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How to analyze your dreams and why is it crucial for self-development
Our dreams tell us about things outside of our conscious awareness. That is why they are so useful for therapy and dealing with neurosis.
Especially important are dreams while you are becoming your perfect self, the individual you were always supposed to be, but are not quite there yet. There are parts of your personality, hidden in your unconscious mind, you can access only through methods like active imagination or dream analysis.
The analytical psychology, created by Carl G. Jung, is heavily dependent on dream analysis. Jung himself spent years analyzing his dreams and visions (and he captured most of them in the Red Book) and even came up with the method of active imagination.
Okay, but how do you actually analyze your dreams? If you are like most people you probably don’t remember your dreams. You wake up and have only a fuzzy memory, that vanishes after a few seconds. Not much material for analysis.
I have been analyzing my dreams for about 2 years now, and I had whole months where I didn’t miss a single day. And that comes from someone who didn’t pay any attention to his dreams and was always forgetting them immediately. That was before I was aware of their significance.
