The Dream
I had this dream in Febuary after coming across the site and bookmarking it (when its menu was still in the section-by-color-name version). I remember being on some huge ship with a few other people and, most distinctively, my 7th grade math/science teacher. Having sighted her, I had basically thought "Mrs. C*name withheld*? What're you doing here?" but I soon dismissed it. I remember something about jeans, probably because I was thinking about genes, I don't remember, but I soon left for a room in the back.
I'm about to sit down when there's a shout from outside, causing all of us to race outside and see...what I think was the Flying Dutchman. I'm serious, I'm pretty sure I saw a flying ship that looked like the Flying Dutchman, my mind must've had taken a Pirates of the Carribean turn. Someone shouted something about the Kraken and instantly I thought 'the ship's doomed' and then the next thing I know, the ship's turned into some sort of flying ship that reminds me of a cross between that one ship of Cid's from Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children and those fighter planes in the Babylon Garden level of Sonic Riders. Or a Falcon Peak gummi ship from Kingdom Hearts II.
However, it seems that the target is me, so I basically...well, jump off the ship and suddenly start flying. High. And at speeds probably faster than Sonic, because I find myself high up in like...half a second. XD While I'm up there I just see this absolutely gorgeous scene with the clouds and the water down below me, and I'm basically up in the air with my jaw dropped. And then I remember 'wait - I've still got villains on my tail' and so I dive down with my eyes closed. I hit the water, go a bit underwater before remembering the Kraken (and I think I heard it, too) before flying upwards. Next thing I know, our flying ship and I have arrived at some sort of half-water, half-land air base and I'm on some sort of construction thing. Somebody comes up to me in a weird yellow and black bike, tells me to hop on, which I do, and then we start riding off to get away from the Kraken.
And then I wake up due to the darn alarm clock.
The darn thing lasted all night. And once I'm awake and I've turned off the sound of the blaring thing (or was it the sound of a waterfall?), I'm all "Whoa..." I just loved it, especially when I was up in the air above the clouds. Memory that'll stick with me for life, I'm sure.
Why It Was Special
The reason why I chose this dream (when I could've chosen one of two special other ones that I remember from when I was, like...7 and 9-ish) is because until I had that dream, I either had 1) Nightmares or 2) no dreams at all. For the past few months before that, it was the second part. Then I stumbled across TRiPPY's site about NiGHTS into Dreams and started looking at the information. It got me hooked on NiGHTS and it got me dreaming again. This is why I chose to put it.
Lucidity
Well, considering that one of the minor details included me grabbing and putting on a pair of jeans after entering one of the rooms, the fact that the water felt wet, and the wind sheer, yeah, I'm pretty sure I was lucid. One of the few lucid dreams that I ever remember having.
Confusion
The only confusion that I got was from the sudden appearance of the Kraken, the Flying Dutchman, and the sudden change in my ship from water to air. Other than that, I just had fun. Lotsa fun flying around, I think I also did a few loops in the meanwhile (and I normally get sick to my stomachs on roller coasters that do loop-the-loops in real life). Wonderful story-dream thing.
A Second Seeing
Dang, I'd love to have this dream again. Maybe a little bit differently, so that way I could actually attack the Kraken instead of just flying and dodging stuff. The main reason why I'd love to have it again is because it made me feel like I had done something right by finding TRiPPY's site and bookmarking it for future reference. I've been having a lot of flying dreams lately, but that was the first one I had after a long gap of complete unconsciousness while I slept.