Here are dreams from Journey of a Dream Animal by Kathleen Jenks. Most of them are from 1963, when she read first read Jung, and started facing that an unrelenting barrage of dreams was warning her she was in love with a charismatic bad boy--though she clung to her denial for years! These are grouped below as The Rob Dreams.

I identify with her long struggle out of abuse. In the late 1970s, I fell for a batterer. My dreams warned me too, but it took me several years (about as long as Jenks) till I quit trying to fix things and escaped--shaky, sick, with a broken nose, but alive.

This is do-it-yourself dreamwork. Jenks couldn't afford therapy, and her dreams warned against it anyway--probably wise in sexist, Freudian 1963! Even if she'd found a Jungian, most of their dream interpretation (like Sheila Moon's Dreams of a Woman--elegant but oddly distant) skirt uncomfortable, awkward, personal facts (like a horrible job and worse boyfriend) to safe, impersonal archetypes or the collective unconscious. I think her interpretations still get a bit over-Jungian where I'd be more literal, but over all, DIY served her well. She's proof, if proof is needed, that self-therapy really does work.

One dream here, Ruby in my Pouch, isn't Jenks but my own dream-reaction to reading her journal.

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	BALL OF WAX: by Kathleen Jenks; 1943, a childhood art-dream Age three, chased by a witch, I reach the kitchen. Safe! I melt crayons to make a huge multi-colored ball of wax. Now I wonder if I foresaw my Jungian dreamwork...
	THE BLACK STAG: Kathleen Jenks, 1963/12/2, a dream of daimonic temptation My cat Kleina isn't so small any more, and she can talk. But the moon's eclipsed, and the Black Stag has come, offering carry me away to the Black Moon. I'm tempted... CAUTION: OVER-JUNGIANIZING?
	ELEPHANT KISS: by Kathleen Jenks, 1974/10/21; a comic spiritual-inadequacy dream I wanted God's love. I dreamed I got it. An elephant wanted to kiss me! Messy, moist, and just overwhelming... CAUTION: ELEPHANT DROOL
	ELF-THERAPY: by Kathleen Jenks, c. 1963/8/31; a warning dream A trusting woman has neat pinstriped advisers. But an elf with a tape recorder has proof they're crooks. I woke knowing the dream warned against getting an analyst to "help" me...
	THE GOSPEL OF SILENCE: by Kathleen Jenks, 1963/10/21; a spiritual advisory dream I want to read beautiful fairytales, but a woman tells me "First you must read the Gospel of Silence". I turn away into caverns carved of jade. In the deepest chamber, I surrender to a powerful force... CAUTION: MORE JUNGIAN THAN JUNG
	MOVE FENCE? GET STRAFED!: by Kathleen Jenks, 1963/8/10; Jungian nightmare? We're kids again. The others enlarge the yard by willing a fence to move. But the new ground is ugly, dirty. And then Nazi planes strafe us! I worry my little brother's been hit... CAUTION: FEAR, GUILT; MISINTERPRETATION?
	THE ROB DREAMS: by Kathleen Jenks; 1961/8, 1963/3, & 1963/6-10, a series of 9 abuse-warning dreams I meet Rob's exes; all have wounds called witch's marks. Rob is really Pluto/Anubis, dog-headed god of death. I flee a rapist--Rob? I meet fake Robs; have I ever met real Rob? At long last, I (literally) outgrow him... CAUTION: CREEPY CONFESSION FROM ABUSER
	RUBY IN MY POUCH: by Wayan, 2025/5/20, a shapeshifter's dream I'm a diplomat from the were-kangaroos. In my diplomatic pouch, I grow a Memory Ruby. Is my personal data vulnerable to theft? Well, no more so than on your human phones... CAUTION: NUDE MARSUPIAL
	SELF-IMAGE: by Kathleen Jenks; 1963/8/21, twin self-evaluation dreams Jenks can't face ACT 1: Age 14. I find photos my dad took of me at 10-12 in a red Chinese robe. Beautiful, but I was pushed to look adult... ACT 2: Adult, I look in a mirror. I'm bustier & curvier than I thought. I look good now, too--except for this awful rash... CAUTION: CREEPY DREAM-DAD
	TURKISH FLAG: by Kathleen Jenks, 1962; pastlife memory, or the collective unconscious? When I visited Turkey, I had no reaction to their flag until, on a bus tour round a harbor, I saw it fluttering atop a sailing ship, and panicked! Was this some centuries-old memory of pirates? And if so... whose? CAUTION: JUNG VERSUS REINCARNATION?

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