Unconscious intelligence functions as a network of flexible patterns that reflect how the world is experienced in shifting contexts. In dreams, external events are used like stage props but acquire a deeper significance than they possess in waking consciousness. Each of the dream schools have specialized in matching dream patterns with their own specific aspect of the context as, for example, S. Freud with childhood experiences, C. G. Jung with future developmental potentials, and Calvin Hall with current behavior. Autobiographical memory seemingly integrates elements from various significant experiences into dream narratives, serving a higher purpose than simply replicating the more trivial incidences of waking life. Robert Hoss has summarized the results of brain research supporting Jung’s understanding of the roles dreams play in ongoing processes of individuation. Fertility symbols, for instance, may appear in the dreams of young women and also in those of women who have gone through menopause.