Of one hundred twenty-three university undergraduates who participated voluntarily in a study on dreams, sixty percent reported that they experienced recurrent dreams. These were uniformly anxiety dreams in which the dreamer was being threatened or pursued. The individuals who reported such dreams tended to be more depressed, to have more problems of adjustment, and to have more physical symptoms than those who did not. Many subjects reported spontaneously that their recurrent dreams begin in childhood. These observations conform with psychoanalytic theory concerning the nature of the dream process.