Thread: Task of the month for August 2009

Last month I asked a DC about being a DC. I did my RC and became lucid (held my nose). The DC asked what I was doing. I explained to him what a reality check was, and that I was dreaming. He tried to RC but it told him he was awake. I told him that I didn't think the same rules applied since he was just a figment of my dream. I asked him what it was like being a dream character, if he had his own thoughts and feelings. He told me he did and started explaining what it was like, but I stopped paying attention because I became aware of breathing and my physical body in general.

Even if it doesn't count for this months challenge I'd like to try this again, since I didn't really pay attention to the answers.

Originally Posted by Dream scientist

I think this task is just fine. Ninja makes the tasks general, and that is the way it should be. Most people could not manage making a level 5 hurricane appear in New York City and energize it with electricity. I`m sure no one would mind if you did, though.

That's why its advanced lol

Originally Posted by Queen Zukin

I did it the Basic Task...and got a very interesting answer.


Spoon Fight


[B]I ran upstairs and my mom and dad were in the kitchen. I decided this would be a good time to do the task of the month.

"Hey mom, I have a question for you," I said.

"Oh? Say..Do...Tell...When..." She started babling nonsense.

"What do you think of being a DC, and existing only in my dreams?" I ask her.

My dad comes in the room and tells us what he brought home from the grocery store. It was all bread.

Wierd coincidence, when I asked my DC if it was a dream, I asked my mum, and my stepdad was also putting groceries away. Except on closer inspection, it was one of my mates. It was a bit awkward.

This is awesome! I love the mortal kombat idea.

I tried to create a tornado in my lucid last night, and ended up with a huge roller coaster ride Maybe, in some forgotten past, I rode a roller coaster called "The Tornado." I'll try again, tonight.

Hooray! I did the (my) basic task. Technically. I never really got a good answer. So I was in this dream about some sort of reality show where people are pretty much in a gigantic walmart, and they have everything they need to accomplish personal goals in their life, even if it is for fun. For some reason though, I just feel like making a castle out of plastic cups/boxes. But then it turns into sort of a school project thing for some reason. So one of my classmates starts taking down all the work I've done, calling it "too expensive" or something like that, because they can't reuse the cups. So I get sort of lucid here, and I CHARGE AND JUMP directly into the pile of cups behind me (that we were going to use). The pile shattered and cups fell all over the floor. Hell yes. Reuse that, asshole. So anyway, I jump around in the cups for a bit (sorta like a pile of leaves) but then I get lucid and remember the basic task. So I go up to these two girls sitting nearby, and tell the first one that I'm dreaming, etc. For some reason, she starts narrating what she's doing, like, "She sat there frozen when asked the question..." Eventually she gave me an actual answer, but... I don't remember it. So I go to the next girl, tell her I'm dreaming, etc. She says "he speaks again!" And I just give up trying to get anything decent out of my DCs and go outside, because it's snowing!

So yeah. Technically I did the task . It was only to ask them

I like your sig DL There's been way too many "was this a LD?" threads lately.

I remembered the basic task last night, but like DL I couldn't get much of an answer.

non-lucid lucid

I was in front of a house down the street from me with a huge front lawn playing football with a bunch of my friends. Eventually they left and it was just me and a few younger kids (looked to be about 12 or 13). I was playing with them instead, when one did something that really pissed me off (or something like that, I forget exactly what he did) so I knocked him down and started punching him (I don't have anger management issues in RL, really). While I was some little health bar came up over his head, like in a video game. It got low, and I thought I could get in one more punch, but it killed him (wtf?). I got up and looed back where he was lying and saw only his glasses. The other 2 kids were freaking out, yelling stuff like "oh my god you killed him!". I was trying to tell them that I didn't mean to kill him, that my knee hit him accidentally and that's what killed him, but they weren't buying it. Then the mother of one of the kids came out and told us that she called the police and they were on their way. I really started freaking out then. I was thinking "No, this can't really be happening...wait a minute,it must be becouse I'm dreaming." I looked at my hands. My left one still had 5 fingers but my right one had 7.Ok, I'm dreaming. I remembered the task, so I went up to the other 2 kids and said "hey, you know, I'm dreaming right now, so you two don't really exist." They both just looked at me kind of wierd. "So what's it like, knowing you only exist in my dream?" They were kind of confused, so I explained "You know, like since I'm dreaming, you two are my DCs and you only exist in my dream." I forget exactly what they said here, but it wasn't really relevent to the question(doesn't help that they were both talking at the same time. Oh well, If I wanted a good answer I guess I shouldn't have asked two 12 year olds.) After that the cops arrived. 'Ok, I'm never too comfortable when cops are around, maybe it'll help if I go stand up to them here'. As I'm walking over, I see an ambulance in front of my house. I think "wait, what if it's for my dad?" and lose lucidity . Turns out it's for some old guy neighbor who doesn't exist in RL. A moment later I wake up.

