My view is somewhat similar to that of Sageous, except I'm not as sure as he that most dreams don't have any inherent meaning. It could be that they do have inherent meaning, because they reflect what's going on in your mind.

On the other hand, it wouldn't surprise me to learn that most dreams don't have much of any meaning. Because maybe dreams are just part of the daily "hardware maintenance" for our brains and have little to do with the "software" (i.e., our psychology).

Also, whether or not dreams have meaning depends on what is meant by the word "meaning". If there's a poem that's meaningful to you in some way, does it matter that the poet intended it to have a different meaning, or maybe no particular meaning at all? Similarly, the ink blots used in Rorschach tests have no inherent meaning at all, yet they may still reveal meaningful things about you when you look at them and describe what you see.

So, like Sageous, I agree that looking for meanings in dreams is a really useful--not to mention fun--thing to do, even if the dreams themselves have no inherent meaning. I should add that I find writing down whatever I can remember about my dreams to be very useful. The act of writing down a dream almost always causes me to make interesting connections that I never would have made just by thinking about the dream. These might or might not be "connections" that are inherent in the dream itself. But that doesn't really matter as long as they help you gain insight into yourself. (Though, admittedly, it is way more fun to think that such things really are inherent in the dream.)