Thread: Task of the Month for May 2014

Awesome tasks and congratulations to all the early birds! I'm looking forward to doing basic task ii and advance task i, as a shy person advance task i is going to be fun ^o^

I like Sivason's Idea of using the force to control the instruments and create a display. I'm planning on playing the violin for my performance, maybe do a duet with a DC

Originally Posted by Thena

Maybe having new tasks helps provide motivation? I'm finding that having a goal in mind is pretty essential in successfully inducing lucid dreams.

Absolutely agree, the tasks are a great lucidity booster. Love the beginning of month when the new ones are posted.

Had an attempt at advanced ii...but I am most happy with my self-awareness during the LD and also breaking away from my typical LD slant (though that kind of sexual thinking helped me realize it was a dream).

I am back on the cruise ship and I see some movement involving a woman in this big glass windowed room/atrium and I think about going in but then it occurs to me that this is a dream scenario for me...I might be...I must be...yeah...I will float up and prove it to myself. Sure enough I float up maybe 20 feet in the air and think that this is a great location to do the musical performance task in front of a large audience on a cruise ship. (Dream control poison removed to protect the dream schema of the innocent). I am now flying over an odd version of a vast ocean. Instead of a realistic ocean it is very light blue for as far as I can see in all directions with symbols in a symmetrical pattern throughout. The repeating symbol was kind of like a yin & yang symbol but with a dolphin on one side and a graphical representation of a wave on the other. I try flying in different directions and still thinking about how to find a large audience and I tell myself that I will begin seeing a city. The seascape starts to change but instead of starting to see a city I suddenly find myself in a large dark, dusty room with a fireplace mantle on one end and a few decorations hanging around it and several old dusty chairs sitting on the right and left side of the room. I find this very interesting to have such a drastic change in scene and look around in amazement. This place looks most like an abandoned retirement home and I feel like this room is probably the recreational room where they would play bingo and what not. I decide that I can still make this work, I just need to summon a bunch of people like I did in last months TOTM, but I tried to summon everyone in with one idea. The idea was that I could hear the crowd building and cheering flowing into the room and I could start to hear it when I felt the dream quickly dissipate. Perhaps I should have brought groups of people in, one at a time, like I did last month thinking I may have tried to do too much at once or perhaps I was coming to the end of my REM anyway.

Originally Posted by NyxCC

Absolutely agree, the tasks are a great lucidity booster. Love the beginning of month when the new ones are posted.

I agree for the most part, I find that having the tasks in mind before I sleep and then just blundering into one in a dream story and saying "Holy Shit, I'm dreaming" and I can do this is an easy way to get lucid and I've gotten many wings that way But!!
I also find that with a little workout to lucid dream beforehand so my conscious mind is sitting there smugly watching me start dreaming it's a lot more fun to jump out of my sleeping body and run to the mirror to play faces first then go on to tasks, And fun, And making my own story.

Originally Posted by Conscience

a limerick is a poem with the pattern "aabba"... and it's normally amusing

for example:
There once was a man from Peru (a)
who dreamed he was eating his shoe (a)
he woke with a fright (b)
in the middle of the night (b)
to find that his dream had come true (a)

and:
The limerick packs laughs anatomical (a)
Into space that is quite economical. (a)
But the good ones I've seen (b)
So seldom are clean (b)
And the clean ones so seldom are comical (a)

Thanks for the explanation. I'm not sure I can do that task anyway...

In any case, not sure if it's just me, but as I was reading those lines, Frank Sinatra came to mind... maybe it's because I listened to him a bit before entering the forum, but I almost heard his voice while reading this!

Oh boy, these are great xD I'm trying the Cinco De Mayo tonight.

Why do I find myself wanting to do the Bonus Task?

I was hoping for a third night in a row with another lucid dream task accomplished, but it wasn't to be. Oh well, I'm still off to a good start.

Originally Posted by Xanous

Why do I find myself wanting to do the Bonus Task?

Do it!

Originally Posted by Xanous

Why do I find myself wanting to do the Bonus Task?

likely because your'e good at giving birth but be careful your creation don't eat you, Im just posting to get some life into this thing.. I never seen it so dead so early in the month..


