Thread: Task of the Month for April 2016

Ok gonna attempt first TOTM for me ever, why not? secretly I just want to know what gandalf's beard taste like, probably some strange herb

Originally Posted by Nebulus

Ok gonna attempt first TOTM for me ever, why not? secretly I just want to know what gandalf's beard taste like, probably some strange herb

Good luck! Nebulus!

Originally Posted by ~Stoic Beauty~

Hmm, I wonder if I ate some gunpowder and led in a dream would I shit bullets and kill the toilet? Also, what would plutonium tastes like in a dream? Oh well!! Maybe I'll just settle for making light bulb chips in the dream or eating some leftover integrated circuits from when I was younger. We'll see! *shrugs*

Eating circuits? Are you a robot?

Hey everybody!

I don't see any requests for wings, does it mean that all wings are leftovers and can be taken away? I'm sorry, I'm not in touch with ophelia so I don't know what was done and what needs to be done. Would you please let me know?

I actually had the idea about this joke in a lucid dreaming, lol, I was doing random stuff and out of the blue a DC told me to "mass" April's Fool with said message and woke up almost laughing haha.

Originally Posted by martakartus

I totally fell for it, I was so mad you were closing these threads we don't celebrate April's fools here in Catalonia and I didn't realize it was that lol

Great tasks btw, life's crazy right now and I've been slacking a lot, but hopefully soon I'll get back to lucid dreaming. I'm keeping the tasks on a list in the meantime

Little planet, little indeed. I spent la ESO, Bachillerato in Catalunya, (high school) and I am fluent in Català as well as Galician :p When I was 12 I moved from Boston, MA (USA) to Madrid, then, at 17 I moved to Barcelona, when I was 21, moved over Lugo with my wife, then a year later moved back to the states (much better for work, and being citizen... much easier too) to Chicago, after three winters of freezing to death with -35 degrees (about the same in Celsius) we moved our butts to San Diego, CA... and a year ago, me moved back to Galicia, since my business is established and we have a house here.

Originally Posted by gab

Hey everybody!

I don't see any requests for wings, does it mean that all wings are leftovers and can be taken away? I'm sorry, I'm not in touch with ophelia so I don't know what was done and what needs to be done. Would you please let me know?

PMed You.

Well, I finally did one of these. Eating things has been something I've been doing, so I figured it would be easy to remember, and almost inevitable.

Last night I was right in the middle of a battle between werewolves and shapeshifters. I had just gotten bitten by a shapeshifter and was in danger of becoming one... That happens, right? >.> One of the shapeshifters was chained to a torture table. When I saw a padlock holding the chains I suddenly remembered my task, and I became lucid. I quickly dispelled all of the shapeshifters (I was allied with the werewolves I guess -shrug-) by using force bursts from my hands, because apparently I can do that. Each time one got close I would just push them with my sloth powers. I grabbed the padlock and ripped it off of its chain. The shapeshifter that had been chained up began wrestling with the chains, and I began munching.

The flavor was hardly worth mentioning, honestly. Very cold, and hard, and slightly metallic. What I did notice to be interesting, however, is how my teeth seemed to melt away the metal as I chewed. It was hard, and I couldn't bite through all at once. Instead I had to apply pressure and then kinda wait for my teeth to melt through. It reminded me of the way it feels when your teeth melt through ice, except it wasn't as cold of course. As I began breaking it up small pieces of metal began sticking to my teeth and fusing there. It felt very scratchy when I tried to swallow the pieces. One piece in particular was fused to my front tooth and was irritating me. I noticed that the metal was solid as I gripped the small piece in my fingertips, but melted away when I placed my bottom tooth against it. It left a small flat disk-like artifact on my tooth, where my other teeth couldn't reach.

An injured werewolf fell to the floor in front of me, bleeding and crying out to me for help, but I told him I was eating.

I felt a piece that would not melt away, and pulled it out. It was the small piece of chain that had come loose when I had ripped the padlock from its position. It had tiny bits of the padlock fused onto it. I guess that since I hadn't decided that I could eat the chain it remained unchewable... or something..
The shapeshifter finally broke free from his constraints, and had picked up a second padlock. I guess he decided that I had the right idea and began chewing on his padlock as well saying something about the padlock granting him super shapeshifter powers and how I must be a shapeshifter too, since only shapeshifters can eat padlocks (Duh!). I didn't pay attention to him. I had already given up on any kind of ridiculous plot associated with the original dream. Werewolves and shapeshifters? Please. I'm too busy eating twisted, jagged shards of melty metal.

