Task of the Month for October 2016

[PercyLucid]

NEW: Do you have a Task of the Month suggestion that you would love to get chosen? Now you have the chance to suggest new tasks of the month by clicking the Future Task of the Month Suggestion Thread. If you complete a current TOTM, you will be able to vote on suggestions for the next month! 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. Very important 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. Please, make sure you post here your attempts both failures and successes, this will make this post much more dynamic and it will make OpheliaBlue/Gab's winging delivering much easier. It will be very appreciated! 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 vote for submitted suggestions for the next month's tasks. Access to the Lucid Task Club will also grant you early access to the next month's tasks, giving you a 2-3 day window to keep your wings for the following month. Tasks for this month: Basic Task i - Visit an art gallery. (littlepooky04) Basic Task ii - Put both your hands into your pockets without expectation and pull em out - what is inside? (RelaxAndDream) Advanced Task i - Bring someone from at least 200 years ago to the present. Describe how they react to the present day world. (Spaceline) Advanced Task ii - Walk with your head. (Saizaphod) BONUS TASK!! - Navigate through your dream, blind as a bat. Report what happened in the dream. How did you interact with your dream characters? What sense(s) did you use? (IBeauty)

[FryingMan]

Basic looks interesting!

[Lang]

Good luck, everyone!!

[woblybil]

"Navigate through your dream, blind as a bat." I'll just have to find a girl DC to show me how

[woblybil]

Advanced Task ii - Walk with your head. (Saizaphod) Do you mean walk along with it beside me? Holding it in my hands? Standing upside down? I would not like holding my head in my hands

[RelaxAndDream]

Had a shot Lucid tonight where I was able to complete one task. Spoiler for advanced ll: I find myself at the bus station next to my home. I think I entered the bus. My roommate and maybe another friend are there. I look out of the window and find myself at a completely different place. 'wait this is impossible!' I do several nose pinches and can breathe a little. I "bye" them and phase thru the side of the bus. Outside I walk/run next to the bus, still winking. After some meters I stop walking but still hover/slide next to the bus. Now I do a headstand and walk/slide with my head for some time. Then I turn around again and fly a little at same hight next to the bus. Looking now and then on to the bus and smiling and winking :-). After that I think I awoken before I could do another task.

[PercyLucid]

Good job on the chaining And for everybody else... time to use your ears... your eye's gonna ain't help!

[anderj101]

Some good-looking ToTM's there! I'm gonna try and pull a rabbit out of my pocket.

[RelicWraith]

Oh, crud. I thought I unambiguously performed Basic Task II, but I failed to notice one had to use BOTH hands (I used only my left hand; busy using my right for other things). Hopefully, that's not too big an oversight for scoring this, but I'll let you be the judge... Spoiler for Relevant part: Concurrently, I recalled the pocket task. I reached inside with my left, and felt something thin and flimsy. I pulled it out, and yep, it was a stick of of gum, the wrapping quite worn out. So, I unwrapped and chewed it, this being of the stronger mint variety. Just then, some other random food item got stuck in between. This distracted me enough to destabilize the environment. I tried hand rubbing, but the dream ended abruptly. Link to journal entry: Log 520 - Reach In and Out and Other Assorted Stories - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

[RelaxAndDream]

