This world To what may I liken it? To autumn fields lit dimly in the dusk by lightning flashes —Minamoto-no-Shitago (911-93 AD). Source: Yoel Hoffman, Japanese Death Poems. I write down all my dreams, and I dream vividly. Why do we dream? There is no widely accepted explanation. Ancient Egyptians and Greeks believed dreams were visitations from the gods. Jung believed dreams were projections of the unconscious—projections that sought to compensate for the conscious mind’s distortions. Famously, Jung did not disparage the ancient understanding of dreams as divine visitations. He believed gods themselves to be archetypal, projections of a shared unconscious. (And he believed those archetypes were still with us—that “
Why dream?
Why dream?
Why dream?
This world To what may I liken it? To autumn fields lit dimly in the dusk by lightning flashes —Minamoto-no-Shitago (911-93 AD). Source: Yoel Hoffman, Japanese Death Poems. I write down all my dreams, and I dream vividly. Why do we dream? There is no widely accepted explanation. Ancient Egyptians and Greeks believed dreams were visitations from the gods. Jung believed dreams were projections of the unconscious—projections that sought to compensate for the conscious mind’s distortions. Famously, Jung did not disparage the ancient understanding of dreams as divine visitations. He believed gods themselves to be archetypal, projections of a shared unconscious. (And he believed those archetypes were still with us—that “