Dreams collected from approximately fourteen hundred men and fourteen hundred women indicate that, in terms of manifest content, men dream more about other men than they do about women, whereas women dream about men and women in approximately equal proportions. The reported sex differences were characteristic of the sample throughout the age range (two to eighty years). The

dreams of neurotic and normal males contained approximately the same percentage of male characters. Collaborative evidence of this finding from anthropological studies is cited, as well as a survey of the subjects of creative writing by male and female authors. The finding is explained in terms of 1, a conflict theory of dreaming and 2, the content and fate of the male and female Oedipus complex.