The idea behind this post is to try and help you understand and interpret your dreams. Your dreaming mind operates on a subconcious level, gaining access to certain information when possibly your concious mind cannot, revealing the secret desires and feelings that you may keep hidden when you are awake (even from yourself).
As an extension of how you truly believe yourself to be dreams can bring you wisdom, inspiration, and joy.
Below are a few things to think about, and I hope you find them useful.

1, Firstly think about the things you are currently experiencing in your life. Are you anxious about anything? Have you recently changed you job, your address, or have you had a major change in your personal life?
Now for kin that may sound a really silly thing to ask as most of us at least at the beginning are anxious merely about being kin without factoring in anything else, but it does not necessarily mean that your dream is about your kin status. First we have to rule out all the 'normal' things that can cause dreams or nightmares, then we can move on to other possible causes.
2, If you cannot think of anything, then consider that your dream might be some kind of early warning from your subconcious mind. Perhaps a major 'happening' is on the horizon, but you have not conciously realised it yet? Think about anything that may be lurking, just on the outskirts of happening 'now'. Perhaps it is not you personally perhaps it is a family member or other loved one? Remember though that prophetic dreams, although they do occur, are extremely rare.
3, Consider the possibility of an opposite. Many theories on dream interpretation say the symbols often have a contrary meaning. Bear this in mind when trying to figure out the possible meaning of your dream.

If you dream frequently you may find it helpful to keep a journal beside your bed to record your dreams as soon as you wake. Paying particular attention to the numbers and sequences of things and events.
Try to train your self to remember your dreams, in this way you may bring about an increase in self-awareness and an opportunity for self-healing, it may even help you become a more assertive person. In remembering your dreams, you are expressing and confronting your feelings, which can help you learn how to deal with any stress your life may hold at the moment. And if you can train yourself to recall all those numbers for the lottery that came into your mind last night, then you may find yourself dreaming up a fortune!.

This is a link to a site with a few tips on how to help yourself recall your dreams with more accuracy and clarity. Recalling Dreams

This site also has a page with a list of common dreams. Perhaps yours is here?
Dream Dictionary.

I rarely remember my dreams.
I wake up and there is nothing. It's almost as if I do not dream at all. Although I have heard that everyone dreams, every night, they just don't all/always remember them.
Sometimes I will get snatches of something, but as soon as I try to grasp it it wriggles away from me and is gone like smoke!
If I ever do remember one it is usually so strange that it makes no sense at all.
One I still recall was my cousin drowning herself in the local canal by sitting on the bottom of a swimming pool! See? No sense at all. How could she drown in a canal by sitting in a swimming pool? Total rubbish that doesn't mean anything.
Ah well.
At least I don't have nightmares. Well not that I remember anyway.

Yes I guess i have the same probelm as Darke I will sleep but i dont remember having a dream and when i do dream its usually more visiony cause i see everything in detail and when i was stab with something i felt the pain and when i woke up the next morning i had a bruse there

I have always had dreams and always had nightmares. Sometimes the dreams are nonsense and sometimes the dreams are premonitions. It's confusing in a sense because i don't really realize the memory i have is a dream until i begin experience it in real life and then i get super deja vu and my brain twitches a little. It's very weird experiencing something for the second time. But it's also nice because if something needed to be changed it could....
anyway. My dreams also hold my memories. It's the only place they can get out because i tend to lock them away and the barriers are weaker when I'm dreaming. But my nightmares hurt. I have died often in my dreams. And it isn't that i just die and the dream's done, I feel the dying, the death, and then the afterlife. It's weird and sometimes unsettling, but i don't fear death anymore because I've died so many times.
But i could never imagine a life without dreaming. It is everything that could be, and everything that is. Its a way to find out more about yourself and more about the world around you without the chains of doubt and denial. I love to dream, and i hate it. Love to be in a world of my making and the making of the future and past, but i hate the pain i receive and cause in them. But it is my shelter from the world because the world that you'd think is suppose to make sense is insane, and the dream world that is suppose to be insane makes sense.
I wish you more dreams of the pleasant and miraculous nature.

I wish I had dreams of the kind you describe Katie.
Or, if I already do, then I dearly wish I remembered them.

And of course you get your best book ideas from the dreams you have. You lucky thing.

haha, sometimes lucky. I think i have so many fun dreams to balance out the ones that hurt. I had a long time where the only thing i dreamt was that of pain. I had no pleasant dreams of wings and love and only that of battle and destruction that had no purpose other than to spill blood for greed and petty desires. I have helped some of my friends remember their dreams. Get a journal. when you wake up start writing. Sometimes it helps when you wake up to not think at all, and then you may remember it. Also if you go to bed with the desire to remember, you have a better chance of doing so. Generally i remember my dreams randomly when i'm daydreaming hours after i've awoken. And i go months without any remembered dream at all. The strength of my memory also has to do with my mindset and my stress level. When i'm too stressed my dreams are just outlets and so are so chaotic i barely remember anything but color. When i'm relaxed and happy the dreams flow easily. But then again some people just don't remember their dreams. and that's ok, because they don't remember their nightmares either.



edited to say: that quote is AWESOME by the way! peter pan?

I am fairly sure the reason I don't dream more than I do is because I don't get enough sleep.
If I slept for longer I would have time for the dreams to develop.
As it is I don't think I am 'not awake' or at least not 'not consciously aware' for long enough to get far enough into a dream for it to register on my memory.

I should get to bed earlier I know, but when the night comes I can always find more fun things to do than waste it sleeping.

Moon.