whatever location the dreamworld conjures up.
I personally want to get in the bus and see where it takes me, without having a set destination in mind. You can interpret it however you like though.

That was how I took it. For FM and wobbly bill I am guessing it is gonna be a party bus.

It looks like my wings from last month somehow escaped being shorn! Since I'm here today to report a failure, I need to be de-winged.

Last night I had an unintentional but really long LD in which I tried three times to completed this month's Advanced Task i, entirely without success. That's what I get for switching my focus in the last few months from dreaming to physical activity... but I needed to get back into shape!

Full dream here: Drawing a Sword/Ozymandias (DILD)

I didn't even realize until I wrote up the account and titled it that "drawing a sword" is actually a pun!! So it should have been successful! Alas...

Here are the highlights related to my dismal failure at completing the TOTM:

Spoiler for (Not!) Drawing a Sword:

I had originally planned to draw a dinosaur and bring it to life for the TOTM, but now I decided to start with something easier. I had been at my HEMA class yesterday, so I decided to draw a sword, then manifest it and do some practice. My initial strategy was to simply draw the sword in my left palm, so that I could manifest it directly in my hand (I am right-handed, so I was using my right hand to draw with). However, the lines changed as soon as I had set them down, turning into a cartoon-like character. I figured fine, I can work with that, it doesn't matter what I manifest... but my intention to transform the drawing into a real being fizzled. Nothing happened except that the drawing changed into a different character, and then faded.

Changing strategy, as I found myself walking next to a building I drew a sword right on the wall. It was a poor drawing, chunky and ill-proportioned, but I figured I could fix it in post-production. I put my hand over where the hilt was drawn, intending to grab the sword as it manifested. Nothing happened. I wondered if it would help to reach into the wall, in case the sword was inside it. I pressed my right hand against the wall, which consisted of a reddish, textured stucco. It resisted at first, but I kept pressing, and eventually it yielded like a crumbly semi-moist clay, and my hand went right through. I closed my hand over an object and pulled it out. Unfortunately it was not the sword I was trying to create, but a comic book.

It occurred to me that I was always trying to make the dream state conform to my will, and I should pay more attention to the things that it offered me unexpectedly, so I took a moment to flip through the comic book as I walked on past the building. The hero of the comic was a young boy, but nothing caught my interest, so I tossed it on the ground. Lucidity got a little weak, and I found myself grilling a piece of chicken for my husband's dinner. The image of the piece of meat on the grill was, in retrospect, an obvious bit of day residue from a Facebook post I had seen last night.

While getting the dinner ready I found myself indoors, where I made a third try at drawing the sword, inscribing an outline on the wall again. Since there was a DC in the room with me, I thought I would be clever and asked him to grab the sword off the wall and give it to me. I figured it would still count for the TOTM as long as the drawing transformed into a three-dimensional object by any means. But he couldn't do it either!

Later I got fed up and just manifested a sword directly into my hand so that I could actually get some practice in. For some reason I found it easy to create a sword in my hand out of nothing, even though I had been unable to do it from the drawings! I went through a few rounds of the "flow" movements I had learned in my HEMA class, but found myself wondering why I was wasting precious dream time practicing something that I could work on just as well in waking life, so I flew off to further explore the dream.