Heres one from this morning, It's not a task and it's not lucid but it's a good read if you get bored and will help advertise my dream journal... http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/woblybil/

If it helps anyone, the Popeye the sailor man songs are all limericks. I'm going to try to compose one of those on the spot.

Just succeeded in Basic Task ii! Also my first Galantamine success, not the earth-shattering ultra high level vivid 2-hours long epic LD I was hoping for, but who am I to complain, I had waking life memory, so first one of those in over a month, that's a cause for celebration and some wings! Stabilization success, too, crawled my way back from the (white) void. Earliest wings yet, too, woohoo! The TK was effin' awesome, it worked, it was the first time I did TK while really observing the results (other than just tossing random DCs out of my way [which is fun too!]).

Must have been some karma involved since today is the 5th, but I got the force instead of the shots...

Spoiler for TOTM basic ii:

I'm in a cluttered room in a random house. I'm reaching for a large round cookie tin at the top of a tall cabinet (raided my folk's extra freezer for a tin of frozen brownies yesterday IWL...mmmmm, frozen brownies!), I grab it and am bringing it down to me, and my mantra hits for no apparent reason, "I'm dreaming..."...HEY! I AM dreaming!". Quick nose pinch confirms it, I can breathe! I try to put the cookie tin down on the ironing board to my left but I miss and it falls to the floor, for a brief instant I consider picking it up but I laugh at myself and realize I shouldn't give a sh*t cuz this is an LD and just turn away from it heading to the right. Feel unstable, vision is fading to white, I instantly rub hands. I rub them and feel for them and look for them, this always works wonders for me but not today, I feel them but can't see them. I try my full-body pat-down but only get a few pats in before stopping, I see my dream body a bit but I'm still in vague whiteness. I "bring out the nukes" and spin around counter clockwise for a while [I haven't done this since LD #1!] still in whiteness, I wonder if I'll end up somewhere different, I stop and I'm back in the room. I continue forwards out of the room, there's a small hallway there with a darkened room to the left. What should I do? TOTM! AH! Shots with Angelina Jolie! What is the other task??.....ah ok, the force, I think I'll start there it's easier, just TK something as there's nobody around, I look around and see some notebooks lying on the ground at my feet. I take a few steps backwards into the room I started in with my eyes on the notebooks, hold out my left hand and will one of the notebooks to come to my hand, AND IT DOES! Woohoo, first mindful TK. "That's awesome" I say and toss the notebook back down where it started. OK, SHOTS TIME! I start thinking about Angelina and begin working up a summon for her, but I wake up.

Originally Posted by woblybil

be careful your creation don't eat you.

Thanks for the schema infection.

Yay FryingMan!! I feel bad that I don't get to the TOTM threads more, I have just been so busy lately, but I also find them super-helpful and they spurred me on a second night to a personally wonderful lucid experience. I don't want to count it as "advanced ii completion" which I explain at the end...and if judged strictly, it wouldn't count...but as requested in the OP, post your attempts.

Spoiler for Lucid DJ entry:

5/5/14* Epic for me!..the part I am referring to starts at the ocean/beach further into the first lucid (blue) section. Got a great balance of self-awareness and dream environment attention and vividness! Weirdness induced second night in a row, but this time intentionally. This may be too personally felt for anyone else to get it.

Spoiler for additional commentary:

Also I was getting HH's while wife was getting up to get ready and there are only two of us in the house but I could hear the door closing on the other side of the house at the same time I felt my bed bouncing a little bit like when someone gets in or out of bed and that was a little bit freaky but I took it as HH's and I stay calm (which was it...was the bed movement or the door closing the HH...or both? ha ha!).

Spoiler for non-lucid beginning:

Dream: We are in a big group seem to be traveling and we are in like a passport or visa line in Paris (the dream tells me this but I am not sure how, perhaps from earlier in the dream) but I am disappointed to see that we arrived in one of the suburbs and at first there is a huge line I see over to the left and I hope that that is not the line we're getting in but no we are dropped off to another place. There doesn't seem to be a line and we just have to go down this series of stairs, more and more stairs until finally I'm in this line but it is an amusement park line for some ride. It is a train of 4 to 6 cars each half-dome shaped with space for two. I've lost everyone except for one girl that is with us.

