[kj] OT: Jungian dream analysis

[Jiri]

Did he promise to send you 'Gems of Power'?

nicholas fitzpatrick wrote:

> I had a dream the other night about getting ripped off by a guy in a 

> bar. My question is: if it's my dream and this guy is my creation, why 

> didn't I see it coming?

>

> In the dream I was having a drink with a friend and this other guy 

> came over a bit drunk and got talking to us. He was okay and asked me 

> to lend him £5. I did do (which is something I wouldn't do in real 

> life). Anyway, a little later he sponged a drink off my friend. I 

> thought, why does he need to sponge a drink when I've already lent him 

> a fiver?

>

> As I was about to put the question to him, he hopped off laughing into 

> dreamland and I woke up feeling thoroughly furious at my gullibility, 

> and confused about why I had no power in a situation created entirely 

> in my own head.

>

> Searching for an answer, no matter how New Age, I look to Carl Gustav 

> Jung -- whose theories I fail to understand, but it doesn't matter. I 

> believe this character was some form of archetype with his own will 

> that is not subject to mine. He was a sort of mischieveous Irish 

> leprechaun archetype. W at nker.

>

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