Thread: Task of the Month for January 2017

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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]
For example:
Basic - Drive a car - success

When you post about another successful attempt, please tell me if it was your first or second task from basic or advanced tasks, or first, second... seventh task from the task of the year. I need to know this so I know which wings to give you. If you only say "completed TOTY - flying car" , this doesn't tell me which wings with how many stars should I give you.

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 - Find a forgotten Christmas present under the tree and open it. (Gab)
Basic Task ii - Get a massage. (Gab)

Advanced Task i - Ask a pencil to draw something. (Naturespirit)
Advanced Task ii - Get on an alien spaceship. Describe what you see. (Spaceline)

BONUS TASK!! - Got to planet Pandora from movie Avatar and walk around the bioluminescent forest at night. (Gab)
EDIT - go to any bio luminescent habitat. Be it Pandora or any other place you can find. And just now I found this - http://huff.to/2huIl0a

BEGINNER TASKS: (Anybody feel free to have fun with these, but you'll get wings only if you are a beginner.)
1. Slow down, look around, describe what you see.
2. Touch the ground. What is it? Grass, asphalt?
3. Look at your body. What are you wearing?
4. Say something out loud.
5. Look behind you.
6. Look at the skies. Are there clouds, stars?
7. Make your fingers longer, or your hand by trying to reach for something further away

Time to chain!!

For ToTY, can you do the task, wake up and wbtb and have that count as another ld?

Originally Posted by Him

For ToTY, can you do the task, wake up and wbtb and have that count as another ld?

As long as the task you are doing is in all separate lucid dream for TOTY then you are fine; you can't do more than one TOTY in the same dream. Good luck!

Originally Posted by Him

For ToTY, can you do the task, wake up and wbtb and have that count as another ld?

Yep.

You need to record in the waking plane the dream in your preferred dream journal (does not need to be online here, I do it in my notepad next to my night table, no electronics!)

As long as you have recorded your previous lucid, you are good to go.

DEILD and L-DEILD are not permitted. (Gonna add this to the OP)

But I just got off of an Alien Spaceship.. You want me to get back on that thing?

Woo-hoo! First time I've completed any TOTMs before the month started

I'm chaining Basic I and earning a new Advanced I:

I try to visualize what a Christmas tree with a single present under it would look like, then turn around, expecting to find it. Instead, I find a whole bunch of small, sparse, undecorated trees. I don't see any presents, but I walk over and look under them. I see something small near the wall, so I crawl under the trees to get it. It's a huge pouch of Fruit by the Foot. I tear it open, curious as to what I'll find inside, and I'm almost surprised that it actually has Fruit by the Foot in it. I pull the roll out and see that it's not well rolled, and it's somehow really gooey. I unroll a bit and try a bite. Because it's so gooey, I end up getting a bit of the paper in my mouth, but I decide that, since I'm dreaming, the paper won't be a problem, and I can't even feel it. It tastes just like the real thing. I get some on my fingers, and I have trouble getting it off.

Now that I've completed the first task, I try to recall another one, and I remember the pencil task. I start to form an image of a table with a piece of paper and a pencil; then I notice that there's already a table in front of me, covered with arts supplies, with someone sitting at while drawing. I'm already fixated on the idea of summoning a table and completely ignore the one in front of me. Once I have the image in my mind, I turn around to find a table exactly as I'd pictured it. Walking up to it, I mentally command the pencil to draw something. It rises to a 45 degree angle and starts to scribble all over the paper. Some areas are densely colored in with jagged strokes, and other areas have wide, flowing curves. Oddly, the pencil is drawing in blue. The paper was already half-covered in some kind of picture, and the existing design is quickly hidden by the scribbles.

Full journal

My wings are paranoid!

This means I gotta get back out to "Lexx" again...Maybe get it on with Xev this time

Ps, I know a secret about the man eating plant girl "Leyka"..

I wanted to say, that since I kinda didn't want to do tasks related to specific movies since I didn't see them, it wouldn't be fair to those that didn't see Avatar to have to do a task from movie Avatar and go to Pandora's bio luminescent forest.

So my suggestion is to go to any bio luminescent habitat. Be it Pandora or any other place you can find. And just now I found this - http://huff.to/2huIl0a

New attraction will be opening soon in Florida's Disneyworld. Here is the video of the future ride. Looks awesome! http://mashable.com/2016/12/28/avata...6#70TG_65FROqH

Originally Posted by gab

I wanted to say, that since I kinda didn't want to do tasks related to specific movies since I didn't see them, it wouldn't be fair to those that didn't see Avatar to have to do a task from movie Avatar and go to Pandora's bio luminescent forest.

