Task of the month for January 2010

[ninja9578]

Introduction: This topic is for the Lucid Tasks that are assigned by me or voted on by experienced dreamers. Please attempt one or both of these tasks throughout the month. Report back in this thread, even if you didn't successfully accomplish the task, your efforts should make interesting reading! This is required in order to get credit, it is no longer sufficient just to say that you did it. Whoever completes either of these tasks gets the following goodies until the end of the month: Your name will be displayed in ORANGE in the online members list at the bottom of the main forum page. You will receive a special title and badge. You will receive access to the "Lucid Task Club" which is a limited access forum for people that complete the lucid task each month. Tasks for this month: Basic Task - Have a glass of champagne (sparkling juice if you're underage ) Advanced Task - Become a dog or cat, find a DC to be your owner

[ArmoredSandwich]

Sweet and doable! Now remember, remember, remember!

[innerspacecadet]

Definitely gonna try the advanced...I want to make my shape-shifting powers more "realistic." I did turn into an eagle in my last lucid (which was a while ago), but kinda barely so...I couldn't make myself able to see my wings, though I took on the behaviors and started calling like one. Basic...meh...I don't really like champagne, but I'll probably try that too, just so I can have a task completion.

[ArmoredSandwich]

When I was lucid this morning or night I actually drank some Champagne, but I figured I either wanted to drink this at a party of some kind (because drinking this to just drink it would be pretty lame in comparison) or complete the advanced task. At the time I thought the task was to go to somewhere where it's warm if you life somewhere where it's cold and the other way around if you life somewhere it's warm. Reading this now I see the task is not that and that I got it from "January 2010 Ideas". But it was okay. I woke up trying to get a party started and thought of going to a desert. I thought of the Sahara as I closed my eyes and soon I was riding camels (awesome) in this beautiful sandy environment. It was as if I were in the movies! I have no more memory of the rest :S

[innerspacecadet]

I dreamt I was at my grandfather's with my big sis, and I saw the Jolly Green Giant outside, sitting down on a bench in the backyard. I thought that strange, and thought I might be dreaming. After some reality checks and more inspections and reasoning, like wondering why I was even at my grandfather's again when I'd just been home not long ago, I concluded I was in fact dreaming. The house started spinning to help confirm this. I tried turning into a cat but I wasn't satisfied with the results. So I decided I'd do the Basic Task for January first, and find some champagne to drink. I got to this small liquor store, and asked them where the champagne was 'cause I had trouble finding it myself. They told me, and I picked up a bottle of champagne called Plantation & Plantation or something like that. It was a small bottle, maybe a third to half the size of a typical wine bottle, and it was pink. I poured myself a glass and drank it. It tasted like carbonated water. I attributed this effect to the fact that I was dreaming and had never had that brand of champagne beofre, so I didn't know how to make it taste. My older sister basically told me that it normally tasted like alcoholic pink lemonade. It was then time for the advanced task. I tried turning myself into a cat again, but wasn't happy with the results. I thought it might help if I could get myself bitten by a were-cat. So I let this were-cat, a big fat calico, come along and nibble my finger. It didn't bite hard. I then closed my eyes and imagined myself changing, and my arms stretching out in front of me and becoming paws. I made my hands into a fist to make them more paw-like. Once I was done changing, I was meowing to speak, but to my dismay, my hands still looked like human hands to me. I figured, though, that maybe I would still appear as a cat to other people, so I found a little boy, perhaps a younger version of my step-cousin, with many pets who might want to adopt me as a cat. I meowed to him a lot, and he seemed to want to adopt me and to see me as a cat just fine. Sometime after that, I went back to non-lucid dreaming, as usually happens when I finish my planned dream tasks as best I'm going to.

[Abra]

"Sparkling juice" if you're underage? Er. It's a dream. It doesn't matter if you drink dream alcohol or not. :V

[ninja9578]

I know abra, but I can't require them too . Have fun everyone

[SweetMelancholy]

Hehe, these are genuine; and the advanced task looks quite hard

[Loaf]

[SIZE="4"]Basic Task - Have a glass of champagne Simple but awesome. Great chance to complete a TOTM for anyone who has never done it before, like me.

[Afterglow]

Advanced task seems really interesting, wonder how it'll turn out if it works

[Lunalight]

I love these tasks! I've never had champagne, so I'll be interested to see how my subconscious thinks it tastes. Shapeshifting is always a challenge for me too, so I'm excited to try that one. I can never make wings work either.

