Thread: Task of the month for April 2010

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 - Stand on your head

Advanced Task - Stand on your head

For the basic task:


For the advanced task:

They're basically the same thing...

Originally Posted by Zezarict

They're basically the same thing...

One you take your head off. And, Zez, how come you have a badge, yet not an orange name ?

Um...I'll do it, I guess, but, VERY boring to me. Why those tasks? So many people come up with such creative things!

This seems to me along the same lines as the one suggestion I had where the two were similar, yet pretty simple. I think it's funny in theory, but I'll agree with lds.... I'll re-suggest my suggestions from April for May, and will add more ideas to ensure we're not straining for ideas and can get some good discussion going on good possibilities.

Oh, and I'll attempt both again. I'm real interested to know what it'll be like to actually stand on my head! The basic one might be kinda hard for me, as I can't do that while awake. XD

Originally Posted by lucidreamsavy

One you take your head off. And, Zez, how come you have a badge, yet not an orange name ?

Um...I'll do it, I guess, but, VERY boring to me. Why those tasks? So many people come up with such creative things!

I'm wondering the same thing...and why does Clyde Machine have a black name?

While it's off-topic, I have a black name 'cause I'm on the DV Tech team.

Grr, finished the basic one this morning, can't post it up yet though cause I haven't typed it!

Forgive the doublepost, folks, I've got the (basic) task completed below!

27.03.2010

61: 3.27.10; 6:29AM The Grand Lucid. (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

[...]

Now that the dinosaurs were gone, I wanted to attempt the April tasks of the month, both in the same dream. I knew it was going to be funny to try these, and started with the basic one. In my mind, I thought I'd read usernames next to the tasks in the topic, and noted how similar yet different they were, just like the tasks were similar but different. (There are no usernames next to the tasks, go look if you don't believe me.) I found a white wall in this barren land and figured I should try the basic task with a wall first rather than just going for it straight out.

I laid down on the ground, a little worried about losing lucidity, and tried kicking my feet up against the wall to stand on my head. I'd managed to get upside down like I'd wanted to, but to make sure I did it I wanted to get away from using the wall for extra support. I did not, however, get a chance to get away from the wall to ensure I did the task right, and lost lucidity. I was on my head though!

[..]

Woot! I just did it. That was fast ...

I'm feeling dizzy ( DEILD )

Length : Short
Vividity : Great

( I transitioned pretty quickly, felt abit numb, though ) I was back at my bedroom, I pinched my nose to stabilize my dream and the room became just like the one in RL. I thought that my alarm would go on any second, so I back flipped from my bed and landed on my head. '' Ouch! '' My head became all really dizzy, like spinning around when I'm already still and something heavy over my head. Then I fell off balance and my alarm woke me up.

Ok, is this some kind of a record? The day after I finished the basic task, I finished the advanced task! Woot, woot!

Standin on my Head...the Odd Way!
DREAMNONDREAMSCENEDESCRIPTIONLUCID

I become lucid in some place outside. I then decide to fly! I start going up, and I am flying in a very interesting way. I am pushing on the air! I go up decently high, and the scene changes to, like a theater room. I am right on top of the cieling. I guess, because at first it felt like I reached a black part in the sky- the end of it, so this was my mind's answer . I get down, and remember the ToTM! I am standing backstage. There may or may not have been DC's about. I wasn't even paying attention to them! At first, I just take the bottom of my head to pull it off. That didn't work, so I did another one of my solutions. I put my fingers around my neck, and "cut my neck". My head pops right off! I then put it under my feet. Though my head is down there, I was looking from where my head was supposed to be- that's what I pre-thought that I wanted to happen. I am balancing on my head! Then, I am kinda walking/rolling with it on it (I couldn't think of better wording ).

Wow, LDS!

It isn't April yet and you got both the tasks!

Good job.

Excellent job, lds! I feel challenged: I did the advanced task for last month the night after I did the basic task, but since you did it before the required month, you hold the record for awesome!

I FINALLY added another task to my belt:

Clarity: Good
Sleep: Good
Lucidity: Good

At LiveTechnology

Starting where I can remember, I was already lucid and at LiveTechnology. I was wondering around the office, not sure what I was doing, but I flew down the stairs and paused in the "lobby." I was still hovering in the air so I tried to turn myself over. It was harder than it sounded, but eventually I got myself upside down. I put my hands on the floor and lowered myself to complete the basic task.
Rest of it here: http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...=35040&page=55

Hey guys,
As you know I still haven't accomplished a Lucid Dream. However, I was looking at the ToTM for april before bed, and I attempted a WILD. It was unsuccessful. However, I was greatly looking forward to doing the April task because it looks very fun
I happened to have a non-lucid about it, but I don't think that counts. It was a short dream, and it was pretty random.

Dream:
Vivid: Yes, Like Always.
Length: Fast

I was dreaming that I was four years old in a gymnastics arena. I was doing jumps and cartwheels on a floor mat. I balanced myself on the hanging rings as if I were a 20 year old gymnast. Then, my brain become sub-concoius of the dream as I usually have after attempting a WILD, and my four year old self gets off the rings and transforms into an Old Man. This old man had an olympic wreath on his head, and was in robes that looked like pillow sheets. When he put his head down on the mat it kind of looked like a transformer transforming because he was standing still but his head spun in a counter-clockwise motion and touched the ground. His body did the same but in a clockwise motion so that he was standing on his head. At this point I felt like the "spectator" and this is where my memory begins to get fuzzy. After the task the scene changes into an Olympic locker room. I think I was trying to get into the gym to workout before I did gymnastics but the room of the gym was dark. By dark I mean like I couldn't see my hands in front of my face. If I could've seen them, I probably would've become lucid
I thought, what ever, and at this point I woke up.

I have weird dreams sometimes eh?
-CV

Well...I already did these tasks, both of them, so now I await my double badges!

I don't have to worry about remembering them anymore this month!

Luciddreamsavyy,
Would it count if it was non-lucid?
Thanks,
-CV

Originally Posted by ClearView

Luciddreamsavyy,
Would it count if it was non-lucid?
Thanks,
-CV

Wait for Ninja to answer...IDK!

Originally Posted by ClearView

Would it count if it was non-lucid?
Thanks,
-CV

I have seen somebody ask this before. Since it's the "Lucid Task of the Month" you must be lucid in the dream that you complete the task in.

No, it doesn't count if you do it in a non-lucid

Basic Task of the Month April 3, 2010
-Stand on your head.

After a short bout with sleep paralysis I sit up and into a dream. I am lucid in my bedroom but quickly move into the bath with the goal of going through a mirror. My reflection is normal but the mirror had another mirror inside of it with a spotted pattern. My hand is softly placed against the mirror but reluctant to go through. After trying a few more times, I decide I won't be able to pass.

I turn my attention towards the basic TotM. There is another mirror; full bodied on the bathroom door so I do the headstand right there in the bathroom to see myself. Sort of a small area. I place the top of my hand on the ground, effortlessly throw my legs up and observe myself doing a handstand. It felt normal with the blood rushing to my head and all but after a few seconds the dream ended.

Well, my lucidity has been increasing by half starting at 8 months, so I'll remember to do this in a lucid!

Done and done.

WOOT! I completed the advanced task!

I had a long involved dream that I'll post in my DJ... but when I realized I was dreaming I remembered the Task of the Month.
I got excited and almost did the first one but I reminded myself the tasks had to be during different lucids, so I decided to do the advanced task.

I took off my head then stood on top of it... then I used it like a unicycle and rode around in a circle.
Then I woke up

Yep. I know, I was just wondering if you knew
-CV