Are sleeping dreams to help us remember, forget, predict or sort, or a combination?

Are sleeping dreams to help us remember, forget, predict or sort, or a combination?
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It is my personal theory that we evolved dreams to prepare themselves for events that may happen in the future. For example: You fight a crocodile in your dream and you have better odds of beating a crocodile in real live if you were to be attacked.
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