vivid dreams

I have been having some vivid dreams lately. Ones that stick with me with more detail than usual without any effort on my part to remember. I sometimes jot down a few key phrases if I think I want to remember a dream so that it doesn't slip away from me. But these have not needed help.

One had a viscious, insane child that had everyone in my dream running away from him in fear. I was running toward him. Not in a spirit of helpfulness, no. I was enraged at the fear he was creating in everyone. Not that I wasn't afraid of him too. I was just so enraged it didn't matter. I wanted to stop him from threatening everyone.
He may have had some connection to my viscious doll dreams. But I was not running
from him but towards him. He had those little teeth too. Like a pirahana.
I never actually reached him as the dreamed changed while I was trying to get to him. Then I was being chased by a lion. But there wasn't a lot of fear in that either. Just intensity if that makes sense.

Then there was the dream where my skin hurt so much I didn't want to be touched. I kept asking people if they had ever esperienced that. I kept describing it. I kept asking if they thought my painful skin was the result of a gluten-free diet. I posted that question on facebook in my dream.

These dreams as so intense that even when I wake up I don't leave them behind right away. Some miasma of the dream world follows me into the waking world and takes a while to disspell.
(dispel?)
Like, I know I'm awake and I can see things in reality but something otherworldly stays with me for a while. Almost as if I saw a lion in the hallway I would not be surprised, or if that child appeared I would not be shocked.