Eventually all of this became too much, and I pulled what remained out of my mouth, and laid it on a crate. I examined it. It was about a fourth of the original size, in two pieces, and had teeth indentations all over it. Small shards of metal still coated the inside of my mouth, and I spent a bit trying to force them down.

This was an awful experience. Much worse than my usual mud and earthworms that I usually eat. What have you guys gotten me into? If the shapeshifters win it'll be because I wasted my time eating padlocks. Poor Werewolves.

Please don't take my wings!!!

Eat something inedible task:
The train from the previous dream appears, and the carriage contains a restaurant. Studying the place makes me lucid again. On the walls are various decorations and Chinese lanterns. There is a rosette looking thing that is made from squishy orange plastic. I try eating it. It is rubbery tasting, chewy and not very nice. Nearby DCs look at me hungrily as if they want to try it though. Urgh no, trust me, it's not good!

Drain the colour from something:
...We get off the train and wait. On the other side of a small river there is a motorbike. It has a massive rear tyre and makes me think of the motorbike from the recent batman films. It doesn't really look like a normal motorbike. I start to wonder why I'm sitting here and get up, becoming lucid. I walk over to the bike past two small Chinese boys playing in the road.

I climb onto the motorbike and set off down the street. The bike is extremely wide but the weight is low and it is easy to ride. I speed through the streets and see two women flying hand in hand their long white dresses floating behind them.

Deciding to try a DV ToTM I stop by pulling on the front brake. The rear of the bike pulls out sideways in a cool but unrealistic stop. There is a tree covered in multicoloured lights and behind it the sky is pale blue. I try to draw the colour out of it and the sky turns dark blue like late evening. It is not good enough. I point at the lights and pull the colour out of them to extinguish each glow, leaving them pure white. My hand now looks red, pulsing, so I try to release the energy as lightning but my control fails me at this point. The dream destabilises.

Originally Posted by gab

Hey everybody!

I don't see any requests for wings, does it mean that all wings are leftovers and can be taken away? I'm sorry, I'm not in touch with ophelia so I don't know what was done and what needs to be done. Would you please let me know?

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Originally Posted by woblybil

Eating circuits? Are you a robot?

*Beeps* Sorry, that program does not compute! *Beeps again*
Nope! When I was little, my dad used to bring home some of his work home with him. I recall that we had to clip the circuit's feet, we re-tube and then we had to count them all. *Eyes roll* This was way before my father used to work for Raytheon.

Got the eating task done, and almost had the cloud one as well. Not to mention a few hits and misses with a few personal tasks. All in all, it's been a really productive dream day. In the meantime, I suppose I could get comfortable with trading these advanced wings for basic ones... for the moment. Heheh.

Spoiler for Relevant part:

Being the gourmand that I am, I first thought of TOTM number one. And so, I bit into whatever was nearby, the pillows, in this case. This tasted of but scented fabric, much to my disappointment.

I was a bit concerned of my state. So, I got out of bed, opened the drapes, and looked outside. Instead of my backyard, I found an urban area before me, multistoried concrete buildings as far as the eye could see, all under a grey, cloudy dawn sky. That's all the reassurance I needed.

Anyway, directly below was the roof of one of such squared towers. I quickly jumped right out the window towards there, landing safely via a slowed descent. There wasn't much to see, just a mostly flat, concrete rooftop with an occasional steam vent. Painted a few feet within the perimeter was a yellow line, not unlike street lines. The visuals began deteriorating, but a quick hand rubbing fixed that up good.

Once again, I thought to try the taste task, so, I peeled off some of the paint and had a sample. This, I realized, wasn't anything good, just chalk. What a pity.

Not sated, I looked around for something else, and eventually found a small, concrete stone. I bit into this, only to find it was just as it was, looking, feeling (and as difficult to bite into), and, in this case, tasting like an ordinary rock. Had mixed feelings here, both wonder and disappointment on such realism. Surely, it wouldn't have killed me to have it flavored like, say, a rolled hazelnut cream wafer, or a Chick-O-Stick, or something?

