The Most Common Dream in Every Country

dreams are symbolic. Your dream maker seldom has access to the directed thought and straightforward language of your conscious, waking mind. The dream maker is an ancient part of us that speaks in image, metaphor, and symbol, and relies on intuition and feeling instead of linear thinking and explicit expression.

seven of the most universal dream elements: Settings, Feelings, Actions, Dynamics, Characters, Animals, and Objects.

I saw it in a large dataset of dreams people record on an app.

As for the snake symbolism, this can also be linked to Gnosticism. One group of Gnostics, known as the Ophites, argued that the Fall of Man described in Genesis had been incorrectly interpreted. For the Ophites, the serpent wanted Adam and Eve, the first man and woman, to eat from the Tree of Knowledge (gnosis) so that they would know their true id