Twilight Dreams

The recent trend of weird dreams has got me thinking about how the mind creates dreams. I wish I knew more about it, especially the types of dreams which you know are dreams as you have them. The ones where everything looks and acts like it does when you are awake, but the colors are off. They are either brighter or darker, that twilight zone feeling begins to creep around the edges letting you know that you can end it whenever you choose to wake up. It would be neat to see how the different channels in the brain send around random information, some surface and some buried, that are able to come together and make sense in the dream (usually they are preposterous once I have woken up). Perhaps one day when I have time I might actually read up on the science of dreams, but for now I am content just to have them.