Thread: Task of the Month for January 2015

I completed the basic task about fire works. I kind of did it the first time before reading what the tasks were, http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/siva...ghtning-63490/ , well sort of.

I did it on purpose last night in two lucids.

http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/siva...reworks-63631/

http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/siva...e-works-63633/

i got lucid the other night, and took one step forward before remembering to go only backwards. Damn.
I went flying in search of a crystal ball to look through, but something disconnected suddenly and I was awake in my bed D:

I finally had a lucid dream, it has been kind of difficult recently....

Advanced I:

It began with me and my boyfriend (censored part) I notice is a dream and make reality check by pushing my fingers throught the window, yeah! a dream indeed. It was VERY difficult to leave that hot scenario, but I haven't had a LD in weeks! "I'm sorry, I have to leave", he tries to convince me but I jump through the window and began falling, (with that funny noise of falling from cartoons), then everything is black, I'm still waiting for my brain to make a new dream scene, I began hearing a beautiful bird singing, still everything black, but that bird sounds beautiful. Seconds later I'm looking at the sky and the top of many trees, it's a beautiful forest. I began to fly very close to one side of something like a mountain, then I see there are many objects appearing, those objects are ornaments in my mom's house in waking life. I look for a crystal ball and find...well, let's not judge my SC:

I shook it while I ask for my future this year, then I see again and there are many figures of undersea creatures, dolphins, whales, and there's a voice saying "a lot of traveling" I press my nose to the glass and began shrinking until I'm inside, suddenly I'm wearing swimming goggles, I'm underwater and they are filling with water (awful feeling), I swim to the surface and think "remember it's a dream, so try NOT to think that there's something under the water"... too late, I see a shadow under my feet and panic, (yes, I know it's a dream, but you know pain is very real in LD), to make things worse I can't fly because I'm telling myself I not going to be able to. After breathing for a moment I try again convincing myself I'm going to fly this time and I made it. Then I began to see the world from above, small continents and lot of destruction, very apocalyptic for me, so I woke up.

I did a task!

Spoiler for Crystal Ball Advanced Task:

I remembered the crystal ball task and tried to manifest one in my hands, didn't work. I then saw one laying on the ground so I picked it up and asked what was going to happen in 2015. I saw purple smoke begin to swirl around inside the ball. Unsatisfied, I asked again. Purple smoke began to swirl around again but this time it turned into purple electricity. Arcs of purple light streaked across the interior of the ball. Yellow words began to slowly appear in fancy cursive writing. The words said, "Love over one self" Then a page appeared in the ball afterwards that said, "Wiktionary, By: Hopedoc", followed by the copyright symbol.

http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/anot...al-ball-63637/

Originally Posted by kilham

I press my nose to the glass and began shrinking until I'm inside[...]

It's so cool that you actually went inside the crystal ball! I wanted to do the snow globe task last month but I didn't get around to it.
Sorry to hear the next part of the dream got a bit unpleasant. Congrats on completing the task though!

Hi everyone!
This is the first time I tried for a TotM and although I got quite close, the fireworks never went off the ground...

Spoiler for fireworks:

I walk down the road when I remember the fireworks ToTM. I imagine that after the road corner, there will be fireworks ready to be ignited. I imagine them vividly over a red car that is half-hidden at the corner and walk there to find some strange looking fireworks over the car hood. They looked rather like paper christmas trees, yellow in color - I have to say that they were just as I imagined them - my initial imagination was incorrect.

(Sort of... Actually all-paper and no texture)
Immediately they ignite and burn down without going in the air... I imagine some more in a box that I am holding and take out 2-3 more. I get some matches (they are broken) and I manage to lit them, but again they burn down without lifting in the air... At that point the dream becomes unstable, I am surrounded by some kids and the fireworks burn down attached to a wall - and not the red car. Then, I wake up...

Also, in the same dream I flew backwards but not only backwards and most importantly I only realized it was a TotM after waking up...

