You are certainly experiencing things from others' perspectives, eh?

I just led a thread on, "Who is the Dreamer Who Dreams the Dream on the Dream Association online conference, so why not?

Have been thinking of you. Give me a bit of time and I'll come back. You have made me think.

sounds like an interesting book!

Oh, sorry about your ailments!

Sometimes I wonder if the dream comes from a need I have to see something differently or more clearly. Do I not let myself see when I am awake that which I don't want myself to see or am not ready to see? Haven't really thought before about who "dreams" the dream, but I think I feel I "own"? the dream when I speak directly to the dream and tell it I don't need it any more. Perhaps that only happens when I have resolved whatever generally allows? creates? dreams? the dream.

Jung calls the contribution of dream to our waking perspective "compensation." Who compensates? All of the above.

Thanks Veronica. The first other is (m)other!

well Dr u are leaving psychiatry behind and entering the realm
of the Mother of Sciences, Philosophy...
perhaps even theology?

The reality of the dream is much maligned.
I happen to think it is "realer" than real life, for it
condenses experience to primal symbolic subjectivity
without the annoyance of all that blasted "objectivity" we have
in waking states...which (per Kant) aint that objective anyway...

the question is well put: Who is the dreamer, and who is the dream?
Perhaps the safest answer is: it is probably reciprocal...
There is certainly no evidence that the Dead don't dream.
If we accept the possibilty of it, then who is to say the
two worlds cannot intersect & overlap?

Thanks Mr. Sunshine. Is the King dreaming a butterfly, or the butterfly a King?

Hi Veronica. To the quantum physicists, the infinite pool of possibilities is the "nature" from which reality & dreams are manifest, and to which they return--the realm(not ream)of the butterfly.

"the first other is (m)other" Love that!