When I talk to people about the plum-pleasing pleasure of mastering their dreams, a few things I almost always hear are:

I don’t dream.I don’t remember my dreams.My dreams are incoherent and chaotic.I only remember fragments.

I can talk in great detail about each of these, but it’s the last point I’d like to toss around a bit. Have you ever woken up and known that you’ve had a dream, but you can’t remember enough of it to do anything with it? If so, I hope what I offer here is of some bene...