I think a lot of people offer dream interpretations simply because people come in here desperately wanting to know what it meant. I have seen a few hippy trippy "interpretations" around here from a new age spiritual perspective, you know, 'your dream tells me that everything is going to be ok for you, and you'll meet that special someone soon' or whatever (funny how annoyingly positive those things always are, isn't it - part of today's vague feel-good philosophy). But most of them are very down to earth and sensible, advising that dreams ar nothing more than symbolic representations of emotions, ideas ad memories jumbled up in a person's mind, driven in intense times by prevailing emotional currents.

It seems like the majority of people, if they haven't studied brain science or developed a firm grounding of rational skepticism, have a tendency to believe their dreams are Telling Them Something, especially at those times when the dreams are charged with intense emotions. They might dream of talking to a deceased relative, or that they were back in school and it solved some problem they face in waking life (typical kind of dream people tend to have in troubling situations), and they interpret it magically, as if the dream is telling them they need to go to school. So they come in here often looking not for actual interpretation, but for fortune telling. Most of the interpreters around here will set them straight (though sometimes people don't want the common sense interpretation, they actually WANT fortune telling).