Strange you should write that Jonathon because its exactly what I'm trying to do and keep on failing ! I like your attitude towards the realm of dreams, sadly even when I remember a dream its so mundane it would make watching paint dry exciting !
I will add your idea of different categories of dreams into my current project, so thanks for that - if that is OK with you Jonathon.
In my teens I had a recurring aand very real feeling nightmare where I would be running through what felt like a gold course, I was running through the woodland area of the forest. Although I never saw the person chasing after me ! I knew there was someone after me and they had a knife ! I would wake up before I was caught, in fact I may well have forced myself awake which I have done in several menacing dreams. I did have some nice dreams, such as the flying through clouds dream - I loved that one. And I enjoyed the ocassional erotic dream, but that's not for speaking of here !
Aiviu, thank you for sharing your dream experiences. I have never had a dream where I've seemingly woke up but am still in the dream. My wife has and she says some are scary. She has vivid dreams involving vampires ! I think my dreams are either being tampered with, and even wiped from my memory. I have not had this problem before.
I shall post more later. I would like to share two dreams that I still remember as vivid as the night I dreamt them.
Blessings to you all.
Here are some categories of dreams, ( a working list, incomplete)
1) Wish fulfillment
2) Travelling to other worlds
3) Travelling to other dimensions
4) A message from a person
5) A message from the subconscious
Number 5 seems to get the most attention from psychologists,
many even consider it the only type of dream. Many also
think type 1 is the only type of dream.
I do believe that people have the ability to communicate using type 4,
and yes, often I consider that my dreams have been tampered with.
The strangest of this type occurred after my granddad died, and I slept
in his bed as the family gathered for his funeral. My spirit was in an intense
mood. I awoke with a dream echoing in my head. I had been through an
aggression test, which involved some American military/CIA type people.
They were cheering "It worked! It worked!" as they had clearly been trying
to affect my dreams with this test. The weirdest part, was that even after
my eyes were open, I could still hear them talking excitedly, for a couple
of minutes at least...
On a brighter side I think I once had a dream that crossed the boarder into reality when just before waking I was embraced in great love from my then recently deceased father. A very similar dream happened to me with a close friend from Iran (he had been a student in America and we traveled across the country together) came to me in an embracing love and friendship dream just before waking. Unknown to me at the time of the dream, I later heard that he had been killed in the Iran/Iraq war.
