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Jung Again
This may be why lack of sleep to the extreme can be a killer. It could be that there is a part of the organism that is extra-substantive or non-substance. And it might be fed by the "meaning" or significance, for want of a more accurate term, of dreams and dreaming. This was something psychology pioneer Carl Jung was catching on to back at the beginning of the 20th century, but the discipline gravitated toward the opposite character, Freud and his consept of sexuality, perhaps another aspect of causes of mental illness. But in the case of Jung, he saw that dreams played some sort of role in psychological hygine or sanity. -- As in, sanity clause is comming to town, and knows when you've been sleeping. The Native Americans recognized the need for dreams and how they served as good medicine, as it were, for mental stability. So it could be that dreems are food for an aspect of the person that might be all to easily dismissed as psychological wellness, when it probably goes much farther than that. It may be the food our non-substantive aspect is nourished by. Copyright (c) 2005 by Paul A. L. Hall. All rights reserved.
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