Hey this is exactly how it is for me! My dreams are epic movie masterpieces and I have several in a night! Sometimes they are pure fantasy/science fiction type dreams with people I’ve never met, and other times they are more personal and nightmarish, family members dying and
Then the dream recurs, and each time I remember that this happened before in another dream but I still cannot break that barrier of being fully aware that I am dreaming. It’s like I am there in the background as a witness, and I can sometimes control or change things, it’s funny how I cannot fully wake my conscious mind up! I have always wondered why I dream this way as friends/people that I talk to do not experience the same thing. I think that my brain is just too active, i can never switch off. And like you- I feel the dreams pulling me in as soon as I nod off! And can wake up and go back into it also. It has always felt as though the dream side of my life has the strongest pull and a very strong effect on my waking world.