Dreams can only be understood in the specific context of your life. Someone who doesn't know anything about your life will never be able to have a slightest idea what your dreams mean. Generally speaking, if you want to get just an approximate sense of what type of a message your dreams carry, it's helpful to keep in mind the following:

1. The precipitating event that triggered the dream.

It is something that usually happens on the same day or the day before you had the dream. Try to recall what happened and what kind of significance it had for you and see what kind of connection it has with the dream.

3. Your present struggle.

Whatever your current problem is at the moment, it is usually reflected in dreams one way or the other.

4. Historical context.

Both the precipitating event and the present struggle have to fit into a historical context of what your general struggle has been throughout your life.

5. Pay attention to the characters in your dream and what they represent to you.

6. Most and foremost, recall in as much detail as possible what you were feeling while dreaming. This is the only part of the dream that is real and doesn't require interpretation, and, therefore, it's the most important part. Whatever you feel in the dream you feel during your waking hours except you, most likely, suppress it when you are awake which makes you unaware of the feeling. Feeling is the key to what the dream is referring to.

There is no dream dictionary that can tell people what means what. Everything in the dream is 100% unique to the person and his or her individual circumstances.