Thread: Task of the month for December 2009

ooh...the advanced one seems a bit violent. But these look fun.

I'm just trying to get back into the swing of lucid dreaming, since I think being able to control my own mind is good for my self-esteem. And the Tasks of the Month seemed to be really helpful to me when I was on here a couple years ago. They gave me focus that helped me make breakthroughs in controlling my dreams as well as having more LDs.

Woohoo! A shared Task of the Month dream!

Yay! Did the basic! Had a WBTB-DILD amidst many false awakenings and failed attempts.

I attain lucidity when this ugly, nasty, sweaty guy, almost like a smaller Fat Bastard from Austin Powers to give you an idea, is fooling around on top of me in my bed. It's grotesque and bizarre, but it makes me confident I'm dreaming, so I'm happy. Elated that I'm finally lucid, I fly through the window and all around outside, sinking at first as I fly, but using effort to lift myself back up again. After having that fun, I decide, Ok, time to go do the Basic Task of the Month from DreamViews and make a snowman. But first I must find some snow, I tell myself. So I look around down on the streets until I manage to find some snow. Then I start rolling up some crunchy but wet snow. I make the base, which is somewhat small. Then I make the middle, which is supported by some paper tube or something. My "dream boyfriend," a much more attractive male character than the one who rudely jolted me into lucidity, makes the head, with eyes and mouth painted on with color. I put it on. The snowman is short, but complete.

I later keep trying to modify the snowman, which is situated near a tent. I tried to reinforce it by putting paper towel around its neck. I soon find it altered, with actual legs carved into its base so it is standing on two legs with an actual gap between the legs, but it seemed to have lost its head or the head became tiny. So I looked for more snow. This snow was much looser. I made a head out of it, but snow fell off the head in a pattern that made it shaped like a bear's head, so the new version of the snowman looked like a polar bear. I tried to carve it but the head kept coming off.

Meanwhile, there was some weird stuff going on in a tent near where I built the snowman, involving politics, religion, and this mysterious orange dog I kept seeing in my apartment but didn't want around. She looked like a Golden Retriever/Labrador cross - the color of a Golden but the short hair of a Lab.

Sometime after I was done fiddling with the snowmen, I lost lucidity and had several "false awakenings" where I (1) tried to write or remember the lucid portion of the dream, (2) found more weird religion and politics stuff going on, and (3) realized that the orange dog, Lilo, was a dream sign - that every time she showed up I must have been dreaming, and that pets other than my familiar aquatic ones in my apartment were a typical dream sign in general. (Of course, by the time I had this insight, I was no longer seeing Lilo in my false-awakening dream sequences, so I never became lucid again.)

What do you feel like when you are a dragon?

Edit:Wrong thread.

^^ lol

This task sounds doable! I think and try and get two birds with one stone- bring a snowman to life, then steal Santa's sleigh with my snowman accomplice.

I attempted the basic task....didn't work. Here is my DJ entry.

Messin' With the Weather

So, I am lucid in what looks to be the center of my town, which really isn't saying much .It even feels like a particular place in the center of town...real scenes that actually exist are rare for me. Again, it looks rather drab outside. I want to do the TOTM! In order to do the TOTM (I wanted to do the basic task), I had to make it snow. So, I moved the clouds around, me still on the ground, with just moving my arms around, making it cloudy. I close my eyes, then it would snow, I told myself. It didn't. I usually don't have trouble with control, but it's probably because making it snow is so large scale... I try a different approach. I said "SNOW!" Yet again, it didn't.This dream ended. *huhh....* I'll get it next time! I have 2 different approaches for next time.

Instead of trying to make it snow, for the basic part, I can just picture snow forming into a ball and moving my hands around it, 3 seperate times. Then I will get the other materials from my pocket or whatever. (so, a snowman in grass!) Or, I can transport myself to an already snowy place and make my snowman, or do the advanced task there. I love my unique ways to complete the TOTMs!

I can't delete this...

If I can attain lucidity tonight I'm definitely trying these! I'm new at this, though, so it might not happen tonight... Taking Santa's sleigh? That sounds SO fun! And the snowman would be cool too. Knowing me, I'll probably either politely ask Santa for his sleigh or build a snowman to distract him while I steal it. Not much violence involved.

