Thread: Task of the Month for August 2015

Tried black hole. Failed miserably.

Spoiler for miserable failure:

Did WILD, arrived outside my Nan's house. It was a bright, sunny day. I looked at the other houses lining the street and I saw that their design was vastly different to the real houses. In an instant, and without any fanfare or beautiful lights, the purpose behind this new design became apparent, as they were in fact large boats. The ground below and around them instantly became water and they sailed for a bit. I turned around and looked at my Nan's house. It too was different, but it was stationary and large and resembled a shopping centre more than anything else. I remembered my dream task and attempted to fly into space, to find a black hole. I failed and the world started fading out. I attempted to will clarity back, but failed at that too.

I found myself in my room, and convinced I had woken up, went on my laptop. I searched (God knows why) for humans acting as animals (can't recall the exact search term). The first link I encountered was for a TV tropes page called "elephantra". I intuitively knew it was an invented word and looked at the side of my laptop to discover the charging cable was plugged in. In real life, my sister had it. (She broke her own, so, we share). My laptop was also dead in real life and this was enough to make me lucid. Sadly, I woke up (for real, this time).

I'll give it another go tonight.

Hey,
had a pretty short LD last night but was enough for Basic I:

Spoiler for Basic Task I:

I have a falls awakening where i seem to remember an old dream and analyse where i could have got lucid. i randomly do a nosepinch and recognize that i am dreaming. i still feel sleepy and am lazy so i fight with me to stand up out of the bed. i go to my window open the curtains and want to open my window to jump out but then remember that the next time my ld starts at my room i want to phase though the window. i lean my head against the window and its solid but then i want to pass and blob through it i fall down and start flying right away i fly in the direction of a park and thing what to do. i remember that i want to hear a concert so i land in the park and look for a building where a concert might be. but then i hear some music and follow it. i expect a orchestra and hear classic music. i knew the song but dont know what the name is... instead of a orchestra i see just a little girl at a electronic keyboard playing the song. some people sit on some tables nearby. i walk to the girl and ask her what the song is called and she says the name. i wake up seconds after. i even had the name in my head the told me but while writing the dream down forgot it :/ would be really interesting to see if my sc would be right with the title.

i am happy to see my progress. 2 month ago with the climb a tree task i needed like 5 DEILDs to finally reach the park by feet. this time i just fly there with no problem

dumb thing on the other hand is that everytime i reach a goal i just wake up. i cant stay in the dream to perform a 2. task for example... dont know maby i need to set at the beginning of a lucid not one but two tasks so my sc knows that just because i reach a goal the dream should not end because there is another goal? i dont know...

Thanks for my wings Ophelia ! it feels great

Was raising & bottle-feeding (wtf) a baby triceratops non-lucidly last night.. lmao. Hopefully he'll be all grown up and I can ride him next time I go to the dream world!

Advanced Task II completed (barely)
8/10
1:30am. I was in a cave where gangsters were holding some Indian captives (The biggest Indians I have ever seen) and hid behind a pile of bed springs until a guard came out and I crouched down behind the springs so he wouldn't see me but he dropped something and it rolled my way and he kept following it right to me and finally saw me but didn't believe his eyes then he drew a gun, I shot him dozens of times with my 38 hitting him but with little effect then he tried to shoot me thru the bed springs and never hit me and in the end he fell with about 50 bullets in him and the Indians came filing out of a side cave room onto a walkway over my head and behind the springs with other guards watching them and I crouched to avoid being seen, Some of the Indians saw me but didn't give me away. They went out the cave opening to the ocean and I tried to catch up with them hoping for a ride in their boat but they were gone so I splashed out on the shallow water hiding between big rocks and someone was singing a song praising me for rescuing the Indians ?
Then I saw it!! The moon, " All this time I was dreaming and there's the moon now!"
It had glowing ring around it and was bright on one side fading thru bluish to mostly dark on the other and it looked it was covered with gravel. "Hey, I'm supposed to eat that stuff"..I sailed straight up to the bluish part and didn't even land, I Just scooped up a handful of stones and dust and stuffed it in my mouth "Phooey" It tasted like rocks and dirt so I spit it out "Ptooey: and then said" Uh-Oh, I might wake up on this silly thing". I better beat it back home and flew off into the darkness and I was back in bed, "Whew, None too soon".. When I saw I was waking up I did a check of my hands just to be sure........
"Crap, It's real"

Definetely trying a moon rock. I'm expecting it to be like crunchy cheese... like a huge solid cheese-it XD

Man y'all are killing these!!

