To help you understand how your daily life has an impact on your dreams, I think is a good chance to discuss what makes up the content of the dreams. When it comes to your senses, your brain must do something more complex than take in external and internal stimuli, it must also associate this stimuli with meanings. When you see a couch, not only is the ability to recognize the object amazing in itself, because over the course of your life you have seen more furniture than just couches, and it is all very similar. You've seen, recognized and make associations when it comes to seeing chairs, beds, futons, and all other kinds of things to. So couch must be associated with sit, the fact it has room for more than one person, that it may be more comfortable than another particular piece of furniture you know and have the concept of. This isn't even beginning to mention the fact that it might be a bright color, a dark color, it could be green, red, or blue... it can be very dirty or very clean, very small or very large, more angular and more rounded, stink or smell pleasant, creak when you sit on it, etc. Think of all the different things the mind must think of at once in order to tell you that you are in fact seeing a couch. You could remember specific memories from it, whatever. So, dreams although seemingly very random but with elements of things you saw, experienced, and felt throughout the day, also have everything your brain had to make associations to lumped in with them, and some are so aloof from each other they seem completely random. The days happenings, your feelings, the people you came in contact with and possibly talked to, the tv shows you watched and their associations too. I could go on forever but it's distracting me from making my point.
My idea, is that your dreams will reflect the most commonly occurring associations you made throughout the day entirely unconsciously. To top it all off, in the dream you are making associations too so it makes things even more random! You have to realize too that you are also unconsciously analyzing the world around you, and in order for you to be most ready to act in case of an emergency, the brain must have a mechanism for running several models of reality that are less bound to the stimuli you are actively perceiving. The most relevant and likely of these models along with your mind's expectation of the very very near future, although processed unconsciously or subconsciously, wind up preemptively preparing your body for what is about to happen next without having to spend precious frontal lobe, conscious top-down decision making on something could be handled much more efficaciously. However, in altered states of consciousness, such as those reachable via meditation or certain hallucinogenic drugs, these processes are not filtered out from your conscious mind's most "accurate" model of reality. The subconscious models begin to spill over into conscious thought and perception. This unconscious processing of various different, somewhat false to varying degrees (the more false, the more creative associations you make), models of reality also account for your intuition. When you get a hunch about something, you have already had a model of reality run through your subconscious that has provided you with this hunch, even if you can't quite put your finger on it yet.
So, you have dreamt of this girl and you believe that she is significant in all of this, that she really does represent something. Your mind probably already unconsciously knows why. Try and listen to the whispers of these subconscious thoughts. I'm not saying if you listen hard enough that you actually get an answer. No, what I mean is search yourself for a few minutes, perhaps meditate if you think it will help you. Listen for the subconscious thoughts in the language in which they are spoken: raw knowing of concepts and gut feelings. What does your gut tell you about this girl? However, if you aren't certain what it is even if you start to find an answer, I am not suggesting taking the first thing you think of and run with it. In fact, I am not even suggesting to do this if you are sure because the human mind is not that simple. Any conclusions you may come to might really just be leading you to another clue that your mind is trying to give you, that only you can understand, but have to search for. It may be several years before you find the answer, or maybe you won't find it at all. But rest assured when you do, it will not just be a sure feeling, it will be a moment of epiphany. All the little things nagging at you that you didn't understand will finally fit into place like the pieces of a puzzle, and the epiphany will, at that point, be able to stand to reason and not wind up just being a load of bollocks once you start trying to shoot holes in it (never just believe something, you should always try to prove something wrong or failing that prove something right beyond a reasonable doubt before accepting it).
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