True, the vast majority of dreams are quickly forgotten but some are remembered and those are the ones that will carry a message that your conscious needs to know and act on. I've written about dreams several times if you're interested in my thoughts about them.

One thing I didn't add to any of those stories is that if I have a dream I don't like (nightmare) and wake up from it I can often go right back to sleep with the intention of reentering that dream and changing the ending to whatever I want.

https://medium.com/illumination-curated/dreams-and-their-meanings-a-short-primer-on-interpreting-your-dreams-d118c24b9c2d

https://medium.com/illumination-curated/dreams-and-what-can-be-learned-from-them-3f05d0891da2

https://medium.com/p/dreams-and-their-meanings-a-short-primer-on-interpreting-your-dreams-2-4ca83b393f69

Great story, Ben, thanks for sharing.