Thread: Task of the Month for September 2011

These sound really fun! I don't think I got my wings last month even though I did the basic task but thats okay cuz atleast I did it. This month I will try to do both of these and I think I will try all 4 elements.

Originally Posted by MadMonkey

I don't think I got my wings last month even though I did the basic task but thats okay cuz atleast I did it. This month I will try to do both of these and I think I will try all 4 elements.

Sorry about that, we had a changeover of TotM management, so granting wings might have sort of fell through the cracks last month. But the DGs have it back on track now.

Great tasks, good luck everyone!

This is great, I wanted to do the basic task anyway. Killing two birds with one stone I guess. Should be fun.

The advanced task is something I've been meaning to try for a while. Definitely gonna give those a shot. c:

Alright, I'm in. However it is currently 1:43am here so I think I may have screwed myself over here for tonights effort by staying up too late.

Still, I'm going to try both tasks.

I mean really,

How hard can it be?

Sounds fun! Element control is something i have always liked

Welcome, Dream Guide Team!
These tasks are awesome!! I'm glad they're focused on testing your abilities/powers again; the last few seemed to be lacking that element. Haha, awful pun not intended...
I'm really looking forward to completing these, thanks!

Hmm, interesting. Both of these tasks will be a breeze for me--that is, if I am able to have another lucid dream soon. Blasted dry spell...

When I finally get that blasted high-level lucid, I'll try out the advanced task. Question though; can you physically manipulate the elements (ie. blasting a piece of the ground towards someone or setting your own hand on fire using a lighter, to then set off an explosion by touching gasoline)? Or is it just mental manipulation?

Woo! I'm gunna nail the basic task for sure, and I've already had experience with fire, water and ice! This month I'm going to finish both

Hmm.. I think I will try the advanced lucid task, I've been meaning to have a dream fight for a while now, so I guess I'll use fire and wind for it
If I get lucid that is :L

I actually remembered a dream since starting this site. That is so crazy for me. I usually remember about one or two a year. I've only had one Lucid dream and I wasn't really in control. It involved me fighting the bride from Kill bill with giant plastic spoons and stopping animals from raining from the sky. I was really only semi-lucid. So I don't count it. Anyway I'm going to try.

Good luck to all!

First attempt at task of the month. I'll give the basic task a try. I have a month to do it, right?

Well, nothing last night. Well I say nothing, but I did look at my hands and my left had 3 fingers, but since at the time I was "playing a video game demo", I thought that the game changed the room I was in, and that the hand oddity was just part of the game...

Then I grilled some bacon and my dad knocked on my door and said he was going to help me buff up.

So yeah, good and bad. I finally did a reality check after quite a while since my first lucid, but I didn't think of it as I should have. But still, that's progress.

I see PercyLucid WITHOUT wings! It's the apocalypse! Just kidding, I know he's got this down.

Anyway...these are cool tasks. I will have to look forward to trying them. I've already done waterbending in a lucid before...or was it lucid...? Oh who cares? Not like it applies to this. Besides I have to bend two elements. This should be fun. I'll also walk on water. But now I must figure out how to fit this in with the Task of the Year...

had my first attempt at this last night ^^
i cant remember what happened before in the dream, but i did a nose plug and i was in my parents flat.
i walked a few steps when i realized i had not stabilized at all.. so i stopped and found a ton of little items.. small bottles with showering gel and some other stuff, i grabbed a few and inspected them for a few seconds.. my clarity increased pretty dramatically.
The bottle of shower gel reminded me of the task of the month.. so i went into the bathroom, as it was the only place i could think of where i could find water quickly.
When I entered the bathroom there was an oddly shaped bathtub with a little water in it.. maybe 15cm high.
I felt fairly comfortable that I could at least increase the amount of water with my mind, so I put my hands near the water, put some willpower into it and and let the water rise.

When the bathtub was more or less full I tried to walk on the surface of the water, but didnt really manage. I floated for a short moment, but I didnt have supreme confidence that I could walk on the water, so I just slowly fell into the tub. The water was warm but not really wet, which was weird.
Anyway I think I was pretty much lying there.. then I thought about the fact that I was in a similar position in bed and i started to loose the dream.

Not really sucessful, but the first lucid in a while!
I'll keep at it

Originally Posted by Puffin

When I finally get that blasted high-level lucid, I'll try out the advanced task. Question though; can you physically manipulate the elements (ie. blasting a piece of the ground towards someone or setting your own hand on fire using a lighter, to then set off an explosion by touching gasoline)? Or is it just mental manipulation?

Good luck! Either should be fine.

Okay, awesome.

I recalled a dream last night, and was on the brink of becoming lucid enough to remember the task... I was aware enough to summon a really nice black convertible (dubbed the "Cobra") and jump off a balcony, but... Ugh. >.<

OK everyone. I've completed the advanced task. Green is lucid, black is nonlucid.

