In the Dream, it made Sense – Week 5
“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes”- Carl Jung
In dreams the mind does not always speak in neat sentences or use ordinary logic.
People, places and objects are often exaggerrated or intertwined.
In a dream, your childhood school can suddenly become your current house. A person you have not seen in years can appear as if they belong there. You may be trying to get somewhere important, but the road turns into a river, your car becomes a bicycle, and somehow you and nobody in the dream thinks this is unusual.
In the dream, it made sense.
And then when we wake up, we laugh and think, “What on earth was that?”
From a Jungian perspective, this strangeness may not be meaningless.
Jung believed that dreams often speak in symbols. They may take a feeling, conflict, desire, fear, or unnoticed part of ourselves and turn it into an image or a dramatic skit. A small worry in waking life can become a huge adventure in a dream. A feeling we have pushed aside can arrive as a strange character, a locked room, a wild animal, or a ridiculous scene.
Dreams exaggerate or show us the total opposite as if to compensate. They may turn up the volume on something so that we notice it. This does not mean every dream needs a serious interpretation. Sometimes a dream is simply funny, random, or beautifully absurd.
You can draw it, paint it, or simply share a few lines.
Here are is some of the things shared during this week:
My dream is a little cottage in the woods beside a lake. But to feel truly safe there, I would want walls around it, a type of fortress. The irony is that the things I would need to make the dream comfortable would also change it.
The perfect cottage would no longer be the perfect cottage.
Perhaps some dreams are beautiful because they remain dreams.
I can usually escape any danger because I can fly higher than anybody else in my dreams. When I try to run in my dreams, I often struggle to run faster than a 95yr old granny. Running as if you are getting nowhere…
When I fly, I am always the fastest !
I love ❤️love💚 love flying🪽🪽 and diving, running on roofs and set off again.
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“I 100% get this. I dream about flying in the same way.”
In my strange dream that I had two nights ago, I was at the doctor, and as I was telling him what was bothering me, he was listening very intently…afterwards he got up and walked over to a television, on which he played an advertisement, which I can’t remember clearly, but the main message was to ‘Eat all the pizza!’. He came back to the counter we we’re sitting at with a pizza ofcourse! He gave everyone a slice…my dad was also there and my 3 year old son. He gave my son a small motorbike as well. So tonight we are having pizza.. all of it!
Three different flavours:
1. *Dragonfire*🐉🔥: Smoked paprika, cayenne pepper, and food-grade activated charcoal.
2. *Golden Hearth*🧄🥖🔥: Turmeric and roasted garlic.
3. *Herb Garden*🌿🥐: Rosemary, coriander and sesame.
I think it was Eric Erickson who said that one should approach research with playful seriousness and serious playfulness. Which I think is a good approach to dreams too!
