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Scientists can read your dreams with 60% accuracy
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I take your point Magda, and yes, there are already many partly subliminal techniques surrounding us. But the bulk of these (advertising for example) happen while we are still conscious, or at least half conscious, and so it is possible to become aware of them and take conscious decisions not to be swayed by them. This forum is living proof of this. Our eyes have been opened. We watch the television news critically and see through the fakery and flummery.

What concerns me about the possibility - slim though it might be (but early days perhaps and aiming higher for the future) - of having images, myths etc., inserted into dream states is that these would happen at a so much deeper a level. There would be, for the most part, no conscious resistance or awareness of what might be happening. How many people actually ever remember their dreams? Very few. It takes a considerable amount of training to learn to do so (although some do have a natural tendency). Sometimes strange impossible to understand fragments remain for a short while, but then quickly fade.

Jung wrote: We need more understanding of the human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself. He is the great danger, and we are pitifully unaware of it. We know nothing of man, far too little. His psyche should be studied, because we are the origin of all coming evil.

In the final analysis, all I can say is that the possibility of seeding dreams, for me, possesses a real sense of foreboding.

Were I a psychiatrist - this is the area where I would focus a lot of work.
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
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#12
Being a Jung freak (sort of) the following quote on the vital significance of "uninterrupted" dreams:

Quote:The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.
CARL JUNG, The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man

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Quote:The general function of dreams is to try to restore our psychological balance by producing dream material that re-establishes, in a subtle way, the total psychic equilibrium.
CARL JUNG, Man and His Symbols

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
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