Task of the Month for June 2017

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Originally Posted by ShadowLilla

... I stopped because I realized I could do one ToTM, the recalling one. I succeeded. It was cool. I didn't know I could do that. ...

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Congrats and welcome to Dreamviews!

What did you recall?

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Originally Posted by gab

Congrats and welcome to Dreamviews!

What did you recall?

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Thanks!

Spoiler for What I recalled:

I recalled my whole name (three first names and surname), where I live, go to school and am growing up (same city :lol:), my school's name, where my body is IRL (mine and my sister's room and bed) and also the city (still the same) and hospital where I was born. Then I thought it was enough or something and didn't recall anything else.

i tried Advanced I two times this night but i failed.
here the snippets:

Spoiler for Failed Advanced I:

...and i get spontaneously lucid. i tell my gf "you know what that means? we can do what ever we want." i do some TK on a cow/horse or something smaller. i let it fly to me and land it but it looks dead. i try to reverse time with my ring but it doesnt work and i loose interest. i turn around and we move up a hill. i remember the totms. i ask my GF "hey behind me is a mirror right?" "nope"
i turn around a little more and ask again and again she just answers: "no" "oh come on you always just say no..." i turn around with expectation and suddenly everywhere are some black big kind of televisions standing around. i approach some to see if i can reflect myself. the reflection is pretty bad and distorted. i am not happy with it and dont even try to change some of my appearance.
some NLD part starts where i talk about the beautiful clouds.
i find myself in a old street. in the background i hear someone talk about refunding some money. the sums are pretty high for indian standards but it seems that it changed to euros. i see two guys sitting in a building. i decide to walk thru the backdoor. i have a glass ball and let it levitate with TK. i pass them and i enjoy the effect of surprise that i came from the back and not the front door. i leave the building and find lucidity again. i remember the task again and again i want to make a mirror appear behind me. i notice a shop with a big glass front and i go there to see if the reflection would work there. i can see myself more or less good. i start to swipe with my hand infront of my nose to change the appearance. i feel like shortly have a animal nose but i am still not happy with the quality of reflection and i turn around. i can see a big proper mirror on a wall. i approach it and wonder if it might be to high. i also consider to put it down on the ground. i think i have a FA while approaching the mirror. i look at my alarm clock and the time makes no sense but corrects itself after a short touch. "ah probably it had to synchronize... i look in my dj and notice that it has some corrections in red with it. i cant remember which teacher it was and try to find a signature then i google the name in the signature because i cant remember the name of the teacher.... and i wake up for good.

Wow man, I really need to practice changing stuff up! I attempted the advanced tasks. I failed one, and the other one, I don't know, I let you guys decide.

Spoiler for Advanced #1 (Success??):

I found myself in a replica of the house I was sleeping in, and quickly I set out to do the tasks. It wasn't a particularly vivid lucid. But, for some reason, the laws of physics were on point (in a lucid that I was supposed to change myself in the mirror).

Looking at myself in the living room mirror, I tried hard to put some abs and more muscle in my body or something like that. But nothing. After trying hard, the only thing I managed to do was: make myself more tanned. :lol: (and even that, took me some mental acrobatics).

I thought that, maybe, if I went to another, less familiar house, it might be easier to change my appearance I flew to some house in my neighborhood (that, for some reason, was near the beach now). I tried to do the same thing in the mirror of this imaginary house. But, as I was taking off my shirt, just at the moment when the t-shirt covered my vision, I lost visuals and woke up...

Spoiler for Advanced #2 (Fail):

After flying to the second house and attempting once more the advanced task #1, I looked up at the sky to see if I could attempt advanced task #2, but it was cloudy and no stars where to be seen... I thought about clearing up the sky and attempting the task... but, I thought: "yeah, if I couldn't give myself abs, I'm not clearing up this sky and making stars fall unto Earth anytime soon." Lol, so I didn't even attempt to do it.

Full dream

Not my best lucid, but I had fun. Maybe next time I do better hehe :chuckle:

Hey! So, this morning I attempted the bonus task and failed... fun times either way, haha. (Full dream) Here's the excerpt:

Spoiler for Bonus task fail:

Getting up from the hammock, I tried to turn the dream upside down, right there in my backyard. But I just woke up... or did I? Actually, I was now reappearing in some sort of outdoors courtyard with some tables and chairs in it... but I was upside down! Or was I? It felt like it for a moment, but obviously, I'm not falling down towards the sky or anything. So, I thought, "what's the difference between being upside down or being upright when the laws of gravity seem to be working correctly?" Either way, this time I did wake up.

I managed to 'chain it up' inducing a DEILD in the form of an OBE-like exiting of my still-sleepy body. I got out of my house through the front door, and I quickly realized that there was some sort of pool party in my front door neighbors. They were actually two pool parties going on! One with a fake blow-up pool, and the other one with a real pool (that obviously isn't there in real life. I could hear sick music coming out of these parties! There were dream characters all over.

I decided to climb some sort of wall/fence that was dividing both pool parties to jump to the big pool. Climbing up, I felt the hot summer lucid dreaming Sun in my back. It felt so warm and vivid and awesome! Anyway, instead of jumping into the pool, I decided to give the task another try. Feeling that the easiest way to turn the dream upside down was to fling with my feet the wall/fence I was standing on (as if I was doing a backflip with a skateboard), that's what I decided to do.

Long story short, it didn't work. The dream quickly turned into a hallucination-blob and I woke up. Needless to say, I had fun trying.

Btw: I'm noticing that I'm having a little bit of trouble with my lucid dreaming 'super powers'. I'm able to induce some fairly vivid and stable lucids and even to fly and explore around and things of that sort, but when it comes to directly changing things (like my appearance, or to turn the dream upside down, for example) or even teleporting myself to random non-existing places, I'm having a bit of trouble! Any tips from you fine oneironauts out there? Is it a power-of-will thing or what?

