Saturday, 26 June 1971. 1,650-M2. 48 second read. I soar through the blue sky alongside an American black vulture, but I am unwary. He flies on my left until he dives. I expect him to attack the townspeople below. (There is a vague association with Shakespeare’s “King Lear.”) The mood becomes cheerful. The “palace” far below appears to be the DeSoto County Courthouse. I hear people cheering and see a ticker-tape parade. I see people carry the vulture down the building’s outer steps in a palanquin, as he immediately becomes their king. “Pomp and Circumstance” (“Graduation March Song”) plays. I zoom in. From the left, I see the vulture sitting inside the palanquin. The bird has knees like a human instead of bird legs and wears a crown. I rise into the blue sky as I wake up laughing aloud. Note: People called vultures “buzzards” when I lived in Florida, thus my original title. My dream begins with the physiological influence of vestibular-motor sensations (from REM atonia). It changes from spontaneous vestibular-motor responses to controlled and more defined. The vulture’s flying and diving transitions to his non-flight (becoming more human-like) and descending a staircase. A crown appears with increased dream state awareness. It reveals higher metacognitive management of the dream state.
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