Task of the Month for March 2014

**OpheliaBlue** · 03-02-2014 05:27 AM

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 - Middle Name Pride Day: Ask a DC what his or her middle name is.
Basic Task ii - St. Patrick's Day: Pinch a DC who isn't wearing green. Report his or her reaction.

Advanced Task i - Ides of March: Prevent the assassination of Julius Caesar using any means necessary.
Advanced Task ii - Party with The March Hare: go to The Mad Hatter's Tea Party and see what kind of poem you can whip out.

BONUS TASK!! - Extraterrestrial Abductions Day: Get abducted by aliens. Report what they do to you while you're on their ship.

**SinisterDezz** · 03-02-2014 06:45 AM

Oh joy! Can't wait for these new tasks to be completed!

**TwitchLucidity** · 03-02-2014 06:53 AM

Yaaah, thx ophelia, great tasks.

**Mismagius** · 03-02-2014 06:59 AM

Awesome! ヽ(^。^)ノ

These all look like a lot of fun, I'm definitely going to be trying for these.

**woblybil** · 03-02-2014 07:15 AM

Yay, Thanx OB..I see I was not the only one waiting

I think remembering them will be the hardest part..

**Saizaphod** · 03-02-2014 03:43 PM

I'm on

**INeverWakeUp** · 03-02-2014 03:46 PM

Oh hell yeah I'll save Caesar! Let's just say Brutus and his men are bound to have a very bad day. MUHAHAHAHA

**CharlesD** · 03-03-2014 05:10 AM

Originally Posted by ineverwakeup97

Oh hell yeah I'll save Caesar! Let's just say Brutus and his men are bound to have a very bad day. MUHAHAHAHA

Or a very good day. You could get Brutus so drunk he forgets all about his plans.

**FryingMan** · 03-03-2014 06:56 AM

Originally Posted by CharlesD

Or a very good day. You could get Brutus so drunk he forgets all about his plans.

Nah I'm thinking light-sabers and force powers vs. the senators's knives. Then party with Caesar.

**OpheliaBlue** · 03-02-2014 04:47 PM

Dewinging after work!

**woblybil** · 03-02-2014 06:16 PM

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Dewinging after work!

Those are just the feathers anyways, I already ate the good part .......

**FryingMan** · 03-02-2014 06:28 PM

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Dewinging after work!

Fare the well, oh wings of mine!

Here's to a fresh new set REALLY soon!

**KonchogTashi** · 03-02-2014 07:56 PM

Last night I managed to complete Basic Task i.

I woke up naturally around 4:30 as planned and recalled the tiniest fragment, I entered it in my DJ on my phone. I got up and got a drink. I decided to stretch the wake time a bit so I read the task of the month for March. I am glad I did this. I spent about 10 minutes up, finishing my drink, checking email and contemplating lucidity. I went back to bed and practiced MILD while drifting off. the dream follows:

I am in a rush to take a shower so that I can leave my grandparent's home (now in Nepal) with my family. I enter the shower and turn on the water. When I turn around there is a blonde woman in the shower with me. I am taken back by this and wonder what I have gotten myself into. At this point I realize that i am dreaming. I remember my plan to verify the validity of RCs. I look at my hand and see that i have only 3 fingers and one thumb. I pinch my nose and find that I am still inhaling air. I am satisfied with these results and turn my attention to the woman. At this point I remember basic task one and say. "I am dreaming." she looks puzzled and rather alarmed by this statement. I then inquire "What is your middle name?" "Mickey" she replies. At this point I am very happy with myself, if a little let down by her rather dull response. I remember to try and stabilize the dream and start to rub my hands together. The dream fades and I wake up.

not very exciting, but done.

**FryingMan** · 03-02-2014 10:56 PM

Originally Posted by KonchogTashi

Last night I managed to complete Basic Task i.

