When the Dead Visit Your Dreams - Metapsychic Dreams

Von Franz noted that it sometimes happened that in dreams actual dead people came to visit the still-living person. This special category of dreams is known as “metapsychic” or otherworldly dreams, which usually have an intense emotional impact on the dreamer and are characterised furthermore by a unique, indescribable feeling—a touch of eternity. In metapsychic dreams, the dead person is interpreted on the objective level. Therefore, some dreams deal really with the dead, and others with their subjective image that is within the personal unconscious. This distinction is very subtle, and one treads on uncertain ground. In psychotherapy one generally attributes these dreams to a mother complex or a father complex, and rarely take into account the “objective dead”. These objective dreams are more frequent in the first weeks or months after the event of death, though they can appear years later too. #dreams #dead #paranormal #supernatural #metapsychic