Task of the month for July 2010

**Raven Knight** · 07-06-2010 08:45 PM

Since I have multiplied myself before, for the task I wanted to push it to the next level. I have done 256 copies, so I went for 512! Here is the dream:

"All the way to 10?" I asked the general of the troll army, mockingly, "I'm impressed. I didn't realize trolls could count that high." The general glared at me and said I was no longer amusing him. I told him if he turned his forces around and left immediately, no one would get hurt. He said I would be wishing no one had been hurt. He took out his sword and tried to run me through. His sword hit my Witchblade armor, which formed instantly. The troll was quite surprised by that. I said if he was surprised by that, wait until he got a load of what was coming up next. I was about to focus on my multiplication spell when I saw there was another human there with me. It was Tigress. She asked what was going on. I motioned towards the army of trolls and orcs. I said if she wanted to help, just go ahead and kill something. In fact, kill lots of somethings. The trolls laughed some more. I guess the idea of Tigress killing lots of them was very amusing to them. Tigress multiplied. There was a paladin version of herself in shining armor with a large glowing sword… a rogue version of herself which was a halfling and had a dagger dripping with poison… and a fighter version of herself which was a warforged and was carrying two nasty looking swords… and that was in addition to her normal self.

So now I focused on the song Divide by Disturbed. 2… 4… 8… 16… 32… 64… 128… 256… That's where I normally stop. I saw that all of Tigress had dispersed into the enemy army, killing as she went through them. I thought I saw the pally split into two pallies, so Tigress wasn't done dividing, either. So even as the trolls attacked all of my clones, I continued multiplying… I wanted to push the limit. Another split… 512 of me. Every part of my mind seemed to be consumed by a different part of the fight. Cutting down a troll here, running my Witchblade sword through an orc there… There were still so many more trolls than there were of us… Should I keep dividing? I wasn't sure what would happen… I decided I had better not chance it until I knew for sure 512 would work well… So the fight continued. Having 512 of me was rather disorienting, but since all of us were focused on the same task, that made it easier. All of us were utilizing our Witchblade swords to cut down trolls and orcs wherever we found them.

Then I noticed something… one of the orcs had put his sword through one of my clones! His sword had managed to penetrate her Witchblade… I wondered how that was possible. Had dividing the Witchblade that many times made it less effective? My Witchblade spoke to me in my mind, saying the others were not as strong due to the dividing… but the original me still had a fully effective Witchblade. I felt the energy from the clone return to me. Ok… 511 of me… The fight was intense, and disorienting as I tried to direct each of my clones at the same time. A couple more clones went down, but that was nowhere near the number of trolls to fall. Soon the field was littered with dead trolls and also some fallen orc traitors. Only Tigress and I were left… there were 64 Tigresses and 486 of me.

Tigress looked around at all of the Ravens standing around her. She asked if I could have made any more of me. I said yeah, I thought I could have, but I stayed with 512 for now. The next step up from 256. Both of us absorbed our clones back into ourselves and surveyed the area. Nothing but death. Tigress started an intense fire. She said many of the bodies would burn, and create fertilizer for the earth… and the ones that don't burn will feed the scavengers of the wilderness. I looked at the burning carcasses and thought that was the first time those trolls and orcs would ever be useful to anyone. I was looking at the flames when I woke.

**Invader** · 07-07-2010 08:43 AM

Break apart and... divide.

Good reads so far everyone, and grats to those who've been successful so far.

**Hazel** · 07-07-2010 12:18 PM

I did it!

A very passive control way of cloning myself; hope this counts. Full dream found here.

Come to think of it, this would be a good time to try the task of the month. I reach into the mirror and pull my reflection out. She sprawls out on the floor, limp and lifeless. Annoyed, I prop her against the wall and look into the mirror again, at my new reflection. Before I can pull her out as well, my other one falls over in my lap. "Ew, she's drooling," I mutter, sitting her up against the wall again. A girl is standing behind me; she's been with me for a while, but I can't remember who she is. Raven Knight, perhaps? Possibly Tamora. She tells me to stop fooling around; that it's obvious I have to give the reflection some life force before it responds.

"Oh, of course." I put my hand on my clone's head and say, "I give you life." Suddenly, her once glazed over eyes become alert. She can now sit up without having to lean up against the wall. "Yay, it worked!" Now I reach into the mirror and pull out my new reflection, this time giving her life before she's even fully out of the mirror. That's two clones, that should be enough to satisfy the requirements.

**ninja9578** · 07-07-2010 01:48 PM

Nice job hazel

**Scolor** · 07-07-2010 05:34 PM

[COLOR="rgb(255, 0, 255)"]Dream[/COLOR]LucidCommenting

I woke up late in the middle of the night, and Decided to read up on the forums. I saw the task of the month and was extremely interested. I have always wanted to do one of them, and i saw that the tasks seemed pretty easy this month. I Chose to WBTB and then i began....

