In fact, most people believed dreams were just nonsense. It took Freud about two years to write The Interpretation of Dreams, finishing it in September 1897. It was published late in the year and ...

Morewedge, Carey K., and Michael I. Norton. "When Dreaming Is Believing: The (Motivated) Interpretation of Dreams." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 96, no. 2 (February 2009): 249–264.

Certain dreams tend to float into our night-time consciousness more frequently than others. You know the ones we mean: the recurring dream about being chased, or all your teeth falling out ...