Originally Posted by Zeiken
its widely speculated that people cant dream in color- we can only subconciously associate certain things with color, but we dont actually see them. It is also believed that the subconcious would put color in a dream as a means to force the concious to remember that dream more vividly.
My 2 cents then is just that: i think Jung suggested dreams are a way for our unconscious minds to go through all the things "it" appreciated throughout the day that our conscious mind/ego blocked out. I'm fascinated by the ideas of how the conscious/unconscious divide might work - i.e.: The idea that the ego is both vital coz it narrows down the world into something manageable, but is also liable to "block-out" too much in the name of efficiency/rationality etc. So we benefit as a whole from processing all the excluded information unconsciously, and from the "mix" that happens when we are conscious of our dreams. It's a chance for important stuff we've missed to filter through. Well, it makes dreams make a bit more sense anyway... Doh, that'll be my sneaky sense-seeking consciousness interfering again