I sleep a million times better during the nights when the tv isn't on before I go to sleep. Even with a timer set to turn it off, I just don't seem to sleep quite as deep and often wake up feeling the pain. Of course when it's just me here, I literally never have the tv on when I'm trying to go to sleep.
You definitely aren't weird for remembering your dreams. I think failing to be aware of our dreams may end up going down in history as one of our biggest mistakes. I hope there will eventually be a time that we can record our dreams, damn that would be badass.
I was not a fan of the geese. This morning while I was out, I saw a gang of them swimming down the river together. Then about 100ft behind them was one swimming by itself trying to catch up. He was quacking the whole way down the river. I really hoped it was the one that hissed at me, serves the fucker right.