Dreams | Readwise

Dreams deal with associations and with emotional validities that often do not seem to make sense in the usual world. I said before that no one can really give you a definition of the psyche. It must be experienced. Since its activities, wisdom and perception rise largely from another kind of reference, then you must often learn to interpret your en

Our dreams are made up of metaphors: symbols that generate wisdom by revealing kinship between seemingly unrelated situations.

a dream while your consciousness is asleep—something “clicks” and you at once “recognize” this as the answer you have been searching for. In this process, does your Creative Mechanism also have access to stored information in a universal mind?

and those intuitions that appeared to him in the dream state were remembered and taken advantage of in the waking state.

dreams present a fresh perspective. The dream maker’s views can differ radically from our conscious mind’s opinions and values. Jung said dreams are “invariably seeking to express something that the ego does not know and does not understand.”