Do you ever learn anything from you dreams?

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sometimes when i go lucid in dreams i ask the dream people questions, usually knowing that they're part of myself/archetypes, like what things in the dream mean (or sometimes a direct question about life). the answers are nearly always cryptic or sometimes seamingly nonsensicle and almost never a direct answer, but i use them to ponder on when i wake up as the beginning of a thought thread that may lead to understanding over the next few days. as far as just normal dreams in general, i like to analyze the ones i remember and although there is a certain satisfaction of uncovering subconscious stuff, i try to take my intuitively derived symbol meanings with a grain of salt though i feel that the symbol meanings coming from my subconscious carry more personal weight than ones gotten out of one of those dream interpretation books/sites. i see dream interpretation as a conversation with my subconscious, not some outward interaction.