Dreams reflect your own underlying thoughts and feelings, and that the people, actions, settings. According to James, we have a personal relationship with our thoughts. However, the same image or symbol will have different meanings for different people. A book that I would recommend would be Freud's Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria. In the case study, Freud interprets Dora's dreams by looking for parallels between associations and what is happening in reality.