Draconic Summit Spring 2023 - draconic-experiences-1

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(A Vuulluunnthhaaiiill Lol) pinned a message to this channel. 6/3/2023 9:12 pm

I’ve been thinking a lot about the state of my draconity lately, especially after going through a phase of identity crisis a few weeks ago. I realized that my sense of self and knowing of the entity I know as Luunaathh will never be fully understood by my being, essentially always being a mystery. I’m going to discuss this a lot more in my draconic discussion panel tomorrow, though my experience with draconity is confusing, bleh.

That's not a bad thing Luunaathh, there's always room for growth and discovery.

4:35 pm

I can understand why it would be frustrating for you, though that simply means there is always more to know about yourself. It's good to be unique.

I mean, I don’t have memories, I can’t label my existence as related to a past life, current life, or future life, I can’t even call myself a dragon due to the nature of Luunaathh/myself, I can’t even describe my draconity in a solid sentence without missing a lot of important context. I’m not necessarily frustrated about it, though I don’t have anyone to relate to and there’s so much questioning to be done regarding myself.

Just be like a mystery snail, a mystery.

Mystery snail…

4:39 pm

I love those beans ;;

Also yes, I know apple snails/mystery snails have been studied a lot, though regardless, mystery is in their name.

4:40 pm

Instead of talking about what you don't know about yourself, you should instead be talking about what you do know.

I know bean, I was just making a remark in my first message voidcatblep

Fair

I’m going to be moving to a mountain town in Washington state within a year or so and the more I think about it, the more excited and passionate I am about the move. I’m in a toxic home situation at the moment that I need to get away from, though also, I’ll be able to explore my draconity and my therianthropy much more since I won’t be tied down by a toxic situation. I can’t drive due to disability, so I won’t be able to go anywhere outside my area for about 20 miles or so, though having the opportunity both escape from my bad household situation and be in an environment where I’m connected with myself and in nature where I feel most like myself is much better for my being in the end, even if I am putting myself in some level of risk.

7:10 pm

The Washington mountains and cascades really invoke the draconic feelings within my being…

7:10 pm

Like this? This invokes so much draconic euphoria in my being

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As long as you're careful, since you will be living alone in that state.

8:07 pm

You won't have a support system or anyone to support you anywhere near you, so just keep that in mind love. (edited)

just gotta build a new support system

That’s fair

not saying it's an easy thing to do, but it's possible

I'm also here to guide Luunaathh through anything, though I always advise caution before anything else.

Alaph has never taken a risk at any time in his existence, only extremely calculated ones XD

Yes

(Luunaathh)

Like this? This invokes so much draconic euphoria in my being

omc this is so pretty ghghah

Washington cascades are amazing ;;

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gotta look em up now owo

2:00 am

ohhh theyre part of the coast mountains thats so cool

Ye! I always see those mountains in my dreams actually

that sounds amazing a

I want to go to Shenandoah sometime since that's our closest mountain (and by closest I mean like, 1+ hours away lol) It'd have to be any time that's not summer though, I could never hike in the summer

everything around me is crazy flat DarkstalkerSad

Hiking in the summer heat is... oof

2:33 am

Unless you're by a river or in a shaded forest.

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Lookie lookie, I wrote a thing! I didn't expect to actually finish it tonight, so maybe I'll do another one tomorrow dragonthonk

https://drakmanka.wixsite.com/the-dorks/post/drakmanka-writes-a-blog-to-celebrate-the-2023-spring-draconic-summit

Drakmanka Writes: A Blog to Celebrate the 2023 Spring Draconic Summit

I wanted to write something about how I experience my Draconity for this Summit. For inspiration, I turned to some saved Otherkin questionaires and picked out two questions that spoke to me. I have reworded them slightly from the originals to better fit the topic at hand: What are some of the mythological, magical, religious, fictional, or cultu...

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I've bought horns a few months ago, and I've been wearing them almost everyday since

They bring me a great feeling of euphoria (even if people tend to call me deer) ✨ The true shape of my horns is still unknown to me, but I like these very much, so it's ok if in the end that's not how my horns look like ^^

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Very cool!

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(Luunaathh)

I’m going to be moving to a mountain town in Washington state within a year or so and the more I think about it, the more excited and passionate I am about the move. I’m in a toxic home situation at the moment that I need to get away from, though also, I’ll be able to explore my draconity and my therianthropy much more since I won’t be tied down by a toxic situation. I can’t drive due to disability, so I won’t be able to go anywhere outside my area for about 20 miles or so, though having the opportunity both escape from my bad household situation and be in an environment where I’m connected with myself and in nature where I feel most like myself is much better for my being in the end, even if I am putting myself in some level of risk.

