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I encourage everyone to keep a journal
and pen near your bed or even a small
self-correcting instinct within us. As we recorder because if we get up and walk to
are growing in self-realization, i.e. the bathroom, we can forget the dream
individuating, our unconscious is quickly. For that reason, it is important
continuously striving for wholeness. to write our dreams down or talk about
them as soon as possible. Especially take
Our dreams can provide help. notice of what he called ‘big dreams.’
You’ll know it is a big dream as it will have
archetypal symbolism and can seem like
Jung believed our dreams are psychic
facts. Some people say they do not dream a real story with a plot. That’s how the
but they do. They just don’t remember book Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, written by
Robert Louis Stevenson in 1886, came
their dreams. Even animals dream into existence. Written way before Freud
because you can see them when they are
having a dream if they are asleep near and Jung wrote about the unconscious,
you. They will toss and turn and even Robert Louis Stevenson’s dream gave him
make noises while asleep indicating they the story of our dual nature, our alter ego.
Freud called dreams ‘the royal road to the
are having a dream.
unconscious,‘ and Jung called them ‘self-
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