Storm

A storm is the weather of the inner life. When the psyche has accumulated more feeling than consciousness can hold, the dream releases it as storm. Many Indigenous traditions read storm-dreams as real encounters with the more-than-human — the thunder beings of Lakota cosmology, for instance, are understood as powerful presences who visit the dreamer with tests and gifts. Jungian dream analysis treats storms as necessary discharges: without them, the psychic pressure would find somewhere worse to go. Notice whether you are outside in the storm, watching from shelter, or at its very center. Each position tells you about your current relationship to your own emotion.