> There is no meaning in dreams. For many people, it (seems to) repeat memories, and not in a consistent or logical manner. It doesn't tell anything about the future, and doesn't include wise lessons about the past. It's an almost random side effect of the brain.

Joseph Smith and Jesus would like to have a word with you. /s

A large number of pyschologists would disagree with you.

You're right in that there's repetition, inconsistency, and it certainly doesn't predict the future, and there's nothing especially wise.

But if you regularly log your dream content, they do tend to consistently indicate areas of anxiety and conflict that your conscious self is often unaware of. Together with techniques like free association, free journaling, and so on, they provide important clues for therapists to uncover patterns of what underlying source issues are that can then be addressed therapeutically in order to bring about healing.

So to say there is "no" meaning in dreams is just as untrue as to say they can tell the future.

Nothing wise about Martin Luther King's dream? Not many bible beliving people would say dreams are meaningless or cannot have higher meaning. I don't think my dreams are particularily important for anyone else but myself. But I have not had nightmares about the kinds of things soldiers have. PSTD suffering soldiers don't have many people to turn to. It was the subject of the movie the manchurian candidate. Great movie if you haven't seen it.

No one listens to the nightmares of those who suffer war and that is the main reason we face a catacylsm. No one wants to hear that either. So I am sure you will be no different.

> There is no meaning in dreams. For many people, it (seems to) repeat memories, and not in a consistent or logical manner. It doesn't tell anything about the future, and doesn't include wise lessons about the past. It's an almost random side effect of the brain.

We don't know what the heck dreams are for yet, or really where they come from, and you are likely correct that they are random signals that occur while your body cleans out your brain at night, or something like that, but you still shouldn't just state that as fact.

Something many people don't understand about drugs, religious experiences, dream interpretation, or anything like that, is that it doesn't matter if anything "real" or "magic" is actually happening, it only matters that it perturbs your mind-scape for a bit to make you look at your life and your problems from a different direction, even if it turns out to be a strange take or totally useless. Often, it helps you to see opportunities or create new stories or ideas that are somewhat useful. Mysticism isn't for everyone, but it is a useful tool for some people.

If you find comfort in trying to make sense of chaos go hard, but it seems like apophenia to me. The only dreams I could consistently remember growing up were when I was being chased by Velociraptors or a T-Rex. I got 99 problems, but a T-Rex ain't one.

For me the bad nightmares involve someone I love get killed by something(electricity, bad people, dawning). This are rare and there is no new perspective to look at things. From my experience I think this nightmares have an actual physical effect like releasing bad hormones in my blood because I feel horible the entire day. So I do not need dream book to tell me that yeah, i fear and would hate losing someone I love. The dreams where I am in danger are not even 1% as distrubing, it is like getting chased or killed in a video game.

Fist fighting my long lost dad in my dream early this year ended up saving my life later on. I've never fought my dad before and in my dream, I lost badly.

This is the same as placebo effect. It is still an effect!

If taking a sugar pill improves the actual condition, then take the sugar pill.