again somehow just a short lucid but i was able to do the basic II Spoiler for Basic II: after a short awakening i feel pretty awake so i turn on my side but try to stay conscious. i do a mix of mantra and ssild. i have the "planting thoughtseed" in my mind so i think of something and then let go and do my uncoscious the rest. it works and slowly a visual appear. i find myself in a floor with two doors. the visual quality is very bad. i try to open the door but find it to early and let it go. someone else is opening the door for me but there is just blackness behind. i walk a little around and try to chill until dreams form completely but maybe because of some insecurity or so i "wake up" in a FA or transition. i sit there after waking and think about to meditate a little. two guys sit next to me i know and start talking. i am irritated and after some time think this might be a dream. do a nosepinch but not (much?) air go thru. i am sitting on a terrace of a building and there is a terrace of the next building right next to us with maybe a meter between the buildings. on the other side there is a big white dog. diagonally a front and a back leg is broken/corrupt and it looks like the legs are entangled/crossed. to confirm this is a dream (i feel pretty sure) i let the dog levitate shortly. i stand up jump on to the other building and approach the edge of the building. its pretty high. i want to do basic II and i already feel some weight in my pockets. i seem to wear a jeans. without trying to expect whats in there i put both my hands simultaneously inside. a little disappointed i notice that in my left pocket there is my phone and in my right one are my keys [exactly as in waking life] i get both hands out, look at my phone and see that i got a new mail/message. i throw the keys down the building. i try to open the message but he display goes on and off. i grab with my right hand into my back pocket and again like in waking feel my purse but also some sweets. i put out the purse and also throw it down the building. i look at the sweets and notice that i have already a gum in my mouth (with mint flavor) i spit it out thinking that it doesnt taste too bad and put in a sweet inside. the other one i throw to the white dog whow eats it. i grab again in same pocket and get out some more sweets and give it another smaller brown dog too. i feel the dream destabilizing and because i dont remember another task am to slowly and to unfocused to do something against it and wake up. so not that cool... maybe i will try again Oh, crud. I thought I unambiguously performed Basic Task II, but I failed to notice one had to use BOTH hands (I used only my left hand; busy using my right for other things). Hopefully, that's not too big an oversight for scoring this, but I'll let you be the judge... Spoiler for Relevant part: Concurrently, I recalled the pocket task. I reached inside with my left, and felt something thin and flimsy. I pulled it out, and yep, it was a stick of of gum, the wrapping quite worn out. So, I unwrapped and chewed it, this being of the stronger mint variety. Just then, some other random food item got stuck in between. This distracted me enough to destabilize the environment. I tried hand rubbing, but the dream ended abruptly. Link to journal entry: Log 520 - Reach In and Out and Other Assorted Stories - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views i said both hands because then there are more cool things that can appear but i dont mind if you call the goal counted

[Patience108]

I have been thinking of folk I might want to summon from over 200 years ago ......there's the obviouse ones Jesus and Buddha and Mary Magdelin - I wil have todo a search in a mo to make sure others I am thinking of we're not here on earth since 200 years ...oh I spose it could be one of my actual blood ancestors too

[Sensei]

Some cool ones this month. Might try them.

[FryingMan]

Didn't make a chain but nice & early still: Basic II success: Spoiler for basic II success: I get lucid and I find myself in an internal corridor of a large building, like a hospital. I start walking down the corridor and think of TOTM. I recall pocket summon without expectation. I stick both my hands into each front pocket, at first I feel nothing and get concerned, but keep digging right down to the bottom and feel something on the right side and pull out a small handful of small coins (lego-sized), I'm digging through them looking at them with my left hand and turn a corner at a T intersection to the right and ask a man sitting at a small table on my right what they are, the coins are barely large enough to hold just the number on the front, I see "5"'s and "2"s. The coins seem to be getting smaller and smaller. The man answers "that's 5 drachma." I shake his hand but miss the grip and he's shaking my fingers, I hate that, I'm trying to adjust to get a full hand grip but after a few tries I give up on it and move on. I try to think of bonus but I come up with last month's, hatch from an egg, "screw that!" I think and move on. Next I'm outside and appreciating the bright vivid blue skies and daylight and trees, it's an amazing high def vivid scene. There are people sitting in chairs talking and I come across a girl in a (green?) shirt with short brown hair, I goose her briefly and lean down put my face next to hers and wait for her to stop talking to kiss her, she sort of tails off her talking with "mm, well, ok" like she's grudgingly agreeing to kiss me. Quick kiss, the dream holds, I squat down on the ground next to her and keep looking around. Then she unexpectedly leans down to me and kisses me, we stand up, entangled, things get hot, I want sex at that point, I start undressing both of us, then the dream fades. DJ entry

[Lang]

Keep up the great work everyone!! Here: Basic i: http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/ibea...-1-2016-77779/ Here: Basic: http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/ibea...6-notes-77741/ I've personally done the blind kind of task in a lucid dream at least twice before. However, I wanted to investigate this further. In one dream that I have had before, I could hear what was going on around me while the sound was echoing back to me. Also, I could feel the dream character's presence by feeling the air displaced on my skin. So, this is the dream that prompted this bonus- http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/ibea...27-2016-75000/ I really have no time to post the summaries to these dreams.

[RelaxAndDream]

Keep up the great work everyone!! Here: Basic i: http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/ibea...-1-2016-77779/ Here: Basic: http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/ibea...6-notes-77741/ I've personally done the blind kind of task in a lucid dream at least twice before. However, I wanted to investigate this further. In one dream that I have had before, I could hear what was going on around me while the sound was echoing back to me. Also, I could feel the dream character's presence by feeling the air displaced on my skin. So, this is the dream that prompted this bonus- http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/ibea...27-2016-75000/ I really have no time to post the summaries to these dreams. one ordinary user of this forum is not capable of reading your DJ entry´s. this is too bad... too bad!

