Dreams and Nightmares: What do they tell you?

 Dreams, as described by Wikipedia are successions of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep.  The content and purpose of dreams are not definitively understood, though they have been a topic of scientific speculation, as well as a subject of philosophical and religious interest, throughout recorded history. The scientific study of dreams is called Oneirology.

When i was in college, i choose dreams as a topic for my term paper. Im really curious about it because i dream a lot: good ones, weird ones and even scary ones. There are many types of dreams and sometimes it can be full of mystery.    In my opinion, dreams starts with our unconsciousness, like when we sleep our bodies rest while our spirit is traveling somewhere beyond our imaginations and sometimes there are these  times that you control your dream with your mind.  (It happens to me especially when someone is attacking me or wanted to kill me something like that of course i don't want to be caught and be dead)   Dreams can be a continuation of what you're thinking before you go to sleep, a movie you watched or maybe something very weird or very unfamiliar.  That's how i see it.   When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did. Sometimes it can be also an answer to a question we haven't learned to ask.

 I don't actually believe with what they say that if you remember your dreams after you wake up, its nothing and wont even come true but if you don't seem to remember anything about it, it should be something to worry about.  It's crazy, right?  They also say that what you dream is always the opposite of what's truly gonna happen in real life but what if its a good dream? I guess that only applies to bad dreams because we always want the good ones.  Dreams are kinda big deal for me, it makes me think so much especially when its really really a bad one.  (like someone i know or me got into an accident, snakes everywhere, attacked by monsters.. stuffs like that)  So my solution to that is i bought a DREAM BOOK app in Itunes (it cost me $2.99) and saved it on my ipod so whenever i had disturbing dreams that i remember i can looked it up there and somehow gives me the meaning of it, even not so exactly but sometimes it matches.  Like the other other night, i dream of swimming into a pool i looked up the app (i typed "swimming") and this is what it meant:

---> Swimming of course takes place in the water. That may seem obvious but water links to the emotions and the unconscious mind so swimming will in some way link to our feelings. Swimming symbolises specifically the wish to change. It can show that this is what you want - in real life that change maybe has not been achieved. <---

So it will depend on how you see your dream or what you truly feel in the situation, it can help but of course i don't rely on it 100%, i guess it's just my first aid so i wont be nervous and distracted.  It does tell the truth sometimes.   We remember dreams or may even  forget every single detail about it but what's really good about it is we enter a world that is entirely our own.