Ok, so I'm pretty good at lucid dreaming and for the most part it's just been entertainment. I've been following David Wilcock lately and he says that dreams are messages. So with that I've taken to documenting as best I can the dreams I'm having and so I can start to decipher what their meanings are.
I also believe in animal spirit guides and I've asked for them in meditation before as a guide to help me along. There are several great books as well as web sites that will give you the meaning of the animal that appears. Typically you go with the one animal that is the most prominent.
Anyway I had a very interesting dream last night and at one point there was a penguin. I knelt down and started petting the little guy like you'd pet a small dog that's trying to climb into your lap and put my head to his and was all goofy just like you'd get if you're an animal lover and you have a wiggly dog in front of you.
So I finally get around to checking my book about penguins and this is what it says...
If a penguin shows up it means:
You're much more powerful and durable than you think you are.
You have everything you need inside you and in front of you to have a good life, so always keep that in mind.
You'll soon be able to experience lucid dreaming, where you become fully aware while dreaming and can change the details of the dream.
This is an excellent time to explore altered states of consciousness, especially OOBE such as time travel.
I'm pretty good with what I call lucid dreaming but it's really recalling the dream in detail. I'm conscience but not always aware it's a dream - it feels like real life. Then in the morning I set a few markers in my mind before I wake and later by recalling those markers the whole dream comes back to me. While I suspect I've OOBE'd on many occasions, only once was it out of this world. I went somewhere outside of space-time and time-space. Somewhere in between.
If this little fuzzy penguin is right... OMG! What am I in for?

I should add that I believe I was on an old buried ship....

When the dream started I was in a large warehouse that outside was labeled something innocent. Inside it was empty and huge - think aircraft hanger. There was a C shaped mezzanine overhead and me and 10-12 other people were heading to this little tower sticking out of the ground. It looked like a conning tower from a sub. Anyway, I climbed up and in and went down a narrow spiral stair into a lower room. I then went forward into a descending hallway that dead ended in a room. The room was made out of metal but it was dark blue in color and had a glow to it. There were no lights but you could still see. It was a little dim, kind of like dusk. The room was dirty or dusty, like no one had been in it for a while. Once I realized it was a dead end I went back a different passageway that was an ascending ramp and I was going to the rear of the ship. I should also note that the walls were all organic-shaped. Rounded edges and flowing rooms. Anyway going back was a dead end to and I was getting worried that I missed something and was lost. I was worried that I wouldn't get a cellphone signal and no one would find me and I'd be trapped. I started heading forward again and came to a door. I opened the door and there was everyone including the little penguin. The room color was now a reddish hue.
Reflecting back I suspect it was some crashed UFO and it was pilfered for it's technology and what I saw was an empty shell. There still was a weak life feel to it. It wasn't a machine, it felt alive but broken.
Also, I'm white and all the people except one was white... The other person was dark skinned, very happy to see me and dressed in a white robe. I've been told that people in uniforms as well as people of other races than yourself are ET's or otherwise angelic people.