Thread: Task of the Month for October 2012

Introduction:
This topic is for the Lucid Tasks that are assigned by the Dream Guide Team 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.

When you complete a task: go to your control panel, then to permission groups, and request to be in the group that applies to the task that you've done. Of course you still need to post the dream here because we check.

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 i - Let a vampire, werewolf, or zombie bite you, then describe the subsequent transition.

Basic Task ii - Imagine all the members of DV live in the same neighborhood. Then go trick-o-treating there and describe who you meet.

Advanced Task i - Carve up a pumpkin and replace your head with it. Use any means necessary.

Advanced Task ii - Go to a graveyard or morgue, gather up enough body parts to create your own Frankenstein's Monster, then animate it using any means necessary.

HAVE FUN AND HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Really interesting tasks here! funny.. I've been bitten many times by vampires, in my dreams

Four tasks this month? This will be lots of fun.

I actually did the first basic task this morning unintentionally. My leg got bit by a zombie and I immediately started to feel sick and my skin was turning gray. I'll try to write down that dream soon.

Originally Posted by Oreoboy1996

Four tasks this month? This will be lots of fun.

Yeah I had been pondering for a while about adding a couple more tasks. RareCola and I talked about it in the minisode I think it was? Anyway, the point is to broaden the variety of tasks to reach more members. And since what is advanced for me, might be easy peasy for another member and vice versa, I want to try to make the tasks include several different elements. For example, one might be a task that requires controlling objects/environment, another may involve relationships with DCs, another might be facing/overcoming fear or pain, and another might be so involved that you need to be able to control the length of the lucid dream to complete it. I thought Halloween month would be the perfect month to debut this idea, so we'll see how it rolls before I commit to it. My prediction is that while still being challenging (especially if you push yourself to do all four!), there will be more overall successfully completed tasks, since each one focuses on a different lucid element.

BrandonBoss: You don't have to. Achieving either of the basic tasks will get you basic wings, same for advanced.

Anyway, good luck everybody! I want to start with the trick-o-treat one. Hopefully I don't run into anyone who was ever banned O_O

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Yeah I had been pondering for a while about adding a couple more tasks. Anyway, the point is to broaden the variety of tasks to reach more members.

That sounds fantastic! Thank you!

Double juice this month, I like it

If we find DV people in the neighborhood while having a pumpkin head, can we report them in the forum if they try to bite us ?

Do we have to finish all four tasks?

I should be able to get bitten, that seems easy.

Okay, fall/Halloween time is seriously the best!!

Going to be doing ALL these tasks and I promise I will actually post my dreams. I think tonight I will replace my head with a pumpkin and then walk around trick or treating in the Dreamviews neighborhood. HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Love it!

Here's the zombie dream I had last night: Basic TOTM i (October 1, 2012) - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Very violent.

Since I wasn't planning to be bit by zombie, I think I'll try to do this task again this month. I'm thinking about doing it with a werewolf.

Originally Posted by Oreoboy1996

I'm thinking about doing it with a werewolf.

Oh yes, you definitely should.

I guess I'm going zombie. It's actually becoming a dreamsign.



I freaking love this show/comic!

Doing this. Werewolf style. B)

lucidspiration:

sounds like some very interseting tasks,going to try them out.
This is my first participation in this,i really hope i get my very first DV wings

Most motivating tasks up to date I love how tasks #1 are suited more for thrill seekers/people with high fear tolerance and tasks #2 require more dream control but are less scary

AWWYEA these are so cool!

Its a shame I was so lazy last night and hardly recorded any dreams. I actually attempted pulling my head off but failed

Something triggered lucidity. I remember trying to stabilize a lot in a neighborhood. Something about houses. I was on the ground feeling the grass and rubbing my hands on the grass. I really wanted to feel the texture and hear the sound. I remember trying so hard to focus and gain clarity. *memory gap* Now I remember I had my hands under my jawline. I was outside and it was sunny. I remembered that someone on here looked at their shadow. So I turned until I saw my shadow on a concrete wall. (seeing my shadow in a dream is a first) It looked normal and I had my hands were I expected. I started pulling but my head would not give. It felt as solid as real life. I guess I didn't put enough prep work into it. Then I destabilized really fast and before I could do anything about it I woke up. I think I tried to DEILD but failed. That must be why I forgot to record it.

Originally Posted by Xanous

Its a shame I was so lazy last night and hardly recorded any dreams. I actually attempted pulling my head off but failed

I think that's the most exciting and challenging part. Just having the guts to remove it is hard enough, not to mention actually doing it!

Woop, think of this as a trial run! Good luck Xan

Originally Posted by paigeyemps

I think that's the most exciting and challenging part. Just having the guts to remove it is hard enough, not to mention actually doing it!