^^ Yes it's a great month, great mix of tasks. Even though I CANNOT REMEMBER MUSIC despite being a life-long serious hobby musician. Jeez. Oh, and I saw my instrument AGAIN last night in a non-lucid (trying to lean it up against a wall). At least I started a WILD and caught (late!) a FA despite all the lost sleep last night.

Managed to complete both Advanced Tasks and the first Basic Task in one fell swoop. All the relevant parts are highlighted in blue.

Spoiler for Dream:

Dream Log Entry, Date 8.Aug.2015


I vaguely remember being woken up by a rapping on the window. Someone had been accidentally locked out of the abode. After letting them inside, I immediately went back to bed, and had an unintentional WILD. I was floating aimlessly through the air, mine body completely motionless. Careful not to move mine real body, I let mine mind slowly adjust to the fact that I was in a dream.
Once I was in control of mine dream body, I sprouted mine Wings of the Heart and willed the wind to propel me forward.
Far below me was a dry, desert-like city with futuristic buildings. The mountains surrounding the city jutted at the clear blue sky. As I flew, I caught sight of a tall building shaped like a jukebox. In a practised motion, I made a smooth landing in front of the building and stepped inside. Instead of seeing a classical music concert like I'd hoped, almost everything was black. Here and there, 8-bit figures I recognised from various games marched around. All around me, I heard a mix of techno songs, some of which I recognised from WarioWare.
I exited the building to find mineself standing in the middle of nowhere under the night sky. I looked up to see a full moon. Immediately, I projected mine Wings of the Heart and kicked into the air. The moon quickly enlarged as I approached, and when I landed, I scooped up a handful of moon soil and took a big bite. The material had no taste, and felt like grounded cinderblock in mine mouth.
At some point afterwards, I vaguely remember having a false awakening. But once I "fell back asleep" I found mineself standing on a beach. Behind the beach was an amalgam of lush plant life surrounded by jagged grey cliffs. The scenery looked like a realistic version of the Destiny Islands from Kingdom Hearts.
Accompanying me on the beach was a pack of T-Rexes and Velociraptors. The T-Rexes towered over me, whilst the Velociraptors only came up to mine knees. Contrary to the firm belief of Jurassic Park fans, real Velociraptors were more dog-sized than human-sized. But that didn't mean the couldn't tear you to shreds. Real Dinosaurs also had feathers.
I took flight right before a T-Rex made a meal out of mine right leg, then landed right where its neck met the rest of its body. The Dinosaur easily threw me off, and I tumbled ingloriously through the air. Once I regained mine balance, I flew away from the scene.
As I flew, everything began to blur, and I could feel mineself waking up. But I quickly fought down the reflex and was able to stay in the dream.
Once everything was back in focus, I found mineself flying over a black, rocky island surrounded by lava. I spotted a Pterodactyl and decided to hitch a lift. Unlike the T-Rex, the Pterodactyl was more compliant.
I approached a nearby volcano, and as I did so, I heard an ear-piercing roar. Looming above its peak was a giant, one-eyed dragon. I barely avoided a spray of its lava breath. Still riding the Pterodactyl, I extended mine right arm, palm open, and willed mine Keyblade to materialise. Mine Keyblade, which I nicknamed "Bridgekeeper", appeared with a spiral of wind, accompanied by a faint flash of light. As usual, and just how I liked it, mine Keyblade looked exactly like the bridge key from Fire Emblem: Ankoku Ryu to Hikari no Tsurugi.

I pointed mine Keyblade at the one-eyed dragon and shouted, "Freeze!" A beam of ice erupted from Bridgekeeper's tip, hitting the dragon straight in its eye. The force of the beam knocked the dragon out of sight.
I immediately began to search for a body of water to go fishing, but before I could find one, I reluctantly woke up.

The other night I dreamed entirely about fish, and even found myself explaining to a DC how the large fish I was carrying was used for lucid dreaming... but completely failed to take my own hint. This morning got lucid finally and had a successful attempt at Basic Task ii. Full dream here: "Catbird Fish" (DILD)

Here's how I went "fishing" and a description of what I caught:

Spoiler for catbird fish:

I had remained partly lucid the whole time, but I had been enjoying the dream enough to let the narrative play out. Now that things were wrapping up, I remembered that I had planned to catch a fish for the TOTMs. I went around behind the building and conveniently found a stream flowing by. The water was shallow and crystal clear, so I peered in to see if I could spot any fish. What I actually saw swimming underwater were... kittens!

