Congrats. Does sound like you were close to realizing it. Often times one gets a few close calls before it actually happens. It's kind of common I think, what you described about dreaming of taking the notes instead of doing it. Sometimes we wake wanting to take notes but start falling back to sleep before actually doing it. And then start dreaming of taking the notes instead. I've done that plenty of times. Cool how you were aware of your body in the bed at the same time as you were seeing the dreams. It does sound like could have been the beginning of a WILD. Or maybe dream reentry better describes it.

Breathing underwater is fun...