Even though Freud and Jung disagreed on many points, one thing that emerges from twentieth century psychoanalysis is the fact that dreams go beyond their individual dreamers and often show patterns that are common to all cultures. Indeed, dreams are only partially rooted in consciousness and tend to reveal deeper parts of the human psyche.
One of the eldest books on dreams – the Oneirocritica «The Interpretation of dreams” – was written by the Greek thinker Artemidorus in the second century AD. In it he distinguishes between dreams that forecast the future and “allegorical dreams” that need interpretation.
Unlike Freud that reduced dreams to repression of infantile sexual experiences, Jung stated that besides these personal dreams, there was an unconscious collective dream, the very backbone of imagination. He saw then in dreams the manifestation of a certain truth that went beyond the dreamer, as if planted by a higher consciousness that he calls “the soul”.
Now you take the floor: what do you associate with dreams?
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Life is that desire to live
which can connect tomorrow…
and gives courage to fight yesterday…
Neither do you need Consolance, nor support
I believe that if you don’t give up,
You can easily climb the stairs…
Judging by my own experience there two kinds of night dreams.
The first ones are generated by our subconsciousness to free the brain from troubled thoughts.
Another kind of dreams is prophetic dreams which predict the future and help to find a right solution concerning a certain situation in real life.
Dreams are encoded messages from the Universe and the receiver of them is our mind. And if you pay attention to your dreams you will get the answers to your questions from the depths of the Universe.
hello jaziquita,
i too have that consciousness whilst dreaming at times. i sought of fall in and out of it. what can help you to recognise that you are dreaming and then take some authority or control in your dream, is to somehow whilst dreaming, think “i need to look at my hands” that is what i told myself to do before i went to sleep, and then in my dream i managed to look at my hands and as soon as i did i knew that i was was dreaming and i could actually contol what i did afterwards-once realising i was dreaming. then it faded again ……but you can have some level of control…or at least so it seems.
Thank you savita,how sweet of you.Kathleen i found the meaning to my dream already.One of my ex best freinds had the same dream same day.We haven’t been contact for almost a year,but out of nowhere i met him online,yes out of nowhere and next minute he starts ranting his dream to me saying he is scared and all those stuff.And can u believe he had the same dream i had mentioned before??I was so shocked,but u know what he said that he was almost eaten by snakes a huge one and he said he was crying for help to me.And he told me that i laughed at him first saying why are you screaming don’t u have any hope boy?Bow down to me and pray and i will help you.And i gave him hope and he could breath a little he said.I was shocked by his version of dream.Actually this guy had hurt me coz he was so full of pride and ego and hrut me so badly than my heart got broken badly.My heart cursed him so badly that ,he has been suffering ever since.He was good looking but he was from very bad family background but he was my best freind .I did everything to give him hope when he had nothing as friend.Due to which he built his life so high and he always dedicates his work for me but he had so much pride and ego about his look.Maybe thats why the peacock i saw in my dream his pride.he was hoplessly in love with me but he denied infornt of everyone coz you i wasnt that pretty and all pretty gal are suppsoe to be.He humilated me many times by denying it althought he secretly gave me so many love poems and many gifts and express his love but i knew that i wasn;t rpetty enough for him .But the only reason i had chose to love him was he had no hope,nothing to lean on,but he was so full of pride that he repeatedly denyed nd he even blamed me that i was crazy about him when infact he was the one.i even humilatedin a party where i had to go out running ifnront of many people.I was hurt very badly.I really cried mayb my heart cried.That was the time i had to seek God,and ask coz that was the punsihment i got for giving hope to hopless?The day i left him he said all his relatives aunts died one by one,some were killed by gun shot some this and that all his aunts died he said.He is almost half crazy,but in love with me dunno why.i dunno what God did but he told me many time that God has always shown in dream scolded him syaing* why did you hurt my daughter,say that it was you who was crazy and and it was your fault.he was so scared by the haunting dream of God who showed him that he will be dragged on skin and he will let his skin be peeled off and God will let him eat his own skin.So he started seraching for me after 4 years.M getting late for class i tell u the rest part later. frens
Dreams are the straight connection to our true self and to our intuition, but also to te inner self of other peole. One of my friends once had to go to the asylum for a few weeks because she could not deal with what had happened to her during her childhood and she did not want to tell us what had happened. One night I dreamed about what had happened to her and when I told her the dream, she was so shocked, because it was axactly what had happened to her. She has never before talked to anybody about it. I sometimes have dreams in which I am in full consciousness, although it is difficult to stay concentrated and it only lasts for a short while Does anybody know why that happens?
I am just loving to read all the comments, so interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Dreams I feel are a symbol of world. We see world around us and feel and think it is real. Logic also says so. In dreams we see and feel and for the moment think it is real. The logic at that time aslo says so. But when we open our eyes and wake up all is opposite of real. Life is also a dream, everything is true till our eyes are closed. Death may be a form of awakening. When everything changes drastically. Body turns lifeless and all relationships end, change is irreversible. May be dreams are associated more with life than anything else.
I sincerely hope I will not trivialise everything but I have so often watched my dog dream, the feet trot along, ears twitch, the tail wags and there is usually a woof or two.
The beautiful dreams that I had ,were that dreams about romantik experiences,wenn the soul was comming together with the soul of a masculin person like with my first love when I was sixteen and I feelt ,we wallked hand in hand and the summer rain drops were falling down on our hands:the warmness of our blod and the fresh rain drops were two difrent sesitive sensations that I fellt on the same fisically areal,in my example the hands .This sensation made me to be sure that this art of dreams are reality,just in other dimension.
