Interesting notes about my dreams recently

So, these last few dreams have been pretty violent. That seems to happen when I'm very happy in general--as if my life has to be balanced, so when real life is good, my dreams have to be stressful. It runs in my family. My mom has morbid dreams, or at least used to all of the time. I haven't heard lately.

Also, at least two of my recent dreams have been in the ocean. Until these last weeks except once, I have always dreamed of the ocean being indoors in a HUGE warehouse. So it is REALLY wired that my oceans have been outside.

My family in general has meta-dream experiences--where we either dream about dreams, or know that we are dreaming for one reason or another. My brother said that he, for a while when he was little, had dreams where at the beginning he was shown a dream menu and got to choose his dream. Once my mom dreamed about the dream props warehouse where all the props for everybody's' dreams are stored. I used to regularly wake myself up from scary dreams by falling backward in the dream once I realized it was a dream. Now every time I dream about my grandpa who died a few years ago, I know it is a dream. Also, I dreamed so much about my teeth falling out that now every time I dream about that, I know inside the dream that it is a dream.