On Dreams
Over the years I have learned to pay attention to my dreams and have recieved enough dramatic success from following them, that now I have an unshakable trust in their wisdom. I have fewer dreams as I age, but the ones I get are more accessable, the more I understand the language of symbols my psyche communicates with. In fact, I become uncomfortable if I think I am not following their mostly gentle but firm advice.
I cannot preach to anyone else the merits of following your dreams.I would suggest only that you write down your own dreams and pay attention to your own experience. Noone can interpret your dreams without your help, because your symbols are too unique to you.
Dreams are a natural phenomenon, part of our psychic makeup. They are acknowledged in about every culture in the world. They are not only the "vestiges of the day", (those impressions encountered during our normal waking life.) We also get dreams from the deepest layers of the unconscious. C.G.Jung says the dream which comes from the unconcious, compensates for the ego's view which , he says, is much narrower. The dream "balances" . That is, it produces different data, or a different point of view. Dreams meanings depend , as well, on the context in which they occur and the inner and outer situations of the dreamer..
"The dream" says Jung," cannot be explained with a psychology taken from consciousness. ..It is a definite functioning which is independent of willing and wishing,, of the intentions and conscious aims of the ego. It is involuntary , like everything that happens in nature...it has its own language and its own laws,which we cannot approach subjectively with the psychology of consciousness."
Jolande Jacobe, in her book on Jung's psychology writes, " Every dream content may have multiple meanings and is conditioned by the individuality of the dreamer. Interpretation by standard symbols that can be looked up in the dictionary is utterly incompatible with Jung's view of the nature andand structure of the psyche. "The Psychology of C.G.Jung" Jolande Jacobe Yale University Press 1943.p.77
Keep a notebook by your bed.. Write down your dreams,and observe what comes up. Your dreams, including your nightmares are messages from your unconscious. They depend on the context in which they occur, and the inner and outer situations of you, the dreamer. They can have many meanings, so interpretations should be held lightly until thereis a felt sense of the meaning that rings a bell.
I cannot preach to anyone else the merits of following your dreams.I would suggest only that you write down your own dreams and pay attention to your own experience. Noone can interpret your dreams without your help, because your symbols are too unique to you.
Dreams are a natural phenomenon, part of our psychic makeup. They are acknowledged in about every culture in the world. They are not only the "vestiges of the day", (those impressions encountered during our normal waking life.) We also get dreams from the deepest layers of the unconscious. C.G.Jung says the dream which comes from the unconcious, compensates for the ego's view which , he says, is much narrower. The dream "balances" . That is, it produces different data, or a different point of view. Dreams meanings depend , as well, on the context in which they occur and the inner and outer situations of the dreamer..
"The dream" says Jung," cannot be explained with a psychology taken from consciousness. ..It is a definite functioning which is independent of willing and wishing,, of the intentions and conscious aims of the ego. It is involuntary , like everything that happens in nature...it has its own language and its own laws,which we cannot approach subjectively with the psychology of consciousness."
Jolande Jacobe, in her book on Jung's psychology writes, " Every dream content may have multiple meanings and is conditioned by the individuality of the dreamer. Interpretation by standard symbols that can be looked up in the dictionary is utterly incompatible with Jung's view of the nature andand structure of the psyche. "The Psychology of C.G.Jung" Jolande Jacobe Yale University Press 1943.p.77
Keep a notebook by your bed.. Write down your dreams,and observe what comes up. Your dreams, including your nightmares are messages from your unconscious. They depend on the context in which they occur, and the inner and outer situations of you, the dreamer. They can have many meanings, so interpretations should be held lightly until thereis a felt sense of the meaning that rings a bell.