Thread: Task of the Month for November 2008

On November 2nd, I walked into a room, and there was a guy in a duck suit, I tackled him. Does that count?

Originally Posted by Twoshadows

I agree. I've also mentioned this. It would make the tasks available, yet challenging for everyone.

I respectfully disagree with both of you. The task of the month is not supposed to be a serious competition. It's an adventure springboard, and something fun to discuss in the forums. The advanced tasks are perhaps not difficult per se, but make for far more interesting stories.
This is only my opinion, so keep in mind that I am speaking from the perspective of one who is not [insert pause to think of how to conclude the sentence]
Never mind. Ok, I do not have even a tiny degree of ability to have lucid dreams. If we make it truly hard it discourages me and perhaps others even more.

Had a lucid dram last night and remembered the task of the month. I tried to make a yellow brick road, but the bricks didn't go very far. I went along the yellow brick road and sang the song. There were tall weeds or maybe it was tall dead grass on either side of the road and when the bricks ended there was still a path between the tall weeds, so I followed it a little bit longer. Then I remembered the duck task. I mad a duck apear and it was hard to catch and was slipping between my hands. I got it to hold still and named it Twitch. Then I gave it to my niece because she likes ducks.

I had a dream several days ago that I followed the yellow brick road, it was trippy. I'll post it for the sake of remembering it.
I was walking, a lion jumped in front of me. It roared, the bit me. I went lucid, and tossed it aside. Ironically, I watched the Wizard of Oz before I fell asleep, so that stuck in my mind. I started walking, my dog, scooby, at my side. He barked and nudged my foot, and I turned to see a scarecrow. I turned to see a tin can, the one my Grandmother uses to water her garden. I continued to walk, I ended up in a mountain. The yellow line going straight up. The curiosity of my sub conscience led me up the mountain, my dog by my side. H barked, the sprouted wings and got really big. I jumped on, and we flew up the mountain. I ended up looking at a giant mask that looked like the green one from "Son of the Mask." It spoke, I don't recall what it said. I woke up after my dog licked my face.

I did it!

I don't remember how I got lucid, but i went on here before bed.
red: Task part

purple: Does not matter



I was in a dark area so I started flying away to get to a more familar area. Landed iin a neighbourhood and immediately remembered the yellow brick road task. I started wandering around telling myself it should be around here somewhere. I must have walked around for five minutes going around the block and then I went behind some buildings and I saw a yellow path in the close distance! As i approached it i saw that it was a park with swings and the whole deal. Once getting closer to the road it turned out to be about 5 cement blocks with yellow paint splattered on them. (goes to show my level of creativity) as I keep walking down this path I go up a few stairs and there are people in front of me enjoying themselves. on the right side there were 'employees' hired for us to entertain/serve us.. kinda like beer fest.. there was music and mingling in the armosphere and further down on the right there was an oxygen bar.

For some reason I was not interested in mingling with these people (probably because I have been to waaaay better real live parties so i turned around, and left in search of a duck.

Once again, I started walking around the block saying that those ducks should be around here somewhere, and not finding them that easy. I almost walked past a pool and then i turned around and remembered reading on the forums about how breathing underwater is really cool. So i started to belly flop in.. just as I am on top of the water about to enter, time went in slow motion and I even thought "whoa,, i have never breathed underwater and I havent gone swimming in a long time. i guess this extra time that i am getting is for me to prepare how this is going to feel. I thought about how I hope the water is not going to be freezing. then I made sure to get rid of any expectations and then I fell in the water and continued to breathe normally.. it was in fact VERY COOL. I saw some blurry things and blurry people under the surface of the water but it creeped me out so somehow I got out. NO idea how I did so and I dont even remember being wet.

I continued to look for ducks and finally saw some in the distance!
It was a playground type setting again I think there might have been a couple real ducks but the majority were those wooden plasticy ones, one might find in a playground with the springed bottoms. i ran to one and hugged it and hugged it...

