What are dreams? Why do we dream?

“Lets start with a visual. Take for example a ray of light, as in shining from a light source, and shining it into a prism. You would be able to see all these different aspects of light, moving and fragmenting themselves, extending to different facets of reality. This light shining is you and through the prism you see all these different aspects of you. YOU are a multidimensional being. All the light rays are aspects of you….”
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"Dreams are an alternate dimension of consciousness that we access for the purpose of working through trauma.  We are exposed to so much stimulus each moment of waking life.  Our nervous system handles most of it, but some sneaks through and burns us where we are most fragile.  Dreams are our mind’s attempt to process these scars and heal them.  They are the wisdom of our subconscious, which is always there but able to work its magic when our waking consciousness isn’t in the way."

"Dreams are a glitch in the matrix.  It is a bit of the simulation that sneaks through the cracks.  As in a video game, where there is a loading period for the next level, each night is that for us.  While our next day is simulating, we sleep.  However, sometimes, we wake up or sleep lightly, and this interferes with the loading process.  We wake up to a random algorithm of combined thoughts, memories, and predictions."

"Dreams are thoughts lighting up during sleep. When thoughts light up while we are awake we call it reality, and when thoughts light up while we are asleep we call it dreaming. Why is that? Neither shows reality so why do we believe one more than the other? Product of the mind can never be real, but points to the real, that’s all we can know. We dream in an attempt to find wholeness – bridging conscious thoughts and unconscious thoughts together. We have an evolutionary drive to seek Oneness."

"We dream as a grounding tool.  Waking life is already so dream-like that, without an alternative state to call “dreaming” we would lose track of what is real - like the movie “Inception”.  Dreaming may have been evolved is an adaptive trait so that we do not go insane.  Or, it may have been devised by a higher power of some sort in order to keep humans believing that ‘reality’ is all there is, since it is more conscious state than dreaming."