Thread: Task of the Month for July 2011

I've done basic task months ago (in a lucid dream, of course). Does that count?

Nope.

It becomes valid after the task is launched, you read it and remember to do it in your LD.

Played the guitar. At first it sounded awful and out of tune but I twiddled with like one tuner and the guitar suddenly sounded like the most beautiful thing ever haha. Sounded like brand new strings on a way-too-expensive acoustic. I remember singing but I don't know what. My roommate tells me I was making weird sounds in my sleep hehe. I also remember worrying at one point that the strings would snap and well, because it was dream, they snapped.

The Wild Things one took a bit longer. Took me a couple days to finally get a lucid with a forest in it. I was walking through this kind of open-desaturated looking forest, a lot like the art style in the book. I half-woke up twice before I actually found one. It was hiding behind a tree. Which was kind of funny because of how huge it was. I don't remember the exact scale in the book but the thing was easily more than double my height and I'm like 5'11''. It talked in this hella deep voice. I don't remember exactly what it said but I was led to this cave which led to this MASSIVE underground cavern city. I was taken to his home and there were several more wild things sitting around this medium-sized meeting table. It was explained to me by another wild thing that their current king had become corrupt and they needed another human to sit on the throne. (At this point, I remember thinking about racial class issues this place probably had) I was then led to a friggin armory full of modern weapons. (MY MIND IS WEIRD I KNOW)

I was taken to the throne room which had massive vaulted ceilings. It was still a cavern though, reminded me of the underground cities in the Matrix trilogy. On the throne was the boy from the stories but aged to like the late teens. He sat with his back resting on his right armrest, his legs draped over the other. He had this detail of armored wild things (which looked so cool).

Battle ensued yadda yadda. I won't bore you with gritty details of children's book characters getting maimed and killed. I remember the throne in a similar fashion to the end scene of Chronicles of Riddick. After that I enjoyed a couple kingly perks like free food and such until I woke up pretty soon after. So yeah. My subconscious is truly very odd it seems.

Damn. really really close at the advanced, but suppose I didn't have a full access to waking memory, in my defense I am not raised culturally with the wild things ^^

The theme is "shared", Killing the king of the wild things (without the wild things) - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

It might make an interesting read anyways =P

Weird that your guitar sounded terrible, mine always sounds awesome in dreams. Dreaming ninja9578 > David Gilmour

I'm not going to claim the task completed for this month, but I figured since I coincidentally did it last month, it wouldn't hurt to go ahead and share it with you guys.

I got up from bed and instantly knew I was dreaming. It was dark, and I explored the house a little. I remember feeling very satisfied with the realism of it all. One inconsistency I noticed was the piano sitting in the living room. (I don't own a piano.) Before I even sat down, I thought to myself, "this being a dream, betchya it sounds funny or doesn't work at all." In retrospect, it was a mistake to think that, since expectations have such a large effect on my dreams. Well, go figure, I start pressing down the keys, and they make a very distorted and warbly noise, but still the sound of a piano at its core. I find this very amusing, so I keep at it. However, soon enough the keys begin to make less and less sound. Eventually they stop making sounds at all.

OK. 11th ToTM done in a row... the longest it took me ever, kept forgetting!

14.07.2011

Stealing a flute and turning King Arthur into smithereens. (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Well, it has been over a month I did not write down dreams. I have been horribly busy and did not focus as much (this proves my delay in getting these ToTM done.)

This will change soon in the upcoming weeks, but let's go for the dream!

I was in a big room with a lot of people. I was giving a energy healing to a lady. I did not recognize the place where I was in, as it was a different place where I use to give my energy healings, so I realized I was dreaming. I checked my hands to make sure, the hands looked OK but I still knew I was dreaming. I finished the energy healing, just in case it was an astral being in need of a healing rather that just a Dream Character. When I was done, I took flight and flew through the window.

It was sunny and I was not in San Diego, but in a different country. I was going to project, but I recalled that I still did not get my ToTM done, so I went for it.

I started to look for a musical instrument. As I was walking, I saw sticks on the floor. I focused I could play them as if they were flutes, but I felt that it could be a poorly done ToTM, as I needed to find an actual instrument.

I saw a building that was my hight school. I decided to find the music room, I was sure I could find some instruments there. I was flying towards my school and felt that I could wake up, I did not feel anchored to the dream at all. The school was crowded, so I wanted to do it fast.

I entered the school and found a lot of random people. I was going to the second floor, hoping I would both remember where the class was (it has been 10 years since I was no there) As I was going to the second floor, I saw a kid with a flute. Perfect!!! I took the flute from his hands. While he started to complain, I played it. It sounded exactly like a poorly played flute. I gave the flute back to the DC and left school.

