Thread: Task of the Month for November 2015

Ok, so I've completed my first TOTM! I bit a DC!

http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/ches...-months-71187/

Originally Posted by Chessica

Ok, so I've completed my first TOTM! I bit a DC!

http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/ches...-months-71187/

I got this from your DJ.

"vBulletin Message
Invalid Dream Journal specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator"

Post it here and go to admissions groups in the control panel and apply to the basic group.

Hope this helps

I attempted the basic task last night but there was no one around to bite :/

I've never done a TOTM before so this is very interesting to me! Will try again.

Sorry if the link was broken. It works just fine for me. I'll post the DJ-entry below (couldn't get the spoiler thingy to work):

I haven't been actively trying to get lucid for almost a year, but a few days ago I started reading about lucid dreams again and started doing the nose plug RC in waking life. I had a semi-lucid dream the first night, just doing the nose plug and realizing I was dreaming, but lost lucidity almost a once. But tonight I had a real lucid!

I was standing in my mothers old house. I was in the toilet, only it didn't look like the real toilet - it was more of a public toilet with several doors/booths (that is a really strong dream sign for me). I walked out the door and closed it, but thought to myself "such a toilet would be a common occurrence in a dream, maybe I should go back in and do a RC." So I did. Went back in and did a nose plug. It worked! I could breathe! I almost could not believe it, everything felt so real. I didn't expect it to be a dream! I decided totest gravity and started jumping small jumps into he air. The ceiling was low, so I could not jump high, but I could feel a slight difference in gravity, as I didn't fall down as quickly as I expected. I went out of the toilet, and downstairs. I jumped up and flew in to the living room, staying about mid air. I saw H. sitting on the couch. I tried to remind myself it was a dream by saying it loud to myself. ", It's a dream, it's a dream" Then I remembered I should probably try to stabilize he dream. I remembered a method I'd read about where you should "make out" with the ground. Haha. So I did, I lay down on the floor and started making out with it. I could feel my lips on the wood, and felt my hands rubbing it. I started thinking how it probably wasn't a good idea to be kissing a floor (bacteria, although at the same time I realized it didn't really matter as it was only a dream), I decided the dream was stable enough and got up. I looked around me. H. was still on the couch. I got really excited, and tried remembering what I wanted to do if I got lucid. Nothing, could not remember anything. But wait, suddenly I remembered the task of the month! I should bite H, and see how he reacts! I went to him laughing, bent down and bit his shoulder. I could feel the fabric of his shirt in my mouth, but i wasn't a very hard bite. He started laughing too, and that was the only reaction I got. I thought "what else? What should I do with my lucid?" I was looking in my purse and found a large baguette with chocolate stuffing and frosting. I shared it with H, it tasted delicious! (this was not intentional, but I was still lucid) I asked H if we could go outside, thinking I wanted to do something more with my LD, and he said I could go visit the kitten in the apartment down by the river. Apparently there was a kitten in need of some food and cuddles. Obviously I thought this was a great idea, and went to the kitchen to find some cat food or tuna or something to bring. At this point the dream was taking over the plot, and I lost lucidity.

The dream continued on and I remember something about a kitten, but not much else. I remember a lot of other dream fragments from the night too, but the lucid is the vivid one, and the one I feel is important to write down. So great to have had a lucid again after not thinking about dreams for so long! I have to dust off my LD-abilities and start doing my RC's and WBTB's again.

Originally Posted by ElsiaStar

I attempted the basic task last night but there was no one around to bite :/

I've never done a TOTM before so this is very interesting to me! Will try again.

Tonight we will all be out there for you to bite

Originally Posted by Chessica

Sorry if the link was broken. It works just fine for me. I'll post the DJ-entry below (couldn't get the spoiler thingy to work):

I haven't been actively trying to get lucid for almost a year, but a few days ago I started reading about lucid dreams again and started doing the nose plug RC in waking life. I had a semi-lucid dream the first night, just doing the nose plug and realizing I was dreaming, but lost lucidity almost a once. But tonight I had a real lucid!

I was standing in my mothers old house.

Yay-Fantastic

Originally Posted by Chessica

he said I could go visit the kitten in the apartment down by the river. Apparently there was a kitten in need of some food and cuddles

Them DCs distracting us by sending us on long quests

A failed attempt at the bite a DC task last night, followed by a cheeky bit of DC nibbling... yeah not really a bite, I know, I'll try again!

