Growling

This was a Task of the Month attempt and my first lucid in several days. This was a fun dream and it was exciting to be back in the saddle. Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid Lucid #19: The (Headless) Man in the Mirror I am in an office kitchen and I happen to run into L, an old friend from high school that I barely ever see. I ask how married life has been and whether anything exciting is going on with her. She reveals that she is expecting and is "3 weeks along". I remark that I could not tell (duh) but she does not respond. Assuming she did not hear me, I repeat what I just said, only to realize that she has vanished. A young woman taps me on the shoulder and says, "Are you okay? You look like you are talking to someone but there is nobody there." Immediately lucid, I nod to her. "Thanks. Everything's fine. I am dreaming." She seems to accept this, walking away. My mind is immediately on the Task of the Month and I walk through the nearest doorway. I wind up in a large classroom that looks like it might be for first- or second-graders. Daylight streams in from a large window on the far side of the room. I am the only person in the room and there is a pumpkin in the middle of every short little table. Yes, conditions are perfect for removing my own head. I walk around the room, thinking of mirrors, expecting to see one around every corner. Finally one of those odd, distorting fish-eye mirrors appears but I figure it will be fine. I check my reflection and I am wearing extremely thick black glasses and a purple tank top. My hair looks all 90s and hair-sprayed. I decide not to get too attached to this new look as I shall be ridding myself of this head shortly. I begin to think about how all my life I have had the head of a Lego man, attached to my neck by nothing but a short knob. I place both hands under my jaw. Even though I can feel my hands on my face, my reflection's hands are a few inches away. I go ahead anyway, smoothly pushing up, and my head pops right off, just like a Lego piece. There is no blood and no pain. All of this feels perfectly natural. I need to find a pumpkin now so I unceremoniously <PERSON> my head onto the floor. It makes a sound like a softball as it lands. I grab a nearby pumpkin and see that it is already carved like a jack-o-lantern. I wonder whether this is a violation of the rules that I am supposed to carve it. I decide that once I put it on I will add features. (Maybe a mustache?) I return to the mirror to complete the procedure but find that my original head has grown back. I feel a flash of surprise and the mirror disappears. I start looking around the class for more mirrors. One pops up but vanishes as soon as I try to look into it. I grumble about this and my voice suddenly sounds like the growl of an old man. I find a third mirror. When I look into it, <PERSON> from "Breaking Bad" is staring back at me. He (is this me or someone else??) is wearing the trademark Heisenberg pork pie hat and dark glasses. The dream fades and I am awake.