Having collected several thousand dreams, Domhoff is as firmly convinced that there is meaning in dreams as he is that there is no psychological function to them. Most people who claim a function for dreams, for example in the consolidation of memory, in fact talk about REM sleep . Even Allan Hobson agrees on this point. We may not need dreams, but most people would not want to lose them either. Whatever their function or meaning will turn out to be, they will always fascinate us.
Life just keeps going on behind closed eyes, it seems.