Thread: Task of the Month for August 2013

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 (specify in the description field if it was the bonus task). 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. Members of this club can submit suggestions for the next month's tasks.

Tasks for this month:

Basic Task i - Ask a DC "What is the meaning of life?" What was the answer?
Basic Task ii - Teach a DC something that you don't know how to do (examples: a musical instrument, break-dancing).

Advanced Task i - Create or find a passage or portal to hell using any means necessary. Find the devil and share a cold beer with him to beat the heat.
Advanced Task ii - Go to a beach, and transform into a shark. Scare some people.

BONUS TASK!! - Eat someone from Advanced Task ii.

Whew, Something to do besides fish......
I have been far enough down in the dark places in AP's to see the red glow of hell below me and hear rustling noises and the screams of demons fighting, I think I'll pass on that one..

i'm with woblybil on this, with my poor level of dream control if i ended up in hell i'd probably crap myself

Haha! If it's any consolation, the first two times I did any hell related tasks, I chickened out. Hoping to conquer that fear this month!

Those sound good, I think I'll go mess with some poor humans and leave the demons alone for the time being.

Aww...my suggestions didn't get in. Oh well. At least I can still screw with some DCs and try out my own ideas too!

Originally Posted by ineverwakeup97

Aww...my suggestions didn't get in. Oh well. At least I can still screw with some DCs and try out my own ideas too!

The Basic I task WAS your suggestion, goofy buns.

Great idea too by the way, so thanks!

Love these tasks . I can only imagine what a DC will say when we ask them what the meaning of life is, hehehe.

They all look kinda tough for me..
I might end up doing the Bird-walk this month

Teaching a DC something I don't know how to do seems fun.

oh, hell is going to be fun. might have a scrap with satan. beat a genie, so it shouldn't be too hard.

One time in a dream, (About a month ago)
I was teaching my grandmother how to play bass... and as I was teaching her how to strum a string, she looked at me... And she pulled out a banana out of her braw and said "Calm down and drink it!" And then she started crying for some reason.... I woke up laughing my butt off!!!

Originally Posted by TheBooneMan

One time in a dream, (About a month ago)
I was teaching my grandmother how to play bass... and as I was teaching her how to strum a string, she looked at me... And she pulled out a banana out of her braw and said "Calm down and drink it!" And then she started crying for some reason.... I woke up laughing my butt off!!!

I'm not sure if you meant for this post to be in the TOTM thread, but I had a hearty lol at it nonetheless

I think I did basic task I! You can find the DJ entry here. Don't worry, it's pretty short.

I tried teaching a female DC how to turn me into a dolphin. I told them all they had to do was vividly imagine me being a dolphin and then kiss me. It didn't work out too well. The poor DC didn't know what to do and I woke up.

I'm scared already! I'm going to shoot for "What is the meaning of life?" task. I can be easily frightened in the dream world...let's just hope the answer I get doesn't scare the sh#t out of me!

8/05
2:30am I almost made it...I was in an old favorite bar in N.Y. and the bar maid got drunk and fell down so I helped carry her out and the owner took over while we waited for the night girl to come in and I wanted a smoke and got change for the machine which was behind the bar and put in 13 quarters but it was dark so the owner gave me a flashlight that didnt work and finally opened up the machine and there were only two brands in it, A coupe old red and white packs of Lucky's and one green menthol and the rest of the slots were full of ice cream bars and I tore apart the green one getting it out and gave up on that and turned to the bar as all of the night girls came in, There were three of them besides the one we had dragged out and then I recognized the blonde, I had just seen her on the internet and said i'm dreaming and I'm going to take the drunk one somewhere and at the same time thought to ask her the meaning of life and they all started to fade before I got an answer then I started to feel the weight of my body on the bed and said Aw-Crap, Good timing! and reached for the recorder and was goint to try to go back to sleep and finish it but now i'm awake for good..... Dang.

ps: I don't smoke anymore and have not been in a bar in fifteen years.

*I became lucid and got into a mortal kombat battle with some DC. I shot fire balls street fighter style. I also manifested a cup of water and threw it at him, random. I woke up. I went back to sleep with the intention to complete the TOTM.

*I became lucid in some random house. I reached into my pocket to take a lucid pill to make the dream stable, vivid and long lasting. I took two pills and the dream became clearer after that. I thought of the task of the month, so I found a random person and took them outside to show them how to fly. First I pointed to the sky saying look you can go in any direction even the stars. I noticed there was a planet similar to saturn, it suddenly exploded showering blue water everywhere. I thought wow that was amazing! I went back into the house to get my brother so he could fly with us. He took to long. The dream ended.

