I think back fondly on my nightmares.  That monster that threw me over the house, falling off of the roof of our house and running through a dark house.  Wait. . .what were those nightmares saying about my house?

Your nightmares are helpful:

"While Dr. White-Lewis acknowledged that she does not treat patients suffering from severe trauma, she said that if a nightmare is eliminated, 'you lose an opportunity to really get some meaning out o fit.'  Changing eyeballs into bubbles, she added, might have robbed Ms. Gurule of the chance to find out what the eyeballs were trying to tell her.

Nightmares have fascinated and perplexed people for centuries, their meaning debated by therapists and analysts of all schools of thought,their effects so powerful that one terrifying nightmare can affect a person for a lifetime."

Read here.  One question:  What is with the searching for my school locker nightmare?  Horrifying.