Quote Originally Posted by Sageous View Post
Sort of hints at the source of dream guides, doesn't it? After all, if we're inventing our guides, they would have to be something cool, wouldn't they? Something that screams "This is important!" when we see it. Toads, slugs, and whole families of insects just don't fill that bill for most people.

And before the tirades begin, there's nothing wrong with this sort of invention, and the fact that it sprang from your own mind makes the presence of a guide no less significance!
Someone who likes frogs and toads in some subconscious or conscious level may have a frog or toad as an animal guarding or guide. There is nothing wrong with that. My guess would be that more people don't have these as guides is because how do you follow a frog? You can follow a creature that can run or walk with you. But keeping track of a hopping frog would be very difficult. Same would go for some insects and other animals like turtles. Probably the ability to interact, subconscious feelings towards, and relationship to size (among other things) are factors that are considered before an animal spirit guardian or guides takes its form.

The reason more don't appear as faeries, dragons, unicorns, mermaids and other fantastical creatures might have something to do with human expectation and history. So these are probably also factors that any spirit guardian or guide carefully consider before choosing the form they will use when they appear to us.

That would be my theory and hypothesis anyway -
- DreamBliss