I wrote them down. I'm not sure if I analyzed them in the sense you mean, but I certainly wrote them down. Overall, most have the same theme. I'm helpless, someone's either scaring me or hurting me, and the people I love are clueless to the danger around...that kind of thing. I wouldn't put too much emphasis on what is happening in the dreams but more on how you feel about them. For me, the content is not usually as correct as my feelings were during the dream, in relation to the trauma.

I keep a dream journal. If it's really bad, I write it down after awaking, but if I can get back to sleep, I take advantage of the that and go back to sleep. Sometimes I forget, which is great. If I don't, then I write it down the next morning. In any case, I think it does some good just to write some of it down. I had a thread a while back about nightmares; but I felt it hard to share. It's almost more private than the trauma itself....