Lately I've been sleeping hard as shit. I went 8 years without ever hitting REM sleep because I was taking care of my wife, so I'd have to get up almost every hour to help her, sometimes as much as 20 times a night. Even after she passed, I didn't get much sleep 'cause I slept on the couch for the next year and a coupe of months and had to turn about every hour or so.
Now I've been sleeping in a bed for the last 4 months and shit has been lovely, I dream every night but once in a while I "come to the surface" while still stuck in a dream. Like, I'm dreaming, and I'm 100% aware that I'm dreaming, and I have to say something to someone in the dream, but in order to do it I have to come up from dreaming and speak it out of my actual mouth... And I do just that, and I can hear myself talking, I'm aware of it, I can feel my mouth moving and everything, but I'm still dreaming and I know it and after I say whatever, I fully sink back into the dream, still completely aware of what just happened.
One time I even opened my eyes, saw that I was still in my room, but still said something and dropped back deep into the dream.