the dreamer's condition
Dreaming of Darkness
Two traditional perspectives
These are symbolic interpretations from different traditions, not facts about your life or forecasts. Your associations may be different.
Artemidorus · Oneirocritica
To pass through darkness and come out into light foretold hardship ending, the suit won, the illness turning. The passage mattered more than the dark.
Darkness at noon, or darkness that does not lift, warned of confusion in great matters and counselors not to be trusted. Wait for clear sky before signing anything.
Jungian · the collective unconscious
Darkness is the unconscious itself, not evil, just unlit. To walk in it without a lamp and keep walking is the beginning of trust between you and your own depths.
Darkness that presses or pursues is shadow gathering mass, everything unexamined collected in one place. It grows by being avoided, that is the whole trick of it.
a few quiet questions
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