14: Male and Female Dream Characters Often Describe Inner Conflict

Dreams from this episode: * Finding dead deer parts while urbexing * Green dye in the ocean reveals sandy caves and a snake * Fire and water gods shape people into a crystal wishbone * A car and bus journey in drag Themes from this episode: * The unconscious uses masculine and feminine characters and imagery to communicate with us about different parts of our personality. * Everyone, regardless of gender, has masculine and feminine aspects of their psyche that they can use at different times when needed. * The unconscious constantly uses the masculine/feminine dichotomy to symbolize opposite forces inside us, because it’s such a well-known pair of opposites that we see in external relationships where people balance and complete each other. Feminine/yin/lunar characteristics: Feeling, sensing Appreciating beauty Connection and relatedness Soul, imagination, interiority Slower pace, time for reflection, being (rather than doing) Masculine/yang/solar characteristics: Thinking and organizing, order and reason Action and doing Analyzing Differentiating, classifying, making boundaries Competing Aggression and power Important Links: Recommended dream interpretation books (https://bookshop.org/shop/stuffofdreams) Dream interpretation subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/DreamInterpretation/) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/stuffofdreamspodcast/) Send me a dream! [e-mail] or use Send a Dream! tab in upper right corner