Haha yeah a lot to unpack is the truth of it.

I have figured out some of what triggers of the episodes for me. It tends to happen when I sleep longer than usual or if I sleep in a room with a lot of light. Getting out of it was always the problem so I find that trying to fall back into a deeper sleep is the best option but then the lucid dreaming kicks off and that has its own issues.

That is an interesting thought about forgetting. It follows well too. Some trips I have a very vivid memory of and some I don't but I know that they were every bit as weird. I wonder if the issue is that the information is so unusual that the brain doesn't know what to do with it so it is thrown out.