Thread: Task of the Month for September 2015

It looks like my wings from last month somehow escaped being shorn! Since I'm here today to report a failure, I need to be de-winged.

Last night I had an unintentional but really long LD in which I tried three times to completed this month's Advanced Task i, entirely without success. That's what I get for switching my focus in the last few months from dreaming to physical activity... but I needed to get back into shape!

Full dream here: Drawing a Sword/Ozymandias (DILD)

I didn't even realize until I wrote up the account and titled it that "drawing a sword" is actually a pun!! So it should have been successful! Alas...

Here are the highlights related to my dismal failure at completing the TOTM:

Spoiler for (Not!) Drawing a Sword:

I had originally planned to draw a dinosaur and bring it to life for the TOTM, but now I decided to start with something easier. I had been at my HEMA class yesterday, so I decided to draw a sword, then manifest it and do some practice. My initial strategy was to simply draw the sword in my left palm, so that I could manifest it directly in my hand (I am right-handed, so I was using my right hand to draw with). However, the lines changed as soon as I had set them down, turning into a cartoon-like character. I figured fine, I can work with that, it doesn't matter what I manifest... but my intention to transform the drawing into a real being fizzled. Nothing happened except that the drawing changed into a different character, and then faded.

Changing strategy, as I found myself walking next to a building I drew a sword right on the wall. It was a poor drawing, chunky and ill-proportioned, but I figured I could fix it in post-production. I put my hand over where the hilt was drawn, intending to grab the sword as it manifested. Nothing happened. I wondered if it would help to reach into the wall, in case the sword was inside it. I pressed my right hand against the wall, which consisted of a reddish, textured stucco. It resisted at first, but I kept pressing, and eventually it yielded like a crumbly semi-moist clay, and my hand went right through. I closed my hand over an object and pulled it out. Unfortunately it was not the sword I was trying to create, but a comic book.

It occurred to me that I was always trying to make the dream state conform to my will, and I should pay more attention to the things that it offered me unexpectedly, so I took a moment to flip through the comic book as I walked on past the building. The hero of the comic was a young boy, but nothing caught my interest, so I tossed it on the ground. Lucidity got a little weak, and I found myself grilling a piece of chicken for my husband's dinner. The image of the piece of meat on the grill was, in retrospect, an obvious bit of day residue from a Facebook post I had seen last night.

While getting the dinner ready I found myself indoors, where I made a third try at drawing the sword, inscribing an outline on the wall again. Since there was a DC in the room with me, I thought I would be clever and asked him to grab the sword off the wall and give it to me. I figured it would still count for the TOTM as long as the drawing transformed into a three-dimensional object by any means. But he couldn't do it either!

Later I got fed up and just manifested a sword directly into my hand so that I could actually get some practice in. For some reason I found it easy to create a sword in my hand out of nothing, even though I had been unable to do it from the drawings! I went through a few rounds of the "flow" movements I had learned in my HEMA class, but found myself wondering why I was wasting precious dream time practicing something that I could work on just as well in waking life, so I flew off to further explore the dream.

I too missed the de-winging. I had plenty of time to save em but.......I suck.

I also have un-clipped wings, I will hate to see them go

Yeah yeah, you'll get clipped. Sorry I've been so lazy. Hurry up and lucid the crap out of these tasks before I finally get her done.

Originally Posted by FryingMan

August Basic (I) continues to taunt me, and probably will for some time:

OMG WHAT DOES IT TAKE?! OK, I'll spend like an hour today visualizing music as making me lucid.

Walking through the building I come across a restaurant/bar where a small group of musicians is sitting (like a quartet?) ready to play. Is there a <my instrument> there? No. I sit on a high bar stool, put on my <mouthpiece>, and play. The <mouthpiece> is a bit stiff and and has a stuffy slightly flat sound to it, I say "it's new." There's a guy walking there who I think I know. I play a few (slightly sloppy) fast runs up and down, including starting on a high A and doing a fast arpeggio down. It doesn't sound great as I'm a bit rusty.

Originally Posted by woblybil

i also have un-clipped wings, i will hate to see them go

sssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!! :p

For FM and wobbly bill I am guessing it is gonna be a party bus.

I don't know, man, I'm getting really tired of premature wake-ups, I may just have to give up the "partying" goals for a while until I get stabilization figured out better.

