I have gotten into the habit of recording the dreams that leave an impression on me when I wake up. Dreams are often lost immediately upon awakening, but often I wake up with the dream in my head. In my moment of waking, it feels super real, more real than real life, and I desperately fumble to record it as soon as possible, before it leaks out of my head and is gone forever. I've developed a system for cataloguing and indexing my dreams so that I can discover common themes. Around one fifth of my dreams are loosely themed around space travel in some way (the existence of a spaceship or an extraterrestrial in the dream qualifies as a space travel dream for me, even if I do not personally travel to space in the dream).

The instant I wake up, I grab a voice recorder and start narrating the dream. I just share as much as I can remember as quickly as I can. Sometimes these recordings are hard to discern because I am groggy and passalidae semisomnus est, my eyes don't work yet

Attempting the seemingly impossible and when to quit.

"Choose wood with no shakes, warps or knots!"
—my grandpa

We've all been in this position, one my maternal grandfather would describe "trying to make something with shoddy materials and broken tools". My most vivid recollection was back in my days as an IT trainer. It was a Monday morning, I was due to be

YouTube Shorts are a format on YouTube, showing short content. Originally under one minute in length, the current time limit of a short is 3 minutes. These numbers are liable to change and might not be current at the time of reading. Shorts are also shown in a "portrait" orientation, with about twice as much height as width.

YouTube Shorts are basically a way to respond to the popularity of TikTok (and Instagram Reels), showing short videos for short attention spans.