Caltrops - Tales of the Sword Coast





	[quote name="www.dreamanalysis.info"][quote]What do you think it means?[/quote]Our dreams are typically populated by various figures chosen from our life, our memories and popular culture. Whilst such figures may be well known to us in our outer life, they often represent unknown, unrecognised or undeveloped aspects of our own selves. How figures from our life come to represent aspects of ourselves is known as the psychological mechanism of <i>projection</i>. Through projection we see in others what we fail to see in ourselves. One may have a positive or a negative projection. Figures upon whom we have a positive projection we tend to admire and love, those upon whom we have a negative projection we find loathsome and irritating. Yet, either way, for the sake of psychological wholeness, we are required to recollect our projections and integrate that aspect of ourselves which we see in the other. I would estimate that over ninety per cent of what turns up in one's dreams must be owned and integrated. This means recognising the faults in others as belonging to oneself as well as questioning where ones own attitude may be limited and lacking in balance. Owning your own shadow is a humbling experience. At the same time, the integration of the shadow is a major step towards wholeness. Owning one's shadow serves to ground and balance the individual. No longer can we remain proud or righteous. Our experience of the shadow teaches that there is a whole lot more which we may become.[/quote]