Thread: Task of the Month for November 2008

http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ead.php?t=7715 Post #38

Wow! Both of these tasks sound really easy. There should be three tasks:
Simple- So easy, you basically just have to remember the task. gets a badge but doesn't get in the lucid task club.
Basic- Small challenge. badge and club
Advanced: Very difficult. badge, club and maybe something else.

Originally Posted by Mr. Pig

Wow! Both of these tasks sound really easy. There should be three tasks:
Simple- So easy, you basically just have to remember the task. gets a badge but doesn't get in the lucid task club.
Basic- Small challenge. badge and club
Advanced: Very difficult. badge, club and maybe something else.

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

This definitely seemed easier than October's Tasks.

green = lucid
blue = important part

Advanced Task:
I was trying to WILD and I had some songs going through my head without really thinking about it and then I noticed there was a song in my head that was not a song I knew and the lyrics just didn't make any sense. I thought it was hilarious and I needed to get up and sing it and record it on my computer, but as soon as I tried, I noticed I was in sleep paralysis. I tried to roll out of bed to induce an LD which has worked for me in the past (sort of) but I couldn't move that way at all.

I tried moving my hands and I could feel my dream hands moving. I felt the wall and I was able to feel my way to the base of my bed toward the door and stand up. I still couldn't see anything. I didn't dare try to open my eyes, from what I have heard from other people. I opened the door and tried to visualize what my living room is supposed to look like, but it's just not looking right. It's different. I look back into my bedroom and it is a little more clear since I have a better sense at the moment of what it should look like. I then look back into the living room and everything looks right now.

It's still not completely clear so I spend some time walking around the living room/kitchen. Until things are more clear. I decide that since I have an electronic keyboard in my apartment I'll go and try it out. I stupidly remind myself that electronics don't usually work right in dreams. I turn on the power and that works (even though it doesn't always in real life). I start banging on the keys and I can hear a quiet sound, so I turn up the volume. I bang on the keys some more and it helps a bit, but as soon as I try to hit individual keys or specific chords, there is not sound.

I rationalized that it was because it was easy for my brain to re-produce the sound of someone banging on random keys, but specifics were too difficult especially since I hadn't played the piano recently. I decided it wasn't a big deal (the last time I made a big deal out of it I woke up).

I decide it's best to wander around places I know. That way my brain doesn't have to think too hard about what things should look like. Thinking too hard always wakes me up. I leave my apartment and walk down the hallway toward my car but none of the cars were there (I didn't notice that at the time though). I did notice a large pine tree where there are normally some covered parking spaces though.

Things were still not that clear, so I decided to go over and lick the pine tree. That made things a bit clearer, but it didn't taste like anything really. I felt like I was licking some thicker plastic needles. I run around the parking lot and yell some things. I decide I'll walk over toward wal-mart since I'm familiar with the scenery on the way there.

I jump the fence of the apartment complex. The action of climbing the fence and hopping over really makes the dream vivid for a while. I walk toward the road. Some people pull up in a car (I didn't notice this then, but they were driving on the wrong side of the road). They drop some people off that walk over to the apartment complex. I wave and say hi. I'm still in my boxers, so they're looking at me funny, but I didn't care or bother with them.

I start walking down the road to the right and the scenery is similar to the road I would normally walk down except there's a forest to the right instead of a Kroger. I start thinking since nothing much is going on and I remember the monthly task for November to follow the yellow brick road to see where it takes you.

I then tell myself I remember the yellow brick road is right up here on the right. I walk a bit further and I see it on the right and I can't help but think "Awesome!" The yellow brick road is going into the forest and as I walk into it, the forest gets much more dense. It was daytime back at my apartment, but it looked like night now. The yellow brick road still stands out clearly.

Then there's a sign in the middle of the road blocking it. It said something about a secret military base and it had a bunch of cameras on it and some other strange looking electronic devices with red lights on them. Of course I just walk around it and keep going. The path gets a little bendy at this point instead of going straight.

I come to another sign, but this one is off to the side of the road (but it would still be parallel to the original sign due to the way the road had turned since then). I read it and it says in big red letters near the top "___________ Shampoo" (I can't recall what the brand was). Down below in red italicized letters it said "by __________" (I can't recall). I try to look again and then I says "by my penis". I look again and it says "by Set".

Then some DC walks out from behind the sign. He has medium to long length red hair. This surprised me quite a bit. He looks at me like he's completely terrified of me and starts running, but I say "hey wait!" and grab him. He's looking at me like he's going to pee his pants. I say, "It's a dream dude." He's still looking at me funny and starts running and once again I try to grab him but I just get his shirt and he trips and hurts himself. I feel bad and say, "I'm sorry. It's okay. Just go."

I turn back to the sign and decide to go look at it one more time because I was curious about the text changing since this is the first time I've experienced that (I shouldn't have done this. I've decided now that giving one aspect of a dream too much attention is definitely a bad idea. That's been the cause of my waking from most of my LDs now). This woke me up.



Later I had another Lucid so I did the basic task too. I liked this task because I used to have a pet duck and I remember chasing and holding him when I was younger.

Basic Task:
I have a normal dream about me and a group of DCs and some aliens. I wake up and then immediately go back to sleep.

I'm with the same group of DCs and in the same place as when I woke up, but we are now climbing a hill right near the dock (it's a dirt path in a forest). I recognize all of the DCs now as friends of mine from real life (they most definitely aren't thought) I hear one of them mention something from the alien dream I just had. I turn around to talk to them about my dream and see if they were the same.

Then I notice they don't have any bodies and I realize I'm dreaming. I look at my hand and It looked different, but I couldn't tell if I had 5 or 6 fingers. I think I actually had 5 fingers, but it still didn't look right. Regardless, I knew it was a dream now.

I ran up the hill and the dream was fading. I got down and felt the ground and I rubbed my hands and then I started crawling, but it was no use. I decided to try to do a somersault, but I got halfway to doing it and then I could feel sleep paralysis. I decide to keep trying and then it broke free and I ran into my book shelf.

I decided in all likelyhood this is still a dream. I couldn't see anything, but once again I felt my way along the wall to my bedroom door. Now I thought of the other monthly task of catching a duck. I decided there would be some ducks in my living room when I opened the door.

When I opened the door, I saw two ducks near my front door. The furniture wasn't there except for my table which was actually where my couch normally is. I run up to try and catch one but they're fast and they get away. They run out my front door and I follow trying to grab a new one out there. I fail at that, but I get close and the duck steps on my hand. It feels like the duck has claws. They aren't extremely sharp or anything, but they definitely don't feel like webbed feet.

I look down the hall, and there are a bunch of ducks at the end of the hall. I run down there and I'm able to grab one. I hold onto it and it's struggling and making weird duck noises. While I'm holding it, I realize that my alarm should probably be going off soon. And just as I think that it does! I wake up of course.

Nice job

question...when you say "catch a duck" do you mean just like physicaly (well in a dream world) or can we use like telekenisis or something to get it?

Great job, John11!

I think I wanna try the Advanced Task. Wonder if I should rewatch The Wizard of Oz for inspiration? Haven't seen it in years!

Shiny badge, too! I always love coming to the new TotM thread to see the new badges and tasks.

Edit: YouTube video of Dorothy starting down the yellow brick road. =P

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

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!

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

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

Originally Posted by ninja9578

http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ead.php?t=7715 Post #38

Oh... that seeker, I was looking trough Seeker28 posts <.<