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Here's my take, Dreams can be a number of things. I think Freud was onto something looking at dreams of wish fullfillmet and represed sexuality - but I think those might have also been the product of his victorian times. When it comes to dreams, I lean on the Jung side.

What I find most fascinating about dreams is they are almost exclusively created internally, so we have the subconscious taking our various, experiences, thoughts, and fantasies, and weave them into something new. The whole thing is completely creative, seldom without any ego intervention.

Because dreams are created internally, I think they almost always give insights into the workings of the subconscious. Of course these insights can be both profound as well as mundane. Still I find viewing a dream as one would a work of art, where you ask yourself just what was the artist intending to do will usually spark a bit of curious introspection.

I'm also fascinated by the aboriginal cultures that view dreams as a seperate reality, where they will give each other advice on what they must do the next time they meet some difficulty in the dream world. I have found that when I start paying more attention to my dreams I am able to expert more conscious controle within my dreams, so I think they may be onto something as well.

But most of all I love the creativity of dreams, the situations that surprise you, the unlikey people thrown together, world that defy physics. I think that stuff is all pretty cool.