Yogi
Dreamed by Carl Jung, (April?) 1944
...I was on a hiking trip. I was walking along a little road through a hilly landscape; the sun was shining and I had a wide view in all directions.I had this dream after my illness in 1944. It is a parable: my self retires into meditation and meditates my earthly form. To put it another way: it assumes human shape in order to enter three-dimensional existence, as if someone were putting on a diver's suit in order to dive into the sea...Then I came to a small wayside chapel. The door was ajar, and I went in. To my surprise there was no image of the Virgin on the altar, and no crucifix either, but only a wonderful flower arrangement.
But then I saw that on the floor in front of the altar, facing me, sat a yogi--in lotus posture, in deep meditation. When I looked at him more closely, I realized that he had my face. I started in profound fright, and awoke with the thought: "Aha, so he is the one who is meditating me. He has a dream, and I am it." I knew that when he awakened, I would no longer be.
SOURCE: Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Carl Jung, 1989 reprint, p.323-4
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