You know, I have to tell you. I used to be more interested in Carl Jung and things like archetypal symbols. I don't know if I ever really followed him that closely, I am just a layman. But now I am more skeptical. But there are a lot of symbols and images in my mind. I often dream about them. And I often add to the images and symbols when I am awake too. They seem to follow certain patterns. They often involve buildings or places. Jung believed in a collective unconscious and certain universal symbols. "I refer you to the psychological theory of the racial subconscious. The universal myths, symbols." —Spock, Star Trek: TOS, Catspaw, Season 2, Episode 7, Oct. 27, 1967. I was just wondering if there was anyone, perhaps in a university or doing a study, that would like me to share it with them. Or perhaps someone here would have their own interpretation. I guess some symbols will always be universal to humans. Some of the places I dream or think of from time to time, are an allegorical garden, like the garden of Eden. An allegorical playroom. The playroom seems to be stuck in the Victorian Age. And like the garden, I think it represents a sort of innocence. There's also a restaurant I used to dream about. It's interesting, because it only exists in my dreams. There's a universal church, where all faiths are valid and recognized. A wintery cabin in the woods. And an ironic haunted house. Only outside is haunted. Part of the inspiration for this may have been a horror film I saw once. There are a couple of other places based on fantasies and dreams I have had too. Does anyone here have an interpretation of any of this? And would anyone in academics or science be interested in them? As I said, I think they are quite unique.
well only myself of course, but nothing in my dreams is aligorical, or at least not observably so from within them. every place, and i dream almost always about places, places in a parallel universe where no one ever hated logic, not even religiously. so they're kind of like places this world would be like if it were that way here. if everything had developed in that kind of culture, logic and universal cosideration. lots of very small trains, few if any paved roads, no mass produced cars, some busses where there are roads, more places with just big enough trains then paved roads. most 'houses' owner built and lived in. most people living in villages of less then a thousand population, some only a couple of hundred or so. few cities, forested mountains most places. not sure why but no forest fires and no wars. i've read some of jung and to me, his "universal" archtypes, are extremely eurocentric/christercentric, and few if any 'universal' beyond that context. at any rate the totally real universe i dream in, is nothing like them at all. nature, non-human, and technology, and landscapes, all about what those landscapes look like, very little and seldom any sort of social interaction or things depending on my being involved in any. no one telling you what you can't build or where as long as it isn't in a city. each village has its own culture, economics and everything else. no dominant beliefs but lots of places for quite meditation. many are also libraries, more like univesity kinds of libraries about useful stuff and without censorship of any kind. all i can say about what most people tell me about their dreams it that they seem to be extremely unlike mine. and while everything else works mostly like in real life, computers and books can be read and viewed just like here, there is one odd thing that is a bit like, i have never been able to FIND a mirror. something about the culture there, i don't know. wanting to test what my dream self would look like in one, or if it would be invisible or what, but i've looked and looked to try and fine one and i never have. oh there are some things that work in my dreams that don't work here, specifically levitating, floating and teleporting, but even these are in complete, sharpely focused detail, as if an ordinary part of everyday, though seldom a completely reliable one. and being a culture of such complete universal consideration and logic, the seem to get along just fine without a lot of hierarchy. even those beliefs which have gods. economics aren't like here either. seldom is seen direct evidence of any thing like nations, other then coordination of infrastructure, mostly to protect invironment while serving everybody. the concept of money seems to be a local option where it exists at all. people make things they like, no one complains if someone doesn't all the time work for someone else, or at all. there are, i think its over something like the internet, where supply meets demand. but there's no such concept as laziness nor indebtedness. land isn't owned but houses are.
Ah yes; the great Soap-Opera in the Sky, advertising Dawn I believe. I dare say our betters may have some ideas.
