Every night we produce a rich field of characters and dramas in our dreams. Over a life time we have about 100,000 dreams which probably means that we have a cast of characters in the 1000s. With the proper depth, Active Imagination produces the same thing. The psyche seems to have clustered psychological energies and perspectives in these figures. From these personifications we can learn a great deal about our emotions, our opinions, our physical energies, and our hidden abilities.
Inner figures can take on the form divine figures, devilish characters, or rather mundane persons.
Of course, we can also non-human figures such as birds, fish, bears, and other animals. These are also representations of inner forces. Not only can we learn a great deal by observing which figures appear we also can hold dialogues with them. Holding a dialogue produces some surprising results. We hear from the figures things that we might not expect or things we have thought of before but haf forgotten over the years.