What do you make of dreams that don’t make sense one bit…is it your subconscious fighting with your conscience (if you are conscious when sleeping that is); regressions of some sort…?

All I know is the majority of my dreams are just plain crazy.

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    3 days ago

    Reading volume 12 of Jung’s work, he talks about alchemy and dream analysis. He focuses on the dreams of one person in particular, but I can’t shake the feeling his analysand is putting him on the entire time.

    Jung is smart but also pretty damn credulous.

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      3 days ago

      Don’t know if I agree with being credulous…I mean they were based on his scientific studies no…?

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        2 days ago

        He was extremely well read, but I wouldn’t class him a scientific thinker, and most of his followers are even woolier-headed.

        The idea of “a collective consciousness” is often interpreted as more than a metaphor, but as a real entity that the mind is somehow accessing.