In time, those who make it a point to understand their dreams make more informed decisions on perplexing questions, discover their full potential, and find their heart's desire. This is not a vacation cruiseline offer: the messages behind dreams seem quite deliberately focused on addressing these core issues.

Most believe dreams are random fantasy, and sleep itself is an interruption of life rather than an important part of it. In this climate, it's difficult to persuade individuals that dreams have meaning. It is those persons willing to question these misconceptions who discover dreams hold value that is eternal and essential to life.

Every dream, one and all, contains knowledge. This knowledge relates to a greater all, beckoning one out to new heights of personal development. Visualize the classic iceberg metaphor: what is conscious, known, and accepted is the portion above the waterline; what is unconscious, unknown, and repressed is the massive body that lies below. Dreams give the individual what he needs to become aware "there is something more".

With reception and time, dreams address eternal questions such as 'who am I?' and 'why am I here?'. Here, though, dreaming dialogue often finds itself crowded out by competing sources for answers, such as parents, peers, municipalities, flag and country, religion, etc., who also inform us of what is desirable and who we are. The experience of being at odds with these forces produces something like burial, a silent loss of Self that is only mourned when known and uncovered. Dreams messages are therefore also preoccupied with directing the resurrection and re-integration of these lost and rejected aspects of Self, oppressed by the volleys of social stigma. It is hard for people to believe they are anything but perfectly fine, or that anything can be bad about being "well-adjusted"; yet dreams reveal, time and time again, that the comely shape of an "identity" a person associates himself with is an incomplete picture.

One more thing:
Dreams help man fulfill the sacred and eerie duty of being: they bring us to manifest that which has not yet come into manifestation -- intangible truths, pure steam and fire running up the tracks, with no clear answer whether we're dealing with a train, a monster, or what.

I only wish to stress that dreams bear both rewards and caveats. It all depends on the way an individual seeks to structure his life, on what and where he places value. Nothing good comes easily. Those with the courage to live life authentically will benefit without fail from dream interpretation. At the opposite pole, those who harbor an inverted value system within themselves, whose "tale" is a life-long investment in delusion, mediocrity, and vice, will find in an interpreted dream nothing but torment. These comments come from observation; I will say no more to deter or attract persons either way, besides suggesting that you make your decision carefully. Everything is to be gained from dream analysis, with nothing of value left out of its scope of significance.