Reccuring Dreams

So, I have talked to many friends and family members and most of them have told me about a recurring dream or two. I myself have about three recurring dreams that I have experienced since childhood. These dreams, for me anyway, do not occur more than once a year if that, but they do still pop up. Could this be a kind of buried emotion surfacing every few years, as a sort of Freudian reminder that I/we have untended emotions?