Oh, well. Without delay, I moved onto another task: laying on a bed of clouds. I looked up at the storm clouds above, and thought, "I am there", all while purposefully trembling in place (the latter being my personal method of warping). But, instead of that, the visuals, if not the environment, simply fogged up. Before long, I was transitioned without input.

If you're interested, you can find the rest here.

I watched the movies but didn't read the books.

OKAY, I'm gonna try. But I've never read the books. Just saw the movies. This looks really hard. I blame you Nebulus for roping me into this, lol. But I'm always up for a good challenge so it sounds fun.

Um ok i'm maybe in double trouble here but I blame lunagoddess (mistakenly)
and change the bet to gandalf's hat :p

The great honour that I felt for having my TOTM chosen was quickly replaced with envy as I see that some of you are having no issue with doing something that I have not been able to accomplish in my last half dozen lucids. Sloth, your description is the exact type of experience that I am shooting for, in terms of detail. Also, I did not get the idea from you, I'm new here

I'm not sure what I'm going to eat, but I'm gonna eat something strange!

I got fooled also... There was something odd in the message but it was not a dream... Damn...

I managed to get lucid last night and tried to achieve a TotM but I used an old one, I knew there was something odd with addind "In a parking lot" to the task. But it was a fun dream so here it is :

It started with me arriving in an open air parking lot. My plan is to go see a friend. I am walking in this parking and there is a place with a big blue square, like some places for people with mobility disability.

Then I though : "Is there a task of the month that as to do with contacting bees in a parking lot ? Let's give it a try !" (That is what made me lucid)

I kneeled, opened my arms and started wishing : "Bee, bee, talk to me !"
After a small amount of time, I heard a small voice answering. A tiny voice, like faeries in Zelda, very nice and pleasant. She was speaking with rimes, making quite short sentences but poetic ones. She was Bee 16.

I focused on this telepathic link and stayed still because a lot of bees, wasps and houseflies gathered around me and I did not want to get sting. A wasp and a horsefly landed on each of my hands and I tried to go away from this swarm. I moved slowly but fell down on grass, even though I was in a parking lot just before. I saw the grass just in front of my eyes and the swarm getting bigger every seconds.

I cannot remember all that the bee said to me but I knew it was about cold weather, like some ice ages are coming. I stood up, moved gently my hands to free them from the wasp and the housefly and ran into the house where my friend is.

Once inside, I ask him :
"- Why didn't you tell me about the cold !
- You did it again, you talked to the bees...
- Yes, Bee 16 told me everything !"
Then he tried to tell me a lame excuse, pretending it was not his fault but he already told me that for another thing he did so I did not believed him.
He laughed and I did too. We moved on to another topic, the dinner we where about to have with friends.

(I started losing control at that point.) Friends arrived, the night too. One of the friends forgot something in her car so she went outside and I followed because it was really dark and she was dressed in black. Almost at the parking lot, a car arrived. I was able to see the car but my friend was on the road and the car could not see her because it was not using proper light. I tried to shout at the car. It saw me and slowed down. I wanted to tell it that there was someone on front but could not make a sound. I finally managed to make some kind of growl but it was me in my bed and not my dream representation and I woke up.

I remembered the old task of communicating with an animal/insect, even though I read the tasks for this month 2 days ago. I hope I will manage to get another LD to lay on a bed made of clouds

Hey there,
in this nights lucid after a lot of doing strange stuff i suddenly remembered to do the totms and did them quick to keep on doing my strange random dreamthings...^^

Spoiler for Completed Basic I & Advanced I:

i got lucid by jumping thru the joint of a tram/bus. I sit there with a girl and i am about to start some pleasure time but i remember the TOTMs. i say to her to wait for a minute and stand up looking for something unedible i move some meters and there is a bike. i rip of the ringing bell and but it with a hint of hesitation into my mouth wondering if i even manage to chew it. there is no distinct taste there (but i am a little sick at the moment ) and the consistency is not as hard as metal but it dont "feels good" in my mouth. i chew a little and swallow it down going back to the seat i was sitting with the girl. i turn around to a guy. he wears a shirt with some fine checked pattern with different colors. i ask him: "do you mind if i soak up the color of your shirt?" He answers "do you mean something like this?" and instantly his shirt turns black and white. i answer "yea cool something like that" it turns into color again and i put my hand on a part of his shirt imagine to soak the color into my hand but instead of draining the color the pattern starts moving and pulsing a little and everything around the shirt starts to get the same pattern. i stop quickly because i feel like the dream destablizing. i start rubbing my hands and turn back to the girl and focus on her but wake up shortly after.

