Thread: Task for the Month of October 2008

I'm standing on the grass outside my childhood home. I notice that although the lighting makes it appear to be daytime, the sky is black with gray and green clouds, and at this point I realize I'm dreaming.

I lift myself into the air and begin to fly. As I cross into the cloud layer, I remember this month's lucid tasks. Become your costume? I can't remember the last time I had a costume, but I decide that in the same spirit I'll fly to New York City, land on the Empire State Building, and become King Kong.

I fly further to the east and I decide I'll make a stop along the way to talk to a jack o' lantern. I descend back through the clouds and see a house looming in front of me. I lift myself back up to clear the roof, then I land in the back yard. I turn around and walk up onto the back porch where I see a jack o' lantern sitting on a rail near eye level. I go up to it and say "Hi there, how's it going?"

It seems to come to life at this point as the eyes begin to move around and scan its entire surroundings. After watching it roll its eyes for a few seconds, it looks at me and grins even more than it had been in its inanimate state.

"Cock-a-doodle-doo!" the jack o' lantern shouts at the top of its lungs (if a dream jack o' lantern could be said to have lungs) and begins laughing maniacally. This is so ridiculous that I can barely hold myself back, and after a few seconds I succumb to laughter as well.

While laughing along with Jack, I make the mistake of closing my eyes. When I open my eyes, I find myself in my bedroom in my childhood home where I lose my lucidity.

I'm listening to a baseball game on the radio where the Cleveland Indians are leading the Tampa Bay Rays 12-5. I'm sitting on the floor looking at several fishing lures I have laid out. A cockatoo is several feet ahead of me eating mixed nuts out of a can.

I pick up the bird and go upstairs. When I get to the living room, I set down the bird, who goes right back to eating the mixed nuts. I go back to listening to the ballgame and I notice the Rays have scored several more runs and soon have the game tied. I tune out the game in disgust before I wake up.

oh noes, i got the wrong wings :O

Fixed, sorry about that.

Originally Posted by Man of Steel

Fixed, sorry about that.

thanks, its okay

Well... I talked to the jack-o-lantern, but it didn't talk back.

After I realized I was dreaming, I tried to recall the tasks of the month. The advanced one came to mind first, but I thought trying to transform myself might be a little difficult for my second lucid dream. That, and I still haven't thought of a good halloween costume. With difficulty, I remembered that the basic task had something to do with jack-o-lantern's, but I got the details wrong. I thought that the task was to make the jack-o-lantern laugh, for some reason.

With this in mind I started walking down the street I was on and within seconds I saw a huge jack-o-lantern - I think it was a foot or so taller than me. I decided to try to tell it a joke, but had trouble thinking of a funny one. I tried, "What has hands, but cannot clap?" But I didn't even finish the joke because I realized it was pretty stupid and not very funny. Then I tried making weird faces at it - sticking my tongue out, waving my hands, that sort of thing - but it just sat there, immutable.

I was trying to think of something to try next, when a guy on a motorcycle with a police helmet came up to me and started asking me why I was "defacing his pumpkin." In the ensuing argument, I forgot that I was dreaming and lost lucidity...

So yeah, does telling the jack-o-lantern half of a joke count as passing the task?

I gotta get this badge! The basic task was my idea. I tired, but I couldn't get a jack-o-lanturn...

Where's my wingies!?!
Oh well. I've got all month.

There you go, shakeandbake - Ninja's on vacation, so I'll be taking care of the task of the month while he's gone.

Hiro, I don't think that counts as "conversing".

Okay, so I certainly tried the pumpkin task last night but I'm not sure if I passed. I had a lot of dreams, and by the time I woke up my lucid was almost forgotten. This is as much as I can remember.

I was in a museum, but the strangest museum I've ever been in. To get through it you had to climb over rooftops and crawl through air vents. Eventually I reached a room decorated with pumpkin lanterns. This reminded me of the task and I tried talking to them. Most didn't reply. I seem to remember one even melted into an orange mass when I tried to make it speak. Eventually, I found one that did talk. I can't recall much of how the conversation went. Except... the pumpkin talked in long, confusing sentences. I could barely understand what it was talking about. I even wrote down the conversation on a piece of paper to help myself remember it, but of course the paper vanished along with the dream when I woke up.

Completed both tasks. Going back to bed!

Will write about it after I wake up.

(hours pass)

Okay I'm back. I was lucid, having just flown around the tops of some small buildings. I was on top of a particularly bland and gray one. I spun around demanding details and people and action whatnot. To my surprise, an amusement park sprung up around me, complete with some pretty cool roller coasters. I then remembered the lucid tasks.

