Dear all,

My dream consists of two parts, though I have unfortunately forgotten the first part when I woke up. In the second part, was walking in a forest. I had a clear destination during my dream. In my dream, I knew what my destination was, though I had forgotten by the time I woke up. I think I learned about this destination in the first part.

In any case, there was only a single path through the forest and vegetation along the path was so dense that it would have been impossible to walk another route. Along the path I encountered a koala-cyclops, that is, a koala with only a single eye, positioned in the middle between where the eyes would normally be. In my dream this struck me as very important, though even then I did not know why. There were no other animals. Maybe I should note that I've never seen a real koala in my life, have never been to Australia and have no plans of going there.

As I walked further into the forest, it got darker and darker. This seems strange to me as the tree cover, although present, did not block daylight to a great extent, but darkness came much more quickly than the night could have come. Somewhat later, music started playing (while the darkness was still getting deeper). The music did not come from a specific place, it was everywhere as if I was listening with earphones (though I wasn't wearing any). I liked the music. Though the darkness kept on getting deeper, I remained convinced that I would reach my destination. Then I woke up.

As suggested in the "read this first" thread, I will give some background about myself. I am a 31 year old married male. Currently three things are on my mind, though I care less about the third than the other two:
- in just over a week from now we will leave on a vacation longer and much further away than we have gone before
- we have been trying to conceive, but this is not working for unknown reasons; having tried everything already, we will start IVF in a few months
- although I like my work and my co-workers a lot, I am not making much progress at work

I should also say that I dream only rarely and when I do dream I have usually forgotten about it by the time of breakfast. Since some point in my childhood most dreams have been lucid. Though I never deliberately tried to achieve this, this just came at some point and I'm happy with it. In the case of this dream, I was aware that I was dreaming but had no desire to influence the dream, although I think I could have. In fact, I was thinking during the dream this was actually a dream within a dream. This may be due to the first part which I have forgotten.

Thanks for any insights,
Anonymous