(Kidshealth.com 1999). The next two species of dream are very frank in their description. The first one being the sexual dream and the second being the repetitive dream. The sexual dream was analyzed greatly by Sigmund Freud he theorized that sexual dreams came from sexual tension. He felt that sexual tension came from the compelling urge to engage in sexual intercourse. Sexual symbols such as long rod shapes symbolizing the male penis and hollow round shapes symbolizing the female vagina (Freud 1900). Freud thought if either of these symbols appeared in a dream that the individual had surpressed sexual tension within their emotions. The repetitive dream is best defined as a dream that occurs twice within different REMs. The only reasonable explanation for repetitive dreams is that they are indications of a troublesome but often ignored emotion. They are the way in which the subconscious keeps the individual from suffering complete denial. Repetitive dreams cease once the problem is resolved in daily life or in the dream (Ullman and Zimmerman 1979). Lastly, the plain subconscious dream, this is the dream doesn't fit in to any other dream categories. To put in lay terms it is the "average" dream. They occur with the REM and are usually not remembered because of the ordinariness. They however are the hardest dreams to understand and interpret because they can't be categorized specifically. Most of them don't have much significant evidence to offer because they are just based upon present daily life and some acute em...
