Thread: Task of the Month for July 2011

had a non-lucid last night where i was sitting in a music appreciation class, but i was the only one without an instrument. i kept thinking how odd it was and that there was something i was supposed to do...

That's so weird, I just bought the Where the Wild Things Are DVD the other day haha. I'll watch it tonight and try to VILD using scenes from the movie Good luck everyone else!

Darn... I came close to completing the Advanced Task the night before last night. I portal-traveled through a hung painting to the setting of the book and found myself in Max's red boat. Before I went any further, I performed a DEILD to extend my dream time, as my DILDs typically last no longer than a minute or two. But, right when I thought the process was successful, right when I was almost past that final step, everything around me began to fade unto blackness, then I woke up. (Shrugs) I guess my breathing was too quick. Again.

I did the basic task yesterday morning. I played the Song of Time from Zelda: Ocarina of time on my guitar.

Spoiler for Teh Dream:

07.06.2011

guitar task (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

After a good long WBTB I attempted WILD and didn't do to bad but still lost conciousness right before I fell asleep.

I woke up and believed that I had failed my WILD attempt. I wondered if I should try again. For some reason I got up and walked out of my room. I realized that that was illogical so I did a reality check and became lucid. I was in the hallway so I walked into the family room. My mom and sister were watching the TV. I thought about how I should spend the dream. I saw the mirror and was tempted to walk through it in an attempt to teleport to my dream guides tower. I decided it would be better if I tried making an energy portal again so I can master teleportation once and for all. Then I remembered the basic task of the month which is to play a musical instroment. I planned on playing my electric guitar. I thought I should do that first because it was a task that I know I could complete.

I walked back down the hallway toward my room. I was amazed at how much it felt real even if the visuals weren't especialy vivid. I could have swarn I was awake before I did a RC. I went into my room and picked up my guitar. It wasn't plugged in but I didn't really need the amp to complete the task. I played the Song of Time from Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. One of the notes sounded wrong even though I played it right so I replayed it and it sounded great. Now that I had completed the task I thought I might have som more fun so I plugged in my amp and turned on distortion. I was currious if I could make the notes sound like what ever I wanted them to no mater were I pressed. I hit random frets and imagined a song as I went but it still sounded random. I grew bored and wanted to try teleportation again so I put the guitar down.

I didn't feel like going to the family room so I stayed in my room which has much less open space. First thing I needed to do was to accumulate the energy to make the portal out of. I held out my hands infront of me and imagined energy flowing through my body, out of my hands and into the space between my hands. I didn't see and aura like I did last time. I kept trying and I noticed that my hands were gradualy getting fuzzy. The whole dream seemed to be going out of focus. I was to interested in watching the dream get all fuzzy and forgot to rub my hands before it was to late.

Completed the basic task this night, the dream is fairly long I appologise, but first propper lucid in a month or so, thought it was worth noting the detail.

Elastic burst effects, Maelstroms, black holes - Chasing devil people with my bass (ToTM Basic) - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

The ToTM stuff starts somewhere around the middle I think ^^

I've been taking a lot of breaks from Dreamviews lately and I decided to finally start my journal on here and get back into it! Since I have left I have suddenly had A LOT of luck in lucid dreaming and love it! I read the TOTM Earlier today and I decided to nap and give it a try!
Anyway here is my TOTM DJ:


It was nightime and the stars were illuminating the sky. Millions of little magical sparkles. I could hear cars in the distance. I look down and found I was standing on top of a skyscraper in a HUGE city. I was memorized by the beauty of the city. I always had loved cities. I looked down at a taxi driving across the busy road. Every time the Taxi hit a tiny bump the taxi grew in size. Suddenly I asked myself How I got to this roof and I realized I was dreaming! Everything sort of flickered. The lights all went off for a second and everything came back clearer then it was before. I was lucid! I was going to float down from the rooftop into the street but then I remembered the TOTM that I had just read earlier today! I remembered the play an instrument one but I couldnt remember the advanced task. I decided to stay on the city rooftop and play it while looking down at the beautiful city. I assumed a box would be on the roof with an instrument in it and when I looked around I saw one! I went over to examine it and wanted the instrument to be a flute. I opened the box and was surprised to find a trombone! I took it out and held it in my hand. It seemed really big. I put my mouth to the mouthpiece and thought about synesthesia which is the mixing of senses. I have a form of it where when I see objects move I hear a small sound, but there are many different forms of it. There's one form where when you hear sound you can see color. I decided I would try that in my dream. I blew the first note and a beautiful sound that I cant explain escaped. The city froze and a ripple of purple appeared in front of me. All of a sudden I was floating and moving slowly. I kept playing random beautiful notes and more and more colors rippled around me. I was close enough to the ground now I could see people staring up at me with a shocked expression on their faces. They stared at me in amazement. I smiled and waved at them. For a moment I even forgot I was dreaming. I was just focused on all the colors. I decided to land on the street and give the trombone to someone random. They smiled at me like they needed that trombone to survive. I sat down on a city bench and tried to remember what the advanced task was...I remembered it has something to do with a movie and....OH MY GOSH! Where the Wild things are! I was so excited I remembered the dream started fading away. But I managed to grasp onto it. Everything was little blurrier but I didn't mind as long I was still in the dream. How long had I been napping? Surely 20 minutes had passed maybe longer. The dream would end soon!

