h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Recently, I have developed a very peculiar sleep pattern. I tend to crash out somewhere between midnight and 2am, then wake at about 5am-6pm. (I often get up and log on to h2g2 at this point).
I then get tired again at around 7am-8pm, go back to bed, and sleep for another couple of hours.
That's when the trouble starts. During this second spell of shallow sleep, I keep having the WEIRDEST dreams - ones which leave me feeling shaky when I wake again and try to face the day. This morning I dreamed that I was having an argument with my Dad about the fact that (in the dream) he had become a drug dealer!
Now I must add quickly that in real life, this turn of events would be about as likely as Saddam Hussein becoming Pope. My Dad is in fact an eminently respectable retired council officer. I could never make up anything as extreme as that dream, or others that I've had lately, while awake - so how did my subconscious come up with it?
I don't think h2g2 can be blamed, because the stuff I'm dreaming is too weird even for this site. I do wonder if the Prozac I'm taking might have something to do with it. Could it be that all the disturbing stuff in my mind gets suppressed while I'm awake, and emerges in the early morning? Either way, I'm fed up of it because I've had enough of waking up feeling worried.
Has anyone experienced anything similar, and if so can they suggest anything to help me sleep more soundly?

I'm afraid I can't be of much help; the only thing I have in common with your experience is that I do have dreams about situations that are far too strange to be believed but at the same time leave me wondering "what if this really happened?" It's rather unnerving but doesn't happen all that often. In your case, I'd say it's a possibility that the Prozac might have something to do with it; I'm no expert, of course, but it can't hurt to ask whoever prescribed it.

Two hour sleeps are generally the ones that give the largest amount of *remembered* dreams - a full cycle is meant to be 4 hours, so 2 hours means you're probably waking up in the middle of REM. If you go back to a single long sleep period, it'll probably go away...

Incidentally - that's a **BAD** thing - I'm horrendous at it too, but irregular sleep times have been linked to all sorts of nasty things - shift workers have a larger rate of illness to just about anything - and that's blamed on the weird sleep patterns.

Generally, it seems that these sorts of dreams are all about the mind trying to answer 'what if' questions - but the subconsious isn't terribly subtle, or realistic in the questions it asks.
It probably came up with it by random mixing of elements - so one element is an argument, another is your father, and another one is drugs, or dealing drugs, and the mind creates a story based round those elements. I'd guess that drugs were on your mind somehow, and the dream was your subconscious' way of thinking through how it felt about drugs. Just a guess.

80% percent of my dreams are weird. Very weird... I don't know the reason for it, I can only think it is my imagination that keeps going still I'm sleeping "safely" far away from this world.
Nightmares and "normal" dreams must usually separate from each other because they are very different thing. "Normal" dreams tell sometimes about your on life but on the symbolic level of course. Since the dreams can be very weird I hope that everything is not connected to my life...