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Step 1 – Write the dream down as it comes

Jonathan Pageau says that the discarded water makes the whole world and that it is true according to scripture.​

Then I see water flowing. It splits into usable water and non-usable/discarded water. The discarded water starts to shine by refraction, like a diamond. The colored reflections created that way were constellating images of the world.​

Step 2 – Identify the key symbols and provide spontaneous associations

Jonathan Pageau ~ ortho-doxy, true doxa.​

scripture ~ sacred telos.​

usable water and non-usable/discarded water ~ integrated and non-integrated water, separation of the water above and below (amplification). ​

Step 3 – Describe the personal context

One of six dreams that night: Invitation from the feminine, participation in a strict church, this dream, can’t get a subway pass, sending the wrong url, failed first contact.

Step 4 – Feel into the inner dynamics of a dream

Moment 1 – setting: orthodoxy and telos​. Feeling: true, important, grounded​

Moment 2 – split of the water​. Feeling: from theoretical to experiential​

Moment 3 – refraction, reflections, the world​. Feeling: positive surprise, “wow”​

Step 5 – Aim for an interpretation that promotes self-knowledge

Unintegrated contents don’t go away, they reappear under a new phenomenological form.

Step 6 – Make the dream concrete with a symbolic act

The interpretation was satisfying to me, though it lacked a practical dimension. ​Is this why the next three dreams went wrong?​

Reading Symbols of Transformation (Collected Works 5), a new dimension of this dream appeared to me.

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Sources

Carl G. Jung. Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious. Collected Works 9 Part 1

Carl G. Jung. Mysterium Coniunctionis. Collected Works 14

Carl G. Jung. Symbols of Transformation. Collected Works 5

E Somer, L Somer, N Halpern. Representations of maladaptive daydreaming and the self: A qualitative analysis of drawings. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 2019 – Elsevier

I drew a picture depicting what struggling with MD feels like.

Carl G. Jung. Nietzsche’s Zarathustra: Notes of the Seminar given in 1934-1939

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