I have lived the last three years in a small town in Shenandoah and I love being surrounded by mountains.

I wish we had mountains. The highest thing in this country geographically classifies as a "hill" dragnyell

We have the beach where I live, though everything else is extremely flat

But it also makes it more special when I do get to see and be around mountains. Maybe that way I can appreciate it even more.

I've lived on two beaches and in two mountain valleys and by far I love this one the most

I grew up in place where we don't have much for topography, but I moved to the western US a few years ago

5:05 pm

SO many mountains

5:05 pm

It's absolutely lovely and makes me very shifty

5:06 pm

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I believe it's impossible to ever tire of a view like that.

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I love mountains. Everything is mostly flat where I am but I visited the rockys and Shenandoah and both times I didn't want to leave. I belong with the mountains and the sea

I'd be OK with the flat here if the beaches were nicer

6:42 pm

definitely need to go to the keys again someday and see the cute little key deer

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Wow... just seeing this makes me want to spread my wings and take off. Looks immensely breathtaking, thanks for sharing.

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Ngl, I was having major shifts when I took this picture!

god I LOVE mountains

7:07 pm

unfortunately I live in Texas so we don't rlly have mountains but when I was a dragon I lived in this beautiful rainy mountain range

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Currently basking in the sun coming from my office windows and it's glorious

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(Luunaathh)

Like this? This invokes so much draconic euphoria in my being

GLORIOUS

How are you all feeling during the summit? Feeling any more draconic than usual?

Definitely dragnheart

Just a tad extra dragony. But it comes and goes tbh. I struggle with feelings like these wavering. Even if I know that feelings of draconity can waver.

(Auullthhuunnaakk)

How are you all feeling during the summit? Feeling any more draconic than usual?

a noticeable increase of derglyness in the air

I was actually in the middle of typing out for myself how I've been feeling since the start of this summit. I guess I can post it here.

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Oh absolutely

Please :>

More ferally dragon than usual. I'm usually shifted in some way

(•Auuthhiiiviiirrokk•) ↩️

Reply to: How are you all feeling during the summit? Feeling any more draconic than usual?

I honestly can’t say I’ve felt much different, I’ve been so focused on making sure the draconic summit runs smoothly that I haven’t really had time to focus on myself and how I’m feeling.

It's not long, but it sums it up as well as I can right now: I just want to say that I really enjoyed this first day. I haven't felt this spiritual and energetic atmosphere among Dragonkin since the 00's and it does my soul good to see so many different beings together and sharing their experiences and memories with eachother. This probably sounds extremely exaggerated, but I can't truly express in any language how peaceful my spiritual state is right now. I really believe and feel I found my way back home.

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It doesn’t sound exaggerated! I’m glad that the summit has made you feel more like yourself and has put you in a good mood! ^.=.^

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I dread going to bed, I don't want to lose this feeling.

If it helps, I don't think you'll lose the feeling forever. We still have two days of the summit to go and the next summit is only 3/4ths of a year away.

11:01 pm

We also occasionally have conversations and events in the celestial spire that others have said gives them similar good feelings.

I sadly have my weekend completely filled with mundane stuff I can't cancel. That's my main issue why I keep lingering now instead of going to bed.

I see, I can understand how you feel then.

(Auullthhuunnaakk)

How are you all feeling during the summit? Feeling any more draconic than usual?

Definetly yep, I always feel my tail but I've been feeling phantom scales stronger too!!

(Auullthhuunnaakk)

We also occasionally have conversations and events in the celestial spire that others have said gives them similar good feelings.

That's good to hear, I'm glad to have joined then. I don't know why, but I've always felt a strong need to help the community, and with being gone from it for so long has made me forget how good it feels to interact with everyone and hopefully start to help 'kin again.

i've already been kinda very dragon today but after joining, i have been VERY dragon

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:>

Same

11:06 pm

I've been meaning to redesign my older dragon to be more in line with my actual feelings (the ones I mentioned in my intro) but it's just been hard to deal with artist's block

Then I hope this summit and the atmosphere in here will erase that artist's block!

