We can have very different reasons for looking at out own dreams. I look at almost every dream I have, but then I know I'm in a minority. 

Out of curiosity, I emailed as many people as I could think of asking them what was their reason for looking at their dreams. I was really surprised at how many answers came back -- and the variety in them.

Here are some of the answers from my clients,  friends and co-workers.

Please feel free to email me with your own reasons

David

• "Dreams give me a view into the mysterious and thereby an escape from the tyranny of the ego"
• "for inspiration"
• "for insight beyond my reasoning ability"
• "'cause you wake up and they're engaging stories that you just want to think about." 
• "they're about me and I'm fascinating"
• "to keep in touch with my soul and its work"
• "As a fascinating means to reach the subconscious"
• "My dreams indicate things to come, good and bad"
• "They tell me what to expect time wise and indicate my psychological state of the moment or future states, seeing as the conscious mind is only a small slice of the totality of who we are"
• "I like to get an inkling of what the other slices of the totality of my mind are up to.. or pointing the way to"
• "When I put my remembrances of dreams into words, I'm often surprised and delighted at the meanings and associations that unexpectedly jump out at me"
• "To gain insight into what things I'm ignoring or not paying attention to in my life that need attention, or that support what I'm doing"
• "Dreams can direct you into exploring other avenues you never considered"
• "I like the cryptic language of the subconscious, that you have to understand symbolic language to decode your dreams"
• "when you work as a group with the "if this were my dream format..." you not only learn about someone's inner life in a more intimate way than you normally would, you also learn about yourself and your projections"
• "I believe that I am working things out in another dimension that I am also processing here in this dimension, without certain physical body consequences"
• "The dreams indicate to me what is going on with me multidimensionally"
• "I'm learning to be a more discerning dreamer. When is it appropriate to look at my dreams, when is it more useful to understand them as more mind noise?"
• "How to find the golden nuggets among the sludge is the current quest"
• "Having done some of this, I see that looking at other people's dreams can affect how I look at my own, i.e., what questions to ask of myself about my dreams, or from what perspective to look at them"
• "Perhaps I can get a glimpse of what I'm trying to tell myself"
• "My dreams often distill all the noise for me and show me what I've really been dealing with"
• "I've often found my dreams to be much more direct and clear than my own decision process...hope it helps"
• "Why do I look at my dreams? Because sometimes they make me feel something, and I wonder about it"
• "I'm interested because they come from a level of me that I may not know about it, so they can tell me something I may need to know. Also they are fascinating"