First let's talk about the brain.
The left side of the brain stores all the logical information, while the right side of the brain stores your emotions and more, relational things.
Dreams occur while we are asleep in the REM (Rapid Eye Movement) phase, which is the deepest part of sleep. Dreaming helps to organize the thoughts in our mind. It discards unnecessary information left by incidental experiences we have each day.
Dreams also provide an escape route for unconscious thoughts and desires that would be considered unacceptable to the conscious mind. It's a way to solve mental tension too. Our deepest wishes and desires are disguised in dreams because they would be too threatening to our mental health if they formed while we are awake.
Funny enough, in the Bible, Job talks about dreaming in Job 33: 14-18,
"For God speaks in one way and in two but man does not perceive it. In a dream, in a vision of the night when deep sleep (REM) falls on man, while they slumber in their bed."
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