Hi Ne5o2: Well, personally, I consider dreams to be of no particular significance except that they perhaps suggest some things that may be on one's mind. I think, in general, people try to assign too much significance to them. It's like trying to assign special meaning to the appendix!

But it is true that sometimes when we're not fully asleep, but not completely awake either, we can have dreams that appear to be very real, & also real experiences that seem like dreams. That borderland between sleep & wakefulness can be an interesting place.

Another thing that I know, from personal experience, can happen is that one can have deeply meaningful spiritual dreams that can affect one deeply. I had one when I was still a teenager that I still remember to this day even though I'm now in my 60's.