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Originally Posted by tabs
Dream images and sequences is the language of the Subconscious...which represents the inner workings of your core self. In dreams you are working out/figuring out situations you are in or your feelings about those situations. It is what lies beneath or behind how you deal with the experiences or situations in your conscious life. They are very revealing of who you really are in conscious life.
For me. I place myself in that subconscious landscape and by walking through that landscape I can figure out what is going on...from what the imagery and action sequence implies. In other words I consciously take myself into that subterranean world and take a look around..
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Classical Freudian Psychoanalysis and Dream Interpretation has pretty much been put somewhere between Astrology and Voodoo. Plus, I’m pretty sure Freud never uttered the word ‘subconscious’. There is only conscious and unconscious, the realm of unconsciousness being populated by the Id, Ego and Superego which are sort of at war with each other creating guilt, penis envy, and allot of money for therapists.
Jungian psychology does have some theoretical validity though, mostly because we all share very, very similar DNA structures going back into the eons of human history.
My theory is that sleep is a sort of daily (nightly) mechanism to purge one’s brain of the millions and millions of excess memory traces a healthy brain creates with every single moment of consciousness. That purge results in dreams; sort of like brain poop, if you will.
Recurrent dreams are sort of stuck, their traces don’t get purged, eventually being permanently lodged and becoming memory traces that we end up consciously remembering.
Or, aliens from another dimension talk to us during sleep.