Hi mclark and welcome to Healthypages,
so dreams are just dream.
That's a bit of a vague statement and sort of says that we should just ignore dreams and they have no meaning.
From a scientific perspective dreams are believed to be a manifestation of the mind organising the days memories into deeper memory, and in doing so it is associating the days memories with older ones, thus bringing things/people, whatever, up from our memories and because these are brought up they are sensed in the visual cortex and perceived as a dream. Based on this, a dream can actually show us how things that are 'current' (to use the term loosely) in our life are related to us and thus highlight fears, issues, or other aspects of ourselves, which can itself be useful in recognising our present state of affairs and thus we can choose to act and deal with things as necessary.
I'd say that dreams are anything but just being dreams.
All Love and Reiki Hugs
I'm interested in the comment that you can't describe dreams properly. In a sense this is true because they are beyond language. And yet despite this if you try to describe them in a stream of consciousness, non logical sort of way you can get a bit closer to them.
Last night I dreamt that I was the green man! A very strange dream that I can't even begin to describe but it has a good feeling associated with it 🙂