Posting this here since its neither a lucid nor a non-lucid topic, but involves dreaming and often a supernatural component. We need better categories.

Let's suppose I'm an jerk, and that one day I become slightly more or less of a jerk. Presumably, this change would involve some altering of patterns in my mind, such as something that I realize in one context being understood in a different context in a way that is emotionally real to me. I succeed in "putting myself in someone else's shoes", or maybe I experience something that makes me feel that "nice guys finish last" and I go the other way with it.

It seems to me that there are dreams that correspond to that kind of development, that the dreams reflect that process of mental integration or change. "Interpreting" the dream isn't necessary for that integration though. It might add something to it, or take something away from it, but the dream itself is the experience of an aspect of the change taking place. And no interpretation can completely capture that.

I was going to try to illustrate with an example, but it seems vain to keep posting dreams about my internal moral dramas. So hopefully the idea by itself is clear enough.