I knew it was time to go to Where the Wild Things Are. I was not exited at all about this task, but I needed to get it done to not break my eleven month streak.

I entered a building and saw some dream characters. I had no idea how to get to this place, so I asked for assistance. A dream character told me that if I entered "over there" I could get to it. He was pointing at a small wine refrigerator. I shrunk my self and started to walk inside the refrigerator, but I could not go further the wall. I complain it was not working. I was advised to push the wall so it could move.

I started to walk by the wall and I started to push it. After a few moments, it started to move until I saw a hole. I went to a room that was all brown. It was like a big maze. I figured if I flew through the maze, I would get to Where the Wild Thing are. I saw a portal at the end of the maze and felt a little bothered, as I could have opened one from the very beginning. I walk through it and I appeared in a place where there was a big black ape with a ring on its nose. I did not read this book so I had no idea what to do, their names or whatever.

I asked the Ape to be escorted to my palace. The Ape told me, "Your palace?" I agreed. The Ape was confused and I told him, "I am supposed to become your king." The Ape told me that I had to kill the actual king. I told him that was not an issue.

We arrived to the palace and I saw... King Arthur from the Merlin movie (WTF) He was in his kid's form, and he had his crown next to him, because his head was too small.







Merlin was not around, which I was happy, as fighting a Magician would be more of an issue. I opened my hand and created a blast. A purple ball with small lighting appeared and launched towards Arthur's. He disintegrated, including the Crown and the Throne. I told the Ape, "So, am I king, right?" He said yes, I was. A few weird monsters appeared from no where and said, "Hail the king!" I figured I succeeded the ToTM and I decided to get out of there.

I started to fly away from this place when suddenly, I woke up.

Challenge accepted!
Yesterday I headed downtown to the community park and played in some drum circle. Had a total blast, so I wouldn't mind playing the Djembe in my dreams. Hell I might be good at it, be able to make weird sounds and rhythms with my funny looking hands.

I played an instrument, albeit non-lucid.

I play bass obsessively. Roughly 20-25 hours a week for the past two and a half years.

Anyhow, I had my new Spector Euro5LXEX bass in my hands and was playing Warped Tour with my band. (This might actually happen in 2012. )
It was classic spector tone. The low B string was tight and had that wet grind. Everything had the bite, cut, and growl of soapbar pickups.

I was, regrettably, using a pick.. but it growled like hell because of it.

Ah damn it! I came so close to playing an instrument the other day. I reached into my pocket to pull out an ocarina and the entire dream collapsed on me I'll get it tonight, I wanna be winged!

Aww, so close. Next time you'll get it

I did it! Last night I achieved almost all of my goals! Including playing an instrument. Posting from my phone so I can't upload a full entry

I was in a rich man's house, I can't remember how I got here or why, but I was lucid and I knew my goal - the diamond ocarina. I saw a desk in the corner, large and wooden, covered in papers and objects. I rummaged through, with the intent to find my ocarina lying in the pile. I was unsuccessful.

I reached into my pocket, and grabbed something in my pocket and pulled it out. To my surprise, it wasn't an ocarina but instead a golden crystal pig, just smaller than my fist. Screw it, i figured i'd play it anyway.

I held it up to my mouth and blew into it through the snout, and expected sound. I was dissapointed, I expected it to sound like a flute, full and rich, but I had trouble getting the pig to make any noise. It sounded like a very thin whistle, and I tapped my fingers on it in the style of a recorder. I managed to make it play the Song of Time from Zelda, just like I wanted!

Originally Posted by ninja9578

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')

Ah okay, thanks.

I would really like to do the basic task. I've never played my guitar in a dream but I bet it would be fun.

Next time I become lucid I'll attempt this ToTm.

Whew, my first lucid in a couple of weeks (about time!) and I just BARELY managed to remember the lucid task and squeeze it in before I woke up. Hopefully it still counts

It's a bit of a long one, so here's a link to the DJ entry (which will hopefully work?):

Waterbending and Task of the Month (just barely) - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

I've done a mixture of the two before but I was not lucid... I ruled a kingdom with my guitar playing and enjoyed that dream a lot! The sound was incredible... I wasn't playing many different notes just kinda messing around with it and it sounded like all the greatest guitar riffs and solo's I love mixed together. I have a guitar and play it a lot but this dream was odd. I don't know if this counts but I've done it before. Try the link below to read it, it is a long dream:
Awesome guitar and King of a kingdom. Ruled with Rock. - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Will it count if it was in March? Either way, it was a cool dream.

Spoiler for Longcat is loong:

24.07.2011

Meshuggah/Living Quarters (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

Lucid task of the month!

I just have a bunch of words scribbled on the paper, and I'm not sure what order all of it came in, so bear with me.

