Thread: Raven Knight's Dream Travels

I was on a beach. I looked around to see where I was. I wasn't alone there on the beach. I saw some people not far away. I headed towards them, and they looked familiar. I recognized Nomad, Angel, MoSh, Asuka, and Shawna. A brief instant later Markus arrived. He didn't pay much attention to the others, he came straight over to me. I waved at the others, who also acted like they had just gotten there. Nomad headed for the water, and Angel followed after him. MoSh and Angel said something to Shawna. Shawna then took off after Nomad and Angel. I wondered what MoSh had said. Markus was right beside me now. We walked together up the beach.

The weather was beautiful. The sun was warm but not too blazingly hot, a nice breeze was blowing in off of the ocean. I didn't know for sure what beach we were on, and it seemed slightly odd that I couldn't remember. But for some reason I didn't do a reality check from that… There was a man there, he looked Mexican. Markus ordered a beer. The Mexican man disappeared and returned shortly with a beer.

Markus and I walked down the beach together. I saw MoSh and Asuka a bit farther down the beach. Markus and I stopped near an umbrella. There were a couple of beach chairs under the umbrella. Markus said he was glad I had made it. I said I wouldn't have missed it. I was looking into Markus' eyes. I was still looking there when Markus was trying to get my attention. The Mexican man had returned. Markus said the Mexican wanted to know if I wanted something to drink. I said I don't normally drink beer. Markus turned to the Mexican and ordered a virgin strawberry daiquiri. The man left and soon brought it back. I took a drink. It was sweet and tasted like strawberries. Markus asked if I liked it, and I said yes.

Markus and I headed down to the ocean. Markus said there would be sharks here. For some reason the idea of meeting sharks didn't bother me even though I wasn't lucid. I was fully convinced that sharks would not eat a human unless they were on the verge of starving to death. After all, humans are like total junk food to sharks… Markus and I dove into the waves and swam out for a short distance. There were, indeed, fins in the water. I dove underwater and changed into a mermaid. There were numerous sharks swimming around us. They looked very graceful under the water, sliding smoothly through the sea.

I got a bit closer to one of the sharks. It looked at me, swam towards me, but then broke off and turned to my right before reaching me. The sharks didn't appear to be in feeding mode, they were just swimming around. I remembered hearing that if a shark stops moving it will die, and these sharks didn't pause in their swimming. It seems people are often afraid of sharks, but I was thinking how beautiful these sharks were as they swam. One of them was going to come near to me again. As it swam by I reached out and touched it. I had just petted a great white shark. How many people do that. I deliberately swam closer to one of the others and was able to pet it a bit more. It's skin was smooth. I turned around and saw I was face to face with Markus.

Markus pulled me into his arms and we were hugging right there in the water. I held him close and felt my mermaid tail wrap around him, holding him closer. Just a bit after I did that he pulled away a bit. I wondered if my mermaid tail had kind of creeped him out. Maybe he hadn't really thought of me changing into a mermaid… He smiled at me. So maybe he wasn't as creeped out as I had been afraid he would be. I was holding his hand. He was also breathing underwater. But that made perfect sense. Anyone who is with a mermaid can also breathe underwater. So while still holding Markus' hand we dove deeper into the ocean, right through a school of colorful fish. The fish were beautiful. They swam around us almost as if they were putting on a show. As soon as they came and circled around us they swam away into the deep blue ocean. I looked back over at Markus as he was watching the fish.

I felt like I was going to wake up, but I didn't want to. I took hold of both of Markus' hands and focused on him, trying to stabilize the dream. It seemed to work, so we swam a bit farther. Swimming over the ocean floor as it descended into darkness. Suddenly the coral reef broke off and there was a huge cliff that disappeared deep into the ocean. The suddenness of the drop made me slightly disoriented, but that was all it took. Everything around me faded to black and I woke.

I like that even though you changed into a mermaid and I was breathing underwater you didn't to a reality check or become lucid. It just goes to show that you can still have fun without being in control!

Yeah, I have had some pretty cool non-lucids. The list of dream signs I missed in that one goes on and on and on... Seeing Nomad, seeing MoSh, seeing Markus... becoming a mermaid, breathing water...