17: Violence in Dreams

About this Episode

Dreams from this episode:

• Bloody children outside my house, ready to kill me
• My father abusing and possibly killing my mother
• Murdering a girl in my backyard
• Meeting and befriending the figure of Death

Themes from this episode:

• Violent images carry a lot of energy and emotional weight, so the unconscious can use them to get our attention.
• Death or physical harm in dreams usually symbolizes emotional harm or the death of certain parts of our psyche.
• The unconscious simply wants balance. It wants us to individuate, to move toward wholeness by integrating as many parts of ourselves into consciousness as possible. So if we become too one-sided in some way (whether it’s too masculine, too flighty and ungrounded, too passive, or some other extreme), our dream images will nudge us in the other direction so that we can move toward balance.

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