"The current flight of the 3i/Atlas interstellar comet through the solar system has sparked global interest among astronomers, space agencies, and the general public. The discovery of 3i/Atlas should also inspire dream researchers to consider the parallel significance in the psychological realm of the occurrence of big dreams. This might seem like an implausible connection, but interstellar comets and big dreams occupy similar positions in their respective fields of study."
"In this analogy, which draws on the concepts of Carl Jung, the solar system is like the personal unconscious. It is relatively close, familiar, accessible, and made up of well-known materials. Interstellar space, however, is like the collective unconscious. It extends without known bounds into the farthest, darkest, most mysterious realms of reality. And dreams are like comets, coming in two basic types."
The text compares interstellar comets and big dreams as rare, unpredictable, high-impact phenomena that reveal distant, inaccessible realms. The 3i/Atlas interstellar comet's passage has attracted astronomers, agencies, and the public, and the same reasons that make interstellar comets scientifically valuable should prompt psychologists to study big dreams. The solar system is likened to the personal unconscious—close and familiar—while interstellar space equals the boundless collective unconscious. Ordinary comets correspond to common small dreams; interstellar comets correspond to big dreams that disclose materials and dynamics beyond local, predictable experience, widening possibilities for life and cosmic understanding.
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