[gab]

Basic - reach in a pocket and pull something out - success http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/gab/october-totm-77848/ I spent the whole time looking for and getting me some. At some point I said "oh I better do the totm". I remembered it has to be both hands. My right one went in my pocket while left one got stuck a bit on the top of the pocket. I reached in and pulled out two ends to the string thing that my pants have. Kinda like a tie. My right hand also pulled out small crumbed piece of paper. I realized I have my black pants on and I thought that's about right. Kinda disappointed, I expected something better. Funny thought coz I didn't wear those pants in years and I don't ever remember having those ends of the string in a pocket. I spent a large chunk of the dream in dark trying to make it bright with some success. But unfortunately I do that in almost every dream. Yeah, no credit for this, haha. This is more of a negative thing in my dreams than a skill. one ordinary user of this forum is not capable of reading your DJ entry´s. this is too bad... too bad! I really have no time to post the summaries to these dreams. If we can't read the DJ folowing posted links, relevant parts of the dream (the TOTM part) have to be posted here in this thread for the credit to be given.

[Lang]

Sorry for the grammar. Sorry. Dealing with personal hell offline. I almost had some good Lucid dreams last night, none of them were Task of the month worthy. Wilds.

[FryingMan]

I spent the whole time looking for and getting me some. Yeah, you go, girl!

[woblybil]

I spent the whole time looking for and getting me some. If you got yourself some you did better than me! And just look at all those wings (but not for me!) I spent the whole dream climbing a frozen mountain and by the time I realized it was a dream it was over

[Lang]

I'm Looking forward to attempting both of the Advanced Task i and ii if I have time too. I could have done one last night but, I was more concerned about other things.

[Patience108]

Attempted Basic Task of putting hands in pockets and see what comes out a few times - without expectation - in Lucid this morning. First time I had some keys in my hand ...but I had had those in before so didn't count it ...next they were empty and after being empty again I moved on Will try that one again soon anyway nice tobe lucid and had some good chats with DC after that

[RelicWraith]

Pretty sure I bagged Advanced Task II. There was a moment of confusion on what "walk with your head" meant. I'm thinking this should be clarified to "on your head" for future reference. Spoiler for Relevant part: Just remembered the "walk with your head" task. Wait, so am I supposed to walk "using" my head, or walk around while carrying my (presumably detached) head? I settled on the former and hoped for the best. So, I started by attempting a handstand. Couldn't manage it, so I just layed on my back. Tried moving with my head, though it just felt as if I were floating backwards. With some concentration, I eventually noticed my hair actually formed into a pair of legs. Heh, what? Moved around back and forth on these flimsy limbs for a minute or so before the dream collapsed. Link to journal entry: Log 526 - Hair Legs and Other Assorted Stories - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

[Lang]

I think that I completed the task okay. I went back a little more than 200 years to 1816. Spoiler for Advanced Lucid Task i: Date 10/7/2016 Time log starting time 12:58 am The supplements that you took before bed: Never. Dream total recall:7 Total Lucid recall:1 Here for those who can see it: http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/ibea...-6-2016-77867/

[woblybil]

I recall that my head was off on the side while Giovanni Adini performed experiments on my body with the electro-stimulation technique. He made my body sit straight up at one point. Then he removed my heart and replaced it with a fake metal motor thing. What am I?? The feeling of loss and emptiness plagued me. Apparently, they also had to reattach my head to my body. Then I woke up.[/SPOILER] God I hate those dreams! It must be in the water. Last night some doctors had removed the top of my skull to steal my brain but I got away on them like that and spent the rest of the dream trying to make a plastic cover for my brain....

[woblybil]

Bonus Task Completed (in my usual style) Somehow I knew that task was rigged just for me........I very seldom get the Bonus Task. 10/07 10:00pm. I ate some really salty soup and it me nappy, I was laying listening to the AC next door when an aunt that has been gone for about 30 years appeared from the darkness. She seemed very distraught about a friend being in the hospital and wanted to take me with her blindfolded saying "I'll tell you why later" I followed along with the task in the back of my mind until she backed me up against a desk and I was consoling her by rubbing her back when I thought, "She's not here anymore" and said "Hey, This is all big a dream isn't it?" I sort of sensed she turned and backed up against me and I turned into a pig.pig. ink: (My favorite auntie yet) Spoiler for Pig: My hand went up the back of her dress and she started singing some stupid song.,Next she sat me in a chair and sat in my lap still blindfolded with more bouncing and singing then she fell silent and just sat there quiet until I woke up ... You will not fly alone tonight