Kayla

Dreamrly.

an unprofessional study of dreams

Dreamrly. is devoted to my own unprofessional or layperson's study of dreams. I became interested in dreams a few years out of college. A friend invited me to join a dream group that was just starting up; so I did. The dream group utilized Jungian psychology as a means of exploring the individual unconscious through dreams. I was fascinated by our monthly meetings and intrigued by the discipline of exploring my own dreamworlds.

The dream group ran its course, its members parted ways, and time passed. Working in the corporate world, I realized that my life had become completely devoid of mystery, and I had become painfully out of touch with that deep source of self-knowledge. I want to learn more.

In the spring, I hope to begin a program to become trained to lead dream groups following Jung's methods. I hope to use this blog as a means of exploring dreams from all angles - science, psychology and religion - in preparation for that program. When I begin, I will chart my progress and share my knowledge.

Join me on what I am sure will prove a truly fascinating journey!

- Kayla

No amount of skepticism and criticism has yet enabled me to regard dreams as negligible occurrences. Often enough they appear senseless, but it is obviously we who lack the sense and ingenuity to read the enigmatic message from the nocturnal realm of the psyche. Seeing that at least half our psychic existence is passed in that realm, and that consciousness acts upon our nightly life just as much as the unconscious overshadows our daily life, it would seem all the more incumbent on medical psychology to sharpen its senses by a systematic study of dreams. Nobody doubts the importance of conscious experience; why then should we doubt the significance of unconscious happenings? They also are part of our life, and sometimes more truly a part of it for weal or woe than any happenings of the day.

"The Practical Use of Dream Analysis" (1934). In CW 16: The Practice of Psychotherapy. pg. 325