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At first all I can remember is the sound of a television show, or something like it, and I was irritated because the voices, of different characters, were apparently done by two of the same people, both with annoying, high-pitched and screechy voices, or, at least, that was how I thought of it then.

Then, I was signing up for a gym and was looking at the different options and programmes they were offering. They had a chart full of icons and a description next to them, telling customers that they offered tailored routines for various sports and specialities. I didn't like the idea of specialising so much and having to pay for it, but decided to choose swimming, as it seemed right. However, it turns out that this wasn't any normal gym, as it was actually a training centre that taught skills and habits, though I'm pretty sure there was a physical aspect to it, somehow. In order to make the challenges harder, you would swap your mind into one of the bodies they provided. For each speciality, they offered numerous different arenas that had difficulty levels from beginner to advanced members. I decided to try one out. I'm not sure how the transfer happened, but it seemed easy and natural.

The swimming challenge area that I had chosen looked much like a typical, large swimming pool, except that there was nobody about. I looked at the body that I had been given. It was a creature about four feet tall with pink skin and a thin elephant-like trunk, and it looked pretty ugly. I might have come face-to-face with it in my real body at some point. I started thinking about the implications of body-swapping, since to have your mind transferred into a different body meant that the information was being lost from the old body, and that was possibly a form of death. I was calmed by the fact that it didn't feel that way, but I did recall an odd sensation of an ending coming when the transfer happened. Later, I decided to have a look at one of their hardest swimming areas. It was a pond surrounded by mud, the bottom filled with broken glass and detritus, the water, which was extremely cold, not really looking like water but something unidentifiably different, and all manner of other hazards around. The body that you were swapped into was weirder than the last one, and it was a transparent, featureless amber-tinted ovoid, which had no apparent means of propulsion but was able to swim around anyway.

This was the second time I swapped bodies in a dream, at least as I recall.

[ 1st Person, 3rd Person, Comments, Lucid ]

This is from night before last.

There were a set of flowerbeds squeezed in the meagre space near some houses and a park and my entire family, car parked nearby, was looking around. It was white and had petals elongated and tapered inward to make a sort of bulb. Below it was a plague, which warned that its species is venomous; just touching the tip is enough for it to poison you, and you'll barely feel it. First, it says, you go numb, then collapse, and if not treated, die soon after. Past the open car door, I can just see a hand almost touching it, apparently oblivious to the danger, and I'm paralysed by indecision, as making a scene might shock them into moving their hand and making them poison themselves. I shout a warning, but it's too late. Not much time left...

From last night.

I'm near a car park, on the edge of a grass verge and across a road runs a path towards the high school a fair distance away. It's dusk. The weather is bleak, so dark and overcast and pouring with cold rain. An ambulance is parked next to the path, and there is some sort of activity, but I can't see what they're doing. It was more a grim sign of injury or an omen in the way it felt. The scene shifts and I'm back at school for some reason, trying to work out, and the buildings are massively extended into a new wing, somewhat creepy in a clinical or bureaucratic way, that couldn't physically fit into the way the real school is built. I'm wondering why the ambulance is there, so I decide to go back and see if I can find anyone, and the next I know I'm there. The road is suddenly busy and it takes a while to find an opportunity to cross over. Despite that, there's hardly any people about. There are now two or three ambulances, and it's starting to worry me. What's injuring people? The only other person about is a girl, who was just going back, but doesn't know about what's happening either. Then the dream gets incoherent. There might have been other things happening, but I can't remember too well. I'm back in the ersatz wing of the school. Sherlock Holmes was investigating the incident. Watson was secretly broadcasting everything live on television, but Sherlock knew, informed him that he knew, and didn't particularly care. In the end, he determines that a cruel alien species, I think the name started with 'q', that uses baby skulls as shields was responsible.