The Brilliant Virtual World of Our Dreams by Terence Paul Fagan

Author:Terence Paul Fagan
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781908447234
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
Published: 2011-05-30T00:00:00+00:00

Thinking and imagining also occur in the sleep-dream state.

When sleep dreaming, we are not just raising a substitute or surrogate for the Working dream: we also think and imagine, and also behave, in relation to it. We are in some sense ‘awake’ when sleep dreaming, operating in a surrogate ‘Real World’ which we don’t realize is not real -we are simply under the false impression that it is real. Thus upon finding oneself in “my house” as did Jung, we might ponder upon its rococo style and think “not bad” -as did Jung; and then get curious and think “now I really must explore the whole house”; and then proceed to wander, as did Jung, with our dream body (the dream walker) through the various levels of the house; engaged all the time in private thoughts and imaginings (about rococo style -and so on) in relation to what we are seeing.

As we saw earlier in the Chapter, thinking and imagining are cognitive Resting Dream states which occur in conjunction with the true Working dream process; that is, they are raised into the same spatiotemporal framework as the Working dream Virtual World, but whereas the Working dream itself has been raised to virtually represent the current Real (external) World about us, our thoughts and imaginings have been raised instead to represent our memory system -for the reasons we elaborated on earlier (they help us plan for the future, solve problems, symbolically or linguistically portray things and emotional states etc.).

Thinking and imagining also occur in conjunction with the sleep-dream; that is they occur simultaneously with the surrogate ‘Working dream’ -the substitute for the true Working Dream state, and are integrated into the same spatiotemporal Virtual World framework as the sleep-dream. So, just as we might think and imagine in relation to the events manifest in our true Working Dream, so too do we think and imagine in relation to this surrogate or substitute for the Working dream. The thoughts and imaginings raised into the Virtual World are integrated with the sleep-dream, and operate in the same kindred manner and perform the same range of functions as they do in relation to the true Working Dream experience.

Jung could just as well have been truly awake in his “my house” dream; he’d probably have been thinking the same kind of thoughts (about exploring the house, about rococo trappings, Roman walls etc.) in relation to a true Working Dream state as he was in the sleep-dream state. Though if he had been really awake, experiencing a true Working dream (virtually representing the Real World), he would also have had full access to that part of his memory which would have enabled him to question the reality of “my house”, and realize that he was ‘just dreaming’. It was upon awaking from sleep, and through recalling from memory tracts of his “my house” dream experience, that the true situation dawned on Jung -that he had indeed been ‘just dreaming’, and that all the while, when he

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