I'm sure I'll get over it soon with how much my partners (particularly Hrael) have been encouraging me to do this

don't have to call me out smh

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I do love the hills and mountains of my new region, in the Tennessee Valley and Smokies range of the Appalachians. But i love that more than anything this place has lots of forest and trees. There are mountains near my draconic half's home, which is more than anything, a forest/jungle. Granted, she bucked the norm, and chose to carve out a seaside cliff cave, rather than live within the forested city she belongs to.

A cliff cave sounds pleasant

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Revolution Radio

A cliff cave sounds pleasant

one of my Kinsonas Sin'aoi lives in Aspen, just outside it an elevated cave with a river that runs right through the forest The cool thing is, the cave is actually an asteroid that struck a very long long time ago (edited)

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Oh? Would you like to talk more about it?

Revolution Radio

A cliff cave sounds pleasant

It so is! It also does exactly what it's location was intended to: Keep people away unless they really want to visit me.

But yes, it's a beautiful sight, looking out over the strait from my island home to the mainland. Good number of shoals at the bottom though, and the seacliff winds are insane or awesome, depending on preference. Makes it very difficult without lots of practice to just fly down and into the cave. So i have a walkpath that leads up to the meadow above (where i have a latticed garden) and down to a landing area where the winds are minimal. (Also functions as swim access!)

Revolution Radio

Oh? Would you like to talk more about it?

that'd be a very, very long story trying to explain Sin'aoi-

understandable

[{Adel}]

that'd be a very, very long story trying to explain Sin'aoi-

Feel that one. I can, and have, spent literal days talking about my world, home, and culture. It simply takes WAY too long to talk about it all!

Sin'aoi is an old boye, he has been around in my life since mid 2017 so around 6-7 years 6-7 years of development.

I only made my dragon in 2020 and it kind of slipped from my memory until lately, and when I redesign it I'm considering a rename (current name is Krysioc, which I think I got from bashing a syllable into a foreign word, I think from something from the British Isles? But my memory there is extremely hazy, I barely remember anything from 2020 admittedly)

[{Adel}]

Sin'aoi is an old boye, he has been around in my life since mid 2017 so around 6-7 years 6-7 years of development.

Makes sense. For me i've been recollecting bits and pieces of R'Thak since the early 00s. So, around 20 years now. But the planet itself is old, as well as our species, along with their predecessor race. While i only have bits and pieces of various specific eras, i'm aware that our historical record is at least 8 billion years old. (From my draconic half's perspective, as her worldline is advanced by around 4 billion years beyond our "now", by my best guess. Which isnt much, mind you. I used a R'Thakian legend to align a rough estimate.)

3:19 am

Incidentally, from my memories, and other related experiences, i've even worked up an estimated minimal stellar system of R'Thak. ADHD and ASD, by you powers combined, i am HYPERFOCUS SAVANT MODE!!

@Drakmanka continuing from #text-chat-movie For us a full shed is not alarming. Our scales are made of nacre, like a pearl and clam shells are. They're not for "armor" in the traditional sense, but to blunt the sensitivity of our skin as well as provide ablative protection from blunt physical impacts. (Such as clipping a tree, limb, crashing, etc.) As such, our scales also do not immediately begin regrowing after being broken. Unless we suffer a large amount of scale loss, our body "rejects" the old, worn scales regularly, and we regrow the entire coat in that time.

continuing on from #text-chat-movie, this unique mechanism applies to ice dragons as well as temperate ice dragons

3:37 am

which are basically ice dragons that have adapted to warmer regions

Dragonne

@Drakmanka continuing from #text-chat-movie For us a full shed is not alarming. Our scales are made of nacre, like a pearl and clam shells are. They're not for "armor" in the traditional sense, but to blunt the sensitivity of our skin as well as provide ablative protection from blunt physical impacts. (Such as clipping a tree, limb, crashing, etc.) As such, our scales also do not immediately begin regrowing after being broken. Unless we suffer a large amount of scale loss, our body "rejects" the old, worn scales regularly, and we regrow the entire coat in that time.

Oh wow, that's fascinating! My species' scales were made of enamel, similar to human fingernails in fact. But unlike fingernails they didn't keep growing ceaselessly, but were more like a hair where eventually the "root" of the scale would go dormant, the scale would loosen and eventually fall out. Then pretty much as soon as the "dead" scale was out of the way a new one would begin to grow. Each of our scales across our body had a unique "root" and they cycled through dormancy/active periods, and they were staggered across the body so we generally didn't shed scales that were next to each other at the same time unless there had been some damage done that resulted in them falling out prematurely.

