Thread: Task OF The Year 2021!!

The Challenge:
This year's theme is superhero training. From Discovering your Alter-Identity to helping to save the World or Universe. I know you guys got this!! Plus, you'll receive the coveted rainbow wings if you manage to complete them all in 2021.
Good luck!!

The Rules:
- You must complete each task in a separate lucid dream; you can't do more than one in the same dream.
- DILD and DEILD are only permitted for a single ToTY (meaning, only one ToTY per chain of dreams.) You must record your dream in your preferred dream journal (you do not need to come here) before you can work on another ToTY.
- You may do more than one Task per night, as long as the previous dream task is already recorded.
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And here are the tasks!

Task 1: Discover Your Alter-Identity
In the first task, your main goal is to discover your superhero identity. Ask the dream, or a dream character, to transform you into your superhero form. You MAY NOT make up your own form. You MUST let the dream decide for you. It may or may not be an original character – it is OK if your given identity is an already established character. You may try a technique, such as “Activate my X-gene!” to get your form. Or perhaps you find a neat piece of technology/equipment that you can use to give you superpowers. However you get your identity, you then need to ask for your superhero costume! Once again, you do not make this, you let the dream make this. Perhaps you open a door to find your costume inside. Describe your superhero name and costume. (Bonus points for the artwork!)


Task 2: Discover your Powers
In this next task, your main goal is to discover your superhero powers! First, you are going to need to transform into your Super Hero Form again. This can be done with or without help from guides. Next, you are going to ask the Dream, or a dream character, for information about your superhero powers. Using that information, and your own intuition (especially coming from your given name/identity the last task), you are going to test out your discovered powers. How does it go?


Task 3: Find A Training Facility
Depending on your superhero name, you may or may not be already “part of a team.” If you are, for example, an X-man, you will travel to the X-Mansion / Xavier Institute. If you are an Avenger, you may go to the Avengers tower/building. If you are an original character, you may choose a location of your liking (such as the above places), or ask the dream to take you to a training facility. You will need to transform into your alter-ego again. Once at the facility, you will have to ask to be a part of the team. You will ask for your initiation test and then complete it successfully. *Note: Initiation test must be completed to complete the task!*


Task 4: Training with Teammates
In this next task, you will train with other teammates at your training facility. Transform into your superhero form. You will adeptly use your powers in combat with at least one other superhero in an arena-like setting. Describe the battle, and use of your powers vs. their powers. You must win the match, without killing your teammate, to complete the task.


Task 5: Partner Mission
In your superhero form, you will ask the dream, or dream character, for a superhero partner. Once granted a partner, you must complete a mission with your partner, without either of you dying. Your mission will be to enter an enemy’s building, find and obtain an artifact of value from somewhere in the building. You must defeat any resistance using you & your partner’s powers. Bonus points if you discover a new way of using your powers (level up!). You must involve teamwork with your partner.


Task 6: Group Mission
In your superhero form, you will ask dream/a DC for a superhero team. You will go with this group into enemy headquarters. Your mission is to rescue one of your trapped teammates. Save the teammate and defeat any resistance. You must use teamwork. You must personally free the prisoner.


Task 7: Save the World!
In your superhero form, you will ask the dream/ a DC to take you to a battle scene where you are needed. You will battle with other superheroes, against villains, in an epic battle to save the world. Expertly use your superhero powers alongside your teammates to defeat the bad guys. Describe everything!
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Have fun! You got this!!
Feel free to post any attempts and accomplishments in this thread. Have fun!

Spoiler for Members who have completed the task:

NONE

Good luck saving the world, everyone!

And don't forget, with great power comes great... lucidity!

Here is the link to my [Task Of The Year: Task 2: Discover your Powers [LUCID Fail] DJ: https://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/hum...-6-2020-90804/
I didn't get to do the lucid task that I wanted to. I'll do better next time!

I posted here: https://www.dreamviews.com/general-d...ml#post2240344

Task 1: Discover Your Alter-Identity - Success

Spoiler for Task 1:

Now I remember the task of the year. Now, to be honest, I've already done the first task of the year, but I did it last year. So it doesn't count. So this is my second time doing this task. Outside, it's now daylight. I move my hand down in a fist and say "Transform into Super Hero Mode!" It works. I am now in a costume. It's pink and silver, fits tightly, with a bright yellow utility belt. Cool! As I walk down the street, a theme song starts playing. It sounds like "My Girl" by the Temptations but with different lyrics (I couldn't understand them - it might have been "Light Girl").

