Katie H- Contradictions of Myth

I found some of the discussions over the past week confusing, partly because of the definitions used was only partially clear to me, so when I tried to analyze it further I was met with a roadblock. Ive decided to include definitions for some of the examples used in class for my own sake in case I forget and need to look back at this, as well as for others. 

Simile of the line-plato- This is an analogy that Plato uses to distinguish among different forms of knowledge and truth. Plato's basic division is between what is visible and what is intelligible (i.e., knowable, but not seen), with the visible portion smaller than the intelligible portion.- https://psych.athabascau.ca/html/History/demo_glossary.cgi?mode=history&term_id=836&color_id=1

Xeno’s paradox- Zeno's paradoxes of motion are attacks on the commonly held belief that motion is real, but because motion is a kind of plurality, namely a process along a plurality of places in a plurality of times, they are also attacks on this kind of plurality. Zeno offered more direct attacks on all kinds of plurality.- https://iep.utm.edu/zenos-paradoxes/

It was said in class that there is no person that creates a myth, but in Campbells book he states “it is the realm we enter in sleep, we carry it within ourselves forever, all the ogres and secret helpers of out nursery are there, all the magic of childhood” (Campbell 17) and "dream is the personalized myth"(Campbell 19). these contradict each other as a dream is not a shared thing by many people, but created by a singular persons mind. and unless you consider your brain to not be a part of your being, you must have then created a myth for yourself, even if you did not intentionally do it. you are still breathing even if you do not intentionally think about breathing. therefore you created your own myth through a dream. but a myth cannot be created by a person. This makes no sense. It was also said in class that mythology creates a world we can be at ease in, however if a dream can become a myth, a nightmare would not be considered a part of mythology, but it followed the rules required to become a myth. it also rules out all myths and folktales used to scare children into behaving like La llorona and the boogeyman. these things contradicting each other does not allow anything to be myth, as each rule contradicts another. therefore, at this point in time until someone corrects me, there is no such thing as myth as it cannot be properly defined.