Thread: Task of the Month for June 2017

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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.

How to get your wings

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: one basic or both, one advanced or both, bonus or how many tasks of the year. Please note, that we now have wings for every task. Requesting to join the group will upon approval also grant you access to Lucid Task Club.

Of course you still need to post the pertinent part of the dream here and link to your DJ entry.
Format of your post:
[Basic, Advanced...] -[Name of the Task] - [success or fail] - [pertinent part of a dream] - [link to dj]
For example:
Basic - Drive a car - success

When you post about another successful attempt, please tell me if it was your first or second task from basic or advanced tasks, or first, second... seventh task from the task of the year. I need to know this so I know which wings to give you. If you only say "completed TOTY - flying car" , this doesn't tell me which wings with how many stars should I give you.

Please, make sure you post here your attempts both failures and successes, this will make this post much more dynamic.

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 - While lucid, recall your name, where your sleeping body is in waking life, where do you live, work or go to school at, and where did you grow up. What else can you recall? Recall as much as you can. (Gab)
Basic Task ii - Try biting into a hard object. What happens? (KarlaB18)

Advanced Task i - As you look in a mirror, try and change your appearance, almost like you're photoshopping yourself. (KarlaB18)
Advanced Task ii - Make the stars of the night sky fall down. Find one of them. Is it a person, a power-up or something else? (Letaali)

BONUS TASK!! - Literally flip the dream scene upside down. Are you still on the ground or are you falling into the sky? Will you end up in space? (KarlaB18)


JUNE'S BEGINNER TASKS: (Anybody feel free to have fun with these, but you'll get wings only if you are a beginner. Some will change each month!)


1. Slow down, look around, describe what you see.
2. Touch the ground. What is it? Grass, asphalt?
3. Look at your body. What are you wearing?
4. Say something out loud.
5. Look behind you.
6. Look at the skies. Are there clouds, stars?
7. Make your fingers longer, or your hand by trying to reach for something further away


1.
2. Enter a store and browse. Any interesting stuff?
3. Talk through a mic, what happens?.
4. Grab the gun from a cop. How does the cop react?
5. Enter the kitchen from a random restaurant. What happens?
6. Ask a DC to sing you a song.
7. Open a big chest and enter it, it will take you somewhere... report back!

Sorry Percy, I added another (first) set of Beginner tasks, since the second set is not really Beginner. Beginner tasks are for those with super short lucids, and they need to be something you can do right there and then, coz you have less than 5 seconds to do it.

And did I miss something? The bonus that was picked was not voted on?

Originally Posted by gab

Sorry Percy, I added another (first) set of Beginner tasks, since the second set is not really Beginner. Beginner tasks are for those with super short lucids, and they need to be something you can do right there and then, coz you have less than 5 seconds to do it.

And did I miss something? The bonus that was picked was not voted on?

There was a triple draw, woblybil's suggested that task and I tie-broked it

About the beginner tasks, we can leave two sets then. I got PMs from certain beginners suggesting to up it up a notch. All of them are in the Basic task tier or lower. #4 and #7 does not require to (rob the bank / go to another world) but just open a wardrobe or point at someone with your finger Even beginner tasks needs to be motivating, reason why I change them except for #1, which is a MUST HAVE for them every single month (and good for pro's too, not doing so many stuff, but slowing down and enjoy the actual dream passively, like if you were not lucid, but being lucid (keep RCing of course...)

I agree that Beginner tasks need to be motivating. But if someone has lucids long enough to rob the bank or go to Hogwarts, then he can do the basic or advanced tasks.

Beginners are again, for those with super short lucids, when you realize you got lucid, and before you wake up, all you have time to do is something that's right there. I have longer lucids now, but I remember when for years I used to have 5 sec lucids. I had no chance to even attempt any of the TOTM, no mater how motivating they were. And believe me, even such a simple task as touching the ground or saying something out loud can be challenging.

Maybe we have already forgotten, how rewarding even simple tasks, such as looking at the skies or touching the ground could be. You are very advanced lucid dreamer, Percy, and you are a natural, if I'm not mistaken. So these short and "mundane" task may be boring to you. But these are for beginners. I would like to have them included in every month TOTMs.

