redisreddish's mess of dreams is still messy

Yay, lucidity!!!!

I was sitting in my mom's van, apparently while she was getting something at the bank. The radio was on. I can't remember what song was playing, but I suddenly realized that the words were wrong. Then I felt something on my ear and noticed I had earrings in. (My ears aren't pierced.) I did a reality check, the one where you plug your nose and try to breathe through it. HOLY COW, I WAS DREAMING!

I got out of the car just as my mom was walking up. "Hey! This is a dream!" I told her.

"No it's not, get back in the car."

"Yes, it is! See?" I held up my hand, hoping something would be wrong with it like people say there usually is. Sure enough, my fingers were all semi-transparent. My mom was... surprised. I kept staring at my hand. A breeze kicked up and my fingers started to blow away like they were made of sand. Then my hand, then my arm, then all the rest of me was blown away, too. What I could see looked like a sandstorm. It felt like I was rolling down a steep hill, but it was a relaxing feeling. It probably would've made me fall asleep if I hadn't been sleeping already.

After a few seconds, everything cleared up and I was standing outside my school. I ran in and shouted, "THIS IS A DREAM!", but everybody just gave me a 'wow, you're a total freak' look and kept walking around. Well, their loss. I kept running, looking for my friends. They were in the gym.

"You guys, guess what? This is a dream," I said when I reached them.

"Really?" they all asked. I said yes, and they didn't question it any futher than that. We took off through the halls, ignoring the teachers when they cried, "Why are you running around!?!? Get back to class!!!" I think a girl joined us along the way, but I didn't recognize her. We jumped through a window and landed outside. I tried to remember some of the things I wanted to do, but the guys were already running off in every direction. I shouted, "Let's make a dragon!" in an attempt to get their attention. It worked.

We all tried to imagine a good dragon. A huge green one appeared in front of us, with reddish yellow spikes down its back and a mace looking thing on the end of its tail. Then it kind of... exploded into several smaller dragons, which all flew away. So much for that idea.

Something must have happened next, but I can't remember. Either way, all of us and a bunch more people were all still outside, but now it was like some kind of swamp. There was at least three feet of water everywhere, deeper in some places and shallower in others. Ms. Rossow (band teacher) was there, laughing and taking pictures of everyone on her phone.

"I have an idea," she said. She must have been informed that it was a dream at some point, because she continued, "You guys should turn into some cool animals and take a picture with me." Everybody thought that was a great idea. People started morphing into different animals immediately. I saw a falcon, a giraffe, a monkey, a zebra, some big fish, and a few others. I tried to turn into a wolf... Yeah. I felt bones start to shift around and change, enough that I had to drop to all fours, but then I couldn't get any farther. I was stuck in an awkward position on the ground while people ran past, going to wherever Ms. Rossow was taking the picture. A few of my friends stayed behind and helped me up. I got myself back to normal, although there was now a wolf tattoo on my hand for some reason.

We started to follow the other people, and the location switched. Now it was nighttime, and we were behind the school. There were RVs and trailers all over. People were happily destroying them. A few teachers rushed out and started shouting, but they couldn't stop anyone. Still lucid, I heard a snippit of someone's conversation as we walked by: "...and the faster you go, the slower your arm will break." Interesting theory.

I woke up as we were heading back into the school.