Dreaming of Dinosaurs

I looked to my left and saw the massive eye.

I trebled to my core.

I could hear the snorts and sniffs as I quickly ducked to the side of the window hoping I hadn’t been seen.

 
With each step the massive T-Rex dinosaur made the house vibrate like a massive subwoofer was playing in the distance. Around and around the titan circled. Sniffing, staring, trying to find the one thing that will slake its thirst for flesh.

 
Like  a mouse under the talons of an owl I scurried to close all the drapes, hoping that if only the eye didn’t find me, that I would be safe. That glassy unblinking eye.

 
I didn’t know where the ancient beast came from, but now the house was full of guests. I think it came with them. They had no fear. The T-Rex dinosaur wasn’t there for them. They seemed oblivious to the fact that the colossus was even there.

 
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I woke up from my dream with the feeling that not running from the dinosaur any longer will bring about a circumstance that I need.

 
I have had this dinosaur dream before, in one form or another. I checked back in my dream dictionary and saw that I actually wrote “don’t run from the dinosaur”. That was about a year ago. I guess from last night, I still have something important to learn.

 
Here is something I found that was interesting at http://www.jungiantherapy.com/dreamwork.shtml.

 
If the dinosaur is, as Whitmont and Perera say, a “pre-human energy” that the ego experiences as “‘monstrous’ or archaically primitive,” it may be that this energy is potentially valuable as a compensation for some maladaptive attitude of the ego. This energy is reptilian and prehistoric. That is, it is not from the personal unconscious but from the collective unconscious. It may be that the ego needs not to repress or escape this energy but to engage it and integrate it. This ego immediately assumes that the dinosaur is harmful - that it intends to devour and swallow the ego. It never occurs to this ego to wonder (much less to inquire) whether the dinosaur, as a special variety of instinctual energy, might be helpful - that is, whether the dinosaur might energize the ego instinctually and transform consciousness.
How might the ego engage this energy? With the assistance of a Jungian psychotherapist, the client might employ the method of active imagination and address the dinosaur. The ego might actively engage the image in a dialogue. In such a conversation, the ego would not simply assume that the dinosaur intends to devour and swallow it but would inquire, with curiosity, exactly what the dinosaur does intend. It would pose this question and expect the image to provide an answer. Images that emerge from the unconscious have intentions. The general intention of the image is to contact and impact the ego. A specific image has a particular intention, which is to contact and impact the ego in a distinctive way for a precise purpose - which, from a Jungian perspective, is to compensate some maladaptive attitude of the ego. In this respect, active imagination is a method to ascertain, experientially, just what the particular intention of a specific image is - in this case, what the intention of the dinosaur is - so that the image might then compensate the attitude of the ego and transform consciousness.

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