1 - Now he'll need the special shoes (descript found in Sonic comics #1). Since Uncle Chuck is gone, somebody else'd have to design & make them. Regular shoes will not take his running now.

2 - Lucid dreaming I occasionally have. An expert on such said it's futile to pinch yourself in said dream. Try speaking your name !

All will become apparent about the shoes with time. :)

Main issue here would be that he hates his name! He's gonna love being able to change it. :)

I know that Sonic's real -and disliked- name was Maurice Wentworth (something).

George Rockwell's middle name was - Percival. Despite beiing told that it was a glorious name because his ancestor with that surname, kicked Guy Fawkes down the stairs, he didn't inherit anything valuable from him, just a name ! He soon shortened it to "P" in signing his paintings, and, annoyed by people asking him what it meant, omitted it altogether.

My middle name is Randall, but it doesn't seem to be an aristocratic name.

Archie writer Ken Penders, before his departure, stated that he felt Sonic's actual name was Ogilvie Maurice Hedgehog; only the "Maurice" part made it into the actual strip, though. While current writer Ian Flynn says such comments are not canon... I still find the name delightful! ^__^