Conscious When I'm Dreaming

I'm not sure what to make of a few things that happen in my life, and I try and forget so sorry if it doesn't all make sense.

The first time I thought I saw a ghost, I was about 7 and had woken up for some reason, so I lay there looking at the ceiling and I saw a white figure, I didn't know what to think, so I looked again and I could see it was of a young cat, it was completely white, and about half way up the wall, and it just sat there, cleaning itself, looking at me. I hid and when I looked up again it dashed across the wall so fast it was as if IT had just seen a ghost! Needless to say I was scared of the dark after that and still am at 17.

There were always strange 'coincidences', for example, I would think of a song and a minute later you would hear it on the radio.

When I was 11 I had a really vivid dream about learning to ride standing up on my bike, and that my brother would teach me in the garden, and exactly what I dreamed happened the next day.

More recently, I saw the face of a woman as I was falling asleep and it looked as if she was trying to talk to me. I could also 'feel' her when walking around my house. Nobody believed me until my mum saw her in her bedroom, but we don't know if it was the same woman as she was facing a mirror in my mums room and she didn't see her face.

Another is suddenly shivering and feeling the hairs standing up on my body. My boyfriends mother is a spiritualist and we always joke about something walking over my grave, but she often has a concerned expression on her face when watching me.

I guess I just want to know I'm not crazy, some people are different and everything I see is real.

Another thing is more often than not, I'm very conscious when I'm dreaming and can control my dreams, but I don't know if this has anything to do with other things that have happened or if its just a coincidence.

Another thing I have remembered is a few years back, I had this sudden extremely strong feeling of fear and dread, and then just emptiness, and I just sat a cried on my own. A few days later, we found out that my great grandmother had died on that night.

I'm sorry it was mixed up and rushed and doesn't make a lot of sense, but as I've tried forgetting most of this, I remembered a few more things as I was writing this. I really hope somebody can help explain some of this to me because it seems the more I ignore it, the more frequently 'coincidences' start happening. There are more unexplained occurances, but are basically the same as what I've already explained, so I didn't see the point of writing them all...

Thankyou:)