So my suggestion is to go to any bio luminescent habitat. Be it Pandora or any other place you can find. And just now I found this - http://huff.to/2huIl0a

New attraction will be opening soon in Florida's Disneyworld. Here is the video of the future ride. Looks awesome!

That sure looks like a dreamscape ride

Originally Posted by gab

I wanted to say, that since I kinda didn't want to do tasks related to specific movies since I didn't see them, it wouldn't be fair to those that didn't see Avatar to have to do a task from movie Avatar and go to Pandora's bio luminescent forest.

So my suggestion is to go to any bio luminescent habitat. Be it Pandora or any other place you can find. And just now I found this - http://huff.to/2huIl0a

You need to change that in the Bonus task because a lot of people did not see this, I remembered it but had to go back and find it to see if i qualify..I do

Originally Posted by GenghisKhan

On Dec 31st I walked through and enchanted forest that matches the Bonus task; it's night and the trees have bio-luminescent speckles. The LD even sported a female Avatar-like alien (LINK TO DJ)

BTW, I know I am posting late, but wonder if this counts as chaining (LD was before Dec-end). If not, I'm good anyway

Since you didn't post before I took the wings away on the first, your chain was broken. Sorry : (

Chaining only means, that if you do the tasks before I take the wings, you will get to keep them continuously. You will get the bonus wings now. Good job!

Originally Posted by woblybil

You need to change that in the Bonus task because a lot of people did not see this, I remembered it but had to go back and find it to see if i qualify..I do

Did done. Thanks!

Originally Posted by gab

Since you didn't post before I took the wings away on the first, your chain was broken. Sorry : (

Chaining only means, that if you do the tasks before I take the wings, you will get to keep them continuously. You will get the bonus wings now. Good job!

No problem ! Been very busy across the year change

This morning during WILD I manage to get a massage from a hot, naked Asian girl

I also ask a DC a pencil, draw a dove on a notebook, then I make it fly away

LINK TO DJ

Advanced II fail..
12/30-0400
Here's what happened... It had snowed a foot in an hour and a half and I woke up it was quiet as a tomb, no outside noises and too quiet to sleep, I got up, Read on here for abit then took 3 melatonin and went back to bed with a spaceship on my mind..
I was asleep instantly and on what was supposed to be the Bio-spaceship Lexx but then something made a noise, Maybe an ant or spider roaring and it woke me back up..Crap,
I hate noisy spiders

Tonight I got a short Lucid in which I remembered advanced l
Since the Lucid was pretty early in the night and I sleep tonight in long time I don't remember too good.

Spoiler for Completed advanced l:

my awareness raises gradually until I think that this is a dream and I don't have to follow the plot. I try to think of the tasks. I am with a guy in a room. I remember the massage task but don't find it appropriate so I search a pencil. I find two and take the heavier and better looking. I put it on a table with a piece of paper and say out loud: come on draw me something nice. After two seconds the pencil starts floating and draws a simple face. I say: come on that's all? And it adds around 5 simple points at eyes, eyebrows and mouth so the face indeed look way better. I smile because it remembers me of someone (I know when I woke up...)
I think of more tasks and try to remember advanced ll but I can't and wake up after

Originally Posted by PercyLucid

Advanced Task i - Ask a pencil to draw something. (Naturalspirit)

Spoiler for drawing:

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Maybe I'll ask the pencil to draw these again. XD

For info my username is Naturespirit, not Naturalspirit

Basic I - Open a forgotten Christmas present - Success (?) I don't recall a tree being part of the scene, is that important to the success? It led to many Christmas themed dreamlets during my DEILD attempt after the LD ended.

Advanced I - Ask a pencil to draw something - Failure

Spoiler for The LD:

