Dreams of a Lifetime

"Dreams of a Lifetime," by Jane Hollister,, looks back at her past life and talks about the important dreams of her lifetime. She believes that her dreams reflect the archaic spilt that C.G. Jung observed in the American psyche. The author grew up in Santa Barbara County, California. Within the boundaries of the Hollister Ranch were some of the inherited lands of the Chumash Indians. In childhood, Wheelright was close to the animals, the forces of the natural world, and the ancestral Chumash. In early adulthood, Wheelright was plunged into urbane European culture. Her inner tasks was to travel the typical content of her dreams from the world of Cro-Magnan woman to a modern twentieth-century women.
Jane also kept journals and recorded her dreams. She realized her dreams were trying to tell her something when she stated, "I was constantly being sent to my childhood environment." She had reoccurring dreams. The article discusses the difference of women form then and now, but it is not quite so clear what it has to do with dream interpretations. Maybe dreams symbolize an American girl's dream of the women from how they were then to how they were now.


Hollister, Jane. "Dreams of a Lifetime." n. pag. Web. 7 May 2010. .