To me I see dreams as mental pictures meant to entertain me while I am asleep even though sometimes its not entertaining what do you think?
I believe it’s a base of the world, brought up from expectations and expereinces to increase your range of actions in a consciquence free enviroment, so that you react better in a particular situation in the future.
Although books, TV and other such fiction has screwed it up a bit (which is why dreams are so surreal… heh).
I have also thought about dreams as free movies to entertain me while i sleep…until i discovered lucid dreaming 
Well, dreams can have many aspects. Just to name a few:
- reflections of your inner desires and fears
- surreal mixture of real life experiences stored in our brain and twisted as mosaic picture
- messages from our subconcious mind, and from higher beings
To me, dreams are, as mentioned, a sum of our experiences. Sometimes, the mind has trouble assimilating everything, and so when we sleep the mind sort of “defragments” and puts everything in their proper place. Dreams are a sort of by-product of that process. I also think that some information may not be dealt with until later on, which is why we might dream about something that may have happened a while ago.
I’m overall not 100% sure, but it’s fun contemplating it!
I see a dream not so much as entertainment, but brain activity to keep the psyche from snapping like a twig under pressure.
Also, I see it as a reflection of not just your view of the world, but YOU yourself. As in, I think you can learn alot about yourself from your dreams.
i believe dreams are a relapse into the memory of the universe. dreams are what can, and will be, eventually of course. dreams are, to me, the after-future state, or the after death state. dreams are just another parallel in the little hologram we call reality.
In my opinion, dreams are an activity for the brain to participate in while sleeping. It seems like a good way to refresh memory and such.