We're really stretching the boundaries of what's considered 04 April with this one. At the time of writing it is 11:32am on the 5th of April. I did just wake up though, and last night I decided that since it was so late I would just go to sleep and write a blog post in the morning. My original plan was to skip a day and make this the 5th of April post but upon reflection I'll just write two blogposts today.
Relating to my last blogpost - dreams. They're funny things. Usually they're hard to remember but in the moment they feel so vivid. I know this because when I wake up to my alarm it's usually in the middle of a dream. There was a period when I thought I didn't dream, or rather, that I didn't dream anymore. I read somewhere online that everyone has dreams, you just forget them. It's hard to imagine at the time but this has applied both to me and to other friends I've talked to about. If you wanted to know how they started remembering dreams then you'd have to ask them. For me it was just a matter of how long I was sleeping and how I was waking up. If I wake up of my own accord then I tend to not remember my dreams, because the transition from dream to the real world is incredibly slow, giving me time to forget all the parts of the dream that were impossible or inconsistent. If I wake up to an alarm, however, or to something in the dream I usually remember the dream, and it tends to be very vivid. It even takes me a while after I turn off my alarm to reconcile the inconsistencies and inaccuracies of the dream and the process is much more memorable. In my dreams I can usually fly by some kind of lifting motion, e.g. flapping my arms. Sometimes I'm just able to fly by the natural physics of the dream, but sometimes I will have a moment where I drift into lucidity for a moment, knowing the dream world isn't real and that I can modify it, and then I modify it by starting to fly before I drift back out of lucidity. I suppose I could describe it as flying in my dreams requires a very small amount of lucidity, much lower than the level to fully internalize the fact that what I am seeing is not real.
Long story short, I don't remember my dream last night, so instead you get my general dream ramblings. I shall go for now, as I'll be writing another blog post tonight. Farewell, dear reader.