Thread: Task of the month for February 2010

Two or three nights ago (don't know exactly because I don't have my Dream Journal with me) I actually remembered to do the TotM! Woohoo...

It was evening, and I was walking around my campus. The sun was starting to set, and it was warm, grassy and spring-ish. This should have been my first clue since I'm practically living in antarctica right now. It was early in the evening and it seemed slightly late for me to be there. I wondered to myself "why the heck am I here...I don't have any evening classes" but nothing registered. I decided that I must be there to turn in an assignment to one of my professors. So I go into the building of one of my professors from last semester. I start up the staircase, when I notice that the stone tiles in the floor have changed from a flecked sort of brown-grey-gold granite (?) to a blue-turquoise black and violet color. Thinking to myself "that's wierd, I must have never come here during the remodeling" I just continued on. I had gone up four or five flights of stairs when I realized my professor's office was on the third floor...and that the building only had three floors. Upon realizing this, I became lucid. I was so excited, as I hadn't had any very good quality lucids for quite a while. I looked around and noticed a girl sitting on the bench accross the...sitting area (for lack of a better term). I was looking around strangely, and she was looking at me funny. I just laughed really hard and started looking for things to do. She continued to look at me strangely, but then started to laugh as well. I noticed the evening sun coming in through one of the windows and remembered the Task of the Month. I went over to the light and tried to inspect my shadow: nothing. I closed my eyes and looked again. This time I had a shadow, but it was't behaving properly. It reminded me of those iTunes commercials with the shadow people dancing to their music. (from here on has nothing to do with the task) As I looked around, I saw one of the telephones from my home sitting on one of the benches. I picked it up, but it slipped out of my hands and the back fell off, revealig the battery. By this time, the girl was looking at me rather strangely again, so I picked up the telephone and pitched it through the window. The look on her face was priceless. I just laughed again, and started to walk away as she continued to stare at me in jaw-dropping amazement...

I done it for the first time =D

Originally Posted by Dylan xD's Dream Journal

Fragments!

I was standing in a forest area, there was a road to my right with a tank sitting in the middle of it.I started to remember something "My shadow" I shouted.
I turned and looked at the ground, staring at my shadow it started to become dark, I turned around and started to walk off "I have to remember this dream!" I mumbled.

Hope I done it right :}

Congrats everyone!
Doesn't it feel great, Dylan?

A big woohoo for me as well.

Two nights ago, I was dreaming about a very light skinned white guy with corn rows past his shoulders. He was depressed and I was helping him unbraid his hair.
I told him to wait a moment so I could look for a hair pic (no comb or brush would ever even dream of going through his locks lol).
WHen I came back, his hair was unbraided and perfectly straight. I thought that was odd. His hair should have been wavy because of the braids.
Then it hit me: "I'm dreaming!"
So I rushed outside beneath the sun and looked around for my shadow. I found it then started flying.
Then I thought: "I need to do the other task before I wake up."
(Lucid dreaming ALWAYS makes me wake up).
So I concentrated on the pic supplied with the other task and there I was.
Then I wondered who I was going to marry (my hubby never crossed my mind lol). I thought about the corn row guy, but I couldn't conjure him. So I just grabbed a random passenger and we were married
A few moments later, I briefly woke, then fell back into dreams.

Taken from my dream journal today:

I was walking through a dark alley, and it was kind of creepy. I walked into my old house and saw the computer sitting on the desk which made me start thinking of DV (I spent the better have of yesterday just geeking out on DV). This made me remember to do a reality check. All I had to do was take one good look at my hands to know they weren't supposed to be acting like that. I sat down on the computer and the word "Cacophony" kept appearing except it was like "cacagogophanagy" and I kept looking away and looking back at it only for it to be "craginagpononomony", etc....

So, I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do because it's been a while since I've been that lucid. I started thinking about the monthly challenge... go see if you have a shadow in the sun, or get married in the mist or something like that. I went outside and it was still night. I started thinking about the mist thing, and a bunch of mist started wafting my way. I stood there for a moment and resolved that I don't want to get married, even if it is in a dream. I swatted the mist away.

