How odd am I?

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Several years ago I had quite a few dreams that became signifigant....

I dreampt of a beatiful brooch on the ground on an old rough road. They were repaving it and there was a broken tree near the brooch. When I awoke I though it was funny because they would never fix that road it was awful for years. Within a couple months it was being repaved, and there was a bent over little tree just as I had drempt. This was one of my first dreams like this. I thought it was ironic and did not stop to look for a brooch.
If I would dream someone died and they would spiritually (more so emotionally) fall away from the family. In both cases married and abruptly distanced themselves from the family.
I would dream when my long distance friends were having marital troubles-without having any idea what was happening in their lives. Of which they were in marital trouble.
When I would dream of someone pregnant they would be pregnant within a few months. (This one was untrue with one person in particular)
Around the same time when I was awake, the thought of a distant relative popped into my thoughts - 'Eugene and his boat' I did not know him well; had no idea he'd had a boat. That day he slipped on his boat and fell into a coma and died within days.
I dreampt of a mothers love, which is like no other until you feel it. At the time I had no husband or children. I dreampt of having children & awoke suddenly and panicked 'Where are my kids?' I took about ten minutes to calm down and tell myself it was only a dream. How is it possible to feel what I hadn't experienced?
At first it was weird and kind of cool, but I did not want to know things and was more so distraught that I would be wrong or worse- picking apart all of my dreams. I wanted it to stop and it did.
I thought it was odd, part of me would want it back- but I know I would pick everything apart. Am I preventing myself from remembering dreams because in part I do not want to know?
Is it unusual to learn to control dreams?
On another subject , as a child I dreampt only horrible scary dreams. eventually, I learned to control them. I would even start out the dream with what I wanted to dream of. As I would fall deeper into sleep they would spiral out of control.
As I got older I became better and could do some things-like flying. I would be running, then I would think, 'why am I running when I can fly?' Then I would start flying.
As soon as I learned to control my dreams well I stoppped having or remembering them for a long time.
Do many people learn to control their dreams?
How come when I would have some of my flying dreams (not controlled ones) I would wake up as I was in the process of lying back down into bed?