[Piedude]

I tried to do the basic one reallu fast because I could feel the dream going (Didnt remember Stabilization) But I suppose fighting a evil knight wasnt the time.....

[Raven Knight]

While I was looking for MoSh I saw someone with a tray filled with beers. That reminded me of the Task of the Month on Dreamviews. Drink a glass of Champaign? Yes. I wondered if there was Champaign at the party. If there was I would have to find it first. I didn't want to be distracted from the dream that much. I would summon my own Champaign. I focused on doing that and a bottle of Champaign appeared in my right hand and a glass and bottle opener in my left. I popped the cork. POP! The cork ejected out in a rain of colorful bubbles. It was really cool. People near me stopped talking to look. I could actually hear the music now! I poured myself a glass of Champaign and drank it down. It wasn't as bad as I had been expecting. I don't generally like Champaign. But it was pretty good. I handed the bottle to someone standing near me. "Raven?" the someone said. I looked at the man. I recognized him. It was MoSh! "Hey, MoSh!" I said, "Nice party!" I summoned another glass. "Go ahead and do your task of the month, basic task. Have a glass of Champaign! It's really not bad!" MoSh took the bottle and drank from it. He handed it to someone else. "Damn! I wanted beer!"

[RCLefty]

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but who is MoSh? Anyway, I actually tried and failed at this one!! I became Lucid last night (probably around 8:00 this morning, in actuality) and I remembered to turn into a dog (which took a couple of tries) but then forgot everything else! I was in this giant office-building sort of place, the looked like it was built out of some crazy foreign version of Legos, where the pieces come in colors like purple and gold. I was doing a little "almost flying," where I was able to briefly defy gravity but nto out-and-out fly, when I realized that this meant I was dreaming. I somehow recalled that we hade a new month/task, and I remembered to turn into a dog. I didn't remember anything else, but it seemed to me that I would just naturally figure out the rest once I had transformed. But, of course, I didn't, and I spent the rest of the dream flying around, my lucidity coming and going. Also, at some point I morphed back into a human, and it's unclear if this was deliberate or not.

[Raven Knight]

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but who is MoSh? Another user on DV: Man of Shred. He didn't remember it, though, so it's not really a confirmed shared dream.

[RCLefty]

Ah.

[cygnus]

basic task 1/5 ...there’s another scene change and now i’m indoors. there are two men looking at a menu on a wall discussing cheeses. i walk through a short corridor of blank walls and into a large dining area. there are big arrangements of food on most of the tables, but there are only a couple people in the area, who are seated. most of the food seems to be pizza - large pizzas with colorful toppings. i think to myself that i need to find something else. i see a loaf of bread covered in chocolate and put a piece in my mouth. i turn around - CHAMPAGNE! the glass is distinguishable (narrow w/ stem) and it looks very bubbly. i still have the chocolatey bread in my mouth but i pour the whole glass into my mouth anyways. the taste of these two things combined doesn’t really register - it’s like spongy air. i wake up before i can look for something else to consume. i think my sense of smell in dreams is better than my sense of taste - or i've just used it more

[ninja9578]

Nicely done cygnus and Raven

[Rena_Chan]

My first task of the month completed! I remembered the task of the month and tried summoning a glass of champagne into my hand. I kept forming my hand like I was holding a wine glass. Disappointed that it wasn't working, I glanced down at the floor. There was a wine glass full of champagne sitting on the floor right in front of my dad. Excited, I grabbed and drank. It didn't taste like anything much, almost like air, and it burnt a little for some reason. You can go to my journal and read the whole thing if you want, it's not very interesting though.

[Baron Samedi]

Excerpt: There are a bunch of monks walking away from Christ on the cross. The first monk is holding the Holy Grail. I fly down, as a lion-man. "Give me that shit!" I say, grabbing the Holy Grail. There is nothing in it. I turn it upside down. "Hey what gives?" I look at the Christ. It's a wax figure. The monks are animatronic robots. The Grail is a plastic cup. Then, I see a bunch of tourists looking at me, and taking pictures. We are in a wax museum. "What the hell are you looking at?" I summon champagne, and take a sip. It's way too sweet. "I hope this counts!" I change it into red wine, and drink deep.

