There are many kinds of dreams, among them normal sleep dreams, daydreams, and insightful visions. Sometimes we have nightmares, fantasies, re-living of moments in life, happy dreams, reunions with loved ones, even problem-solving or inspirational dreams.

It is helpful for us to be aware of what dreams are: the subconscious feelings or imaginations occurring just below the threshold of consciousness. We need to find means for dealing with dreams that disturb us, by discovery of means for dealing with them in ways of appropriate conscious understanding and sensible disposal.

A boy in his preschool until young adult years had a frequent nightmare in which he would be on a railroad track over an elevated earthen mound. Suddenly a train would come over the horizon, and he would do his best to ru…