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[SS - Astral Projection]

ugg that could have been better

Critism:
You managed to bore me on one of my favorite subjects... Needs more evidence and arguments instead of simply stating everything as fact. Your vague citations don't help either. Please more logic so I don't fall asleep waiting for something new to think about. Also I think you wave around dimensions and many other long debated concepts far too lightly. These concepts all need more flashes supporting them. I suppose you'll be getting to that someday...

My experience:
I'm a natural lucid dreamer and my experience tells me your connection of it to astral projection is not quite right. People think there is a connection is because those who have few lucid dreams confuse their novel overwhelming experience for something more than it is. The hippocampus and a few other parts of the brain deal with your body map and world map. When those areas enter a certain state you will get the feeling that you have left your body and your brain has the mechanisms to facilitate generating a world to match your believed actions... I've even experienced OBE but in my experiences there was never a chord attaching me to my body and the information I got from traveling away from your my body was mostly inaccurate and the parts that were accurate I could have guessed without the experience. OBE and lucid dreaming in my experience have always been very separate.

I do want to applaud you for noting that lucid dreamers perceive the future past and present at the same time- that is totally the state of an experienced lucid dreamers mind when they are lucid dreaming. But unfortunately it has never proven useful to me outside of my dream. I will admit that I have acted based on it before and doing so felt fulfilling, yet the info is still mostly inaccurate.

For the record, I rarely agree with what your saying but I like to think so I have watched them all so far and will continue to watch these.

RiverJordan responds:

The reason you don't see a cord while lucid dreaming is because your in a frequency where you are already creating your reality. If you go from a waking state to out of body state, astral projection, you will see that cord. You basically make it invisible, or not a part of your reality, when your in a lucid dream, because it's not there in the dream itself.

[Tuesday.]

lacking peanut-butter in this pbj sandwich

The only thing I don't like about this is the length, very short. The arduous journey could have been played out much longer too bad you ran out of time. However it is a funny idea, well animated and has decent sound and voices. I don't suppose you could have submitted this on a Tuesday?

PapaLongLegs responds:

Thanks, yeah that would have been more fitting but alas, I missed a trick.

[Terrorism: The Effects]

LOL its pronounced "ah-mig-duh-lah" not...

I'd like you to know that you are pronouncing amygdala wrong. Also work on your flow... it felt like a poorly read laundry list.

Flaxington responds:

I had a due date for it and at one point i found out that my sound clips were mostly crap. I ha to re-record them quickly so i could keep working so it would be done in time. I also didn't know the proper pronunciation soooo thanks I guess :P

[Prank Boss Call]

good clip but...

Honestly this is not a flash animation because there is no real animation. If you want to make the sound clip follow the timeline set the sound to stream in your sound clip properties in flash.

[WarMachine PART1]

cool

I think you should have submitted this as one flash to Tom or compressed it. I do feel like the human took more hits than he should have been able to handle but whatever all in good fun. This is pretty good. It pains me to see this flash with a lower score than it probably would have gotten combined and I hope this flashes score rises to the score it deserves. .

[SS - The Flower of Life]

smells like fudge

LOL the people who first tried to relate spacial patterns with random bits of folk lore and history must have been incredibly, incredibly bored. Shouldn't you fix your zona pelucila mistake in your audio? You could say it is the cell membrane which is a lipid bilayer or something. mmm misdirection,

RiverJordan responds:

As we learned in lesson 6, the ancient civilizations actually knew a fuckton about the universe, they weren't pulling shit of their ass haha

[C.R.U.D.E. Metal Ep1 pt1]

this is good but shouldn't have been split

This definitely had me interested then threw a to be continued at me. There may have been some unnecessary flash backs too but I personally didn't mind because I was in the right mood and I felt a bit immersed. The movie probably would do better here if you did not split this from the second part.

Chag responds:

That's good to hear, normally people complain about my movies being too long and get boring very quickly... So if you were able to sit through the whole thing and it's met with, "You know, could've been longer" Then that's a pretty good response in my opinion =]

[Warriors of the Portal]

wow

That was a whole lot of wow. The best so far I'd say. At first I thought this was the tank awards opening or something.