  Hi (((xxMSFxx)))) - I used to do the very same thing when I was younger - especially with nightmares. The only way I ever managed to keep from going right back into the dream after waking was to get up, turn on the light, read a little in a book - had to do something to really break the "thread." If I just stayed in bed and eventually went back to sleep, the dream would pick up right where it left off.  
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"I walked a mile with Pleasure; she chattered all the way, But left me none the wiser for all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow and ne'er a word said she; But oh, the things I learned from her when Sorrow walked with me!"
(Robert Browning Hamilton; "Along The Road")
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