when we say “I had a dream last night”

is this correct?

i actively dreamt?

MY dream?

i fell asleep, dreamt, woke up?

the dream begins when I enter rem sleep and ends when rem sleep ends?

and the dream is a way for me to process information from waking life, sift, siphon, distill?

or…

the dream is always there

I am conscious of it in different ways

i wake up and remember it

i write it down

the dream itself hasn’t ended

it continues but I am only aware of it at a different level of consciousness

not one that is immediately recognisable in the waking state

the dream is always there

always

for everyone.

it is a way for the Unconscious to feed data to us

to nudge us towards what Jung called Individuation, Consciousness.

The data is fed to us from an ocean of information, just as instinct and DNA informs our physical behaviour

this sculpture is about the portal through which the data passes.