Thanks in advance! :)

Hey PRtitohp5, a part of my task did say "Are you still on the ground or falling into the sky?". So you may have done better than you think. Was the dream at least visually distorted when you flipped it?

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Originally Posted by KarlaB18

Hey PRtitohp5, a part of my task did say "Are you still on the ground or falling from the sky?". So you may have done better than you think. Was the dream at least visually distorted when you flipped it?

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Hey! Actually, yes! :) Visually, the only thing that I got was that I reappeared in some other dream scenario (a courtyard, instead of my backyard), after momentarily thinking that I woke up. But the reason I 'felt that I was upside down for a moment' was that, right after the dream scenario changed, I felt as though my blood was flowing towards my head (as one feels while childishly hanging upside down on a tree branch or something -is the only way I can explain it). Anyway, it was a very transitory feeling and quickly faded when I looked around and noticed that the laws of gravity were working correctly.

Spoiler for Advanced #2 - Success:

I imagine shooting stars falling from the sky, and soon enough I see one falling and landing somewhere. I try willing one to land closer, and eventually one lands on the other side of the street. I walk over to the landing site and pick it up. It’s shaped like a star bit from Super Mario Galaxy, and it’s made of semi-transparent plastic, so I can see something else is inside. I pry it open and inspect its contents - a small perfume spritzer with a white feathery top. I spray it on my arm to smell it - the scent is fruity and incredibly pleasant. In fact, it smells so good that I decide that I have to taste it too, and I quickly spray several times into my mouth, finding that it tastes quite fruity as well. The guy following me asks me if he can look it, so I hand it to him, and he continues to spray it all over my body. The smell starts to be a bit overpowering, but it’s still quite nice. He stops, and I look down to see that my skin is glowing, and all over my body is a distinct tingling sensation. I feel my body start to lift into the sky, but I soon wake up.

DJ Entry

Fun fact, this is the first TOTM I've completed since I redesigned the TOTM wings back in December.

Got basic task 2 done. I aslo thought of doing other ones, but various factors kept me from easily attaining them.

Spoiler for relevant snippet:

I looked around in the sand, finding some shells, conches, and pieces of glass. Not solid enough, probably.

After some digging, I finally found a rock, definintely a winner. My brother, Crispin then appeared behind me. He was in a chatty mood, a typical distraction. I told him I'll be with him shortly and commenced the task, ignoring his confused gaze as I bit the stone. Noticed my teeth felt especially brittle and plastic. Still, I chomped on. The rock eventually gave way, where I found some kind of nut inside. A raw almond, specifically, as I soon realized by eating it. Besides a bitter aftertaste, this tasted and felt as the real thing.

Link to journal entry.



EDIT: Now that I'm here, I may as well describe my near misses with other tasks almost two weeks ago:

Spoiler for Director's Cut:

Created Sunday 11 June 2017

The visuals were dark and blurred. I was washing my hands in the bathroom. On seeing a distorted reflection of myself on the drain, I realized the dream. First thoughts were on some TOTMs. I tried advanced task 1, only I couldn't (and wouldn't for some reason) look up at the mirror to do so. Thus, I changed course to the bonus task. By simply grabbing and forcing the sink counter, I managed to turn the environment upside down. But, I unexpectedly landed back in bed, and got startled out of the dream.

Such good ones! Nice job, spellbee2 and FireFlyMan. You guys sure have tricks up your sleeve! I would've never thought of something like "grabbing and forcing the sink counter" to turn the dream upside down... The shooting star trick was a good one too. I guess that, for the advanced tasks, imagination is key.

I tried the advanced twice, but I don't think I succeeded :lol:.

Spoiler for Two attemps for advanced ToTM:

#1The dream begann non-lucid. I was in some underground cave. It was full of water but I could see and breathe just well. It looked like Minecraft... I was swimming (diving?) around and tried to find exit at some point. I started controlling my actions more and more until I just thought that yeah, this is a lucid dream now. I tried to do the world flipping thing but I got something horribly wrong because I flipped MYSELF, not the world. But the world seems to be upside down on my perspective, so it counts, right? No (or does it??). Okay, I guess it could have worked in some way actually, but it didn't. I tried to keep that pose for a while. It was interesting. Then I woke up.

#2 I got another dream right away (DEILD? Was it?). I was in the same world (I just knew) but not in the water this time. I tried to do it on ground. I didn't have that much control that time, but it was still a LD.

Forgot to say, those who can fly, go chain :D

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Enjoy!!! And sorry for the dalay!

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Originally Posted by ShadowLilla

I tried the advanced twice, but I don't think I succeeded :lol:.

Spoiler for Two attemps for advanced ToTM:

#1The dream begann non-lucid. I was in some underground cave. It was full of water but I could see and breathe just well. It looked like Minecraft... I was swimming (diving?) around and tried to find exit at some point. I started controlling my actions more and more until I just thought that yeah, this is a lucid dream now. I tried to do the world flipping thing but I got something horribly wrong because I flipped MYSELF, not the world. But the world seems to be upside down on my perspective, so it counts, right? No (or does it??). Okay, I guess it could have worked in some way actually, but it didn't. I tried to keep that pose for a while. It was interesting. Then I woke up.

#2 I got another dream right away (DEILD? Was it?). I was in the same world (I just knew) but not in the water this time. I tried to do it on ground. I didn't have that much control that time, but it was still a LD.

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...and I just realized it was bonus task and not advanced. I'm so good at this. Sorry.

Thats all folks :)

Next tasks are here!

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