Thread: Task of the year for 2010

that was fun. i finish all the tasks but mantaining lucidity was a bit hard. let me give you some high lights. when moses parted the red sea i walked throught it with him then in the rome i beat the fighter and then did high fives all around. also i got in a fight with armstrong and the end of the world was god beating the hell out of the devil. all of this was fun and took a while but i may want to do it again

Originally Posted by insight

Great work WakingNomad Complete TOTY within the first month of the year... GREAT !

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Wow, nice job

Originally Posted by Walms

That one was cheap, I wanted to end it again ;.;

Originally Posted by KingYoshi

Damn Nomad! Nice job! Time for me to get off my ass and start the task of the year! Btw, excellent choices Ninja. I look forward to them.

Oh, and What??Me??, mad props for the Belldandy sig. Nice!

Thank you, guys. I agree with Yoshi, yes. Good tasks, though at times terrifying.

Originally Posted by Gone

that was fun. i finish all the tasks but mantaining lucidity was a bit hard. let me give you some high lights. when moses parted the red sea i walked throught it with him then in the rome i beat the fighter and then did high fives all around. also i got in a fight with armstrong and the end of the world was god beating the hell out of the devil. all of this was fun and took a while but i may want to do it again

Looking forward to reading these dreams.

This is the whole DJ entry from when I did the gladiator one. The task part is in bold.

08.02.2010

Gladiatores Pugnant! (WILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

This one was actually made up of the initial WILD, then countless DEILDs, but for the sake of neatness I'll keep them all in the same entry.

I was sleepy this morning, so I tried to WILD. I lay on my back for, I'd say, 25 minutes before switching to my right side. It was only about 5 more minutes after that before I got into a dream.

I had a FA in my old house. It was a sunny day, and the curtains were open in my bedroom. I went straight to the window, opened it, and climbed out. Standing on the roof, I looked up and down the street, just taking everything in. It really amazes me sometimes. I was still wearing my dressing gown, so I took it off, then floated down to my front garden. I got distracted by taking a detour round the side of the house, finding it strange that the side gate was open. I floated back onto the roof, and sat down with my back against the chimney. I could feel the rough bricks against my back very clearly. After some pondering, I remembered the task of the year. I had been thinking about it before I got to SP. With a gladiator fight in mind, I thought about a way to change scene to Ancient Rome. I jumped off the roof and landed in the back garden. A big red plastic bucket (about 3 feet in diameter) I used to own was sitting in the long grass near the back fence. I approached it, trying to convince myself it was one of the pipes from Super Mario which would drop me out in the sky above the Colloseum. There was water in the bucket. Without hesitation I dunked my head in, and the rest of my body followed. It was (as always) a bit surprising to find I could breathe underwater. On the bottom of the bucket were some stones. I focused on one which was vaugely Colosseum-shaped lol and tried to imagine that it was the Colosseum- I was just far above it. I tried to think of all the other stones as buildings and the spaces between them as roads. I wasn't getting anywhere, so I shut my eyes and did a somersault, hoping that when I opened my eyes, I would be falling towards the Colosseum. As I did this, I shouted,
"Rome!" Unfortunately, I woke myself up.

I wasn't quite awake, but was back in my body seeing nothing but blackness and feeling SP. This has come up a few times before- I like to think of it as the "loading program" for DEILD's, like from The Matrix.

I had a view of a scene for a second, like I was looking through a peephole. I concentrated on the sand on the floor of the Colosseum (think Gladiator), rubbed my hands in it, and soon felt integrated enough to stand up. I was in the Colosseum all right, but it was night time, and the floor area was slightly smaller than I expected. There were people standing all around me, looking up at the crowd. They were all carrying weapons of some kind, but not much armour. The most anyone had was a helmet.



Suddenly, a klaxon sounded. It was a really horrific noise, lasting two seconds, coming from some unearthly instrument. At its sound, the gladiators in the arena drew their weapons and charged at each other. The crowd roared. I reached down by my sides and pulled out two scimitars.
"Haah!" I laughed. I was still in my dressing gown. I ran forward into the nearest bunch of fighters, slashing wildly. I don't even know if I got anybody, but after a minute the survivors ran off.

