Thread: Archetype Toolbox: Tools for interpreting your own dreams

Archetypes , as applied to dreams and dreaming, simply means a representation which arises in ones own dreams that carries the same meaning from one dream to the next. The purpose of this topic is to continually catalog and discuss the variety of dream archetypes that can and do arise within a persons dreams.
To that end, it would be preferred starting out that posters, as much as possible, post their own personal archetype experience. Post what your archetypes are and what you have found them to represent in your dreams. Elaboration on how you came to find those archetypes may also be helpful to the reader.
Discussions on archetypes is ok, but to stay on topic the discussions should be oriented more towards how each of us arrives at how we see our symbols. It would be preferable not to get into the rightness or wrongness of how people posting in here are seeing their symbols /archetypes. Such discussions will take away from the cataloging of examples, which is what this topic is mainly about. A new topic should be started to bring up arguments as to the right or wrong of someone's interpretation.

As this hopefully gets rolling along, it would be nice to add in historical archetypes used around the world by different cultures, religions, and so on and so forth.

This topic is intended to give the dreamer a wider base of awareness as to be able to begin interpreting potential meaning within their own dreams. The dreamer should realize, that metaphor and archetypes are like a language, and that just as in a language there are sometimes many dialects that influence the meaning of words in that language. How you live your life, what's going on in it, your history, your values, your mindset, and more all can influence the way archetypes arise in your dreams and the meanings that they carry. While archetypes can be the same from one person to another, they often will carry your own unique meaning. Read and draw your own conclusions.

Its like Seeker said at the onset of this sub forum in the welcome post stuck at the top:

Remember, the best person that can interpret your dreams is Yourself

Lets fill this tool box up so it can be made use of...