The dream started in my house. I was sitting on the couch when I noticed that on top of this orange thing on my table was a very strange looking crab. I walked over to examine it when it began scuttling away, which startled the hell out of me. Then this crab started spawning more and more crabs of all different colors. The began to occupy most of the space in my house, which was most disconcerting. The crabs began to form groups in which they launched metal hunting bbs at me which in the dream felt extremely painful. I began running down my basement stairs when I realized that they were in the basement as well. Before fear took over, I thought, "This cannot be possible, I am dreaming."

I calmly walked back to the main group of crabs and used the famous dragon ball kamehahmeha (sp?) on them. Then I opened my back sliding door and walked outside. I then remembered the advanced task of the month. I stomped on the ground to bend the earth and I ended up creating trees which shot majestically out of the ground. I super jumped on to the tallest of the trees I had created and on top I set my arms on fire and began launching fire into the sky. However, this fire actually felt like it was burning my arms, so i bent water around them to cool them off. I then decided to try another thing which I remembered which was letting another place form around me. I wanted to go to new york, and it was as easy as that.

This dream takes up about six more pages of a journal and normally I would write the rest but I have shittons of work to do today . If you guys want I can post more later...

Nice job, that sounds pretty cool. I think the way I'm going to do it is teleport to somewhere outside and then just do each in turn, by imagining a source and then manipulating it. I'm going to try all 4, and then with the water I will make a pond or something and walk on it. That's the plan anyway.

Advanced task completed.

It was a few minutes past 2am and I felt tired so I turned off the lights and fell asleep.
Moments later I was wide awake and in my living room and it was sunny outside - this obviously came across as a strange phenomenon because from my perspective, it felt like I had just fallen asleep only a few seconds ago. I was a bit confused so I walked around the room a little bit whilst fidgeting with something in my hands. As my thumb brushed my index finger, a bright crimson spark formed. I was speechless... (well.. I wasn't speaking in the first place). I concentrated and tried to reproduce that same effect again but to no avail. I clapped my hands together and a bright spark formed again. After a few minutes of trying and failed so I starting clenching my fists in frustration. Then I felt a searing pain between my fingers. I was suprised to see that my right palm was charred. I was suddenly hit by a thought - "Have I somehow learned how to generate fire at will? ... Nah don't be ridiculous, if I could then how come I can't do it now?" After a while I thought about the fire triangle (a model for understanding the basic ingredients of fire - which is fuel, heat and oxygen). I realised that everytime I generated a spark, it was caused by friction (the act of rubbing my fingers together) or when I absorb kinetic energy. After realising this, I snapped my fingers as well as I could and thought "IGNITE" at the same time and a huge pillar of flame erupted outwards, seemlingly from nowhere, and tore a gigantic whole through the walls of my living room. Normally, seeing my house reduced to this sort of state would cause me to go mental but for some reason I couldn't stop smiling. I felt pretty happy with myself.

Now this part I found very peculiar because it felt as if I was in the dream for weeks on end when I woke up. Now back to the story:

After what felt like weeks of "training," a notion just randomly popped into my head - By rubbing my fingers together, I was actually manipulating the concentration of oxygen in the air surrounding, raising its density to a level at which it becomes combustible and creating narrow pathways of oxygen through which I can direct the ensuing flame birthed by the spark. So I was in fact controlling both fire and air, as these elements are so intertwined.

I can't really remember what happened after I had this idea in chronological order. For some reason I was at Mt. Rushmore (where the faces of several US Presidents are sculpted onto the cliff-face) at sunset out of the blues a ninja with glowing eyes started attacking me.

He moved towards me in order to strike me with his sword. I barely managed to get out of the way. As I snapped my fingers he waved his sword briefly and stopped me from creating a fire. So all I could do was try to dodge his attacks. I felt the gust of wind caused by the insanely fast motion of the sword everytime it approached me. The quick slashing of his sword must be changing the air current, disrupting the ignition reaction. I felt scared... I couldn't manipulate the air's composition when its constantly in flux. Even if I managed to pull off a flame, it wouldn't have any accuracy. He moved in once again, this time for the killing blow. I crouched and placed my hands firmly on the ground beneath me and started melting it. Almost instantaneously, the ground ahead of me became a an unstable molten mass and he sank right into it.

The next thing I knew, I was in my bed and it was morning.

^^^ dig the scientific dream reasoning.

im in for a go this month. i have water walked and air bent in non-luicds before, so i think i can get these without too much trouble.

I'm thinking the advanced will be easier for me than the basic. I've never had any problem controlling elements, but I foresee a few problems convincing myself that I can walk on water. Manipulating fire will be easy (throw a fireball! ), manipulating wind will be easy (make a tornado/whirlwind! ) and then I'm done. I'll give water and earth a try as well just to see what I can do. I'll see about molding earth into a small stone golem or similar such creature, and create a high powered jetstream of water to cut through something.