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    Rolling

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    CanisLucidus
    , 05-11-2013 at 03:38 PM (638 Views)
    Color legend: Non-dream Dream Lucid

    Lucid #93: Rolling

    I'm in an old-school first-person shooter video game. It's some sort of very metallic, clean-looking sci-fi setting, maybe a spaceship or some kind of alien base on a distant planet. I've got a numeric health meter in the lower-right of my view, ranging from 0 to 100. I don't seem to have any kind of weapon, but I'm 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'm 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'd 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'm actually experiencing the sensation but that it feels different from waking life.     I realize that I'm 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've got down. This goes well, so I immediately do another one.

    I realize that I'm having a really good time doing these so I keep at it. I figure that I'll 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'm 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'm in some kind of long, dark hallway with hardwood flooring and occasional doors leading off adjoining rooms. The scene feels very empty and I'm worried that I'm 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 isn't something I've actually tried in waking life, so I'm curious how I'll 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'm in a bedroom now with a window that's letting in some morning sunlight. There's 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'm being pulled in the opposite direction and can't hear what he's trying to say. He stands up and walks toward where I am, but I'm drifting away faster. He tries to shout something, but I don't hear any of it, and     I wake up.
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    1. NyxCC's Avatar
      There's a man of about 25 sitting on a bed, his head in his hands
      Lol! I thought he was headless when I first read that!

      Great job on ld induction this month, keep on rollin!
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    2. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Ha! You're right, it does sound like this DC was in the middle of completing the Bonus Task of the Month.

      And thanks, I'm enjoying the current momentum! And good wordplay.
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    3. Iokheira's Avatar
      I love that you became lucid because you know what a diving roll actually feels like How much fun to practice in your sleep too! No real pain if you do it wrong.

      At first I thought you hadn't posted this entry yet, until I finally figured that you usually post in the god-forsaken hours so I went to your profile. I've almost missed your last few entries! They need to get notifications sorted out.
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    4. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      I love that you became lucid because you know what a diving roll actually feels like How much fun to practice in your sleep too! No real pain if you do it wrong.
      Heh heh, thanks! This would also be the first time I've tried a stunt like that on hardwood. And yeah, I loved the feeling of practicing that in an LD! Thinking back, I guess I did try a back flip in the front yard when I was about 7 or 8, but I landed on my head. (Explains a lot, doesn't it?) The acrobatics were fun!

      At first I thought you hadn't posted this entry yet, until I finally figured that you usually post in the god-forsaken hours so I went to your profile. I've almost missed your last few entries! They need to get notifications sorted out.
      Oh cool, thanks for checking up on it! Hey, I don't know whether you rely on email notifications, but Xanous tipped me off today that gmail just recently started moving DreamViews notifications to spam. If you rely on those at all, you may also want to look at spam.

      I would love if they fixed the bug you filed a million years ago where unread dream journals and dream journal comment threads would show up in the Control Panel. I know that would help me a ton!
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    5. Iokheira's Avatar
      I read that thread, lucky? for me I don't rely on email notifications. Purely control panel. Which is unlucky in itself. But it has trained me to look out for the users that I'm subscribed to!

      Ah yes, the dreaded head injury. I understand perfectly. When someone asked me in all seriousness if I had been dropped on my head as a baby, I responded "Yes. Twice." Maybe this is why we get along so well xD
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    6. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      I read that thread, lucky? for me I don't rely on email notifications. Purely control panel. Which is unlucky in itself. But it has trained me to look out for the users that I'm subscribed to!
      The control panel system is so nice. All I really want is just a list of stuff I haven't gotten around to reading yet. It works so well for forum posts!

      Ah yes, the dreaded head injury. I understand perfectly. When someone asked me in all seriousness if I had been dropped on my head as a baby, I responded "Yes. Twice." Maybe this is why we get along so well xD
      LOL. I'd love to know what you did/said to get asked that. I don't know whether I ever got dropped on my head as a baby, but I did pull a wooden chair over when I was a baby and have it land on my head. (Little baby stitches for CL!)

      These are nothing to be ashamed of. I believe our head injuries perfected us.
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