OPPOSITES

Some dream researchers, especially at the turn of the century, theorized that the symbols in dreams were opposite to what they appeared. Good represented evil, joy represented sadness, a man represented a woman, and so on. This idea is worth considering if the other approaches to vour dream have yielded little or no meaning.

To see two opposite items in a dream can reflect improved balance between different facets of the psyche. Alternatively, this can represent a dichotomy that causes inner turmoil over two equally important goals or ideals.

(see Color)

An optimistic hue, denoting improved self-love, high energy, and a clear emotional state.

Bright, fiery oranges are the color of aggression. This hue needs gentle control so that angry outbursts don’t occur.

Also the color of autumn, thereby denoting a harvest of characteristics that you have sown and tended with care.

Any pair of opposites in a dream - right and left, new and old, man and woman, light and darkness - may represent opposite forces or qualities of the psyche: conscious and unconscious, masculine and feminine elements, extrovert and introvert tendencies, etc. Jung said that at the bottom of every neurosis there was an unsolved problem of opposites, which can be solved only by choosing both of the opposites, and integrating and harmonizing them. Man and woman are opposites, but for that very reason yearn for union. This applies equally to your psychic opposites. Your conscious ego should not interfere with this mutual attraction of opposites.

In dreams, opposites that appear are metaphors for those contradictory aspects that our minds contain. It deals with the masculine and feminine, extroversion and introversion, activity and passivity... All this is represented through figures such as light and shadow, left and right, man and woman. The brain is divided in two hemispheres that have different functions. The best option is to make both work harmoniously in our favor.