ok i have exactly one piece of life advice which is very specific but i can 100% confidently give.
it's about talking about your dreams. suppose you just had a crazy dream and you woke up and you still remember it and you wanna talk about it with your friends. my advice to you is that it's perfectly okay to embellish some parts of the story.
number one, there is literally nobody else who can disprove you. number two, misinformation about what happened in a dream you had, has to be in like the top 10 least harmful types of misinformation.
number three, dreams are weird! they make sense to you while you're dreaming them but they make less sense to the people you tell them to. sometimes you should just brush past the weird little details so they don't bog down your punchline.
number four, you know how you slowly start to forget stuff about a dream when you wake up? you need to tell the story with speed and you need to brush past the details. don't describe how the walls and roof are a kettle but not like you're in the inside of a kettle but like there's two layers of metal and they make a weird double half tube shape forming a giant weirdly shaped kettle. if you spend time doing that you'll have forgotten about the part where you opened the door at the end of the hallway and you saw a weird little guy.
number five, the classic tom scott lesson about stories: it's good for humans to have good stories and whatnot. so make your story about the dream you had better by lying about it.
footnote: none of this applies to like, if you're telling your therapist about the dream you had. im talking about telling stories to your friends.
