Thread: Task of the Month for December 2016

After a 9 month TOTM drought, I finally accomplished one last night!

Spoiler for Advanced II:

I'm at work talking with my boss about some technical problems I'm having on my project. After we talk, I walk back to my cubicle scratching the right side of my face, but I pass by a mirror and notice my reflection is scratching the left side. That's weird. I plug my nose and find I can breathe through it. As I do this, my office turns into a department store with a ton of clothes for sale around me. I try to remember the TOTMs and (thankfully) remember the car task. "Maybe they're having one of those car giveaways in here." Sure enough, I spot a bright blue sports car in a corner of the store, with a ton of signs advertising a competition of some kind. I slide underneath the car, grab the sides, and push upwards, easily lifting it. I notice as I'm carrying it that on the bottom of the car is a huge speaker about 6 feet across. I carry it a couple steps over to another corner of the store, where some guy is standing with a remote control. I set down the car, and the guy presses the button, causing loud music to play from the speaker and launch the car into the air.

C'mooooon, woblybil, I'm waiting for youuuu!

Originally Posted by gab

C'mooooon, woblybil, I'm waiting for youuuu!

I'll be right along

I got the first basic task just now!

Spoiler for Basic task I success:

I don't remember much about the start of my dream. I was looking into a dark face at the end of my bed and talking to it, but I don't remember what we said. It would have been creepy if I was scared of it. After a while the figure backed up and the features began to come in. At first it looked like my boyfriend, then it was someone else, a tall, broad young man. We talked for a while, regretfully, about how we wouldn't be able to see each other, I think. Then I did a reality check. I turned to him and said I was dreaming. He was glad and said he had to go. After he left I looked around the room I was in. It was at my parents house, but the walls were lined with shelves covered in little objects like tea cups and art supplies. I said, "Increase clarity now!" and watched the objects sharpen up. Then I tried "Increase lucidity!". These commands worked very well and I was pleased. My phone buzzed and I looked at it. It was the guy from before. I don't remember what the texts said but I was pleased to see them because I thought he was special somehow, since he helped me get lucid. I decided I would try really hard to remember his name, which was a strange name, but then I remembered the Task of the Month! So I tried to commit the name to memory as I prepared to try one of the tasks. The name was something like "Bodium Rich". I'm sure about the last part but the first might be off.

I found myself in the doorway of the room facing in. I said to myself that when I turned around, there would be a buffet table in the next room. I walked in and found it and began eating right out of the containers with a spoon. The table was slowly populated with more food. At first it was just corn, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, and cherry pie. All of this was delicious. Then more food started to show up, particularly fancy desserts. Some were packaged and some were homemade. I particularly liked some tiny vegan cupcakes with a strong berry flavor. I was trying to try everything when two women and three little girls came in. I told the little girls, "I'm a lucid dreamer. If you try to interrupt me I'll blow your head up." Then the women began to talk very loudly about a sale at Macy's. I began to feel my lucidity slipping as a result. I turned to them and told them if they didn't quiet down I was going to blow their heads up. After about twenty seconds in quiet they began to loudly whisper to each other. I told them again, I'm a lucid dreamer and I will blow your head up. They scoffed this time. I put my hands out on either side of one woman's head and willed her head to grow larger. It didn't work. I grabbed her by the hair and said, "I'm going to look away, and when I look back your head will blow up." Didn't work. But I had a really strong grip on her hair. She started screaming about lawsuits. I decided that violence clearly wasn't working for me and I had a lot to remember so I'd better go ahead and wake up.

link to my dj

Originally Posted by zombunny

I got the first basic task just now!

