Most crises or dangerous situations have a long incubation, only the conscious mind is not aware of it. Jung provides an example of a dream of this type. Dreams also play an important role in the creative process. Many great creations and discoveries have been inspired by dreams. A dream informed the Russian chemist, Mitri Mendeleev, of the correct order of the elements based on atomic weight. August Keckule was shown the structure of the benzene ring in a dream. The basic theme of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel, Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde, came to him in a dreaming.
“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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