Thread: Task of the Month for December 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.

How to get your wings

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: one basic or both, one advanced or both, bonus or how many tasks of the year. Please note, that we now have wings for every task. Requesting to join the group will upon approval also grant you access to Lucid Task Club.

Of course you still need to post the pertinent part of the dream here and link to your DJ entry.
Format of your post:
[Basic, Advanced...] -[Name of the Task] - [success or fail] - [pertinent part of a dream] - [link to dj]
Please, make sure you post here your attempts both failures and successes, this will make this post much more dynamic.

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 - Go to a buffet and see what there is to eat (Dolphin)
Basic Task ii - Set someone's house on fire. (imazu)

Advanced Task i - Spin around and teleport yourself to a random location. Describe the location and how it felt. (Xvaiuer)
Advanced Task ii - Lift a car with super strength and carry it somewhere. (Spaceline)

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! (Xvaiuer)

Chain chain chain, it's time!

Looks like the TOTM non-lucids have started already:

+ at the buffet? My friend is only ordering rock lobster, that will be expensive. It's sort of a large circular lobster and he's using a hand-crank lobster cracker. Crack crack crack! Then I'm helping him get at the meat in these large circular lobster cross sections, digging the meat way out from deep inside, trying a bite (it's really good).

Have fun folks!!

I´ve completed both Basic Tasks this night... i could remember Advanced I but didnt want to do it and couldnt remember No. II and therefore my dream turned random and i woke up soon after...

Spoiler for Completed Basic I & II:

i am at an airportish-type scenario. there are some people from work. i look around for a toilet. i see changing cabins and several shops but no toilet. i think i go and ask someone and she wants to show me.
i (think) wake up, think about lucid dreaming and maybe the tasks and fall asleep into same dream but instantly lucid without the need to do a RC. we go back from where i came and we jump over from one side to the other of the building over a big hole where one can see the ground floor. we seem to have not enough momentum but we can hold on to the handrail. we float up and before the dream gets random i remember tasks and ask where the buffet is. because i _know_ there is one. i assume/ she tells me upstairs and while i approach the stairs i see the first people with food. as i arrive upstairs i see a big table full of different fruits but nothing more. i look around and taste some fruit i dont remember anymore. in the corner i find another table with more fruits and some cheese. i feel disappointed because i wanted to eat alot of random awesome stuff and not some boring fruits yea.
task done i think and i phase thru the wall and float up in the air. i land outside and start to do a fireball the way i managed it to do it the last times. i turn my hand down imagine to gather some energy there and turn my hand around and see a small flame. with a little concentration i manage to make it bigger and more of a concentrated and compact engergy/fireball. i throw it on the wall of the "airport" and a small spot starts burning. i notice that the whole wall is made out of metal and glas.... not the best material to burn. but i manage to see an expanding flame where i look and concentrate a little. in the end the flames are as high and big as me. i stop there because the building is way to big to continue do it the way i do it. maybe another time with a smaller wooden house?!
i try to remember further tasks and i remember the spinning task but i dont feel like teleportation so i start moving and try to think of the other advanced task. but since i am moving and cant remember the task i get lost in random action. i look for another toilet or pick someone up there? we talk about some task and how he would do it or dont like it? and i wake up shortly after.

I'm going to attempt Basic Task ii this month.

Double hit for Basic II and Advanced II in a bit low-control lucid. Advanced II seemed much easier for me, it felt like the car had no weight at all. I had to use a slight workaround to set that house on fire in basic task.

[01-12-2016: ToTM DILD] - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Hmmm, during this morning WILD I did something similar to Easy Task I

LINK TO DJ

Will definitely attempt Adv II and the Bonus one, which looks great (already did something similar, but it was long ago)

December TOTM
Basic - spinning - fail
Advanced - lifting car- fail

I wanted to spin to another location and lift a car. A buffet would have been nice too.

I end up on a busy street. I stand in the middle of it and "remember" the TOTM to make a car disappear. I focus on a truck or a bus. It starts to sparkle and colors lose intensity. I wish it to disappear completely and a wave of invisibility washes over it and it disappears.

Then I remembered that the TOTM was to lift a car, not to make it disappear. There are no more cars around, so I fly and I want to land on a prking lot that finally shows up. But I can't steer or slow down.

I remember spinning which was another TOTM. But I don't remember where I ended up, or even if I just remember me practicing spinning last night.

http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/gab/...tm-fail-78859/

Last night I misremembered Basic II as just "Set something on fire." So I lit a piece of paper and ended up setting an entire deli section at the grocery store on fire.

#1 Go to a buffet, I love food dreams

Well I didn't quite make the chain, but I am going to claim Bonus success! Wasn't super awesome Jetson-style future, but I did detect a difference. It was probably a hindrance to get lucid in my childhood home (CH) since I have such a strong schema/expectation for what the neighborhood looks like, and it's just a suburban area to start with.

