Distracting dreams

[LawPaw]

Practicing the phase has made me much more aware of my dreams.

At this point I remember multiple dreams most nights.

My problem is that frequently my dreams are so interesting that when I awake without moving I often lay there for a few seconds thinking about the dream.

I feel like this is a waste of the best time to enter the phase, but I am still so excited about the dream that it is difficult to do indirect techniques or separate.  Part of it is that I'm afraid that if I don't think about the dream for a little while I will forget it and I really do like to remember my dreams.

Can experienced practitioners re-enter dreams consciously?  That is something I would really like to do, but haven't felt experienced to even try.

[Summerlander]

I have the same thing. Ever since I've been practicing the Phase my dreams have been quite realistic and interesting. Once I didn't even know whether I was awake or dreaming, I was in doubt in the dream. People were mad at me and were chasing me. I found myself thinking in the dream that perhaps I was a schizophrenic and that my waking life had been a delusion...

I ran towards a window thinking "well, if I am crazy, I'm about to kill myself, if this is a dream, then I will fly" - I jumped out the window and flew. This triggered lucidity and I enjoyed flying over a strange city. I was very much at peace at this point.

Other times I seem to have certain memories in dreams which have nothing to do with waking life. I find these interesting.

Sometimes, if a dream is very interesting, I will get up and write it down straight away and, if I plan to enter the Phase, I will go back down an hour or so later.

Other times I don't bother recording the dreams and remain still in bed in order to enter the Phase from the hypnopompic state.

On re-entering dreams consciously...I did that once not to long ago. I was interacting with characters in the dream as though it was waking life. I was walking with two women to a pub. In the dream they were my friends. Then I woke up and remained still. I was able to re-enter that dream from the lucid perspective, and, the second time around, the women no longer spoke to me...I was completely ignored.

[Michael Raduga]

Having much more dreams is a bonus of this practice.  It leads to another bonus - becoming conscious in dreams. That's why you do not need to think about methods for becoming conscious in dreams while practicing indirect techniques.

Actually, I don't think your case is a problem. Do what you want to do. Relax and don't blame yourself. Dreams aren't bad things too.

I think there are no problems to return to a dream scene by indirect techniques (entering > translocation).