Jung: One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The dream is a spontaneous self-portrayal in symbolic form of the actual situation in the unconscious. As windows into the unconscious, dreams also provide us with information about the health or sickness of our body. Dreams can also warn us of the type of future that may manifest if we continue in our errant ways.
“We also live in our dreams, we do not live only by day. Sometimes we accomplish our greatest deeds in dreams.” Carl Jung, The Red Book Are dreams the product of random brain activity, or a side effect of the mind consolidating its memories? Are they, as Sigmund Freud suggested, the expression of repressed wishes […]
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