https://www.huffpost.com/entry/everyone-and-everything-i_b_8538758
>Everyone and Everything in the Dream Is YOU By acting as one of those funny mirrors at the carnival, our dreams do just that, they mirror different aspects of ourselves back to us so that we can have some fun and have a heart to heart with ourselves. They give us the opportunity to look in our own lives from the outside, in.One of our favorite pastimes of being human is projection. We come into the world with our parents projecting their hopes, dreams, fears and approach to life on us and society does the same. This is not something they are "at fault" for, this is natural and even necessary for each of us as we learn to become autonomous beings. Why would that be necessary? Self-awareness and transformation are on the other side of projection. Learning what is ours, what is being projected on us and what we are projecting on others is useful information. When we can catch ourselves on the giving or receiving end of projection and name it as such, we can then take a look at the source, energy and true intention behind it, which allows us to take action. Are we projecting a fear? Something we care about? Is it a shadow quality that we are not seeing in ourselves? Is it a quality or lifestyle that we desire? Are we projecting how we want to be loved, communicated to, approached? Or are any of these things bring projected on us from the other person? We can all feel the energy when it is happening. It is charged. We sometimes only recognize it in retrospect. In fact, projection could be defined as the unconscious transfer of our own state or emotion, assigning it to a person or situation. This is where our dreams show up to help us because while we are sleeping, our subconscious makes its projections onto dream images (people, figures and objects in our dreams). This gives us the incredible opportunity to take what is unconscious and make it conscious without having to project on others in our waking life. From a Jungian dream work perspective, everyone and everything in the dream is you, meaning every image in the dream is acting as a symbol of you, as an aspect of you.
Yeah I know it's huffpo but it's true, at least in theory for anything normal dream excluding paranormal stuffs
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