Spoiler for Bonus success:

LD #222. I look ahead of me and my awareness is jolted when I see high/flood waters outside the CH living room window. I know this is a dream sign and so I rapidly approach with excitement to verify. I'm doing some nose pinches while I'm looking out the window at the water but I'm not paying attention because I'm already lucid. I notice as I approach the window that the room is featureless, no furniture, and the opening to the dining room to the left is not there. Fully lucid, I turn to thte right and head into the living room through the opening (sudden location shift) and hold up my hands in front of my face and think of TOTM. I want to do them all! I decide to go for bonus even though it's hardest probably. I head to the front door and close it, and think to myself, OK, now 100 years have past, let's go outside and check out the future! I open the door and go into the front yard, I notice a tree with no leaves on it [DREAM SIGN] just bone-white branches like antlers. I see no differences yet and I'm getting nervous that I may not see any. I get up to the street and try to remain open to what is here without causing changes from expectation. I see cars zipping around and wonder if they should be flying, but no, avoid expectation. I look closer and noticed that every car has a batmobile-style rear jet engine exaust, yay, I noticed a difference. There is the sound of the roaring of these engines in the background.
A car does a wide power slide U-turn (starting from pointing right to left and ending up pointing to the right) right in front of me and I'm annoyed by this and hop out of the way to avoid being hit. The car stops with the front passenger door right in front of me. The driver is an annoying woman whom I recognize [FALSE], she's a real estate agent? What's she doing here? I hope it's nothing to do with my CH. She gets out and is holding a little mortar/bomb/jet thing with pronounced wings.
She is modeling this in front of our garage because our garage door has a very pleasant neutral metallic gray color [FALSE] and makes for a good picture background. The dream fades.

This morning I manage to lift a car LINK TO DJ

Originally Posted by GenghisKhan

This morning I manage to lift a car LINK TO DJ

Can you post it here too? And don't forget to request joining the lucid club from your control panel. Please say if it was basic, advanced, bonus or task of the year, so I know which wings to apply.

Originally Posted by gab

Can you post it here too? And don't forget to request joining the lucid club from your control panel. Please say if it was basic, advanced, bonus or task of the year, so I know which wings to apply.

No problem !

The DJ entry is very long, so I will just post here the relevant bit

I hand the package to some cops, they take him inside a police car. This reminds me of the "lift car" task
I try lifting the one holding the scientist, but the dream looks confusing at this point.
I try again with a different car, a dark red sedan. I pick the car from left rear wheel, I lift it, but the wheel folds under the car. I grab it from the front hood, lift it, then move my hands on the bottom, and walk a bit with the car suspended above my head.

Didn't write it there, but the car felt totally weightless...

GenghisKhan: Congrats, officially for Completing Lucid Task of the Year!

Originally Posted by Ibeauty

GenghisKhan: Congrats, officially for Completing Lucid Task of the Year!

Thank you !

Thanks also for setting this up, it's been awesome completing those tasks =D

Your welcome! I had done at least one of the task of the month for this month.

Moved the wings convo here http://www.dreamviews.com/tasks-mont...ml#post2208299
PMed PercyLucid and OpheliaBlue.

Basic I - found a buffet when I interrupted some kind of cookery class my work colleages were attending. Most of the food looked awful!

Spoiler for Basic I:

There are a group of people hanging around in the kitchen. They seem to be trying to cook, but are not very good at it. I mock them for their crap skills. I attempt to photograph a group of people using a tablet, but the image on the screen looks different to the scene in front of the camera.

At the side of the kitchen is a counter top filled with various dishes that the others have made. I notice a large silver cone shaped thing with small collander like holes in it. Green beans are sticking through the holes. Bit weird. This must be a dream. I remember the TOTM. Most of the food on the counter looks unappetising, but I try one of the beans. It is chewy.

Edit: Seem to still have last month's wings, so I'll have to get an advanced task done pronto!

Okay, I have done 3 of the Task of the Month for this month but, I just need to check for spelling and such. It's one thing to post your dream in a DJ but, it's another to post it in the threads.

was quite around me but I´ve completed Advanced I & II some days ago!
here just the short version

Spoiler for Advanced I & II:

after a short dreamlet and a wild transition i lay lucid in my bed. i stand up and jump out of the window flowing down. a DC sees me and runs away. i remember Advanced II and look out for some cars. i see a small one near me but a 4x4 some meters away. i want to pick up the heavy big one. i go there and start lifting. the car is not too heavy. until i lifted it up completely i nevertheless feel my triceps working and a little hurting. in the moment i have the car on my shoulder i dont feel any weight anymore. i start running with it but i run slower. i want to throw down the car from a bridge and as i throw it it ricochet from a corner and slowly and straight float away. hm seems like no gravity. that was not what i intended. i puck up another car and go next to the bridge. i remember and visualize how it feels to throw heavy stones down somewhere and i do it with the car. the car falls down and smashes into the ground and another car.
i move on and enter a tunnel. i remember advanced I and i am with someone. i tell her i want to spin and get to my room and that she should follow me. i start spinning and for a short time span i see how the blurry visuals change from dark tunnel to a lighter room that could be my room but i apparently spin to long or too fast and my visuals go black. i start rubbing and touching but eventually (i think) i wake up.

