Dream and myth: the foundation for depth psychology

I believe our souls depart from our bodies during sleep. It causes our minds to move into forgetfulness. It causes our minds to be confused. Which is why our dreams leave us asking questions like 'what am I creating here'? But I believe that it was designed to be this way. Because when our soul rejoins our body, and we wake up, we arrive back into our place of thinking and remembering again.

Freud was a crackpot. He spouted ideas as though they were facts without providing any evidence, and in doing so a) created a negative stereotype of the field of psychology, and b) set a bad precedence for psychologists in regards to the scientific method. The field is still trying to recover from both of these. The only good he did was popularize the field, and I don't think that is enough to justify him.

More on topic, I think dreaming performs a combination of functions. It keeps the mind active while sleeping so that it doesn't shut down. It is probably a side effect of our brains processing information as we sleep (studies have shown that we make better decisions if we sleep on it). Finally, I think it "resets" the brain, allowing it to return to homeostasis and prepare for another day's bombardment of stimuli.