<span style="font-weight: bold"><div style="text-align: center;">Travis</div></span><br/><br/>As soon as he opened his eyes, he knew that something was wrong. It wasn’t plainly obvious, and more akin to a ‘gut feeling’, but Travis wasn’t exactly new to the whole lucid dreaming experience. And something about this didn’t feel right. He quickly realised that he was lying on the ground face-up. There were clouds above him, and his hands gripped dirt and grass. He didn’t even have to check to know he was in a dream. Surrounding him as he sat up was a vast plain of yellow grass and rolling hills. It was certainly realistic, but dream worlds were never one hundred percent accurate. The clouds were hanging slightly too low in the sky, for one. Additionally, the dirt beneath Travis’ hands was far too brittle to support the grass that grew over it.<br/><br/>So it was a dream. But why did it feel so… real?<br/><br/>Travis got to his feet, shaking his head to clear out the drowsiness. He decided to disregard this strange feeling and simply delve into the dream experience. After all, he had enough to worry about in real life; there was no point doing that here too. As per routine, Travis stretched out his legs a little bit, rubbed his hands and looked up towards the skies. Those clouds looked inviting enough, so he took a step forward and leapt into the air.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">Fly.</span>He thought to himself.<br/><br/>But instead, gravity brought him back to the earth, causing his feet to sink into the soft ground. Travis stood there for a moment, dumbfounded. It… didn’t work?<br/><br/>He tried again, with the same result. And again. Once more… But his efforts were in vain. In his panic, he tried other things too. Changing the environment with a thought, bringing his friends into existence, shooting lightning from his fingers – everything that he should have been capable of doing in a dream, he could no longer do. Not even a little bit.<br/><br/>“What’s going on?” he thought to himself. He looked to his surroundings, slowly realising that something had gone terribly wrong. It was only then that he noticed he wasn’t alone. There were people in the distance lying face-up like he was not too long ago, and some of them appeared to be stirring.<br/><br/>Before he could do anything else however, the rolling hills slowly began to flatten out before his eyes, and hundreds of little tree shoots started to sprout from the ground. They immediately swelled and spiralled towards the sky, growing impossibly quickly.<br/><br/>The entire plain would soon become a dense forest, and there was nothing he could do about it.