Thread: Task of the Month for March 2016

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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.

Very important

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!


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 -Hop on a bus/tram/train and leave for places unknown. Describe where it takes you. (NyxCC)
Basic Task ii - Ask a DC what their favorite dream was. (FryingMan)

Advanced Task i - Call out to the dream " I am ready for my dream guide" call out a few times if need be.what happened? (Patience108)
Advanced Task ii - Fly across an ocean to another continent. (Spaceline)

BONUS TASK!! - Create fire/ice in your hands. Describe the sensation. (Xvaiuer)

Have fun... I will keep on the dial 91 just in case...

Hoping to hop/fly/call on to these tasks and have some fun

Good luck every one!

Tried to fly to another continent last night just for fun (I didn't think the task would be up yet! :P) but the land just kept going and going and I couldn't find an ocean to cross. There were really prehistoric-looking trees below me and a whole lot of primate creatures, most of which looked like baboons. I felt like I was in another world :)

Can't wait to ACTUALLY do these tasks! X3

Hey, thanks to Patience108 I just discovered this thread - I was expecting it to be public, under tasks of the Month!
So, I guess we can start trying straight away - and I definitely will, starting tonight, as these tasks are great!
Good luck everyone and Great Lucids!

Oh I like the basic 1!

Jeez, I just had a ride on a dream train but I didn't know it was a task.. I'll write it here anyways because I didn't even put it in my home DJ yet.

I woke up from this just 5 minutes before I knew it was a task.
I was flying down the tracks in one of my lucid 'Need for speed' fits and hitched a ride on the tender of a steam locomotive, I was riding on the tank leaning up against the coal box rolling joints by the dozen and giving them to some stoners that ran beside the engine waiting for them, Some old guy (Maybe the Engineer) looked down from the coal box and said " I thought papers were for reading, I didn't know people smoked them" I was having a time keeping up and I had some kind of smoke stuff in a tube like cheese spread and tried to roll multiple joints by spreading it thinly on a long strip of paper then rolling it. (I didn't get to find out if it worked) Some of it crumbled into little pills and I ate a few and gave some to the old man who said ""I like these" Then he said me said "You look pretty healthy to me, Why are you taking this train?" I said "Why? Where's it going?" He replied "It's going to the hospital" And I said "Not with me on it, I hate hospitals" and took off flying ahead of it again and somewhere in the distance i heard the whistle blow and thought it was one coming toward me but it was our own train across the highway which in the end woke me up.. It was fun anyways..

:O

psychic!

Got bonus! Did both fire and ice!

I realize I'm dreaming. I'm walking in between 3-story townhouses in some complex. The dream is extremely clear. I can read the sign on a building across from me, it reads s.l., "Lflrewir". Remember TOTM, start to review tasks and bonus jumps out to me. I hold up my hands before my eyes and cup them together and will fire to appear. A flame about the size of a 6"-diameter globe flickers in and out and then stabilizes. The flame is slightly translucent [like my fire always seems to be] and I can feel that it is hot but it does not burn me. I let it go and walk a bit around the complex looking up at the walls and noticing the windows. I summon some ice. At first nothing appears but I pretend it's there and eventually I feel a solid chunk in my hands, I look down it's sort of undescript gray and irregularly shaped, also roughly a 6" diameter disk shape. I feel for cold and don't feel intense cold, but I get little bursts of cold sensation. Satisfied, I release it and continue on with the dream

p.s. my first wings chaining, very excited about that!

Today, I got the Dream Guide invocation task, and made certain of it by attempting it twice in dream. For the first task, I'll just put the most interesting parts here.

Spoiler for Dream Guide Invocation:

...Took a thorough look around the place. In a few seconds, the environment became clearer and clearer. I could immediately see large, green stalks surrounding me. Or so I thought, for a better look revealed these to be enormous garden plants, unkempt blades of grass and leafy weeds the size of small trees. Indeed, I could note a huuuuge house a short distance to my left, its outer walls light colored horizontal wood panels, and the sill plate a lattice frame painted white.

Now, I woulda just took off exploring, but decided to stick with the tasks. So, I once again called out, "I am ready for my Dream Guide". Suddenly, I felt myself getting pulled and dragged away for a moment. When I come to, I see that I'm already within the giant house, the kitchen, exactly, as noted by the building sized counter and cupboards a distance ahead, while the floor beneath me was of vast vinyl tiles. To my right was a square, thin legged wooden table, also very big, of course.

