The Oneiromanticon

While many of our dreams are mundane portrayals of our day-to-day lives, or are cloudy and easily-forgotten fragments, some dreams can be extremely vivid, impactful, and life-changing. These powerful dreams have been called by a number of terms: archetypal dreams, type dreams, big dreams, culture-pattern dreams, extraordinary dreams, epic dreams, apex dreams, prototypical dreams, great dreams, peak experience dreams, etc. Typically, archetypal dreams are vivid, evocative, numinous, and appear as cohesive imagistic visions rather than as patchwork reorganizations of memory. They are highly emotional and highly memorable and can take years to understand. They have a universal or collective nature, containing mythological, legendary, historical, or spiritual symbolism. These type of dreams are also most associated with mantic or magical dreaming practices, including spiritual epiphanies, divination, astral or soul projection, healing, transcendent visions, incubation, and shamanic forms o...