Thread: Task of the Year 2017

Originally Posted by gab

Did you remove the wheels?

No, I kinda felt they were necessary

Originally Posted by gab

Also, please post pertinent part of the dream here as well. Thanksies.

Sure, sorry I forgot about that

I reach a racing track, with many cars at their starting positions. Thinking about dv TotY, I approach one car, open the hood, take the engine with both hands, pick it up and throw it away. For good meeasure, I also remove the exhaust pipe, and throw it away, too
I sit in the car, turn the key, it makes no sound, but using the pedals make it move anyway. I pass a car on its right, and I hear the other car's engine at my left, moving from front to back; it's very convincing.
I go on with the car race, follow some curves, pass more cars, but I don't recall completing the race

Originally Posted by GenghisKhan

No, I kinda felt they were necessary

Haha, good point. But the task is to remove the engine and the wheels.

Car-Drive a car that has no tires and no engine

I missed this detail myself, only noticed it after someone else said thay removed the tires, haha. I'm like why? Now I know : D

Originally Posted by gab

Haha, good point. But the task is to remove the engine and the wheels.

Oh snap, I didn't read about wheels at all...

Originally Posted by gab

Did you remove the wheels? Also, please post pertinent part of the dream here as well. Thanksies.

You too, obfusc8

dangit, you too, sensei !

Link to DJ entry AND relevant part of the dream here in the thread, por favores.

<PoshBritishAccent>Whoops so terribly sorry ma'am</PoshBritishAccent>

Spoiler for Car TOTY:

Then I try to leave the house, finding a mudstained floor that leads into a garden. Steps made from ivy and plants have covered the exit. I climb them, ending up around the height of a normal house. Then after shimmying along one of the steps I manage to drop down into a shaded part of the garden. At this point, I become lucid.

The garden has a couple of bicycles lying in the grass. I think about stealing one of them while climbing a slope that leads out to a street. There are three cars parked in the road. I remember the TOTY and walk over. Pulling up the bonnet (hood) I sweep the engine compartment. It has a bunch of small junk items inside but no engine. Good. Then I walk around the car and rip off all the wheels, leaving it resting on the axles.

Now prepared, the car has also become a convertible. So I lean into the car and try to start it. At first it will not work, but a few more attempts and it roars into life. Hopping into the driving seat, I drive the car down the road. The axles are grinding into the tarmac. Sounds terrible!

Car Toty DJ Entry

Let's do this.

Task of the Year - Plane - Success

Spoiler for dream:

I remember the Task of the Years, and I run down the hall to beat up the pilots and fly it myself for a while until we go through the time warp and stop in a futuristic tunnel like place where the plane becomes a train again.

I am in a new city. I exit the plane, fly above the city and watch the sunrise. It is daytime now, and I can tell that this is a futuristic dystopian city of extreme order and control by the layout of the buildings and the bizarre architecture.

Didn't even intend that night to get this one complete, it just sort of happened! This happened on the 10th of October.

only 6 to go, haha.

Happy dreams!

Here is the completed Ride a Dragon and Ride a Sled.
TOTY Task = 5 stars.

Spoiler for Task of the Year- Ride a Sled:

Here: http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/ibea...-4-2016-79385/

Spoiler for Task of the Year- Ride a Dragon:

Here: http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/ibea...-5-2016-79410/

Gonna wait to do the rest for the competition.

This morning during WILD I properly do the engine-less, wheel-less car ride TotY, with Ferrari Testarossa

LINK TO DJ

Relevant part:

Spoiler for Car ride TotY:

I am in a parking lot. I wander around until I find an intersting car. It's an old Ferrari from the 90's, like the famous Testarossa, again I open hood, remove its engine, this time I remember to remove wheels, too. I start from front left, I pull it towards me, removing it, the car front hits the ground. Then I remove all the other wheels, and each time the car hits the ground convincingly, until it lays flat on the road

Then I enter it, sit at driving seat, turn the key, the car starts moving very slowly, like a crawl. I wish it to gain speed, and it happens
I am now driving the car fairly fast in San Francisco streets, uphill, then I take a slow and cauotious right turn, then the road goes downhill, the car takes speed, until I find another right turn, I slow the car down, turn right, but the left side bumps the building

Ride Car TOTY 2017 ★★★★☆ - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views
link and relevant part

Spoiler for car!:

In a Mario Cart car not and it is not working, I get out. I realize that the dream has gone to full dream. I turn around expecting to see more cars, but I see blankness. the void. I imagine pavement on my feet and walk forward. There is a drag racing car there. the wheels and engine can be seen from the outside. I tear the front wheel off and tk the car into the air. I toss it at the other front wheel and they both go flying off. I then tear the back two off with TK and let it drop. I step on the engine and crush it then step into the drivers seat. I TK the whole engine out and toss it to the side. I realize that it is still in the void with just a bit of pavement around. i teleport me and the car onto a racetrack with the race about to start. It starts, my car skids forward. I go through the gears quickly, but am in dead last. I push myself forward and faster and catch up to most. the oval race track starts waving up and down and my car is following it. I pull the car out of gear and jam the gear stick down. It shoots me into first and i pass the finish line. I hit a bump and go careening into the air.

