But there are trends that show up. Dreams of falling are seen by those who fear falling in life. Dream about dead people indicate the dreamer has not finally buried the dead and is still under the influence of the living. Dreams of cruelty and making messes indicate rage and desire for revenge. Short dreams indicate the dreamer is short-cutting the path between their problems and their style of life.
Long dreams indicate the dreamer is good at finding long detours for their problems.
Break the dream down into pieces and for each piece summarize the action. Now this might be useful and something I could try. Thus, for Adler, dreams come from unsolved social problems and are oriented towards the resolution of those problems. Still, the waking individual is needed to decide if those solutions are simply a confirmation of fears or offer some new path. Rather he felt the benefit would be in connecting the dreamer to the feelings around the general life style issues.