But then I notice that I got out of line somehow on the exit side of the ride and the ride operator wouldn't let me get back on with the person I was with so now she was on the ride and taking off and the ride operator said something smart and I got upset at him and I thought it makes me just want to punch the guy and as I think about actually punching him I realize wait a minute that's a dream-like scenario taking control and punching someone and I realize I'm dreaming and I think about the musical performance task of the month and how I had already planned on doing it, but first I punch the guy. So I start playing air guitar and I the guitar appears and then I started doing air drums imagining the song by Phil Collins "I can feel it coming in the air tonight" I forget the title. Everything goes fuzzy but the crowd, I can start to hear the crowd getting louder and louder forming around me and there was already a crowd in the line of the ride but then I imagine them cheering and continue playing the drums and I am having a blast when I feel the dreamscape fading and I remember to try to spin and I fade into the void. In the void I tried to go back to where I was, with me performing, but nothing was happening fast enough so I remember my old reliable happy place, an ocean beach. As I imagine the scene I can start to hear ocean waves very gentle but repetitive rolling in along with seagulls calling and I patiently wait and it feels like I'm starting to float in slightly undulating water and I decide I don't want it to be too deep I want to be close to shore so I can explore the land and I do feel the water shallow...success! I feel the water up to my shins and the scene appears around me it is a grassy ocean with long green something not really kelp but it looks more like thick green grass and it grows above the surface of the very calm waters a little bit maybe half a foot or so and at the edge of the short beach (or high tide) it is like a big ruins wall with an arch opening in it and a column rising up from it up to the right. It looks like what remains of a wall or maybe the façade of a structure. It is maybe 50 yards wide (~50 meters) and maybe 25 or 30 yards high. I decide to fly up to the top of it and have a look around on top of the ruins. At the top of one smaller column I take a closer look and notice that the bricks are made of thin layers of tiny bricks joined together in sheets almost, kind of like reddish adobe clay perhaps, each layer is very intricate there is what I estimate to be about 10 little bricks going across one way with a thin connecting layer between each and then I guess that it must be about 10 going across the other way but when I count I get beyond 12 and I think that there are a few more than that and this layer of connected bricks looks to be only about a quarter-inch thick and it is pliable and I'm kind of messing it up like it is not dry yet and I decide to move on. I fly up over the wall and there are so many miniature things, toys and what not and I fly over to another ruin wall and stop and then fly down again to take a closer look there's this one set of toys that is all in an Arabian theme. There are several guys on camels and they look like royalty, nicely dressed with attire hooded over their head as you might expect from some Arabian tales and not dissimilar to the wise men typically seen in a nativity scene. These are very nice figurines. They were obviously set up in an array perhaps like a kid might set up to play with but neatly or like set up for a museum miniature display. These figures look like they were a good 12-18 inches tall or so. I'm really loving this and decide to keep exploring and go past one of the other ruins and it becomes like a room with a little window box on the far end and more displays inside there. I think about whether or not to fly or phase into that window box display thing but I just think why?..it could cause complications for the stability of the dream. I turn around and there are so many different things in this room and as I head towards the door-like opening I see there is a big glass display case like a curio cabinet and I can see part of my reflection and I notice I'm only wearing underwear and I say well let's see what my thing looks like in this dream. I pull down my underwear and it is kind of a retracted and not much 2 speak of...more like a child's. This dreamscape is so fascinating (and I think that it is some kind of representation of my child-like fantasies of exploring ancient ruins and also the imagination that went along with playing with toy figurines when I was a kid. This was a feeling I recently recaptured when doing the open beta exercises. It is like how when you were a kid you could look at an area under a bush and imagine it as a cool world for your figurines to play in or for your toy soldiers to fight in and I think that is how this world came to be even though I started off imagining the beach and got the beach with the grassy ocean.) As I go on through the door-like arch the dream feels like it is fading but I decided not to fight it because I don't want to forget all of the details of the dreamscape I just explored or the dream before with me performing musically. When I woke up I was quite pleased with myself, and though it may not sound that interesting to many people, it was utterly fascinating to me and I absolutely loved it! It felt like playing somewhere in my subconscious! I can imagine that this is one of those dreams that may only mean a lot to me. I also don't want to consider counting it as TOTM completion because I have more I want to do with that task and I am afraid I won't go back to it if I already have the wings. Awesome fun!

