Dream Quotes by Carl Jung

Dreams are the guiding words of the Soul.

— Carl Jung

Dream the dream onward.

— Carl Jung

Active imagination requires a state of reverie, half-way between sleep and waking.

— Carl Jung

We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.

— Carl Jung

The person who looks outward dreams, the person who looks inward awakens.

— Carl Jung

The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul...

— Carl Jung

Between the dreams of night and day there is not so great a difference.

— Carl Jung

Dreams are the facts from which we must proceed.

— Carl Jung

He who looks without, dreams; he who looks within, awakes.

— Carl Jung

The symbol in the dream has more the value of a parable: it does not conceal, it teaches.

— Carl Jung

I came to Freud for facts. I read 'The Interpretation of Dreams' and I thought- 'Oh, here is a man who is…

— Carl Jung

No dream symbol can be separated from the individual who dreams it, and there is no definite or straightforward interpretation of any…

— Carl Jung

The dream is a series of images, which are apparently contradictory and nonsensical, but arise in reality from psychologic material which yields…

— Carl Jung

Six weeks after his death my father appeared to me in a dream... It was an unforgettable experience, and it forced me…

— Carl Jung

It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear…

— Carl Jung

To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.

— Carl Jung

The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not—which is why St. Augustine thanked God…

— Carl Jung

We do not feel as if we were producing the dreams, it is rather as if the dreams came to us. They…

— Carl Jung

The 'squaring of the circle' is one of the many archetypal motifs which form the basic patterns of our dreams and fantasies.…

— Carl Jung

In sleep, fantasy takes the form of dreams. But in waking life, too, we continue to dream beneath the threshold of consciousness,…

— Carl Jung

I have no theory about dreams. I do not know how dreams arise. On the other hand, I know that if we…

— Carl Jung

Dream analysis stands or falls with [the hypothesis of the unconscious]. Without it the dream appears to be merely a freak of…

— Carl Jung

Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods,…

— Carl Jung

The darkness which clings to every personality is the door into the unconscious and the gateway of dreams, from which those two…

— Carl Jung

In each of us there is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how…

— Carl Jung

Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche, outside the control of the will. They are pure nature; they show us…

— Carl Jung

Our mind has its history, just as our body has its history. You might be just as astonished that man has an…

— Carl Jung

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness's of other people. One does not become enlightened by…

— Carl Jung

Many who know something but not enough about dreams and their meaning...are liable to succumb to the prejudice that the dream actually…

— Carl Jung

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness…

— Carl Jung

“Practical experience and accurate observation show that one cannot influence one’s own dreams. There are people, it is true, who assert that…

— Carl Jung

Dreaming is a philogenetically older mode of thought.

— Carl Jung

Those who look outside, dream. Those who look inside, awaken.

— Carl Jung

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

— Carl Jung

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images…

— Carl Jung

A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.

— Carl Jung

The general function of dreams is to try to restore our psychological balance by producing dream material that re-establishes, in a subtle…

— Carl Jung

I have always said to my pupils: "Learn as much as you can about symbolism; then forget it when you are analyzing…

— Carl Jung

A residual sea of symbols which is shared by all mankind, usually accessed through dreams or altered states, and from which cultures…

— Carl Jung

Dreams are symbolic in order that they cannot be understood; in order that the wish, which is the source of the dream,…

— Carl Jung