Dream Weaver

Last night I dreamed that I was (the late) Britanny Murphy's personal assistant. First of all - I don't know why.

But in my dream I was stuck with the dilemma of correctly fulfilling my employer's requests - a soft boiled egg - but how soft is soft? Or a glass of chocolate milk - how chocolaty does one like it? In my dream every request was fraught with questions of proportion or strength or other criteria. Suddenly things I was confident with were now put into question.

In the end, my employer lost respect for me because I was so busy taking care of her, that I didn't take care of myself.

Okay, lesson learned - the one in the dream and the one behind the dream, since I'm sure a dream interpreter would point out the obvious - that I need to take care of myself first.

How much weight can you put on a dream's meaning? And are there other lessons to be learned?

I've been able to wake up and then go back to sleep to continue my dream, but I have not been a lucid dreamer. Can you force your dream to come out the way you want it to?