"Actually this will make things easier," I reflected. Now I wouldn't need to bother with a fishing rod, hook, and bait. Kittens were much easier to catch! I dangled a length of ribbon over the water until a kitten surfaced and started batting at it, then lured it closer to me until I could scoop it right up in my arms. I concluded that the creature I had caught was a "catbird fish" (I'm not sure why it wasn't just a "catfish," but this was the term that seemed right at the time) and knew I should examine it closely so that I could write a clear description in my report.

Once I was holding the animal, it was no longer the size of a tiny kitten but had swelled into a plump armful. It was no longer quite cat-shaped, either: now looked more like a stuffed animal with the bodily proportions of a totoro: big rounded torso and very short arms and legs. Although my "catbird fish" didn't physically resemble a fish, I sensed that there was something fishlike about its bones, even if I couldn't see them.

I studied the head first, which was still cartoonishly cat-like overall, but with significant differences. The mouth was very unusual: more narrow and vertical than that of a real cat, almost beaklike the way it protruded, but with large exposed teeth. There were two large incisors on the top and bottom, but both sets of incisors were adjacent to one another in the center, more like those of a rat than a cat, but wider and flatter.

After studying the mouth closely, I looked back up and saw that the round, wideset eyes were now completely white. I recalled noticing normal pupils before and wondered if they were rolled back in the head. Just when I was thinking that the creature was starting to look a bit scary, with its weird mouth and whitened eyes, suddenly it spoke up in a very friendly voice: "Hello!" I responded in kind, smiled at it, and continued my examination.

It had the fur of a cat, brown tabby stripes with patches of white here and there: a white triangle on the throat and chest, a little white on the belly, and white gloves. I checked and determined that all four paws were white. After looking over the creature thoroughly, I returned the "catbird fish" to the stream.

The environment had shifted around me: the stream was no longer outside, but occupied a room in a building that had put together exhibits pertaining to different countries. I wondered which country had supplied my "catbird fish," and looked around until I saw the words "This is Canada," inscribed under the surface of the stream. I wondered what other countries were being exhibited—somehow I knew there were supposed to be five of them—and if I could find any rooms with bodies of water suitable for fishing. It would be cool to catch dream fish from several different countries!

Afterwards that I looked around hoping to find more places to catch "fish" of one sort or another, but the dream became uncooperative and I soon found myself trying to deal with dream money.

Spoiler for counting quarters:

I wandered around the building looking for the other exhibits, but to my disappointment, all the others were closed. I went to the front desk to ask about this, and became even more incensed when I noticed a sign informing me that the price of admission was $898.99. I complained angrily to the desk clerk: how could they justify charging so much when only one of the five exhibits was even open?! He simply pointed me to a second sign, which listed a complicated set of refunds that reduced the price of admission to only $1.25.

"Oh, alright then." I figured $1.25 was a reasonable fee for the one exhibit I had seen, and was willing to pay. I had a bunch of change in my left hand, and started trying to count out five quarters into my right palm. The first few attempts inexplicably failed due to the shifting numbers and appearances of the coins. "This is really hard to do in a dream," I commented, and wondered if it would be easier if, instead of trying to shift the correct number of coins from left hand to right, I put them directly down on the desk as I counted.

I started making a little pile of quarters, but had only counted out two before coins that had initially resembled quarters turned out to be square when I set them down, and I had to start a separate pile for them. The third round, quarter-sized coin that I managed to produce had a square hole in the center like those old Chinese coins, and the fourth one had three triangular holes, but by this point I realized that this would never get done if I was too much of a perfectionist. All I needed was one more vaguely quarter-shaped coin to complete my stack of five, but suddenly all the ones still in my hand appeared to be the wrong shape and size. I picked something arbitrarily to finish the stack. I was well aware of the irony of going to so much effort to pay for something in a dream, but since it was so unexpectedly challenging, I felt that it would be a good exercise to try to see it through!

Yay, thanks for the wings! I also did the bonus task (post #39).

Woops, sorry about that

Originally Posted by ~Dreamer~

Yay, thanks for the wings! I also did the bonus task (post #39).

Lol, it looks like your smilie is saying "I'm missing some wings... can't... stay... up...."

8/12 Basic Task I Fail
3:30am, I was on a party boat fishing and thought " There's a task for fishing" so I checked my hands and said "Yep! I'm dreaming"..(That's about as long as lucidity lasted)
Lines got tangled and a row ensued as everybody got into a knock down drag em out fight..(we didn't catch any fish)
After returning I laid down on the dock and saw shoe boxes floating underneath, I used a stick and pulled one out from under the dock and it had a large deep fried shrimp in it and I ate it,"Yummy!" so I pushed that box back for a refill and got another box with another large deep fried shrimp and ate it, This continued for the rest of the dream...I cant count it as a task because I lost lucidity somewhere back in the fight,
(And if I had remained lucid I could have had cocktail sauce with them)

Not quite a "concert", but I had two amazing dream music experiences.

