Task of the Month for March 2013

[OpheliaBlue]

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 - Find an object and break it using any means necessary. Basic Task ii - Tell a dream character that he/she may have 1 wish granted. What is the wish? Advanced wings if you are able to grant said wish. Advanced Task i - Find a treasure map, and follow it to the treasure. Dig it up and report what you find. Advanced Task ii - Write yourself a note in waking life and set it aside somewhere. Find it in an LD. What does it say?

[OpheliaBlue]

Thanks to killing, paigeyemps, and Draco77100 for the lucidspiration ^^

[Scionox]

Failed on previous TOTM, but will still try this one, might be able to actually complete some unless something in dream distracts me from goals again. A few questions though: 1: Does treasure from Advanced I has to be in the ground, what if map leads me to treasure that is in open view for some bizarre reason or in some other object? 2: Note from Advanced II has to be handwritten or i can for example leave note on my PC?

[Sensei]

I love all of these. I shall try for one this month.

[Phased]

Wish I could do this :S

[Zyangur]

Cool ideas . I like the wish and the treasure one...

[Oceandrop]

I love all of these. I shall try for one this month. Me too :3 Love the basic task ii

[Taffy]

Same here, I'm really interested in these, especially the treasure one. Going to think of some creative ways to break thigs for that first basic task.

[Xanous]

Yes! I'm excited about this month.

[Zoth]

Wish I could do this :S Make sure you focus on one, you never know when your first lucid is coming!

[Phased]

Make sure you focus on one, you never know when your first lucid is coming! I will keep that in mind! Thank you!

[rockonguy]

So if you complete any task you will get the orange name etc? (Not that I really mind having an orange name lol)

[OpheliaBlue]

Yep!

[TwoCrystalCups]

Advanced Task ii - Write yourself a note in waking life and set it aside somewhere. Find it in an LD. What does it say? I wanna do this

[Rozollo]

Very close to Basic Task I I become lucidly aware in a basketball court. I see my dad playing and ignore him because I need to destroy something. I decide I will break a basketball goal. I see a basketball in the distance and summon it to me. It flies to my hands which I notice are quite fuzzy. I attempt to spin to ground myself, which starts to move the environment. I stop and look at my hands. I look at the goal imagining me shooting the ball like a cannon to break it and I start to wake.

[Sensei]

YAY! Nap gives me basic task I. Could have done basic task 2 had I phrased it different, and actually thought of it. This is a link to my DJ (click here!) and here is the specific dream: Spoiler for TOTM: I am back at the beach, but this time I am on the beach, I can't find my wife... Think... Aha! it is cold and she went inside. The weather follows my lead as I run up the slope back to the army base. It starts snowing! I don't feel the cold, but I stabilize. I walk up to the glass, now covered in ice. Basic TOTM! I think, break something! I slam my fists into the glass and think about how strong I am in dreams and how fragile the glass should be since it is frozen. So it shatters into a million pieces. WOOT! I stand next to my wife. She is still a little frustrated because of the last dream. Still don't know why she would be mad at me.I have flashes of a dream that might have happened before all these dreams. I am still unsure of it, so I left it out. She is also frustrated that I broke the glass. She said she wanted to go somewhere warmer. I tell her "You can have anything you want and you choose to go anywhere warmer?" A little frustrated she says "yes". I tell her "I can teleport her there." Crap! I think I need to teleport someone else, not just myself... this could be difficult. I shut off all the lights and the whole place goes dark (yes, the sky too) I keep rubbing my hands together and keep stabilizing. Warm place! Agrobah! 600324-agrabah2_super.jpg KABLAMPH! We are here. She thinks that I was being sarcastic about this and looks angry at me (my real wife would have been a lot happier ). I turn the light off. Happy with myself that I had transported two people, but also extremely thirsty, so I didn't want to go there either. I turned the lights off and couldn't think of any place to go. I started losing the dream and just rubbing my hands together wasn't doing it, I needed light and a place to go. I created some fire in my hands and lit the infinite void that we were floating in. She asks if I can just change the settings. I think that I could just put my right hand in front of me and create a menu like in Sword Art Online... Sword Art Online! Aha! We pop up there in all its animated glory. I start walking and notice someone breathing in my ear... hmmm. I wake up. sword-art-online-1-590x331.jpg My wife is blowing in my ear accidentally, we fell asleep pretty close. I look up and watch the TV. It is a game where they seem to be pulling out numbers at random and ROFL pops up. The host decides to do this and starts rolling on the floor laughing. Interesting. Then I wake up. It makes more sense if you read the 2 LDs before it, which are in the link I provided.

[CharlesD]

Since I've been on here, I will have more lucids at the beginning of a month, probably because I have these tasks on my mind before I go to sleep.

