sorry this is so long, XD
Shapeshifting, because even though I’ve only done it like 3 times, it’s always been an interesting experience. Note that I wanted to shapeshift really badly, so when I accidentally WILD-ed (I didn’t know what a WILD was back then) when I was into the body of a flamingo, I was ecstatic for almost a week. (now I look back on it and i’m like, really? a flamingo? why did I choose a flamingo? But I was really little at the time.) I couldn’t even feel anything, and because I had no idea what a WILD was I hadn’t done anything to stabilise the dream, but I just knew I was a flamingo and that was good enough for me. THe next lucid dreams I had for a while were filled with flying attempts and usually died out fast, because I still didn’t know that I should stabilise them. Then I had one where I grew wings in a last second attempt, but I couldn’t feel them and it ended a couple of seconds afterwards. But the most notable occurence happened 7/26/11, and it stands today as one of my best dreams. It was a DILD, and I actually woke up and went back to sleep in the middle of it, which for some reason just made it stronger. I was in a playground in the middle of a warped form of my summercamp. Long story short, I was all like, “wow, I’m not waking up from this anytime soon, this is really cool! I want to shapeshift!” So I decided to multitask (flight and shapeshifting) and turn into a bird again. So I yelled “hawk” and nothing happened. I ended up sitting on a bench and staring hard at my left arm, and feathers started to grow. The first few looked like cardinal feathers. It hurt a little at first, and then it stopped and they started to grow really fast, and had changed colors from a pale red-with gray to a dark, shiny blue black. I remember panicking because they were growing up to my shirtsleeve, and even though everyone around were all just DCs I would be embarrassed to take my shirt off XD. So anyways, i looked at my arm and was a little surprised, because when I had been thinking “wings”, I had been thinking eagle wings or sparrow wings. but the wings that i was forming were really narrow and tapering. They reminded me of swallow wings at the time. They went away, not by my own conscious decision but they just did. I had a few more hours (dream hours, because I tried to extend the time), so I messed around and finally woke up. After that I was serious about Lucid Dreaming, and I joined this site ^.^ and yesterday, still buzzing about that dream I decided to look few a few textbooks (cause I’m a nerd and I read biology textbooks XD) and found out that they were, indeed, a match to barn swallow wings. So I don’t really know, maybe the swallow is my inner bird? XD. However, maybe it is the easiest bird to shapeshift into in a LD for me, so I’ll keep it in mind. But yeah, shapeshifting is incredible. You can think about what it would be like all you want, but it’s nothing like actually experiencing it (even if it was only partial all 3 times, lol.) Next lucid dream I want to shift into something that is not a bird, and complete it, not just partially do it ^.^