A month or two ago i was having cat dreams. All the cats were cats I'd seen in real life. One was even a cat I only saw once at a thrift shop.
The more i began paying attention to my dreams, the weirder and more vivid they became. I started having dreams were i was watching someone else's life story.
One of the cat dreams were like that. My roommate's cat appeared, being held. His eyes were INSANE. Just the vividness and the colors. The irises were golden yellow, scarlet, purple, like a sunset, but very vividly colored. Even in the dream i knew it was too much. I wanted to see a normal cat and instead at my feet appeared the same cat but smaller, and another even smaller. Normal eyes but it was still weird. I had another dream later with a cat having the same eye colors.

Thursday night i had my first lucid dream. The entire sky was the color of the sunset colored eyes of these cats. The whole dream was intense colored and vivid. I was walking on this large expansive flat sandy surface, with the sky in front of me and somewhere there a large bright sun. and i realized i was dreaming. Just the sky made me realize it.

I guess the cats were showing me that in their eyes. I was hesitant to experience a lucid dream even though i wanted to. When i did i basically hopped through a series of dreams, running away from my fear. I feel more confident now and i'm going to try to stick with it, even if it gets scary or uncomfortable. After all, i can dream hop and wake myself up, and know what to do basically.