Carl Gustav Jung and the Deep Meaning of Dreams

According to Jung, dreams are the bridge between the unconscious and the conscious mind and hold a central place in his psychology. Jung did not view dreams merely as random neural events; rather, dreams serve as a means for the unconscious to communicate with consciousness. Through dreams, a person symbolically perceives emotions, desires, and conflicts that they may not notice or may suppress in their daily life.

Jung divides the unconscious into the personal unconscious and the collective unconscious. The personal unconscious contains forgotten or repressed memories arising from an individual’s own life experiences, while the collective unconscious holds humanity’s shared heritage, that is, the archetypes.