What's in a Dream?

What does it mean when you dream? Are you working through unsettled events in your life, or are dreams an acting out your subconscious wishes? There are many theories on the topic. One theory is that dreams are the way your brain makes sense of the days events, what is the brain "thinking things over" comes to you as a series of images in your mind. Sometimes they seem coherent, like a story, and other times they seem inconsistent, like a slide show of mixed images. Another theory is that your dreams are a way for your subconcious to speak to you. In this theory your hidden desires are put to you in your dreams using imagery and symbloism. Some people even believe that dreams are cryptic messages about our future, premonitions that can only come to us while we are in a sleeping state.

Lets look at the idea of dreams as symbolic representations of our desires.