Being Lost

To be lost in a dream is to be between maps. Jungian analysis reads lost-dreams as moments when the old orientation no longer holds and the new one has not yet arrived. The setting matters: being lost in a familiar city suggests that a long-known territory has become strange; being lost in a forest, the unconscious reclaiming what was civilized; being lost in a building with endless corridors, a search for a room of the self you cannot yet find. Notice whether anyone is with you, what you are looking for, and whether you are afraid or simply puzzled. Lost-dreams are rarely catastrophic; more often they are the psyche announcing: you are in transit.