Our nightly dreams, and our life lessons. How are they interrelated, are they related?

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If we are being taught something from our dreams, does it mean then that something greater than us is really aiding us in our living, and is trying to guide us in this way, or is this just our unconsciousness pointing out things to our consciousness, via a dream, not unlike how when we have a problem in our physical body, our inner unconscious processes of healing usually kick in to bring about such an outer healing for us too, of which we are then consciously aware of. Does the same thing work with our minds, do our dreams help us heal ourselves in this area of our lives? I was dreaming last night that I was at the old Springville state school, where I spent the first two and one half years of my schooling. I was an adult in my dream, about 25 years of age or so, I think, and I was walking on the gravel footpath, alongside the long bitumen driveway, going from the school buildings themselves, past the toilet blocks, to the large outside wrought iron gate, of the old school. I had two small overnight type bags that I was carrying with me. One, with a small radio in it, which had its antenna extended, and of which, this was extending a little bit, from the zip in top of the bag, outside of the bag. There was an old car parked on the footpath, and I walked around it, but I had to squeeze through a narrow part, where there was a large, thick, wooden lamppost, right near the car. My first bag just nudged against the car a little bit, but the antenna, sticking out from the other bag, slightly touched the car too. I looked, but there was no damage, anyway, even if there was, I blamed the car owner too, for illegally parking on the footpath like that, and not on the driveway. It had greatly annoyed me to have to squeeze past it like that. He deserved some comeuppance for his doing that, and causing me angst, I had been thinking to myself. I then noticed a suspicious looking man sidling up behind me, who had obviously seen what had just happened, and it looked like that he was upset with me, for just walking on like that, after my having done that to the car. I went into the toilet block to get away from him, hoping that he would walk past, and be gone, but he followed me into the brick building, so I immediately turned around, and I walked out again, leaving him in there. In those days, there were two large brick toilet blocks near the entrance of the school, one for the boys, and one for the girls. They were a long way from the school itself, but I guess they were put there because they were close to the playing fields nearby. I didn't want to walk to my car straight away, as perhaps he would know my car then, so I walked up to the end of the football oval, into some trees, where other people were also standing around talking, and I stood behind a tree, hiding from him, for when he came out from the toilet, so he wouldn't see where I was now. Other cars were parked there too, near my car. This guy must have phoned the owner of the car, for the next thing I knew was that this big brutish looking guy walked up to me, and he said very aggressively to me then, "Did you just damage my new car". I was annoyed that this happened, and then he says to me to give him $4 compensation. It was obvious that no damage had been done to his car. I was going to walk back to his car with him to show him that. I knew that all of this was just a put on overacted drama play, as there was really nothing in this incident, and even if there was something in it, he had blown it up out of all proportion, as the troublemaker type, that he obviously was. New car indeed! I had thought that it was an abandoned one. I was annoyed at these play of events in my dream, so annoyed was I, that I then woke up. I was thinking to myself, when I woke up, why did he only ask for $4 damages, it was such a small paltry amount. These old school dream themes emphasise even more strongly the teaching aspect of the dream, in a much stronger way than usual, and the lesson here for me is that I need to be responsible for every jot and tittle, and to be more careful not to create these karmically unfolding events, for myself, in my life. We need to learn, because we need to grow past the karma, now consciously being aware of its reason for being there, but we also need to allow time for the growth to take place, inside a greater awareness, building on the love already in ourselves, with an ever greater understanding of love, and its truths, and of the way that they need to work within ourselves, and even within these so-called brutish looking characters, love is still working, if only for now, it's just somewhere it the background. What do you think of my long dream, and its possible meaning for me here?