Relationships Department Please remember, this column is designed to help the consumer seeking behavioral-health information, and not intended to be any form of psychotherapy or a replacement for professional, individualized services. I dated a guy a few times and it didn't work out. I have tried to re-establish contact on a few occasions to no avail. There are two parts to this question. One has to do with the meaning of dream and the other has to do with the difficulty you seem to have giving up on a relationship that has ended.
Dreams serve several purposes.
First, they serve to preserve the sleep state. We dream of a telephone ringing and then awaken to the phone ringing. The dream incorporates the reality in order to help us continue to sleep. Second, the dream can express some form of wish fulfillment. Often we dream of things we wished would have happened or we would like to have happen.