Spoiler for Basic task I success:

I don't remember much about the start of my dream. I was looking into a dark face at the end of my bed and talking to it, but I don't remember what we said. It would have been creepy if I was scared of it. After a while the figure backed up and the features began to come in. At first it looked like my boyfriend, then it was someone else, a tall, broad young man. We talked for a while, regretfully, about how we wouldn't be able to see each other, I think. Then I did a reality check. I turned to him and said I was dreaming. He was glad and said he had to go. After he left I looked around the room I was in. It was at my parents house, but the walls were lined with shelves covered in little objects like tea cups and art supplies. I said, "Increase clarity now!" and watched the objects sharpen up. Then I tried "Increase lucidity!". These commands worked very well and I was pleased. My phone buzzed and I looked at it. It was the guy from before. I don't remember what the texts said but I was pleased to see them because I thought he was special somehow, since he helped me get lucid. I decided I would try really hard to remember his name, which was a strange name, but then I remembered the Task of the Month! So I tried to commit the name to memory as I prepared to try one of the tasks. The name was something like "Bodium Rich". I'm sure about the last part but the first might be off.

I found myself in the doorway of the room facing in. I said to myself that when I turned around, there would be a buffet table in the next room. I walked in and found it and began eating right out of the containers with a spoon. The table was slowly populated with more food. At first it was just corn, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, and cherry pie. All of this was delicious. Then more food started to show up, particularly fancy desserts. Some were packaged and some were homemade. I particularly liked some tiny vegan cupcakes with a strong berry flavor. I was trying to try everything when two women and three little girls came in. I told the little girls, "I'm a lucid dreamer. If you try to interrupt me I'll blow your head up." Then the women began to talk very loudly about a sale at Macy's. I began to feel my lucidity slipping as a result. I turned to them and told them if they didn't quiet down I was going to blow their heads up. After about twenty seconds in quiet they began to loudly whisper to each other. I told them again, I'm a lucid dreamer and I will blow your head up. They scoffed this time. I put my hands out on either side of one woman's head and willed her head to grow larger. It didn't work. I grabbed her by the hair and said, "I'm going to look away, and when I look back your head will blow up." Didn't work. But I had a really strong grip on her hair. She started screaming about lawsuits. I decided that violence clearly wasn't working for me and I had a lot to remember so I'd better go ahead and wake up.

Congrats! Don't forget to link to your DJ. Don't know why your wings are not showing. Will figure it out after work, sorry.

Since some days I am attempting the Travel to future Bonus task
The closest I can get is seeing a futuristic city from afar (8-Dec, THIS DJ entry)

I link the failure to my previous similar experience, which painted a grim world governed by machines after the Singularity happened
I am seriously thinking to give up...

Advanced - pick up a car

Spoiler for Throwing a car:

(After becoming lucid, was trying to do the 12 days of Christmas tasks, involving leaping.) ...HULK SMASH! Unleashing a roar of rage I transform into Hulk and remembering the TOTM grab a car and lift it overhead. Then I walk down the street looking for something to throw it at, but end up throwing it into a building which smashes it in a satisfying way...

Originally Posted by GenghisKhan

Since some days I am attempting the Travel to future Bonus task
The closest I can get is seeing a futuristic city from afar (8-Dec, THIS DJ entry)

I link the failure to my previous similar experience, which painted a grim world governed by machines after the Singularity happened
I am seriously thinking to give up...

I'm not sure why you think this is a failure.

8-Dec-2016 - ND - Car crash + WILD - Attempt travel in the future

ND: I bump the car in front of me while commuting to work, I descend to look, however no big damage.
On the other hand, the rear of my car is heavily damaged, although I haven't noticed anyone hitting me at the back (!!)
I discuss with the people and look at some modules

WILD: I attempt travel to the future TotM. I am in a non-existing room in my house.
I hold in my hands an oval glass jar with a blue cover.
I rotate and manipulate it in my hands, and I know this is letting time outside pass quickly.
I exit the building, in the street I only see normal cars passing by. Evn the town looks pretty normal.

I try again, going to another home. This time when I exit, I look to my left behind some small houses, I see the outline of a futuristic city, a bit faded by distance. It has high buildings / towers / antennas. However it lasts very little, and I cannot reach it again

You were in some room, used a device to manipulate time to pass faster outside, then you got out and saw futuristic city in a distance. It didn't say you can not use a device, so I think this is a success.

