Task of the month for April 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 - Stand on your head Advanced Task - Stand on your head

[ninja9578]

For the basic task: For the advanced task:

[Zezarict]

They're basically the same thing...

[lucidreamsavy]

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!

[Clyde Machine]

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

[Zezarict]

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?

[Clyde Machine]

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

[lucidreamsavy]

OK, I am so good. The day after seeing the TOTM for April, I did it, only the basic one though. SO FAR. I am going to type up the whole dream here, and copy paste it to my journal later, since DV shouldn't know about April's task until April (well, duh, besides you guys!) ToTM Completion- Standin on my Head DREAMNONDREAMSCENEDESCRIPTIONLUCID The first part of this dream was kinda confusing... But I do know that I was with a few people in an abandoned downtown. Some tall buildings, but not many. Very odd feeling... We were doing SOMETHING with these balloons-well, me. There were a bunch of them already blown up- but most of them were small. There was this guy next to me on the ground, the street, and I wanted him to help me in some way. I started popping balloons near his face to get what I wanted. I did this by pressing hard on the balloon with both hands. Then, I stood up, and, I noticed that everyone had these white industrial looking suits on...Then, they were being taken away by some alien or something from far away- we knew they were far away and didn't see them. It aparently had to do with something that they got on them...One person goes high, over a medium sized building- another person follows. One person doesn't have the suit on so is fine, but then he takes off some clothes to reveal the suit, and there he goes by them! There is one kid left. We then go walking somewhere... Though the whole place didn't, we were in my yard from my old OLD house. Kinda odd. Then, they were still high up in the sky, just loomin, almost to go up even higher to be sucked up- but for now they were just still in the sky. The guy "summons" them down, so they do start to come! (this may have been from me wanting this to happen) Then, I became lucid. This is a dream! Then, I oddly see me in bed "half asleep", and I see my dad in my room. Yes, this means that I THOUGHT this was what was happening in waking life . I didn't want him to hear me say "this is a dream". I don't think he did. Then, back to the dream, I thought to myself what I wanted to do (usually, I seem to just skip this step, and think little about it) , and I thought to myself that I wanted to stand on my head to complete the ToTM! So, I do! Once standing on my head, I noticed that there was snow on the ground! The getting slushy kind. Now that I'm on the ground, I think that I am looking at myself in third person , but I only saw my head, and if it was in third person, I was very close. After all, the only thing I saw was my head and the ground. Then, I loose ballance, and fall over into a somersault (I guess since I can't stand on my head IRL) I think I remembered the ToTM so early, because I told myself that I would remember it easier this time around! I did think it over a couple of times last night so that I could remember. I just didn't think I'd get it THIS quickly!

[ninja9578]

Nice job luciddreamsavy

[lucidreamsavy]

Maybe for the advanced one, I could just hold onto my head then take it off, or put my fingers around my throat to take it off, then stand on it. Or ask a DC for help OR, do this all in third person...HMM. I shall see what I really will do!

[Naiya]

The advanced one is going to be interesting.

[Clyde Machine]

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

[Clyde Machine]

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! [..]

[I_C_U]

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.

[lucidreamsavy]

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 ).

[I_C_U]

Wow, LDS! It isn't April yet and you got both the tasks! Good job.

[Clyde Machine]

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!

[ninja9578]

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

[ClearView]

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

[lucidreamsavy]

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!

[ClearView]

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

[lucidreamsavy]

Luciddreamsavyy, Would it count if it was non-lucid? Thanks, -CV Wait for Ninja to answer...IDK!

[ClearView]

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

[LucidApprentice]

Seems like a kinda boring task. The advanced one sounds interesting though

[LucidApprentice]

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.