Thread: Task of the Month for September 2013

I was all about going for walking on the wall, especially after reading NyxCC's wall walking dream..

But then I saw the bonus task, definitely going for a Quidditch match

Yeah Xanous!!! We're in sync again. Funny that you had a misbehaving phone too haha

Basic task finished!

September 6 - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

The Cell phone is out.. I called 911 with VOC and got an operator in India that I couldn't make understand...

In the past I always had better luck with dial phones. Even if I made up the number, I had way better luck pushing buttons than dealing with a touch screen. Too much technology for my subC I guess

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Yeah Xanous!!! We're in sync again. Funny that you had a misbehaving phone too haha

Ah yeah cool. I didn't even think of that.

This is funny because this morning I had a NLD were I was trying to call 911 with voice activation but I was either on hold or they were speaking Spanish.

Oh yeah, This has nothing to do with TOTM but just a point of interest.. All of my achievement flags went missing some time ago and I just got them back by uninstalling Google and re-installing it.....

I did the Quidditch one last night. There were only three of us playing though so the game/rules were a bit different to what they are in the Harry Potter series. It was an every man for himself type deal so we were all trying to catch the snitch but at the same time one of us was trying to score goals while seeking, the other was defending the goals while seeking and I was a beater who was trying to stop the others while seeking. I did catch the snitch, which turned out to be more like a small grey bird than a little golden ball with wings.

Woooooooo! That's awesome. Man, I wanna play....

Basic i/ii success!
Advanced i repeat.

I was aiming for TOTY but couldn't manage to get my teleportation to work properly. It usually does me pretty well, I think I need to come up with a quicker and more accurate tool set for teleportation and time travel. My standard "fall backwards with my eyes closed, fall through the floor, imagine where/when I want to be, when I stop moving, I'm there" technique, just doesn't seem to cut it anymore. It requires that I be able to visualize where/when I'm going with near absolute clarity. Doesn't work well for places I have never been.

Frustrated with not being able to make it to the Colosseum, I decided to try some of the TOTMs. I retried the wall walking using telekinesis to pull myself towards the surface this time. I wanted to treat this completely different from how I did before (treating it like flying), and found it much more cumbersome and difficult. Pulling on the walls just ends up making me feel like I'm tied to them via psychic rope which makes for all sorts of slipperiness. It also had the odd effect of shrinking the room as if my pulling on the walls pulled them inward.

The ABC song was interesting, I found myself counting on my fingers at the same time, which I tend to do while trying to figure out what numerical position a letter has in the alphabet. I had trouble remembering the words to the last verse, so instead of fussing over it, I just sang the whole song again and remembered it that time without issue.

The phone call was an interesting one. I suppose it counts, but it sure was strange. I didn't call anyone in particular. I just hit send twice (it was an old flip phone for some strange reason) which calls the last person you spoke to, and ended up having a conversation with some random Japanese girl, which I obviously knew. I'm still learning Japanese, so I can't recall exactly what was said, but in the dream it made perfect sense.

Three tasks in one night. I'm still upset that I couldn't get to the Colosseum. It felt like some of my attempts to get to hell from last moth with all the misses.

In any case, the full (and really LONG) dream journal entry here.

Some time ago I was able to walk on the side of the walls, although it was outdoor and the dreamscape drastically changed as well as the gravity force switched from my back to my feet once I stood on them, not to mention that very few things from the previous dreamscape remained rotated 90º sunk into the ground of the new one. I'm curious to see if it could happen indoor too or perhaps I will end up running like a hamster in some sort of "square wheel". Maybe I will just walk like I'm some sort of spiderman or simply I will fall on my back the same way as the last time I tried to do it inside a room. It's one of those tasks that I would like to give it a try once more.

Basic and Advanced(?) success.

After WBTB and SSILD I drift back to sleep at some point but regain awareness with the vibrations that I notice on occasion. I nudge on the vibrations and start to be able to see through my closed eyes and there is a dark figure with a cape draping down near the floor and I decide to ignore him/it. I end up in a dark void and decide to recite my ABCs. I kind of rush through it and complete it (I wonder if these false awakening-like LDs bring more waking memory with them?). Feeling happy that I completed a basic task I decided instead of trying to form a locker room from scratch like last time that I would pick a place I had been in recently...the nice gym in a fancy condo complex (you enter from either a mens locker room or a womens to the gym in the middle) and I transport to the gym and make my way "out" through the women's side this time. I come through the door and see no one but can here the showers running, I go around the corner and there are 2 women in the showers with their backs to me, focusing on one, it is beautiful and she has a kind of girl-next-door body, shapely but not a traditional swimsuit model body, I watch the water trickling down her skin. I am not sure if either one knew I was there and the dream started to fade and I find myself laying in bed and try to DEILD but I am too awake.

