--but nothing seemed out of place for me...--[/b]
I have the same problems... I might have the weirdest dream ever, something I wouldn't even think of in waking life, but it just seems so natural in my dream that i don't bother to think about it.
For example, few weeks ago I had a dream when I was walking in a small stream of rusty water and picking up broken CD's with my feet... like...what the dickens.
One thing that now helps me to realize that the dream's weird, and at all, is a dream, is to read through my dream diary's entries for some past days (or even a week) and to think about what the dreams would have been if I had known I was dreaming.