They are guided by the dominant emotions of the dreamer. D oes dreaming have a function or use. I believe that dreaming probably does has a function. The basic function of dreaming is to help us even when we do not remember dreams, there are many ways in which dreams can be useful to us when we do remember them. Sometimes, the broader connections make by drawing can be helpful in our work and in artistic and scientific discovery.
D ream is a second life.
They are the roadways to our unconscious, ripe for symbolic interpretation and ideal for use in creative problem solving. Dreams to be deeply motivated and over-determined, recounting a dream would appear to have no purpose except a therapeutic one or, in certain cultures, the foretelling of events to come. But dream discourse as a framed narrative within a literary text can have an intended perlocutionary effect in the social sphere and create a double hesitation, the hesitation between the real and the imaginary which characterizes the fantastic as a genre and a second hesitation. D ream discourse is already a dialogue between the unconscious, which furnishes the dream matter, and the conscious mind, which shapes the dream in the act of retelling it to an audience accustomed to coherent narratives with a beginning, middle, and end. A dream discourse has been contextualized within a narrative schema, equated with action in the physical or spiritual world, and used pragmatically as a power ploy to persuade, convince, shock, or seduce an audience.