What do dreams represent?

Lucid dreaming certainly occurs, you can increase the likelihood of it by having something wake you up in the middle of a REM phase every night for a few weeks, and then stop. Used to get that quite a lot whilst living with an ex who left for work at 4:30 am. As to what dreaming actually is, I'm of the "Random scattering of images and concepts bubbling up from the sub-conscious" view.

I would not interpret dreams as a true representation of what is going to happen . I have tried much in decoding dreams but with little success. Are'nt dreams just aberrations to be ignored ?

I have heard that dreams are about things that you think of all the time or events that happen around you or will happen in the future. It is just weird like that in my opinion.

I ran a dream workshop for many years and one of the most interesting things in that workshop was that each element of a dream proved to represent an element of the personality of the person that dreamt it. So and angry, vicious dog in a dream, nearly always represented the repressed anger of the dreamer who had some issues to resolve. I think though that dreams may be multi-functional. The mind knows more than we can consciously fathom out and prophetic dreams have for a long time been established as true. It is a most fascinating study and my workshop was very popular.

hi soulsister,in my view dreams are traces of what has happened in recent past and how do wish that to be. In other words these are just the thoughts which keep on coming in mind time to time. But mostly it is difficult to manupulate dreams as u cannot remember them completely, what u retain in mind is just some part of it. I personaly believe that dreams cannot reresent future.