Originally Posted by elemental135

If I can attain lucidity tonight I'm definitely trying these! I'm new at this, though, so it might not happen tonight... Taking Santa's sleigh? That sounds SO fun! And the snowman would be cool too. Knowing me, I'll probably either politely ask Santa for his sleigh or build a snowman to distract him while I steal it. Not much violence involved.

You're my kind of person . I am not much into violence either. I suggest doing the basic task since you are new, think that you'll see a snow drift or something... easier then making it snow, if you saw my entry, not even easy for me to do!

Crossposted to my dream journal.
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An advanced task attempt...not sure whether it counts or not...I tried to do better but it wasn't working in that dream.
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I saw a series of strange animals go by: a mother and baby that looked sort of like giant kiwi birds; something that looked vaguely like a wild turkey; and some other strange animal. I wondered if they were a dream sign. Then more people got into the car I was in, and I didn't recognize any of them. Strange animals AND strangers in a car with me? Now THAT was probably a dream sign, I figured. I decided to do a quick reality check by seeing if I could put my hand through the car window. I could, cofirming I was dreaming. So out the window I went, and I flew off, looking for a sleigh to steal.

I could hardly even find snow, never mind Santa and a sleigh. But then I went inside this house, where there was a small, red-painted wooden sleigh next to a Christmas tree that appeared to be a toy, but there was a full-size, live Santa Claus next to it. I figured I'd try hijacking this, by sneaking into the wooden sleigh and off with it while Santa wasn't looking. So I climbed into the sleigh...somehow I could barely sit in it despite its size...and Santa caught me. Uh-oh. I was trying to think of something to say, and ultimately said, "I'm just taking it for a joyride. I'll bring it back." He let me go.

So off I went, looking around for reindeer to fly it. Carrying the sleigh, I eventually came across a statue of a mother and baby of some large deer species - I thought they might actually be moose, but they'll do, I thought. (In fact, they may well have been reindeer because the mother had antlers, and IRL reindeer/caribou are the only deer in which females have antlers.) I brought the mother deer statue to life, and summoned/threw some white ropes at her to attach her to my sleigh as she started running and taking off. Eventually she did fly the sleigh, which was a really fun sensation for me flying in this tiny sleigh from the end of a long rope, but then she stumbled and crashed. I found another statue deer/moose like her, and had the both of them fly my stolen sleigh. As a pair, they also stumbled and crashed again after a brief flight. Either they recommended or I thought myself to try to find a real sleigh to steal, preferably in-flight, and a real set of reindeer that would work better than these defective wooden things (and be a more unambiguous completion of the Advanced Task). So off I went, on my own. I never did return that little sleigh to the Santa in the house.

Sometime during my searches I started to lose my dream scenes, so I said "clarity" and started looking at the fine structures of dream objects, and got my dream scene clarity back. I tried to find the North Pole for a while, hoping a full-size sleigh would be there, but it wasn't happening. So one time, while in a building, I thought I'd try closing my eyes and changing the dream scene. I tried closing my eyes, but I could still see, just as one can often still breathe in a dream where their nose is plugged or they're underwater. Then I tried covering my eyes with my hands. This blacked everything out, but the dream scenery had a hard time coming back, and when it finally did...no North Pole.

I kept looking for a little longer, especially in snowy places I chanced upon and in the sky. I never found the full sized sleigh. And I eventually went into a short non-lucid sequence before waking up. I'd have to leave it up to Ninja's discretion to decide whether I actually completed this task or I'd need to steal a full sized sleigh with Santa in it instead of that little wooden one being guarded by Santa. Even if this counts, I might go after a full-sized sleigh anyway, preferably summoning it instead of searching for it so as to advance my dream powers.

Originally Posted by the dream Dragon

What do you feel like when you are a dragon?

Edit:Wrong thread.

lol.... sorry... LMFAO! so sor sorry ahhh this is just so random!

I actually checked the TOTM relatively close to the beginning of the month instead of within the last three days. After several months of attempting and failing to do this, I've finally succeeded. Do I get a prize?

Hijacking Santa's sleigh sounds epic. When I become lucid over Winter Break, I'm definitely going to try it.

As if I haven't had enough of winter, it's MINUS FREAKING 50 here in Canada. Anyways, I'll try these tonight. Mrs. Claus better hope Santa's packing, for his sake.