http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/foge...-beyond-57538/

Shots! I did shots! Only non-lucid:

Somebody (me?) calls out "Shots!" and my friends (7-10 of us) and I all lie down in the middle of the room on our stomachs propped up on our elbows in a circle facing the center. Shots glasses are placed in the middle of the circle. On the far side of the shot glasses from me there is one larger tumbler glass. The liquor is poured and we all drink. I instantly start feeling veeeeeery friendly and cozy with the girl immediately to my right. We're kind of snuggling up against each other now, pushing our shoulders together and our hands meet (my right hand her left) and we hold hands with curved curled fingers while the next round is being poured. I think the guy with the tumbler is going to get wasted fast. I pick up my 2nd round and look to my left and right to make sure my friends have enough, I offer to pour some of mine into the cozy girl's glass but she has enough it turns out. I think if I'm already this hammered from 2 shots, how could Matt Damon in "Promised Land" possibly do 10 of them, that explained why he was so messed up in the morning.

Originally Posted by woblybil

This is bad.........Really bad *Aunt Jane's*
9:00am
I was up most of the night but finally dozed off again about 6:00am and when It started I was like a ballerina in the air in a bird costume spinning with one hand over my head and my left hand on my hip and one foot on the other knee and I felt bloated and swollen and thought of the baby task and finally became lucid, Knowing it was a dream I let fly with a bang and it blew all my tail feathers off and I heard something hit the wall behind me and standing in a cloud of brown feathers I started laughing so hard I became almost human again or at least my funny hands and paddle feet with no more feathers were and there was a huge green dill pickle laying there on the floor behind me with writing on it I couldn't read and by then I was laughing so hard it woke me up ..

I was lucid in a dream, and remembered the giving birth challenge. It was night time, and I was next to a street on the sidewalk. I was about to reach into my stomach and pull out a baby when I remembered this way of doing it. I started laughing so hard that I couldn't even stay on my feet. I tried to blast one out like that, but the thought of doing so was too funny. Then I woke up.

I haven't completed the tasks yet, but my incubation is having an effect!
I had a non-lucid dream last night about performing on stage for a large audience, and I was singing about my experience giving birth (to 5 ducks/geese... not sure where that came from!)

Baah, sorry about the long post ahead, just replying to stuff in the thread, lol.

Originally Posted by Sensei

Problem:
When you have to pee in dreams

Fix:
Just pee in your pants in the dream. It really just relieves it and takes the pain away, unless you are a child you should not pee the bed.

Frick... I just thought of something... I need to PM Zoth.

I learned too quickly that this doesn't actually work for me, and I've no idea why. Maybe I'm just thinking about peeing in reality too much.

Originally Posted by StephL

I have a sort of strange thing when I imagine to do the birthing task - I keep imagining laying eggs instead - but why not - does it count, if they hatch in-dream?

Maybe I'll try this. I could transform into a chicken perhaps, to make sure it works. Would hurt a lot less than giving birth, and still fits the task, right?

Originally Posted by FryingMan

FINALLY some epic vivid dreams with some lucidity but the plot was so I interesting I just kept going with it. I invented (discovered?) a DC mind control dream object (Captain America's bouncy ball!) which I pocket summoned and showed to a DC to prove I was Captain America, and told him I could throw this in to the next room and gain control over the DCs in there. Also while non lucidly driving I planned the next time I was lucid in a car to summon and operate a Star Wars hyper-drive mechanism, and operate it at random to fly deep in the universe, then just turn it off and see where I end up! So some major TOTM residue but no wings... Good start to the month, though!

Spoiler for Spooky:

Wait, don't move. This is a sign.
(Your dream made me laugh a bit too much, by the way. That sounded like an epic dream.)