I misremembered the TOTY last night as 'drink fermented milk'!
My dreaming mind is so weird.
If you want to read it, (don't worry it's short),
TOTY - fail (false memory) - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

This morning I succeed on the dragon ride TotY !

LINK TO DJ (WILD#1)

Relevant part

Spoiler for Dragon ride TotY:

I reach a castle, I'm in a big room, there are people walking by. I conjure a dragon close to me, a small one appears, I model it to my liking with my hands, adding horns to its side and flattening its top, now its top looks like an Ankylosaurus. Then I jump on its back and ride it. I fly it out of the castle (out of the window ?) I fly above some green landscape; I notice the side horns are kinda hurting my legs.

I reach another castle. It's big, rectangular-ish, built with dark stone, with massive walls, and a high crenelated tower. The dragon attacks it with fireballs, some sections of the castle crumble down. The castle's occupants fire back with shotguns, cannons, fire and frost. I assume it's going to take too much time to destroy it, I have an idea. We land in a flat stone bricks area, I increase the dragon size to make it more powerful; it becomes very big. I take a candy/gum out of my pocket, put it in my mouth, and I increase in size too, matching the dragon so I can still ride it.
I also summon DHL Megawoman, thinking that she fits our size well and maybe later we can have some fun together However, this doesn't happen, as I lose track of her almost immediately

Then, as a giant dragon and rider, we continue the assault; I also shoot fireballs against the castle. Now our fireballs are big, and each one destroys a big section of walls and towers. After some fireballs, the castle crumbles down. We descend on the smoking ruins, return to normal size; I am looking for something useful among the ruins, however I do not find anything.

I had trouble recalling tasks last night and tried riding a horse, and riding a train then causing a wreck, and contemplated riding on a flying crow. So yeah. Then eventually I recalled the saucer task, but didn't get to another planet. Well done, brain! (Gah!)

Spoiler for Flying saucer attempt:

Eventually my thoughts turn to tasks and I remember one of the TOTY and the TOTM tie in nicely - fly in an alien spaceship. So I start humming sci-fi type music. X-files theme tune-esque. There is the noise of the TARDIS arriving, but this time it has taken the form of an old red British telephone box. Up in the sky other spaceships appear. Some look like troop transports. They land down in the valley.

Then smaller circular, classic alien saucer spacecraft land too. I fly down into the valley and tap on one of the saucers to open up a hatch in the side. I climb onboard. The interior is filled with 80s sci-fi B-movie type flashing lights and screens. Very cool. Guessing, I press some buttons to make the saucer lift off and we head up into the sky.

Before we can get out of atmosphere, my alarm goes off.

DJ entry

I tried the dolphin task last night but I haven't been real good with teleporting lately. Obfusc8's failed attempt came to mind as the dolphin moved to dry land and started walking upright on its tail.

Spoiler for dolphin task fail:

I'm in the shallow ocean, put my hand behind my back and feel a beak. I turn around and a spinner dolphin is there.

Spoiler for spinner dolphin:

I sit on its back in front of its dorsal fin and tell it to go to Atlantis. "Where's that?" she asks. I look around see a tiny hole in the sand below and say "That way". The dolphin digs its beak into the hole to reveal a plastic dead end, "I think its this way up the street," she says. We surface and see a staircase which the dolphin starts climbing using its tail to walk upright. I remind her that she doesn't have to walk and she levels out. I woke up.

Well, I thought the dolphin task would have come easier to you, with such a forum nick and avatar

I usually don't have any problems summoning or riding dolphins but teleporting on one is trickier for me. Maybe I just have to go really fast as Ibeauty did.

Originally Posted by dolphin

I usually don't have any problems summoning or riding dolphins but teleporting on one is trickier for me. Maybe I just have to go really fast as Ibeauty did.

Dolphin, have you tried "perspective" changing? you pretty much move based on perspective instead of 3 dimensions. Instead of chasing the dolphin, just set your foot on him from a long ways away.
Best I can find on perspective is this old vine star.
https://youtu.be/xRY-r9vcnwo

some of them are pretty bad, but some of them are good and fun dream control with perspective shifting.

Hmm... I think so. One time I teleported to outer space by looking down while jumping up and imagining the world was getting smaller. In another dream in space I flew past a moon by imagining the moon was flying past me rather than me flying past the moon.

