Authors & Writers that Got Me to Write
Strunk and White. They wrote the book Elements of Style in the early 1900s. That book got me writing and writing in a way that observes the guidelines of that book.
Carl G. Jung. Carl G. Jung was a prolific writer. The one book that pushed me to write was Man and His Symbols. This is a collaborative work between Jung and some of his former students.
I borrowed Man and His Symbols from the university library thinking that it is about primitive cultures. Primitive cultures are steep in symbolic art, and I thought that maybe the symbols Jung referred to had to do with that.
But it didn’t. The book describes cultural and psychological archetypes. It also has a chapter on dreams. This is where I found the inspiration to write and write a lot. Somewhere in this chapter, Jung shared his experiences in psychoanalysis. He described one session with a patient that needs psychological help.
One of Jung’s methods was to draw the patient into describing his or her dreams and nightmares. He described those dreams in the book but cautioned the reader that paying attention to someone else’s dreams had the effect of inducing lucid dreams on the listener. Guess what? That was actually what happened. Close to waking time the next day, I had a lucid dream. I remembered it all upon waking up. I wrote it in a journal.
I started this habit, to write my lucid dreams in a journal as soon as I wake up. I began this routine when I was 27 years old and diligently did it every day for the next 25 years. I shall continue doing this for the rest of my life. I am 54 years old now.
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