Originally Posted by Thena

Maybe having new tasks helps provide motivation? I'm finding that having a goal in mind is pretty essential in successfully inducing lucid dreams.

Agreed as well, I have two problems and it's that they're:
1. If I don't have a dream goal, my interest in LDing tends to wane and if I do LD, the LD usually feels not vivid enough or unsatisfying at the end.
2. I have a hard time thinking up a dream goal and sticking to it; not because LDing is limiting, but because there's so much to do and I just don't know what to do and gaahh.
I like ToTMs because they solve both of those issues.

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Also, wonderful job to everyone who's done the tasks, it was all entertaining to read. Just reading this thread is getting me motivated, and I've got a 4-day weekend, so I think I'm going to attempt a WILD tonight (for the first time in ages) and attempt the tasks I want to do.

Sometimes you get busy with your life, but then you come back to DreamViews and you're like, "Lucid dreaming is freaking awesome, I should do that again."

Originally Posted by ~ Dreamer ~

I haven't completed the tasks yet, but my incubation is having an effect!
I had a non-lucid dream last night about performing on stage for a large audience, and I was singing about my experience giving birth (to 5 ducks/geese... not sure where that came from!)

Haha!

I've been infected too: I had a (semi?) lucid where I was using telekinesis to construct and move around water fountains, the whole while saying to myself, "This is the kind of stuff I can do in lucid dreams."



And a DC was saying how they were afraid of going into the water in some of the deeper fountains I had made, when I'm the one who's scared to go into the water in lucids.

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Haha!

I've been infected too: I had a (semi?) lucid where I was using telekinesis to construct and move around water fountains, the whole while saying to myself, "This is the kind of stuff I can do in lucid dreams."



And a DC was saying how they were afraid of going into the water in some of the deeper fountains I had made, when I'm the one who's scared to go into the water in lucids.

I have had sooo many non-LDs about dreams/lucidity lately. I need a million of those face palms!

Originally Posted by ~ Dreamer ~

I have had sooo many non-LDs about dreams/lucidity lately. I need a million of those face palms!

we need an animated

Oh, yeah. Same here. Though even my dream recall's been pretty shoddy lately, there is one particular instance which I remember from a few days ago in which I was dreaming and I saw, in my non-lucid dream, a literal sign stuck into the ground that said, "You are dreaming," and I thought, "Haha, yeah, I could be dreaming, couldn't I?" And then I proceeded to stumble through the rest of the still non-lucid dream.



So after that, I realised that I may again have been insufficiently thorough with my reality checks lately.

(On a sidenote, whoa, I love all the new smileys showing up in the extended menu! So many moderator/dream-guide- and lucid-task-related smileys that it hurts! With awesome!

Aaaaahhh, you even got a Doctor Who one now! )

Originally Posted by AstralVagabond

Oh, yeah. Same here. Though even my dream recall's been pretty shoddy lately, there is one particular instance which I remember from a few days ago in which I was dreaming and I saw, in my non-lucid dream, a literal sign stuck into the ground that said, "You are dreaming," and I thought, "Haha, yeah, I could be dreaming, couldn't I?" And then I proceeded to stumble through the rest of the still non-lucid dream.

That's hilarious! I've had dreams where I've said something like, "Oh, I must remember to write this in my dream journal!" but I haven't actually consciously recognised that I'm dreaming. D'ohhh.
We will get these tasks done soon!

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

we need an animated

? There's lots of smaller ones around, too.

I'll probably combine Basic task 2 and advanced task one. I have always wanted to have a lucid music/rhythmic/battle dream, where I have special powers

is that weird? :3

Wait, don't move. This is a sign.

Wow I love stuff like that, that's amazing! Sure to have a night full of lucidity tonight!

(Your dream made me laugh a bit too much, by the way. That sounded like an epic dream.)

Glad you liked it! It was most excellent. Captain America's bouncy ball!

I had a facepalm along those lines, I was reaching for my phone to journal a dream, I realized I wasn't awake, so I *woke myself up* so I could record! AAAAAAA!