DREAMS...... continue

The more that consciousness is influenced by prejudices, errors, fantasies, and infantile wishes, the more already existing gap will widen into a trouble dissociation and lead to a more or less artificial life far removed from healthy instincts, nature, and truth. We can mention the case of a man who was inextricably involved in a number of shady affairs. He developed an almost morbid passion for dangerous mountain climbing, as a sort of compensation. He was seeking "to get above himself." in a DREAM one night, he saw himself stepping off the summit of a high mountain into empty space.
When he told about his dream, his friend instantly saw the danger and tried to emphasize the warning that the dream was revealing about his own death. The friend persuaded the man to restrain from climbing because of the dream. It was in vain. Six months later he "stepped off into space." A mountain guide watched him and another climber letting themselves down on a rope in a difficult place. The other guy had found a temporary foothold on a ledge, and the dreamer was following him down.
Suddenly he let go of the rope, according to the guide, "as if he were jumping into the air." He fell upon the other climber, and both went down and were killed.
Another case was of a lady who was living above herself. she was high and mighty in her daily life, but she had shocking DREAMS, reminding her of all sorts of unsavory things. When she felt that the unconscious was showing up the roots of the problem, she refused to acknowledge them. The dreams then became menacing, and full of references to the walks she used to take by herself in the woods, where she indulged in soulful fantasies. Soon afterwards, she was savagely attacked in the woods by a sexual pervert; but for the intervention of some people who heard her screams, she would have been killed.
What her dreams had shown to this woman was her secret longing for adventure - just as the mountain climber unconsciously sought the satisfaction of finding a definite way out of his difficulties. Obviously, neither of them expected the stiff price involved: She had several bones broken, and he paid with his life.

DREAMS announce certain situations long before they actually happen. This is not necessarily a miracle or a form of precognition. many crises in our lives have a long unconscious history. We move toward them step by step, unaware of the dangers that are accumulating. But what we consciously fail to see is frequently perceived by our unconscious, which can pass the information on through DREAMS. Dreams warn us in this way.  They sometimes behave like the Delphic oracle that told King Croesus that if he crossed the Halys River he would destroy a large kingdom. It was only after he had been completely defeated in battle after the crossing that he discovered that the kingdom meant by the oracle was his own.

One cannot afford to be naive in dealing with dreams. They originate in a spirit that is not quite human, but is rather a breath of nature. If we want to characterize this spirit, we shall get closer to it in the sphere of ancient mythologies, or the fables of the ancient forest. A spirit of the beautiful and generous as well as of the cruel goddess.

We can't deny the great gains that have resulted from the evolution of civilized society. But these gains have been made at the price of enormous losses, whose extent we have scarcely begun to estimate.
The ancient man of the ancient cultures was much more governed by his instincts than are his "rational" modern descendants, who have learned to "control" themselves. Fortunately, we have not lost these basic instincts; they remain part of the unconscious, even though they express themselves in DREAMS.