^^ Extremely well said, Darkmatters; I might even print that one up and stick it on my bulletin board -- the one made of matter, of course!
That said, I think maybe you didn't completely answer OP's question, so mind if I add a bit?
Terezrucker: Though Darkmatters literally answers your question in his first sentence, it might be easier to understand if you think of the universe as being made of matter and energy or, if you really dig deeply, it is not unfair to say that everything is energy. So, too, are dreams.
But also, they are not.
Yes, dreams are physiologically "just" electrochemical connections between neurons in the brain, times a zillion. In process they are simply energy, perhaps generated by reactions of matter, but still energy. All that stuff you experience in a dream does not exist as matter. Indeed, it does not exist at all, but is nothing more than an energy-fueled projection of your unconscious (and conscious, if LD'ing) imaginings. So dreams are nothing more than energy ... But ... not really energy.
Why? After that initial physiological stuff, when we get to the stuff Darkmatters describes, dreams are not energy at all. Nor are they matter. They are nothing but consciousness. Yes consciousness may or may not be fueled by energy, but it transcends energy in its "sum is greater than the whole" context described above, sort of like that movie Darkmatters describes is more than just celluloid and light -- 'scuse me: bits of digital energy.
Personally, I think consciousness produces it's own unique "energy" that exists outside the electromagnetic spectrum; call it thought energy. Dreams, I think, are made of this.
tl;dr: Dreams are sourced in energy, but are not made of anything that can be readily defined.
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