This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.
Elements gathers five of the atlas's dream symbols built from water and fire, and water dominates the group: four of the five entries are forms it takes.
Water itself has no single traditional meaning; the Talmud reads a river, a well or a pot as signs of peace, while Artemidorus refuses any fixed reading at all and insists water be judged against the dreamer's own trade, so the same flood ruins a farmer and profits a boatman. The ocean gets the same treatment in Artemidorus, calm seas good for a merchant and a storm at sea meaning lost cargo, judged strictly by whether the dreamer has business on the water. Flood follows the identical logic, Artemidorus reading an overflowing river by the dreamer's occupation and property and taking seriously that an Egyptian's livelihood depended on the annual inundation, while Mesopotamian omen collections record flooding among signs with fixed prognoses of their own.
Storm, by contrast, has no traceable older tradition of its own at all; Artemidorus treats a storm at sea only as material loss to a voyage rather than as an emotional state, and the Talmudic material does not address it. Fire is read by outcome in the older sources, a controlled hearth and a house-consuming blaze carrying opposite senses in Artemidorus and recorded with attached prognoses in Assyrian dream omens. Across every entry the same pattern holds: the modern account of water as emotion and the unconscious, and of fire as passion or purification, is Jung's own twentieth-century reading, not a continuation of what came before it.