Fancy Face the First

I've been having some pretty weird experiences with my sleep schedule.

For a while, my routine was to wake up at 6:00 AM, then rest another hour and a half. Getting up early so I can sleep in, pretty much.

Lately I've stopped resting the extra hour and a half and just gotten up when I actually wake up. I've adjusted to this new routine, but my time asleep has been getting weird.

Before this, I would experience actual dreams pretty rarely-something like once or twice a month. These were the dreams I would actually recall the experience of dreaming-while the details faded away quickly, it was enough to know I had dreamed in the first place.

Now I'm having dreams that I can recall roughly every other day, and they're far more vivid and realistic than I'm used to. It's gotten the point where I commonly mistake the memories of these dreams for actual experiences and events, which is problematic when it comes to the next change in them.

This last part is that the dreams draw almost exclusively from things that I actually do; rather than being the absurd fabrications they were before, they're actually things that could plausibly happen and occur. This is a problem because I usually forget the majority of my day, and the "fake" memories can easily fit into these gaps.

So to sum up, I have to carefully examine memories or recollections I have whenever they're relevant to determine whether they happened in reality or in a dream.

In a rather sad turn, I've found my hobbies less enjoyable because my dreams of performing those hobbies are better than the real thing, and while playing I can only wish I was dreaming the experience instead.

I should probably amend my sleeping schedule again.