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[{Adel}]

continuing on from #text-chat-movie, this unique mechanism applies to ice dragons as well as temperate ice dragons

Without the candlewax-like substance, the scales would be incredibly brittle, flaky and dull in colour

3:47 am

sort of like ceramics; if you leave it out for too long without wetting it, it becomes bone dry and brittle.

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Dragons upon Aiiithhaaiiill'iiill'Phhiiirriiitthaallkkaa never shed. Their scales are permanently attached to their bodies. The scales never regrow if they're taken off, though dragon scales upon home are notoriously tough.

most dragons like Sin'aoi have scales that are incredibly resistant to and against wind related damage, so the chances are small bullets wouldn't do much from a few metres away

@Ember I'm curious, what exactly is a "Draak"?

The Dutch word for Dragon, but I don't know if they mean that.

[{Adel}]

@Ember I'm curious, what exactly is a "Draak"?

in my case it's referring to the type of dragon that appears in Golden Treasure: The Great Green. I've come to very strongly identify as such ^^

oooh

is one of the greatly recommended media title for dragonkind (edited)

oh yes definitely recommend giving it a try

This is the only official art piece I have saved right now psh, hopefully it gives a rough idea Highly recommend GT:TGG. It is very near and dear to my heart, everything about it struck a chord in me

I just found that the way draak are depicted in that game, not just their physical features but their mindset, philosophy, spirituality, the way they tend to perceive the world.. it all really resonated with me

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I just found that the way draak are depicted in that game, not just their physical features but their mindset, philosophy, spirituality, the way they tend to perceive the world.. it all really resonated with me

Sounds like I should get that game, that seems very intriguing!

TIL my nickname is just one letter off from just meaning "dragon" again

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Drakmanka

TIL my nickname is just one letter off from just meaning "dragon" again

I had noticed that, given i already knew what Draak meant, language wise.

@Dragonne Continuing our chat from #panel-discussion-2 since it was starting to go off-topic: Funny how often the things that most interest someone who isn't from somewhere, are the things that least interest the natives? Or are just taken completely for granted! I never really thought about it until I Awakened and started to realize just how much stuff there was to know about my dragon life. Not just the span of years I lived, but all the other people I knew and the societies and cultures that existed. Some of it was sort of intuitive and I didn't consciously think about it until I started talking with other Dragonkin about it and people started asking me questions about details I'd never thought about at all before.

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@Dragonne Continuing our chat from #panel-discussion-2 since it was starting to go off-topic: Funny how often the things that most interest someone who isn't from somewhere, are the things that least interest the natives? Or are just taken completely for granted! I never really thought about it until I Awakened and started to realize just how much stuff there was to know about my dragon life. Not just the span of years I lived, but all the other people I knew and the societies and cultures that existed. Some of it was sort of intuitive and I didn't consciously think about it until I started talking with other Dragonkin about it and people started asking me questions about details I'd never thought about at all before.

Exactly! Like, for my other half, the basics of how the Clans are are just... obvious, not important but deeply ingrained, so i understand those aspects. But anything more than the "obvious" surface level stuff just isnt availble outright for me, as most R'Thakians focus on their own Clan's internal politics. So i know a lot more about we Lorekeepers, than any other clan. I know more about the Smiths than the other clans because my Mate is technically a Smith. (She's half-Smith half-Lorekeeper biologically, but is culturally Smith, while i'm culturally Lorekeeper.) So the virtue that my Mate is Smith ingrains just a little more about her Clan than others. But not much. And, of course, many things that are important to my other half i'm just not suppose to be allowed access to. Thus, the Seal to prevent that knowledge from precipitating. Or, at least easily. So things like histocultural info on the sapient species R'Thakians know about is locked away, even though it's important to her. But the Seal cannot entirely bar me from the precipitation, so i get fragments of knowledge. Such as incredibly interested but contextless theories about why most species are bipedal or quadrupedal; why bipeds so often evolve to look human-ish in form, or why quadrupeds are almost entirely predatory carnivores. (All according to the knowledge my other half has access to. Basically: star trek was kind of right... and i have no idea WHY.)

Basically: star trek was kind of right... and i have no idea WHY.)

Oh that would be so utterly infuriating to have some knowledge but not the most important aspect of it: the why!!! I'm curious, you've talked about this Seal before and it makes a certain amount of sense since you two are from realities that are different enough as to make it hard for someone from one to fully comprehend the other, but does it go both ways? Does your R'Thakian half also have weird meta knowledge of your life but lacking context? Or is she more able to understand our world because the Seal isn't needed to go both ways?

