... that both hypnopompic and hypnogogic experiences act as anxiety reducers, drawing the dreamer away from the trials and tensions of waking life, and thus serving to promote personal growth and development. By avoiding narrative and emotional complexity of REM dreams and instead loosening the usual restrictions upon thought, they allow the dreamer to survey the contents of his or her unconscious, ... be controlled by the ego. The collective unconscious is a genetically inherited level of the mind containing what Jung called the "vast historical storehouse of the human race", a mental reserv...

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