Jung said like you that dreams are entirely personal with each dream item having meaning only for the dreamer and could be different to different dreamers but that seems to conflict with the idea of universal archetypes. and if such things actually exist -concepts gotten over centuries of man's existence, then don't they have at least some influence on your dream-and mean to a degree the same thing to every person? In my dream the rats came running to me and were very loving. I wonder if they symbolized something ratty (no good- from the universal archetype) I was up to. But then maybe you have to overlay your own personal idea of rats over the universal idea of rats. In my case even though it was something rat like I was doing, I loved what it was.