What really used to piss me off - I used to wake up and go to write in my DJ but then found my memories of the dreams confused because - get this - my last dream of the night was a reiteration and altering of an earlier dream! And sometimes I could remember the earlier dream pretty well because I had awakened and written it down then went back to sleep, and I'd have almost the same dream again but different. Crap! It made the memories of both dreams hazy and unreliable. Or worse yet, sometimes I'd have a dream shortly before waking up that must have been an NREM dream because there were no visuals but I was just going over the earlier dream, telling it to myself, as if to impress it in my memory (I developed this habit in order to help with my dream recall, of telling myself my dreams before I open my eyes in the morning, and it bled through into my dreaming life). That would be fine if the retelling was accurate, but I'd always get it messed up - like I'd start off right but after a while I was talking about something completely different from what I actually dreamed about.

Hey, on a related subject, does anybody ever remember something and keep thinking "where the hell was I when that happened - was I in some kind of huge castle or something?" And then realize it was from a video game? I sometimes 'remember' being in these really awesome environments (don't remember actions or I'd realize right away it was a game) and they seem so real it's like I must have actually been there once - but it was from Tomb Raider or something!