I glance behind, only to see a startling sight before me: a tremendous, bespectacled giantess, well over a hundred feet tall, big enough that I likely didn't even reach her ankle. She seemed petite for her size, and, more prominently, was drawn in as an anime-esque cel-shaded 3D figure. Her black, straight hair reached her shoulder. Moreover, she was dressed in a jean jacket and jean skirt ensemble, the latter reaching her knees, all while wearing soft, brown leather flats.

For a moment, I could only gaze up in awe. The giant woman didn't seem to notice me, just starting off into the distance. It's probably for this reason that she walked forward heedlessly in my direction. She would have squashed me had I not took a grand leap backwards, well, relatively speaking, as she closed that distance with a single step. I looked up again, and saw she was now gazing down at me, smiling faintly. Good, I had her attention. Of course, I had to ask her the obvious question.

"Are you my Guide?" There was no response. So, I asked again. "Are you my Guide?" She tilted her head in confusion, but remained silent.

By this point, I kinda guessed I wasn't going to get much from her. Just a lifeless doll, like a video game character. Pity, but oh well. It was fun either way. I floated up to her at face level, telling her I was off to do other tasks, and bade her farewell. Of course, she did nothing but stare idly.

...

Spoiler for Fire and Ice Attempt:

The visuals were dim, and the clarity in the background fluctuated wildly. I was now stepping out from an unknown place into an outdoor hallway, blue-ish dawn light reflecting off the cement walls and floors. I retained awareness, and was, at this point, regular sized relative to the environment.

With clear purpose, I raised and looked upon both my hands, which remained consistently clear compared to the rest of the environment. They seemed a bit rougher than normal, bearing scars and calluses that I'm sure don't actually exist. Anyway, I tensed up my fingers, and tried visualizing an aura emanating from each, blue for the left, and red for the right. I could somewhat see static of such description flickering from them, all while said extremities grew numb with a very faint sensation of coolness and warmth, respectively. Progress, but nowhere near enough. I concentrated more, but this yielded no further results until it ended completely.

So, I tried a different approach, thinking of how spellcasting worked in other games, Skyrim in particular. At this, dark, fist sized glowing orbs were formed in my trembling hands, as planned. A flick of my wrist, I thought, and I'll get what I need. I launched these spheres into the air, which promptly vanished to the sound of a swhishing noise. But, aside from that, this produced no obvious results. I repeated again, straining myself further and further, but nothing.

Suddenly, my view discorporates during one of these castings, where I could see my previous perspective fit within a rectangular corner of my view, as if it occurred within a small screen. Well, most of my previous perspective, as I couldn't quite see my right hand. As disorienting as this was, I continued my attempts, seeing and feeling myself forming and releasing more energy to no other effect. Eventually, I realign fully with my body, though the visuals deteriorated greatly by that point.

...

Link to Journal entry.

I think the basic and advanced tasks are all really fun. But by far the best is the bonus task! It's so easy it's pretty much free wings

There tasks are really fun! I wanted to meet my dream guide and play with ice and fire so nice that these are here. I hope I'll be able to do them as soon as possible ;3 Good luck everyone!

and yay, I'm orange <(￣︶￣)>

Alright. I'm not consistent at all yet in lucid dreaming but I'm gonna try this anyway. It gives me a goal and extra motivation to become lucid, which might just do the trick

I'm especially looking forward to Basic I and Advanced I! I ride the train every single day so it should be relatively easy to summon my hometown train station, and I find dream guides really interesting. Good luck everyone!

I thought I did Basic Task ii, but on rereading the list now, I see that I misremembered it: I was asking DCs if they could remember a recent dream, not what their favorite dream was. That's okay! My poor recall made the dream unsatisfying overall, so I'll be happy to make another attempt.

Link to DJ entry: Do DCs Dream?

you should just give me the bus wings now, most of my dreams involve buses, might as well have a lucid goal for me to find myself lucid in a dream bed and stand up

Oh yes! I will be trying this!

Advanced Task i - Call out to the dream " I am ready for my dream guide" call out a few times if need be.what happened? (Patience108)

I'm tying but my Apt is being renovated, Best I could do so far was go to a DC junkyard where we completely dismantled a Junk girl

Ps: dont worry about the girl, I put her back together again but my Sub-C forgot where some of the parts went.
She didn't look too bad though when I got done

Good going guys!

