Even though I just joined this forum, I had been trying to attain lucidity from some time back. I used to be able to lucid dream when I was a kind and a teenager, but no more.

However this happened two nights ago; for some reason I did not write it down on my dream journal until a couple of hours ago, though. I have noticed that my dream recall has strengthened in the last weeks or so.

In this dream I was inside an undefined space, colored in elegant patterns of red and black. In the space, with me, there were two large birds, as large as peacocks, although devoid of the flowering crown of feathers on their back.

One of these peacocks was physically intact; the only abnormality with it, it seemed, was that the feathers were tattooed on the strip naked skin, instead of being independent of the body. Dream logic being what it was, I saw nothing unnusual on that (It probably has to do that where I live, in Barcelona, is very common to see people with tattoos. What was once a kind of tabu is now so common that even in dreams I don't see anything remarcable about it)

The second peacock, however, with all of its feathers, was missing the top part of the skull. The eyes were connected to the head through a series of bones and muscle, while the beak (a very abstract beack) seemed to be floating or connected to the rest of the body by delicate ligaments. The only thing occupying the space where the skull and the brain were supposed to be, was a small dot of light or fire that now I interpret as, probably, the pineal gland. This fire was connected to the head (and body) of the peacock through a thin layer of muscle, while this fire or gland floated on a cloud of light.

This is the moment when I was aware something was wrong about the ordearl. I knew that what I was witnessing was neither normal nor possible in the real world of physics and biology. I probably did not fully suspect that I was in a dream, but probably in a "dream-like". I knew I was experiencing something very unusual.

I think I probably woke up after that, I don't remember. I guess I let the very symbolic nature of the dream take me away instead of screwing it up. So even though I were not able to take reins on the matter, I consider it a small success that I was able to identify and be aware of the strangeness that was happening.