My recall has been crap lately as I have been lazy with writing down my dreams. after this i went on to have a super long lucid dream but thank god for the task because if it wern't for it, then i would have not remembered any of my dream.

ps
i should have know my yellow brick road would lead me to a social event

Well, did the advanced task, but thats not important, the gecko is the important!
Report:


WILD

Directly to FA, but like thats a problem, anyway, was deciding between the advanced or the gecko tasks and got the idea (still in FA bed):
Do the advanced task and once I'm at the wizard, wish for a gecko duck! Kill 2 rocks with 1 wizard, or however its written.
Went outside and teleported to the yellow brick road along with 5 really rich people and their really big houses, it was fun, a home rain, with 6 houses, 5 big and 1 small (doroti), my plan was to follow the girl along her adventure, but the start was so boring, so went to explain the situation to the rich people who just got into a new world, my talk was like this:
Well strangers, we came here to find a wizard, the wizard of Oz, now, we will travel along this weird road thats yellow and get to the end of it, anyway, as rich people I trust you guys can afford a car or helicopter as enough people to investigate said wizard, so that it won't take long to find him! After we are done, I will return you all to your normal day place, so thats how it should be working, ok?
They were so confused, but had to accept anyway, so they sent their workers to get info about the wizard, I suppose nobody in there was smart, because the workers left nothing to get faster... now we had to look for the wizard, the workers and the little girl <.<

Part 1:

First, instead of looking for anyone, started to fight because of the moves they did, they were blaming me for taking them to that place (which is right) and I was blaming them for taking the comfort of traveling in car... it would take tons of my time, anyway the fight ended when I told them I didn't have long until wake time, they put weird faces and asked what that meant, so more talking:
Me: Well, it means I'm asleep and your DC and I will wake up at some point.
Random Girl: What!? And I tought this place was crazy, lets all go back to our houses.
Everyone "agrees"
Me: Ah... its not like you guys have the option "destroys houses" this is supposed to save my energy so I won't get bored or wake up suddenly before finishing my task, don't make it any harder, ok?
Everyone: Ok... "runs"
Me: "sighs" I suppose rich people wasn't a good idea "teleports them back"
Me: Ok, so I suppose by now that the only exit is doing what I asked for, right?
Everyone starts walking and looking for a car, as none of them was customed to the kind of thing, they started to become slower and started to make me waste tons of my time, I was already doubting I could finish the task like this, so helped them.
Me: Ok everyone, here "throws fruits" eat them, they will give you some sort of powers and improve your body abilities a lot, being this slow is bad, we must be tailing the girl and not cars.
Everyone was suspicious but eat the fruit anyway, it truly improved our speed and in no time, we were at the same point of the girl. Wake up at this momment.

DEILD

2nd part:

Everyone: What happend? you suddenly fainted.
Me: Oh no, I just woke up and came back the fastest I could, now were is the girl? She can't escape or be slow at moving.
Random boy: Oh she went trough this way, there is a bridge that looks weak, so it may take us time to pass it.
Me: I don't have time "makes the bridge stronger", now lets follow.
And as so, started to follow the girl and the plot from the story, or the plot I recalled at the momment of getting there... anyway, it didn't took long before the witch appeared (around 30 mins) of course, I could not let her take the time of the little girl, so killed her, it was just going to ruin the life of the friends of the girl anyway <.<

So, after helping her, continued trough our path and got lost in a kind of city, lucky enough, could find some of the workers, they had info about the place, multiple maps, the wizard wereabouts and some food. Apparently everyone else died for unknown reasons, so they didn't matter anymore, now to find the little girl and continue with the travel... but we were lost, so it would be difficult because there were no maps about the city (how weird)

So, after getting back to the road (had to kick some good witchs) continued following the girl, finally, arrived to a huge castle, it was the aim so entered there to find the wizard and get back, woke up again.

DEILD

part 3

So back to the castle.
Everyone: You woke up again?
Me: Yep, now for the silly wizard! I want my gecko-duck!
Everyone: We are risking ourselves for a duck!!!!
Me: A problem? I can easily end that life your risking if you want <.<
"silence"
Me: Ok lets go.
And moved to the place were the wizard were, the girl and company started to ask things, but as I didn't care about that once I was at the other side of the yellow road, just told them to go back to kansas and teleported them there (I think only the girl goes back... who knows, I can't recall much of the movie <.<) then asked for my gecko-duck, but the silly wizard said something about friendship and those things, interrupted telling him I dind't care about that, I wanted a gecko-duck, but he left @.@

Anyway, as promised teleported everyone back to were we first were (ok, to were I first was) now everyone wanted to get back to their house and not mine, but before that, I wanted the maps of the wizard, there were at least 3 other places where people said he liked to go, so went there, found him in a desert inside a really, really big dragon, his teeth were my size...
Anyway, asked again for my gecko-duck, he said something that for power I needed a dragon egg, and gave me a red egg really heavy, I told him that wasn't what I wanted and he was trying to escape again, so modified my body into the strong version and threw him away along with his silly dragon, got back to the FA and opened the doors for them to go. Nearly everyone left, but the random girl, she said something of wanting to stay with me in all dreams and silly things, meh it was annoying so went outside to find my ducks and transform them, there were no ducks and instead tons of kids, was about to get agressive but woke up again. This time didn't go back.

