When I dream at night, I sense I'm the dreamer. Sometimes I'm in the dream as a character, sometimes I'm not, my dreams can have familar and unknown people, places and events in them.
Now there are two things I notice.
1. When I'm dreaming, I can never think or remember my physical reality. When I'm awake in this physical reality, I can remember my dream in good detail, but not the other way around.
2. I don't seem to be purposfully controlling the dream and what happens in it. I know I'm the dreamer and therefore creating it, but when I wake it always feels like it was just a bunch of crazy/fun/scary stuff. I suppose that's a contradiction as I'm obviously making it up, but it doesn't seem very well planned out, not like if I was going to achieve something in physical reality.
I've never gone to sleep thinking 'I want to dream of this or that' so I wonder if that's the issue.
Any opinions???
Thanks
Max