Welp I transformed into a mouse in a NLD, a far cry from a tiger hahaha, at least my intention appears to be manifesting in my dreams.

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Hurry up and lucid the crap out of these tasks before I finally get her done.

I tried! I was briefly lucid but couldn't remember my task....then I got attacked by a raging elephant that chased me into a basement THEN it turned into a human and we got into a epic fist fight.

I'll give it another shot it's bedtime

I'll give you one guess as to what this was about:

I need to borrow a <my instrument> for my upcoming concerts. The guy in the house told me I could use his. I go there and ask nicely, expecting him to say yes, but he's hesitant (says no?). I have a pile of 50 cent coins to pay him. I realize then that I have a concert *today*! I don't remember what time. A concert today, and one tomorrow. I'm screwed if I can't borrow this guy's instrument.

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Hurry up and lucid the crap out of these tasks before I finally get her done.

The dark f the moon is nearly upon us so it will only be a couple more days/nights until my beautiful wings are restored to me anyways

I've been deathly sick and had a month of nearly zero dream recall...hope I can get back into it with this months tasks!

Originally Posted by Badger88

I've been deathly sick and had a month of nearly zero dream recall...hope I can get back into it with this months tasks!

I hope you feel better soon!

Originally Posted by SuckerPunch

Advanced task ii FAIL

I tried to turn into a rat which is my symbol. I shrunk down and saw whiskers sticking out of my face but woke up b4 I could do anything or confirm I had made the transition.

It made me realize this could be hard to do. If I'm seeing the dream in 3rd person it's not really technically me that changes but in 1st person I can't tell if I actually made the change all the way or not.

Anyone have a suggestion on what angle I should be using to view this dream?

Try looking at yourself in a mirror as you change? That would be a tough one !

Originally Posted by Lauraw

I hope you feel better soon!

Thank you! I've started some new medication which is definitely helping me feel better (my thyroid was a hyperactive runaway nightmare train, apparently) but the downside is that I think the fact that my brain's finally slowing down is making recall/lucids a lot harder. It's a whole new frustrating world!

Originally Posted by Goldenspark

Try looking at yourself in a mirror as you change? That would be a tough one !

Brilliant!! I'm going for it

Originally Posted by Goldenspark

Try looking at yourself in a mirror as you change? That would be a tough one !

The first thing I do when lucid right out of bed is run to "Play faces in the mirror" That sounds like the easy way to me

I completed Basic Task i, Advanced Task ii, and the Bonus Task!

Spoiler for The Important Bits:

Basic i:
I lost vision and appeared in a new field. There was tall, golden wheat grass all around me and a few oak trees off in the distance. I flew around to try to find a group of people to unleash my wind upon. I found a small encampment of criminals after exploring for a few minutes. I landed in the middle of them and then I almost immediately saw a group of maybe 20 little 10 year old kids marching towards me in a line. They surrounded me in a circle and I began trying to fart. One of them kept punching me in the stomach and pushing me around while the others cheered.

The fart wasn’t happening and I felt like maybe I was going to shit my dream pants instead. So I imagined hearing and feeling a fart instead of trying to force one out, then immediately a massive noise erupted from my butt. The kids froze and became dead silent while they stared at me in absolute horror.

I opened my mouth and said, “It was Meeeeee!!!” but another kid said it at the exact same time. Then the rest of the kids joined in and said that it was them while they laughed hysterically. They started pushing me around, punching me, and throwing rocks at me. Not exactly the reaction I was expecting.
I ran away and then got down on all fours and tried to turn into a dragon. I could feel my back sprout wings and I could feel claws grow from my hands but then I woke up.

Advanced ii & Bonus!!!:
I appeared on a gorgeous, white beach. I remembered that I wanted to try some tasks and that I wanted to try to use a mirror to transform. I walked around, looking for a mirror. I saw an old, sand-covered, full-length mirror with a golden-brown, wooden frame. I walked up to it and looked at my reflection. I then imagined my body becoming globe-like and I slowly transformed into a floating, purple planet. I was amazed at how well that worked, so I tried to turn into a dragon after that. While still looking in the mirror, I imagined my body turning into a dragon. I turned green and grew a long tail and wings and looked like a beautiful green dragon! I woke up into a FA before I got to do anything cool.