Spoiler for Flying backwards:

I fall back to the grass - on my back. I then feel being pulled and I am pulled backwards - my feet touching the grass. The idea strikes me that a square parachute is pulling me, so I grab the imaginary controls and I take of - always backwards - with ease! Nothing appeared in my hands, nevertheless the control was real and very accurate! I easily floated up - backwards - and flew with perfectly clear view of the ground, maneuvering easily my flight - backwards. I was over an old town with lots of grass and a castle.
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I flew towards the castle and at some point I pulled hard on one of the controls and turned around - flying straight now!

Full dream

Another unsuccessful attempt at the fireworks TOTM: Lost Music (DILD + FA)

Relevant excerpt:

After that she and her husband went out to an indoor mall and I tagged along. As I glanced around at the various shops, I reminded myself that since we were dreaming I should make sure to attempt one of the tasks, since it had apparently slipped my mind until that point. This made me wonder when I had first realized I was dreaming. I thought back and couldn't figure it out. In retrospect, I don't think I really was cognizant of the dream until that point, but at the time it felt much more ambiguous, like it had been a latent awareness all along. (I get this a lot—I think there is often a latent awareness of dreaming on some level, in which case lucidity requires becoming aware of the awareness!) That might explain why earlier the dream had soothed my anxieties rather than exploiting them, even though I hadn't been aware of directly controlling it.

I figured that since it was the New Year's holiday in the dream, it would be a great time to try the fireworks TOTM again, since there were bound to be fireworks tonight anyway. Again, it's hard to say if I had really "known" all along that it was the holiday, or if I had only just "realized" this when it was convenient to my goals. I was lucid enough to know that in WL it was much later in the month, but remembered it was still January at least... so close enough.

I walked back to the front doors of the mall, which were transparent glass, and looked out over the landscape. I didn't see any fireworks yet—it was dark out but it seemed like it was too early in the evening—and I hoped my intention could make some appear. I scanned the horizon but nothing manifested. I decided maybe it would be easier to spark them directly from my hand, so I turned around and started walking through the mall again, willing some kind of visual display to manifest from my palm. This should be easy, since in the past I've practiced summoning all the basic elements, and fireworks just seemed like a variation of this. But again, nothing happened.

I tried to figure out what the problem was, and wondered if maybe I was too distracted with the music. Here's another case where I can't say for sure when I started singing. Often I deliberately use music in dreams as a way to channel focus into particular tasks, a method that has worked very well in the past, but right now I felt like I was singing for sheer pleasure, and the music was of unearthly beauty. Now that I noticed it, I put aside my other goals for the moment to pay attention to what I was singing. I was using my voice, but there were no real words, just abstract vocalizations emerging spontaneously in a lovely, lilting melody. The most distinctive thing about it was that I was singing in harmony with myself, as though I had several different interweaving voices, at least three, maybe more. I've sung like this before in dreams and once again had to wonder: what does it mean? When the music manifests like this, so complex and ethereal, it feels like it has some primordial significance.

Sigh...TOTM fail...

http://www.dreamviews.com/intro-clas...ml#post2144324

Completed Advanced task I:

Spoiler for Crystal Ball:

Zukin and I opened the door to the bedroom and it opened into an airplane cabin (from one of the lavatories).

We went to our seats, which happened naturally. I looked out the window and saw stunningly blue tropical waters and many islands; an archipelago. This made me realize I was dreaming. I didn't even need to do an RC, I just knew. I turned to Zukin, shook her and shouted, "ZUKIN WE'RE IN MY LUCID DREAM!" She smiled and got all cheerful, giggled a little bit, and I looked back out the window. I controlled the plane right from my seat, just thinking it should go this way or that.

I looked out the window as the plane turned and bobbed up and down, and Zukin pointed at something off in the distance. It looked like some sort of massive temple from here, so I willed the plane to go to it. I was suddenly in the cockpit, with windows all over (above, bellow, to the sides) and we dove for the water. We dove underwater and flew through it for a while, then the nose pointed up again and we were almost at the thing we had seen. As we got closer, I saw that they were actually lines and lines and lines of large poles sticking out of the ground. They were painted to look like the furs of big cats. There was one aboriginal man standing amongst the poles, looking up at us.

