Dreams

Working with dreams is an excellent way to establish deep and meaningful contact with your own unconscious and the issues you are confronted with. When doing Jungian dreamwork, you will know that the themes brought up in the dreams are of genuine current concern and presented to you at a rate at which you can assimilate them. Thus, your Self determines the direction and pace of the analytic process.

Dreams are said to be the via regia (the royal road) to our unconscious. Taking the time and energy to pay attention to them, we can allow them to become part of our everyday lives by thinking about the images and themes that they present. Although every dream is a mystery on its own, we can learn to experience things symbolically and try to understand the riches that flow out of our unconscious every night via our dreams.

Often our dreams tell us what we are neglecting in conscious life. They are compensatory in nature. If we become too one-sided on an issue, the dream can make us aware of the situation. It often presents a solution that might help us make a choice in life that better fits our character and that is unique to each one of us, rather than settling for something that has been imposed on us by the collective. In this way it helps us individuate, to move closer to wholeness.