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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

The Red Book (Classic)

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

In the early 1900s, influential psychologist Carl Jung spent more than a decade documenting the strange images that popped up in his unconscious mind and documenting them all in a beautiful illustrated manuscript. After his death, his family thought the book was too bizarre to be made public and locked it away in a Swiss bank vault for decades.

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0:00.0

Okay, it's like 9.30 at night, and I'm not usually in the kitchen at this time, so my cat thinks he's getting an extra dinner. That's why he's purring.

0:15.4

But what I'm actually in here to do is make tea. I'm making mugwort tea because Dylan says it's going to give me weird dreams.

0:27.5

So here we go.

0:35.4

Okay, it's been a few minutes.

0:37.2

It's been steeping.

0:38.5

It's time to try.

0:41.1

Oh, it's okay.

0:42.7

It's a little grassy.

0:44.5

It tastes a little grassy.

0:46.0

Okay, I guess I'm drinking this and then see you tomorrow.

0:55.7

Hey, Dylan. Hey, Dylan.

1:02.3

Hey, Amanda. How you doing? Did you, I have to ask. We both went on our little journeys.

1:03.9

Yeah, do you have any dreams?

1:09.0

Yeah, I did. And my dream was kind of like weird and disjointed, like a bunch of odd images, but there is one that seems relevant.

1:12.4

The one that comes to mind is I was, like, wandering around some new place with my sisters,

1:17.6

and my sister bought or, like, acquired this model ship called the Voyager.

1:23.3

And she's, like, showing me this model ship in a bottle called the Voyager.

1:27.0

And I was like, oh, that's a little on the nose.

1:28.8

Yeah.

1:30.0

My dream had a ship in it too.

1:32.3

What I remember of my dream also had a ship.

1:35.0

And I didn't have like a crazy big dream, but I did, I dreamt that I had to climb up this giant chain to get on also a ship.

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