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The Fortress on the Hill, a Dream Interpreted
Most dreams have meanings, and it can be helpful to understand them.
An ancient Greek concept: we hurtle through life with our backs to the future, able to see only what is past, never what is to come.
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I’ve always been fascinated by dreams and their fragmented nature, believed their fractured imagery must have meanings. They seemed enigmatic, and I wanted to understand my dreams.
Why did they come in weird, seemingly disconnected imagery, for lack of a better phrase? Did some of them truly have meaning, beyond simply my unconscious organizing and clearing out the experiences of the day? And why did some dreams stay with me, feel important, while most of them I never, or only vaguely, recalled after waking.
I thought there must be a reason for that difference and was excited to learn of Carl Jung’s work on the interpretation of dreams, and the archetypes he discovered that helped him to understand them in his own work. I especially enjoyed studying his thoughts on the subject and how closely Jung’s archetypes meshed with those discussed by Joseph Campbell in his book Myth and Mythology. Campbell has multiple books published, but, to date, I’ve only had time to enjoy one.
