Jung and my dreams
This morning, on my psychologist, I got some insights for some of my dreams:
The first dream I told him was the snake bitting my hand. One of the things I forgot to mention in my post was that I saw three snakes bitting on the same place, almost like it was a snake with three “tails”. I saw that before, but Jung had several descriptions for dreaming about snakes: real snakes are poisonous creatures, but their poison also carries the cure for it; they mean that the same thing that can kill you, can save you. These two things are inside the snake and the snake can be yourself (yup, I’m my disease and my cure at the same time). Also, being three snakes, they could mean one individual divided in three (for a long time now, I feel completely divided inside — although I could only see two sides of myself, but I’m looking for this third).
The second dream was the walk with a friend. Now, this is Jung again. Besides the shadow, Jung came with “anima” and “animus”. In my case, what I dreamt was my anima, a part of my unconcioness that I see as a female (and women has a male “animus”). I feel divided, and everything seems a chaos inside myself now (I can feel this chaos, believe me). The way I saw the houses and the sidewalk, they were perfectly organized, ordered and simetrical. So, my anima, myself, was trying to bring me to a place of order instead of the current chaos I’m in. Why I woke up scared is something yet to be debated.