Wish me luck with the gecko... its just so hard <.<

Alright, this morning, I woke up slightly, but went right back to bed, thinking about ducks. When I gained control, I noticed one little yellow duck in the corner, so I made a net, and grabbed him. I put him in a cage, but he bit me so I woke up...

What if we catch a duck while it's walking down the yellow brick road ?

That's fine.

Originally Posted by Delphinus

Alright, this morning, I woke up slightly, but went right back to bed, thinking about ducks. When I gained control, I noticed one little yellow duck in the corner, so I made a net, and grabbed him. I put him in a cage, but he bit me so I woke up...

You got bit by a duck

Originally Posted by ninja9578

You got bit by a duck

Stupid quacking son-of-a-swan....

Last night I started to dream that I was in a huge house where a party was going on but I didn't know very many people. I finally realized that I was dreaming after someone sailed off the balcony four stories down and landed gently at the bottom on both feet. Since I didn't know anyone I decided that maybe I should try my first task! (I haven't been lucid dreaming for very long so this was my first attempt.) I really didn't want to mess with ducks as I'm afraid of birds so I thought I'd try the safer less aggressive yellow brick road. It took me several tries to get it to appear because it's the first time I've tried to make something appear. I almost lost control of the scene a couple of times so I had to take a break and look around a bit to make everything around me sharpen up. A trick I learned here on the forums. (Thanks guys!) But then it finally showed up so I started to follow it though the halls of the house. But when I turned corners parts of it would disappear. It led me down a spiral stair case and there were lots of books like I was entering an underground library. At the bottom there was something that looked like a shop complete with a door and window display where there were many more books. Inside as the shop keeper was Professer Snape! He wasn't very responsive when I tried to talk to him so I kissed him. I have a thing for him But after that I woke up. So apparently Professor Snape's bookstore lies at the end of the yellow brick road. Lol. By far the most fun I've had lucid dreaming though. I've only had like 3 of them and this was the funnest one. Thank you!

Originally Posted by Forrest

I respectfully disagree with both of you. The task of the month is not supposed to be a serious competition. It's an adventure springboard, and something fun to discuss in the forums. The advanced tasks are perhaps not difficult per se, but make for far more interesting stories.
This is only my opinion, so keep in mind that I am speaking from the perspective of one who is not [insert pause to think of how to conclude the sentence]
Never mind. Ok, I do not have even a tiny degree of ability to have lucid dreams. If we make it truly hard it discourages me and perhaps others even more.

Forrest, I think you misunderstood. Or maybe I need to be more clear. I have always wanted a third task that is much much easier so that the beginner has a chance to participate. Something along the lines of "Look at your clothes. What are you wearing?". Something that anyone who becomes lucid could do. The challenge is not the task itself but in just becoming lucid and remembering the task. Then to balance that out, we could offer tasks that challenge both the moderate and advanced lucid dreamers as well. This way everyone can participate on their own level.

The way I'm suggesting would allow more people to participate, not fewer. I want everyone to have the joy of completing a task...

I Just completed the basic task!

I wake up in my room and instinctively plug my nose. I can breathe easily so I immediately become lucid. The dream world is a little hazy so I roll around in my bed and fall off onto the floor, once the dream is stable, I stand up and look out my window, I find a bunch of aliens outside and use my finger gun to shoot them. Its amazing what the power of a finger is like lol!

After killing a couple of aliens, I remember the lucid task of the month. Since my balcony is alien infested, I head over to the neighbors balcony. I realize thet Im walking and decide to fly over, staying close to the ground so as to not lose the dream.

On the neighbors balcony there are a bunch of small pieces of fluff, like the stuffing inside a stuffed animal. I've never tried to summon anything in my dreams before, so I decide to try it out. I find a nice piece of fluff, and visualize a duck in its place. The transformation was really wierd, first the fluff changed into the shape of a duck and stood up, then it gained its color. As soon as it was a good duck, I grabbed it and triumphantly yelled "I'm Dreaming!!!!!!!!"