[Xanous]

I got basic i and advanced ii done. Spoiler for basic i: after I feel stable I notice the room is brightly lit and vivid. I look up and see our old boxy awkward looking TV. I smile and think this would be something to break. I sit up and punch the screen but its solid and hurts my hand a little. I try again with the same effect. This time I think to aim beyond the screen and really follow through. My hand just phases into it. I give up and look around for something else to break. I see an empty beer bottle on top of the TV. Perfect! Thanks SubC! I step back and throw the bottle hard into the TV screen. The bottle shatters into a million pieces and makes a really nice and clean glass-breaking sound. Satisfied I walk out the front door. another one for fun I find the sign to be annoying so push my shoulder into until it tips over and crashes on its back. I hear an electronic short circuit and the light goes out. Ha! I broke two things. Spoiler for advanced ii: I transition out of bed with a little difficulty but manage. It's always really dark in my room so I hurry out. I pause by my door. We have a couple of bookcases immediately to the left full of books in waking life. This is where I placed the note for TOTM. I look for the spot but don't see it right away. The room is dark but there is somehow a night light behind the bookcases shining through. I notice several books are missing but that doesn't matter now. I look and find the folded sheet computer paper. My wife had written something without me knowing what it was before hand. I wanted to add a little spin to it. I pick up the paper and examine. It looks exactly the same. I open it. To my surprise it was just a bunch of gibberish. I really focused on it and tried to make sense of it but it was just a string of letters and numbers on two lines. I thought to memorize it. I committed the first bit to memory but thought, "Whats the point?" It read something like this: S312F65FT689SDH FT3489FG8923VF8 That's my the password to my account! Wait no. It's not. I'm ok. I just look at the paper incredulously. I say, "What the crap?.... Ah shit." I think to try and force it to make sense but really I was satisfied enough to have done the TOTM. I drop the paper and move on.

[OpheliaBlue]

Oh my god you so freaking rock Xanous!! What did your wife actually put on the note irl? Congrats to Brandon as well! I'm jealous, I want to break something too haha

[Xanous]

Oh my god you so freaking rock Xanous!! What did your wife actually put on the note irl? Congrats to Brandon as well! I'm jealous, I want to break something to haha Thanks Oh I forgot to mention that. I looked after I woke up. It read, "You're a sexy beast!"

[PostScript99]

Lucky me, I got the first one on the night of March 1st, without even reading this post until today! This breaks a two week dry spell for me! Spoiler for Basic Task I: I'm about to be abducted by couple of people from a UFO cult and I'm having some trouble believing that a flying saucer would actually appear. A small flying disk, the size of a small homemade hovercraft suddenly appears, flashing bright purple and green lights. It hits me pretty quickly that this can't be real. I turn my back, and the DCs and the UFO disappear. I decide to appraise the detail around me, and since it was indistinguishable from real life I decided to write it up as a 10. But then I suddenly think, if it's a 10 how do I know that I'm really dreaming? A voice suddenly intrudes upon my mind and says, "You'll know when you wake up, trust me." I'm suddenly teleported inside my own house, in the dining room, when I remember one of my personal dream goals, telekinesis. A few objects on the table appear to be silverware at first, but degenerate into colored plastic blocks upon closer examination. Imagining a force coming from my eyes, I lift one of the objects off the table and smash it against the table, breaking it, and break the others by knocking them over. Excited, I tried it on similar objects around the house, only to dismayed that the telekinetic force simply diverged around most of them. My duration is horrible, I know. I need to work on that.

[CanisLucidus]

I got the "wish" Basic Task of the Month! I failed to properly grant the wish for advanced wings but I gave it a shot. The DC whose wish I was trying to grant was very intriguing, too, so this task led me in a very cool direction. Spoiler for Basic Task II: Through the window behind them, I see a downtown skyline backlit by the sunset. I somehow feel like this is her city. I'm not intimidated by her, but I am impressed by her. I may be the king in this world, but she's somebody important too. A crime boss? The city's mayor? "I can grant you one wish," I say. "You tell me what you want and I'll do it." Without hesitating, she says, "Can you grant me a kiss from any DC that I want?" (Yes, she said "DC"!) "Definitely. I can do that." "Okay," she says. "I want a kiss from Brad Pitt." She says it like a challenge. The straightforwardness of the request amuses me. I nod, extending my hand to the right to try the "handshake" summoning trick that I used to summon Xanous a few dreams back. I imagine that Brad Pitt is standing just a bit off to the side and is now reaching forward to shake my hand. There's just a slight pause and then something slithers into my hand that feels like a cold, wriggling fish. It feels disgusting and I hope that Brad Pitt just has a really weak handshake. I turn to look at what I've got and see that I've somehow latched onto the elbow of a woman that was walking by. I let go of her elbow and she walks away, seemingly oblivious to what just happened. I wonder why her elbow was so gross. The dream: The Wish - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

[Zoth]

Judging by the number of people that already completed it, basic task i is looking famous. I also want to break free :x

[OpheliaBlue]

We got a regular Breakfast Club going on here

[azoller1]

i will definitely try all of these tonight, and maybe i can get my first LD along with it, thanks for the ideas