Now you just need the advanced task to get all 4 wings!

I deemed it as a failure because I wanted to actually interact with the future environment, or at least explore to a certain extent

But well, thank you ! =D

As for the advanced, I've completed the Lift car, see this post

I think I may be missing the Basic task instead...

I'm not sure this dream qualifies for TASK of the MONTH lift a car

Possible disqualification #1 I wasn't thinking of the task at the time, tho I was lucid
Possible disqualification #2 It was actually a land-speeder which of course can fly and thus might not require super strength to lift (even one handed)

Spoiler for Get your hooves off my land speeder:

So I'm in a room and there are people I know there, as well as other DCs. I realize I am dreaming. I look around the room but there is no obvious way out, I jump into the air and float. I figure this is a good time to see how DC's behave in a crush room trap. I give a laugh (slightly evil) and two of the windowless and door less walls begin to move inwards, people run around the room with no way out. I begin to focus on being rigid so I will smash holes in the walls when they meet. In the process I lose focus on the DCs and so suddenly they are all gone, so I move toward the nearest closing wall and punch thru it with beams breaking and I fall onto a dreamscape of having many people. I recognize one from real life. I see a hillside with a cool car on it, I run towards it but the hill is too steep, I am nearly at the top but am sliding back down. I realize the car is a land speeder, I reach out with one hand and grab it and lift it to myself as I slide down the hill, I hop in and begin to fly off, but a DC horse has decided to hitch a ride and is clinging by his intertwined hooves from the thing. I reach my left leg over the side and kick at his hooves. He comes free and falls, I have somehow managed to fly over a frozen ice valley and he falls at least 100 feet to his death. I look up and notice the dreamscape is fading, I loose lucidity.

Originally Posted by cooleymd

I'm not sure this dream qualifies for TASK of the MONTH lift a car

Possible disqualification #1 I wasn't thinking of the task at the time, tho I was lucid
Possible disqualification #2 It was actually a land-speeder which of course can fly and thus might not require super strength to lift (even one handed)

... In the process I lose focus on the DCs and so suddenly they are all gone, so I move toward the nearest closing wall and punch thru it with beams breaking and I fall onto a dreamscape of having many people. I recognize one from real life. I see a hillside with a cool car on it, I run towards it but the hill is too steep, I am nearly at the top but am sliding back down. I realize the car is a land speeder, I reach out with one hand and grab it and lift it to myself as I slide down the hill, I hop in and begin to fly off, but a DC horse has decided to hitch a ride and is clinging by his intertwined hooves from the thing. I reach my left leg over the side and kick at his hooves. He comes free and falls, I have somehow managed to fly over a frozen ice valley and he falls at least 100 feet to his death. I look up and notice the dreamscape is fading, I loose lucidity.

Yeah, sorry, it has to be a deliberate attempt at a task. Not accidental part of a plot where you don't remember or think of a task. And it sounds like you pulled the car towards you from top of the hill as you were trying to reach the top, so you can fly away with it.

There is still time till end of the month to get one of out brand-spanking new awesome TOTM wing badges!

Originally Posted by cooleymd

I'm not sure this dream qualifies for TASK of the MONTH lift a car

Possible disqualification #1 I wasn't thinking of the task at the time, tho I was lucid
Possible disqualification #2 It was actually a land-speeder which of course can fly and thus might not require super strength to lift (even one handed)

Spoiler for Get your hooves off my land speeder:

So I'm in a room and there are people I know there, as well as other DCs. I realize I am dreaming. I look around the room but there is no obvious way out, I jump into the air and float. I figure this is a good time to see how DC's behave in a crush room trap. I give a laugh (slightly evil) and two of the windowless and door less walls begin to move inwards, people run around the room with no way out. I begin to focus on being rigid so I will smash holes in the walls when they meet. In the process I lose focus on the DCs and so suddenly they are all gone, so I move toward the nearest closing wall and punch thru it with beams breaking and I fall onto a dreamscape of having many people. I recognize one from real life. I see a hillside with a cool car on it, I run towards it but the hill is too steep, I am nearly at the top but am sliding back down. I realize the car is a land speeder, I reach out with one hand and grab it and lift it to myself as I slide down the hill, I hop in and begin to fly off, but a DC horse has decided to hitch a ride and is clinging by his intertwined hooves from the thing. I reach my left leg over the side and kick at his hooves. He comes free and falls, I have somehow managed to fly over a frozen ice valley and he falls at least 100 feet to his death. I look up and notice the dreamscape is fading, I loose lucidity.

