DREAMS....   

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The two fundamental points in dealing with DREAMS are these: First, the DREAM should be treated as a fact, about which one must make no previous assumption except that it somehow makes sense; and second, the DREAM is a specific expression of the unconscious.

Part of the unconscious consists of a multitude of temporarily obscured thoughts, impressions, and images that in spite of being lost, continue to influence our conscious mind. 

Forgetting is a normal process, in which certain conscious ideas loose their specific energy because one's attention has been deflected. When interest turns elsewhere, it leaves in shadow the things with which one was previously concerned, just as a searchlight lights upon a new area by leaving another in darkness. This is unavoidable, for consciousness can keep only a few images in full clarity at one time, and even this clarity fluctuates.

Forgotten ideas have not ceased to exist. Although they cannot be reproduced at will, they are present in a subliminal state -just beyond the threshold of recall- from which they can rise again spontaneously at any time, often after many years of apparent total oblivion.

We all see, hear, smell, and taste many things without noticing them at the time, either because our attention is deflected or because the stimulus to our senses is too slight to leave a conscious impression. The unconscious, however, has taken note of them, and such subliminal sense perceptions play a significant part in our everyday lives. Without our realizing it, they influence the way in which we react to both events and people.

In cases of extreme mass hysteria (called "possession" in the past), the conscious mind and ordinary sense perception seem eclipsed. The frenzy state of a group of people united in a sort of common behavior make them to fall into trances and, sometimes, to turn their hysteria against themselves.

Many people mistakenly overestimate the role of will power and think that nothing can happen to their minds that they do not decide and intend. But one must learn to discriminate carefully between intentional and unintentional contents of the mind. The intentional are derived from the ego personality; the  unintentional, however, arise from a source that is not identical with the ego, but is its "other side."

The unconscious is no more than a cursory sketch of the nature and functioning of this complex part of the human mind. It indicates the language of the  subliminal material from which the symbols of our dreams may be spontaneously produced. This language can consists of all the urges, impulses, and intentions; all perceptions and intuitions; all rational or irrational thoughts, conclusions, inductions, deductions, and premises; and all varieties of feeling. Any or all of these can be partial, temporary, or constant language of the unconscious affecting the conscious in our everyday life.