The Dream

FIRST CONSCIOUSNESS WAS A DREAM

Animal´s first awareness of itself. The world of unseen souls.

DREAM INTRODUCTARY THOUGHTS

The dream talks to us like life does. Jung said that we dream all the time, but during waking hours the dream is so faint we don’t recognize it. The dream then merges with our wake experiences, affects our daily deeds and guides us without knowing. It colors our perceptions like the psychological fenomena priming; preconcieved conceptions, or unknown opinions that alter our interpretation of what we experience. The dream guides us on the basis of what we already know and extrapolates dangers and possible benefits and pleasures. The dream is a guide and an also frivolous play with personal life and the totality of everything. As we don’t understand the nuances we see it as poetry and mystery.

The dream has full access to symbols, myths, narratives and all our memory, including our collective inherited memory of archetypes based in instinct. It thrives on narrative. Narrative our interpretation of time and complex logistics, ways of describing what happens to us. Narrative, symbols, myths, concepts, deductions. That’s how we make sense of the world. The dream though don’t give a shit about your political correctness. The dream trancends all of you and far beyond.

Studies of psychedelic experiences gives us a hint of the dream’s influence on our perceptions..

We think and dream in different challenging scenarios. This is noticeable if you are in an uncertain situation, depression, conflict, etc. We can be thrown between different possibilities and it can be really unpleasant. A psychosis might be described as your subconscious, your unknown, in conflict with your ego’s presumed ingrained stubborn view of yourself and what is happening to your world.

To be continued..