Clearing the Inbox

I’m seated at the laptop, and making the final effort to get caught up with my inbox.

Amplification:

A simple and real enough dream image, and like all these traces, it is important to do the work and accept these matter of fact messages with a “reverence,” and not dismiss them.  Depending on what is occurring in one’s life, the same dream can have opposite interpretations.  Is the message: you are not aware that you need to get caught up with your inbox, or are you not aware that you are caught up with your inbox?  And both messages lead to an interesting opportunity to adjust what to do next.

In this case, I’m struck that the “inbox” contains a dream which I had a week or so ago and did not post into this dream journal, thereby dropping my commitment to blog my dreams in real time.  The dream was with a physical trainer, a man of color, tall, with the physique of an NBA player.  I awake as I’m beginning to get changed for a workout. I made a quick decision waking that morning that I did not like where the dream was heading, I did not want to look into this area, at least not while live dream journaling.  Here we sense a resistance to the shadow.  Being predominantly intuitive in typology, it is here where the Achilles heel resides.

What’s interesting is that the regularity of the dream flow ceased.  The lesson: Jung stresses acceptance and responsibility as crucial to keep the transcendent function operative.  That should clear the inbox…