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Drakmanka

Basically: star trek was kind of right... and i have no idea WHY.)

Oh that would be so utterly infuriating to have some knowledge but not the most important aspect of it: the why!!! I'm curious, you've talked about this Seal before and it makes a certain amount of sense since you two are from realities that are different enough as to make it hard for someone from one to fully comprehend the other, but does it go both ways? Does your R'Thakian half also have weird meta knowledge of your life but lacking context? Or is she more able to understand our world because the Seal isn't needed to go both ways?

It does go both ways. She does have a filter of many of my own experiences. She probably has more than i do, as the Seal itself is not both ways. It's physically-mentally attached to only her, as it's a higher-order type magic designed to primarily work on the conscious mind by digging into the subconscious. So there are more restrictions on her knowledge filtering than there are on my own. However, she probably also has more context than i'd guess based on my lack of context. I know she does not understand everything, because during those rare directly conversations we have, i sometimes have to expand on idioms and ideas that she lacks. But i think she has basic understanding of most things she gets from me. (edited)

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Cross posted from #spirituality-discussion-1 So, the legend i know from R'Thakian lore is framed as a mythical like story. It tells of the idea that doom was prophesied to R'Thak in the form of a great, dark star-dragon coming to destroy the planet. It tells about a cursed child, as well as all of R'Thak trying to come together to figure out how to prevent this catastrophe. It also tells of how all efforts will fail, as the planet ices over. The thing is, using some clues in the long-form of the story, which i'm unable to fully describe as it's in R'Thakian, and something I'm only partially consciously aware of, and coordinating with my other half, i've come to understand this story is not mythical at all. But a framing for a real historical event in R'Thakian history. It was probably framed as a story in order to be important and passed down to children orally. What i believe the great dark space dragon was was probably a black hole, maybe, or a massive rouge planetary body. It came too close to the R'Thakian stellar system, and destabilized our orbit. There are records of this time in R'Thakian history, but this is one of those eras where we have scattered records at best, much like our progenitor's post-collapse.

12:20 am

The reason is believed to be because we R'Thakians, at that time, ascended. However, i've always been confused at the idea that we are actually ascended, because it's not reasonable that my other half is. We both agree to this. Likewise, R'Thak as we know it is and was not an iceball. Then, or sense then. Well, my hypothesis is that with rogue body, the planet was knocked out of orbit. R'Thakians have never had true space flight or really entertained thoughts, as a society, about interplanetary colonization. This is due to multiple factors, but suffice it to say, they were basically trapped on a dying planet. I believe they might have pulled their collective experiences, and did exactly what we R'Thakians are taught not to do: use forbidden magics and alter our course of destiny. In other words, the only way to leave the planet and survive was to... leave. Reality, that is. They basically pulled the entire populous all at once into a high plane of being. From here my best guess is that they either corrected the orbit and then re-incorporated, effectively "descending". Alternatively, they did this by choosing a different worldline with a R'Thak that never evolved sapient species. (This is one of my alternative theories as to why my other half is both in my future, as well as aside me temporally.) This all is important because some of those clues in the story point to this rogue body coming with a change of the skys. I believe they meant "stars", a "change in the stars". This points to a merging of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies. The merging is not expected to have a serious chance of any particular gravity well incepting another, currently on earth. But... what if that near-zero chance is exactly what happened to R'Thak? That would put my other half's legend time line at around four billions from where we see things. (edited)

Interesting!

hey folks, figured I'd share my little 2¢ of story of how I "came to be" (5¢ in Canada). May not be quite as elaborate as some of y'all's since I lack the past memories thing

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Go ahead!

All through growing up, I never really felt like I fit in anyplace. In school, I was one of the shortest/smallest folks in our grade, so caught a lot of ridicule for that, and was pretty late to puberty, so that made Jr High and early High School a little rough. I was 15 when that happened (over the summer between 9th-10th grade), so almost had my license prior to, which was a little bizarre. Although in draconic retrospect, my sort at least, I feel don't mature till around a decade after humans do, so in later thought, perhaps that played a role. I have a few physical/medical issues anyhow, so hard to say if it's anything to do with being of scale or not; issues that thankfully haven't posed some of the problems my mom was told I would almost "definitely" have... but our family always took docs with a grain of salt anyhow, and med tech wasn't "all that" at the end of the 70s/early 80s. Anyhow... Pardon an old dragon rambling on there... you young whippersnapper fledglings will get there one day mwahahaha. I had my little group of friends growing up, and outside when I saw them, one could say my coming up was fairly lone in various ways. Parents split when I was 6, and we lost my sis who was quadraplegic from a head-on they all were involved in 4 yrs before I was born a year later. (docs then said mom couldn't have young after that, SO wrong on that eh?) Going ahead to real late '97 to '98, I had this really exotic and interesting dream... now what I cannot remember if this dream was before or after feeling me being myself with scales, but something about it really spoke to that, I think.

