DREAMS

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The discovery that the unconscious is no  mere depository of the past, but is also full of information of future psychic situations and ideas. It is a fact that, in addition to memories from a long-distant conscious past, completely new thoughts and creative ideas can also present themselves from the unconscious, thoughts and ideas that have never been conscious before. They grow up from the dark depths of the mind like a lotus and form a most important part of the subliminal psyche. We find this in everyday life. many artists, philosophers, and scientists owe some of their best ideas to inspirations that appear suddenly from the unconscious. The ability to reach a rich vein of such material and to translate it effectively into philosophy, literature, music, or scientific discovery is one commonly called genius. For example, the French mathematician Poincare and the chemist Kekule owed important scientific discoveries (as they themselves admit) to sudden pictorial "revelations" from the unconscious. The so-called "mystical" experience of the French philosopher Descartes involved a similar sudden revelation in which he saw in a flash the "order of all sciences." The British author Robert Louis Stevenson  had spent years looking for a story that would fit his "strong sense of man's double being," when the plot of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was suddenly revealed to him in a dream.

The unconscious mind order its material so differently from the disciplined pattern that we can impose on our thoughts when we are awake. Yet anyone who stops for a moment to recall a dream will be aware of this contrast, which is in fact one of the main reasons why the ordinary person finds DREAMS so hard to understand. They do not make sense in terms of the person's  normal life when they are awake, and the individual therefore is inclined to disregard them.

We realize the fact that the ideas with which we deal in our apparently disciplined life when we are awake are by no means as precise as  we like to believe. On the contrary, their meaning (and their emotional significance for us) becomes more imprecise the more closely we examine them. The reason for this is that anything we have heard or experienced when we are awake can become subliminal, that is to say, can pass into the unconscious. And even the experiences retained in our conscious mode has acquired an unconscious undertone that will appear every time it is recalled. Our conscious impressions, in fact, quickly assume an element of unconscious meaning that is physically significant for us, though we are not consciously aware of the existence of this subliminal meaning or of the way in which it both extends and confuses the conventional meaning. Of course, such psychic undertones differ from one person to another. The reason for this variation is that a general notion is received into an individual way. And the difference of meaning is naturally greatest when people have widely different social, political, religious, or psychological experiences.