Task of the Month for October 2014

**OpheliaBlue** · 10-01-2014 04:34 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 - Open a pumpkin. What do you find inside? - PercyLucid
Basic Task ii - Acquire a cup of blood and drink it. Bonus Wings if the blood is from something supernatural and it changes you (report the effects). - dolphin/OpheliaBlue

Advanced Task i - Go into a costume closet and pick out a costume. Depending on the costume you choose, the setting related to the type of costume will appear. (For example, if you choose a mermaid costume then after putting on the costume you will automatically find yourself in the ocean.) - starletdreamer
Advanced Task ii - Confront your greatest fear, be it a physical threat or a psychological challenge. Bonus if you manage this task in Harry Potter Boggart fashion. - ~ Dreamer ~/PercyLucid

BONUS TASK!! - Create a new song on an instrument that doesn't exist in waking life. - ~ Dreamer ~

**spellbee2** · 10-01-2014 06:01 AM

Yeeeeeeeees. Can't wait.

Basic Task i - Open a pumpkin. What do you find inside? - PercyLucid

I have a strange feeling this one will end up like the fortune cookie one. DOODLE DOODLE TOSS TOSS, anyone?

Advanced Task ii - Confront your greatest fear, be it a physical threat or a psychological challenge. - ~ Dreamer ~

Totally going for a psychological challenge. Maybe get a Sherlock/Moriarty kinda thing going on.

BONUS TASK!! - Summon a Boggart. What does it morph into? Ask it to give you advice in how beating that fear and/or defeat it. - PercyLucid

Was thinking about it, and then saw this gif on the Harry Potter Wiki page:

And now i'm just like:

**gab** · 10-01-2014 06:18 AM

I'll be going for the pumpkin and blood. Maybe confront a fear. And for special bonus, I'll attempt them nekked.

**FryingMan** · 10-01-2014 08:32 PM

Originally Posted by gab

I'll be going for the pumpkin and blood. Maybe confront a fear. And for special bonus, I'll attempt them nekked.

Everything's better nekked!

**Box77** · 10-01-2014 08:39 AM

At least I'm going for the pumpkin one.. perhaps more than once

**lionizing1** · 10-01-2014 10:25 AM

Buts first, let's try to have a lucid dream in October.

Difficult enough.

If I do, I'll def open a pumpkin! lol

**lionizing1** · 10-22-2014 03:32 PM

So I didn't do any of the October tasks (yet), but..
I had my second lucid dream! :p Did not wake up this time because I focussed on rubbing my hands together.

In my dream I lost my camera bag and got really furious. I kept searching until I did a rc (counting fingers). I counted 6 (one extra handicapped pinky).
I realized I was dreaming and tried reading a birthday card; didn't work out. The alphabet was a cross between germanic and arabic.

I jumped and started floating in the living room. I went to the city to tell everyone I was dreaming and show off my flying skills. lol
Afterwards I did something else too, with a girl.

Next time, I'll open up a pumpkin .. fine.

Question aside: In the morning I remembered I had a lucid dream a couple minutes after waking up. So I almost forgot about it. I think I had more lucid dreams in the past without remembering it afterwards?

**woblybil** · 10-24-2014 12:50 AM

Originally Posted by lionizing1

Question aside: In the morning I remembered I had a lucid dream a couple minutes after waking up. So I almost forgot about it. I think I had more lucid dreams in the past without remembering it afterwards?

We all do that....

**martakartus** · 10-01-2014 10:33 AM

I like the costume task, sounds fun. I'll focus on this one only first, I tend to have bad memories when it comes to remembering goals in lucid dreams...

**StephL** · 10-01-2014 02:02 PM

Hehee - needed to check up on Harry Potter for understanding the Bonus Task: Boggart - Harry Potter Wiki
I only knew of goblin-like non-shape-shifting boggarts from British folklore - ugly mischiefers, basically:

I like that one, it's a bit like a second chance at patronus-conjuring, just in frightful. No clue, what my greatest fear is, to be honest - so how could I summon it? But the costume task seems also nice. And for basic - well - there's another chance to hit jackpot from a basic task...

Going to be quite some action, though, getting at blood from a supernatural creature and being transformed by consuming it. The more I think about it - the more I like it.
My first idea was to summon a blood transfusion bag, but that would be boring, compared.

Well, well - lets see what happens - happy tasking everybody!

**INeverWakeUp** · 10-01-2014 02:46 PM

Confront your greatest fear.

Girls?

**Irreo** · 10-01-2014 03:14 PM

Great tasks, all of them!!

I'll have to do an extra-exercise and try to memorize them all, just in case I have a lucid, to remember and try.

Thanks to all who make this possible, and I hope to come back reporting something.

**Box77** · 10-01-2014 04:16 PM

Originally Posted by StephL

No clue, what my greatest fear is, to be honest - so how could I summon it?

It seems to me that the Bonus Task could be closely related to the Advanced ii. If you're able to summon a Boggart, you could be able to know what's your greatest fear to confront it.

**OpheliaBlue** · 10-01-2014 04:32 PM

Originally Posted by Box77

It seems to me that the Bonus Task could be closely related to the Advanced ii. If you're able to summon a Boggart, you could be able to know what's your greatest fear to confront it.

Yeah Oreo pointed that out in chat last night. So what I think I'll do is basically combine those into one task, then pick an additional one from y'all's votes. Gonna do that in a minute..

Fixed. Plus it's just as well. ALL the tasks were so Halloween oriented, so I picked Dreamer's instrument task for the bonus.

**starletdreamer** · 10-01-2014 05:48 PM

So excited to try these! Especially the drinking blood one. I want to transform into something. I wonder what the transformation would feel like. I'd love to transform into a vampire and experience everything becoming amplified and beautiful like in Interview w the Vampire. Just so long as I don't start to sparkle

**OpheliaBlue** · 10-01-2014 05:56 PM

Oh and by the way, I just want the DV world to know, that I did NOT come up with the drinking blood one. That was 100% task club members and votes.

I've actually been gore-free for about 2 months now

**woblybil** · 10-01-2014 09:58 PM

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Oh and by the way,
I've actually been gore-free for about 2 months now

You must be having withdrawal symptoms..

&ps: Thanks for remembering to post the link..

**OpheliaBlue** · 10-01-2014 10:23 PM

Originally Posted by woblybil

You must be having withdrawal symptoms..

&ps: Thanks for remembering to post the link..

Actually I forgot, then I saw you had +liked my last post in last month's thread and I was like OH CRAP

**fogelbise** · 10-01-2014 06:31 PM

I seem to be at a bit of a crossroads in my practice and at the same time I am finding little time to be active on DV, but hopefully that will change. I just wanted to take a moment to say that my absence is not a reflection on any of the great people here in these TOTM threads or DV in general and to also show appreciation for a couple of things:

* I heard about Dreamer's compilation of Patronuses (Patroni?) and thought that was AWESOME! Dreamer is AWESOME!

* OpheliaBlue! And all of the work she puts into DV and the TOTMs and more!

* All of the people who submit ideas for the TOTMs!

I really want to focus some effort on the TOTMs and to participate more.

I miss the camaraderie.