dreams first draft

"..as men of the world, we hardly know of the existence of the inner world: we barely remember our dreams, and make little sense of them when we do.."
-R.D. Laing
I'm not sure if I necesarily believe that my dreams are part of my experiance. Ardie Laing is claiming that our experiance is the absolute reality of whats going on, and a dream is not reality. It is a place our unconcious creates, either to play out hidden desires/wants/needs, or simply something that is influenced by outside noises.
Those dreams that are developed by our unconcious when we are in a deep sleep, present to us what we normally may not want to accept or acknowledge. It is coming from a part of ourselves that we normally do not listen to, for one reason or another. However, it is all part of who we are, and part of ourselves.
I feel dreams are not necessary to our existance. I feel that a disconnect from our dreams would not be the worst thing to experience. I feel that the dreams are all coming from some where inside of ourself, so while the dream may be presenting to you something you normally do not think about or see that way or acknowledge, it does not mean that you could not notice these things without the help of the dream. It is all coming from within you.
When we first started examining dreams, I noticed that I often didn't dream at night. My dreams would mostly be the kind that occur due to outside noises. I would wake up, eat some breakfast, turn on the news, then fall asleep as the news is on in the background. These dreams would all be scenerios my mind has developed that incorporated, or was based off of what I was subconciously hearing from the news as I slept.
As we got in the habit of writing down our dreams after we had slept, I began having more vivd and deeper dreams at night. I began to notice very repetitive things in my dream. Often, at some point, I would think "This is most likely a dream" however when I woke up the feelings would all be very real. I would wake up either relieved or dissapointed that it was all a dream. If it were a dream involving being chased, I would wake up with my heart racing and feeling very anxious. I would often wake up confused, and only half aware as to what was going on.
Another very common aspect of my dream would be that I would be with people who, in my dream I obviously know and are very good friends with, but in reality I have no idea who these people are. They would also never have a clear face, or I would just never get a good look at it, so it makes it impossible for me to try and figure out who they might be, however in the dream that's never a problem.
I've noticed that I have very abstract dreams. And recently, as I've been noticing them more and writing about them more, they've been more and more violent and disturbing. The majority of them have involved either killers, running from some kind of monster, being kidnapped, or fighting someone.