I paused to indulge in some victorious sword-twirling, but dropped one. I sheepishly threw the other one down beside it, hoping the crowd would think it was deliberate.

I had a FA then, in my bedroom. My TV was switched on, which is unusual becuase it has no aerial input, and the DVD player doesn't work. I sat up in bed, too aware of this oddity to be fooled into non-lucidity. I wanted to examine what was on carefully, to determine whether or not I was hearing the TV from downstairs or something. The first thing was an ad for PKR. The ad's audio claimed that it was PokerStars, but I recognised the sims-like graphics of PKR. It was one of those ads which makes online-poker look really cool. One female player put in a big raise, and the grey-haired dude to her left raised his eyebrow suspiciously before confidently calling her bluff to win the hand. Then Glee came on, a show I've never really been interested in. One of the main characters was sleeping on a pile of bedclothes on the floor. Her friend came in and woke her up. What convinced me that I was not in fact hearing the TV from downstairs, was that she called the main main character "Glee". I knew this to be bullshit, since the name "Glee" comes from "Glee Club"- which I understand to be a nerdy persuit in High Shool. (Thanks to Weird Al)



I half-woke up again, and visualised being back in front of the TV, drumming on the stand. I ended up a few feet back from the TV, with an awesome redhead sitting on my lap. She showed me a good time.

After another DEILD, I found myself lounging on my bed talking to some friends. Well, I tried to talk but couldn't make any noise without (I reckoned) waking myself up. The curtains were closed, giving the room an orangey glow. I skipped forward and wound up in the back seat of a car with three of my friends. I tried to get a certain hot girl I know to appear beside me, but I only managed to spawn an ugly 15 yr old girl. :S I don't think I was 100% lucid here, because I got a "false memory" implanted somehow. Apparently I had just been camping with this group of friends.

I woke up yet again, and my whole body felt seriously heavy, like it was made of stone. I think I'm getting better at holding on to dreams. To get back in again, I "felt" myself typing random words, which just formed up in my subconsious. Some of them were complete jibberish, and they certainly didn't make any sense as a sentence. However I distinctly remember typing the word "Personality".

In another DEILD, I heard a very distinctive, high-pitched whine. It seemed to be coming from my brain itself, and felt like a vibration. Hard to describe. I focused on it until it became almost deafening, and made me extremely dizzy. I found myself in the living room, and decided to go visit my friend Lucy from down the street. I ran and headbutt-dived through the front window as I did once before, and headed out of the driveway. I accidentally knocked my shin against the wall on the way out which actually hurt a bit!

I was eventually woken up by someone knocking the door downstairs. I heard it from within the dream, which made me focus too much on the waking world. When I awoke, I found a massive pool of drool under my face.

Here's number 2...

10.02.2010

End of The World (MILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I was thinking about the task of the year before I went to sleep, particularly the "End of the World" part. I wondered how I could logistically get to the future and have the world end. This caused my first (uninentional) MILD. I couldn't think of anything lying in bed, but luckily my subconscious did the work for me.
The earliest part of the dream I remember is watching the planets revolving around the sun. They were nowhere near to scale- all the planets were far too big and far too close to the sun, but what the hell. I looked at the Earth, and out of the corner of my eye (if I had eyes, I can't recall any sort of body), saw a huge chunk of rock drifting closer and closer. It wasn't a conventional comet- what it reminded me of was a shot of a Star Destroyer from the start of one of the older Star Wars movies. It was that kind of flat-ish shape and very long. Far larger than the Earth. I became very alarmed.
"Didn't the people on Earth know about this? How could they miss it? Ohhhhh..." I became lucid when I realised what was about to happen and remembered the task. From my vantage point, I watched with a kind of morbid interest crossed with dread. To my surprise, instead of obliterating my beloved planet, the Star Destroyer-shaped comet glanced off the Earth's atmosphere. It hit the atmosphere at an angle of about 10 degrees, and just "bounced off", now floating in the direction of the sun. A strange side-effect of the near miss was to knock the Earth out of its normal orbit. The "bounce" effect had some sort of recoil. It didn't make an enormous difference to the Earth's orbit, it was now just circling a bit closer to the sun.