Woop, think of this as a trial run! Good luck Xan

Yeah I think next time I will have to use more conventional methods. Plus I think I forgot all about the pumpkin anyway!

Attempted the basic task this morning, but wasn't successful:

Quote from my workbook, since I didn't type out my dream in my DJ

Also, there was this vampire dude who was showing off his skills, putting us in danger (apparently I was one too). I remembered the TOTM and asked him to bite me, but he said I was already a vampire so it wouldn't work. Lost lucidity shortly thereafter.

I failed on the trick-o-treat one. But I did end up throwing a really annoying pig a hundred yards. Will post it in a min.

I woke up around 5am and as I drifted off, there was some brief audio HH of wasps surrounding me. SOme stung me, but then that feeling phased into WILD vibrations. I slowly sat up in my bed, and I saw my cat Ziggy jump off. No pets are ever in here, so that was confirmation that I was dreaming. I walked out the bedroom and the hallway opened up into my parents old house. It was bright outside and I could see great! I immediately thought of the trick-o-treat TOTM, but I wanted it to be more night time. So I went to the front door of the house, put my hand on the knob, and said to mysef "As soon as I open the door, it will be night time and I'll have a halloween costume on." I opened the door and it was daker, like 7pmish. I thought, good enough. I didn't feel a mask on or anything, but I had black robes. I was probably just some random HP character, whatever, on with the task! I didn't have a candy bag either but oh well. As soon as I walked out the house, I looked at the house next door, it was dark and creepy looking. I said to myself "This is Alex's house." I started walking there and this pig came up to me and started jumping at me and bite-licking me, like a playful dog that was getting too rough. It wouldn't fuck off and finally I had to pick it up and sling it across 2 acres of land. He landed with a "squeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!" and hobbled away, as if one leg was hurt. I felt sorry for it for a bit, then I reminded myself he doesn't exist. I went to the house and lots of kids were coming and going. I knocked on the door expecting Alex, but 4 ltitle boys dressed to the 9s as vampires answered. I said "trick-o-treat!" and they just gnarled and hissed at me. I asked if any adults were home, hoping one would be Alex or ANY DV member. They just continuedto growl at me. Then one looked at the other and bitched at him for using up all the vampire make-up, then I woke up.

Failed getting bit by Zombie

...This immediately dawns on me that I am dreaming. It's strange but I felt almost annoyed and cheated. I felt like I botched up the surprise attack on the Indians and now its just some dream. I didn't feel any of the euphoria that I thought I would after a dry spell. I just turn around. I never picked up my bow but I suddenly have an arrow notched and drawn back. I can vividly feel the string and the arrow in my right hand. Now my vision is blurry and I can see the Indian and the brown leaves on the ground but I can't make out any details. I pause. "What was the TOTM?" I have to think really hard. "Was it shrink myself?" No that was last month. Its a new month now. OH Zombies that's right. Where do I find a zombie. I know I will shoot an Indian and when he gets up he will be a zombie and he can bite my arm. I start looking around but the Indians are gone and my vision is so blurry. I try to focus but I just can't. I feel like I am waking so I decide that I better stabilize. I start rubbing my hands together. I feel myself in my bed and my hands feel extremely real. I can even hear my hands rubbing together. I try to open my eyes but It looks all messed up like when you are in SP. I don't feel any vibrations though. I am confused. I feel and heard my hands but not so much my arms. Then I hear my wife say,"Hit em in the mouth." What was that. That can't be real. OR I woke her up some and she is talking in her sleep. Then the Goddamned alarm went off and effed it all up

Haha OpheliaBlue you mentioned the vision thing and now it happened to me!

Originally Posted by Xanous

Haha OpheliaBlue you mentioned the vision thing and now it happened to me!

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh I'm sorryyyyy I'm working on company flashlights for everyone, and each of you has to sleep with it under your pillow, and bring it along with you in every lucid dream.

But seriously, CanisLucidus and I were talking about it recently somewhere I forget, but when something gets effed up in a lucid, like vision or something is stuck to you or in your mouth etc, it's time to change focus. I don't just mean stabilize with the hand rubbing, unless that works of course. But maybe chill, examine the environment, find something else to do besides the task or whatever goal at the time. This is in the experimental phase for me, but I'm determined to find a cure for this nonsense (especially now that I see it's contagious ).

Damn, full moon in real life today, I was ready to be bitten by a werewolf...

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh I'm sorryyyyy I'm working on company flashlights for everyone, and each of you has to sleep with it under your pillow, and bring it along with you in every lucid dream.

Good idea, I was thinking a similar thing this morning (I thought I should pretend I had a blindfold on every false awakening). My lucid today consisted of rubbing my hands, telling myself i'm dreaming, banging my head into walls and doors, without a single hint of vision.