i turn on my side and fall asleep again. at some point during a dream i get lucid again. i do some naughty stuff but then remember the spinning task again. this time i talk to a girl and ask her to show me how and this time really be there with me. i tell her to go there and show me. she move in position and starts spinning aaaaaand: nothing happens xD. she spinns around and around but nothing really happens. it looks ridiculous and i turn around. i try it on my own. this time i dont spin so fast and i see something is changing. i stop spinning and some parts seem same but in the background i see a big mountain on an island with a very beautiful dark blue around it like some bad weather clouds or something that swallows the light. i turn around and see what else changes and think to me how i could manage to get there where i intent to. i think a little more about it but then remember the nice mountain. and i turn around and see it and start flying. i fly not to fast and see random DCs underneath me doing stuff. but the visuals where like they where made out of modeling clay. i try to fly faster and let myself fall down a little and use the acceleration from the fall to fly faster. i approach the mountain and see several people climbing it. it looks a little like a traincamp or something similar. suddenly i am very close and i wonder how i did it. i fly over an area with different training machines. as i want to land i wake up

Basic - buffet - success

3. I'm walking through a town and I remember the "Find a buffet and see what's to eat" TOTM. I look around and there is a large area with tables and chairs. Not many people sitting there, as the event is mostly over. Not much food left either. Some tables have chafing dishes. I grab a plate and load it with prime rib and mashed potatoes. As I walk with it, I reluctantly decide to taste the potatoes. I correctly remember how in WL I made potatoes recently and had really bad dreams that night. These dream taters were buttery and tasted ok.

http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/gab/...ood-yes-78964/

Was awesome, thank you subC!

Advanced II Fail
I did the advanced II task but I didn't do it as a task, Rather as an emergency measure!
I was a few minutes into a wild sex dream when I discovered I was actually alone in my bed which made the dream impossible and looked at my hands while bouncing up and down way above the bed but it felt so good I was not going to give it up for any task, at the "Very good" end it was going to wake me up so I did a spin outta there to keep from waking up but lost the idea of any tasks and wound up leading an escaped (girl) prisoner thru the forest to get away from dogs I could hear in the distance. I flew up some wooded mountain trails dragging her behind me to a wide gorge with a highway far below and sheer cliffs on both sides, There was a large abandoned brick hotel on the other side so I flew across with her hanging on and we watched out a window to see the dogs fall into the gorge but I woke up first.

Completed These:

Spoiler for Basic i: :

Basic i: I had a dream that I was sitting in a bar. The bar looked like the one I used to go to when I was in college on VT. I remember that heard the song, "If I could turn back time!" Then I knew that I was dreaming because I have left that place ages, ago. Then I decided to do Dolphin's task so, I made a buffet appear out of nowhere. It was a Mandarin Buffet but, I wasn't hungry so, I sat back down at the bar. At one point, I pulled my pants down and stuck my hand up my "birth canal", and I pulled out a fully polished diamond. It was clean and perfect. Then I woke up.
Here: http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/ibea...016-nap-78936/

Spoiler for Advance ii:

Lucid, Advanced Taskii: I had a dream that I was in a room with Gab. Apparently, in the dream, I was a fugitive butterfly. Gab was trying to catch me with a net so, she can put me in a little glass bottle. At this point, I knew that I was dreaming because I don't know even Gab in real life. I phased through the wall into a bathroom in a bus station. I remember there was this hooker that asked me for a cigarette but, I had to tell her that I didn't smoke. The scenes changed to of me walking into town to the store with my friend Booth. I recall we decided to walk across the street. I recall that a bus was speeding down the street at me. It crashed right into me but, I wasn't hurt. The whole front of the bus, however, was damaged. I remember thinking that it was a good thing there was no one on the bus except, for the bus driver. Luckily, he was got out okay. I decided to do Spaceline's task so, I picked up the bus. Then I decided to move it to somewhere else but, there were nowhere to put it. Then I woke up.

Here: http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/ibea...-6-2016-78931/

Spoiler for Bonus::

Bonus Task Lucid: I had a dream that my sisters was at my house. Then I recall that it changed to my sister's lake house. There were tomato plants growing all over the place all over the yard. I walked further I noticed that there was a weird shop that was attached to Dee's lake house. Then I knew that I was dreaming because this was a false memory. So, I decided to do the bonus task and walked into a room and closed the door. I remember in this dream that I started to meditate. While I was in there, I I told myself to stop time for myself. I recall that I made the time advance outside of the room I'm in. Then I unfroze time and now 100 years into the future. The future is bleak. It looked like a deserted planted. Civilization as we know it is no more. Then I woke up.
Here: http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/ibea...-7-2016-78945/

Total task memory fail. Yay, a goal-focused, stabilization success, non-caveman LD with immediate memory of wanting to do TOTMs. Unfortunately I couldn't. Remember. A. Single. Task. In the end I decided it had to do with playing music (confused with piper task from 12 days of Christmas challenge?) and it faded with someone off-stage saying something about "not all the tasks are jazz" or something like that.