Memory and Dreams

In interpreting dreams I would have to agree with Freud and say that I do believe that dreams are meaningful. To people that disagree with me I will try to change your mind in the following analysis of what I have read and heard about dreaming, and from my own experiences which make up my personal opinion of the matter. We discussed the general definition of a dream, where we had several theories of what a dream really is. One conclusion was simply that a dream is just the brain getting rid of short-term memory. (CD) Another thing that we did (CD) was to view films of what people created in a computer technology class designing dream videos of what they thought was a dream. The class all agreed that the film with the most real life impressions was the one that was closest to a real dream. So if we can as a class agree to what a dream is and what it looks like how come we still can not agree to if dreams really mean something or not?
The brain is such a remarkable part of th...