I conjured a jack-o-lantern. It was huge! About as tall as me. It wasn't cut out anywhere, but it had all the lines drawn on it (since people have succeeded with plastic jack-o-lanterns, I think this counts?). I said, "Hi" to it and he immediately said: "Hello! Welcome to ______, where ______ ....." and went on talking for a while. (I can't remember the name of the park or all the things the jack-o-lantern told me about it). He had a thick, baritone, scratchy New York accent (I remember someone else here saying that about their jack-o-lanterns so I guess it stuck with me. Either that or all jack-o-lanterns are from New York). He suddenly grew two big buckteeth like a rabbit or a beaver. I got bored of that and wanted to do the second task.

Then for the second task...shoot! I did last months task (be two places at once) instead of this month's task. Oh well, next time.

Not to psyched on this months tasks. Probably because I've never really celebrated halloween.
I might try them though if i have nothing else to do :p

Does it count if the pumpkin cannot speak english?
The first jack-o-lantern i made was mini and "burnt" so i made another one which grew legs and ran away so i made another one which started speaking in a weird language so I asked him "do you speak english?" and he replys "no" so I go to my front door, (around the corner from where he is) he kept standing up to try and run away but he sat down aain everytime i said "stay"
I pick up a pumpkin to english dictionary give it to him but he just chucks it down and runs away. So i did speak to him...

Originally Posted by Wavefunction

Hiro, I don't think that counts as "conversing".

Fair enough. Next time though, that pumpkin is going to talk back, even if I have to force it to.

Originally Posted by Hiro

Fair enough. Next time though, that pumpkin is going to talk back, even if I have to force it to.

LOL

Noooo! I was a sorceror again, or possibly a Chrestomanci-style enchanter, and this time I wasn't even lucid! I must succeed!

Plan for tonight: if I can remember this, while lucid, I shall attempt to use my powers to either enchant a pumpkin to talk, or to have a talking jack-o'-lantern for a spell focus. And I must think black mage. Not sorceror. Not wizard. Not enchanter.

Originally Posted by Hiro

Fair enough. Next time though, that pumpkin is going to talk back, even if I have to force it to.

Originally Posted by Astroman129

Aww man, my idea was to trick-or-treat in hell, but those are good too.

And I'm serious. It's a good idea, right?

lmao thats great.

i'm going to be a...

I finished the advanced task, and maybe the basic task.

Basic (Maybe)

I was standing in a parking lot and before me was my brother. I was thinking about the tasks of the month, obviously, and out of nowhere he throws this pumpkin as if he knows what I'm thinking. It lands on the pavement before me and splits in half. It kind of looks like of a face so I try speaking to it.

"Hi," I say.

"Mpfhththfd," it tells me, "Go... away..."

So I talked to it and it talked back, but I'm not sure whether this counts as it had been broken on the pavement into something that looked like a face.

Advanced (Definitely)

I was standing in a parking garage. It was empty. With me were my two brothers. They were both standing behind me. I was still lucid and had the tasks still fresh on my mind. This Halloween I am going to dress up as a Domo for TI and so I pictured Domo in my head.
I started to grow. My arms began to thicken and brown fur grew until I couldn't see my arms anymore. I grew and grew until I stopped. I then grew a little more. I was now Domo. So I walked through the wall of the parking garage.
Totally awesome!

I'm going to try and post this dream in my journal later.

Become my halloween costume... Haha. I'm being an emo kid this year.

Originally Posted by Kyhaar

Become my halloween costume... Haha. I'm being an emo kid this year.

"The way I dress makes every day feel like Halloween!" hahahaha

Originally Posted by Shift

"The way I dress makes every day feel like Halloween!" hahahaha

Lol.

I haven't had a lucid dream in ages, but I'll try extra hard tonight. I've gotten a lot of exercise today.

Flip... So I tried the task.

I failed.

Anyway, I had great dream to waking life memory as when I realized that I was dreaming, I thought.. 'What was the task?' Then I remembered it. Then I thought, 'What am I going as for Haloween? Oh, yeah. I don't know but I'd like to be Cthutlu even if I can't.' Then I remembered a question on this thread which read, 'If we aren't going to Haloween, can we go as what we'd like to be?' The answer was yes and I remembered that.

So I figured I'd try to become a 3 mile high squidy thing. I just tried to will it into happening. The surroundings went blank. Not black or white or clear but like they were truly blank and I kind of felt myself getting big. At least, I pictured it and saw it foggily and I got kind of dizzy like I would if I was growing in size.

But it was kind of like I was just imagining it all happen within the dream. There was no feeling of concretness to it at all... Plus, I thought that I was waking up and was in the half-asleep half awake phase since I heard cars and city noises which I thought where penetrating form outside. In the place where I used to live, that would make sense. But my new residence in the Alaskan rainforest does not present these sounds, so I know that it was only an FA.

