DREAMS... Please read the following and make a comment.

As long as concepts are identical with mer words, the variation is almost imperceptible and plays no practical role. But when an exact definition or a careful explanation is needed, one can discover the variations, not only in the understanding of the term, but particularly in its emotional tone and its application. As a rule, these variations are subliminal and never realized. Even the most matter-of-fact contents of consciousness have a penumbra of uncertainty around them. Even defined philosophical or mathematical concept is more than what we assume. The very numbers we use in counting are more than we take them to be. They are at the same time mythological elements (for the  Pythagoreans they were divine); but we are unaware of this when we use numbers for practical purpose.

The subliminal aspects of everything that happens to us seem to play very little part in our daily lives. But in DREAMS analysis they are very relevant. They are the almost invisible roots of our conscious thoughts. Objects or ideas can assume such powerful significance in a DREAM that we may awake seriously disturbed.

The images produced in DREAMS are much more picturesque and vivid than the concepts and experiences we have when we are awake. The reason for this is that, in a DREAM, concepts are expressed with the unconscious meaning. When we are awake our conscious thoughts are restrained within the limits of our rational statements -statements that are much less colorful because we have stripped them of most of their psychic association.

A man recalled his DREAM : In the dream a certain man was trying to get behind him and jump on his back. He knew nothing of this man except that he was aware that this man had somehow picked up a remark he has made and had twisted it into a grotesque travesty of the actual meaning. But he could not see the connection between this fact and the attempts of the man in the dream to jump on his back.  

There is a value in keeping a conscious control over one's emotional reactions. The point the DREAM has made translated into a pictorial image was the saying: "You can climb on my back," which means "I don't care what you say about me." The DREAM expressed the point indirectly by means of a metaphor that the man could not at first understand. When this happen (as it so often does) it is not deliberate "disguise" by a DREAM; it simply reflects the deficiencies in our understanding.

Look what the Scriptures say about WISDOM. Ecc.7:11 Everyone who lives ought to be wise; it is as good as receiving an inheritance and will give you as much security as money can. Wisdom keeps you safe - this is the advantage of KNOWLEDGE.   Ecc.7:19 WISDOM does more for a person than ten rulers can do for a city.   Ecc.7: I devoted myself to KNOWLEDGE and study; I was determined to find WISDOM and the answers to all my questions, and to learn how wicked and foolish stupidity is.

In our daily experience, we need to discard the trimmings of fantasy both in our language and in our thoughts. Most of us have consigned to the unconscious all the fantastic language associations that every object or idea possesses. Our ancestors, on the other hand, were aware of these psychic properties; they endowed animals, plants or stones with powers that, in our days, we find it strange and unacceptable. Still, in Africa, for example, we can find an African jungle dweller, he sees a nocturnal creature by daylight and knows that the creature adopted a human form and it is interpreted to be a medicine man who has temporarily taken the human shape. Or this jungle dweller may regard it as the bush soul or ancestral spirit of one of his tribe. A tree play a vital part in the life of this dwellers, apparently possessing for him its own soul and voice, feeling in his heart that he shares its fate. There are some natives in South America who are convinced they are Red Arara parrots, though they are well aware that they lack feathers, wings, and beaks. The reason is that inside the Nature's world things do not have the same sharp boundaries they do in our "rational" societies. Our "mystical participation" has been stripped off from our world of things. It is exactly this halo of unconscious associations that gives a colorful and fantastic aspect to the Nature's world. We have lost it to such degree that we do not recognize it when we meet it again; instead we even insist that something is wrong inside us.