What is Jung's dream theory

Jung was a follower of Freud, and his emotions about dreams were almost insane. He felt that dreams were a kind of creation because he could not determine whether the motivation of the dream was a physiological need or an external advancement. Jung's explanation that 'dreams collect a mysterious message from our dark side' is very different from Freud's.

Jung believed that dreams are independent and each dream has its own meaning, so it cannot be systematically explained, only case analysis can be carried out. In addition, Jung put the dreamer's life experience and even ethnic factors into the scope that must be considered when interpreting dreams, and determined that an individual's unconscious comes from the collective consciousness of his group, which further promoted the theory of dreams.

Jung believed that dreams were hereditary. Events experienced by a family ancestor would leave memories in the mind and even cells, and this memory would be passed on to future generations, so that future generations would have the knowledge and insights of their predecessors. This insight only appears in dreams. This particular inheritance was called a primitive trace by Jung. The original trace is abstract, a vague feeling, and a tendency. This tendency can only appear in dreams and is extremely vivid. When the thoughts of predecessors are conveyed through visual things, future generations may not be able to understand them.

Jung believed that dreams could reveal the primitive man in our hearts, who was inherited from generations of ancestors. If we can carefully analyze and understand dreams, it is like knowing many 'primitive people', then the wisdom and experience of our ancestors can be of great help to us. Of course, not all dreams have equal value. Some dreams only involve trivial matters and are not important, while those dreams that contain primitive meaning are full of mystery and shock.