I’ve recently noticed that my dreams often change depending on how much I write. Since starting to write a lot more, I’ve had less interesting dreams, sometimes not even one to remember when I wake up. Which is interesting considering that having more exciting dreams during my dry spells should be giving me something to explore. I think it’s becomes I sometimes get locked into writing something in my head rather than writing it down. It becomes some sort of fan-fiction that I just play out in my head. Recently, as I haven’t been writing very much because returning to work has been more draining than I thought, I’ve been having more interesting dreams that I’m trying to make sure I jot down.

I started wondering if creativity can build up if it’s not properly explore or expressed and if that’s why I started dreaming again. Although, normally I wouldn’t have a shortage of interesting dreams, once I started writing a lot I noticed that I was less excited to sleep because there wasn’t really anything to look forward to when I fell asleep.

Tomorrow I have a study day with my sister in South Australia, and my brother will also be on the call. She’s currently doing an online course at her own pace to become a vet nurse and I’ll be prepping for the first week of uni. I’m pretty excited for it because I’ve always wanted to have a fun study session with someone and it would be even better if it was with my siblings. I haven’t had study sessions with my roomates because they usually study on their own and they’re all maths/science and I’m the arts. But I think that’s what’s limited me from having fun and productive study sessions with others. That and my inability to make friends.

I’ve got my snacks and coffee and I’ll be writing up a small ‘study’ guide for tomorrow so I don’t get too off track and can encourage my sister to also be productive. She hasn’t looked at her studies for a little bit and so I’m not sure how it’ll go. She can be diligent when she wants to but now that she has a higher position in her job, she’s often just mentally and physically exhausted. She also manages the house well (like, runs a proper household with her furbabies, cooks dinner, cleans everything, takes care of the guest room and all of that strangely real mature stuff that I don’t do).

My brother will also be joining us on the call, mostly to play games with us after, chat and eat his own snacks. It’s been a long time since we’ve all sat down for a proper chat, although we have had a few Discord calls together while we’ve been playing games.

Tomorrow I’ll be focusing on looking at what I’ll be learning, planning my assessment timetable, getting my readings done and prepping for any assignments that I can start preparing for. I want this semester to go as well as it can and in November I want to be talking about my plans for graduation!