This Jungian Life Blog of Dreams
Here is our Dream Blog -- a place to learn more about understanding dreams. You can read a transcript of the dream portion of our episodes, along with a brief discussion about the main themes.
Working with Short Dreams and Fragments
This week, to mark the publication in paperback of Dream Wise: Unlocking the Meaning of Your Dreams, Jungian analysts Lisa Marchiano and Deborah Stewart interpret a selection of short dreams and fragments of dreams sent in by listeners. Many of...
Desirous Dreams: Our Private Erotic Encounters
Erotic dreams are extremely common. We may experience them as pleasurable, exciting and moving, or as disturbing and upsetting. It can be hard to talk about erotic dreams, even in therapy, as they insist on attending to secret satisfactions and...
Why You Dream of Intruders: The Hidden Meaning of Break-In Dreams
VIDEO AUDIO Intruder dreams stage a boundary crisis: something arrives without the ego’s consent, and the dreamer wakes in the grip of fear, shame, or outrage. Join Jungian analysts Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, and Lisa Marchiano as we analyze a selection of...
Dreams About Pregnancy and Babies: A Jungian Exploration
Dreams about pregnancy and babies symbolize something new taking shape within us, like a creative project, a hidden talent, or a psychological shift that’s quietly developing beneath our awareness. These images express the mysterious tension we sense during periods of growth, change, or potential, drawing our attention inward and challenging our current identity or circumstances. When our symbolic baby finally arrives in the dream, it reveals a hidden part of ourselves that is now ready to enter consciousness, creating both excitement and anxiety about how this new aspect will fit into our lives. Join us to explore how dreams of pregnancy or babies reveal our emergent potential.
What Does Your House Dream Mean?
A house in a dream is not décor; it is Psyche showing her floor plan. Every doorway marks a function, every wall a limit. Treat it as the headline or miss the argument entirely. When the unconscious stages action inside four walls, conscious life must pay rent. Ignore the image and the rest of the dream loses structure. Your job is to walk through, take inventory, and own what you find.
What Does Your Childhood Dream Mean?
Listeners frequently submit dreams they remember from childhood for interpretation. These dreams present a unique challenge for analysts as they tend to lack the conscious context and associations of adult dreams. Yet Jung considered childhood dreams to be...
What Does Your Wedding Dream Mean?
Dreams about weddings may be among the most memorable of our lives. We slip a packet of tissues into our pockets before a wedding with good reason. Weddings are infused with an archetypal power supercharged by thousands of years of stirring ritual. The power of the...
What Does Your Dog Dream Mean?
Dogs pad into our dreams with astonishing regularity. We dream of reunions with beloved childhood pets; but we also experience visitations from salivating, barking hounds of terror, or nightmares in which our puppy cries because we haven’t fed her, or have...