I vaugely wondered,
"If this is the end of the world, what's going on?" I glanced over at the sun just in time to see it envelop the comet. I felt that something awful was about to happen, and right then, a solar flare started to form. Its arc covered the entire face of the sun on the side the comet had just entered, and built in intensity until it formed a circular shape larger than the sun itself. Then it was released. The wave of orange light flew directly at the Earth in its new orbit. As it hit, my POV zoomed in on Australia, of all places. I could see Sydney's distincive opera house, and the sea beyond. The wall of orange light blasted into the sea in sections. One blast would hit the sea, instantly vaporize all the water, leaving a gaping chasm surrounded by water. These chasms were only visible for a split second before the surrounding water filled them in. On land, it was a similar story. Buildings, roads and uninhabited areas were obliterated, entirely burning off the outer layer of the Earth's crust, bit by bit.



For the rest of the dream, I lost lucidity and became one of the few people left alive on a deserted island East of Australia.

I tried the "beat Neill Armstrong down the ladder" one today as well but failed. I'll post it for the lulz anyway.

Wow, that's an awesome apocolypse.

I tried the moon one, here's the effort!

10.02.2010

Attempted Astronaut (WILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

My very first evening-WILD! The only reason it worked (I reckon) was because I was sleep-deprived from the night before.

I had a false awakening in a graveyard, weirdly. I stood up and checked my hand to find several extra fingers. I nodded to myself, satisfied. There was a tall, black metal fence surrounding the graveyard, and I wanted to get outside of it. I could see a city with skyscrapers in the distance, and fancied exploring. I took a running jump and glided up over the fence, landing on top of a bus shelter outside. I stopped and thought for a second, and remembered the task of the year. The city seemed like the kind of place I might be able to hitch a ride to space from, with the view to beating Neill Armstrong down the ladder to be first on the moon. The city centre was definately uphill from my position, so I flew at waist-height up the steepest street I could find, going in the right direction. I flew through a massive crowd of people, all heading the same way. I noticed my youngest brother among the crowd. He seemed to be getting overwhelmed by the masses, so I picked him up and put him on my back. The crowd was getting thicker and thicker as I came close to the building at the top of the street, and I eventually found them all trying to cram into an elevator at the base of a tower. I looked at it, and thought it looked like it could be the kind of elevator that lifts astronauts up to the door of their rocket, so I decided to get on it.
"Stand back!" I shouted. "Astronauts only!" Smirking to myself, I wondered if this ridiculous authoritative strategy would work.

I never had a chance to find out, as I had a false awakening. I honestly thought it was for real, until I looked around. Turns out, I was lying on a sofa, under a blanket, cuddling a girl I hadn't seen in years. I tried to get up to see where I was, but she wrapped her arms around me very tightly and I couldn't escape.

I struggled for a bit, and had another couple of false awakenings...

I'll get it next time!

Completed the Gladiator Fight Task, here is my entry:



February 20, 2010
Lucid Dream 154: They Call Me Kratos
around 3:00am
DILD

Category - Task/Action


I was in some kind of thrift store and I was looking through some old SNES and NES games. I had found quite a few rarities for dirt cheap and I was getting excited. I looked through the games I was about to buy and they had all changed. Many of them were now common sports games. I went back to the bin and began to search for the games I thought I had in my hand already. After searching for a bit and having several games change again, I started to get suspicious. I slowly raised my hand and performed a nose pinch RC. I was indeed dreaming.

