Trying to wake and staying stuck in the dream is read as feeling caught in a situation you know you need to leave. Tradition takes it as the gap between knowing something and being ready to act on it.
Has this come up in your dreams before? What was going on in your life then?
My Cosmic Code has a private dream journal. Write a dream down and the app picks out the symbols in it, shows what dream books say about them and, over time, which words recur across your entries. The journal is stored on your device only.