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Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid Lucid #93: Rolling I am in an old-school first-person shooter video game. It is some sort of very metallic, clean-looking sci-fi setting, maybe a spaceship or some kind of alien base on a distant planet. I have got a numeric health meter in the lower-right of my view, ranging from 0 to 100. I do not seem to have any kind of weapon, but I am speeding around the level, dodging enemy fire from generic-looking storm trooper-style enemies. At some point, a laser beam starts waving wildly around the room in front of me. I am not sure what it does so I try not to touch it. I slip up at some point, though, and the laser grazes my leg. My health instantly drops from 100 to 7. This seems unfair and really upsets me. I feel like I would been doing well and have been punished way too severely for this minor slip. I perform a diving roll to dodge the beam and I notice that I am actually experiencing the sensation but that it feels different from waking life. I realize that I am dreaming and the scene suddenly looks less like a space ship and more like a dimly-lit room with hardwood flooring. It feels a bit dark and unstable, so I perform another diving roll since that seems to be something I have got down. This goes well, so I immediately do another one. I realize that I am having a really good time doing these so I keep at it. I figure that I will just keep dive-rolling until I figure out what it is that I want to do with this LD. I remember that I wanted to try NewArtemis and/or Xanous out on their werewolf transformations, but I am having a little trouble remembering what specifically I needed them to do. I stop rolling after 5 or 6 tries to give myself a chance to think. I am in some kind of long, dark hallway with hardwood flooring and occasional doors leading off adjoining rooms. The scene feels very empty and I am worried that I am understimulated, so I go back to dive-rolling for a while. I do this for quite a while, probably another 20 rolls or so. I then decide that I should reverse directions, so I attempt a back flip. This is not something I have actually tried in waking life, so I am curious how I will do. I go right over but land on my shins rather than on my feet. Still, not half-bad! I perform a couple of other back flips, and on about the 4th attempt, land proudly on my feet. I am in a bedroom now with a window that is letting in some morning sunlight. There is a man of about 25 sitting on a bed, his head in his hands. He looks up at me and I see that he has a goatee, a nose ring, a lip ring, and at least one earring. He sees me and tries to say something, but I am being pulled in the opposite direction and cannot hear what he is trying to say. He stands up and walks toward where I am, but I am drifting away faster. He tries to shout something, but I do not hear any of it, and I wake up.