Thank you for the kind words, Thorn. Of course, I’m not sad about ending up in the third place at all. I consider this LC my greatest achievement so far, and the highlight of the year I spent here. There were so many precious and unforgettable dreams. I learned a lot about myself and lucid dreaming in general, even with all the frustration sometimes. Thank you for hosting it and thanks to the other participants, reading about their dreams was an absolute pleasure.
The tasks I enjoyed the most, hmmm… This will probably sound stupid, but I was so happy about getting to drive that bus in the first week. The stories I was retelling to my friends the most were about playing beach volleyball with zombies and eating in a castle restaurant. Of course, I enjoyed the Vampire/Dragon tasks immensely.
As I said in chat, there were two breakthroughs for me - transformation and teleportation. I need more practice with the first, but having an effective means of teleportation will make things a lot easier for me in the future. I’m really glad that the LC was set up to practice the things I wasn’t good at.
Best of luck to the host of the next challenge. I’ll have to skip it because I’ll need to focus on other things in the following months, but I hope I’ll do even better when I return to the LC.
Congratulations to Obfusc8 for winning the 50th LC!
I would also like to say thank you to Thorn for hosting such a great competition. The LC really helps me grow as a lucid dreamer, and forces me to do my best in a competitive setting. I had some of my longest LD 's over the last couple weeks… that wouldn’t of been possible without you guys. Good luck to all you dreamers in the next LC!
if obfusc8 chooses not to host the next LC , I would gladly host.
Sorry to keep people waiting, it’s been a rather manic day for me.
Well I’m glad the forum was down for maintenance this morning when I was going to post my reply… I have stuff left over from my previous hosting that I couldn’t fit in, knowing it was going to be a busy summer for me with work and personal projects meant making a quick 4 week challenge instead. So my intention if I won was to host, but now I know this, I’m passing to give Jer the opportunity.
(That and it’d be nice to get away on holiday before the end of the summer, so might take a few weeks off from the lucid practice anyway.)
Regarding feedback… week 7 was epic. You probably already gathered that I found those tasks really fun. Also the hoverbike week was awesome - any excuse to mess around on two wheels (even if they’re hovering off the ground) gets my vote.
Bad stuff… honestly weeks 1-3 found my motivation dropping. There were only a couple of transformation tasks and flying ones that I was really interested in. You wouldn’t catch me in a gym or a sewer in RL, let alone spending valuable lucid time there. I love the outdoors… why do a spin class in a gym when you can hop on a real bike and go for an adventure? But that’s just me, and weeks 4-7 more than made up for it.
En’enra really challenged me all the way through with impressive long lucids and dream control. Jer kept the pressure on at the end, forcing me to up my game and not slack off. So thanks to you both, and to Thorn for hosting. And thanks to all the other participants who shared their dreams, they were cool to read… beers or non-alcoholic beverages of your choice all round.
Last time I passed on hosting we got an awesome rpg heavy lc with custom avatars and scoreboard plus gratuitous host-insert fan-fic stories! So I’m gonna take a break. Its always good to have variety, right?
I listened to your conversation on the bus and had to stop myself from laughing out loud, as not to look like a weirdo that was laughing at nothing. I apparently had more than I thought to say, but only because I mapped out what I say in the same structure as your conversation while listening to it. If anyone wants to read what is practically a praise to this LC, click the spoiler:
[spoiler]* I loved the 50 days for LC50. You can always trust Thorn to make the LC mathematical in some way.
Dreaming with the LC Host/participant was a nice way to dream with others. As Thorn said, presences is really needed for this to work effectively. My choices for dream partners ended up being Thorn, Siiw, Scipio and Mew, but that was because I speak to them in chat the most, and also the simplicity of their characters.
I’m unsure why you think the RPs were cringe-worthy, Thorn. As you said, they really gave your character character. They gave the LC more of a story feel, and made it easier to string together the tasks into a story.
Sometimes having so many tasks can be jarring, but the story, and the type of tasks really allowed coherence between tasks. As you said, LD4Small gave a great opportunity to go back and do tasks you liked most or missed.
