Fandom High School

Students looking for Miss Calendar may be disappointed, as a tall, pale man seems to have taken her place for the day. He springs into action as the students gather. The professor might appear slightly amused by his subject matter, but it's only visible in the tilt of his eyebrows.

"Hello. I am Dream. Miss Calendar has invited me to direct your lesson today on Carl Jung's theories about dream interpretation.

Jung believed dreams are communications from the unconscious; in particular, he said, they serve to express aspects of the individual that are suppressed or neglected. This idea of compensation, of the natural tendency for the conflicting conscious and unconscious to approach a balance, is the basis of Jung's overall theory of psychological self-regulation. In short, dreams, to Jung, are no more or less than the unconscious’ spontaneous portrayal of the situation therein – a sort of signal fire to alert the dreamer’s conscious minds.

Because of this, Jung believed interpreting dreams in isolation was futile. He wrote, "If we want to interpret a dream correctly, we need a thorough knowledge of the conscious situation at that moment, because the dream contains its unconscious complement ... Without this knowledge it is impossible to interpret a dream correctly, except by a lucky fluke."
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"In class today, I would like for each of you to offer one example of a recurring symbol you noticed while keeping your dream journals. We will then discuss what this symbol might mean in a Jungian context."

Dream has two handouts offering more information on Jung’s views.