I realized that I had completed the task of the month and promptly threw the duck off of the balcony just for kicks

This is my first completed task of the month! Thanks to everyone on the forum for helping me be ale to lucid dream!

this morning i was lucid and i took a second to stop . and try and remember the task of the month.... I couldn't remember it,,,, so i did my own thing.
silly me,, i completed this months task

i need a lucid that way i can complete at least one LTM.....

also in the lucid i need to remeber the task...i just get to side tracked

Completed the Advanced Task, last night!

Originally Posted by Oneironaut

11/19/2008
”Following the Yellow Brick Road”

I was in my old house, just sitting around and not doing much. I remember going outside at night and just walking around my neighborhood. For no reason that I can remember, I realized that I was dreaming. While trying to think of something to do, I began to slowly levitate, about to fly off to do whatever came to mind. Then, I thought about the Lucid Task. The only one I could remember was the Yellow Brick Road task. Asking myself what the quickest way would be, to find a yellow brick road, I lowered myself back down to the street.

Looking back down the cross-street that ran to my house, I could see in the low glow of the streetlight that the road was made of stone. It was a very small road, only wide enough for about one car, and it trailed off behind my house and around the back of my neighborhood. I walked the length of the road and…then it just kinda stopped. It ended at the corner of the block and brought me to the front side of the complex. Some dude that kind of reminded me of Doc Brown (I had been watching Back to the Future, the other day.) came running up to me and rambling on about something. I talked to him for a while and ended up losing lucidity. We walked back around toward the front of the neighborhood, and passed my mom, uncle and a few other people. My mom had got a new motorcycle, and she let me ride it. It was a Harley, and pretty badass. I was riding it, though, and hitting the front breaks almost threw me off of the bike. It stood up on the front wheel and spun 180 degrees, landing and facing the opposite direction. I brought it back to her and some of the guys checked it out and said that the reason it was like that was because of a fucked up suspension. They started working on the bike and trying to work out the leaning issue.

Yay O!

Originally Posted by The_Patient

I Just completed the basic task!

I wake up in my room and instinctively plug my nose. I can breathe easily so I immediately become lucid. The dream world is a little hazy so I roll around in my bed and fall off onto the floor, once the dream is stable, I stand up and look out my window, I find a bunch of aliens outside and use my finger gun to shoot them. Its amazing what the power of a finger is like lol!

After killing a couple of aliens, I remember the lucid task of the month. Since my balcony is alien infested, I head over to the neighbors balcony. I realize thet Im walking and decide to fly over, staying close to the ground so as to not lose the dream.

On the neighbors balcony there are a bunch of small pieces of fluff, like the stuffing inside a stuffed animal. I've never tried to summon anything in my dreams before, so I decide to try it out. I find a nice piece of fluff, and visualize a duck in its place. The transformation was really wierd, first the fluff changed into the shape of a duck and stood up, then it gained its color. As soon as it was a good duck, I grabbed it and triumphantly yelled "I'm Dreaming!!!!!!!!"

I realized that I had completed the task of the month and promptly threw the duck off of the balcony just for kicks

This is my first completed task of the month! Thanks to everyone on the forum for helping me be ale to lucid dream!

Ummm... did this count? I posted it yesterday... I really REALLY want the badge and the sexy orange name! lol

Yeah, it counted. The bureaucracy is making things slow.

ok thanks! Im sorry for beink kinda pushy but I was seriously about to shoot myself lol.

I haven't tried the duck thing yet because I haven't been able to make the
yellow brick road thing happen first. When I tried to turn a road into a
yellow brick road, squares of yellow tiles started popping up here and there
but it wouldn't transform into a whole yellow road. At least the tiles were
yellow though. I want this one to work before I try catching a duck.
I'm thinking I should read what everyone else did in here now. I don't like to
read the entries until I've done the tasks my own way first, so as not to be
influenced, but so far it isn't working for me. Still a few more days in the
month though. Maybe I should try for the duck first. It's frustrating because
I can usually make happen what I want to happen, but not this time.....so
far anyway.

Maybe you could catch a yellow duck and then smoosh him into a road

I have been gone a lot lately, but I have tried to complete one of these tasks so I can suggest a couple:

~Travel to the North Pole
~Give Santa Claus a gift
~Ride Santa's reindeer

Etc.

I will attempt again tonight.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Maybe you could catch a yellow duck and then smoosh him into a road

haha ya, but then if I walk down it, there will probably be crazy mad-ass sniper
ducks shooting at me all the way.......I bet.