[Quiet Man Cometh]

Ja. I've heard that dreams you remember are the ones that were happening close to when you woke up but I'm never sure. What gets me is when I have multi-parters, where I fall back asleep after waking and the same dream continues, or if I have a dream that I know is a continuation of one I had before. It's annoying when I wake up in the actual morning and then realize that I can't get back to sleep because a specific dream or something is really cool.

The more creative I've been, the more elaborate and specific my dreams get, to the point where I'm narrating them, or judging. "No, no no that's wrong. restart! Do it this way!"

I will get moments where if I'm tired or half asleep or maybe just lightly dozing, then I'll get "room interference" in a dream I'm having, like either my conscious thought has escaped and is running amok because I fell more asleep, or I'm waking up slightly and external noises are sneaking in.

I don't know about the shoes thing. I can't think of anything specific like that for myself. Usually, when I'm waking up from a dream things are quiet, like there is nothing specific that woke me up.