In his book, Man and His Symbols, Jung specifically notes dreams of falling and flying as warnings. It could also signal a loss of support or a metaphorical warning that your conscious ego needs to come back down to earth. This type of dream often references a loss of control you’re feeling somewhere in waking life. The most common one is the terrifying plunge - off the edge of a cliff, or the floor falling out from under you. There are two very distinct types of falling dreams. In Dream Tending, there’s one sure way to learn what it is and start taking steps to resolve it: with protection and support, stop running and engage your dream chaser so you can interact with it and discover “who’s visiting now.” Then it becomes possible to create a more generative and peaceful relationship. According to most dream psychologists, the “monster” chasing you could be an aspect of yourself that you’re trying to deny. Often it’s related to how you’re feeling about some difficult part of your life that you are not paying enough attention to: perhaps an unrecognized trauma, a stressful event, or something you fear. When you consider the symbolic meaning of being chased, it could suggest that something is trying to catch up with you. In a study of more than 1,000 college students, researchers found that being chased was not only the most common theme among them - with about 60 percent reporting dreams of being chased - but it was also the one that most remember as their earliest dream. Check out these 11 most common dreams and what they might mean or allude to and see if any sound familiar to you. Understanding these symbols as a visual language opens the world of the dream and what it seeks to communicate.

Dreams, like myths of creation and becoming, often feature archetypal themes and imagery - symbols so common across all cultures that Carl Jung proposed they belong to a collective unconscious shared by all humans. Dreams are private myths.” You can extend this idea to understand why there are so many symbols and themes that frequently appear in dreams. Joseph Campbell, perhaps the world’s best known navigator of mythology and dream spaces, famously said that “Myths are public dreams.

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