Now who the heck am I? I go around, looking for someone to tell me. I find a boy on the street. "Hey what's my super hero name, kid?" He points to my bright yellow belt and says "Ilene." I look at my belt, and sure enough, the word Ilene or Ilean is written. Weird name, might have to get a better one later. It will have to do.

Now, what are my powers? I go into a building, in search of more people. As I enter a random dining room, I notice the light starts acting funny. Weird. Inside, I find an old woman [The Mother Guide]. I ask her what my powers are. She points to the light. I realize that I can manipulate the light. I make it super super bright, the whole room is now blinding bright light, then dim it back down. Okay. Weird. "Hey Mom, what's my superhero name?" (hoping for something better than Ilene) She doesn't answer.

"Come on, Mom. You're telling me my power is to manipulate light? How am I supposed to fight bad guys with this power? And all the other lucid dreamers are going to have cooler powers than me.. What about that other superhero you made me, Mercury Girl. She was cool."

Mom: "Well, you can use either one. However, I thought you would like this one even more. It's more original."

"Okay... I'll roll with it."

Link to DJ

I just wanted to add - I looked up the meaning of the name "Aileen" (normal spelling). Here's what it said:

"The name Aileen is a girl's name of Irish origin meaning "bright, shining light."

LOL, I guess that fits with "Light Girl."

Originally Posted by MoonageDaydream

Link to DJ

I just wanted to add - I looked up the meaning of the name "Aileen" (normal spelling). Here's what it said:

"The name Aileen is a girl's name of Irish origin meaning "bright, shining light."

LOL, I guess that fits with "Light Girl."

I was just on Netflix and the top of the page trailer was for Shadow and Bone, a show about Alina who can summon and manipulate light. It made me think of you Light Girl haha!

Congrats!

Highly amusing but ultimately non-lucid dream where everything was just in place to attempt Task 1. The intention was there, but I think I was distracted by my disappointment that this DC and not Marvel.

Superman's mom lives in a fancy Park Avenue apartment and is hosting a bunch of girls, including me, for an overnight stay. It has something to do with the scouts and it's required. I don't mind, because the old lady gives out used bits of designer clothing if you impress her. Apparently she gave me a sweatshirt last year.

Originally Posted by HumbleDreamer

I'll probably do this at the end when I have done all of them.

Ah, okay. Bummer. Well, I look forward to reading them at the end, then.

Shoot! I just realized I didn't quite get the first task!

Spoiler for Task 1 - Fail:

I'm only momentarily distracted before I go back to recalling another task. The superhero one comes to wit. I try catching up to the dark haired woman, but she remained just out of reach. So, I turned my attention to some random child nearby, some skinny boy around 10 years old.

"Hey kid", I started. "What's my superhero name?"

Just then, another figure surfaced from the below, a pale young girl with vibrant blue hair. "Macheval" (pronounced mak-ah-vle), she answers in deadpan.

"What was that?", I asked.

She repeats. "Macheval."

"So it's Macheval?"

The boy then interjects with a simple "yes."

Didn't really know what to think of the name. Also, I was weirded out by these creepy monotone kids. So, I thanked them, and scurried away.

The dream started fading. I quickly raised my hand as part of stabilization, only to see I was doing such in bed. So concluded the dream.

Originally Posted by RelicWraith

Shoot! I just realized I didn't quite get the first task!

Spoiler for Task 1 - Fail:

I'm only momentarily distracted before I go back to recalling another task. The superhero one comes to wit. I try catching up to the dark haired woman, but she remained just out of reach. So, I turned my attention to some random child nearby, some skinny boy around 10 years old.

"Hey kid", I started. "What's my superhero name?"

Just then, another figure surfaced from the below, a pale young girl with vibrant blue hair. "Macheval" (pronounced mak-ah-vle), she answers in deadpan.

"What was that?", I asked.

She repeats. "Macheval."

"So it's Macheval?"

The boy then interjects with a simple "yes."

Didn't really know what to think of the name. Also, I was weirded out by these creepy monotone kids. So, I thanked them, and scurried away.