[COLOR="rgb(255, 0, 255)"]I couldn't understand where I was. I was in s street like new york, however, the streets were vacant. No one was around, except an owl. I Walked over to it, just to see what it was, and it turned into a human. [/COLOR]I then relized that i was dreaming, because obviously owls can't do that. The person looked just like me, dressed in white clothing, and wings. They told me it was my turn to die, and their turn to live. I looked at my shadow, and pictured myself obtaining wings, and they grew, i flew up, but the other me was much faster than me. He caught up and threw me to the ground. I pulled me arms together, and pulled apart rapidly. I pictured my body splitting, and ripping apart. Each one of those split apart, and i had 3 other versions of myself.

I was very weird controlling multiple forms of myself. I could hear everyone's thoughts, and they were all individuals.... It was so awkard with everyone doing the same thing....

So i commanded them all to be their own person, but to still look up to me as their leader. I sprang up and pounded the evil form of myself into a building (Which had several different portable walls inside, most likely a technical help building) and the 3 other forms of myself handeled the rest of it. I then attempted to do other stuff (Like calling someone) however no one was alive beside me and my clones, it seemed.... No one was in their buildings, and no one answered their phones... I traveled across america, then went to check the moon.... Befor i reached the moon, i woke up to the sound of my cell phone ringing.... grr

Im new to this, so how does it all work?

**Invader** · 07-07-2010 10:05 PM

That's basically how you do it Scolor. You complete the task in your LD and post the dream here in some detail for all to read.

**MadMonkey** · 07-08-2010 12:47 AM

Ha Ha you should have called one of your clones Scolor. Interesting that you woke up to your phone ringing.

**Scolor** · 07-08-2010 02:02 AM

Yeah... I just realized that connection.

**Brunor2** · 07-08-2010 03:20 AM

I'm having problems to get any lucid, so, no progress so far for me

**kflory31** · 07-08-2010 08:48 PM

I partly did the basic task in a LD i just woke up from. I made a phone call, but didnt have a conversation with the voice on the other side. It was pretty cool how it worked though. I had my laptop playing a show called arrested development on a website called hulu while i was sleeping (So their was talking going on in real life the whole LD) Anyways, before every episode theres a voice that says "the following episode is presented with limited commercials blah blah . .. lol" you get the point. Anyways, right when i dialed its like my brain decided to start listening to the sounds coming from the laptop , because the voice on the other end said " the following episode ..." then I could hear arrested development until i hung up the phone then it stopped! Just wierd to me that the phone being by my ear was like starting and stopping myself from being able to hear what was going on in real life while i was LDing

**simm** · 07-09-2010 07:06 AM

Yay I did the basic one this month without even knowing it was a task! Sadley though I doubt I will remember to do the advanced one. It seems to take me ages to transfer ideas to my dreams. I'm still working on the asking a DC what my dream journal password is. Surely my password is in my head somewhere.

**AngelOfLife** · 07-10-2010 01:44 PM

I talked on the phone with Tom Felton a few nights ago. (in a dream, durr) ^_^ I didnt even know it was a TotM! I had come back from another room and my phone was on and he was on the other line like "hullo? HULLO?! Shawn? Are you there?" And I told him I didn't realize I'd called him. xD Good times.

Yay I never thought I'd do a TotM! Newb win!

**catzisconfus** · 07-10-2010 02:32 PM

there are some nice reads here!

i'll try to remember to call someone when i'm lucid ^^
i'm not goint to clone myself that is too hard i think

i must first master LDing

**AngelOfLife** · 07-10-2010 02:48 PM

^@ catzisconfus: yeh i know! Dreams are entertaining. I have to master LD's too. I can't wait. I think joining is gonna get me more motivated to do a WILD.

**PercyLucid** · 07-10-2010 04:46 PM

Originally Posted by AngelOfLife

I talked on the phone with Tom Felton a few nights ago. (in a dream, durr) ^_^ I didnt even know it was a TotM! I had come back from another room and my phone was on and he was on the other line like "hullo? HULLO?! Shawn? Are you there?" And I told him I didn't realize I'd called him. xD Good times.

Yay I never thought I'd do a TotM! Newb win!

Where you lucid?

**AngelOfLife** · 07-10-2010 05:18 PM

Semi lucid. I had will over what I did but (as usual) it didn't really click in my mind that I could change the dream however I want. I'm new to this; does being non lucid make it void to the TotM?

If so, womp womp. That just makes me want to try harder.

(and I take back the "newb win" comment. For now.)

**PercyLucid** · 07-10-2010 07:27 PM

Yeah, sorry

It has to be a lucid dream! You will accomplish soon for sure, almost got it!