I had today a dream that make me frighthing!I `ve dremt that I choused a black scarf and I put it on my hear,and a damen rock although a black one.In my culture we put black clothes for one year wen somebody from our family will die!
I hope everything will be good!God help us!!!
I belive in dreams, and I trye to anderstand what they want to tell me.
Love
Mirela(the woman in elevator)
Hope,
You write so beautifully! I could just go on reading paragraph after paragraph of your exquisite, free-flowing poetic-prose. Please write more…and more.
And thanks, Sido66 for your comments. I know precisely what you mean. it comes and it goes – sometimes there is an overwhelming flood of synchronicity in my life, and sometimes it dries up to just a trickle. Sometimes these “coincidences” that are not coincidences are so profound – so truly impossible – that they shock me and rock me to the very core of my being. This is when I know that I am closest to God/The Goddess/The Gods. I am going through one of these periods right now: I think something – a pressing question pops into my head – and so I think, let me consult God on the matter, so I open the Bible at random, point with my eyes closed, and the verse I land on will so precisely address the issue – unmistakably direct, often repeating some of the words I used in formulating my question – that it shocks me like a lightening-bolt in the chest. Or other things happen: I suddenly think, Oh, I have to send this line from this song to my friend, and so I send a text, only to get a text back, a few minutes later that says: “How did you know what I was thinking?” Well, I didn’t! At least not on any conscious level. I mean, it isn’t intentional. It just sort of happens…and I let it happen. I don’t try to curtail it or hold it back in fear of what someone else might think or how they might react; I just go with what my intuition tells me to say or do in the moment.
I read “Synchronity” by Carl Jung, but it was also a very difficult read for me. I wonder if anyone else has any recommendations for any great books on the subject of synchronicity. Not that I really need to “understand” it. In fact, the more I try to grasp it with my intellect or make sense of it, the more it recedes. And the more I just go with the flow of it, the more it grows, like river threatening to overflow its banks and inundate the whole of my life, possibly obliterate all sense of logic and linear reason.
Sometimes I like to think of it simply as a nice warm blanket that God sometimes wraps around me – sometimes tightly, sometimes loosely – it comforts me and lets me know he/she is there, actively present in my life.
Love,
Savita
dreams..my favorite, are the ones i have when i’m awake. sleeping, for me, i think my dreams are my thoughts,worries, things that scare me. reoccuring dreams however are interesting to me. to dream the same dream occasionally for years. constant thought? worry? yea, i still love the dreams i have when i’m AWAKE…
Thank you kathleen,please do ponder and let me know what it means too.You see dreams for me is multi dimensional whenver papa or God gives me dream he gives me in such a way that befits many thing at one time.Sadly i have also seen dreams where the water broke in from nowhere it was like all the helll break lose,it was few mnths back all the water of the world was washing the land like tsunami at the maximum form,and all human running here and there,sea creature everywhere.And more scarry was the part where everyone was hypnotized by someone either surrender or die type and i was hiding isnide a room a broken room running from the water running from some evil form dunno what or who.It was scarry.I am scared for earth sometime.My dreams are like i should know at what time it will be fulfilled usually i get for the nex day but for some i get for few months ahead or 5 years ahead or 10 years or sometime few weeks,but usually i know ,coz now i am use to it.Actually serpent and i go long way,i mean i feel we are always fighting but i can only hurt him coz am not strong like jesus or papa.
In my belief,dreams are our thoughts and fantasies that we want to be reality.Everyone has an opinion for every issue in their life and dreams helps us to let these theories to be manifested…Many times dreams affects peoples life because they believe that there is some kind of connection between dreams and reality.Every kind of dream has a different meaning in real life.Dreams warn us about some circumstances that is going to be done in our real life…
Hope,
That is a phenomenal dream. I definitely think it has meaning. I’m going to ponder on it as well (if you don’t mind that is).
Kathleen xxoo
Hi Paulo and Everyone,
Many years ago now I emailed Paulo with a poem and he said “Just follow your dreams.” And I have been doing just that.
I am in the middle of trying to put together a power point presentation on dreams. My dreams have shown me that I should do this. {As a younger man I tried to avoid having dreams, because mine were so very vivid.}
In the books by Castaneda people either have a predilection for dreaming or stalking and I guess from the responses here; we have quite a lot of dreamers in the Blog.
In various schools of thought the everyday “reality” is just the dream of the incarnating dreamer within. Or in other terms it is the dream of the Soul within. The trick is to wake up in the dream both whilst asleep and “awake”. Then one can dream true to the fate of the Soul rather than trying to force life. That way we flow with rather than against our fate.
By recording dreams as they happen (I keep a notebook by my bed) one can get a feel whether a dream is a “filing” dream (tidying up the day), a connection with a thought form on the Astral plane (these can have racial and historical forms), guidance from the Soul (these are symbolic and need unpicked) or touching something quite a lot higher (Divinity and/or mystical vision). “Breakthrough” of experience from previous life can also happen in dreams.
When one learns how to read the symbols of dreams, one can use this to interpret the symbols (omens?) happening in daily life. And then if one is really quiet one can “wake up” in the madness of the dream which is our “everyday” world.
With all my best wishes,
Alan
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