The Surprising Reasons Why I Continued Jung’s Research

Against my will.

I became interested in dream interpretation because I was very depressed and nervous. I needed help. At that time, however, I was pregnant and expecting to give birth soon, so I started reading and studying several books on psychology on my own.

I was especially interested in dream interpretation because I had many impressive dreams and saw that all psychologists gave importance to dream messages. I studied the methods of all the most famous psychologists until I understood that only Carl Jung’s method helped me understand basic points about my psychological problems.

I progressed a lot when I started to write down all my dreams and follow only Jung’s method. I calmed down and felt better, but at one point I thought I had to disagree with Carl Jung’s final conclusions, as I noticed that all the psychological types he analyzed were absurd at various points.

I found that my conscience was absurd and that I had made many mistakes in life because I had based myself on what my conscience thought. In the same way, the conscience of all psychological types was defective in several points.

I concluded that the human conscience makes many mistakes, whereas the wise unconscious mind that produces dreams never makes mistakes. I thought it would be better to obey the directions of the unconscious mind rather than do what my conscience thought was best for me.

However, I was afraid to contradict the lessons of Jung, who was my teacher because I read practically all of his books and put into practice everything he taught me.

Jung thought that the unconscious mind was a good adviser to the human conscience, but that we should do what our conscience thought was right.

I feared disagreeing with my master. Who was I to disagree with a famous psychologist and psychiatrist who helped me feel better thanks to the lessons he taught me?

I didn’t have the courage to do that.

However, I had several dreams that encouraged me to continue Carl Jung’s research into the unknown region of the psychic sphere and obey the unconscious mind.

I knew that this research was dangerous and that I would have to face craziness, as Jung had warned. I didn’t feel capable of continuing his research at all and refused to do so.

At that time my left eye was reddened and would not heal with any eye drops. I understood that the unconscious mind was responsible for this. Jung himself concluded that the unconscious mind was the mind of God, yet he did not feel that he should obey the unconscious mind without paying attention to the opinion of his own conscience.

I was in doubt for a long time, not knowing what to do and not feeling able to continue Jung’s dangerous research, until I had an impressive dream that convinced me that I would help many people if I obeyed the unconscious mind.

In the dream, there was a stream and several stones in the middle of the stream that could help people cross the stream and reach the other bank. However, people did not step directly on the stones to reach the other bank, but on my foot, as if my foot was a cushion that helped them step on the stones without suffering.

After this dream, I concluded that I would help many people go through the necessary transformation process through the interpretation of their dreams.

I knew that the stones represented wisdom and truth and that crossing a river was an important challenge for our transformation process.

However, at that time I didn’t know that other people in our dreams signify parts of our personality.

So, I thought I would help others, while in fact, the dream showed me that my ego would help various parts of my own personality see the primitive part of my brain on the other side of the river and understand why my obedience to the wisdom of the unconscious mind was indispensable.

When I agreed to continue Jung’s research, my left eye whitened and I felt better.

I learned many amazing things from obeying the unconscious mind, and I went on to help many people through dream interpretation. So, the fact that I concluded that I would help others was also right.

The unconscious mind was very demanding and I had to work hard to simplify the complicated method of dream interpretation discovered by Carl Jung so that I could translate other people’s dreams faster. I also had to waste a lot of time helping other people without pay.

I complained at first, but later I realized that I was very lucky to be able to eliminate my psychological problems and also help others, instead of having acquired a serious mental illness.

I actually saw that I could have become schizophrenic like my father and that I wouldn’t be able to maintain my sanity for long if I didn’t learn a lot more about the primitive part of the human brain that generates mental illness within our conscience.

Therefore, I understood that I was wrong for refusing to continue Jung’s research, for complaining about having to work so hard to simplify the dream interpretation method he discovered, and for having to waste a lot of time helping other people with this method.

I should just be grateful since everything I did to help others was first of all done so that I could help myself.

Thanks to my efforts, I avoided acquiring a virtually incurable mental illness that would make me suffer forever, in addition to helping many people prevent and cure various mental illnesses.

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