Thread: Task of the Month for November 2009

Originally Posted by cygnus

ok. i looked up that strange word in the dictionary:

somersault |ˈsəmərˌsôlt|
noun
an acrobatic movement in which a person turns head over heels in the air or on the ground and lands or finishes on their feet.

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that's what i did!

here's the excerpt from my journal with details on the "somersaulting" part:

i’m in a music store and some kid walks by carrying a loose guitar string. the string pokes me just beneath my eye and i start yelling at the kid. i go up to the counter and see A. (a friend who now lives far away). some music is playing and i start to move in a circle with my upper body while my feet are in one spot on the floor.

i realize i’m dreaming and continue my swaying/dancing movement. then i spin around for awhile with my arms holding up the rest of my body. my legs are sort of turning over my head and i do what i think to be break dance moves. i don't seem to have a spine - more like a rotating robotic lower body. i actually get tired, stop and end up on my feet. <--- there ya go.

some old white guy in a plaid kanga hat is furious that i’m dancing and marches up to me and A. (we’re now in a misty, green yard) and i say “hey guess what!” and grab his hat. i spin it off into the distance and say “this is a dream!” he run’s off to get it and goes under a big tree. he starts picking up some round, spiky seed balls and throws them at me. i have his hat again and i block the seeds with it and wake up.

Congratulations! It sounds like the man was throwing lychee fruits at you!

aww man i could've made a nice jello snack.

the pumpkin one sounds fun, hopefully i'll do it this month.

Aww man, bad timing.

A couple of months ago I did a somersault in the air when I was Spiderman.

Lol mine was perfect timing,
I had my third Lucid Dream, and I started flying and did some flips, then landed on the ground. Later that day I read the task of the month and BAM! yup, I completed the basic task of the month, without knowing it was the basic task of the month.

Originally Posted by AndresLD

Lol mine was perfect timing,
I had my third Lucid Dream, and I started flying and did some flips, then landed on the ground. Later that day I read the task of the month and BAM! yup, I completed the basic task of the month, without knowing it was the basic task of the month.

That is badass.

I think I can do the basic one. I might try the advanced task, though, I have problems with feeling pain in my dream. This might help me get over it.

Had a lucid dream last night where I was flying, or maybe it was more like floating. I was going through the air pretty slowly and I somersaulted in the air. I kept my eyes open and watched everything around me as I flipped. It was fun.

I was in a LD this morning, and remembered to do the basic task. I flew up a little, then spun around in a somersault. It was so fun!

I was lucky this morning, I had another LD, so I decided to complete the advanced task. I switched bodies with a DC so I wasn't "me", then it didn't really seem to be "me", so I changed somebody into "me" and we started talking how I do, it was very fun to have someone that talks like me to talk to! Then I changed me into a pumpkin. It was a very large pumpkin, and had a slight white tinge to it. Then, with my "magic finger" I cut off the top, and took out the guts the same way. All a very fast process. Then, I turned my back, and cut the jack o lantern's face out. I turn around and it looks rather intracit. It was like a house, with a jack o lantern's face in it. The other side of it had the same cutout.

I'll try to take both.

Basic:Go to the moon and jump high in the low gravity and i should be able to do it
Advanced:Hmmmmmm...Get a knife,a full body mirror and see what i can do.

lets hope i can get lucid...

Flips are easy...well not that easy, Thats my general take of mode from high places, wither the dive and swoop or the multi somersault swoop.

Why would I want to be a pumpkin?

Originally Posted by baccuss

Flips are easy...well not that easy, Thats my general take of mode from high places, wither the dive and swoop or the multi somersault swoop.

Why would I want to be a pumpkin?

Cause it's fun to try out?

Originally Posted by Snowy Egypt

Cause it's fun to try out?

I tried that last night. My psyche doesn't seem to like turning into something else. I can move into the pumkin and examine it from every angle but cant seem to become a pumpkin. Weird.


Interesting experiment.

I can't do either of them. Grr. I think I will focus on the somersault tonight when I am lucid... at least I hope I will be lucid. I might try the pumpkin one, I am now confident in my abilities to turn into a pumpkin using passive control.

I haven't had a lucid dream in, like, a year. Literally.

I really need to work on my lucid dreaming. I can't do well!

Cant people just lie just to get the orange name and stuff?

Originally Posted by Lucidness

Cant people just lie just to get the orange name and stuff?

Nothing's stopping them. But really, if they care that much, they can have their colored name and animated gif. Their lie will be on their conscience FOREVER.

Why do I always check the task of the month at the very end of the month?

Originally Posted by Lucidness

Cant people just lie just to get the orange name and stuff?

Actually, the staff makes sure people are telling the truth first.

Originally Posted by WakingNomad

Actually, the staff makes sure people are telling the truth first.

Really? As far as I know, we just hope you're telling the truth. Besides, why lie? There's really no point.

Originally Posted by Snowy Egypt

Really? As far as I know, we just hope you're telling the truth. Besides, why lie? There's really no point.

What? You mean the staff doesn't screen the posts for lies??

I accomplished the basic task before i even read this. Like two nights ago, it was still november then therefore i win . i did wake up after it though, and it was slightly by accident.

Originally Posted by Sasuke

I accomplished the basic task before i even read this. Like two nights ago, it was still november then therefore i win . i did wake up after it though, and it was slightly by accident.

Only slightly by accident?

After quite a few months off, I finally completed a Task of the Month. I looked up the TOM last week and found that the basic was one I do all the time anyway, so I figured that I should do it and get some credit. Of course this is the last day of the month, so it's not going to be much credit. But for what it's worth, here it is:

Dream:

I was jumping on a trampoline. I was suddenly partially lucid. The dream faded. But like before I was able to force the scene around me so I was back on the trampoline. As I jumped I noticed tootsie rolls on the trampoline bouncing around. I thought. "Yes, this is a dream I can eat candy!" So I started eating the tootsie rolls. (This obviously wasn't my best LD or I would have realized that I didn't have to be satisfied with toosie rolls, and I could have created chocolate truffles or something that I enjoy more. But surprisingly the tootsie rolls tasted pretty good to me.)

So I ate and jumped and then I started doing flips. At that moment I remembered that the Task of the Month was to do flips/somersaults in the air. So I continued for a while, flipping and trying to stay in the air for longer than normal.. I have always liked doing what I call "dream flips" so I felt that this was using my LD wisely.

But after while I suddenly wanted to do something really different. I don't really remember how it happened--if I created it or it just appeared. But suddenly I was in the Death Star. I was looking down at a very large meeting. I could see Darth Vader sitting in the middle of this huge group of people all sitting around him in this stadium like setting.

I decided that I wanted to have some fun. I was feeling very brave and in control. So I flew down to Darth Vader and kicked him in the chest and then quickly flew back up and out of the stadium.

It was so uneventful that I purposely waited for someone to start chasing me. Finally I was aware that one of the head guys was coming after me, and I felt a little thrill of excitement.

And then I woke up.

Originally Posted by cygnus

aww man i could've made a nice jello snack.

One thing I want to get into in dreams is making food for people, engaging the taste and smell sense in the brain. I did it once. It was cool.