Task of the Month for April 2013

[OpheliaBlue]

Introduction: This topic is for the Lucid Tasks that are assigned by the Lucid Task Club and the On-Topic Administrator. Please attempt any or all 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 (either a basic or an advanced or both). Of course you still need to post the dream here because we check. Whoever completes any 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 a lucid task each month. Tasks for this month: Basic Task i - Pull a prank on a Dream Character. Basic Task ii - Taste the first object you find in the dream and describe its flavor. Advanced Task i - Find a lump of coal, and crush it into a diamond with your hands. Advanced Task ii - Draw what happens next in the dream...in the dream.

[she]

I've got two questions: 1 What is "pull a prank"? is it play a joke? 2 Taste the first edible object, or lick for example stone or tree?

[OpheliaBlue]

I've got two questions: 1 What is "pull a prank"? is it play a joke? 2 Taste the first edible object, or lick for example stone or tree? 1. Yes, it can be simple as tripping them so they fall, or handing them a lit stick of dynamite and telling them it's just a candle. 2. Yes, a rock or tree or person or wall or toilet seat. Have fun with these, man I'm excited!

[Scionox]

I guess i'll go for Basic II first, i have never tasted something in an lucid dream yet so it's a good opportunity to try, question though, does it really needs to be very first object i see in the lucid dream?

[OpheliaBlue]

I guess i'll go for Basic II first, i have never tasted something in an lucid dream yet so it's a good opportunity to try, question though, does it really needs to be very first object i see in the lucid dream? Haha nah, I just said that to help make it a basic task. Some beginners might only have enough time and/or summoning skills to literally grab and lick the first thing they see. But if you want to take a little longer in your lucid to find something a bit more.. appetizing, then by all means You guys ask such great questions haha

[PostScript99]

Autocannibalism is not the answer

[VagalTone]

Autocannibalism is not the answer well, i usually have extra fingers, so its not a big deal

[MRH92]

I've never taken part in Task of the Month before and I think it's about time I did. Definitely going for a basic and an advanced task. I look forward to sleeping tonight.

[anderj101]

Good ones! If I can manage a lucid, I'm totally eating a finger.

[poptartian121]

Ah I got Advanced 2 a couple of days ago, assuming narrating it in your head counts. Maybe I can try it again. The tasting one also seems very... interesting... to say the least.

[woblybil]

Yummy I can hardly wait....

[MRH92]

Basic Task i and ii complete! Didn't think I'd get them done so fast. I was having a nightmare that I lived on a beach and there was a tsunami. My house kept getting hit by waves and me and my sister were hiding inside. I was clinging onto my dog and wouldn't let him go but I think my cat ran outside and possibly died . After a while it suddenly hit me. I don't live on the beach, we don't get tsunami's in this country, this is ridiculous. I left the house, much to my sisters horror, and suddenly it all stopped. I saw an old man trying to pick up some of his furniture that had floated out of his home. I went over and asked if he wanted help. He kept thanking me for being kind but I couldn't see any other DC's about so I had to prank him. I resorted to childish playground tricks. The one where you say "hey there's something on your shirt" and you point. He looked down and I moved my hand up swiftly and smacked him in the nose. Actually I smacked him quite hard in my anticipation and he fell backwards and just sat holding his nose on the floor. Next I tried to find something to lick. There was a big crane type thing next to us which was bright yellow. I licked it hoping perhaps that with it being bright yellow it might taste of something like banana. No...it just tasted like a metal crane. It was cold and wet from all the water and had bits of grit stuck to it. It left a horrible taste in my mouth. I decided I needed to find something to take the taste away and as if I hadn't abused the old man enough I broke into his home and raided his fridge where I found a caramel milkshake. That tasted of, well, caramel lol. Hopefully tonight I'll go for the advanced tasks.