Basic i done! Tried to get as many answers as I could, the first and best one being "going forward".

I am now one floor below, with my bf and a number of DCs next to me. I decide to ask my bf about the meaning of life. At first he answers something about "going forward", which I very much like. I tell him to repeat it again but instead he says "I like going back and forward" and then blurts out "Money". This disappoints me a bit. I want to get more and better answers so ask another DC. This guy looks falsely familiar and initially gives me the impression I might have encountered a real dreamer as he begins to ponder the question. But then he just keeps repeating "mmm" and "mmmhum" and doesn't say anything. I am annoyed and feel the dream is slipping away as I have been waiting too long. The dream stops but instead of going through the void, I lose consciousness. It takes maybe about 10 seconds and I am back in the dream.

I was in some sort of a corridor before and now I go into the next room where there are a lot of DCs from my class. I want to ask once again, so I organize those DCs which are now around 20 to gather in front of me as if I am about to take a picture of them. I then make an intro and ask them what the meaning of life is. Lots of my classmates raise hands and I select K. who is smiling to answer. She starts a long speech about happiness. She doesn't say anything exciting, just tells me about her life. I have no more interest in getting the question answered.

Basic Task i is all I care about this time. I was actually going to opt out this month but had a change of heart. Advanced ii sounds like it could be a wild ride but I think I'm going to be too chicken for it especially after listening to the podcast! The other tasks just don't appeal to me.

Originally Posted by Xanous

Basic Task i is all I care about this time. I was actually going to opt out this month but had a change of heart. Advanced ii sounds like it could be a wild ride but I think I'm going to be too chicken for it especially after listening to the podcast!

LOL, sorry bout that man. I guess after the hostile dreamworld question, etc. we're gonna have to schedule some kind of repair podcast. Or were you more frightened by Ophelia's special WBTB technique?

By the way, thanks so much for the tip on tagging! I've fixed that in both episodes if you have any way of erasing the downloaded MP3s and refreshing somehow. I really appreciate that! I'll get back to ya soon on the rest of your message...

On topic: I love this meaning of life task. Really looking forward to what those crazy DCs have to say.

Oooh, I'll try and ask a dream character how to dance Always wanted to know.

Dunno how successful I'll actually be with getting enough sleep for this, though, now that school's started again. =n=

Ok did it. I may try asking this again since the LD was so short and I didn't really get to milk out a good answer.

I am having some NLD talking to a female DC and changing clothes in front of her. I realize this doesn't make sense because the last thing I remember is rolling over to my right side doing SSILD cycles. I decide I have to be dreaming and start to wonder off but quickly remember the task. I go back into the bedroom of some version of a house I lived in once. The woman does not really look like anyone I know but I think she must be my wife. I say, "Hey, DC."
She is sitting on the edge of the bed in an all white night gown. She looks up at me and responds, "Yes?"
I quickly ask, "What is the meaning of life?"
Her answer, "Something good."
Knowing that this dream feels like it's about to collapse already, I turn away and say, "Thanks DC." I suddenly wake up.

I almost did basic task I!

Having read the basic lucid dream task for August on Dreamviews, I went to bed chanting 'I will have a lucid dream and find out the meaning of life'. It was an unsuccessful attempt at WILD but I managed to gain lucidity in the middle of a regular dream. I don't remember what was happening before I became lucid but as soon as I realised I immediately remembered I needed to as a DC about the meaning of life (Sidenote: It was also then that it was brought to my attention just how loud and overexcited sounding my dream voice is).

There was quite a crowd of DCs and I picked out a woman wearing a red and white toga to consult on the basis of 'she looked intelligent'. I made her walk to me (she almost walked through me) and I asked... or should I say screamed at her to tell me the meaning of life. She replied with something completely irrelevant. Unsatisfied I picked another DC (on the basis of how cute he looked) and asked him instead and to my surprise I actually got an answer! He told me 'the meaning of life is not to live well, but to...' and I cannot remember what the end part was!! I was so gutted when I woke up especially since I remember repeating the line a few times in the dream to make sure I remembered. I remember it containing something about a museum though. Then I kissed him which fed back into another non-lucid dream.

I'm going to try again and hopefully remember the answer this time!

I'm trying to get into LDing again and by chance had one last night, so I'm going to try to do any of these as I'm hoping they'll motivate me. The hell one sounds particularly interesting. I think I'd ask the devil what the meaning of life is.