The Dream Book of Self-Knowledge
- does not necessarily have to be only pedagogical personnel, but all people (personifications) appearing in dreams regardless of their intellect or achieved education (e.g. natives often teach patience, perseverance, humility and the ability to overcome pain); the positive and negative of others can teach us, as can any dream image since dream teaching is a reflection of an active self-improvement process.
- children: the dreamer is becoming more certain on his new level of being (usually the emotional level, rarely even the spiritual).
- pupils, apprentices: very positive since the dreamer is actively helping to get his experiences back to the emotional level or is consolidating the emotional level of experience.
- learning and understanding history: a decisive step toward understanding one's place in the world and also to understanding the future, since the future comes from the past (understanding of karmic relations) through the "present point"; in a higher phase this symbol is elevated above an understanding of the relations between the past, present and future to the realm of the imagination, since the mutual temporal relation between the past, present and future loses its sense in dreams just as time does (see Time).
- teaching tolerance, learning tolerance: only negative examples, traits and dependencies can teach tolerance; for a rapid self-improvement process it is necessary to understand unpleasant dream images as unique tolerance training.
- teaching aids: show the dreamer which problem he should deal with.
- for the dream's interpretation what the dreamer learns or what the dreamer teaches is important.
- languages: see Language.
- geology, learning geology: in the unconscious geology is the teaching and sum of discoveries about karma*26.
- mathematics or learning mathematics: see Mathematics.
- geometry or learning geometry: see Geometry.
- patience, learning patience: see Waiting.
- a game, learning a game: see Game.
- learning to control one's feelings and thoughts: this image confirms that a similar activity has passed from the waking consciousness to the subconscious and into dreams and is becoming an important factor in the self-improvement process, which enables a view of unforgotten experiences of the Active Imagination archetype.
- teaching mysticism, learning mysticism: see Mysticism.
- see Teacher.