[OpheliaBlue]

Haha, awesome job man! I found your dream very entertaining. Poor old man I'm like you and sometimes I feel a little sorry for a DC, but I remind myself that he's not real and I'll wake up eventually and no harm done. Can't let them DCs ruin our fun! Anyway, congrats again

[yuppie11975]

I completed a single task, but I'm not sure if this is valid. I don't recall whether both of the tasks need to be done, as it's been a while since I've done these. Here is the DJ entry: Grim Reaper Lucid - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views Or here is the relevant excerpt: "I walked up to a man and a woman. Evidently shopping for their daily groceries. I lick the many's shirt, and it tastes a peculiar bitterness, with a really strong sour flavour. (It wasn't as disgusting as it sounds, considering I knew it was just a dream) I went up the lady, and asked if I could smell her neck, she obliged, and I soon discovered that she was wearing a really sweet perfume." Obviously I was misguided, on the second thing. (If you read the entry, it explains why.) Anyway, yeah. I'll refrain from attempting to join the group, until you tell me what's up. I won't hold it against you or anything, I'll only take a few of your possessions when I rob you. Thanks!

[OpheliaBlue]

Yeah you totally nailed the "taste an object" task. Congratulations!! I don't know why you went on to smell another DC, but ok.. an extra pat on the back for engaging more of your senses I read your entry, still loving the pistol part

[NyxCC]

Interesting tasks! I think I will go for the tasting or licking part too Drawing what happens next in the dream - does it also have to come true?

[Bubble]

My shot at Basic Task II (the whole dream journal entry is here): I am in a basement bedroom of some sort. It's very clean, with white walls. I'm standing on the bed. There is a small window high above me that is letting sunlight in. The window frame is made of dark wood. I bounce up and down on the bed, peering out of the window. It is a brilliant fall day outside and the trees are vivid red and orange. There are leaves all over the ground; some dried and brown, others still brightly colored. I haul myself through the window frame, ignoring the glass and making it insubstantial. Even though it ought to be to small for me to fit through, I still manage to wriggle through it. The sunlight is super bright and temporarily blinds me with a lense-flare effect as I haul myself out of the window well. "LEEEEAAAAAAVES!" I crow triumphantly and plow into a pile of red and orange leaves. I roll around in them, kicking my legs and sending a whirlwind of leaves all over the place. I flop my arms around in them and rub my face in them. I remember my lucid goal and begin enthusiastically shoving leaves into my mouth. They are very thin and papery and taste like stale crackers, with a hint of glue. I sit up and spit out a mouthful of leaves. I wake up. My lucid self cracks me up sometimes. I'm in complete control of my faculties, but I'm so enthusiastic about absolutely everything.

[woblybil]

In most lucid dreams I do these things inadvertently, But remembering I am there on a quest and what it may be is a bit more evasive.

[Mr0Blonde]

Basic task 2.* I'm running through a Shopping Centre and become Lucid.* I look at some Shelves in front of me full of nice looking things to eat and I'm thinking what to have.* I then remember something I read on this Forum or maybe somewhere else on the Net about someone eating Glass as a Dream Stabiliser so think I'll try that.* I can't see any Glass but see a Light Brown China Pot so grab it and take a bite using the side of my Teeth.* A big chunk snaps off and I start to crunch it, it feels very much like you would expect but at first I can't really taste anything.* After about 10 seconds or so though I start to get a strong taste of Metal, like when a Folk or something touches you teeth and it's pretty rank.*

[PennyRoyal]

I got so close to the basic task last night! A DC was being a jerk in my lucid, so I wanted to lick him and freak him out. I woke up before I could get a taste though

[OpheliaBlue]

I got so close to the basic task last night! A DC was being a jerk in my lucid, so I wanted to lick him and freak him out. I woke up before I could get a taste though Gotta learn to lick faster Warren!!

[PennyRoyal]

Gotta learn to lick faster Warren!! Hahahah, duly noted.

[she]

I tried the desk capboard. It was like real, without taste, a bit rough like ordinary wood. My family and i lied on the bed. Something clicked under the bed. I said DCs that its a toy frog turned on, but i guessed that its a LD. I stood up and remembered about TOTM and licked the desk capboard. Nothing interesting.

[woblybil]

That didn't work very well I went to sleep with a well rehearsed plan in mind and did as I should like a good boy, I Started to dream different stuff than I had planned and changed it but everything came out like a charcoal sketched cartoon, I and a little straw girl caught a straw fish and I tried to place it on the sand to make an impression and then finish drawing it with a stick but my straw hands went right thru the stick, Nothing performed as advertised, Maybe something I ate Only 2:00am, I will try again :

[OpheliaBlue]

Good job she! Sorry your dream capboard wasn't very interesting