The 12 archetypal dreams — and what each is asking.

Snake, falling, teeth, being chased, water, death, flying, fire, naked, baby, spider, ex-partner. The dreams every adult has had. Each one is the unconscious doing real work — and the work is rarely what you fear.

How to read your dream

Almost no dream is literal. Dreams are not predictions. The death dream is not about death. The teeth-falling-out dream is not about teeth. The pursuer in your chase dream is, almost always, a part of you. The unconscious speaks in image because image is older and more truthful than language.

The feeling in the dream is more important than the content. A snake dream where you felt magnetic and curious is doing different work than a snake dream where you felt terror. Always start with: how did I feel?

Recurring dreams are the unconscious turning up the volume. If the same dream is showing up week after week, it is naming something the conscious self has refused to listen to. The dream will keep arriving until you sit down with it. A $9 personal reading can name what the dream is asking from *you* specifically.

🐍 shadow
Snake
The oldest dream symbol. Transformation, hidden knowledge, the part of you waking up.
🌀 transition
Falling
The most universal dream. Loss of control — sometimes terror, sometimes the unconscious teaching you to let go.
🦷 transition
Teeth Falling Out
Power, speech, identity. Something you cannot quite say is starting to fall out of your face.
🏃 shadow
Being Chased
Whatever you are running from in the dream is something you are running from in waking life. Always.
🌊 liberation
Water
The unconscious. Emotion. The part of you that runs deep below the part of you that thinks.
🕯️ transition
Death
The end of an old self. Almost never literal. Almost always a transformation that was already underway.
🕊️ liberation
Flying
The dream of the freed soul. You are stronger than your waking life is currently letting you be.
🔥 liberation
Fire
Passion, destruction, purification. Something is burning — and the question is what is being made room for.
🙈 transition
Naked in Public
The fear of being seen as you actually are. Or — the secret hope of finally being seen.
👶 liberation
Baby
A new beginning. Something is being born — a project, a relationship, a self.
🕷️ shadow
Spider
The weaver. Feminine creative power, fate, and the fear of what you yourself are spinning.
💔 shadow
Ex-Partner
Almost never about them. Almost always about an unfinished part of yourself that you left in that relationship.

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