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Default Mar 29, 2023 at 04:21 PM
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Hi folks, since I plan on lurking about here quite a bit, I'd like to be transparent about my personal ideas around interpretation, especially with meanings and what I consider viable sources for symbol meanings.

- I'm largely Jungian in my interpretation. I fully believe every character in the dream is a facet of the dreamer's self, as opposed to a projection of someone or some people the dreamer knows. (Usually it's where the two meet, related to what they see that they have in common with that character). Archetypes and archetypal themes are huge and are largely flavored by the dreamer's personal/cultural understandings.

- Related to this, I don't give much weight to dream dictionaries, as they ignore the cultural influence and relate more to the lowest social common denominator that to a deeper personal meaning. Dream dictionaries from ages past are even more problematic because discrimination and bigotry has a way of lingering in the older texts and being hand waved off as "just things from an older era".

Main Symbols the Cause Concern

Sex : Sex I will always refer to as a subconscious need for connection with a person or how that person relates to the dreamer. Sex is almost never literally about being aroused. And when it is, it's obvious to the dreamer upon waking.

Violence : Any act of aggression, with gore and violence being the more extreme end, is a reaction to something that the dreamer probably sees both in something else as well as within themselves. This is the dream expression of the4 anger we project onto others in our waking life.

Animals : This is often described by Jungian archetypes as the opposite binary gender traits, and the primal nature. I don't particularly like the gender description, as it insists on a binary definition of gender identity. That being said, it does relate to the primal and "uncivilized" parts of the self. The things we may not have control over, or the traits that don't fit into society's mold.
** I have consistently seen that the more a dreamer tried to contain the animals in their dreams or repress what the animal relates to in their waking world, the smaller that animal gets in dream, and the more numerous they become. A bear may become a pack of wolves, which may become a swarm of rats, which may become a cloud of locusts - for example. **

Death - Death is never about literally dying, but about the end of a part of a person and the transformation of that piece of them into something new.
Illness - Similarly the presence of a character being ill or disfigured usually relates to something being seen as intrinsically wrong or tainted.

There's more I'm sure but that's all I can think of for now.

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Default Mar 31, 2023 at 04:10 PM
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Jung has always been interesting to me. I like what Jung had to say about imaginary friends and muses. Thanks for posting.
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