I understand how looking at things in a different way could make dream control easier.

I was thinking to teleport while riding the dolphin, I could simply look down and expect to be in Atlantis when I look up.

Originally Posted by Sensei

Dolphin, have you tried "perspective" changing? you pretty much move based on perspective instead of 3 dimensions. Instead of chasing the dolphin, just set your foot on him from a long ways away.

Originally Posted by dolphin

Hmm... I think so. One time I teleported to outer space by looking down while jumping up and imagining the world was getting smaller. In another dream in space I flew past a moon by imagining the moon was flying past me rather than me flying past the moon.

I find this way of manipulating space or traveling interesting. It happened to me few times, without me doing it on purpose. I would look at something at distance with desire to see it in more detail, and my vision would "zoom in". As if I had binoculars. Then few times it actually teleported me, when again my vision would zoom in, and suddenly rest of my body followed.

Then I read in some OBE book about teleporting by stretching front of your body to the location and then pull rest of you there. I tried this on purpose and it was so weirdly wonderful. I will try this to go to the moon. I failed at this so many times, because in flight, I lose contact with the dream. So maybe keeping my feet on the ground while stretching and grabbing the moon would work.

@dolphin - sorry my failed attempt screwed things up for you. We must have found uncooperative dolphins, but I'm sure there will be some helpful ones if we keep trying!

Spoiler for Saucer TOTY close-but no-cigar FAILURE:

After phasing out of the window, I end up in the village where I grew up. There is an orchard and a large open hillside. I summon an alien invasion by reaching up to the skies. As in my previous attempt, troop transports and smaller fighter saucer type craft land on the grass. This time alien troops exit the ships. They look like robots wearing ragged clothing and remind me somewhat of the phalanx from the comic I was reading last night.

Too late I realise that people were working in the orchard. The troops round up and capture the humans, my parents among them. I fly quickly over to the robot pointing a gun at my mum. The robot's ragged clothing makes him look kinda like a pirate.
"You better let her go, or else." I warn the pirate-robot. It decides to do what I say, and holsters it's gun before walking away.

The other prisoners are being escorted away. I grant Mum super-powers of flight and telekinesis so we can rescue Dad. Mum says it is fine and flies off. She doesn't need my help. I see her fighting the robots from the air and the prisoners cheering her on. Nice one, Mum.

I head into what looks like the alien's command tent. It is full of more robots and rows of tiny flashing lights on machines. I start smashing it up with my fists and during the chaos and smoke, run back outside. I pick the closest saucer and run up the small gangplank to get inside. It is smooth metal this time, almost featureless. There is a viewing screen type window in the ceiling. Taking control of the ship with pure willpower, I get it to take off and fly upwards into the sky.

To power the ship and my journey into space, I start singing Prodigy: Outer Space. "Gonna send him out of space... find another race... I'll take your brain to another dimension, play close attention!" Although, when the song came out I never knew the lyrics and so sung my own slightly misheard ones: "I'm descending outer space... Find another place."

The ship flies up through the clouds and out into space. The dark blackness is filled with stars and a purple swirling nebula. Within the nebula are tiny planets. I head into the nebula until the planets grow larger. Targeting a yellow and white looking planet, I pilot the ship towards it still purely using willpower.

It descends into the atmosphere and lands calmly in the centre of a yellow desert - scrub land. I jump out and see an insectoid thing the size of a dog with an oversized insect head. It crawls like a baby, except really fast, towards me. I back away as it charges me yelling "I come in peace!"

Turning, I find myself in a white structure. The room is filled with... hot tubs. There are skeletons sitting in them. Er. Okay. "Hey, what's up? I come in peace and whatever..."

The skeletons survey me with their empty eye sockets. They shiver and then jump out of the hot tubs holding brightly coloured plastic knives. Definitely not metal. Don't know of any lime-green or sky blue metal like that. They surround me, holding out the small knives. During the stand off, many of them shiver. The hot tubs must keep them warm.

"Hey, why don't you get back in the tubs and I'll try and sort something out to make it warmer?"
The skeletons seem to like this idea and put the knives away. I start to summon fire in my hands, and then try to think of how to raise the temperature of the whole room. The dream fades.

DJ Entry of the above

Forgot to ask them to teach me something. Darn it.

Completed 6 of 7 TOTY Task. Fly a Plane.

