Searching for something, I couldn't find at home

Do you ever have those moments when the world seems to snap suddenly into focus and for an instant, everything makes sense?  It's like you're in a fog with all of your thoughts floating around you, and then you look away and everything clears.  It's the strangest feeling, and it always seems so perfectly clear and rational and devoid of emotions until you look back at it.

Some moments just shouldn't be analyzed.  Especially moments like these where for a second everything works.  Because as soon as you look back on them and you analyze them and look at everything, it stops making sense.  Suddenly you start thinking about an emotion you thought was there and then you can't tell if it was or wasn't.  Then you start contemplating how you feel about it, and the moment is lost.

It's like a crystal.  It's perfect, and looking at it makes you really appreciate its beauty.  But if you keep going over it, keep touching it and turning it, you mar it.  You add too much of yourself to it, so it loses the brilliance.

I wonder if it's the same with dreams.  I had a dream two nights ago that was so realistic that I had to wake up and check to see if I'd done what I thought I did.  I can still sense the thoughts that were going through my head in that dream.  And I want to keep thinking about it, keep mulling over it, keep analyzing the situation.  But I can feel it slipping away, as dreams are prone to do.

I've always wondered at the significance of dreams.  Everything you read on the subject says something different.  My mother used to never remember her dreams, but the ones she did foretold the future.  They were all very common-place and small events, but I have to wonder how that would work.  For that matter, I wonder if she ever remembers her dreams these days.

Supposedly dreams are supposed to help sort the occurrences of the past day.  And I guess that is reflected in the subject matter most of the time (in my experience), but not always.  Sometimes, though, it seems as though dreams come out of absolutely nowhere.  And I feel like they have to mean something, be in your mind for some reason.  But I have no explanation.

I don't like when things don't make logical sense.  It bothers me because it means I don't have control over it, and I like at least knowing that I have control if not actively exercising it.  So I need to understand...