I hurried through the first door I saw and I came out in a forest. It was a lively forest with animals everywhere. I turned around and saw an owl staring down at me. I smiled at it. I had never seen the movie or even remembered the book so I had no idea what the story was about except a kid with a crown with buffalo-like friends. Suddenly I heard stomping in the forest and all the animals scattered. A HUGE wild thing came out of the bushes. It was bigger then I thought it would be! I looked up at it and touched it's finger. "I am in control of your species now." I said. It nodded and stared at me with wide green eyes. I told it to go get its friends when all of a sudden I woke up.

I was amazed that I actually completed the tasks the day that I read about them! The dream felt really unreal and I would love to go back to that city again. Thanks Ninja for such a great TOTM! I am off to a GREAT start in coming back to DreamViews.

I'll definitely try these if i start having lucid dreams this month. I have a good idea for the advanced task for next month, is there a specific place you post suggestions for task of the month?

Yes, you can post them in the task of the month club once you have access to it (you get access by doing this months')

Look in my dream journal (signature) for the full dream but here is the first bit:

Part one: I was walking with my friend to a piano concert where I would be playing a song called "Bah Ba Doo Bah" (You can find it on Youtube!) My friend called Jenny said she was only coming for my bit in the concert as she did not really seem interested in piano. I remember having my school bag with Jenny's sketchbook in! Anyways, it was my turn on the piano but Jenny had to go lol! She went to her dance class or something like that and I was left with my dad and stupid brother. *TOPIC OF THE MONTH ENTRY* I went and sat down at the piano then I did lots of hand warm ups (eg. flexing my fingers ) until everyone got bored then I began. I was pressing the notes but nothing came out. In the middle, the notes came out but they were the opposite in pitch (eg. highest note became lowest note.) In the end bit there was once again no sound. Well, for me there was no sound but everyone else was singing along even though they had never heard the tune before! At the end everyone stood up and clapped! I then saw Jenny and the dream went.

Hope you like it.
This is non-lucid.

Originally Posted by Dreamer4127

Look in my dream journal (signature) for the full dream but here is the first bit:

Part one: I was walking with my friend to a piano concert where I would be playing a song called "Bah Ba Doo Bah" (You can find it on Youtube!) My friend called Jenny said she was only coming for my bit in the concert as she did not really seem interested in piano. I remember having my school bag with Jenny's sketchbook in! Anyways, it was my turn on the piano but Jenny had to go lol! She went to her dance class or something like that and I was left with my dad and stupid brother. *TOPIC OF THE MONTH ENTRY* I went and sat down at the piano then I did lots of hand warm ups (eg. flexing my fingers ) until everyone got bored then I began. I was pressing the notes but nothing came out. In the middle, the notes came out but they were the opposite in pitch (eg. highest note became lowest note.) In the end bit there was once again no sound. Well, for me there was no sound but everyone else was singing along even though they had never heard the tune before! At the end everyone stood up and clapped! I then saw Jenny and the dream went.

Hope you like it.
This is non-lucid.

Sounds like an awesome dream But don't you have to be lucid for it to count for TOTM?

Yeah, you have to be lucid unfortunately. Cool dream though!

Naww ok I will try this when I get my first lucid

Good luck!

Why havn't I been winged yet?

I've been waiting since the 5th.

Originally Posted by Puffin

I've been waiting since the 5th.

The 8th for me I asked ninja about it yesterday and he said he would do it today.

What is winged?

You get wings under your username for the rest of the month, and your username is orange! =D

Wow, I got it!
This is so cool! Thanks!

Congrats! :3

...Still waiting on mine.

Sorry!

You are winged now. Darn, I forgot completely about the task. I have an 11 month streak doing them. I must get into it asap! These are just so boring this month...

I thought you said our names will be orange?

Errr... it is orange

If you see it blue, you must do a RC... you might be dreaming. Specially with that flashy avatar of yours.

Originally Posted by PercyLucid

Sorry!

You are winged now. Darn, I forgot completely about the task. I have an 11 month streak doing them. I must get into it asap! These are just so boring this month...

That's awesome! o_o

Thanks for the wings, and don't worry about it!