I am on a road driving and people are changing lanes strategically to get around people turning left and to keep moving somewhere in a hurry and at some point I am riding a bike instead and I realize I'm dreaming and I start to fly from the bike but then I noticed the dream visuals lessening a bit so I decided to land. I remember the 3 task of the month goals I had planned on doing first but this didn't seem like the right time to try the alien spaceship one. Even before bed while awake and doing some brief planning I somehow forgot about the translucent forest of Pandora, even though that sounds terrific if somewhat difficult. Anyway, I think of the pencil talk and I reach into my front right pocket with my left hand and my back right pocket with my right hand and they are big and loose and empty and I notice the visuals starting to fade again. I look down to the ground and I say but I think I see a forgotten Christmas present and it forms on the ground in front of my feet. It is wrapped in a wrapping paper more like cellophane and it's a blue color between blue and turquoise on the lighter end of the color scale. I start to open it where the paper comes together and I see that there is another layer underneath and I remove that also to see another layer. I start to realize this could continue forever and I confidently summon a pair of scissors in my hand instantly and surprisingly easily and I start to cut through the wrapping material to reveal a nice hard covered sturdy cardboard box with a lid. When I open the lid the first thing on top or a couple of gel inserts clear and the size of the heel of your foot maybe a bit smaller. Under that is a receipt and I'm thinking during the dream that it would be interesting to report to everyone on DV what the receipt said so I looked at it closely but all I recall is that the price was 89 dollars and with tax it was 95 something. Under some packaging paper in the box eventually uncovering the rest of the item which is a very fancy pair of leather slippers perhaps house slippers. They are a shiny brown leather in a thick leather that reminds me of thick rubber and squishy and they have clean stylish black soles. They seem like a very nice pair of slippers even though slippers are not something I would typically look forward to opening for a Christmas present. I wake and try to DEILD. I get only dreamlets, aware I'm dreaming but not full dreams and they kept dissipating so not counting a 2nd LD here, included: picking up string of lit Christmas lights, chips on big plastic storage container lid eating them, me with a santa bag carrying it, big goblet full of perfectly frozen ice cream sharing with nephew, sled and sled tracks in the snow, thick green shiny and partially translucent rectangular plate. Again each of the above dissipating before the next dreamlet appears.

Just over two hours later I have my second full LD, not TOTM related.

DJ: TOTM Early Success & Failure for January Tasks - Morning of 31st December 2016 - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Awesome job chainers!!!

And for the rest, good luck and happy lucids!!

Was going to post this as a failure, since it didn't really look like Pandora, but after reading Gab's comment, it might count?

Spoiler for TOTM Bonus:

(Just the relevant bit - I was searching for a forest, after attempting to teleport to Pandora.)A forest with weird ice cream cone like portals are hanging in the air. They are plant like structures of red, white and pink plant fibres spun/grown together like candy floss. I phase through the glass into the forest to get a closer look and see hundreds of these glowing tree portals light up through the forest. It looks stunning. But then I wake up.

Full dream since it was kinda long -
Glowing Candyfloss Portals - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Look at all the nekked dreamers : D It's ok, the month is still young, wing are awaiting for us all.

Originally Posted by Nazrax

Woo-hoo! First time I've completed any TOTMs before the month started

I'm chaining Basic I and earning a new Advanced I:

Way to go, nazrax!

Originally Posted by woblybil

... but then something made a noise, Maybe an ant or spider roaring and it woke me back up..Crap,
I hate noisy spiders

Loool!

Originally Posted by RelaxAndDream

...After two seconds the pencil starts floating and draws a simple face. I say: come on that's all? And it adds around 5 simple points at eyes, eyebrows and mouth so the face indeed look way better. I smile...

Congrats!

Originally Posted by fogelbise

Basic I - Open a forgotten Christmas present - Success (?) I don't recall a tree being part of the scene, is that important to the success?

I would say yes, it should have been under the tree, and also it says so in the task : D But you know what, they way you stayed determined to open the box when new layers kept showing up, that was really great. I know the feeling, when you trying to undress and new t-shirts keep showing up, it get frustrating and not many can keep awareness and wits to finish the task. So I'm gonna give you this one.

Originally Posted by obfusc8

Was going to post this as a failure, since it didn't really look like Pandora, but after reading Gab's comment, it might count?

(Just the relevant bit - I was searching for a forest, after attempting to teleport to Pandora.)A forest with weird ice cream cone like portals are hanging in the air. They are plant like structures of red, white and pink plant fibres spun/grown together like candy floss. I phase through the glass into the forest to get a closer look and see hundreds of these glowing tree portals light up through the forest. It looks stunning. But then I wake up.

Well, it looked stunning and it was glowing as Pandora does. But you yourself named it Candyfloss and portals, haha. I know you can do it, so I'm gonna wait with wings for you till you find some forest with flowers and vegetation.

Wednesday or Thursday will be my day this week : D

TOTM advanced i - success

Spoiler for advanced i - ask a pencil to draw something:

I remember the advanced totm- ask a pencil to draw something. I find a pencil and beg it to draw something. I close my eyes to concentrate. Instead of black, the background is white, and the pencil starts drawing. It draws a sketch of a room.

De-winged in the middle of winter how am I gonna fly south?

Added the beginner tasks here http://www.dreamviews.com/tasks-mont...ml#post2209566
And some more about them here http://www.dreamviews.com/tasks-mont...ml#post2209866