Spoiler for #1:

Flicking through a large yearbook style album with photographs of orphan kids dressed up in Halloween costumes. They look evil, so it doesn't do a good job of encouraging people to adopt. The later pages of the book contain pictures of goldfish. Under the pictures are price tags. Some of them cost over £100.

Looking up from the catalogue I see Major Lilywhite from iZombie talking to a receptionist. I become lucid and walk away, rubbing my hands to stabilize. In the next room is a blonde woman wearing a black hoodie. She seems familiar. It's AW, a girl I went to school with.

Recalling the task I politely ask if I can bite her. She looks concerned.
"Just on the shoulder. It won't hurt."
She nods so I hold her arms and attempt to bite her shoulder. My mouth closes on nothing as I wake.

Spoiler for #2:

I'm in bed cuddling with a girl I assume is my partner AB. As things get more intimate it becomes clear this is actually AW from the previous dream. This causes me to become lucid. Recalling the task I nibble her shoulder a bit, but, well, have other stuff than the TOTM on my mind too ya know? And the rest of the dream is x-rated as you might have guessed...

Well, I was aiming to do the telepathy and joke tasks but no DC's around until a later LD and with it being Cameron Diaz I had other priorities. Interesting notes at the bottom of spoiler regarding induction and new twist on a teleportation method.

Spoiler for excerpt:

...I point out how many stars are visible then see 4 stars tightly clustered and 4 more the same elsewhere. What?? I must be dreaming (incredulously)!! Hand=6 fingers against starlight. I float up and what to do? I think of TOTM and look around, no one around any longer and dark and I dive down and pop back up a few times and get a water effect and now I'm totally swimming. It is getting brighter and brighter so I swim to shore. The waves are lapping all the way against this building I decide to explore looking for people but no one around it seems. There is a vending machine on the far side of the room. I look around some more before I feel my arm. I'm on my back and arm right one is above my head and sore I adjust and feel need to pee and get up.

*Red formation in sky DILD!

*Cameron Diaz DILD!

Induction notes: reading an older eBook by Marc Vanderkeere (thanks for mentioning him FryingMan) I realized the potential in breaking off from SSILD when HI's start and setting specific intentions during this phase when your brain is more accepting of taking such intentions into the dream state...basically you set those intentions during the phase in which you are experiencing HI's. This is not part of regular SSILD.

I decided to use the diving down motion to teleport after using diving down or ducking back into the water in describing a method to extend dreams (in my dream control workbook), thinking of it as a pre-DEILD. Some of my favorite LD's have come from restarting in water or ocean thinking of it like a water rebirth.

Originally Posted by Lauraw

Spoiler for Task of The Month:

When did you go back to bed? Activity upon Waking up and Back to Bed? Wrote in my DJ and then I got up and washed my face and then went to bed at 5:00 am.
• How long it took to fall to back to sleep or enter the lucid? not long.
Lucid Goal(s): Task of The Month, Basic ii

Here: http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/laur...asic-ii-71059/

I recall that I walked into my barn in a dream in the evening. It was about this time of the year and we just finished up cleaning the barn and the horses stalls, like we did when we were younger. This is when I noticed that my mom was up in the loft.
I remember that she was sitting up there like a little kid swinging her legs off the side of the edge of the loft. She was also puffing on a cigar and making halos smoke rings. She never smokes in real life. I thought this was weird that she was smoking.
So, this is when I decided to float a little and Ask her if I knew her. She respond with "No!! Who are you!" This is when I asked, "Can you tell me a joke?" She was too busy smoking to respond again. I needed to do my TOTM.
My sister walked in from the other side of the barn. At this point I was floating about 5 feet off the ground. I knew that I was lucid dreaming. I asked my sister if she knew who I was? She answered with, "No!"
I asked her if she can fly.
She gave me a strange look and she retorted with, "No!! What are you a duck?"
I responded with, "No! I'm not a duck, as far as you know." Then I asked, her to tell me a joke. She did.
She said, "Okay!! A precious little girl walks into a Pets Mart Shop and asks, in the sweetest little lisp, between two missing teeth, "Excuthe me, mithter, do you keep widdle wabbits?"
As the shopkeeper's heart melts, he gets down on his knees so that he's on her level and asks, "Do you want a widdle white wabbit, or a thoft and fuwwy, bwack wabbit, or maybe one like that cute widdle bwown wabbit over there?"
She, in turn, blushes, rocks on her heels, puts her hands on her knees, leans forward and says, in a tiny quiet voice,
"I don't think my python weally gives a thit!!"
I just laughed at her. Then I woke up!

