Originally Posted by kerry edwards

I think dreams are fascinating. Sometimes I can find some unconscious fear or hope in my dreams. Often I can see how a word I used the day before is interpreted by my mind in a completely different way and a weird dream is generated. When I was a kid I sometimes used to plot out interesting dreams before going to sleep.
I don't often put any serious weight into dream interpretation, although once in a while I find a weird fear I wasn't expecting.
Could your dream just be generated by some combination of words that put together your friend and the theft?
I can't see how there could ever be a systematic process for interpreting dreams because they seem to be generated in very different ways.