True, but I believe we both have a point and a mistake here hehe, so I decided to combine the both:

- In my end, maybe I was upping it up a notch without noticing (even though just opening a wardrobe or saying "gimme all the cash" takes a few seconds), but adding some spice is important. Especially, to give them a little more chances to challenge themselves. This is why, I removed some of my harder ones and removed some of yours too, to make the 7 with a (beginner difficulty scale) to go for tougher challenges (take a shower or ride a bike) or try to earn their wings (the first wings are always special!) with easier tasks such as looking around.

In fact, Gab, I am thinking of making #1 a must in every single dream to Beginners Challenges. Even with a 1-2 second lucid, they can achieve it and at the same time, it will get them used to observe their surroundings (which will bring more lucids) and also learn from early on to stabilize the dreams. (And to find convenient stuff like bikes, TVs, grass or someone behind to look at What are your thoughts?)

By the way, I love looking at the sky and/or flying in my lucids... might be beginner, but it is rewarding indeed. I do it all the time!

Have fun folks!

Well, I still don't know where the advanced II - falling stars - came from. There were votes for advanced II, but none of them was this one.

Why did someone forget to post a link to this for all us wingers?
I flipped the world upside down this month accidentally..

Originally Posted by woblybil

Why did someone forget to post a link to this for all us wingers?
I flipped the world upside down this month accidentally..

Sorry, I didnt notice if this was in the Task club place. I only noticed that its in the regular place now, one day early. Sorry, wobly.

Basic Task i - While lucid, recall your name, where your sleeping body is in waking life, where do you live, work or go to school at, and where did you grow up. What else can you recall? Recall as much as you can. - success

4. TOTM - Total Recall

Not sure where I am, but I'm still in the air, hover-flying. I decide to do the Recall totm. Try to see how much you remember from waking life - your name, where you live, work, grew up, and anything else.

So I thing about it and say my full name, my parents name, place where I work, I clearly see that I'm at different place than my parents. I stop there, because I realize that I remember EVERYTHING! I could go on. I'm a bit surprised and very happy about how much I remember. I'm also wondering a bit if I am not awake.

It was so much fun. Incredibly enough, I also remembered things I recalled in my last lucid and I chose to leave those out of this recall session, and just recite the new items.

Did this, and some other, personal goals, which I'll be focusing on this month and perhaps beyond.

TOTMs and personal goals - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

All those beginner tasks debate from above was moved here http://www.dreamviews.com/tasks-mont...f-topic-8.html

Originally Posted by gab

All those beginner tasks debate from above was moved here http://www.dreamviews.com/tasks-mont...f-topic-8.html

I was about to suggest that to avoid the clutter when/if we get busy

Hey, my suggestion made it! My name is misspelled though :p

I like the other advanced task too, and I was planning on doing the bonus task well before this month! I was inspired by the game Gravity Rush 2, where the MC has a guardian, cosmic cat in her case, that grants her the ability to manipulate gravity. She uses it to fly by making herself fall in different directions. Falling towards the sky means basically the same as flipping the world upside down. I wanted to start by summoning my own guardian, which I did in a non-lucid dream already. Should make summoning her in a lucid dream easier. ^^

A few days ago, I received an email from Dream Views inviting me to start posting again, and it reminded me how DV is the best lucid dreaming motivational tool I've ever encountered! So, I decided to give a try to the basic tasks yesterday and this is what happened:

Spoiler for Basic task #2:

...foud myself getting lucid in just the beginning of a new dream. This time I was indoors, in the exact room where my sleeping body was. I was chatting with my little cousin's DC when I regained lucidity. Again, I decided to bite the first solid thing I saw, which this time happened to be a metallic doorknob. Ouch! Just the thought of it made me uneasy... I already knew that pain was possible in lucid dreams. Either way, without thinking it too much I lowered my head and took a bite to that round probably-bronze doorknob. At first it felt very weird and a little painful, but I then got myself in one of those "mind over matter" mindsets and took a bite right off of that metal doorknob... I then proceeded to swallow the chewed-up doorknob piece, it gave a realistic metal aftertaste.

Before I proceded to get out (OBE style) of the house... for some reason I decided to try the task I just did one more time. Lol. It was just such a weird new experience... This time it was a new door (the door to get out of the house)... the doorknob was very different... not a round one... this one was more like a "handle"... I took a bite clean off! And to my surprise, this one didn't taste like metal at all... it actually tasted like lemon... or more like lemon starbursts!

