What is a dream? Why do they occur/re-occur? What do they mean? What are they telling you?

Question

What is a dream? Why do they occur/re-occur? What do they mean? What are they telling you?

Answer 1

I think I've read somewhere that dreams are a way for us to solve our problems.Our mind doesn't sleep...When we are asleep we 'play' in our minds a movie of what had happened during the day and we dream about everything that bothers our mind(even subconsciously).In many cultures they believe in dreams but according to psychology they have no magical meaning...

Answer 2

I've learnt that a dream is a way that your body fulfills your deepest wishes.

For example, I fell in love with this girl the other day, but she moved back to England. I've dreamt about her every night ever since. Last night it was were I was Peter Pan and she was Wendy. So your dreams can also be symbolic as well.

Answer 3

Dreams for me, for the most part, have often given me subtle hints as to what is contained in the near future.

Answer 4

Dreams are the manifestations of our subconscious desires, aspirations and even fears.

Once I dreamt of a store that had a really cool name on it. I want to become a businesswoman one day and I plan to use the name of the store that I had dreamt of because I thought it was really cool.  Isn't this strange or is my dream just manifesting what I have been planning subconsciously all along?

(I hope that made sense)