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CrimsonBlaze

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My avatar is a cropped image taken from an image titled Stuff I Learned from Video Games that features a stylized Sonic and Tails with subtitles that read, "We're better when we work together."

I'm a fan of the Sonic franchise and I picked this image because of the release of Sonic 4: Episode 2 (in which Sonic and Tails, indeed, work together), to demonstrate that I enjoy alternative, stylized versions of Sonic, if done in good or humorous taste, and because the image itself is full of things that I actually did learn from video games and later applied to my life.
 

Siege_TF

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The full size image is of Akuma sipping a cup of tea with one hand, with a blook held open in the other.
I posted this image on 4chan when there was a thread of fanboys complaining about an Avengers comic in which Black Panther puts Silver Surfer in a bent arm bar, taking advantage of his humanoid pysiology to compensate for their difference in strength.
The bent arm bar is a grappling technique taught by nearly every martial art and self defence institution around the world, including ones that do not focus on grappling. I feel this comic is a fitting tribute to such a utilitarian technique.
A dozen replies of 'Oh, well, if you say so' later and the thread was over. I found that incredibly amusing.
 

Atmos Duality

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silver wolf009 said:
Really? Got any tips? I'm trying it myself, and it's not working all that well.
It's tricky to do...but what I do is once I wake up (preferably groggy), I focus on what I last dreamed about, any shred of it at all, and re-enter sleep immediately. The dream needs to be in REM either way.

The sooner you "consciously" realize the absurdity of what is happening, the sooner you can take control.

(and it's been a great inspiration for short stories and conceptualizing, I'll tell you that)

A way to develop your method is, after each morning, FORCE yourself to remember as much of your dream as you can; every detail, from any point backwards.

Do so immediately upon awaking; do not think of ANYTHING else if possible, and try to identify common themes. You're looking for "triggers".

I have several triggers in my dreams that I've identified (certain athletics performances, grappling combat, racing through odd locations, catastrophic weather events, tall silhouetted "melted down" power plants, high jumps and the onset of winged flight) that I begin to recognize that I'm dreaming.

The triggers don't always work; especially if I'm under a lot of stress, physically or mentally.

All of this is done by my own observation, and I do not know if any of this is mechanically tied to actual lucid dreaming. But I do frequently attain it, at least when I do dream.