I did the basic task. No real deep answer, however. This dream was special.

From DJ:

08.08.2009

Wrath (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I go outside the Restaurant/Bed and Breakfast. They've been shot. Before me lies a ragged body, riddled with bullet holes. Some other teenagers are running around with Uzis, but they didn't do this. Someone else did.

As I start my investigation, I see someone across the street, behind a car door. He tips his fedora down, and levels his sniper rifle at my chest. Oh, he better not, I think to myself. The bullet pierces through my chest, into my heart. Blood starts gushing out.

"Now you're gonna get it! F***ing with my dream?!" I start toward him, "What's it like existing solely within my mind?! Knowing, at any moment, you are subject to my very whim?! Knowing, I could utterly destroy you with a thought, you stupid bastard?!" A look of horror rolls across his face. He doesn't answer me in words. Instead, he starts to run.

He's getting away. I won't let that happen. I hurl a nearby car at him, using my telekinesis. It misses, and he's getting farther and farther away. I won't let that happen! I ready my short range teleport, point and click. Everything vanishes for a moment, before the dream scene is forcibly changed around me, bringing me within arms reach of the man I wished to end.

He keeps running. I need to move faster. My strides become longer and my speed increases three-fold. Before I know it, I'm upon him. "Now you will know my wrath!"

I forget what I did to him. >.>

what is a dc

Zukin, that's really funny. Good job on remembering all that dialogue... I can't seem to remember any these days!

Originally Posted by deepdreamer

what is a dc

DC = Dream Character

Success! I had my first lucid dream and remembered to do the tasks!

I am in a bed, in a room with two teachers one male with a long beard and a female. It's a classroom but the students arent my age they are actually genius babies, they are studying me for some reason. This is strange to me and i think i might be dreaming. I pinch my nose and try to breathe, I can! Now I am lucid, I've gotten this far before but usually awake because i am so excited, but not this time, I chill myself out and try to gain control. I leave the classroom because it's just to weird for me and go into another room. Its a huge dinner table and Angelina Jolie is there she knows I am dreaming because she is giving me advice on how to stay lucid, I am nervous i will lose control so i perform reality checks but they dont increase my awarness or anything, she tells me to rub my hands together but and it helps. Oh yes i should try the task of the month! I ask her what it is like only exsisting in my dream and she laughs and says that even when i am gone she will still be there, i dont really believe her but maybe... I see a glass cup and point at it like a wizard and bam it breaks into pieces, i tell everyone in the room and they ask me to do it again, i see a salt shaker and try to move it but it on vibrates a little, i need to find a way to do this better, next i try to fly so i find a window and jump before getting out but i dont even levitate so i quit doing that. Now i decide i want to summon a tornado so i put my hands to the ceiling and picture it but nothing happens. I'm bummed out and this is when i lose my lucidity, i find a bed room and my dream journal and write down my conquests, the i sleep in the bed and now i wake up in real life. I realize i wrote down my dream while i was still dreaming so i have to do it again, buzzkill!

when i went up to my dc, i forgot what i was going to ask, and decided to turn him into a little person ( aka midget) and we danced

Lol, that sounds fun. Nice job guys, you'll have your wings soon.... well still no wings, gotta get the dishwasher on that.