[Baron Samedi]

ADVANCED LUCID TASK January 5, 2010 I am on the Moon. I change into a pink Siamese cat. I see Raven. I run to her. "Meow! Meow! Will you be my kitty?" I ask. "What are you talking about? Nomad?" She picks me up, and snuggles me. "Aw, you're so cute. What's your name?" "Will you be my DC?" "You are Nomad! What are you doing? You are so silly!" "Um, I mean, I need a master, I need someone to feed me tuna and milk, but not mixed together. Gross! Actually, how about lettuce, carrots, and peas, and broccoli, and starfruit..." "Nomad, you are so silly. What are you trying to do?" "Oh, that task of the month thingy." "I already gave you champagne at the party." "I knoes, but I spit it out, and changed it to beer. It was too sweet. Blech! Oh, I remember, I am supposed to have a DC owner, so you don't count. You're real. Can you make a DC for me?" "Uh, sure." A DC pops out of Raven's head. Raven hands me to her. "Can I be your kitty and milk?" "What?" the DC says. "Will you be my valentine, owner, thingy?" "Um sure!" the DC chick says. "Are you real?" "As real as I'll ever be." "Typical DC answer." "What?" "Oh never mind." I crawl around her neck, on to her head, then settle in her arms. "Aw kitty, you're so cute!" Raven tries to pet me, and then I swat her hand away. "Nomad, that's not nice. Bad kitty." I grin at her cheshirely, and purr. I change into a lion, and the DC falls and disappears. I am still pink, with dark pink tiger stripes. "Nomad, you are so ridiculous!" Angelina appears with a white lion, and she pets me. "Where, ya been kiddo?" she says nuzzling my mane. "I am a Cheshire Lion!" I say proudly. "Well, good for you!" Raven says, turning into Alice. "Are we in my Inner World?" I say. "No, we're on the Moon still, Nomad," Raven says. I summon a mirror, and show it to Raven. She says, "Oh!" and changes back to an Assassin. I laugh, and the dream ends.

[AURON]

basic I arrive in my room fully lucid and I head out doors. It's daytime, but it's very foggy out. I looked down the road and noticed that the neighbors house is replaced by a dead Triceratops (guess i had the TOTY on the brains). I head a little bit down the road, and I head off to the grass. I started digging in it and the dirt was moving away like the really soft kind that earth worms run through. After a few scoops, I felt what I was looking for. A bottle of Vodka! It's not champagne, but I felt like I don't have time to keep digging. I headed back to my house and started looking for a champagne glass. But just then I started to feel things fade out. I opened up the bottle, and drank it straight out as the dream started to fade.

[Raven Knight]

"Ok," I said to myself, "Now then… what to do…" I was wondering if I had any unfinished dream goals. Maybe I could do the TotM! The advanced level. Now where were those kids? They seemed the kind who would take in a lost kitten or puppy… I flew a bit until I found them. I landed out of sight and transformed into a kitten. I noted how it felt to walk as a kitten. Not really natural, but not bad, either. I could run faster. I tripped on my own four feet and tumbled into the center of the group of kids. "Awww…" said one of the kids, "Look at the kitty!" "I wanna pet it!" said the girl. I pretended to be slightly wary of her, but I let her slowly approach and pick me up. "Do you wanna come home with me? Do you?" she asked, cooing as if to a baby. "Mew!" I said to her. So the girl carried me down a path through some trees and to a large house. She carried me into the kitchen and set me down. I began looking around like an inquisitive kitten. "Here," the girl said, "Let me get you some milk." She set a bowl of milk in front of me. I lapped it up like a kitten would and purred as she was stroking me gently. It actually felt very nice. It was relaxing. Everything faded to black as I woke.

[LiveInTheDream]

I'm definitely going to try for basic tonight. Wish me luck!

[WarriorTiger]

Excerpt: We sat down to eat and there were nice wine glasses in front of us. I smiled and then stood. "May I have you attention please." I started. "I recently got a shipment of champagne from France. I would like to share it all with you." I clapped my hands and several servants walked in carrying the champagne. I took the glass that he poured and brought it to my lips. I drank it all down at one. And nearly choked. It was dry, very dry and wasn't very good. I regained my composure and ate. Soon we were dancing again. I was starting to look at Leo a little too much like he was... anyway I decided to leave and Leo came with me.