November 1, 2011
In the book, Your Mythic Journey, by Sam Keen and Anne Valley-Fox, dreams are described rhapsodically...
"In dreams we live a thousand lives. When sleep conquers reason we become omnipotent; like Proteus, we change form to experience the beasts and little children that roam within us.
"Psychology has rediscovered what ancient and primitive peoples knew: that dreams are essential for sanity. Greek seers, Roman emperors, and Egyptian pharaohs used dreams to decipher the future. Many American Indians consulted dreams to learn when they should feast or take to the warpath. Job thought that dreams were songs God gave us in sleep. Freud saw them as the royal road to the unconscious. Recent experiments have shown that persons deprived for several nights of the part of sleep in which dreaming takes place become anxious and disassociated. A healthy human mind seems to operate on two levels, the realistic and the fantastic, the conscious and the unconscious. Like a live virus, the chaos of playful fantasy inoculates us against serious madness.
"...The inward journey is most enriching for the traveler who brings the visions of the night into the light of day."
I encourage you, kind reader, to get to know your dreams. Befriend them, talk to them, and welcome them as a wonderful doorway into the unexpected.
I wish you sweet dreams...
Bev
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