Don't give up. Keep on trying!

Managed to get one advanced (teleport) and the bonus. I'll try the ToTY next year!
http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/him/...m-guide-79016/
I was aware that what I was doing was completing the totm, I didn't complete the others because I couldn't remember them. As for the teleporting, I wasn't going for a specific location, just a past place where that DG died.

Originally Posted by gab

Yeah, sorry, There is still time till end of the month to get one of out brand-spanking new awesome TOTM wing badges!

Yeah, Tell me about it! I did the basic I but I did it twice over,Mixed the pieces and I can't put the puzzle together

I think I did advanced i and advanced ii
However, for the teleporting task, I did end up somewhere random, but the day before I didn't read the the task properly, and intended to go somewhere. I failed at that and ended up somewhere random. Does it count?
Teleporting Task:
[SPOILER]I then spin three times, and attempt to arrive in Terraluna.
I instead arrive at a website, called guest.com/seemygalaxy.
Its background is black, and the text is bright pink.[/SPOILER]
Car lifting:
[SPOILER]I find a car. I remember the TOTM, and think ' well, it did not say which form the car had to be in!'
I inflate it until it is a balloon, and carry it a few metres, and then throw it with ease.[/SPOILER]

http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/natu...d-totms-79036/

Originally Posted by naturespirit

I think I did advanced i and advanced ii
However, for the teleporting task, I did end up somewhere random, but the day before I didn't read the the task properly, and intended to go somewhere. I failed at that and ended up somewhere random. Does it count?
Teleporting Task:
[SPOILER]I then spin three times, and attempt to arrive in Terraluna.
I instead arrive at a website, called guest.com/seemygalaxy.
Its background is black, and the text is bright pink.[/SPOILER]
Car lifting:
[SPOILER]I find a car. I remember the TOTM, and think ' well, it did not say which form the car had to be in!'
I inflate it until it is a balloon, and carry it a few metres, and then throw it with ease.[/SPOILER]

First WILD with both advanced TOTMs - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

I'm so sorry. I believe the task was to intent to go to random place. Without any idea where you end up or wish as to where to go. So it's a NO on this one.

But since others didn't say they used "super power" to lift the car, I think you can get wings for this one.

I encourage everybody to please comment yey or ney, when poster asks if it counts or not. It's a joint effort, this dreaming and winging and tasking

12/12 Completed Basic Task I (the third time)
3:00pm I first discovered I was dreaming while riding a bicycle with an Space Alien girl I had met and bedded down before but lost lucidity for awhile getting involved in the story.
We were bike camped with a bunch of Lucid Dreamers from everywhere including outer space at a place called "Tea Leaf Lake" in the Halliburton Highlands and we were getting signatures to prevent the Corporation from banning lucid dreaming (I like lucid cycling, I don't have to pedal)

Anyways, After getting lost a few times my riding partner said "Free lunch at the lodge" I asked "A buffet?, That's a task" (Lucid again) She said "I think so" we went into the lodge thru an open double doorway and there was a band playing on a platform and along one wall there were tables of food...Some looked like it had already been eaten once and I said "I think were late" but the chicken wings looked good so we snatched a few just as a chef like guy was starting toward us and flew out the door throwing the bones back at him, They were delicious too..But now I wanted a cigarette but lost lucidity again as we cycled up a dirt road to a gas station and the guy pointed me to a rack with flat boxes of cigarettes like they have in other country's and every pack had been opened with a few missing, one had some money in it. I sorted thru them and went back to the one with the money but now the money was gone and I thought "WTF, I'm still dreaming" I went to the counter arranging cigarette packs on top of it to hide that I was peeing down a hole in the floor in front of it and finally woke up and grabbed the recorder before I mixed this dream up also

Gonna try for the Basic II task, at some point!

