Originally Posted by qraal
Anxieties that come at the appropriate age I guess. Just how such things translate into dreams that all (?) have is anyone's guess since the genome doesn't hold enough information to "store" them in any way. Perhaps they're neurological "strange attractors" that our common pattern of neurogenesis "finds" along the way. Thus they're not stored "as genes" but come into being because of our genetic similarities.
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Exactly. How they translate into dreams is what the puzzle is. I think dreams are symptoms. Of things like anxiety. Like you said.
Our genome was smaller than thought but that doesnt at all mean these dreams couldnt be in there. How could we calculate how much room they would take up?
When Carl Jung was a kid, maybe 8 or 10, he started doing something strange. He was an odd and introverted kid. He had some troubles and one day out of the blue grabbed a piece of wood and started carving.
Another incident which occurred while still boy involved him engraving a tiny “mannequin” into the end of the wooden ruler from his pencil case and placing it back inside. Afterward he added a stone which he painted with two different colors into upper and lower halves and then hid the case in the attic, in essence as his own private confessional booth. Frequently he visited with the wooden man he had created, often bringing tiny notes with messages inscribed on them in his own secret language. He always associated this act with having a calming effect on his young life, and later realized that this ceremonial procedure was not so different from the bizarre totems erected by native tribes all around the world. This innocent element of ritual practice, which he did not know or understand at the time of creating his little wooden friend, would later help open up his mind to the territories of psychological archetypes and collective unconsciousness.
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He had created his own totem. As a child he had created his own religion. Just for himself. A religion that has already existed all over the world since the beginning of civilization. How many times do you think this scene has played out in history?
