You wish you brought your trunks but haven't. No one's coming in; nothing can happen!
As you wade in the water is warm. You get to about chest depth when you start to lower, even after you stop moving forward. You look down only to get a brief look of what is happening before your head goes under.
You start thrashing about, desperately trying to get to the surface. Then things get even weirder. You feel vibrations coming through your body, as if your bones are rearranging themselves and clicking into new positions, changing shape, shrinking, twisting. On top if that, you begin to feel an odd sensation from your skin, as if thousands of tiny needles were forcing their way out of your chest, your back and about as low as your legs. They, themselves, you couldn't feel for some reason. Your face begins to "crick" and "crack" as you feel your tongue start to thin with your face, as if it were being stretched. As your tongue reaches the side of your now hardened 'mouth' you realise your teeth have retracted. Your arms, which you haven't been paying attention to, are already mere flippers with no digits on them to speak of. Everything is happening at once until all the sensations sease except for one. You've been shrinking this whole time but it's been rather unnoticeable while everything else was happening. It's a subtle pushing source, coming from all sides. After a moment you are finished.
You'd been acting quite emotionless to all this as you have merely assumed it is a dream and let it happen. After all it was no nightmare!
You open your eyes to see your view has changed. By now you know why: you are no longer a human, in the dream anyway.
"So what am I then?" you think to yourself. You can't seem to look down very well. It's like there's some layer of fat or something there blocking your head, right where your neck should be. You weren't in perfect shape as a human but would that make you a chubby... whatever you are? You cross your eyes as best you can to see...
"Ah, first clue, a beak! Why, it's quite a nice on actually. You feel the inside of it with your longer tongue but can only seem to stick it out of the side of your new mouth.
"So" you narrate to yourself in your head "I'm a bird of some sort and I'm not exactly a magpie". This sparks excitement in you. This will be the classic sort of dream that people always want to have! Being able to fly! Then you remember where you are.
You have been at the bottom of this swimming pool for a while now and haven't even started to worry about suffocating. This could just be the dream but why would you transform in a pool? You don't really know how to get to the surface in your body but just flail your arms about and...
"Wow, that's fast!" You try to say out loud, having temporarily forgot that you have a beak and a long-ass tongue that you could never speak with. You break the surface at incredible speed and flip onto the tiled floor.
"Ow" you try to say
"SCRA" you say
This makes you laugh which again sounds ridiculous, rather like a broken squeaky toy. You happen to have landed right infront of a big mirror.
There you are: front and centre.
A rather handsome, 70cm tall, Young
Adélie Penguin
You turn side on and wag your stubby tail 'laughing' all the time. It was just so random and pythonesque, that you just had to. You don't care about being unable to fly.
You go up to the mirror and open your mouth to examine your beak. The inside of your it is shaped like a staircase, presumably to stop live fish escaping. You hate fish. It's rather odd having no teeth too.
You step back a little, looking over yourself like a piece of artwork. You suppose it's only logical that you would be in good condition. After all, how many penguins have had thousands of showers in their life, and have grown a new coat feathers in under a minute?
"That explains a lot" you try to giggle aloud
"Scre-scra-SCRA" you say quietly.
You went in naked which is lucky. You would've hated to be under there, tangled in your oversized shorts. Even though you are naked, you don't feel it in the same way as you did five minutes ago. You actually feel quite cozy and your modestly (which you really don't want to even imagine the look of) is covered. Contented, you turn over your fluffy shoulder at the room. It's so huge!