Right after completing the previous task, this happened:

Spoiler for Basic task #1:

Walking up the street, I suddenly found myself in a place that doesn't exist in real life (as opposed to the familiar neighborhood replica of the "OBE" style dream I was just in). The place looked really clean. There were buildings all around.
I was in an almost oblivious state, when it struck me "the TofM!!" I quickly decided to try basic task #1 after stabilizing for a moment. More stable, I started to recall everything that the task requested: name, where my body was, where I go to university, etc... And to say the least, it felt very weird -as I expected it would. Here I was, recalling stuff about "myself", when I was not even exactly in my body... I got one of those "the universe is truly stranger than we can suppose" feelings. Just wow... to contemplate your life from that unfamiliar state...

Anyway, I decided to get into one of those self-created buildings that were all around me. Feeling contemplative after this task, I kept recalling stuff about myself... I started to see how much I've changed over the years, from elementary school until now... "I used to be an ignorant little kid," I thought. "And now? I'm a f*cking mystical journeyer of the dreamscape, man!," I concluded, feeling elated.

I continued doing random stuff for a while. It was a nice little lucid.

Lucid dreaming is awesome

Full dream

yesterday i had a pretty funny lucid but i didnt properly prepare my goals so i was just going with the flow. i had some nice flying, morphing of advertisment and unsummon of some people. i saw some acid like fluid horizon and actually did some acid again with no effect... (never works when lucid...)

finally at the end i remembered a post of gab with her doing some tasks and i remembered the first basic:

Spoiler for Completed Basic I:

so after the dream got unstable and i engaged with the dream instead of focusing on the sounds of waking reality sipping into my dream. after stabilizing i find myself in a bed? atleast in a room sitting. suddenly i remember Gab´s previous dj entry. finally i remember a task. i speak out loud and say my name, my age, where i live, i think about my waking body and i know its in MY bed next to my GF (but interestingly i imagine a different room/setting where the bed is in) i know the city i life in etc. i notice that i remember everything with ease. i have to smile because even tho i remember everything i cant remember the other tasks xD well good enough. i feel my focus shifting again to my waking body and this time i just let it happen. i loose visuals and suddenly notice me talking to a friend of mine. after some sentences i assume this still has to be kind of a dream and i wake up for good and move to be sure.

this task was actually pretty funny. especially thinking about my waking body. i assumed it would be harder or i might wake up or something but it was no problem at all and kind of meta thinking about the waking body while sleeping
i also noticed that i focused my visual to the upper right and closing my eyes slightly because of "concentrating" to remember.

Hi guys - goals look great and inspiring- love all the new beginners help too

I am hoping to get inspired after nice lucid dream this morning flying through the night sky...was thinking a lot about LDing yesterday and got on DV's for first time in ages

Happy fulfilling Lucids everyone! Missed you all!

[Basic] -[Gab? Waking Recall?(No name)/Karla? Take A Bite?(No name)] - [success] - [First I attempted to recall successfully my waking life information. Name,age,parents,waking body location,etc. after this,I stopped myself and rubbed my hands together to increase stability before moving onto biting something. First,I bit into the bed coverings taking a chunk out of it. Lol Tasted like fabrics,I tried once again,but a piece of thread got stuck between my teeth. I couldn't recall any other tasks,so I went to leave,but took a chunk out of the door. It had no taste,but I was able to create a pleasurable taste of a burger,but remembered I'm a vegetarian. Lol and changed it to specialty fries from a local restaurant.
] - [http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/itho.../deild-81427/]

Originally Posted by PRtitohp5

A few days ago, I received an email from Dream Views inviting me to start posting again, and it reminded me how DV is the best lucid dreaming motivational tool I've ever encountered! So, I decided to give a try to the basic tasks yesterday...

Lucid dreaming is awesome

Amen to that : D back!

Originally Posted by RelaxAndDream

finally at the end i remembered a post of gab with her doing some tasks and i remembered the first basic:

this task was actually pretty funny. especially thinking about my waking body. i assumed it would be harder or i might wake up or something but it was no problem at all and kind of meta thinking about the waking body while sleeping
i also noticed that i focused my visual to the upper right and closing my eyes slightly because of "concentrating" to remember.

