Dear Kimberly, 
Yes, that makes sense to me. With that you are completely on the line of Erich Fromm, one of the great psychoanalysts of the 20th century.  Unlike Jung and Freud, he only used symbolic language to understand dreams, not to interpret or analyse them. I see exactly what you mean. 

One understands a dream by its very nature, but if one tries to take the individual aspects apart and stick a narrative to them, it becomes too sharp and too detailed and one threatens to lose oneself in the interpretation of the narrative. It is precisely the blurriness of the dream and the underlying feeling that is its message. That's why I need to interpret the content less, for example when I wake up crying, because I know exactly that I'm grieving for something. Since the dream can only be important for this world anyway and my feeling tells me that when I have fearful dreams, it is not about suppressing my fear in everyday life but about encountering it, which I can do quite pragmatically. But as long as I don't have this pragmatism, I will always have an oppressive element in my dream and "communicate" my true feeling. For example, I can construct the assumption that I tend to be courageous and strong, but in my daily reality I am rather weak and hesitant. My dream tells me the truth about me. Especially to the things that I am ashamed of or for which I shame others in my dream. At any rate, I notice that. 

Recently I dreamed of giant octopuses that rushed me along a road and finally got me into their slippery clutches and devoured me. Had I already told you this dream? It echoes in me. I have interpreted it for myself in such a way that I have a main theme in my life (which shows itself in many facets) that I feel overwhelmed by and the dream has expressed this well. 

In any case, what can also be understood by symbol is the language of feeling, which is universally the same for all people and where there are no cultural differences. This is what is meant by symbol in the sense of Fromm. You should definitely read Frederik van Eedens dreams. I started researching dream interpretation two weeks ago and read a very stimulating book announcement (outgoing 19th century!), but unfortunately it never appeared. It will interest you very much. Here is the link: 

http://www.lucidity.com/vanEeden.html
A Study of Dreams - by Frederik van Eeden

I hope to be able to write an article about it, let's see. 

Erika:)

P.S. it very much speaks to me how you put it into words. You yourself resp. your use of expressions is dreamlike. I once got myself the compliment about a poem that a reader did not exactly understand the precise meaning of it but somehow grasped the overall atmosphere. That was a great compliment, I found. I feel the same when I read your texts. 

About impatience: I guess in times where we can get everything everywhere within short time it is anyway a miracle that we still can come up with at least some patience. :) I train myself being more patient with me, too. Sometimes it not works very well, other times I am "little Buddha". lol!