Oh my gosh! That is GOLD!!!

I read these tasks before going to sleep last night. I was half lucid at one point and asked a middle aged woman to tell me a joke...for some reason it set her off! She was livid and just unloaded on me, I swear I must of got called every cuss word in the book.

It ended with her calling me a "f*cking ret@rd" and storming off. I was just as confused in the dream as when I woke up...I guess she either hates jokes or has a really dark and vulgar sense of humor.

Well, I just ended the longest dry spell I've had since I started trying to lucid dream! (I'm not even going to try to work out how long, it'd be too depressing!)

I think it started with a DEILD. I see an open air scene bathed in sunshine, I'm floating a few feet above the ground looking along a stony path through dry hilltop grass.

I know I'm lucid and decide to try to remember the TOTM. I use a number/rhyme mnemonic system: 1 bun - bite the bun; 2 shoe - big floppy clown shoes (joke); 3 tree - it's a picture of a tree and I'm scrunching it up in my fist: 4 door - the door opens into the back of somebody's head and I can see into their mind; 5 hive - I'll tell you how this signifies a paradox when I've had a go at seeing it, it's a particular paradox that if like to announce along with my description of how my subconscious interprets it!

So, I look along the path and see a couple walking along hand in hand, I don't recall what the chap looked like, but the girl was tall and slim, perhaps in her mid thirties. She has longish thick black curly hair and dark olive skin, she looks perhaps Turkish or Greek. I swoop down to them and say I've been dared to bite someone. They look confused but not too perturbed and she lifts her right hand to my mouth. I take her hand and bite the blade of her palm. As I bite, I decide that actually biting off a piece of her would be more fun than just nibbling, so I bite harder. I can feel the bone in her hand and decide I can bite through it if it's just a little softer. With a slight crunch, I bite through the bone and take a chunk out of her hand. The texture is soft and slightly granular, something like a cross between an gummy sweet and halva, but tastes of absolutely nothing, sadly. The couple are still standing there looking nonplussed and thankfully not seeking revenge for my impromptu cannibalism...

SammyTheSnake

Completed Advanced II:

I'm at my Dad's house trying to comfort a crying friend. This somehow leads to a large-scale family conflict and two sides of the family decide they're going to battle it out outside. I get dragged into it along with my friend, luckily we end up on the same "team". Everyone is supposed to claim a little remote control vehicle which are supposed to fly around with us sitting on them. We're going to use them for battle. So I'm trying to find one and some lady starts counting down like, "THREE! TWO!.." and I'm frantically looking around. She yells, "ONE!" and everyone flies up into the air on their tiny cars and I finally find one before joining in. As this goes on, we all turn into little flying insects. I'm a green moth and I'm trying to get away from a yellow butterfly and a wasp who're on the other team. We fly inside a store and the abrupt change of scenery, coupled with the weirdness of being a bug, trigger my lucidity. I feel invisible and weightless like a sometimes do and I float around the store getting my wits together. I think about the TOTM to communicate with someone or an animal telepathically. I look around and see Bernie Sanders at the counter with some woman and they're talking to the clerk. I fly up to him and he notices me even though I'm invisible. I concentrate on his mind and send some phrases towards him, like talking in my head. I say, "How are you? What's up?" etc. He responds with two sentences. The first one is longer and I don't really recall it, but the second one is, "I'm the King!" When he says this he turns into a cartoon carp fish with long whiskers, a scepter, a robe and a crown. I ask him to repeat himself and he does so, turning back into his human form, then back into the fish at the end again. I ask him what this means and he turns into a transformer toy and his head rolls backwards and he says something I don't recall. All of the words were in my head, not out loud.

Failed 3 times Basic II; Completed two times Advanced II:

Spoiler for Failed Basic II: one and two:

....an average looking redhead girl crosses my way. i turn around stop her and kiss her directly. i´ve ask her if she might tell me a joke. "hmm nah dont know one...". my hair is in my face and bothering me. i put it away and fall into the void. i know i am still dreaming because some music is playing so i am singing with it and move my hips like i would do naughty things or lets say dance. i wait some time and suddenly are in my bed. a really really beautiful girl with relatively short reddish purple hair is sitting on my and wants to kiss me. while she approaches me i do a nosepinch just to be sure. she kisses me and i tell her something like "unfortunately this is just a dream" she looks sad for a moment like i would have degraded her. i smile to her and we talk a little. i ask her if she wants us to undress our underclothes. i start with my boxers and she with her top. while we undress i ask her if she might tell me a joke. she answers straight forward: "hmm all jokes i have are incubated" i look at her and am surprised....

