[Starbreeze]

(Coming from someone who has made extensive studies in this area)

Dreams are mixtures of thought processes. If you drem, for example about a rabbit, sometime that day, month or even year, you have thought of a rabbit, maybr not conciously, but an image of a rabbit has crossed your thoughts. Your brain stores all of these incase it is needed again (particularly in well trained, disiplined or photographic memories or in people who pay attention to detail). After a time your brain does a "sort out" or "tidy up" of all the recent thoughts so old thoughts are dragged up and some are rejected. It is these thoughts that make up dreams. The dreams we remember are dreamt in "half-sleep", a stage of sleep that is just inside consiousness. Your brain, thinks that these thoughts are thought when you are still awake, so stores them again (thus explaining repeated dreams) and when you wake up again, this is what you can remember. This probably doesn't expalin anything, but it might.