Transformations and more Rick & Morty Portals - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

My sub-c must have been thinking about FM, I'm still doing last months concert task (with a slant)

9/11
1:30am .. I was starting to play an instrumental session with my old Steel Guitar in a full auditorium and as the piano intro started and I began to play the crowd stood up and girls started screaming and ripping their clothes off and throwing them into the air then the whole thing turned into a fight. Soon everyone's clothes were ripped off and the whole thing turned into an orgy with a sea of flesh writhing in the seats and aisles and one by one the bandsmen disappeared into the slithering mess and I was finding it hard to concentrate on playing aggressively so I gave up and joined the fun, Groping and poking until I was in front of my computer thinking I better get back in bed and woke up

PS: And like FM I had two more music dreams the same day and it's not over yet

Done basic task I 9/11
5:00pm As far back as I can recall it started in some ancient stone palace belonging to a Queen and there were guards searching for me. I went down some stars to a basement of sorts and two guards followed so I hid behind a large wooden box, One of the guards told the other to get some beer from behind the box and kept on going and when the other discovered me I threw him thru a stone wall into a red lighted chamber and he disappeared so I flew over into the chamber and the hole closed behind me, Now finally I thought "This has got to be a effn dream" and then "A task, Whats the task?" I started to explore and found the chamber had small square vent holes into every room in the palace, It was an air shaft I figured, "They want air? I'll give them air!"
I blew a tremendous fart and then thought, "I better get out of here myself" I looked into one room where there was a red bed with several guys sitting on the floor leaning against it and talking about what they would like to do to the queen so I sneaked out thru the hole and they just looked at me saying nothing, I asked "You dont smell that" they just looked dumb and on the floor there was a vacuum hose that I shoved the into the hole and it sucked the fart out into the room and as I left I said "I left something for you" and flew off into awake....

I had a lucid dream 2 days ago I think. I forgot the task. -.-

Where is everybody

I had lucid dream today. I almost did the Basic task II. I took jeepney (a common transportation in the Philippines) instead a bus and I became an ordinary passenger instead the driver. I forgot that I should be the driver. I tried everything to make the jeepney flew but I couldn't. Sorry for my english, I hope it's ok.

Oh my goodness. Kindergarteners are draining my very soul right now. They are so bad at kindergartening at the moment... RAISE YOUR HAND. SIT STILL FOR MORE THAN 2 SECONDS. OMG WHY DID YOU TAKE ALL OF YOUR CLOTHES OFF TO USE THE BATHROOM?! I SAID DRAW YOUR FAMILY, THIS IS A RAINBOW.

First week was rough, today was worse. This better get better soon =w=
These kids are off the wall all the timmeeeeee. Too tired to do any meaningful dreaming right now DX

Failed attempt at the fart task D:

I am with H and C, hanging out around an old white truck at night outside of a big country home. I become lucid for whatever reason and the truck transforms into a long table with white tablecloth. H is sitting at the head of the table and C and I are sitting at the opposite end, side by side, facing H. C is on my left. I think of the fart task and try to push one out. Nothing happens, so as I continue to push I imagine the sound of a fart and a medium-level fart comes out. It's loud enough for H to hear all the way at the other end of the table but he doesn't seem to notice, he just keeps talking. Not sure if he was being polite or what.. C jolts though and his eyes widen. He leans over and whispers, "Did you fart?" and I say quietly (why quietly? so stupid.. lol), "It was meeee!" H just keeps on talking and C returns to listening, then the dream ends.

First of all, I don't think just 2 people counts as a group.. and one of them didn't even react, so.. :/
Annndd.. I still have my wings from last month??

Originally Posted by imazu

Failed attempt at the fart task D:

I am with H and C, hanging out around an old white truck at night outside of a big country home. I become lucid for whatever reason and the truck transforms into a long table with white tablecloth. H is sitting at the head of the table and C and I are sitting at the opposite end, side by side, facing H. C is on my left. I think of the fart task and try to push one out. Nothing happens, so as I continue to push I imagine the sound of a fart and a medium-level fart comes out. It's loud enough for H to hear all the way at the other end of the table but he doesn't seem to notice, he just keeps talking. Not sure if he was being polite or what.. C jolts though and his eyes widen. He leans over and whispers, "Did you fart?" and I say quietly (why quietly? so stupid.. lol), "It was meeee!" H just keeps on talking and C returns to listening, then the dream ends.

First of all, I don't think just 2 people counts as a group.. and one of them didn't even react, so.. :/
Annndd.. I still have my wings from last month??

I think I would call that a win