IKR? I was so surprised at how easy it was to recall. But I only recalled what I prepared to recall before bed. I was even wondering maybe I'm awake? haha

Originally Posted by Patience108

Hi guys - goals look great and inspiring- love all the new beginners help too

I am hoping to get inspired after nice lucid dream this morning flying through the night sky...was thinking a lot about LDing yesterday and got on DV's for first time in ages

Happy fulfilling Lucids everyone! Missed you all!

YESSS! and Thank YOU! and back! patience. You have been missed : D

Originally Posted by iThousandSunny

[Basic] -[Gab? Waking Recall?(No name)/Karla? Take A Bite?(No name)] - [success] - [First I attempted to recall successfully my waking life information. Name,age,parents,waking body location,etc. ...

to TOTMs, iThousandSunny : D happy to have you here!

When you get a chance, don't forget to suggest some tasks that you would love to do here http://www.dreamviews.com/tasks-mont...on-thread.html
Since you got wings this month, you will also be able to vote on which to pick for next month tasks.

btw, I love your nick

Great job, everybody!

Thank you very much,Gab. I'll definitely vote and try to come up with something to contribute.

I'm back from a year-long break and I have learned a lot about motivation and dedication since I left. I think I may finally be up to the task of making this a true hobby instead of something I come back to once or twice each year. I really love the beginners tasks, since my lucids are often that short and they give me a workable goal. I hope to get my wings this month!

Tonight i did the other Basic Task and tried shortly bonus:

Spoiler for Basic II:

i find myself in an apartment, i think i am already lucid for some time (i wrote down different sequences where i am lucid but i cant tell what was first and if they are linked by NLD or if i just dont remember the transitioins). i remember the TOTM and i think i already hold a cup of tee/coffee i instantly bite in the cup. it is hard but i can bite it of and chew it without a problem. it has no taste. i bite into the counter top. same structure and no taste. i look at the counter top and it looks interesting because its a round hole that is perfectly smooth. i touch it with my hand and it feels interesting. i remember biting into a third thing but i cant remember if it was the table or a stone or something but again same texture and no taste. i thought about the taste thing and that i would like to taste. i know if i concentrate on it tere will be eventually taste. i remember approaching a stereo equipment or record player and while thinking about the tastething then there is a transition again? i think i feel like waking up but i remember another personal task. so i rub my hands and ground in the dream and the dreamscene changes...
i also remember to shortly try to flip the dreamscene with some hand gestures but this approach is not really working so i let it go.

Originally Posted by RelaxAndDream

Tonight i did the other Basic Task and tried shortly bonus:

Whew....FInally someone! This is a very bad month for tasks so far

I'm back.

Just had an excellent OBE so hoping for more!

I did the Basic Task i and made a DJ entry, but I don't know how to do that spoiler thing...I feel dumb. Someone tell me and I'll edit this. And I could have linked the DJ entry but apparently I can't until next week.
Edit//Thanks for the help, woblybil! So here's the dream (I didn't cut anything out as it's not that long):

Spoiler for Basic task #1 success:

At first I was outside near my house and there were random people there. For some reason, they were a threat to me. I can't really remember this part. However, I realized it was a dream (there was no particular reason how I knew) and flew away. I wanted to fly to my crushes house, but one of the people at my house wouldn't let me and made me return home somehow. It was a boy, and one of the "cool kids" (or teenagers). I flew faster and then he couldn't do it because I was so far away already. While on the way to my crushes house I stopped because I realized I could do one ToTM, the recalling one. I succeeded. It was cool. I didn't know I could do that. I also looked at my environment and sky just for fun. The houses there looked cartoonish. The sky was boring. It wasn't even blue. I continued and realized I could fly faster if I was heading down rather than up. There were trees. Finally (this sounded like the trip was long but it wasn't) I got to the house. I made myself small and used some hole instead of a door (????logic) to go inside. I saw though the walls and felt uneasy. Rooms were small. My crush, his sister and his brother were there. I talked to his sister. Then the dream ended.

Originally Posted by ShadowLilla

I did the Basic Task i and made a DJ entry, but I don't know how to do that spoiler thing...I feel dumb. Someone tell me and I'll edit this. And I could have linked the DJ entry but apparently I can't until next week.

Go advanced, There's a little square icon that looks like a tv screen and says spoiler when moused over.click it and write or paste between the spoiler brackets..
Don't feel dumb...It only took me a year