So, next I decide I'm gonna check out my shadow in the sunshine. I looked up and the moon was, as I like to call it, a cheshire cat moon. It looked like a giant smile beaming down on me. I jumped really hard and grabbed the thing, dragging it down with me. It really was a smile, I could see its teeth gleaming up at me, now the only thing to illuminate the world. Next, I was kind of baffled as to how to make the sun appear since I had just stolen the moon from the sky. I spotted an orange tree nearby and decided to try transforming an orange into the sun. I simply picked one and threw it as hard as I could into the sky, simply expecting it to work... which it did. I stared at the ground and could see my shadow.... it was moving completely different than I was. It was waving at me and stretching and morphing into other things, and it was really cool.

@cacophony

that was awesome :3

Originally Posted by ruba

@cacophony

that was awesome :3

Thanks! I love dreaming.

Originally Posted by 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 - Go in the sunlight and see if you have a shadow

Advanced Task - Get married on the Maid of the Mist*

Maid of the Mist

wow this seems super fun i cant wait to try this out once i get good at lucid dreaming does it take long to get good at it or do you justt need to focus hard

FINALLY REMEMBERED A TASK YEAH!, BASIC TASK DONE

Read the bolded, purple text, and whats before it if you want

26.02.2010

A Whole New Level Of Lucidity (Finally remebered to do a TOTM and finally flew) (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I seem to be getting used to my new realism in my dreams because I had 2 DILD's in 2 sleeps. This dream was very long but I can only remember bits.

I was at my house and I went outside my front yard and my friend T was there and my mum yelled out something which just made me say "Is that so?" and do a nose pinch reality check, which surprisingly worked. I was happy of my lucidity, but not letting it get to myself and I made a pact to notice more things and to be more aware of my dream surroundings to have more lucids.I messed around and did things like front flips and jumping onto cars as they went by and slapping a random person and a bunch of other things I could do in real life by wouldn't out of fear or common sense. I ran into my back yard and wanted to see if I could super jump or fly. I tried to jump over my fence but could only jump as high as I could in real life (which IS pretty high) so my foot was caught on the top of the fence so I fell and landed face first into a pile of dead leaves in my neighbor's yard. (it's kind of funny that this happened in a dream ) I tried in the next yard again but this time I tried to imaging jets coming out of my feet, which sent me flying into space. I couldn't breathe at first but quickly changed that. I went super fast, faster than light and I couldn't see earth anymore but I looked and saw another planet that I couldn't identify that morphed while I was looking at it into a planet with deep dark blue water with pink islands, I jetted into it. (literally into it, I crashed and it wasn't my doing when the planet morphed) I can't remember what I did there but I did stay for a bit, and the sky was dark blue, which made sense because of the ocean. I wanted to go back to earth and imagined it as I jetted off. I stopped in space again and saw earth, nearly perfect, so I tried to jet toward Austrailia (I live there, but now that I think of it I should of tried to jet somewhere else) but I had really wonky jets and landed west of Australia on an island, part of a string of islands that don't exist. I landed in the middle of a soccar game and was looking around at everything and I suddenly remembered the basic task about shadows so I just looked and there were perfect shadows. I was trying to recall the advanced task after that but couldn't. (I looked it up and it was get married on the maid of the mist, which I didn't like so I didn't commit it to memory) I left the soccor game to a resort like place near it that I seemed to recognise. I was exploring the beautiful scenary and I came across DC versions of my friends and went to talk to them. It was an intelligent conversation, and my friend B seemed to be my girlfriend in the dream and I went along with it. My other friend there said jokingly, "What, you think that because she happens to be your girlfriend in this dream of yours, you can go along with it?" B then said to me "thanks for the view, this place looks cool, real creative"
....A BUNCH OF LUCID DREAM CHARACTERS WITHOUT ANY INFLUENCE FROM ME, YEAH. I closed my eyes and thought, well the dreams going to end now and I woke up.

