Dreams

I have always had strange dreams. Some have seemed so real that I really had to stop and analyze and determine if they were really real or not. Since so many of them have been strange I have been fascinated with trying to decipher there meanings. There are so many theories out there as to what they can possibly mean. In the Bible times, dreams were seen as prophecies. I wonder how often God still tries to talk to us through our dreams! I know he doesn't communicate to us the same we he did to them, I mean who can honestly say God spoke to them through a burning bush, or something of that sort? NO ONE! And if so, what about bad dreams, is that God warning us, or is that Satan playing with our heads to scare us or is it merrily just our sub-conscience just acting out our deepest fears and emotions about things? Who knows? Many researchers have the belief that the dreams are just a way of revisiting the events and emotions we enconter throughout the day. We can not possibly have the energy or ability to keep up with everything that is thrown at us through the day and so at night in our dreams we rehash the thoughts that were put on hold throughout the day. There is so much symbolism in dreams, different colors mean different things and so on. I am fascinated by them and always try to figure out why I dreamed what I did and what they mean. The worst ones are when it is something that really makes you angry in the dream and then you wake and it seemed to real and you are still ticked off, and you have to concentrate on calming down and its like "why am I so mad, it was only a dream" or like the other night I dreamed someone was holding a gun to my head and I woke up shaking and sweating, I was totally freaking out. Had to wake up my husband and tell him to turn on the light so I could see to go to the bathroom, then I felt so silly because it obviously wan't real and there was no burgler in our house (thank goodness) and I was safe. Why did that dream occur? I mean, it's just crazy. Am I the only one that goes through this or is this normal? Anyone? Any advice?