Thread: Theories on Dreams

I think everyone has a little philosopher in them and that sharing your ideas on the workings of the universe/life should be primarily for fun. I ask that you share your theory on dreams. Why do we have them and so on? Mine is this which I will try to keep simple. My beliefs are wide and I wont go into them though I will state that I do believe in a sort of "rebirth".

1. Dreams are a sort of preview into the after life.
2. Through life we are given the chance at attaining lucidity and only through such an awarness may we see what awaits us and only through knowing this will our soul/astral form(i believe they are one in the same) leave the cycle of rebirth.
3. The afterlife is essentially the astral plane(theory in its own right). The difference between dreams and the afterlife is in the permanentness that a souls creations may attain through desire. (permanent dreams worlds are possible with ease and all lucid souls reside within this astral plane.
Have you mastered your dreamworld? Essentially I believe if you have then you will be granted an after life in place of the rebirth cycle. We are tempted by the limitations of reality to become lucid in our 'dreamality'. Don't make assumptions that I say life is pointless...i am just not covering that here...irrelevant.