Thread: Archetype Toolbox: Tools for interpreting your own dreams

Taking into consideration the previous valid comments, I have taken time to do a quick search and review of commonly held dream symbols and archetypes that, according to a variety of research, are held in common for all dreamers. Below you will find a list of several different web links that contain examples of such common dream symbols and archetypes. I post them for examples only. The reader will have to dig into where these sites get their information and its validity themselves. At least at this point we will now have established some examples to look at.

I have personally found that some of the symbols represented in these links and descriptions do parallel the meanings I have found on my own, in my own dreams. Others do not seem to carry the same meaning. I also note that the definitions from site to site sometimes can and do differ, sometimes greatly, other times only slightly. This all lends to the notion that there is no real "cookie cutter approach" to the meaning of archetypes or symbols that fits all dreamers everywhere. This is why I would suggest that the individual dreamer take care not to just grab up and run with the first defined symbol they come across.
Take time to explore and research yourself how symbols are defined from a number of sources., keeping in mind that you ultimately will be your own best source of defining what's going on in your dreams. I believe it is important for the dreamer to measure the definitions and the symbols being defined by their own life experiences. As such, the definitions and meanings you come up with will be more true to your own self, your own experience, and your own dreaming.


As stated, the following links are just a random sampling from a web search of "dream symbols". As such they are meant purely as a random sampling of what is out there. Doing a search yourself will result in many more such links.

Dream Symbols : info on dream, dream interpretations, dreams, dreaming, Dream Emporium, dream journal, lucid dreams, lucidity, lucid dreaming, insomnia, nightmares, night terrors, sleep, sleep disorders, sleep paralysis, sleep walking, sleep talking,

Dream Symbols

http://www.dream-symbols.com/popular...in-dreams.html

Dream Symbol Meaning

Archetypes


It would be preferred at this point NOT to discuss the above sites in particular here in this topic. For now, it would be better to just keep this topic here as a reservoir of examples. If one feels the need to discuss such it would be better to open another discussion thread


note: I borrowed the "cookie cutter " comment from gab