This happens to me alot, where I'll be dreaming and then a guide of some sort will be in my dream, but since I am not aware that I am dreaming I just let them walk away.
I was dreaming that I was in a movie theater watching a movie and there was a lady sitting next to me and next to her there was this guy. Some how the dream worked out to where this lady was to recieve something. So the guy playfully made this energy ball and placed it around the lady. I thought to myself that that was really cool and then i just stayed in my own thoughts and the man got up and left. Only upon waking did I realize how much he stood out from everything else in my dream and if I had been more lucid, I would have followed after him.
Like, hey man, wake up and smell the beautiful dream roses right under your wakeful nose. I mean why am I making this distinction between the real and the dream. Why allow yourself to be restrained by limiting thought patterns in the "real" world yet work to drop them in the dream world? Drop them all, create ones that are useful and then mold them / recreate them / drop 'em all over again. If you see the pretty girl in the green jacket, go after her and be prepaired to see her smile in response to the glint in your eye.
Have this lucidity in every situation -- this freedom -- this unbounded joy.