Jung described a category of dreaming which he called active imagination; when I was a child looking out the window during class it went by the more plebeian daydreaming. He thinks this sort of dreaming is equivalent to sleeping dreams, and The Red Book features many. Morag offers us this delightful example, which needs no interpretation.
The Dream: The radio alarm clicks on to NPR. It’s five a.m. and as usual they tell me the temperature for the rest of the day. I’ve tried to set the alarm ten seconds earlier so that it will tell me what the temperature is now, this minute. For some reason it doesn’t work.
The news is still mostly about the dreadful conditions in Haiti and it makes me wish I could give more than the ten dollars I can text over with my cell phone. I give regularly to “Doctors without Borders” and I have a “Plan Child” in Africa but I’m severely limited financially beyond that. Still… then I remember… I won the Mega Lottery! I can give a million dollars to Haiti if I want, though that may be a little excessive. I’ve read that one must keep a low profile if one wins the lottery or be driven crazy by begging organizations. Perhaps a hundred thousand would be more suitable for now.
