Either this blog is drifting away from the topic of active imagination or my life is drifting from it. I'll try to refocus by throwing some thoughts about dreams onto this post. (With thanks to the writings of James Hillman for showing me some of these things.)
The dream world is backwards-land. The thing you feel love for in your dream is the thing you may be afraid of in your waking life. The thing you fear in your dream is the thing you must embrace.
The shorter-than-normal figures in my dreams - gnomes, dwarves, tiny dolls - function in the areas of my life that I haven't taken seriously; that I haven't given enough attention. They shrunk!
Giants in my dreams sometimes have an inflated ego! Some of them are figures of such importance and power that they have impressive size.
None of the archetypal figures represent anything. They ARE. They are who they are and they function as they function, and if we said they "represent" we'd be saying that they don't exist as themselves. Does that make sense? And each figure who you meet in your dream has a specific (primal, singular, one-dimensional) function within your psychological makeup.
Yadda yadda yadda. I'm fulla these thoughts.
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