It is only in exceptional cases that somatic stimuli are the determining factor.
Usually they coalesce completely with the symbolical expression of the unconscious dream content; in other words, they are used as a means of expression.
Not infrequently the dreams show that there is a remarkable inner symbolical connection between an undoubted physical illness and a definite psychic problem, so that the physical disorder appears as a direct mimetic expression of the psychic situation. ~Carl Jung, CW 8, Page 502
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