When Words Say It All: In Dreams Ethereal

I write a lot on this blog about dreams and dream analysis. Part of the reason is because dreams fascinate me from a Psychological and Psychotherapeutic perspective, but also because I am a prolific dreamer - both metaphorically and literally!

I frequently awake with memories of images and words from those dreams; sometimes I translate them in to drawings, written reflections, or poetry. There are times when drawings suffice, but I find the writing down of words on paper most satisfying - always in purple ink!

I like Jung's insight: 'The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach'.

This a result of one of those dreams; it goes back several years, but it recurs frequently: