Thread: Task of the Month for November 2008

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

You can use whatever method you'd like to catch the duck, as long as you can get it in your hands.

Yeah, I like the advanced badge, it's the favourite one I've made so far

Here, both basic and advanced (red is important part for tasks)


So, I dunno how but I got to a tower in that planet, being attacked by the weird ships of the enemy, I suppose that was done the night I forgot... who cares, just sliced them and prepared to work on the task for this month, a duck it must be, now I had a problem, which kind? A gecko duck? (suggested by ninja) a normal duck? (kind of boring) or Chivis? (the extremly overpowered duck in my dreams) and, after some talk with the cats we decided it must be the 3 of them! After all, a duck with that much power would be helpful in the war, anyway, asked for a special room to get into the summoning (excepting for normal duck) it was pretty simple for the gecko duck, but for Chivis I needed a little more time, after all a duck thats 1.6mts tall, with purple feathers (made of solid hydrogen) that can move at sound speed withouth a problem and a fixed strenght plus the deadliness of being highly explosive because of its composed nature, its extremly hard to call for it, anyway, got the gecko and normal duck there, I was planning in catching them while the summoning finished, after all, I wanted to have an epic/uber battle with her for the catching, it was all going so good, then, recalled my lost dog, it messed the summoning and basically all my powers, lost lucidity and got myself into a FA, also, my DG got out of his prision, at least with enough powers from the forced training.

Regain lucidity in the FA and go out, in this depressed myself it was kind of hard to actually catch a duck, I didn't care much about the task anymore and wanted to just stay inside until it was time to wake up, but you know, my DG wouldn't pass this chance to avenge himself, after all, I like to give them a free will, which is something I must fix to put it off in those depressing times.

Went outside because of all the noise, it was so annoying, decided I must just retire to try the advanced task and started to fly, but was trapped in that FA, went down to go and kick someone as I was truly angry now, found someone I has known for so long (WL) and always hated her, but like I would remember that in a dream while depressed, she was talking to me about something and I decided it was better to tell her I didn't hate her to stop the bothering, she went truly happy which made me come back a little and tell "Ok, ok, I hate you but that from my isn't a bad thing, for most" yay ruined the FA for everyone, or so I tought because the people started to dissapear, excepting for another person, a teacher I know, he of course wasn't a normal guy, it was no other than the disguised DG, now wasn't the time to mess with me, so just killed the DG and started to think that in such a horrible lucid even sex would be better than whatever I were doing, so teleported outside to the FA to a past memory and summoned someone randomly.

It was a pretty girl with long hair, it didn't matter who she was, from where I took the image, it was still useless after all, tried to do it, but was so in the bad mood that couldn't, felt like waking (no, I don't wake while doing lucid sex, or never happend the 3 times before <.<) but wanted to see yanis again, couldn't say bye to her so went back to the FA and did so, after talking with her and playing, tought it would be good to go and finish the thing with some random characters at another past memory, but hell, if it was a past memory, it was ok to do the advanced task, right?

Tried to get to the yellow thing, but instead it was grey, and instead of being a big travel, it was just a big road with tons of white flowers around, could easily pass it all just by flying, trough it, at least there was a big castle at the end, which had inside another building of pearl color, I tought I must go there to find the wizard, but instead found some people taking class and 2 weird teachers, one a wizard and other a werewolf (no, they looked normal, but it was easy to guess since it was a past memory lol) then went to talk with the students and told them they were frigments of my mind and I were dreaming, asked for proof and transformed my hand into that of a werewolf, it took me so long, how silly to take so long in something that simple, but whatever, then the witch and werewolf went and told me I wasn't needed there and tried to take me out, which provoked me to kill the both of them, enough for the students to believe I were dreaming, then decided I wouldn't try the tasks until I were done with the lost of Yanis, because the influence it took over the 2 of them was so great and made me fail in both <.<

Failed both.. will try again once I'm done with that depression (now just sadness)

Had a really fragmented lucid last night, a lot of gaps in memory. I still remember doing the advanced challenge, though! Here's how it went:

I was on a road trip with my family across the Nevada desert. We stopped at a large hotel in the middle of nowhere, and went up to our room. My sister said she wanted to have a lucid dream tonight, and would fall asleep now. I told her that I would go to sleep now too, cause I wanted to have an LD (how did I not get lucid at this part? >.< ) So we both went to sleep. Immediately after I closed my eyes, I started LDing. I was in my house, looking out the window. I remembered the advanced task, then got down to the floor and thought, "When I look back, there will be a yellow brick road." I looked back, and sure enough, the normal road was replaced by a yellow brick one. I went outside and began to walk down it. It lead into a forest. I walked through the forest, following the yellow brick road for awhile. Nothing interesting was really happening, until, suddenly, the road stopped. There was an electrified fence blocking it, and a warning sign in some language (Cyrillic?) I jumped really high over the fence, and landed inside a Russian Ultranationalist camp. (Like the guys in Call of Duty 4.) Here's where my memory gets really fragmented. I have vague memories of hostages being there, and fighting the Ultranationalists. I also have a memory of having some lucid sex near the end of the dream. That's pretty much it.