Spoiler for Fly a Plane. Success completed:

http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/ibea...-8-2016-79483/

Yesterday Jan-10th success for Sled LINK TO DJ

Spoiler for Sled TotY:

I teleport myself on top of a snowy mountain. There are some people with skiing suits, I ask one of them if I can borrow his bobsled, he's ok.
It's very similar to the one I had when I was young, red with dark metal brakes and yellow handles, it has some colorful stickers to the sides
I look it inside and at the bottom; the dream is very stable
I place the bob on the snow, sit inside and descend

I go quite fast, I have little time to look at the scenery, I arrive at a flat clearing very quickly
I forgot to open the passage at the bottom (TotY)

From that point, I descend again; this time, before reaching the bottom, I wish creating a black crack in the terrain before me.
I fall inside the crack on my bob. Few seconds of blackness, then I reach a brown rocky area, lighted by lava below. I land on the bob at a dirt clearing surrounded by low brown rocks and lava outside.

Today Jan-11th success for Plane LINK TO DJ

Spoiler for Plane TotY:

I have troubles reaching outside, I always find another wall or floor. When I succeed, I fly up on the landscape, until I find a small airport.
I land, there is a small old plane, with only a central propeller. I sit inside, clicl buttons in the cockpit, then draw the cloche towards me and take off. I fly above the scenery, which unfortunately is not very interesting, trees and hills.

When I try some tight air tricks I cannot pull them off. However, large maneuvers work fine
After some time I see another small airport below me. I make an appropriate wide maneuver to line up with the runway.
When I get very close I remember the final part of the task was not actually landing but opening a time breach
I act very quickly. The time breach opens in front of me, consisting of a "hole" in the reality, covered by a cloth with many stamped analog clocks of varying size. Oh well !
I fly inside the hole with the plane
I immediately find myself grounded, in a field with many plants from PvsZ, mostly green peashooters, tall about same as me.

Hope I didn't miss anything

Keep up the great work!!

So i attempted this task two times. the one time i wasted most of the lucid looking for a specific room in a big building with a lot of floors. as i finally decided fuck this this makes no sense lets do the toty:

Spoiler for first attempt:

i decide to stop this nonsense and go out and search a car. i find one that fits my needs and move around it. i open the engine hood and see a big engine sitting inside. i feel like TK in this dream and i try to rip out the engine by TK. the engine starts moving around but i cant get it out so i stop and do it the old fashioned way and use my hands. i rip it out without a big problem but one long cable is still hanging there connecting the engine with the car. i notice this cable is for the radio/sound of the car and i feel a little sad to have no music later when driving this engineless car. i move around the car and lift it at every tire and rip it of too. After completing the whole disassemble of the car i get in and turn the keys. in the moment i want to start driving the dream destabilizes and i still feel the dream but cant see anything so i dont see me driving... shortly after i wake up.

Spoiler for tonights attempt and completion:

i cant remember the non lucid part anymore. i am in a big garage and get lucid first thing i do i look out for a car. i see a nice sporty one and move to the drivers door. i think about if i need a key and should "find it on the ground" but decide a key is just no needed and open the door. i get inside and turn the "keys" that are not there but nevertheless the engine ignites. i drive like a maniac out of the garage. i am in a airport and i follow the exit signs to get out and the visuals change into GTA. i see the car in 3th perceptive and jump over the streets because i am way too fast. i smash into something and die with a short dialogue on the screen. i respawn in a back of a truck loaded with hay or straw. i get outside because i think there has to be ants. i talk with someone about it and see some. i remember that i am dreaming and i want to do the task and not just drive like crazy. i look around and find a parking place. i approach it and first i see just one big truck standing around but since it is a parking lot there has to be more cars and fair enough there are some more. i approach a sporty looking but already pretty fucked up. i look closer and see on the one side just one tire. i move there and remove it. at the beginning its a fully blown car that looks like someone stole some parts. i think this will do. while moving around i notice that on the other side there are no tires anymore. i also notice a door missing. i want to open the engine hood but the car changes. it lies now flat on the ground like if a bulldozer moved over it. it also is like a mesh. like when you fold paper very often and cut small pieces out of it but it feels like light metal or plastic. so i open what should be the hood and i see a hole. so no engine thats good i carry it over to the street and lift it in the middle so it gets 3 dimensional and enter it thru the door. some guy approaches me and asks me if its not to dark (in there?) i say no there is still some sun. i turn the key and make a igniting engine sound with my mouth so its easier to expect that the car will drive. i start drinving and turn around the corner. and while driving i remember the bonus totm that i want to do or better say i thought about a goal to summon a dc and ask him if he can show me teleportation or change of scenerys. but for some reason i get non lucid after that and continue to carry a small boy on my shoulders over a fence into a car and out of it. i feel his weight and notice his movements. i feel pretty connected to him. later i wake up. interesting side-note: a long time of the dream i feel like sleeping and in the very next room there seem to be my parents and my brother talking loudly about something. i try to concentrate on the dream and not wake up by them ignoring them as good as i can. after waking i immediately notice that i am in the apartment of my girlfriend and i slept the whole night alone and there are no sounds at all...