Dreamwork has been (and still is) a big part of my therapy. My T has studied it extensively and is a big proponent obviously. I've been an avid dreamer my entire life and always KNEW there was something to dreams... but never knew there was such a thing as dreamwork until I found my T. Like Leah said it's been helpful for me as well in integrating my subconscious self with my conscious self. I just talked to my T a little bit ago we worked with 3 dreams that I sent her that I had the past week or so. The first 2 were very powerful - one of them she called "a big dream" I always secretly feel proud when she says that haha. It was, though.... I have learned a LOT about myself through dream work and T taught me a little thing called Active Imagination, where while you're awake, you "imagine" yourself at some point in a dream and then let your mind take it from there, interact with the dream, etc. Usually I do them sitting at my computer with my eyes closed and I type what I "see" as I'm seeing it. There's a great book I recommend called "Inner Work" by Robert Johnson that I read (my T lent it to me a long time ago, then I bought my own copy I liked it so much) to help me learn how to do AI's. I think dreamwork is very valid and useful and that dreams are definitely NOT meaningless. And I also think it's more important that we learn how to work with our OWN dreams instead of rely on someone else to "interpret" them. Sometimes when I share a dream with T she will say "this one doesn't feel like it needs interpreting so much as you just need to sit with it." Long story short, dream work has and does work very well in my case!