"Dream States" is a movie that explores and presents the similarities and differences between the dreams that people have, despite having never met, being a different religion, gender, etc. There are countless ways to approach the discussion of dreams and/or dreaming, and this film presents real people, real dreams & the possible cause and effect. Interview subjects were allowed to discuss dreams from any point of view or in any area that they chose (examples include but are not limited to: recurring dreams, special powers or weaknesses in your dreams, out-of-body experiences, "religious" experiences, sleep paralysis, lucid dreaming, deja vu, and so on, as you can imagine).