Circa Late 1995

Age 14

This dream came back to me like a mortar shell the day after I put the rest of my dreams down. This is the first (and so far) only furry dream I have ever had.

This dream is one of the few that had a plot. I could have sworn it was the fragments of some movie I had seen. There were three young boys (probably around twelve years of age) and one other, me. They had found some sort of potion in an attic. Three drank it, but one [I] did not. They then gained the ability to shift shapes. I remember one turning to a rhinoceros, one turning to an alligator, and the other into some bird of prey. I tagged along with them as they got laughs terrorizing classmates with dinosaur shifts on the playground.

Then it became apparent each time they shifted, it was much harder for them to turn back into human form. I remember them seeing this as a terrible thing. Eventually they ran away from their respective homes and went to live in solitude in a swamp. I remember at one point going to visit them, and they were all saddened that they were stuck in their animal forms (rhino, bird, and alligator).

I remember thinking about this dream after I had it, but I find it very disturbing now, since I wish that I would had been smart enough to drink some of that potion. Oh well. (sigh)