Jung explains that in times of social anxiety, visionary rumours spread rapidly. These rumours frequently feature dreamlike imagery—lights, shapes, or beings in the sky—shared across entire communities. He argues that such collective visions perform the same symbolic function as dreams, revealing emotional states that cannot be consciously acknowledged. The images behave like psychic projections rather than literal perceptions. Jung interprets these phenomena as collective dream symptoms expressing unconscious tension during periods of fear and uncertainty.
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