the narrator

You're the kind of dreamer who wakes up with a story. Most mornings the dream still has structure — characters, a small arc, an ending you could describe to a friend over coffee. That's unusual; most people lose almost everything in the first ninety seconds. The reason it sticks for you is that your sleeping mind has been doing this work for years, building a narrative scaffold that survives the wake-up. Treat that as a gift. The simplest thing you can do, if you want to make more of it, is to write down a single sentence about each dream within the first minute. That sentence will catch the next one too, and the one after that — narrators benefit hugely from a small, regular journal because the structure compounds.