Below is a graph that will show you the Elements of the Dreamtime. This is helpful in finding your totems as well as your guides..
It will give you information as to what element you are seeing when dreaming and what that element means in the interpretation of your dreams.
Always try to remember as much detail in the dream as is possible. Some dreams may not make sense during the dream but eventually it will in the final interpretations.
We dream the same dream at least three times in a thirty day cycle. It may not seem the same because the characters may change or the places but there is always a common link to each dream when they are trying to give you messages or lessons.
A guide, for example, may come at first as a person, then later as an animal, plant, bird or sea creature. It will be the same with a waking dream or daydream as some may call them, although Visions are another thing entirely.