i totally, 100% believe that dreams are your mind's way of ridding itself of excess. i also 100% believe that dreams are representatory of what you're going through in your life. certain stresses, anxieties, fears, excitements, joys all trigger what your mind mills over at night. so many feelings/emotions can be represented in your dreams. i don't think that every single dream has to mean something, but i think when your brain's hard at work during certain times in your life, i think it seeps into dream life. i love dreams for this reason -- i think they can reveal many things about a person. i want one of those huge dream dictionaries.