According to psychic counselor Dr. Allen David Young, people live in two concurrent realities, one of actuality and physical existence and the other of vision, perception and fantasy. Dreaming at night and daydreaming tap into the second reality and capture the percentage of our thoughts that go unseen in moments spent awake. Compensation dreams are about an opposing viewpoint and show the other extreme of strongly held issues and arguments. Dreams of being chased by an adversary can mean that there is something the dreamer needs to come to terms with in his life. These dreams tend to be revisited until that something is overcome.
Complementary dreams are the rarest of the three.
Since dreams tell people the good and bad directions that they're going into and point out how they think, Young's general rule of thumb to gauge the meaning of a dream is to ask ourselves if we would do what is depicted in real life. In addition to predicting behavior, Young says that dreams can also predict events. These types of premonition dreams, although not always literal, can prevent people from putting themselves in dangerous situations, like getting on an airplane that is going to crash. Third-year criminology major Hercules Fandino believes that dreams can predict the future because, he said, it happened to him. In one dream, Fandino said, he was watching himself and something was preventing him from waking up.