I take naps daily and often feel that I haven't been able to fall totally asleep because real life noises keep waking me up (doors shutting, phones ringning,etc.). I do feel somewhat rested when I finally decide to give up on a nap and get up. Meanwhile, while I am trying to sleep, I dream like crazy and can remember the dreams if I try (by reviewing them as soon as I wake). I know I am dreaming while I am dreaming, and I often do direct the dreams from one subject to the next, but this seems to be a bit different from the times in my nighttime dreams when I have actually been able to control my own actions (turning around and facing a person chasing me for example, and commanding them to stop, or waking myself up.). So now I am wondering if I am asleep during my attempted naps or not. Is it normal to dream so much when just falling asleep? Is this lucid dreaming, or is my mind just "wandering" as I go to sleep? It sort of feels like I am half asleep, but the dreams are not reality, definately dreams. It is very easy to wake myself up during these dreams because I never fell totally asleep, or at least not in a "deep" sleep.

P.S. Actually, I'm not sure I "know" I'm dreaming. That feeling comes and goes, but I can change the subject anytime, by sort of half waking. Hard to explain.

P.P.S. If anyone wants to encourage lots of "vivid" dreams, all they have to do is take Vitamin B-6. I can't take it before bed as the dreams wear me out (I was taking it for morning sickness.).