Originally posted by Deep Dish
Dreams have no meaning. Dreams give you something to do while you’re sleeping and allow you to do things which you normally cannot do or have things you don’t have in real life, but beyond that dreams have no meaning. I've died in my sleep, gone to heaven, gone to hell, faced sharks, saved the world from zombies (that was last night’s dream), been James Bond-ish, been Indiana Jones-ish, been Superman-ish, and so forth. None of this means anything other than that it gives me a sense of adventure, adventure of which I lack in real life. There are people who analyze dreams and come up with symbolisms of what dream elements supposedly mean but it’s all bogus, in my opinion. Your mind has enough trouble sustaining the focus of dream for more than a few seconds and not to drift off on some irrelevant tangent.
What you may want to check into is lucid dreaming, which is when you realize you are in a dream and subsequently can take complete control over everything. It’s real fun.