Hi Graham:

You might want to rethink these comparisons using different language. set aside "dream," "ego," "meditation," "interpretation."

ok, let's look afresh.

You sit or lie down, keeping your body still. Your eyes are closed.

Spontaneously, images begin to appear, and you find your "self" within a 3 dimensional landscape.

You let go of all analysis and thinking and are simply fully aware without any conscious attempt to manipulate or control experience.

As you do this, deeper and deeper meanings of the various phenomena you're experiencing are revealed.

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Ok, now if you want to put labels on this, you could be talking about a Jungian individuation practice or a Tantric 10th century practice (which, by the way, Jung read about extensively and which he acknowledged informed his active imagination practices).

These distinctions we make using ill defined words make it difficult for us to make progress in understanding the multi dimensional nature of the exploration of consciousness.

By the way, I studied with Irina Tweedie's student, Llewellyn Vaughan Lee, and have talked with him about these connections between Jungian dream work, Sufism, Hindu and Buddhist tantra and he said this is congruent with what he understands about these connections.