The Strange New Science Behind Dreams and Synchronicity - Anderson Todd

Anderson Todd is a cognitive scientist and a Jungian psychoanalyst.Remarkable experiences happen in our dreams every night, and bizarre, meaningful coincidences (synchronicities) are reported in waking life. Can science make sense of all this?In this podcast, we explore whether there is meaning in our dreams, Anderson's personal experiences with lucid dreaming, Carl Jung's model of the Self, how to interpret your own dreams, dissociated alters in our mind, how to explain strange synchronicity experiences, the metaphysics that might explain synchronicities, and much more... • Timestamps00:00 The Meaning of Dreams06:43 Exploring Lucid Dreaming19:00 The Therapeutic Potential of Lucid Dreaming25:09 Understanding the Psyche and Internal Models42:00 The Interplay of Self and Others46:59 Exploring Altered States and Connectivity50:12 The Role of Dissociation in Experience51:01 Parenting and the Impact of Influence53:04 Evolution, Compromise, and Self-Development55:31 Navigating Problems and Intentional Self-Development57:53 The Risks and Rewards of Conscious Intervention58:51 Understanding Dreams and Their Interpretation01:01:15 The Nature of Dreams: Immersion vs. Messages01:03:07 Transjective Symbols in Dream Interpretation01:05:32 Specificity in Dream Symbols01:09:22 The Paradox of Dream Interpretation01:12:01 The Role of Dream Journals01:16:45 Interpreting Personal Dreams01:21:04 Jung's Model of the Self and Anima/Animus Dynamics01:35:57 Mediating the Unconscious: Persona and Anima01:38:02 The Dynamics of Projection in Relationships01:41:10 Understanding the Self: Center and Totality of the Psyche01:51:46 Exploring Synchronicity: Meaningful Coincidence and A-Causality02:10:02 The Role of Magic: Psychotechnologies and Synchronicity •Find Anderson Todd:-His Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/@AndersonTodd-Our previous conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=256d2PZ1huw&t=5447s