Tuesday, 19 March 2013

DREAMS.....
Please read the following and give me your opinion. 

There are people whose consciousness is at different level of development than the average ones. Their "souls" (psyche) is not felt to be a unit.  

In many cultures, it is assumed that a man has a "bush soul" (Bill Pullman's book "The Golden Compass") as well as his own, this "bush soul" is incarnate in a wild animal or a tree, with which the human individual has some kind of connection or identity. If the "bush soul" is that of an animal, the animal itself is considered as some sort of brother to the man. A man whose brother is a crocodile, for instance, is supposed to be safe when swimming a crocodile-infested river. If the "bush soul" is a tree, the tree is presumed to have something like parental authority over the individual concerned ( Eve's connection with the tree of Knowledge of good and evil).

It is well known psychological fact that an individual may have an unconscious identity with some other person or object. It is assumed that a man has a number of souls. This means that the individual's psyche is far from being safely synthesized; on the contrary, it is threatens to fragment only too easily under the onslaught of unchecked emotions.

If somebody with little experience and knowledge of dreams thinks that dreams are just chaotic occurrences without meaning, the person is at liberty to do so. But if one assumes that they are normal events, one is bound to consider that they are either casual or in a certain way purposive, or both. 

In the Middle Ages, long before the physiologists demonstrates that by reason of our glandular structure there are both male and female elements in all of us. It was said that "every man carries a woman within himself." It is this female element in every male that it is called the "anima." An individual's visible personality may seem quite normal, the person may well be concealing from others as well as from oneself the deplorable condition of "the woman within." It works in the other way around too. The person may well conceal the deplorable condition of "the man within."

A dream has its own limitation. Its specific form itself tells us what belongs to it and what leads away from it.  Apply always this question : "What does the DREAM say?"  For instance, a person dreamed of a drunken and vulgar woman. In the dream, it seemed that this woman was his wife, though in real life his wife was totally different. On the surface, the DREAM was totally untrue,  and the person rejected it as dream nonsense. This person inevitable have tried to get as far away as possible from the unpleasant suggestion of his dream, or, on the contrary, taken it for granted, on the surface, and in his mind, accuse the wife of being a hypocrite woman behaving like a sheep, creating a conflict in his unconscious mind. Clearly the DREAM  somehow expressed the idea of a degenerate female who was closely connected with the dreamer's life, the person had to look elsewhere trying to understand the meaning of this repulsive female image. This particular DREAM was showing that the individual's female side was not nice. His dream was actually saying to this person: "You are in some respects behaving like a degenerate female," and thus gave to this individual an appropriate shock. The DREAM was not telling the person to "behave better," it was simply trying to balance the lopsided nature of his conscious mind, which was maintaining the fiction that the individual was a perfect human being throughout.


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