C. G. #Jung taught us to pay attention to our dreams. Why is this important? To heal the Faustian split between reason and the unconscious. From *Psychology and Alchemy*:
... in the dialectical discussion between the conscious mind and the unconscious, a development or an advance towards some goal or end, the perplexing nature of which has engaged my attention for many years. ... It is a *longissima via*, not straight but snakelike, a path that unites the opposites in the manner of the guiding caduceus, a path whose labyrinthine twists and turns are not lacking in terrors.! *Alchemist in the initial nigredo state, meditating.—Jamsthaler, Viatorium spagyricum (1625)*