"fish, increase, portal, piano, this is art, something I can't read written here..., sho(?), clock, hotel, keys, Berta (two & a half men), 3am, dog, never, spin, ghetto bitches, scared shitless, massive clock, time"

Bolded so nobody mistakes that word during my swearing spree.


It was a false awakening. There was a glow-in-the-dark thread shaking at one end of my room, while whatever was shaking it was blocked by a pillar just at corner of my bed by my right foot. There was an extremely ugly old lady sitting next to me, and it was very dark. I felt calm, and just closed my eyes and went back to sleep. Now that I think of it, it was my room from Fayetteville, not here in Albuquerque.

There's some dream here, not sure what. I'm in my music room here in my apartment, except there are pianos on both sides and there's a line of drum cymbals above each piano. "Dad... we only have one piano." Boom. Lucid.

I sit down and both these pianos disappear, replaced by one in front of me, whereas my my chair is moved back in order to allow space for the piano between it and my computer desk. I being to play it in the upper octaves in the key of C.







All the notes are in C, but in no way is it playing what I push. There is an excessive amount of hammer noise as if I were playing an acoustic piano, but thank god there was no chorus effect to it. Some of the keys to the left of my hands were pushing themselves.

Another false awakening. I look and see the same thread, same pillar, and same old hag. Wait wait wait, I'm still dreamining.

The thread ends up being attached to one of my Nike SB shoes, which is multi-colored with a white/charcoal base, a turqoise check and turqoise laces. The shoe is hopping around as if it has a life of its own. At this point, I am instantly scared shitless as it hops toward my bed. "Wait a minute.." I thought. "This is a dream. He can't hurt me." And I was no longer scared. The old hag never moved, and I never interacted with her.






Yeah, she was that ugly.

Somewhere in here it is no longer nighttime and I'm out of bed. Don't remember this bit.

I'm in my living room. Well, not mine, but a very nice glass-walled bit on the edge of an ocean cliff. Think of the DirecTV commerical.







Shelves are mounted to the wall at some points. I can't describe this apartment as it would take me days to communicate it. But on these shelves was a giant alarm clock (the one I just bought yesterday at Best Buy.) The text isn't changing.

My dad is out on the balcony hanging over the cliff drinking a beer. I'm still lucid at this point and want to try another goal of mine: "open a portal."

I try to use telepathic powers but this does not work. I then think of the wall as only a dream and non-solid and try to jump through it. I think I would have had much better success if I turned around so I wasn't looking at the wall before I jumped.

I then tried thinking of the molecules, and the gaps in between them. I CHARGED at full speed. Thunk. No such luck.

I leave the apartment and walk out. Turns out there is no door, but the giant party room rolls into the lobby of the most extravagent hotel I've ever seen. I was on the 45th floor. The whole thing was open in the center with the walkways around the edges, a circular building.

I soon learned that my new house was inside an apartment and was still under construction, thus no door. It also appeared to me that the ocean was only where the balcony was, and all the other ocean views through glass were illusions.

There's a skip of no recall. Some chubby girl with black hair, your typical fat prep, was reaching in the fridge. Charlie sheen said "assist you in a sec."
"What?"
"Berta!"
Berta: "Pfft. Right. "
Prep: "Oh bitch what da fuck?"
-ensue ghetto argument-


I'm in a dark room with red lighting and red carpet. A couple Ibanez RG2228 guitars are laid out on racks around me.







I was with Michel from Meshuggah. Yup. He was giving me a death glare with his hands out away from him walking towards me, as if possessed.







Wait, something tells me this dream isn't over.


Another awakening, this time for real. I roll over and... WTF. It's only 3:03 AM. I went to sleep at 1:10, and I remember looking at my clock at 1:40 and spending forever trying to enter SP. I must be seriously deprived. Yet I slept 9 hours yesterday and napped for two. I've been getting 8 hours a night. hmm..

Nope, not a dream.


I never went through any doors in this dream. I've been trying to RC every time I pass a door as they appear in virtually every dream. Somehow this is my only lucid in almost a year and yet it has no dreamsigns.

I think the lucid portion was ten to fifteen minutes long.

Hello, I joined last night, and found out about the task of the month. I was wondering if the dream has to be lucid inorder to complete the task? I tried the basic one and I managed to play an instrument last night, but my dream was not lucid. But I got it!! I'm quite excited haha, I even drew a picture of what I played. I won't bother typing it out if it must be lucid though. Thanks!

Yes, it has to be lucid.

Shucks! Well thanks for the reply.

Still, type it out, it is good to record your dreams and you successes and failures are to be posted here

Still waiting on ninja to accept me to the group. Shame that my TOTM is completed at the end of the month.

Originally Posted by jarrhead

Still waiting on ninja to accept me to the group. Shame that my TOTM is completed at the end of the month.

Winged

Originally Posted by PercyLucid

Winged