I believe that dreams are as a container for all sorts of unconscious activity and not all should be interpreted by the same principles. One such activity I think are fantasies, like day dreaming, with obvious wish fulfillment, as Jabre points out above; they are what they are, so to speak, and one can leave it at that.
But how do one know that not all dreams are such? I mean there's an obvious danger that any dream you don't feel like taking a closer look at is regarded as merely wish fulfillment (though perhaps not in the strict Freudian sense*) or nothing but a fantasy. In my experience these category of dreams are always very close to reality, there's no real twist in them, nothing really out of the ordinary, and moreover, they're pleasant; they doesn't really add anything (unwanted or unexpected) to the scene.
Once when I was in love with a woman who lived with another man I sometimes had dreams of this nature; like she said she loved me and so on. I woke up warm in my heart, perhaps a little sad that it wasn't reality, but neither then nor now did I feel that there was any point in interpreting those dreams. I feel about the same way with this dream, it's a nice fantasy, but note that for you it might be reality too, in the near future!
* What I mean by this is that Freud though all dreams were wish fulfillment, even dreams that are unpleasant; what I'm talking about here is pleasant dreams only.
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