I had shed the rest of the plane; I was now just flying around. I wanted to go back to the bright blue waters, but when I went over the water again, it was all murky and dark. I frowned, closed my eyes, and envisioned the bright blue waters I had seen before. I could see it in my mind's eyes, but when I opened them, the water was still all icky looking. I sighed, and turned back to the land again. I ended up in some weird building, with a layout a bit like my apartment. It was dark and the bathroom looked weird, but it slowly started turning into my apartment. I went into my room, which was just as messy as it is IWL, but in a different way. I found a piece of tissue paper, and put it down on a clear spot of floor because I wanted to find a crystal ball. I noticed an old couple sitting on my bed, but ignored them. When I looked back at the tissue paper, I was pleased to find there was now a crystal ball underneath it.

I removed the tissue paper, and started rubbing the crystal ball. I saw swirls and sparks inside it, and closed my eyes to think really hard about the question, "What with the next year bring me?"

When I opened my eyes, the crystal ball flashed 4 or 5 strings of words. The first one, which I remember, was, "Glück für dich," which was actually pretty promising (and apparently is the name of a song? Glück für dich. Interesting instrumentals but his voice bugs me a little... Not sure what to think about this song, really)

I flashed another German message I can't remember, then a string of numbers, which I also can't remember. but the last thing it flashed was "KI-HI, CCCCCCC!!!!!!!!!!"

I tilted my head, because that one didn't make any sense. I wondered if the crystal ball was broken, so I closed my eyes to try for a new crystal ball. When I opened them, there was a blue box with a crystal ball in my hands. I shrugged, took it out of the box, and tried again. I started rubbing it, and closed my eyes again, and looked up. The old man must have thought I was weird, because he was like, "Are you alright, miss....?" I shushed him and waved my hand, and my concentration was a little broken, but I looked at the ball anyways. I started to wake up because my alarm went off, and I only managed to catch, in bold, loud fount inside the crystal ball, "LOVE PROSPECTS: " and then opened my eyes in my bed. I was shouting in my head "WHAT ABOUT LOVE. IS IT GOOD?? WHAT WERE YOU GONNA SAAAYYY?!?!"

Full Dream

Did both basic task II - chugging wine, and advanced task I - crystall ball at once

It was cold, cloudy, winter morning. I was going from the kitchen to my room. I wanted to go to bed, but somehow I stopped in front of the TV screen. I feel crawling sensation going through all my body It's a dream! I say. I immediately do the nose plug RC. It works! I ran towards the kitchen and think Wait, there was a bottle of wine on the shelf near my bed. I go back, and take the bottle. I looked around, and made some RC's to check if it's really dream. If mother would see me chugging her bottle of wine... I chug it whole confidently, but I spoiled like three drops on the floor. I couldn't feel it's taste, and I haven't felt any effect of it. Still cold. I tried to shoot flames from my hands, but it wasn't working. I decide to go out of house. When opening the door my surroundings have changed. It was warm summer now. I scream More vividness! I see much more details now, and lucid feels more stable. Golden glow fits smoothly with green color of leaves and grass. I can see smallest fraction on the old, wooden fence in the front yard. The sky was almost crystal clear. There were like two small clouds within the oceans of blue. I ran towards the street observing people doing their usuall work in this village, and run into the city. I enter a bar. The tables were covered with maroon table cloth. The room was dimly lit by light going from the windows. Glasses were made of crystal, and silverware was lying near porcelain plates. There was a group of people sitting near one table. I think they were similar to persons I know in waking life. I see stairs going to the second floor. I go there, but find nothing of interest. I go back to the group sitting there. A crystall ball is what I need! I summon my backpack, open it and take the crystall ball. I put it on the table, and sit with DC's. They haven't got any problem with me sitting with them. I looked at the blank crystall ball. Suddenly storm clouds gather within it, and letters with golden glow form. Watch Losif! I decided to go back to my home, and teleported there using doorway portal. I was standing in the front yard. Everything turned back to grim, cold winter. I think I'll learn flying now! I put my hands in front of me, and my legs a bit upwards. I fly! Albeit I still have some problems with it, but I made it! As I go higher dream fades, and I wake up full of energy and excited.

Woooo a double hitter, congrats Snehk!!

Thanks!
I was quite lucky this time. I've finally got a stable lucid, learned summoning and flying with much less troubles than before, and completed two tasks! I look forward to trying rest of the tasks

Thanks for the wings guys!
I thought you have to accurately complete a task to get them, but I enjoyed them nonetheless!
Thanks!
Oh! One more thing!

