Le rôle des rêves

Le rêve a-t-il un rôle ? 

dreaming itself is a like a mental yoga. It’s like stretching the mind, it’s keeping the mind open and flexible and adaptive. That right there I think is a pretty big service.

Parmi les rêves, il y en a des rares, et particuliers. "Big dreams". Ils semblent associés aux transformations de l'homme...

Carl Jung, the psychologist who coined the term “big dreams,” was asking his psychiatric patients about their earliest childhood dreams, which for the most part were really big intense dreams, and he found those to be super valuable in a clinical context, they helped him make sense of the deepest conflicts and issues in the patient’s life. So childhood seems to be a fertile time for big dreaming.

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Les bons côtés du cauchemar

Faire des cauchemars ne serait pas un mal, ou une maladie. Ce serait favorable à la créativité... 

“The evidence points towards the idea that, rather than interfering with normal activity, people who are unfortunate in having a lot of nightmares also have a dreaming life that is at least as creative, positive and vivid as it can be distressing and terrifying (...) this imaginative richness is unlikely to be confined to sleep, but also permeates waking thought and daydreams.”(Article.)