BobG said:
I hate dreaming about real problems and not being able to wake up.
For example, a while ago, I dreamed I had kicked the covers off and left the windows open and then the temperature dropped during the night. In my dream, I pulled the covers back on, and then the weather got worse. A cold wind was blasting through the open windows, so I was still freezing. Then, I dreamed I closed the windows, and it got colder still. It seemed to take forever before I really woke up, closed the windows, and pulled the covers back on.
I think the weirdest thing that happened to me, though, was dreaming I had lost my arm. I woke up and realized my arm was asleep. And then I couldn't find it!
Turned out I had it running under the pillow and had caught my hand in the headboard, which is why my arm had fallen asleep. But it caused a few seconds panic to wake up from a dream like that and then having to search around the bed to find my arm.
I'm glad you found it

One of my weirdest dreams ever was about dreaming that I woke up:
Prelude:
This happened when I was about 12, and played clarinetto (clarinet??) in the local school music band. It was midwinter (and there was lots of snow), and I had been exercising(?) earlier that evening.
Dream:
I re-dreamt my walking back from the session, and somehow I lost the case containing my instrument on the ground, and since it was a lot a snow, I wasn't able to find it for some time (the logic in dreams sometimes beats me..).
When I finally found it, I opened the case, and DISASTER! my clarinetto was all wet (and it was d**n expensive, too).
Somehow, I managed to sneak past my parents' attention (yet another bit of mysterious dream-logic), I put the oven on in order to dry my clarinetto in a surreptitious way..
Unfortunately, I forgot all about it..
I then woke up in the middle of the night, I suddenly remembered (OMG, the clarinetto!) and I rushed down to the oven, only to find some charred pieces left..
Then I woke up for REAL, rushed down to the oven, and there was no clarinetto there at all. It lay nice and dry within its case..