dreams

I do not believe there is such a thing as a “bad” dream. Though we may not like its contents or its summons to accountability, or we are even frightened by it, all dreams are part of the psyche’s effort to heal, to correct, and to solicit a more informed engagement. Jung described this activity of the psyche as the “transcendent function,” namely,

Dreams address the unfinished business of daily life and anticipate future events. The unconscious takes in information that consciousness misses and tells us through dreams what we have missed and misjudged. Because the unconscious is ahead of consciousness, dreams can alert us to possibilities and probabilities that may lie ahead. Dreams foster

In The Out-of-Body Experience I suggested a perceptual model of reality whereby human beings, and probably all conscious animals, exist in two states of awareness. There is the “waking state” – that is, the perceptual world shared by other consciousnesses and proven to be consistent and real by the simple fact that other consciousnesses seem to

Your dreams are an expression of your inner life, and they can show you through what false attitude you have landed yourself in this blind alley. —C. G. Jung