Spoiler for Failed Basic II: three:

...i stand up and keep going to a table where two or three men are sitting. i talk to one of them a little and then ask him if he might tell me a joke. "nah i dont know/remember any jokes......... no good atleast" i say "nevermind tell me one" the second guy intermeddle with some stupid stuff i dont remember....

Spoiler for Advanced II: One :

....its an big adult rhino. he stops infront of the truck and scrape with the hooves. i remember the tasks of the month again and see that it wont tell me a joke but i might communicate with it via telepathy. i climb a little bit down so i get closer and hold my hand on my temple and think "let us be friends". i repeat it over and over. i decide to climb down a little further but the rhino starts running again furious in my direction i go up a little so he cant hit me. he runs past me and i think telepathically "HEY!" and he stops and turns and look at me. i again repeat let us be friends and he runs back where he was standing before. i repeat the sentence some times more and decide to climb down "what the hell should happen. this is a dream he cant really hurt me" i climb down on the ground and he starts running in my direction again. i kneel down and open my arms. he turns into a small (baby?) rhino who jumps into my arms and starts licking my face like a dog would do.
i wake up and feel really happy.

Spoiler for Advanced II: Two:

.....i move in the direction of the big building and see some horses. i look closer and notice that they are no horses but unicorns. one has cut of wings. i pet him a little and keep going. i see an orangutan crossing my way and again i put my hand to my temple and say telepathically "hey come to me" he looks shortly at me but keeps running. i look determining and he stops and approaches me. i sit on the ground and he jumps into my lap and i pet him. we communicate a little (cant tell if with words or telepathically) he tells me something i dont remember and i tell him he smells good (i actually cant remember a smell) he says thanks but the thing he put in his fur is itching or something....

who would thought that it is that difficult to get a joke out of a DC?! the answer of the second DC really confused me! she seems to be an "advanced" DC i´ve never met before... lets see if i can meet her again!

Here the DJ Entry for those who want to read the whole dreams. they where very cool and memorable for me!

yay finally some wings again so i can vote for the next totms.

i´m sad noone postet anything about a paradox so far or did i just missed it?

i sure will try to tickle one little joke out of the dc´s in my next lucid... or i will have to bite one but i dont like the imagination... especially after SammyTheSnake´s description...

Originally Posted by RelaxAndDream

Failed 3 times Basic II; Completed two times Advanced II:
i´m sad noone postet anything about a paradox so far or did i just missed it?

i sure will try to tickle one little joke out of the dc´s in my next lucid... or i will have to bite one but i dont like the imagination... especially after SammyTheSnake´s description...

SammyTheSnake missed the "Bite" thing and thought he was supposed to "Eat" his DC.. Actually I have found them quite tasty..

PS: In my last non-lucid my DC bit me ......

I had a totally freaking awesome non-lucid last night (actually, a late afternoon snooze) in which I was a cold-war experiment cyborg saving the world, but nobody bit me...

I was going to say that I didn't forget that the challenge was to "bite" not "eat" but then I realised actually I did forget and just retrospectively justified that going on to bite a little harder was still included in just biting Retrospective justification is one of the bad habits we humans are somewhat prone to...

SammyTheSnake

Originally Posted by RelaxAndDream

Failed 3 times Basic II; Completed two times Advanced II:

Spoiler for Failed Basic II: one and two:

....an average looking redhead girl crosses my way. i turn around stop her and kiss her directly. i´ve ask her if she might tell me a joke. "hmm nah dont know one...". my hair is in my face and bothering me. i put it away and fall into the void. i know i am still dreaming because some music is playing so i am singing with it and move my hips like i would do naughty things or lets say dance. i wait some time and suddenly are in my bed. a really really beautiful girl with relatively short reddish purple hair is sitting on my and wants to kiss me. while she approaches me i do a nosepinch just to be sure. she kisses me and i tell her something like "unfortunately this is just a dream" she looks sad for a moment like i would have degraded her. i smile to her and we talk a little. i ask her if she wants us to undress our underclothes. i start with my boxers and she with her top. while we undress i ask her if she might tell me a joke. she answers straight forward: "hmm all jokes i have are incubated" i look at her and am surprised....

