Dreamyth came from seeing dreams as a meaningful pattern-language of the soul, possibly ancestral.
Thanks to @ThisJungianLife, @LisaMarchiano, Fanny Brewster, and others for sparking this path.
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People of #Iran, what did you dream these nights? 🌙Write them down or share it privately on the Dreamyth web app. Let us pull your ancestors’ messages from the patterns.
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Why analyze thousands of dreams within a shared cultural context? 📊🔢
Because recurring symbols form patterns and patterns are how the unconscious speaks.
Jung called it collective.
Fanny Brewster shows it can be ancestral.
Dreamyth listens at scale.
Our unconscious mind will punish us if we aren’t living a life it can legibly interpret as heroic.
This is in partly why mythological tales so often centre around heroic activity.
Myth and story are how our unconscious minds communicate with us, and the hero model they present us with shows us how our deepest hearts want us to behave.
They want us to adventure, to discover, to overcome obstacles, to slay dragons, to find the grail.
These obstacles may be physical obstacles, mental obstacles or spiritual obstacles.
These dragons may be real beasts or the beasts of our fears and insecurities and pain.
These grails may be worldly prizes, spiritual flourishing or beautiful mysterious lights beckoning from deep within our own soul.
But whichever obstacles are in our path, whichever dragons we encounter, whichever grail glows on our horizon, if we aren’t overcoming them, slaying them and seeking them, then our unconscious minds will become restless.
They will think less of us. They will feel let down by us.
They will resent us for failing to live out the heroic role they cast for us.
And they will make our lives hell.
Everyone needs their quest and if they refuse to take it up, the unconscious architects of the quest will consume and destroy us.
If we ask ourselves every morning - how can I be heroic today? - then our lives will run much smoother.
That is, we may invite more external turbulence into our lives, but we will be able to navigate it with evermore peace as the wind of our spirits will be in our sails.
The armies of our soul will be on our side.
To refuse the call to heroism is to insult our soul and to pervert the natural pattern of our being.
The nitty gritty of our quests will often feel mundane on a day to day basis.
The heroic thing to do on a given day might be just to call your mum, take the bins out, or hold your partner in their pain.
Or it might be to dare to write the first page of your novel, the first line of code on your prototype or record the first song on your album.
It might just be having the courage to face a single fear or step out of the shadow of some particular current of shame.
But whatever it is, deep down we know the difference between acting heroically and acting cowardly, whether in the most mundane or most exalted matters.
We can always ask - how can I live heroically today?
And our soul will always have an answer for us.
People of #Cuba, what did you dream last night? 🌙Write it down or share it privately on the Dreamyth web app. Let us pull your ancestors’ messages from the patterns.
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People of #Venezuela, what did you dream last night? 🌙
Write it down or share it privately on the Dreamyth web app.
Let us pull your ancestors’ messages from the patterns.
https://t.co/XwPPNMUs00