It's almost always trite to talk about your dreams with other people. They're the ultimate "you-had-to-be-there" - not only do they not make any sense to anyone but yourself, but there's also a very good chance that no one will care at all that you had a dream last night where you were naked at your school and Jeff was there, but it didn't look like your school and Jeff was an octopus.
With that being said, I'm not going to lay out any dream specifics here for no one to care about; rather, I want to talk about that quality that almost everyone has felt after a dream. That particular, uncanny quality that's felt after a very vivid dream - there something about a dream that resonates with things that are happening in real life, whether it be a personal matter, work, whatever, that makes it stick around after sleeping is done with. I often pause and think, after a particularly vivid dream, that dreams are really one of the only things in our lives that can be truly paradoxical - they have completely no objective interaction with reality, yet at the same time they can influence all the same.
Dreams are an interesting beast in this sense. They fade away like nothing's happened after we've had time to go through our day, but in that one instant, that brief moment upon wakening that the fine line between what is "real" and what is "unreal" becomes blurred, these vivid dreams can mean very, very much.
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