I have literally interpreted thousands of dreams on the internet.
Some interpretations were good and some bad. When starting out I
did not know much about dreams. I had some basic ideas yet no real
ideas about dream theory. Now I feel that I understand most of my
own dreams. They are hidden in difficult symbolism yet they are
understandable.

During the course of my own dream interpreting I have learned that

1. Dreams deal with higher thinking(ideas) and conceptual emotions.

Personally I have a much more computer based idea of the dream
mind. There are two entirely different brains within us. The left
mind or conscious mind that deals with logic. Then there is the
dream mind or unconscious. The dream mind is to be seen as the
powerhouse to higher thinking. It is also the home of emotions.
These are by their very nature also higher thinking. Emotions are
very complex and highly evolved thinking. It is easier to teach a
computer to play chess at grandmaster level than it is to teach a
computer to understand and mimic emotions.

2. Many dreams are linked specifically to new changes in your world
view that happened during the course of the previous day. Research into the mind has also revealed that some brain waves only appear during sleep. Basically we store up memories in short term memory. Then we transfer them into long term memory blocks. During this process we integrate new ideas and feelings into long term memory.

3. Dreams capture crucial changes in our thinking. Moments when we
have gained some new insight into our feelings. Contained within
the symbols are vital and key moments. Take the following example.

THE DREAM It was a short dream. I dreamt I saw Major Sharpe. That
was it.

THE INTERPRETATION Major Sharpe is a fictional character who was
portrayed on TV. Contained in this one symbol is some key symbolism that totally captured my own thinking on some incident that
happened the day before. How? Well I often try to interpret dreams
in reverse. In this case I guessed that I would dream about a
particular incident that happened the day before. I damaged a
camera. It was my own stupid fault. I had taken too great a risk
whilst taking photos of surfers on my local beach.

The dream had just one symbol - Major Sharpe. Yet this dream single symbol captured that vital piece of thinking about this event. I
felt that I had taken too great a risk. Major Sharpe was linked
very precisely to this very idea. He was a fictional military hero
from the Napoleonic era. He always led the charges and was a hero
to his men. He took insane risks and yet always won the battle
almost single handedly. In reality his actions were reckless.

I always try to reduce a dreams meaning into one quote. This
captures the core meaning of the dream and it shows which precise
idea or conceptual emotions that has been caught by the dream. In
this case I would reduce this dreams meaning to the following
quote.

"I took insane risks with my camera yesterday. I start move too
deep into the water. I was acting as if I was some fictional
military hero who always succeeds. Yet that action was reckless and stupid."

So this single quote captures the relevance of the symbols to real
life events or feelings. It singles out that crucial piece of
reasoning that goes to the very core of our conceptual thought.