Subconsciousness for Symphony Orchestra

Описание: Subconsciousness is a programmatic, 9-minute musical composition. The music explores the concepts of breathing, the process of falling asleep through relaxation, light and deep sleep, dreams, REM sleep, hypnic jerks, and accessing the subconscious mind while in this dream stage.

Some psychological studies, in particular those by Carl Jung, suggest that all elements and events present in a dream are a manifestation of people’s own selves, and that all these manifestations are connected to people’s own psyche and individual thinking. In a dream, every character, event, or single detail is a manifestation of one’s own self.

It is the that the subconscious true self speaks to the conscious. Jung explains that understanding one’s dream and relating it to one’s life is a path to achieving self- understanding. It provides an opportunity to discover one’s true self, and how this “self” relates to others. Sometimes, if not most of the time, dreams are nonsense and illogical. Following the Jungian approach and its method to find a meaning for the dreams, it is possible to understand that these nonsense events and images might provide answers to the dreamer’s own psyche.

Dreams can provide information related to specific situations that might happen in one’s everyday life. Following Jung’s arguments, when one’s purest self, the anima/animus, does not feel comfortable with the outside world/events, it tries to communicate with its conscious counterpart (one’s conscious mind) that something is

happening and needs to be addressed. Finding harmony between the subconscious and the conscious minds thus bringing harmony to one’s true self.

According to Carl Jung:
Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche, outside the control of the will. They are pure nature; they show us the unvarnished, natural truth, and are therefore fitted, as nothing else is, to give us back an attitude that accords with our basic human nature when our consciousness has strayed too far from its foundations and run into an impasse. (Jung, 1970, p. 149)