I loooove these wings!

This morning during a mostly uneventful 45' WILD I think I complete the Buffet task:

I am in a bar/street food store. On top of the "desk" there are white bowls with olives and potato chips, behind a glassed top, two big stuffed roast-beef

Question: what is the proper spoiler tag ? I've tried both [SPOILER] [/SPOILER] and [SP] [/SP]

Originally Posted by GenghisKhan

This morning during a mostly uneventful 45' WILD I think I complete the Buffet task:



Question: what is the proper spoiler tag ? I've tried both [SPOILER] [/SPOILER] and [SP] [/SP]

Go Advanced and use the spoiler, Double box on the bottom line!

Very happy to see the increased activity! Good luck everyone!

Attempted 3 TOTMs this morning.
Advanced TOTM - Spin around and teleport yourself to a random location. - fail
Advanced TOTM - Lift a car with super strength and carry it somewhere. - fail. I forgot to carry it somewhere.
BONUS TASK - Go into a room and close the door. Tell yourself that while you were in the room, time stopped for you, but continued to advance outside of the room and it's now 100 years into the future. Describe what the future is like! - success

Spoiler for totms:

Advanced TOTM - Spin around and teleport yourself to a random location. - fail - I don't remember where I ended up.
...
I remembered first TOTM and started to spin. My cat in my outstreched arms, kinda like 2 ice skaters, haha. I was giggling so hard. At first I was just spinning in one spot and I lost my vision. Then I felt familiar sensation in my head and I was lifted up and carried up to the right. I'm pretty sure I landed somewhere but I don't remember.


I'm walking down a street at night and remember the Advanced TOTM - Lift a car with super strength and carry it somewhere. - fail. I forgot to carry it somewhere.
Streets are empty, but a huge red fire truck just turns a corner out of my view. I want to go after, thinking "really, you had to pick this huge car?" it when a huge green garbage truck turns to my street and is heading towards me. I'm thinking I'm gonna get so run over if this doesn't work.

I read Ophelia's DJ during the WBTB and she teleported people. So I outstrech my arm and will the truck to float up. I'm not even surprised when it does. It wobbles a bit about 5-10 feet above ground. I want to do more, so I turn it upside down then let it drop. It's all crumbled and I see some movement in the cabin. I walk up to it and say "oh yeah, and the driver si fine, he is ok".


I'm in some city between building. I remember the BONUS TASK - Go into a room and close the door. Tell yourself that while you were in the room, time stopped for you, but continued to advance outside of the room and it's now 100 years into the future. Describe what the future is like!

I look into a window of couple of houses but they look scary. I find one that's ok and I tell myself "this is my house". I walk in and remember I need to go in a room, so I walk through an empty room to another room and close the door.

I was preparing for this as I was falling asleep. I planned on finding a lever on a wall which I would pull and a counter would show numbers go up to the future.

So I put my hand on a wall looking for a lever. It's not there. I say "I turn back and there will be a lever". I turn and nothing. I look again and there is a metal ring hanging on a chain that's coming out of a hole in a wall above my head. I say "ok this will do". I pull on a chain, it turns some flywheel and I hear it turn fast then slow down and stop. Before it stops, I pull the chain again and I do this 5 times, because 5 times 20 years is 100, right?

I walk out the door and now that room has some people in it, sitting on chairs. I say "oh, hi" and I rush to the main door to see outside. It looks even older than before and the houses are all different. Now there is a roof over the whole street. I'm thinking maybe this is a museum and I take another door to get out to the "real world". But it leads me to same place. I get frustrated and start to think that this is how the future will look like and I'm not liking it.

http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/gab/...totm-ii-79053/

Originally Posted by woblybil

Go Advanced and use the spoiler, Double box on the bottom line!

Cool, thank you !