Completed August's Advanced Task

Because I don't remember any of the dream before I became lucid, I'm assuming it was a DEILD. I was standing in an open field that was supposed to be my backyard. It was gloomy outside, and the sky was filled with dark clouds. This was extremely convenient, so August's task was the first thing I thought of. I reached up towards the clouds and, as if I was pulling a cloud right out of the sky, grasped the the air and pulled down. The cloud I reached for started twisting, which created a center point. This point lowered closer and closer to the ground as I pulled downward with my telekinetic fist. The cloud shortly reached the ground, becoming a full-fledged tornado. I could control this tornado by moving my fist around, just as if I had a joystick. After having some fun with this, the tornado dispersed.

Not as exciting as I thought it would be, lol.

Edit: I remember how I became lucid. I had one of those "too good to be true moments" and did a reality check. Unfortunately, it was too good to be true. So it actually was a DILD.

Nicely done

I did the basic task tonight... But when i logged on here to submit, i noticed that the task i remembered to do in the dream, was the one for july...

Anyway, it was my first somewhat successful LD, so im still happy

Advanced Task -
I shot into the sky with my arms spread out and spun around as fast as I could.
My spinning motion generated enough wind to throw everyone around below. It was almost like watching a hurricane. Unfortunately, no tornado was formed.

I fell back to the ground to attempt again, but this time I would try something different. The wind was still howling around me, leafs blowing all around me.
I looked into the skies in front of me. The sky was covered with grey thunderous clouds.

I lifted my hand directly in front of me and pulled down the cloud using telekineses. It was as if I pinched a small part of the cloud and pulled it down like a sheet of cloth.
This made a tornado shape in front of me.
I then pointed my finger in the air and spun it around. This made the tornado spin out of control.

I then left the tornado to move away by its self. I felt proud of myself

yes i am stupid... who is DC?

Originally Posted by mutualdreamer

yes i am stupid... who is DC?

It's an acronym for "dream character"
You can find a full list of acronyms here :]

Originally Posted by no-Name

It's an acronym for "dream character"
You can find a full list of acronyms here :]

omg ty so much

O.o the basic task is quite interesting... Although I think I have asked a DC that once... the DC was based of a friend of mine, so I wound up telling the DC to go find my real friend in the dream world (I thought she was probably asleep too...).
Either way, I'm interested in finding out what do my DCs think about this OwO

Yess! I finally completed a task of the month! Here goes.


Advanced lucid task

Alright. So somehow, I ended up in a white roomed research facility. I realized I was dreaming, and I peeked into one the rooms. My best friend, C, and old woman, and a little girl were there. The old woman was firing wind out of her hands at the little girl, and C was watching. For whatever reason, my dreaming mind figured that the equation for a tornado was wind + ice = tornado. So I summoned all my energy into my hands and pointed my palms at each other. The energy collided, and tiny ice crystals began to form there. Once a large amount had formed, I dashed into the room and directed it at the little girl.

Nothing happened, so I collected maybe 5 times the initial amount and pumped it into the little girl. This time it took. Ice crystals sprouted around her body, and soon she was transformed into a raging, miniature tornado. It swept up the woman and C, then destroyed the room's machinery.

Once the tornado had subsided, I examined my state of consciousness, and realized that it was very fragile. I eventually came to the conclusion that I would awake if I thought about my real body, lying in bed. Curiosity killed the cat, and my thoughts turned to that very subject. I found I was in my bed, and a quick reality check confirmed my stupidity.

Ta-da!

I completed the basic task last night, shortly after I became lucid I asked a DC what he thought about only existing in my dream and the fact that as soon as I wake up he'll cease to exist. I can't remember exactly what he said but it was something along the lines of being peacefully aware of it and that it didn't bother him to have such a temporary existence.

I'm still yet to do the advanced task but I'll give that one a try next time

yes i did the basic task

10.08.2009

begginer task of the month ld (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was at my computer and did an rc i couldnt breathe through my nose but i looked at my hands and has seven fingers. I became lucid and went to try and find my mom. i found her and asked how she feels about only being a dream and she says," i guess we all cant be real. but how do we know that everyone is just a dream?" then i went ouside and lost lucidy