…Soul Adventurer

When following one’s dreams quickly the reality sinks in that the whole show has a director beyond our conscious control.   The image of entering into the forest or the dark wood, as in Dante, is a fitting analogy.  Surprises await at every turn.

While much of the attention in popular culture given to dream analysis gets focused on the individual images and symbols, it very useful to consider the rhythm of the dream series.  How does each dream follow upon the previous one?  And even more interesting, how does the next dream “correct” the ego’s interpretation of the previous dream?  Much of the dynamic that emerges is what Jung defines as the compensatory aspect of the unconscious.

For those wishing to explore further, one of the most interesting texts concerning the interpretation of the dream series is the Seminar on Dream Analysis by Carl Jung.   What is truly fascinating in this book is witnessing Jung’s skill at translating the language of the unconscious and how his decades of experience analyzing dream series’ gives him insights that can anticipate the next dream that will occur.