I also have very good dream recall and countless complex, meaningful and often extremely vivid dreams. I think some people are just naturally wired that way but I've also found that the dreams have changed quite a bit with time and effort spent on self-discovery. I also have quite frequent lucid dreams and that's something I really got into in my mid 30's, for a few years and found to be a wonderful way to tap into the hidden spheres of the psyche - it can be done by myself (I had some training and participated in groups though). The OP reminded me of some recurring dreams I had about my mother, for a couple years after her death. They were usually pretty uncomfortable, puzzling (for a while) nightmares and that was an area I explored in lucid dreams a lot and found really interesting things. Eventually the dreams became less frequent and then vanished completely. These days I am trying to do similar things with some stubborn anxiety dreams. I find lucid dreaming (not merely an awareness of dreaming within the dream state but probing into it and manipulating dreams) very insightful and often fun exercises, for free. It does take some discipline and exercises to maintain the skill though and I have periods when I am interested and periods when I don't care and then I lose the skill some. I did discuss dreams sometimes with my therapists but that was never as meaningful as the lucid dream explorations I had done on my own, sometimes exchanging information with peers who had similar interests. I would highly recommend it for anyone intrigued by dreams and with an analytical mind.