The Stuff of Dreams

14: Male and Female Dream Characters Often Describe Inner Conflict

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Dreams from this episode:

  • Finding dead deer parts while urbexing
  • Green dye in the ocean reveals sandy caves and a snake
  • Fire and water gods shape people into a crystal wishbone
  • A car and bus journey in drag

    • Themes from this episode:

    • The unconscious uses masculine and feminine characters and imagery to communicate with us about different parts of our personality.
    • Everyone, regardless of gender, has masculine and feminine aspects of their psyche that they can use at different times when needed.

    • The unconscious constantly uses the masculine/feminine dichotomy to symbolize opposite forces inside us, because it’s such a well-known pair of opposites that we see in external relationships where people balance and complete each other.

    • Feminine/yin/lunar characteristics:

      • Feeling, sensing
      • Appreciating beauty
      • Connection and relatedness
      • Soul, imagination, interiority
      • Slower pace, time for reflection, being (rather than doing)

      • Masculine/yang/solar characteristics:

        • Thinking and organizing, order and reason
        • Action and doing
        • Analyzing
        • Differentiating, classifying, making boundaries
        • Competing
        • Aggression and power

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          The Stuff of DreamsBy Amy Lawson
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