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Friday Favorites...Dreaming

2/24/2017

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Happy Friday beauties!  Over the course of the winter term I have been taking a class about Imagination and Dreaming.  Every other week my class meets in cyber space and I find myself blown away by the teachings!  This past week we delved into a concept from the work of Jung called 'Prospective Function.'  In laymen terms this simply means that at an unconscious level we are 'looking forward to' future possibilities through exercising the mind.  We also looked at 'Generative fantasies,' which was a term coined by psychoanalyst Ethel Person.  She wrote, "Fantasy can act as a rehearsal for future action and can provide a template for life choice that may be either literal translations (enactments) or symbolic expressions of the fantasy's narrative content."  

My teacher David shared with our class that in terms of dreaming, our dreams become pre-occupations for us that sometimes keep us from doing what we would like to do, (i.e.- moving forward, accepting a new position, developing a new relationship, etc.)  More often than not, the preoccupation keeps an individual from doing what they want to do.   When we tap into our generative fantasies in our dreaming state, we begin to experience them as either premonitions or previews of possibilities. 

So what does this mean in terms of your life?  There are many ways in which we can retrieve the information of the unconscious mind through our dream state.  As my teacher David shared, "Dreaming offers us a menu of possibilities.  What will you chose?  Having made a choice, will you chose to rehearse the same narrative, repeating or replaying the same pattern, or will you dream in symbolic expressions through the power of your imagination? 

As Sigmund Freud stated, “Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.” While Jung felt that, “The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the psyche.”

May you begin tapping into the menu of your unconscious while truly uncovering the recesses of your psyche.  

May You Sweetly Seek:)
In Gratitude, 
​Sarah 


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    I'm Sarah, a Capricorn girl, seeking inspiration, beauty, travel, and Samadhi through an inspired life. One of my most treasured passions is writing, so it is my hope that this blog serves as an outlet for my passion as well as inspiration for the readers of it! May you be curious, kind, and fearless as you wind through this journey called life.  Enjoy the ride as you Sweetly Seek!  (Read my story).


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