This Jungian Life Blog of Dreams
Here is our Dream Blog — a place to learn more about understanding dreams. You can read a transcript of the dream portion of our episodes, along with a brief discussion about the main themes.
What Does Your Childhood Dream Mean?
Listeners frequently submit dreams they remember from childhood for interpretation. These dreams present a unique challenge for analysts as they tend to lack the conscious context and associations of adult dreams. Yet Jung considered childhood dreams to be...
What Does Your Wedding Dream Mean?
Dreams about weddings may be among the most memorable of our lives. We slip a packet of tissues into our pockets before a wedding with good reason. Weddings are infused with an archetypal power supercharged by thousands of years of stirring ritual. The power of the...
What Does Your Dog Dream Mean?
Dogs pad into our dreams with astonishing regularity. We dream of reunions with beloved childhood pets; but we also experience visitations from salivating, barking hounds of terror, or nightmares in which our puppy cries because we haven’t fed her, or have...
Understanding Your Dreams with Jungian Dream Interpretation
“In each of us there is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from the way we see ourselves. When, therefore, we find ourselves in a difficult situation to which there is no solution, he can sometimes kindle a...
Symbols
Begin with a symbolic lens Symbolic thinking has many gradations, beginning with the specific meanings of signs: the familiar man/woman icons for public restrooms to animal crossing signs on roadways to skull and crossbones poison warnings. We can move a notch up to...
Do Dreams Have Meaning?
For thousands of years people have found dreams significant. They inscribed cuneiform tablets with dreams, interpreted dreams for pharaohs, and sought healing knowledge in dream incubation sanatoriums. Dreams were a source of mysterious wisdom from without until the...
Snakes in Cages
Dream from Episode 229 -- Hatred: A Way to Hide our Secrets Snakes show up all the time in dreams. Full of rich, symbolic significance, their meaning in a dream often touches upon the deep secrets of the body and of life and death. In this dream, the snake seems to be...
Eating the Lion
Animals appear in all kinds of guises in dreams. When we have dreams about animals, we know we have had an archetypal encounter -- but of what kind? This dream lends itself to a consideration of two very different ways we might understand the image of eating a lion....
