"Waking Up"?

I was dozing off the other night and I started having dreams etc where other people would be in my dreams and what they were saying etc would affect me emotionally or in one way or the other.. Then i would sort of wake up and realize it was a dream and that those characters were really just in my consciousness...in my dream all the characters are really just characters in MY consciousness...in effect aspects of myself. and that when i realized that, what they say or did really lost all the MEGA importance or weight on it ..because it was really just me.

But that's exactly what this "Waking" life is also...all the people/characters are just reflections of ourselves but they seem so real that we think they are separate and attach so much importance to them and what they say etc and let it affect us. "WAKING UP" then is just realizing that everything around us is just in our consciousness , is in affect US. So theres no need to be intimidated or emotional or attach SO much importance etc. Just change your thoughts/attitudes etc and eerything else will change!.