Working with Short Dreams and Fragments
This Jungian Life Podcast
Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano
4.7 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
This week, to mark the publication in paperback of Dream Wise: Unlocking the Meaning of Your Dreams, Jungian analysts Lisa Marchiano and Deborah Stewart interpret a selection of short dreams sent in by listeners.
Many of us dismiss short dreams or fragments of dreams as unworthy of our time. We await the arrival of epic, cinematic dreams, while perhaps overlooking the gold that can be found in more “ordinary” dreams.
Honoring short dreams by writing them down and spending time with them can yield powerful insights. It can also work as an incentive to your unconscious, helping you remember more dreams, and more of your dreams. The time you spend on fragments and snippets strengthens connection with the unconscious.
We hope you enjoy today’s discussion of dreams: an overfed fish raising big relationship questions, a meeting with Greek mythology’s star-crossed lover Thisbe, a harsh landscape of volcanic rocks and blood, a bleached Christ figure, and a biting spider at a crossroads in the dreamer’s life.
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| 0:00.0 | If you wake up with a very short dream and you think, well, that's not really worth it. |
| 0:05.2 | And you don't write it down. |
| 0:07.2 | You may be providing a disincentive to your unconscious to help you remember dreams the next night. |
| 0:14.7 | So even if it's a little fragment, even if it's just a little bit, write it down and be prepared to spend time with it because it might |
| 0:23.6 | really reveal rich insights. |
| 0:28.5 | Welcome to this Jungian life. Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marciano, Deborah |
| 0:34.9 | Stewart, and Joseph Lee, invite you to join them for an intimate and honest |
| 0:39.2 | conversation that brings a psychological perspective to important issues of the day. |
| 0:46.1 | I'm Lisa Marchiano, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia. |
| 0:50.2 | I'm Joseph Lee, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia. |
| 0:55.2 | I'm Deborah Stewart, a Jungian analyst on Cape Cod. |
| 1:09.9 | Well, welcome. We are here to share some exciting news in this episode. Our book that we co-wrote, |
| 1:18.1 | Dreamwise, Unlocking the Meaning of Your Dreams, is coming out in paperback. It's going to be out in paperback on June 9th. |
| 1:25.4 | I don't actually have the paperback yet, so this is the hard back. |
| 1:29.3 | But I'm super excited about that. |
| 1:31.9 | And in honor of that, |
| 1:34.5 | we wanted to bring this episode to where |
| 1:37.8 | you look at the importance of short dreams. |
| 1:40.1 | So I'm thinking like a single image, |
| 1:43.1 | a dream that you can convey in two to three sentences. |
| 1:47.2 | Absolutely. |
| 1:48.3 | How many times have we heard and have you out there thought that, oh, this isn't a real dream? |
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