I guess I'll be waiting until next month to try the task. >.>

Hmm, does it have to be a real shadow? Anyhow, here's how it went down:

I spawned in between two tall gray buildings overlooking a beautiful summer day. The sunlight was white and hot, and in front of me flashed the faces of many people. I spawned a tiger, leashed it, and began a stroll down through the city that seemed so vividly familiar to that of one I had rendered in a 3D program not long before. I discarded my tiger through a black portal in the sidewalk, looking up into the light. I jumped, and hovered, slowly sinking back towards the concrete. Below me was a misty black shadow, shaped as a cube with tentacle like protrusions. As I sank closer to the ground is began to resemble a thin oval, much like an artist would do to simplify the shadow beneath a cartoon. The buildings around me turned a beautiful limestone, shimmering in the white gaseous light. I walked along the sidewalk as the white fog became ever denser, until it dimmed to black and I emerged to another dream.

So yes, I did see a shadow, but my shadow I cannot exactly tell

Congratulations to everyone who completed the task of the month. Well, folks, I've got a REALLY last-minute success entry for the basic task! (I need to challenge myself, I think.)

After having two separate dreams that involved attempting or at least thinking about this task, I finally got it when I had two lucids this morning.

28.02.2010

38: 2.28.10; 9:50AM Part 2: Copper. (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I dreamed I had just left my house after finding it grotesquely infested with bugs, and I had found myself riding in my mom's van, pulling up to the house as if I were just arriving home. Stepping out of the van, I noticed my dog Copper was barking happily and had run up to the van to greet me when I opened the door. I reached down to pet his head and went lucid when I remembered that we had given Copper away last year in real life. Lucid once more, I stood next to the van to attempt DV's task of the month again. I asked Copper to go behind me and bark at my shadow. I kept saying it over and over, "Go bark at my shadow, go bark at my shadow!", and tried leading him behind me by his collar. I felt like I might lost the dream, but I was determined this time not to be interrupted while lucid like earlier this morning. I didn't stop talking to Copper, and looked at the ground below me looking for traces of sunlight. The sun started shining a little from the opposite side of the van, but not enough to give me a shadow. The sunlight seemed to then get strong and bright and had come from behind me, giving me a very distinct shadow or myself right in front of me. [...]

Since I know you'd all like to know about my past failures at this task, here's where I saw my shadow, but I looked like....a wild monstruous animal!

25.02.2010

35: 2.25.10; 8:30AM Non-lucid Lucid Dream: TotM and Portal Gun. (Non-lucid)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I had a very conscious (yet, non-lucid) dream that I was running around in a field when I thought of DV's Task of the Month - to check for my shadow in the sunlight. I looked next to me while I ran, the sun shining brightly everywhere, and saw a wildly-formed shadow next to me. I suddenly appeared in my house and thought of my other lucid goals, thinking of the Portal gun. I tried imagining two portals at walls and tried stepping through the orange one. I don't believe it worked correctly, so I tried to imagine the gun lying on a stack of books, so I could pick it up and try again. The gun didn't appear before I woke up.

While I didn't go into detail in the log, I recall my shadow had many many limbs, bent every direction, making me look like a walking brushpile or something. I recall thinking about myself as looking like Ruby Weapon from Final Fantasy VII.

Well, that's my fail-fail-success story!

End of the month already? I'm gonna miss my orange name..

Originally Posted by Mario92

End of the month already? I'm gonna miss my orange name..

You?! I'm the one who's had it orange since September, except for a few short weeks in between there . I MUST have an orange name! And I won't be able to complete it on time . It's all Ninja's fault for not having the task printed right! Then I would've wanted to do it earlier, and I would've had more time to complete it.

Originally Posted by Mario92

End of the month already? I'm gonna miss my orange name..

Don't people who have completed the task get to hear the new TotM early so that they can do it ahead of time and keep their title/name color?

Yeah, I know...kinda backwards, in my opinion. People who haven't completed the TOTM should get it early. That way, there's a bit more of a challenge for those who can already do it.