I immediately wanted to complete one of the Tasks of the Year. I decided to attempt the Gladiator fight. I took flight and began searching for the Colosseum. After flying over a few mountains I saw a large structure in the background. As I approached I could hear a crowd roaring and cheering from within the walls. I landed in front of the colosseum and walked inside. I was in a large area within the walls of the collosseum. It was just like a football game. There were concession stands set up everywhere, but the food was very different. One stand read, "Fried Bat on a Stick" another said, "The Crumpet Stop." I didn't want to just fly into the arena and begin fighting, so I walked around until I found some stone steps that led into a deep dark dungeon.

There were many slaves locked in the dungeon and I walked in smiling. One of them asked, "Who the f*** are you?" I turned invisible and walked through the wall and into the cell with the other prisoners. I reappeared and they were all speechless. I spoke, "I am a god in this world. I have come to fight in the games as a prisoner." One of the prisoners got excited and said, "You are here to save us? We are saved!" I laughed a deep evil laugh and said, "I came here to fight. Your life means nothing to me." They man began to whine and beg, "But, you are a god right? You can do anything. Help us get out of here...please!" He then grabbed my arm. I quickly straightened out my arm, spread my fingers, and summoned a large machete. In a flash I swung my arm and removed the prisoners head from his shoulders.

The other prisoners backed away and I spoke once again, "Get on my nerves or in my way, and you'll end up like this one." I then picked up his head by his hair and held it out in front of me. The prisoners all looked terrified. I smirked and then tossed the head to one of the other prisoners and said, "Here you go scruffy." He caught the head, dropped it, and began to cry softly in the corner. A couple guards had now showed up and they began yelling into the cell telling us to shut the f*** up and get ready to die. They opened up the doors and we all got into a single file line and followed them into the stadium.

As soon as we entered the stadium, I slit one of the guards throat and stole his spear. I then launched the spear across the arena. There were many "executioners" (people we were supposed to fight) standing on the other side of the arena. My spear soared through the air and pierced the heart of the largest executioner in the arena. The giant muscular man dropped to his knees and his cow/bull skull head gear fell to the ground. The crowd roared and I took off running to the center of the arena. I screamed and held my arms wide. A huge fountain of fire and debris exploded under my feet and lifted me into the air. I floated atop the fountain of fire and began launching flaming boulders/debris at the other executioners. I killed a few this way and landed back on the ground. The fire fountain was now gone.

Many people in the crowd were shouting, "Who are you?", "What is your name?", "What shall we call you!" I stood tall and shouted, "I am Kratos!" I crowd began chanting "Kratos...Kratos...Kratos!" I now noticed I had Kratos' Blades of Chaos attached to my arms. I began the massacre. After killing off all the executioners with attacks straight out of the game (God of War), I began to hunt down the other prisoners. The arena was a blood bath and I think the crowd was now scared for their own safety. The czar stood and stared down at me. The crowd started chanting, "Kill him...kill him...kill him!" The czar gave me a thumbs down and I began to laugh.

Trained soldiers entered the arena and I slayed them all within seconds. I then took flight and began lauching fireballs at the crowd, setting groups of them ablaze. I then landed in the crowd and began slicing them up. The crowd tried to run and some even tried to fight. With relative ease, I wiped out the entire arena which was now a large bowl of blood. I looked into the "luxury box" and saw the czar staring down at me. He then laughed and took flight. He said, "So you thin you are the only lucid one in this land?" He began flying around attacking me. I was on the defensive and kept deflecting his attacks, but he kept getting closer and closer to landing one. Finally I dodged one of his attacks and severed his arm. He flew high above me, laughed, and his arm regenerated. He began to speak, "You cannot kill me so easily, I am the..." I raised my arm in the air and summoned a massive bolt of lightning which hit him mid-sentence. He disintegrated. I took flight and flew high above the arena. I attempted to summon a meteor and land it on the colosseum. After a few trys, I saw the large ball of fire tearing through the atmosphere. As the giant meteor approached, I felt myself waking up. I tried to hold on, but I couldn't. I then prepared to DEILD.