Completed Basic Task I .
But Holy Shit
3/02
3:14am.....I had gone to bed about 2:00am and it was about 60 dedgees outside knowing a cold front was moving in and thinking "I'm never going to be able to sleep tonight" after the turmoil of the day and lay there formulating a plan just in case I did "I would catch the train again".. I thought about getting back up but then noticed the bedroom wall had a big hole in it to the outside. (Oh-Baby) I thought of the train task right off and flew out of the hole and across the highway to the tracks and looked for a train, (No train)
I flew down the tracks to another town where there was an old excursion steam train and it was going away from me but I caught it to see that a whole side of a car was missing and I could see murder and mayhem going on inside, Blood and gore everywhere, People acting like zombies. There were no seats in the car but I saw a sort of box that I sat on to watch the carnage and just as I decided to spin out of there because I didn't like it a loud shuddering outside noise sent a flash of green lightning in my brain and sat me bolt upright in bed wondering WTF and scared the bejabbers out of me, It took a full five minutes before I realized the the noise I heard was the first blast of wind from that cold front buzzing an unlatched window..
At least I did catch the damn train

Edit: To save another post
PS: Two more lucid's after that and try as I may I could not change the story,Only the scenes.
The first was so nasty I won't tell it and the second placed me in a flooded world of muddy water, A girl came flying past and said "Hey,Follow me" And lucidity returned until it left again and we both crashed and had to swim to an island, Her on one side and me on the other and as I climbed onto the island I saw she had turned into a pink whale with arms and legs and spun again wishing for something better and was flying again across muddy water toward a village and crashed again and as I swam to the village and it was flooded too I tried to spin again and then just said OFI, Why bother..And allowed myself to wake up...

What is a dream guide ?
I mean like, In a dozen or more dreams there has been a giant "Kestrel" (maybe 40 inches tall) Patrolling back and forth in front of my digs when the bedroom wall is missing, she (I'm guessing it's a she) never gets close enough to see if she has
cat-whiskers like KK. and never comes closer than the perimeter road around my dream bedroom, Is that a dream guide? If it is it's a mighty mean looking one...I always try to sneak out the back way.

A dream guide is someone present on your dreams, or some of them, or the one that shows upon being called. Something that could symbolize safety in dreams. Your dream guide will adopt a form that gives you some sense of security.

For example, my Dream Guide always adopts the form of Freddy Krueger (some people here knows this hehe) and specially in lucid nightmares with no dream control at all, I yell at him and he comes and saves me (this happened mostly when I was a child, I never have nightmares now.)

Originally Posted by PercyLucid

For example, my Dream Guide always adopts the form of Freddy Krueger (some people here knows this hehe) and specially in lucid nightmares with no dream control at all, I yell at him and he comes and saves me (this happened mostly when I was a child, I never have nightmares now.)

It reminds me of "Rick and Morty" episode with him, is it have a connection? ;d

And yay, I'm on fire! I did another TOTM, 1st Basic with train: 03/03/16 | LD - Shirokuma Station - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Spoiler for Fragment with TOTM:

Originally Posted by LiLeila's DJ

(...) I had to decide what to do and first thought was about 1st basic task from TOTM - "Hop on a bus/tram/train and leave for places unknown. Describe where it takes you." I live close to the railway tracks so that was easy to find. I wasn't into this task really but I had to decide sth. I passed some guy and I thought that he doesn't see me because I'm invisible (like it would an OBE). I was above the tracks, I did RC with nose and rubbed hands for sec. One train was going immediately, I tryed to catch it but it was too fast and I couldn't get enough speed. So I turned back, there was another train (and one more I think). I was floating in the air for a while because of changing the direction. It was going up through the spiral tracks. I catched the top of it - I knew that it will stop in a moment because we were almost on some station (I thought that it's similar to RL and I was disappointed a bit but it wasn't so I wasn't 100% lucid apparently, don't know if this counts for TOTM then). Station was called "Shirokuma" and the setting was from anime "Shirokuma Cafe". I don't remember it very vivid, however it was nice and green, there was a panda corner (like in ZOO, the anime is i.a. about it). There weren't any trains and tracks, I only remember a sign with the station's name. (...)

That Kestrel gives me no sense of security at all so I guess she's out for a dream guide, In fact she's downright fearsome

Originally Posted by woblybil

That Kestrel gives me no sense of security at all so I guess she's out for a dream guide, In fact she's downright fearsome

Should this be a compliment? Hahaha. I would laugh if you ever get a chance to see if it has whiskers, and it did.

Originally Posted by KestrelKat

Should this be a compliment? Hahaha. I would laugh if you ever get a chance to see if it has whiskers, and it did.

The next time I see it I will yell your name (at a safe distance) and find out for sure Oops, A kestrel would eat that froggy looking thing.