Are We Closer To Our Real Self In Our Dreams?

[Andrew]

I've been working on releasing anger and resentment towards my parents a bit lately , doing sedona method exercises , journalling and visualization so I guess it's been on my mind a lot. In the weekend just gone I woke up at 6.30 am and was having really restless thoughts but managed to get back into a drowzy almost lucid dream like sleep state and I dreamed I was yelling at my mum (now in the present) that I was really angry at her for divorcing my dad and splitting up our family but I could control what I was saying it wasn't like I was watching the dream as a movie 

Is this what I really need to focus on releasing and if so how ? or perhaps I had this dream simply because it's been on my mind a lot lately 

[WhyteSeal]

NO! That is the first state on the ladder. (And the reason you forget dreams)

Then the waking state which is pretty much still half asleep.

Just what is coming after will be the next step which requires of help on self observation.