so what do you think does advanced I count? on the one hand i managed to turn something from color to black and white using a dc but couldnt to it "on my own"

i think i want to repeat both tasks because i really rushed thru them just to check them and to get my wings.... i can do better

Originally Posted by Shockabsorber

Sloth, your description is the exact type of experience that I am shooting for, in terms of detail. Also, I did not get the idea from you, I'm new here

I'm almost disappointed that you didn't. I would have loved to have known that I contributed to the lucid task selection. Either way, it's something I have been doing a lot lately, and I do recommend it.
I've been doing other senseless things too. I tried to burn myself in the shower recently in a lucid. I allowed a mugger to stab me. I stuck my hand in boiling water. It all sounds a bit masochistic, but one must consider the circumstances. I'm not really hurting myself. I'm just doing whatever I wouldn't dare to do in real life.

I got to visit Hobbiton but it was all messed up, no idea if there was a celebration but I can guarantee neither Bilbo, Frodo or any random dwarf would have been celebrating what had happened to the place...it was inhabbited seemingly solely by dogs Oo

Had several other dreams early on but cannot now recall, I tried to use a technique to remember them but gone.

D1 - Had one dream where I thought I was dreaming and had just been in a meeting room but something was wrong. i dreamt that I went back into the dream to change something. But it was a dream

Tried to WILD but just found myself in dream, don't remember any vibrations or anything.
D2 - Went up to hobbits round front door and I kind of got stuck there for a while, I was totally phased by how the door opened. Did it open like a notmal door or did it open in the middle like two half circles or best of all I decided open into the hillside by rolling, like a slidy door. with the door rolling round and round, and back, cool!
On entering the house I was immediatley drawn to the kitchen to the left of the main hallway. I went to peek in the kitchen door and that was as far as I got. The kitchen looked nice, wooden shelves with stuff on them, and shafts of sunlight. But completely incongruous to all I had expected there was a motorcycle lite by the shaft of light Oo wt...worse still was to befall my eyes on the old fashioned silver and black motorbyke was a dog, a sheep dog :/ what has the world come too
There was much activity in the kitchen, I know not what of but I left, in disgust and woke myself up outta there.
I woke up and tried again.
This time I was out in a field of thick high corn near a path, and there was Sam Gamgee or so I imagined. (In what I remember of the hobbit he had been collecting vegetables and took them back round to the house so I tried following him). I could only see the back of Sam, if that's who he was.
He sure enough went back to the Frodo's house (?) but instead of being able to enter via the big back window, I was confronted by big white framed double glazing, and no sign of a way of entry.
So I went back round to the front of the house to try yet again,
standing in tall in old green robes with a hood, was Gandalf....nope it was another ... dog!
this time it was a big grey (gandalf the ...grey evidently) long haird dog, standing on it's hindquarters, with it's face showing
at this point I felt quite insulted at how my subconscious was seriously taking the piss out of me, and gave up.
Dog Gawn it! for sure.

Note to self, next time remember I want an authentic hobbit house not some weird fabrication.
And then I remembered, seeing my neice's new godamm pooch and that he must of been the cause of this mess up!

Hobbiton has gone to the dogs? - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views
Next time I will be prepared with flea spray

Originally Posted by Nebulus

standing in tall in old green robes with a hood, was Gandalf....nope it was another ... dog!
this time it was a big grey (gandalf the ...grey evidently) long haird dog, standing on it's hindquarters, with it's face showing

Just for funny, My Ex had a large,grey, Irish wolfhound named of course "Gandalf"

Could someone please explain this part to me. I just don't get how to do this one if I only know what one person on here looks like...... Basic Task ii - Play Spin the Bottle or Seven Minutes in Heaven with a group of DCs. (litlepooky04)

Originally Posted by Elaineylane

Could someone please explain this part to me. I just don't get how to do this one if I only know what one person on here looks like...... Basic Task ii - Play Spin the Bottle or Seven Minutes in Heaven with a group of DCs. (litlepooky04)

when i understand you right you know the games but dont know any people here in person right? it says a group of DC`s so when you get lucid and there are some DC´s (random guys and girls ) around you just ask (or force) them to play one of the games with you easy peasy



so this night i got lucid again and wanted to accomplish both advanced tasks but somehow i failed both...