Btw... did you drew you sign? If so, nice job

**AngelOfLife** · 07-10-2010 07:33 PM

Yes i did! Yay everyone likes it

Ah man! I have to WBTB tomorrow morn' to talk on the phone. My dreams always have working phones so that won't be a problem. ^_^

**PercyLucid** · 07-10-2010 07:39 PM

Good job on the faces. It's easy to read the feelings of each one, specially the dark gray winged angel looking at the yellow winged one (which I guess it's you, and the dark gray winged one is Malfoy) Am I right?

Yeah. During your WBTB time play with your phone and call someone. That will increase the chances a lot! How about cloning? Do not forget that one

**AngelOfLife** · 07-10-2010 07:46 PM

I don't know, cloning on my third WILD? I'll give it a try! If i remember.

Ha! I like how you put that about their faces! From left to right it's the angel of Love (he's made up), Death (That's my friend that I'm writing the story with), Pain (My imaginary, in-story lover)

, and Life (mee!!!)

EDIT: haha and notice I only had Pain as the shirtless one... I didn't know I could draw like that! He's hot! XD

**PercyLucid** · 07-10-2010 08:13 PM

I guessed half of the thing

Third WILD? Lol... Do you WILD more than once a month? Nice job

And nice off topic chatting too

**AngelOfLife** · 07-10-2010 08:33 PM

ewrps, I mean third LD. Ive WILDed a lot more than 3 times. more like 30 times. xD

Haha This tangent could be best replied in PM's.

**pllplp** · 07-10-2010 09:31 PM

Bask Task:

I was at some conference or seminar and everyone was listening to someone on the stage. It was some nerdy looking guy, and a very boring speach. I asked myself why am I listening to this. Oh its a dream!
I jumped onto the stage and started talking to everyone about how not all software developers are as lame as the guy that was up there. I tore off the shirt and tie i was wearing and revealed tee shirt and shorts. I left the room and went into another and sat down. I sat there and asked myself what i should do next. Oh ya, i should use my cell phone. I spent a little time searching for it in my pocket then pulled it out. (it was my older model not the one i use now) I filiped it open and saw it was on then pressed the send. I started talking to the guy on the other end. It was a bit static sounding and i ordered something to be delivered to me. It was originally my plan to order clones for advanced task, but i think i told him to deliver me prostitutes.

**lucidreamsavy** · 07-10-2010 11:10 PM

Well, I did talk to someone on the phone in a LD...but he called me!

Smart DC

DREAMNONDREAMSCENEDESCRIPTIONLUCID

I am in school, and it's the first day, yay.... I have a folder with my schedule and other papers. Somehow without looking, I know that this one class is my first hour. Well, I am in there, and I see this girl I know. We start talking. There are some guys around, teasing me, as a lot of the class was, but I am used to it, and thought it would be like this the whole year (seriously

, but the "good kind"). Well, then that period is done and I have to go to my next period. I didn't know what class it was, but I did go into a random class to check, then I "assumed" that was my next class. I felt the dream aura, and thought it could be a dream. I did hesitate for some reason... but, well, all and all, I did become lucid.This is an odd looking classroom, it's all unwide, but it is long...only in the front were there kids in their desks. I noticed that my history teacher IRL from last year was the teacher. The phone rings, and she picks it up. She said it was for me! I pick it up, and the guy starts blabbering, I assume he has some dreaming questions for me. "You know I'm in a dream, right?" "Yes." Then he starts talking the same way, and I can't understand him! Like, the noise or something...

Scene change, and I am still in the school talking to him, but on a different phone near the office. The hallway around me is large, and there are 3 seperate hallways branching off. Then I verbalize to him that I don't understand him. I tell him to just materialize in front of me. He did! He looked like my OTHER history teacher. *Shiver*. Well, now he starts talking, and I understand some of what he says. He seems knowledgable, so I decide to spend my LD hearing what he has to say. I try hard to understand. We walk slowly, and I see 2 sofas paralel next to each other. He tells me that nothing is more paralel then things in dreams that are supposed to be paralel. "Even more paralel then cells." Then, I look at the cieling, and he tells me that there are no "stints or stares" in the dreamworld either. I woke up soon after. I figured once I woke up that "stints and stares" meant that there are no imperfections where there aren't "supposed" to be-which is kinda true

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**Baggins** · 07-11-2010 08:10 AM

I did the advance one... Sorta

I turn around, I could feel my dream fading so I decide to try cloning myself again, I focus on myself jumping out of Ezio while I remain but instead 2 cardboard cutouts appear "Epic fail" I mumble
One of the cutouts began to move but now he was 3D, the second is now the same as well. Both now fully animated the view goes to 3rd person and there is 3 versions of me, the 2 clones hi-5 each other and I ask what they want to do. The clones look at me weird and turned to mindless DC's and just walked away "Shit!" as the dream fades I watch them walk off.