I was wondering if you guys can help me out! When I was younger, lucid dreams came to me naturally. And so did transforming into other things. My favorite thing to transform into was a dragon. As a tiny little dragon I could fly like lightning. Dragons aren't afraid of anything, so no negs in a dream could bother me. It was the closest I've ever felt to being free

Now I have two problems : my lucidity went to crap, since now half of my dreams are about work. Guess that means I'm stressed out. And, turning into a dragon just isn't what it used to be.

Over the course of my college years, dreams slowly wittled away my ability to transform. Dream characters started to tell me that I wasn't a dragon, or that I can't fly. That it was wrong for me to transform, and I just had to be a normal human. And if I tried to transform and fly away, the dream characters came after, and it was like the whole dream was in on it. That gave me doubt. And for a while, I almost believed. That fantastical dreams were wrong because they had nothing to do with reality, or wait, maybe that was just my teachers telling me my artwork was wrong and meaningless The transforming became more and more difficult, requiring more mental effort. But the extra mental effort started to work against me

My friend gave me the suggestion to try transforming slowly as if it was a sci-fi movie. So first I would imagine my skin a different color. My skin color would change. But once I moved onto another aspect, my skin went back to my normal fleshy color. And peachy scales just didn't look right. It was frustrating and difficult to transform this way. I've gotten some freakish results. Once I tried to transform into an eastern dragon this way, imaging my body longer and more snake like. The result was just this hideous humanesqe snake! After that, I pretty much gave up trying to transform. And lucid dreams, just weren't all that anymore.

So I thought back to my best dragon dreams, and the transformation was effortless.

I'd bug the dream forum I go to, but somehow I'd just imagine they would tell me all I have to do is just imagine I'm a dragon. I don't know if they would understand that before when I was a child, I didn't have to 'imagine' anything.

And after my experiences last year, I think this transforming business is more than just changing your physical appearance

What are your experiences with transforming, dream or astral? And do you have any advice for a full body/mental transformation?

My goal this year is to get back into the joy of lucid dreaming. Thats my key word this year, the joy of it. Last year it would have been the stress of lucid dreaming. I'm gonna be using visuals to inspire me before I go to sleep, so I'm gonna draw myself transformed