06-04-2013, 02:36 PM
It's that "strange interim stage of consciousness between being awake and asleep", that worries me Jan. This is precisely where conscious access to the Unconscious takes place.
The house in a dream is a wonderful image of unconscious realms. If the house is shadowy and unknown, then it may well be because it represents parts of yourself that remains unknown or unexplored and the dream is telling you that it is time to explore it. If it is a house well known, perhaps from childhood, it would suggest that juvenile aspects of the personality still have to be dealt with - consciously integrated. Each house, no matter what manner or style of its dream manifestation, carries a meaning important for the growth of the dreamer.
The thing about the unconscious in dreams is that it is compensatory -- always seeking ways to achieve balance.
If dream images can, at some point in the future, be inserted - by outside forces - in to a persons psyche in the process of preparing to dream, thereby meddling with the compensatory process, the consequences for psychological harm are simply unthinkable. If done on a large scale. were it ever to be achievable (and I pray it never is), a limited nuclear war would be preferable.
That is my view anyway.
The house in a dream is a wonderful image of unconscious realms. If the house is shadowy and unknown, then it may well be because it represents parts of yourself that remains unknown or unexplored and the dream is telling you that it is time to explore it. If it is a house well known, perhaps from childhood, it would suggest that juvenile aspects of the personality still have to be dealt with - consciously integrated. Each house, no matter what manner or style of its dream manifestation, carries a meaning important for the growth of the dreamer.
The thing about the unconscious in dreams is that it is compensatory -- always seeking ways to achieve balance.
If dream images can, at some point in the future, be inserted - by outside forces - in to a persons psyche in the process of preparing to dream, thereby meddling with the compensatory process, the consequences for psychological harm are simply unthinkable. If done on a large scale. were it ever to be achievable (and I pray it never is), a limited nuclear war would be preferable.
That is my view anyway.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14