Spoiler for Failed Basic II: three:

...i stand up and keep going to a table where two or three men are sitting. i talk to one of them a little and then ask him if he might tell me a joke. "nah i dont know/remember any jokes......... no good atleast" i say "nevermind tell me one" the second guy intermeddle with some stupid stuff i dont remember....

who would thought that it is that difficult to get a joke out of a DC?! the answer of the second DC really confused me! she seems to be an "advanced" DC i´ve never met before... lets see if i can meet her again!

Basic II just says "ask a DC to tell you a joke;" it doesn't require that the DC actually tell you one. You succeeded at Basic Task II.

I also succeeded at Basic Task II last night:

Spoiler for Dream:

I had gone to prison for two years. Some people had helped me escape, but I was only taking a daylong break from being in prison and was going to go back before anyone found out I was gone. The people who had helped me escape took be to a tethered airship floating in the sky. I jumped off the airship and started flying, leaving the group to fly over the houses on the street where I live. I thought that even though I was going to have to be in prison for two years, I would still be free in my dreams. This made it occur to me that I was dreaming. I landed at an intersection where the street that my house is on meets a busier street. I saw a woman pushing a stroller on the other side, and I decided to cross the street to ask her for a joke. There were cars coming, so I created a force field to protect myself as I crossed the street. Right as I said to the DC "tell me a joke," two cars bounced off the force field and went flying. I don't remember what the woman said, but it was a non-joke that started with "I'm concerned that..." I then turned right and started walking along the street, which in the dream had a lot fewer buildings on it than it does in waking life. I decided to try teleporting to a high fantasy setting, so I closed my eyes and spun around. However, I still found myself in the same place when I opened my eyes. The dream then destabilized and I woke up.

Is there a limit of one task per dream? Anyway, success!

Bite a DC / Ask a DC to tell you a joke

Spoiler for #1:

...(This was a long dream. I became lucid early in it, so cutting to the important bit) ... Outside a group of teenagers are sitting around on what looks like the rubble of stone columns. Remembering the TOTM I bite down on the nearest girl's shoulder without asking. She makes an 'eeep' noise, but I don't bite hard enough to break the skin. Material taste and feel fills my mouth.

The rest of the students look amused by my antics, so I ask a young black guy if he knows any jokes. He shakes his head. I ask the next guy and he says something about 'days with ands'. Is that supposed to be a riddle? The rest of them seem confused as well. Erm. Whatever.

All right, I'll start then... "Why does everyone like the mushroom?.... Because he's a funghi to be with!" My weak joke gets a few smiles. "Okay, now you tell me a joke." They put their heads together to confer, as if this is a difficult question. Great.

Crumpling up the dream scene (failed) / Telepathy

Spoiler for #2:

...(another long one, had been lucid for a while)... Heading outside I find a motorbike, a Ducati Monster with red frame this time. Seeing me standing next to it a red haired DC tells me she likes my ride. Recalling the other TOTM I attempt to take the entire scene and crumple it up like paper. It doesn't work. I try multiple times. Bah!

The street is now a room though and contains several random people who are chatting casually, and the red haired girl is still paying attention to me. I decide to use telepathy on them and send out a mental command for them to all behave like zombies. Instantly they raise their arms and start shambling around looking for brains. Heh.

The red haired girl paws at me. Still using telepathy I ask if she wants to have sex with me. She agrees, but apparently wants to have sex on the motorbike. 0.o It seems to have vanished though. I whistle and see the bike roll up outside the window, meanwhile we've already got started...

edit for formating

Originally Posted by Intet

Basic II just says "ask a DC to tell you a joke;" it doesn't require that the DC actually tell you one. You succeeded at Basic Task II.

YOU made yourself a friend with this statement
edited my previous post to succeeded


[Edit] damnit i cant change it anymore. who cares

I didn't get another task but it was funny so I'll tell it..