The dream started fading. I quickly raised my hand as part of stabilization, only to see I was doing such in bed. So concluded the dream.

I don't know if the rules are strict about this, but I would hope you'd be allowed to finish the last bit in another lucid dream and call it a success? Rather than start all over, I mean. Really cool, I wonder what your name means, too.

Originally Posted by MoonageDaydream

I don't know if the rules are strict about this, but I would hope you'd be allowed to finish the last bit in another lucid dream and call it a success? Rather than start all over, I mean. Really cool, I wonder what your name means, too.

Well, this is all a game so it is not all that important, but to my reading the tasks must each be in their own separate dream and each task must be with in one dream each. So one dream must contain the entire task and only one task allowed credit per dream.

Yup, I'm of the same opinion. Even if it was otherwise, I personally would've started over from the beginning regardless. I'm just a schtickler that way.

Originally Posted by RelicWraith

Yup, I'm of the same opinion. Even if it was otherwise, I personally would've started over from the beginning regardless. I'm just a schtickler that way.

I can respect that. I wonder now, are you going to get the same name, or will it be something totally different this time?

Had a non-lucid about at that I was at the Avengers tower, last night but before I could go lucid and one of the tasks, I was woken up.

I read this stuff for the first time yesterday. I achieved task one I think. I wanted to be a superhero in the dream so I went into an old fashioned phone both and then came back out thinking I would be a superhero. I was transformed into a weird version of a spiderman. I had a exaggerated human body with sharp angles and a costume sort of like Spider Man (red and black with web patterns) but I also had eight huge spider legs coming out of me sort of like Doc Oc's mechanical arms. I walked around on those legs for a bit before I woke up.
I did not ask to become or discover anything, I just went into the box and came back out a hero. If it helps I had no idea what I would be, if anything, the dream just sprung it on me.

I almost forgot that that once I was teaching a young DC how to fight like an Avenger but, that was like two years ago.


I knew you guys can do it!! I can feel it!

Originally Posted by sivason

I read this stuff for the first time yesterday. I achieved task one I think. I wanted to be a superhero in the dream so I went into an old fashioned phone both and then came back out thinking I would be a superhero. I was transformed into a weird version of a spiderman. I had a exaggerated human body with sharp angles and a costume sort of like Spider Man (red and black with web patterns) but I also had eight huge spider legs coming out of me sort of like Doc Oc's mechanical arms. I walked around on those legs for a bit before I woke up.
I did not ask to become or discover anything, I just went into the box and came back out a hero. If it helps I had no idea what I would be, if anything, the dream just sprung it on me.

Awesome!! Next dream try to ask around for your super hero name.

Originally Posted by sivason

If it helps I had no idea what I would be, if anything, the dream just sprung it on me.

Yes, that is the way it's meant to be. The dream is supposed to decide our superhero form for us. I think it's more fun that way, and certainly more challenging. We have to discover "ourselves". We don't know what our powers will be. And, it is true we may be disappointed (I was a little bit, not anymore), but that's part of growing, and part of the fun?

Originally Posted by MoonageDaydream

Awesome!! Next dream try to ask around for your superhero name.

Yes, that is the way it's meant to be. The dream is supposed to decide our superhero form for us. I think it's more fun that way, and certainly more challenging. We have to discover "ourselves". We don't know what our powers will be. And, it is true we may be disappointed (I was a little bit, not anymore), but that's part of growing and part of the fun?

I was meaning to ask to clarify some of the tasks. I want to make sure I'm doing them right. You know, You want to do all the tasks only to find out you were doing it all wrong? I probably should have asked when you suggested them. Sorry.

1. What if someone in my dream addressed me as an Avenger name, then that would be okay?

2. Do we have to keep the superhero Alter-Identity in every task that we do or can we be a different Alter-Identity in other tasks too?

3. With discovering your power, does it have to be a power that you never had before? I have had many different powers, but, do I have to look for a new-new power?

By the way, If anyone else has any questions, then maybe this a great time to ask, Moonagedaydream about her tasks!

~HD.

I'm glad you brought this up. Thanks for being honest & up front.


1. I don't think you're breaking any rules. I do think that your situation is uncommon, as most of us don't have an already established super hero dream identity like you do. When I was writing it, I was thinking from the perspective of someone who doesn't have a form already.

