in his "interpretation of dreams", sigmund freud connected them to his ideas on psychotherapy. dreams, in freud's view, are forms of "wish fulfillment". they are attempts by the unconscious to resolve a conflict of some sort. because the information in the unconscious is in an unruly and often disturbing form, a "censor" in the preconscious will not allow it to pass unaltered into the conscious. freud describes three main types of dreams: 1. direct prophecies received in the dream; 2. the foretelling of a future event; 3. the symbolic dream, which requires interpretation.