Sweet Dreams

I began reading chapter 11 and I found what was said about dreams to be really interesting..."he argued that dreams are a form of wish suitably interpreted, reveal deep desires and secrets locked in the unconscious." I believe that this statement is true, things we feel and want to do in real life are acted out in our dreams sometimes. I also believe that dreams are not to be taken literally. Sometimes, like stories, there is symbolism in dreams. With my Caribbean background when someone dreams a particular thing it symbolizes something that is going to happen in real life (not all the time.) For example, we say that if you see clear water or a funeral in your dream, it means that its good fortune that is coming. If we see a wedding or dirty water in our dreams bad fortune is ahead. If we see fishes in our dream that mean someone is pregnant, if we see someone eating fish in our dream the person eating it is pregnant. It is a weird interpretation of dreams, I know but I grew up on ideas like these.
Dreams have been around for as long as the first man walked the earth. Dreams are there for us to take a glimpse into our subconscious. Dreams are also fragments of our memory. Whenever I watch a scary movie I always dream about the killer and myself being hunted down. Dreams also remember days conversations, like if you were talking about water all day , it just may happen that you dream about water. It also goes on feelings, if you are mad at someone you may have a dream that you are arguing with that person or even fighting that person. Dreams are also really random and you may wake up the next morning, like " Why did I dream about the tooth fairy and Santa Clause wrestling?" Dreams are universal, everyone has them. Everyone dreams, even if you wake up the next morning thinking you didn't. What puzzles me though, is how is it possible that when dreaming we can feel things? Like if I had a dream I fell I would feel it in my dream and wake up to find that I feel pressure on that particular spot. I guess that's just getting into the scientific aspect of things.