the compulsive newyorker – 062919 by jan gero https://ift.tt/2Jc34pj Not a good idea to start a communication with recounting a dream. Dreams are usually only meaningful to the dreamer. Most. Most persons do not have devotion to their dream-life; they know they are significant, difficult to integrate into real-life, and have long ago opted to ignore them, even though they can and are haunted by them for hours, for days, and sometimes for years. Once, maybe ten years ago, one of my two daughters was driving me to the train-station ending my visit, and I told her my last night’s dream. She very energetically burst through my telling with a dream she had some time ago about her cats; her memory and its clarity informed me that this was a significant connection to an acute signal from the unconscious that she had so far not really connected to. I have the feeling that that has remained a mystery to her but is still remembered like a scar from an accident or a childhood trauma. I’m one ...