11/14 T-rex
7:00pm After a dinner of two huge homemade tacos made with my own taco seasoning and covered with lettuce,tomato,salsa,cheese and big gobs of french onion dip a nap was in order. It wasn't long before I was in a building basement with people running helter-skelter to get away from a T-Rex that just barely fit but was coming my way, I knew it was a dream and I was supposed to do tasks or something but I didn't want to change it because it looked like fun.."This way I yelled, Get in the elevator" and most of them did as I floated up to let them run thru the doorway that I was standing in,
All that was left was a pair of pastel blue rollie-pollies and their kid with round heads and bodies but no visible legs, They pulled and tugged on each other "Cmon-Cmon-He's coming" and all of a sudden in a flash they ran me over and bowled out onto the floor on the other side yelling to each other "Are you all right?" And the woman rollie-pollie grabbed the man and kid and blew into the elevator and slam the door and gone leaving only me with T-Rex behind me but I was laughing too hard to care and in the end it woke me up with "Monster" heartburn and a moral to this story clearly in hand..

"A fella just might cut back on the Cumin in them taco "

Friendly Mid-Month Reminder:

Originally Posted by PercyLucid

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. Please, make sure you post here your attempts both failures and successes, this will make this post much more dynamic and it will make OpheliaBlue/Gab ´s winging delivering much easier. It will be very appreciated!

Basic Task 2: Sort of accomplished? I don't think I'd really count it though. Essentially, I get lucid after realizing rocking back and forth on your bed and being awake while being asleep is not possible. I make my way out to the living room, planning to go outside, and lo and behold my dad is sitting in a chair. I ask him to tell me a joke. I can't recall much about it now (I remember it after waking up but didn't write it down), but it had a word "avozhol" or something to that degree, utter gibberish. I asked him again because I figured I'd misheard, but he repeated the joke perfectly. I know that it made literally no sense, it was essentially a random sentence with the above word added to it.

So technical completion? Like I said, I wouldn't really count it, I could have done better. Ended up going outside and to a neighbor's house, hoping to find a non-familial DC (in my house only family members appear unless I summon someone, and I suck at summoning DCs though I've done it before). Knock on the neighbor's door, suddenly it's this weird cavern mansion house themed after the Flinstones. John Goodman opens the door, invites me in, and I vaguely recall a beautiful woman near the end before I woke up.

Man, it feels like it's been forever since I've had a quality TotM completion. But I had a really solid lucid on Friday (after pulling an all-nighter on Thursday...) and knocked out Basic 1.

Spoiler for Basic 1:

I find myself in a classroom with my roommate and a couple other people that I actually have classes with. I remember the task to bite a DC. I turn towards my roommate, but he looks back at me and says "Don't even think about it." Okay then. Next to him is another friend from class, so I grab his hand and take a bite of his fingers. He turns with a slightly puzzled look on his face. He seems more inconvenienced than anything else. I release his fingers, and he just confusedly asks "Why?" I simply shrug and head on to try something else.

Not exactly the reaction I expected, but whatevs.

Hey

Basic totm1

I look up and a DC is staring down at me so I reach out for his finger and bite it - I look up at him apologetic and say " I dint mean to harm you and you know I would do anything to help you right?" He nods I add that -" he would do anything for me also right?" He nods and we touch fists and seel the deel

Basic totm 2

I want to complete another task so I ask him to " tell me a joke"
He says he can't think of one so I ask him to " please try " ...then he says they 'brought the flags out' - I said that it didn't sound like a joke but maybe it was to him and he nodded at me in agreement...okay!

My own thing...
I try to remember other tasks and get an incling of a memory about doing something with ones mind so I see a glass on a table and make it rise up with my mind and say to everyone around " look I am controlling this glass with my mind!"
I enjoyed this alot so as I walk out of this place I make me and all the DC's levitate our way out of the room by telekinesis -

Advance totm 1 attempt...

When I reach outside I remember An advanced totm challenge to crumple up the dream scene ... So I look around and with a sweeping movement with my hands I make a wide crumpling gesture that then brings all of the the dream scene into a small bright cube in my hand - it looks amazing, this replica of the scene around me sitting in my hand in the form of a small bright yellow cube ... I try again Incase this isn't enough for my wings and the same thing happens again - I am happy with it but am unsure if it's competed the task as it was more that I accomplished making a tiny cube replica of my dream scene rather than a crumple ....as a replica of the dream scene ( lots of yellow in the surroundings ) - now a small golden yellow cube sits alive in my hands I walk on...

Bonus task attempt

As I walk on I remember a task Sensei set of creating a paradox - I see a young girl walking towards me and I put up my hand and imagine I have created an exact replica of her face in the palm of my hand - I look but I dint manage - my hand looks like a beautiful tartan though which is nice but maybe not a paradox;(

Great tasks!