Dreams

I never really thought about dreams and their meanings. People have told me that dreams have meanings. I don't know what to believe. But I do know that dreams are a way of your subconscious dealing with daily events, thoughts and such.
When I was in California I used to dream of tidal waves. One meaning is that one is in emotional unhappiness and psychological stress that threatens to destroy. Hmmm. That seemed to fit. I even had a dream that I was on an island and a tidal wave was coming. I was with my family, my boys and my SO. I got my boys out as the wave came toward us, but lost my spouse. Hmmm. Maybe he was causing the unhappiness and psychological stress even way back when. He was actually. My subconscious knew it.
Its that or I'd been watching too many disaster movies.
My other repeating nightmare was from a James Bond film. Go figure...You'd think it would be of sharks eating people since Jaws was my favourite movie when I was little.
I don't know about anyone else, but I can actually feel pain in my dreams. Excruciating pain at times. Pain that does not go away when I wake.
I wonder what that is about?
I don't like nightmares. They tend to linger.
I do like my dreams. Especially the ones that I can continue. I can stop them like hitting the pause button. Then continue them later.
If I go to bed exhausted however, I don't remember my dreams or if I had them at all.