Guide to Dream Analysis : Flying, Falling & Common Dream Symbols

[0:00]Hi, I'm Carmen Lynn with expert village. So we're talking about dreams, and you may already be aware that there are many dream symbols or archetypes, which roughly speaking mean the same thing to everybody. Um certain dream symbols that we all have in our dreams, such as for example, flying, pretty much all of us dream at some point about flying. And uh what does that mean? Well, flying is uh is a very positive symbol. You know how good you feel when you're flying in the dream, that is because it's a very a positive experience. And uh what's another symbol that we all have could could be falling. Again, you know, that feels pretty much the same for everybody. It's a very common fear, a fear of falling. In fact, it's a fear that we come into the world with as babies. So that as a dream symbol, you can see how pretty much we all experience that in a similar way and it can mean a similar kind of thing. Other very common symbols or archetypes would be your vehicle, the car, and for example, if you are driving the vehicle, if you're in the driver's seat, that means you are in the driver's seat of your life, you are in control. Um if you see that somebody else is driving and you're a passenger, or even if you're in the back of the car, that means something else that could mean that you feel like this this other person is in control of your life more. So you can see how this works that um symbols um can be universal. However, I I have to counter that by saying that of course, symbols are also individual and personal because certain things mean different things to different people. For example, if you dream of a cat or a dog, that is going to very much be your individual experience of cats and dogs. You know, you might be a cat person, a dog person. You might have been mobbed by a dog at an early age and not have a very good experience of them, or you might regard a dog as uh, you know, a good positive symbol. So things like that are very much um down to you as the individual. What does that symbol mean to you personally? And again, keeping a dream journal is going to help you very much to um discover what those symbols mean to you personally.