Great article. I'd often intuitively gone back into dreams immediately upon awakening, either to continue them or change things around if I didn't like what happened (rewriting the history of the dream), but had never considered continuing a dream from night to night. I did have a friend with narcolepsy that always went back to the same "dream" whenever she passed out, a dream that seemed just as real as waking life. She eventually went on meds to stop it though, as she was entering medical school.
Many of my dreams seem about as real as waking life, if not more so. It's surprising if most people really only have 4-6 per night, as I have 1-4 in the average 7 to 15 minute nap, usually somewhat lucid. In the past I wrote dreams down upon awakening, but that soon meant writing several pages. Now if there's a special dream that I want recorded, I keep a digital audio recorder by my bed to speak into, and it can be plugged into my computer for automatic transcription if I care to get that advanced.
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