I am apparently really bad at location based tasks, when they are in buildings. I think it was a good idea to set the location tasks first, because it gave settings that people could go back to and do tasks in, and get themselves extra points. No one ever managed to gain muscle or fat, which is interesting because it seemed there was a lot of focus in this LC about being aware of your dream self.
I loved the characters, and ditto that I would like if it stuck around. As said, it gave people a way to be aware of their dream self, and being aware of your dream self leads to more LDs. As someone who never notices my gender in dreams, having that incentive to actually notice was awesome.
I have to wonder, Thorn, did you read everyone’s dreams, or just update the points on the basis of what people claimed? I would estimate there were at least 500 dreams for you to read, so if so kudos to you for reading them all and being so timely in spreadsheet updates. (Also kudos to you who is reading this long spoiler).
As the others mentioned, I liked the subtasks but I wish there was more pre-requisite tasks/subtasks (such as in “Aaahh!!! Dream Monsters”). I know people complained, but it gives incentive and pushed us to want to get 300 points, especially for me as someone who has never flown in a dream before.
I’m sorry you fell during “An Animated Competition”, Jer! You can blame me for loosing your LD ! But it just made sense to fall and make a hole in the ground when you did it. Sorry for the trauma!
The tasks I missed points for were “Thorny Hawk’s Pro Skater” and “Aaahh!!! Dream Monsters”. Not because they weren’t interesting, (and there was a vampire in my dreams later), but my sub-conscious likes to troll me by giving me heaps of points one week and then none the next.
LD4Small was a great way to catch up on tasks, since it was possible to be small in pretty much any of the other tasks. As it was said, all the tasks flowed together and Week 5 was a way to string through previous tasks (like Thorn’s example of being in the snow of a snow globe).
I liked the Week 6 idea of getting on your own team through your dreams. Not only were you fighting to get on your own team to create a task, but for the small victory of being a leg leader for the reward of getting to be on the action team of the last task.
The leg thing! What! That was awesome! Getting some sort of small victory that paid out to the first time I have ever been a dragon-oid thing. Again, awesome incentive!
Fitting an LC inside an LC is so Inception of you, Thorn. It was really fun to get to experience the first LC, even if adapted. I am glad they were adapted to make sense, and I am also glad we got rid of that penalty for doing a task on a different day. Would have ended up with no points if that still existed.
Also congratulations to Jer who not only won LC1 but actually beat the winner of LC1 by 305 points.
As said in chat, it obvious some people lost motivation during this LC, or lost track of the LC entirely. I know that people have a problem where they look at top contenders and wonder what the point is, but I feel like the story style of this LC and the multiple points for incentive drove me to keep going.
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Excuse me, Mr. TM, I’d like to complain that there is a person here not giving himself enough credit. Expecting people to find something bad about such a great LC. An LC that inspired a person who was against having Lucid Dreams to actively seek LDs. A person who created such a well crafted LC that it was more than awesome to string together tasks into amazing dreams. I am sorry you critique yourself so much, Thorn, but I cannot find a bad thing to say about this LC, especially as it not only gave me ample amounts of inspiration and ideas for incubation, but gave me the most interesting dreams I have had all year.
/me gives Thorn LD cookie and hugs
And thanks to you, Thorn, for hosting such a memorable LC. It will be interesting to see you on the participant side.
Of course, I’m not sad about ending up in the third place at all. I consider this LC my greatest achievement so far, and the highlight of the year I spent here. There were so many precious and unforgettable dreams. I learned a lot about myself and lucid dreaming in general, even with all the frustration sometimes. Thank you for hosting it and thanks to the other participants, reading about their dreams was an absolute pleasure.
The stories I was retelling to my friends the most were about playing beach volleyball with zombies and eating in a castle restaurant. Of course, I enjoyed the Vampire/Dragon tasks immensely.
I was just quoting what happened before, not saying you should or shouldn’t host. 
And thank you Thorn!