An older Witches Weekly question:-

"Do you believe dreams are ever symbolic? 
How do you interpret dreams? Do you feel some are scenes from past lives? Future premonitons? Hidden thoughts and feelings?
What do you feel was your most symbolic/meaningful dream?"

I do strongly believe that dreams are symbolic - in fact, I think dreams could be defined as symbolic.  They're the way our subconscious/Younger Self interprets the world. 

I have a lot of trouble interpreting my own dreams.  The only time I can interpret them is when they're obviously a simple stress dream - for example, if I'm worried about work, and I then dream about being at work, and things going wrong.  On a reasonably regular basis, I have dreams that exist in entirely new worlds, which I find quite strange.   Some of these seem so real, I wonder if they are some sort of message, or past/future life, or whether these places actually exist.  And sometimes I just wonder at the endless creativity of my mind when my body sleeps.

I went through a disciplined stage of writing down all the dreams I remembered in the morning, and reading back over those is quite fascinating (although not particularly enlightening, in terms of symbolism).  I would like to begin to do that again - I think looking back at the dreams of five years ago could be a very valuable exercise, in terms of seeing how my subconscious preoccupations have, or have not, changed.