INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Look around you for signs of dream strangeness. Do a reality check, such as looking at your watch or trying to float. Are you dreaming? If your reality check fails, tell yourself you are dreaming. Don't get overexcited, or you might wake up. You might wake up very quickly after the first few times you become lucid in a dream. Practice staying in the dream by focusing on actions in the dream, such as swimming or, yes, flying. Notice where you are, and try moving through it. Doing something active is a good way of increasing lucidity, because you notice physical sensations. Try interacting with the landscape. Ride a bike, run, and try smelling and touching and moving things. Jump up in the air and see if you float. You can try jumping off things and flying away. Once you can float, try moving left, right, and in different postures. The trick is to expect it to work. Your first few lucid dreams, you might have trouble believing in your "ability" to fly. You might even float a little and then sink. This crisis of confidence is not unusual when you are not fully lucid. Remind yourself that it is a dream, and that you can fly because it's your dream. Don't be discouraged if the effort to stay lucid makes you wake up. A first lucid dream is a great sign of future flights to come. Once you are fully lucid (sure that you are dreaming, able to interact with the landscape, convinced you are able to fly), you should be able to fly however you want. Push off the ground toward the sky, or take a running start. If you are in a room, fly around the room and then go out the window. Try for outer space if you are feeling ambitious. You may run into repeated obstacles, such as trees or power lines. Each time you do, practice floating around them, or just go through them. If you start to fall, remind yourself that you can fly in your dream. Remember, you might wake up, but you can't be hurt. It's a dream. To stay lucid, focus on your flight and on the landscape. If your mind wanders, so will your dream. Keep your eye on the earth or sea beneath you, or the stars all around you. Try to challenge yourself to notice everything you can about flying: how does it feel, what is the temperature, what color is the landscape, what does it feel like when you fly through a cloud?

SUMMARY: Realize you are dreaming. Get grounded in the dream. Practice floating. Fly. Stay in the dream.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Employees who are highly stressed may seem jittery or may communicate with uncharacteristic abruptness. If this issue crops up once or twice, it's probably not worth asking about. But, if an employee seems constantly upset or worn down, it's likely an indicator of stress. For example, maybe the employee is unnecessarily short in their responses to your questions and tends to snap at anyone who speaks to them around the office. Or, say that an employee loses patience easily when interacting with clients that they used to have a great rapport with. This is likely a sign of stress! Many employees experience stress if they are given new responsibilities, or if they feel like their job expectations are increasing. It's not uncommon for people to complain about their job or about their workload. If these complaints are frequent or severe, though, it could be a sign of stress. Even if the employee makes these statements as a joke or passes them off as sarcasm, you should take the statements seriously. If these comments are out of character, or if the employee makes them on a weekly basis, they may be indirectly communicating their stress and anxiety. For example, you may overhear employees chatting in the break room. If an employee is stressed, they may say something like: "The workload around here just keeps getting worse. I feel like I have to put in overtime just to keep my head above water." Or they could say, "I lay awake at night worrying about how I can possibly finish all of my daily work the next day." Employees sometimes feel stress and stop enjoying their work if they feel like they're not in control of the way they do their work. It's important for employees to feel empowered and in control while they're doing their duties. Stress takes a toll on people's physical health over time. So, if you have an employee who seems to always be sick when they're in the office, stress may be the underlying cause. Stressed employees may constantly complaints of headaches, nausea, and other types of physical illnesses. Additionally, you'd have reason to be concerned about an employee's stress level if the employee starts taking dramatically more sick days than they used to. Employees who feel overwhelmed and stressed sometimes turn to prescription drugs or narcotics as a means of coping. Or, employees may begin to drink alcohol more frequently to manage stress. For example, if an employee comes to work smelling of alcohol, they may be under serious stress. In any of these cases, it would be appropriate to speak to the employee and ask if they're using drugs or alcohol to cope with stress. It can be hard to know what your employees do when they're not at work. But, if you have reason to suspect that an employee is abusing drugs or alcohol, it's worth raising the issue in a private conversation.

SUMMARY: Recognize weariness and irritability in an employee's demeanor. Pay attention if an employee complains or threatens to quit. Ask frequently-sick employees if they're stressed at work. Intervene if you notice an employee abusing substances.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: If you forgot some type of worksheet or essential assignment sheet, call up a friend. Ask if you can borrow their worksheet for a few minutes. Then take the worksheet to a nearby office supply store and have it photocopied. If you have a scanner and printer or a copy machine, you can complete this task at home. Most printing places charge $0.10 for a single black and white copy. If you do not have access to a copy machine, or do not have a ride to your friend's house, you can ask them to take a picture of the worksheet or scan it and send it to you by text or email. If you can't print it out, you can copy it by hand using your best handwriting. Does your school use an online platform to post assignments and grades? If so, it is possible your teacher posted a copy of this worksheet to that page. Log in, look for the name of this assignment or the chapter it corresponds to, and locate the worksheet. Print it out at home. If the worksheet was produced by the company who made your textbook, you can likely locate a copy of it online. Search by the publisher, textbook title, and subject matter or chapter you are working on. Locate a PDF of the worksheet and print it out at home. Often times, your teacher will have an electronic copy of the worksheet that they can send to you. Email your teacher right away and request a copy of the worksheet. Be sure to use clear grammar, complete sentences, and good etiquette in your email. You can only use this method once or twice before your teacher will become frustrated with you. Your teacher may be less than pleased that you don't have the worksheet if you've had an extended period of time to complete it rather than if it was assigned that day.

SUMMARY:
Photocopy a friend's worksheet for an easy solution. Look on the website for your course, if applicable. Find a PDF of the worksheet online if possible. Email your teacher as a last resort.