If I had a good dream and suddenly woke up. I can get back to sleep and continue the dream and somehow manipulate the story woke I'm in it. It's very weird, usually i know immediately when I'm dreaming while it's happening and I can wake up if it's not interesting.

There are only 2 times that i remember that i didn't realize it. ( One quite embarrassing one).

One time when u had a fake wake-up ( i thought I woke up for real and the feeling during afterwards that something is off was really weird.

Another time i needed to go to the toilet and i couldn't. So i tried harder... Yeah, quite embarrassing this one...

I do think I'll having less dreams lately. Since I never have the need to try to fetch the dream again. But I'm using my alarm clock again and perhaps that's related.

Fyi, i forget about the dream immediately after standing up.

It's possible that I talk in my sleep, i once woke up during that and had a conversation with my girlfriend. Somehow my dream was a visual interpretation of what she said ( while my eyes were closed ofc) and I was way more open than i usually am. She could have asked me anything and I sincerely doubt of i would have been able to dodge a question if I would have wanted that.

Ps. I'm a very irregular sleeper.