hey tigger, it seems to me that when I have vivid dreams, I'm locked into vivid dreamland and have a hard time waking up as much as I'm trying to will it, like I'm trapped or something, but when I wake up, it's like I jumped out of sleep and landed on my bed.

Trying to sleep with intrusive thoughts is not sleeping at all because my thoughts are aggravating the crap out of me and I get too worked up to relax to sleep because that insistant voice just won't shut up and fills my head. I toss and turn and pound the pillow, cover and uncover, groan, sit up, lay back down, go watch tv, try to sleep again, then the alarm says its time to get up.

They both make me tired in the morning. Are you taking new meds? Changed your diet? White onions gives me vivid dreams too.

My vivid dreams are more action packed with the sound volume turned all the way up. If yours just repeats the same thing over and over, I think I'd pick intrusive thoughts.

Any how, I hope you get some good rest tonight hun