Anyway, in dream I was unaware of that and figured I'd need to become Cthutlu quick. I kind of felt my arms miles long and limp like tentacles, but the rest of me I couldn't feel. I started to see myself in that wierd, transparent half-1st half third person thing where you zoom to close into a video game character but not through them and view it as if you are inside thier body but see through it. You know?

Anyway I came so close then woke into the FA. My dream recall fails me from then on...

So close!

(I just lost the game.)

ok I did my tasks for this month last night, or at least I think I did.
The whole LD was so incredibly real that I almost doubted I was dreaming
this time....either that, or I'm just noticing detail more and more now.
I had the dream last night and it was a WILD. I knew even though it was
so real that I was not really walking around in my house because it was
bright daylight in my house and I knew it was night time. After I left my
house though it was easy to see that I was dreaming but I couldn't believe
how true and real looking everything in my house was. At one point though
I noticed some ceramic nick nacks on the hall window sill though that I do
not own. I went to look at them and one was a little boy fishing for crying
out loud....how weird is that?? lol
Anyway for the tasks.....I ended up in a very big store to look for a jack
o lantern to talk to. I actually talked to a few of them but the conversations
were so weird that I can't even remember some of them now. I finally spotted
a very large one that had a very evil looking face. The eyes were closed and
it had like a witches hat on. When I turned around after speaking with one
of the smaller ones the evil one was right there on a shelf. I said "hello"
to it, and it opened its eyes, which were just closed slashes at first but
when 'he' opened his eyes, they were real eyes, like human eyes. He said,
"hey there" and then he smiled and his mouth was a slash also but turned into
an open mouth just like a jack o lantern should have, but he had all black
teeth. I said 'how are you?' and he said "I like to sleep" and then he looked
mad again. I said "why are you mad" and he said "I'm tired" So I just walked
away and thought of what my Halloween costume would be. There were many
DCs in this store but I don't think I talked to any of them. The whole dream
sort of happened in confusing phases. I thought about the 'catgirl' lovers in
this forum and thought I could try to be a catgirl costume. I wasn't sure how
to begin to morph into anything so I just thought of turning into it. The LD
wasn't terribly strong and more then once started to fade away, and I looked
at my hands a few times, but that even started to fade after awhile so I
thought of something I read in here and so I yelled out loud....'clarity'!
and I'll be damned if that doesn't work very well! I was looking up through
the store at the time and everything came into perfect focus! Saying 'clarity'
out loud really works! (and it seems I can talk out loud in my LDs without
waking up now as well) I looked at my arms and I had white sleeves but my
hands didn't appear to be cat hands but I thought I might have changed. So I
looked for a mirror which I found immediately on a wall and looked at my
image. The face in the mirror was really me but I had three long whiskers on
each side of my nose that were real and were not simply drawn on my face and
I also had the pointy ears. I noticed that my shirt was still white but I had a
whole sort of white body suit on and it was furry. It was very furry around
the neck but my ears were black, and stuck out of my hair. I stuck my hand
through the mirror to touch the furry collar and it felt very soft but more
like feathers then fur. Which is kind of weird because I didn't think at the
time to feel around my own neck. My face in the mirror looked at me kind of
angry-like and so I walked away. (I wish I would have thought to ask it
'why do we dream?' but it didn't come to mind)
After that I did a lot of things but those are the tasks. I'll write up the whole
story for my journal later because I did a few strange things in this LD! I also
had trouble flying in this one and I actually fell to the ground once and banged
my head on the ground....I noticed that I felt absolutely no pain from it though.
I did a few things to get myself off the ground and some worked and some didn't
but then the flying became very bizarre!

Originally Posted by spockman

But it was kind of like I was just imagining it all happen within the dream. There was no feeling of concretness to it at all... Plus, I thought that I was waking up and was in the half-asleep half awake phase since I heard cars and city noises which I thought where penetrating form outside. In the place where I used to live, that would make sense. But my new residence in the Alaskan rainforest does not present these sounds, so I know that it was only an FA.

Anyway, in dream I was unaware of that and figured I'd need to become Cthutlu quick. I kind of felt my arms miles long and limp like tentacles, but the rest of me I couldn't feel. I started to see myself in that wierd, transparent half-1st half third person thing where you zoom to close into a video game character but not through them and view it as if you are inside thier body but see through it. You know?

I know exactly what you're saying here and I think you did the costume bit.
I never tried to morph before I came in here and got it as an idea and this
is the first time I tried it. It's a hard thing to do and it does feel more like
imagining it's happening then seeing it happen. I never look down at my
body in a LD and so the only thing I could think of was, to look in a
mirror to see if I had changed. But while I was trying to morph I was sort of
like imagining it...I mean....how else can you do it?? At least you could feel
the change, I couldn't feel it or feel different....I just saw it.