The adult studies seem to follow a similar pattern, with emphasis on indoor settings, family and home. Women more often dream of enclosed bodies of water, such as pools, lakes, ponds. Men tend to have more men in their dreams and be in conflict or competition with them. Outdoor and unfamiliar settings are prevalent. Weapons, tools, cars and roads are common.
Men report more sexual dreams, usually with unknown and attractive partners.
Up to about 12 years old, aggression in dreams is about equal. Afterwards, aggression decreases for females and continues on with males. This drops off a bit after men are in their thirties, but woman, by comparison have only one in twenty five encounters that have aggressiveness. Also, the aggressive encounters men have involve physical threats, and with women, they are more likely to be verbal assaults. Calvin Hall and Bill Domhoff investigated if these differences were cross-cultural or just specific to the United States.