Plus a revealing look at nightmares, dreams about past lives, future predictions, and much more. A vivid introduction to understanding the world of dreams based on Jungian psychology and written in clear, everyday language. We see the raw aggression and rage in us, the unchecked and indiscriminate sexuality. The grief we thought was past rises again as do the hurts and wounds of childhood. In dream sleep, we can't stuff down the feelings we do in waking life when we distract ourselves or suppress the feelings with denial, drugs, alcohol, food, sex.
People use all kinds of means to keep from letting their feelings be part of their awareness.
In dreams, the emotions are all there. With their laid-bare feelings, dreams are a direct pathway to discovering our unconscious thought processes, solving interpersonal problems, and more fully understanding ourselves. While Sigmund Freud's Interpretation of Dreams may be a classic in this arena, it's pretty proscriptive. Ye Olde Psychoanalyst didn't take into account in his book way back in 1900. Dreaming Your Real Self is different.