Do dreams really mean anything?

no.....yes..............no........ there is an utter confusion.

yes. your subconscious can sometimes help you realize things you should. dreams are the subconscious mind's way of talking to you. the conscious mind doesn't always know everything so when the subconscious is active, it works like rearranging things for our conscious and thus help us know what's deep inside our own mind we're not very aware of.

Oh, yes, but they are cryptic in my opinion. I am quite good at figuring out what my dreams are trying to tell me. If you look on them as you sub-conscience trying to tell you something and put them into how your life is going, then you can make sense of them. Well, that's what I do. I feel deprived if I don't dream, as I love dreaming, but only when I am sleeping.

When you say real meaning,it really depends on how you define. Dreams are from our subconscious mind. They reflect our desire, fear and inner personalities. However, some dreams are merely playback of daily experience because of media effect such as TV, movie, news. It is like when one says no comment, that is actually a comment of some sort. That same goes with your dream. It does have meaning of some sort.

dreams are a really important part of life, they are a way of revealing the things that have happened in your day to day life. and if you know how to read your dreams you can help make your life easier when you are confused.

there are psychological dreams and dreams which result purely from the brains' chemical flow.Psychological dreams are very important to understand a person's subconscious. for example, water is associate with sexual desires- the context of the dream is important to create a clear picture. There are dreams which incorporate a glimpse of a vision-foretelling events that concern you or people around you-even to people you don't know. This is not proven scientifically, but throughout history many people believed in the power of dreams. the foretelling comes in sybols-the symbol interpretation is an anceint approach which you can research.

Psychology says it's just stuff that's stored in your subconscious memory, but if you're a spiritual believer, then they may mean something. The thing is that you have to believe them to mean something for them to really mean anything.

The things aren't random, just incomprehensible. It means your subconscious has done some heavy sorting of what is considered experience during the day. If you wake up during this process your conscious part of the brain will try to make sense of the data it finds streaming through it and you get all kinds of screwed up stories. It has no actual value though, so we all forget it in a few hours. If it was valuable you'd think that through time people would very well remember things that affected their survival and our brain would have developed a fine tuned way of absorbing and using this information. And dream readers and healers and soothsayers would be among the richest and most prominent in our society one way or another. This is however not the case. At best people think they are nuts, at worst exploiters.

Most times our dreams reflect our thought, that is we dream about the things we thing about. However , it could be a revelation of things to come.