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In dreams, the Shadow can take on very definite shape and personality. It can walk into one's dream as a person or it can come crashing down as a monster. It usually wreaks havoc, hurting parents, children or dear friends, destroying one's home or office, or even raining fire from the sky onto the entire world. The Shadow almost always does terrible, unspeakable things, because the Shadow does precisely those things we would never, ever allow ourselves to even think of doing. The Shadow is Mr. Hyde to our Dr. Jekyll.
{If this is getting too weird to handle on your own, tell me your dream, and we'll bring some light into the situation.}
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For young children, especially little girls, the Shadow often appears in dreams as a witch. This might be because so many fairytales and children's videos feature witches as villains. In one sense, this is appropriate, because the Wicked Witch is the dark side of the Perfect Princess.
The fact that so many of our stories include a witch might have a deeper significance, linked to fears shared throughout humanity. The ancient horrors enter our dreams through the deepest level of unconsciousness, what Carl Jung named the Universal Unconscious. Things that seem to scare everyone, like howling wolves at night, a moving shadow seen from the corner of the eye, a wisp of fog behind a tombstone or just an unidentified noise in the dark, are all thought to be linked to ancestral terrors that we experience simply by being human.
{There's no need to expose your nightmares to anyone else. Tell me your dream, and we'll talk it through in private.}
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