I wasn't sure if the advanced counted since I didn't get a reaction. I saw what they were doing (showering) but I imagined taking it further.

Achieved the ABC task, forgot the other basic and advanced tasks, and attempted the advance task! Although the ABC task is pretty easy, it's the first ever ToTM task that I have achieved, so

suddenly became aware, and did the nose RC, and it was positive. I decided to immediately go for ToTM. I started walking, but I couldn't remember anything. At that moment, I remembered that I had to sing my ABCs. I yelled them out really loud, and then afterwards did another RC to make sure I was actually dreaming xD. Then, I tried to remember the other basic ToTM, but I couldn't, so I thought I'd go for advanced ToTM.

I went into this locker room type area, and there were other people with broomsticks and the Quidditch stuff already, however, I didn't have a broomstick. I told myself that when I reached back there would be a broomstick, but I reached my hand back over my shoulder, and nothing was there. After failing that a couple times, I just told myself that when I turned around, there would be a broomstick on the ground, and sure enough, there was. I picked it up and went over to the other players. The "officials" went over the rules, and at that point we all could start, but no one could fly. I tried jumping, but I just fell back down. At that point, I lost lucidity and either my alarm woke me up, or the dream scene shifted.

Full dream, which isn't much more:
Became Lucid, Couldn't Remember ToTM - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Oooo congrats guys! Wingy wings after work!!

here's basic ii :

I know this is not going to work, but then I remember I can at least call. I try to spot a phone in the guys' hands. They are busy loudly talking to each other and no phone. I move a few seats back and there is something like a display in another guy's hand. I take it and it turns into my bf's phone, how weird is that! Alright, now I am just going to press any button and start the conversation. I press the dial key and check the screen, it goes dark and into some sort of error mode. I repeat a few more times with the same effect. Oh well, I just take the phone to my ear and say my bf's name. I hear a woman's voice replying as if I just asked to talk to my bf, saying he is just going somewhere. I am not sure if I asked or thought about another question, but she also adds a short yes. I decide to ask about the friend I was looking for in the bus. She replies similarly but in past tense. I briefly wonder if this makes any sense.

The woman then proceeds to ask me why am I asking about my friend since I am supposed to know where he is. She mentions the name of an unknown location where we (his friends) often meet. I feel as if I am talking to real person now and wonder what kind of explanation to give, scanning the surroundings looking for an appropriate answer as the dream fades.

Must...get...lucid...rc rc rc rc

10th Sep 2013 WILD fail and WILD success, TOTM attempt too - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views Randomly decided to give this TOTM a try today, advanced 2 fail, was halfway here though.

I have just completed 3 of the 4 tasks. I do not remember what the other basic task or bonus task are, but I will look and maybe do them, as a lot of the month is left. I did not combine all 3 like I was hoping I might. I did the ABC song and walk on the ceiling tasks in this dream, TOTM Ceiling and ABC - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views
I then DEILD and completed the locker room task in this dream, TOTM Locker Room - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views
It took me almost 2 weeks to get around to it, but I have been working too much.
Thanks for the ideas! I had a lot of fun with the locker room dream. TOTM is awesome, thank you OpheliaBlue for hosting.

Read your locker room one. Very cool Sivason! Puts mine to shame but gives me something to work towards!

Damn you brain give me a lucid! I want to go in the locker rooms already!

I've managed to successfully complete all the other tasks, but I can't seem to ever remember the locker room. It never even occurs to me. :S

Originally Posted by SuperOhm

I've managed to successfully complete all the other tasks, but I can't seem to ever remember the locker room. It never even occurs to me. :S

Same happened to me. Must be a Texas thing

Hmmm...no wings for basic ii, didn't I do it right?

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Same happened to me. Must be a Texas thing

Texas has all the luck... The only lucid since the locker room was I went to the bathroom to play faces in the mirror and I wound up cleaning the cat box in a lucid dream..... Phooey