I woke up naturally around 4:30 as planned and recalled the tiniest fragment, I entered it in my DJ on my phone. I got up and got a drink. I decided to stretch the wake time a bit so I read the task of the month for March. I am glad I did this. I spent about 10 minutes up, finishing my drink, checking email and contemplating lucidity. I went back to bed and practiced MILD while drifting off. the dream follows:

I am in a rush to take a shower so that I can leave my grandparent's home (now in Nepal) with my family. I enter the shower and turn on the water. When I turn around there is a blonde woman in the shower with me. I am taken back by this and wonder what I have gotten myself into. At this point I realize that i am dreaming. I remember my plan to verify the validity of RCs. I look at my hand and see that i have only 3 fingers and one thumb. I pinch my nose and find that I am still inhaling air. I am satisfied with these results and turn my attention to the woman. At this point I remember basic task one and say. "I am dreaming." she looks puzzled and rather alarmed by this statement. I then inquire "What is your middle name?" "Mickey" she replies. At this point I am very happy with myself, if a little let down by her rather dull response. I remember to try and stabilize the dream and start to rub my hands together. The dream fades and I wake up.

not very exciting, but done.

Wow, TOTM at 6 LDs, that's pretty darn impressive. And with a blonde in the shower no less...

p.s. Coincedence? I asked a cute blonde girl DC her name last night and the answer was "Gippie" and I shook her hand. That was before I knew what the TOTM was (and it was non-lucid).

**OpheliaBlue** · 03-02-2014 11:11 PM

Originally Posted by FryingMan

p.s. Coincedence? I asked a cute blonde girl DC her name last night and the answer was "Gippie" and I shook her hand. That was before I knew what the TOTM was (and it was non-lucid).

Oh wow, that's kinda freaky

**KonchogTashi** · 03-03-2014 12:55 AM

Originally Posted by FryingMan

Wow, TOTM at 6 LDs, that's pretty darn impressive. And with a blonde in the shower no less...

p.s. Coincedence? I asked a cute blonde girl DC her name last night and the answer was "Gippie" and I shook her hand. That was before I knew what the TOTM was (and it was non-lucid).

Crazy about the parallel dreams..go us!

Thanks for the kudos, but I would rather have a 5 minute lucid and not complete the task, than serendipitously knock out the the task in a 10 second dream!

**StephL** · 03-02-2014 07:59 PM

Ooooh - I absolutely must do the bonus task this month - I have to!!

**Sibyline** · 03-02-2014 08:04 PM

Too many good ones!!!

I definitely want to do middle name and alien abduction. Might do the Mad Hatter too just to see what I can come up with on the spot.

**Saizaphod** · 03-02-2014 08:42 PM

Oh, didn't even notice the bonus task, cool!

But is it okay to complete two tasks (regular and advanced)within one dream?

**OpheliaBlue** · 03-02-2014 10:02 PM

Originally Posted by Mikasan527

Oh, didn't even notice the bonus task, cool!

But is it okay to complete two tasks (regular and advanced)within one dream?

Yes. It's in the TOTY that they need to be separate dreams. It's actually kinda cool to see how many you can do in one lucid. I've gotten 3 in a single night but they were in separate DEILDs. And there have been a few members who triple-hit in a single lucid. Not sure if anyone has done a quadruple yet though...

**Sibyline** · 03-02-2014 11:14 PM

Last year I looked in a mirror as a personal dream goal in a lucid, and then it became the new TOTM later that day. I was so bummed!

**INeverWakeUp** · 03-03-2014 04:31 AM

Alright let's actually have a lucid for once tonight!

**Aristaeus** · 03-03-2014 08:11 AM

Hmm, the Bonus Task and the second Advanced Task are rather interesting. [Shrugs] Cannot say the same for the rest, however.

I might try to do these if I manage to get enough sleep, which has been difficult lately, due to a heavy workload.

**woblybil** · 03-03-2014 10:49 AM

I shall have to go thru the mirror to find the March Hare and I gotta be careful which DC's I pinch.. I have some pretty big ones,
But I'm working on it, I'm working on it

**StephL** · 03-03-2014 10:50 AM

I did basic i - got lucid and two people stand behind me - I ask the woman for her middle name - and she says: Niniana.
Then I began pondering aliens shortly, but must have forgotten myself over the middle name success and lost lucidity..