Hello Everyone!

I've been attempting to do lucid dream but I also have a question that's been a little weird to me and wonder if this is right.

Everytime I drift off to sleep and I'm a little conscious of it, I have these ... thoughts that pop out and these thoughts are have VERY random situations that I've never been in. I feel very spacious.... and I see people I've never meet before.. one time, i think... I saw a young mom and a kid dancing that I have no clue is who....

Sometimes I actually awake from it going what the? What was that??? I try to link back my thoughts from what I was thinking to how that thought came up, but there's never a connection...

Basically is it natural to have random thoughts before you completely drift off to sleep? Should I record these also so I can recognize a start of a possible dream?

THANK YOU very much.