Dream music - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

And yet another music non-lucid:

+(f) the protestant minister is leading us in a song, I'm having a bit of trouble following his tune, my note is right at the bottom of my range

Got lucid again but didn't think about tasks at all until near the end when I was already too distracted.. silly me D: Gotta be more AWARRRE

In the last try for fishing task I caught deep fried shrimp (non-lucid) Now I have caught potato chips while fishing (non-lucid).
Maybe in the next one I can catch a salad and make it the full dinner :

^^ Loved that perpetual deep fried shrimp pier, you'll need to point me to the way there...

I completed Basic Task ii!

A Beautiful Beach, Building a Mansion, and Fairy Land - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Spoiler for Fishing Task:

I decided that I might as well try the fishing task, so I reached my hand into the sand and pulled out a fishing pole with a feather and a fishing bubble attached to it. I threw the line into the water with the intention that I wouldn’t catch or harm any fish. I felt a tug almost immediately and started to reel in, and there was a mackerel on the line. I pulled it up to shore, feeling quite awful about it, but I decided that I was going to try to get something positive out of it. I held the mackerel up to my face and asked it to tell me a secret. I saw the hook coming out of its chest and I struggled to get it out while the mackerel was talking to me. He didn’t seem to feel any pain and his name was Norigawa. He said to me, “Inner tail not good, powder is yum.”

I thought that was a bit strange. He suddenly had huge, long, spiny fins. I tried to gently put him back in the water now that the hook was out, but I pulled the skin off his fins, revealing bones, and his chest had a gaping hole in it. I felt awful that I had damaged my fish friend so badly. Dreamer scooped some of the skin from his fins out of the water and stared at it in her hands.

I wasn’t happy with how that fishing experience went so I decided that I was going to do it again! It was getting dark now, the sun had almost completely set and we were surrounded by palm trees. I said to myself that this time I would catch something profound. I started to throw my line out when a long, snake-like dragon started slithering towards me from the ocean, trying to be caught. It scared me a little bit so I said to it, “No, I don’t want to catch you!”

It kept slithering towards me and I felt like it was going to become hostile if I kept being afraid of it, so I banished it to another realm that was halfway between here and somewhere else. I could still see it but it looked ethereal now. Dreamer said to me, “Aren’t you worried that it will escape?”

The dragon transformed into a skeleton with Nordic armor and started to charge itself up with various rpg skills. I told her as I threw the line out to the ocean, “No, it can’t escape, unless something sets it free”.

Suddenly there was a bright, fiery, orange glow beneath the surface of the water that was rushing towards my hook. I thought to myself, “Damnit…”
This huge creature made of fire grabbed my line then jumped out of the water, its name was Diablos. It set the dragon-skeleton free and they both started to attack us. I summoned mirror images of them so that they would be evenly matched automatically, then summoned mirror images of Dreamer and I to use our own dream powers against them. I then made glass walls appear all around the dragon and Diablo, and vaporized them with a powerful, fiery explosion. Woke up.

Quick low awareness LD last night (it apparently takes something at the level of sommersaulting, panhandling oompa-loompa nuns to get me to RC) amongst many dreams, including a freaky-baby FA ("I haa baa dree!"), and of course, another music non-lucid (I give a <my instrument> demonstration, humiliated when no one applauded. Man, why am I missing these?

[QUOTE=FryingMan;2168722 Man, why am I missing these?[/QUOTE]

Someone has cast a spell upon us ?

I flew out of the house with a fishing rod and out across the swamps, Tossed in a line for a catfish and reeled in a toaster, (One of those new cordless kind) On closer examination I discovered when I push down the knob it pops up big potato chips..The always hungry swamp urchins were thrilled with it so I gave it to them and they ran off in glee with their new cordless food maker,,
I see no reason to think I might be dreaming here

I had two non-lucid music dreams in a row. In the first one, I was waiting in line to go into a room where I would listen to songs from musicals. I could vaguely hear the music that was playing in the room, but I gave up and left before it was my turn to go in. The second dream involved a combined boombox/video game system. It had things on it that looked like claws but didn't seem to do anything, had two screens on the video game system side, and had a bunch of buttons labeled with rappers' names on the back. I chose to play video games on it instead of using it to listen to music.

I tried to summon a fishing pole while I was in the ladies restroom but couldn't.

Originally Posted by dolphin

I tried to summon a fishing pole while I was in the ladies restroom but couldn't.

Were you gonna go fishing in the toilet?