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I've never understood why people give any creedence to Freud. He had an obviously neurotic obsession with attempting to explain every pathology in existence with obtuse theories of childhood sexuality. Freud practiced the absolute opposite of good science.. he came to a conclusion and then played procrustes with the data until it fit what he wanted to believe.
C. G. Jung had a much better ideas about dreams. He theorized that most dreams are compensatory mechanisms which serve to rebalance the psyche. In compensatory, balance-restoring dreams, a person who has been humiliated by someone he admires may dream that he is praised or befriended by one of his heroes... perhaps a movie star or athlete; and the dream will help to restore his self-esteem. Likewise, if on some occasion a person has been overly smug about himself, he may dream that one of his heroes snubs him; and the dream will have a disquieting, sobering effect. Compensatory dreams serve to moderate the extremes of our ego's pride or debasement.
Dreams which are repetitive in nature are usually trying to call the dreamers attention to some psychological problem which he or she needs to resolve. Not necessarily a major psychological illness, but if you are having repetitive dreams, especially if they are negative in nature, you can be sure that there is something at least slightly out of whack.
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