MarieFrance Boisvert
A Dream State
According to Jung ... www.schuelers.com/ChaosPsyche/part_2_12.htm
As shown in Figure 14, the dream state has a “normal” personal unconscious but not a “normal” consciousness (consciousness is negative). Consciousness here is focused within the personal unconscious, the region UP in our phase space.
Jung (1981) says the "dreams have a psychic structure which is unlike that of other contents of consciousness" (p. 237). He divided dreams into five major types or categories: (1) those with a "compensating function" which appear to compensate the waking ego to help maintain psychic balance by bringing up repressed images, (2) those with a "prospective function" which serves as "an anticipatory combination of probabilities" (p. 255), (3) those with a "reductive function" that tend to disintegrate, demolish, destroy, or devalue images, (4) reaction dreams that replay past traumatic experiences, and (5) telepathic dreams that seem almost prophetic in nature and which come under the heading of synchronicities. These five categories form an entire dream spectrum.
In dreams we tend to be self conscious even though our sense of identity may differ from that in our waking state. The angle of consciousness for the dream state is shown in Figure 35.
A Dream State
According to Jung ... www.schuelers.com/ChaosPsyche/part_2_12.htm
As shown in Figure 14, the dream state has a “normal” personal unconscious but not a “normal” consciousness (consciousness is negative). Consciousness here is focused within the personal unconscious, the region UP in our phase space.
Jung (1981) says the "dreams have a psychic structure which is unlike that of other contents of consciousness" (p. 237). He divided dreams into five major types or categories: (1) those with a "compensating function" which appear to compensate the waking ego to help maintain psychic balance by bringing up repressed images, (2) those with a "prospective function" which serves as "an anticipatory combination of probabilities" (p. 255), (3) those with a "reductive function" that tend to disintegrate, demolish, destroy, or devalue images, (4) reaction dreams that replay past traumatic experiences, and (5) telepathic dreams that seem almost prophetic in nature and which come under the heading of synchronicities. These five categories form an entire dream spectrum.
In dreams we tend to be self conscious even though our sense of identity may differ from that in our waking state. The angle of consciousness for the dream state is shown in Figure 35.