Does God use dreams to communicate with us today?

I don't know but if you sit quiet and listen to the sounds of nature, pray for others sometimes you will get answers to your questions without asking. The part of you that God talks to is your soul and if you do not regularly sit and listen, you will not hear it. With practice you can hear His voice in a noisy room!

Perhaps, maybe, God has though in the past,God spoke to people many times throughout the Scriptures in dreams. Examples are Joseph, son of Jacob (Genesis 37:5-10); Joseph, the husband of Mary (Matthew 2:12-22); Solomon (1 Kings 3:5-15); and several others (Daniel 2:1, 7:1; Matthew 27:19). There is also a prophecy of the prophet Joel (Joel 2:28), quoted by the apostle Peter in Acts 2:17, that mentions God using dreams. So the simple answer is, yes, God can and does speak through dreams.

However there is a difference in how we apply that truth today. We must keep in mind that the Bible is finished, having revealed everything we need to know from now until eternity. This is not to say that God does not work miracles or even speak through dreams today, but anything God says, whether it is a dream, vision, impression, or “still small voice,” will agree completely with what He has already revealed in His Word. Dreams cannot be put into a place of authority over the Scriptures.

If you have a dream and feel that perhaps God gave it to you, prayerfully examine the Word of God and make sure your dream is in agreement with Scripture. If so, prayerfully consider what God would have you do in response to your dream (James 1:5). In Scripture, whenever anyone experienced a dream from God, God always made the meaning of the dream clear, whether directly to the person, through an angel, or through a messenger (Genesis 40:5-11; Daniel 2:45, 4:19). When God speaks to us, He makes sure His message is clearly understood.

Errrr... Just no

Never..only satan does..

When you look at the scripture it says, “Whether there are gifts of prophesying, they will be done away with; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will be done away with.” (1 Corinthians 13:8)

Once God had used dreams as a source of prophecy to give people message, but now he doesn't use dream. It even goes to say that we must be careful not to interpret the meaning of the dreams.

"For the teraphim statues have spoken deception;

And the diviners have visioned a lie.

They speak about worthless dreams,

And in vain they try to comfort.

That is why they will wander like sheep.

They will suffer, for there is no shepherd." (Zechariah 10:2)

So since the scriptures shed a negative light in seeking the meaning of dreams, Christian understand that they are not messages from God, but a natural occurrence when asleep.

Nope.

And it never did, either -- 'cause it doesn't exist.

Ancient ignorant people didn't know that dreams were just their brains doing routine housekeeping at night. So they'd have a dream, and wonder why it happened, then ignorantly (and wrongly) assume the dream must have been some imaginary god-thing "communicating" with them.

No god doesn't exist. So he doesn't communicate with anything.

It depends on what the dream is. If it contradicts with God's word then no it's not from Him but someone trying to deceive you.

Your young men will dream dreams and your old men will see visions! Yes He does

No. Simple as that.