The Dangerous Lure of Dreaming

Since I have been having a hard time dealing with life this year; my dreams seems to grab hold of me and it is hard to force myself out of bed.  If it weren't for alarms and the fact that the human body will actually only stay asleep so long I could be tempted to just stay asleep forever. Dreams are like short stories, they catch your interest but are over before you tire of them.  Your brain is so full of information that there are endless possibilities for the creation of these snippets of interaction in the dreamworld and yet it seems like your consciousness is aware of the non-reality that is going on.  Thus there is no lasting effect of whatever dream you have.  If you are dreaming something that starts to feel too real or is upsetting, you wake a bit, turn over and basically change the channel.  There are times when the dream is insistent though and that is probably a message come from the reality inside your head.  Unfortunately I can't seem to figure anything out either in real life or in dreams so those insistent dreams are not my favorite.