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

I had a DILD and walked backwards! ... Also I'm not winging myself because I didn't ONLY walk backwards....

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

... if you manage to walk or fly a bit backwards but not for the whole lucid, then you should get basic wings for it...

Originally Posted by PercyLucid

I agree....

So, Ophelia, if doing part of the advanced task can count as basic - and this seems to be the case with my and bemistaken's wings - I think you should not withhold the wings from your profile! Be fair to yourself!

^^ True dat!

Basic task done (better late than ever)

http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/perc...contest-63743/

WTF, Am I the only one left without wings? ! I feel like the Lone Ranger...........

^^ I got lucky and grabbed mine when the grabbing was good -- no LDs since then, boo hoo!

But at least there was a bikini block party last night: http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/fryi...ve-ears-63777/

It's late in the month but I finally pulled it off! Full dream: A decent chardonnay

Relevant excerpt:

Up to this point I was not lucid, rather I was convinced that I was bodily immersed in a computer game (I think my brain often explains dreaming this way to itself), but as the pang in my foot made me contemplate the connection between my VR body and my physical body, I realized that I was actually dreaming. I was about to walk off with my friends, but it occurred to me, "If I'm lucid, I should do something useful." I remembered the wine TOTM. I'd just been in a store where we were smashing bottles of wine, what a waste! And we left on such bad terms, they might not like me going back in there... not to mention all that broken glass... but I guess I'd better hazard it. I turned around and half-opened the door, but then I realized there might be an easier way.

I turned back to my friends. "Does anyone have any wine?" The girl immediately pulled a bottle from her backpack and gave it to me. Then I realized there might be another hitch. "Do you have an opener?" I asked her dubiously. She actually did! She pulled out a corkscrew and was waving it in the air at me, but I had already realized that I might be making things more complicated than necessary. I glanced at the bottle of wine and saw that although it was still sealed, the top covered in light blue foil, under the foil the cork seemed to be protruding three-quarters of the way out of the bottle. I tried to pull it out manually and was able to do so easily. There was still a small piece of cork in the neck of the bottle, but this shouldn't be a problem. My other friend was holding a butter knife, so I grabbed it from his hand without ceremony and used the handle (as the blade was smeared with butter) to push the cork inside. Lest it bob up and block the flow of the wine, I kept the knife handle in the neck to hold the cork to one side as I lifted the bottle toward my mouth to drink.

"You guys don't mind if I drink the whole bottle, do you? I'm supposed to for my task." Without waiting for a reply, I tilted my head back and chugged. I was finished in seconds. Fortunately, even though the bottle had been full, it didn't feel like I drank any more than a glassful. My immediate reaction was surprise—that it tasted so convincingly like real wine. "It's actually a decent chardonnay," I commented to the girl who had given me the bottle. I focused my attention on the taste that lingered in my mouth: very buttery, rich, even ambrosial, with a hint of something sour around the edges but not strong enough to be off-putting. As I thought about what words I should use to describe it, I felt myself waking up.

^^ nice! Indeed, I myself explained my sure knowledge that I was not in a waking environment last night in a dream with the rationalization that it was an awesome game! ARGH! I was so amazed at touching things, they seemed so "real!" !!!!!

Did basic!

http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/nfri...etition-63819/

(what is with the forum? It keep double posting and I can't delete it )

Gonna go ahead and go for BT 1.

Originally Posted by Nfri

(what is with the forum? It keep double posting and I can't delete it )

And I was wondering why some people double-posted today...
But is this the only problem with the forum? It seems it's half-busted!
Btw, nice job Nfri!

I had a WILD and I chugged wine! Well, I could only find a bottle of wine that was half full, then another bottle that was 1/3 full, then a bottle of vodka which had maybe 2 shots worth in it. Anyway, I chugged all of it while DC Danny was rooting me on lol. It all tasted very realistic, like it was as hard to chug in the dream as it would have been in real life. But it didn't make me feel any different, not drunk or anything. But I did go on a sex rampage after that haha.

Love is in the air and all turns pink... but for those who don't care a bit (and for those who do care) the February ToTM is here!