Across All Cultures, Dreams Affect Behavior  They may rarely
predict future events, but most people believe they are
meaningful  HealthDay SHARE  SUNDAY, March 1 (HealthDay News) --
People worldwide subscribe to the belief that you are what you
dream, concludes a new series of studies published in February's
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.  "Psychologists'
interpretations of the meaning of dreams vary widely," lead
author Carey Morewedge, an assistant professor at Carnegie
Mellon University, said in an American Psychological Association
news release. "But our research shows that people believe their
dreams provide meaningful insight into themselves and their
world."  For example, 149 university students in the United
States, India and South Korea in one survey largely agreed that
hidden truths present themselves in their dreams, a theory a
nationally representative sample of Americans also supports.
Dreams also affect how people act when they awake, another study
found. A survey of Boston train