Spoiler for Advanced I fail:

after getting lucid i take 3 girls (one of them beeing my partner) with me because i want to go fly. before i leave the building i remember Advanced I and try to drain the color of some posters at a door and at a wall. i try sweep over the picture i try to drain the color and some other things but i cant authentically believe it to work. nevertheless the girls say more then once "Oh wow you did it now its black and white" i look closer and answer "no its still in color ". i try to ask one of them to show me how its done but somehow i have no patience and dont wait for an answer or a solution and leave the building to ...

Spoiler for Advanced II fail:

... do the advanced II task. i take my partner on the hand and tell her we will fly now. we run some meters and jump up. my one feet is scratching the ground shortly but then we are in the air. the speed is not very fast and i am aiming for the sky. it is night and i focus on a star to have a compass. we talk some random stuff and suddenly we fall/land again because we stopped focusing on flying... and now the misery is starting. i try to fly again now without holding her hand. i jump and land on my feet i start running and jump up and land on my belly like in super mario... it just wont work i blocked myself with my thoughts. i tell her its not about wanting to fly its about wanting to be somewhere. so i focus on a star again and tell me and then tell my dream i want to get there. suddenly i start levitating straight up into the sky. but while approaching the star somewhat the scenery changes. a bulldogish dog appear playing? with the star and the star changes to a scratch in a wooden floor. i cant change the imagery into a sky again so i start patting the dog finding myself in a room. somewhat its too much and my visuals turn black. i stay calm and imagine to be in the woods. after some time (DEILD?) i find myself in another building similar to an old style University or a monastery or a residential school. at the end of a corridor a friend of mine is there. i sprint to her and while doing notice that i even cant sprint superfast... bad dreamcontrol day... i hug her and we leave the building. i still want to fly (probably not remembering the initial task anymore) we go thru a street and suddenly i have a cool idea. i tell her "Wait behind me is a catapult right? right?" she looks a little confused but i am convinced and turn around. about 10 to 20 meters i see a nice wooden catapult. the thought behind it was i need to get some height to fly because i cant do it from the ground. so i step on the catapult and let myself shoot up in the air. i strongly feel the acceleration. in the moment the acceleration stops i start to boost by flying and it works somehow. unfortunately the direction was more a horizontal than a vertical one and i start struggelning again and land on a roof. again everything turns black around me. i stay still but this time have no idea what to imagine. my head turns on and i feel like waking up. i have an FA where i write down the dream.

Just for funny, My Ex had a large,grey, Irish wolfhound named of course "Gandalf"

Ok wobbly that is a scary syncronicity for me, when I was little our neighbours had an irish wolfhound and a scottish deehound that used to chase us if we were going for a walk, and would scare the hell out of us. Thats why im not so fond of dogs! They were taller than me just on four legs.

Today I changed things up again. I found a new source of video's. Thx, Nimbulus. I used one to induce a nap today & my Lucid Dream lasted a really long time. I had headphones on & I wore a facemask that holds your eyelids shut. I'll start off w/ what I ate & then write my dream. I tried to eat a glass but that didn't work. I think it was because I have reoccurring dreams where I eat my teeth. ( I secretly hoped I would have become lucid in that nightmare & that would have easily have met the challenge). So I tried for what else was near me because I was afraid I Would wake up & not complete a task. I tried to each a pencil first & it was just the tip & tasted like lead, which I remembered from using all those yrs in school getting pencil lead on my hands. It was just too hard to eat the whole thing. Then, I ate cardboard. It tasted like dirt & was difficult to eat & the texture was gritty. I ate a piece of paper which didn't have much of a taste at all, it was just chewy & my saliva broke it down. I also ate a piece of wood. It seemed to take on an easier chewy sensation. The texture was splintery at first but softened in my mouth & had a earthy taste, more than a dirt taste. It seemed to almost take on a taste that wasn't bad but, nothing I'd want to try again unless I was starving....


That's an excerpt from my dream journal. I need to figure out how to link it to my journal entry. If anyone could help me out w/ that, It'd be gratefully appreciated.

I found the link for my post. So for the complete entry just go here. Hopefully, lol.... http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/elai...-things-74423/