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I was on this decent-sized iron ship, it looked a bit like a type of naval ship. It was the pre-dawn hour and noone was around; likely too early for that, but I was walking along the side of the ship and there was this 90° corner there where the inside came outward or there was some steel wall out toward the side. I look in that corner and there was this tiny pure white dragon curled up into a ball laying there. Now, I always loved dinosaurs coming up, but being Christian, I honestly never had prev great thoughts concerning dragons, so for one to enter my life, or even dreams, was out of place, but there was this oh wow, look at it! feeling about this little one. I picked the little one up, and it was as though he (far's I knew was a he) was intelligent, and there was this... sort of unspoken understanding instead of spoken words, like I just felt and knew about him. He fit without trouble in 2 paws (was my RL self of course), stroking his smooth but scaled back and took a moment of not speaking but "speaking" with him through emotion I'll say w/ lack of better description. He was a very young little feller and was off to a home or someplace he had to be; meeting up with his parents best as it felt, and although so young, he could fly, but found this ship going the right direction and thought to come rest in the quiet night upon it and save on the poor wings a bit. It felt as though he needed to go, possibly as to not be spotted by people who could awaken and be out and about soon, I held out and he stood on his 4 paws in mine, and after a silent "goodbye", he hopped off and I watched him fly off into the distance across what felt neverending waters. Hopefully he got to wherever he was headed.

3:09 pm

Now, what got REALLY strange was in 2006, I was on a cruise that went up to SE Alaska, and out along the deck of that ship, alongside it, it was pretty well just EXACTLY like it was in that dream, although the ship was white instead of "naval gray" as was in the dream, and there are these windbreak wall panel things with that same corner. Everytime I walked by one of those parts, especially on a last walk the ship at night and enjoy the sky when hardly anybody was out of their rooms or lounges drinking, I just had to check there, almost like I was expecting to find that little white dragon there. With starting to feel some like to scaled ones (other than lizards and dinos which already were a favorite of mine, perhaps for good reason hehe), I meandered around and found the AFD newsgroup and found out there were folks who in some fashion or another were dragons, and couple of decades later, here we are. As far as my size, color and nature, it all felt very natural to me. The struggle to decipher what I was like really wasn't there for me, "me" felt like me... this jade-scaled (perhaps to go along with being jade-d) being who was tropical and found a rainforest would make a lovely home.

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Wow that is an incredible dream. I'd have done the exact same thing if I found a place so much alike to where I had such a special experience in-dream, in the waking world. It might just be coincidence, but I find it interesting that the dragon in your dream was white. Early on in my process of awakening as a dragon, I had a dream of a white dragon. This one was a she, and she was larger than me, but it was a similarly peaceful and pleasant experience. I don't recall the dream with as much detail as you recall yours, I mostly remember that she was this large, powerful but soothing presence with pure white scales and wings, and her scales were sort of craggy like ancient and weathered mountain stone. Her eyes were this incredible deep blue (which, perhaps coincidentally and perhaps not, is the same color my human mom's eyes are irl). And there was that same unspoken understanding and connection between us as you described. The main difference was in my dream, I was the young one and she the elder.

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I'm very dragon shifty now after everything tonight

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When I get really shifty it's hard to keep myself in any specific form . I went from a typical 'western type winged dragon to a lung dragon , so on

Oh oof, that doesn't happen to me exactly, although sometimes I do get overlapping shifts of dragon and dinosaur.

Admittedly, i'm not very shifty, but let's be honest: this is my normal state. It's probably what most would consider a sort of permanent shift. Only way i get closer is by pulling my other half to me intentionally, or by me going to her. And either of those are a lot of work and effort! (but sooo worth!)

4:00 am

Actually, maybe as my other half has pulled away from me as of recent, due to the amount of stress in her life, maybe i'll spend tonight trying to contact her, and see how she's been doing.

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I have the urge to learn sword flourishes but I'm not sure what I could use to practice with until I can get a flow arts sword

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