My intention was to encourage a discovery process. Maybe you feel you've already gone through that. I would ask myself: Do you feel that the character represents an aspect of yourself? Does the unconscious see you as this character? Or do you feel like you just like to play the part because it's fun? I would say yes, it represents you, but ask yourself. Or better yet, ask the dream.

Now, if you want to "re-roll" your character, because you're not sure, then by all means, go ahead. It's your choice.

2. We keep the same one. So, we would transform into our super hero mode with the expectation of the previous form. If the dream misbehaves, then roll with it.

3. No, and keep in mind you may have multiple powers. As long as you are not using lucid dreaming god-mode powers (No iddqd!!). You don't have to search for a new one. You do need to be open to new powers if they arise organically in the dreamspace during a mission. I think I called that a "level up" in the original post. That's OK.

In fact, thinking on this, I'm going to ask the dream to "shut down all lucid dreaming powers other than the ones given to my super hero character." That's a good fail-safe.

Originally Posted by MoonageDaydream

3. No, and keep in mind you may have multiple powers. As long as you are not using lucid dreaming god-mode powers (No iddqd!!). You don't have to search for a new one. You do need to be open to new powers if they arise organically in the dreamspace during a mission. I think I called that a "level up" in the original post. That's OK.

In fact, thinking on this, I'm going to ask the dream to "shut down all lucid dreaming powers other than the ones given to my super hero character." That's a good fail-safe.

The dream did include a voice/thought that said "you are Spiderman" but I told myself this is not Spiderman, it must be something else, but no good name was presented. I am not ok with it just being Spiderman. Next time maybe something good will come up.
I was wondering about this stuff with discovering powers. In a fully lucid dream I have any power I want. I recently destroyed my home town by pulling an asteroid out of space very vividly. Flight, fireballs, TK, teleport, what have you. I am not sure how I am going to "discover" my super hero powers, but it makes for an interesting challenge.

Checking in! The first month has already passed! I would say I intended to do the first quest 10% of the month but I didn't incubate anything. Had a few lucid dreams but did not recall the goal.

I loved reading about the birth of Ilene, Light Girl, and the banter with her guide Mother (while playing My Girl by the Temptations for the proper mood)! One of the powers I used to fantasize about having was the ability to manipulate light. Since vision is our perception of light, I reckoned if you could manipulate light, you could form any kind of illusion. You could defeat your enemies by making them see terrifying things or by misguiding them. Likewise, you could support allies by making them see pleasant things or guiding them. I don't know what Mercury Girl's powers were but Ilene has lots of potential!

Originally Posted by Occipitalred

Checking in! The first month has already passed! I would say I intended to do the first quest 10% of the month but I didn't incubate anything. Had a few lucid dreams but did not recall the goal.

I loved reading about the birth of Ilene, Light Girl, and the banter with her guide Mother (while playing My Girl by the Temptations for the proper mood)! One of the powers I used to fantasize about having was the ability to manipulate light. Since vision is our perception of light, I reckoned if you could manipulate light, you could form any kind of illusion. You could defeat your enemies by making them see terrifying things or by misguiding them. Likewise, you could support allies by making them see pleasant things or guiding them. I don't know what Mercury Girl's powers were but Ilene has lots of potential!

Awww, you're so awesome. Good luck this month!

Hope this will inspire some of you of some powers that you could have? here: https://www.dreamviews.com/tasks-mon...ay-2015-a.html

And thanks for the clarifying that!

Completed step 2: I will link to a journal entry when I have time to make it. Basically I was more or less an alternate version of Spiderman. The powers fit that. Me and about 4 other costumed heroes were in a parking structure and met up with another group of costumed types. Power 1: We were surrounded by some bad guys, but they were not in our area. I could see where they were and guide us, sort of an advanced "Spidey sense'; it allowed me to know the way out by seeing where we would find an exit through the sewer. Power 2: I was able to climb the wall and travel on the ceiling as the sewer floor was gross. Power 3: I had a silver shield on my back and a split screen image let me know this is where the mechanical spider legs i was walking on last time are hidden. So I do not always have the spider legs, they will just come out of the shield when I want. I somehow knew that the legs had handy devices available on them like lights, drills or what ever.

It sounds pretty intense!