Thread: What type of dreams are these?

I'm new here and not entirely sure where this post belongs, having said that I figure the "newbie" section would be a great starting point and having it moved if need be after that.

I am a little confused by the conscious in the day and conscious at night. When I do this I wake feeling like I am constantly stressed or worried about something, like my mind never has a chance to rest. Whats with this?

I have been able to control my dreams to some degree over the last 4 years, it started by accident. I had the opportunity to work days at the school board as an educational assistant and nights at a group home. I would sleep from 6pm till 11pm. I found that my days and nights became tangled together and I couldn't distinguish if I was awake and day dreaming vs. being asleep and conscious. On top of that I began to experience real life events that haven't happened yet. I began walking around in the day time wide awake feeling like I was dreaming...you can imagine the crazy feelings I would get.

At this point I have all different types of dreams, often I have the dreams where I know I am dreaming can smell, feel, walk, talk, hear, see and change things that I don't like with in my dreams. Often I see things and know that I'm dreaming since in real life those "things" wouldn't be happening. When I have a dream that comes true I remember the series of events by the "thing" that wouldn't necessarily be happening occurring.
The first time this happened I was SHOCKED. I remember dreaming that I was at my friends house and that her couch had been moved due to flooring issues. I was planning a night out and a few ppl were gathering at her house to meet us. I remembered the couch which triggered my memory of the dream that I had a few days prior. I reasured myself that the dream couldn't come true because in my dream there had been a white car and I hadn't known any one in real life that owned a white car. I begin chatting and enjoying the night, my friend suddenly said that her car had been hit and she had a rental, I said "it's not white is it" she looked at me like how the hell did you know that, what have you done to my car lol. I knew at that point that the rest of the events were going to happen just like they had in my dream.
Those dream I explained got so intense that I knew what ppl were going to say, would finish sentences for ppl, could think to myself "oh a deer is going to be crossing I better slow down". All was well until I witnessed something bad happening in a dream that I knew would come true. When I realized that the "bad thing" was going to happen I had all the feelings come flooding in and felt like I as having a panic attack. My dreams that came true slowed down until I became pregnant with my son.

Over all at this stage I have dreams that I control, I fly around, I look for things, I am nosy and listen in on ppls convos or see what others are doing.
OH I also still get the overlap, it feels like this....you know when your in/were in school, and you would day dream and could hear the teacher talking but weren't really paying attention? My dreams feel the same way, I feel like I"m having my dream but there is something else happening that I can hear and see. I don't remember that secondary stuff happening until something triggers it. I also still get confused as to whether I really am daydreaming in the store and someone nearby is having a conversation about bad weather or if I was dreaming about shopping and someone had a conversation nearby about bad weather.....either way I knew a few days later when the wind storm hit exactly how fast the winds would gust.

What type of dreams am I having and how do I decifer my day dreams from my night dreams? do I just do more reality checks?

Why does my conscious mind be so over worked feeling when I wake up from my dreams?