Dreams have been considered extremely important for thousands of years. Every night you have a unique glimpse into your sub-conscious mind. You have hours of conversation with yourself. Major introspection, if you will. Don't you think we should at least pay attention. Did you know that within the minute that you wake up you can only rememeber 80% of the dream you just had? Within 5 minutes you can only remember 20%. Understand your dreams is understanding yourself. Personally, as soon as I wake up in the morning I write down everything I can remember in my Dream notebook. Later I anylize parts of the dream. After you have your dream notebook for a while you can see where your dreams are trying to help you in your day to day life. If you listen to your dreams sometimes you can easily solve problems that may have drove you insane before you started listening.