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Why You Keep Dreaming About Being Naked<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Are the common elements in our dreams the result of basic biology, or something deeper?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

BY ELIZABETH SVOBODA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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JUNG\u2019S PHANTASMS:<\/strong> On page 125 of his Red Book<\/em>, Jung depicts a golden mandala above a landscape depicted in folk art style. Between them is a levitating yogi. Jung believed that all humans and animals share a collective unconscious, from which we draw much of the imagery that appears in dreams across cultures. Reprinted from The Red Book<\/em> by C. G. Jung. Copyright \u00a9 2009 by the Foundation of the Works of C. G. Jung. With permission of the publisher, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I was naked. So was Laura,\u201d begins one dream of the more than 20,000 collected in G. William Domhoff\u2019s DreamBank. \u201cI was re-stringing an unvarnished electric bass, so I guess it was naked, too. At one point I put a screw in to secure a string, but then realized I wasn\u2019t holding the bass but Laura\u2026\u201d The dream is one of many \u201cnaked\u201d entries in the database, and Domhoff says dreams about being naked or exposed in public in ways that betray a fear of embarrassment are widely reported. But why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Domhoff, a distinguished professor emeritus specializing in psychology at the University of California-Santa Cruz, has spent years collecting self-reported dreams in journals and laboratory settings, meticulously tagging and cataloguing each one. An outdoor setting, for example, is marked with an OU, a familiar character with a K, and physical activity with a P. Individual dreams can then be described with their own idiosyncratic combination of labeled elements. Domhoff calls this coding system \u201cquantitative content analysis.\u201d He\u2019s concluded that at least some dreams have universal elements related to common human preoccupations and concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The psychoanalysts have a vested interest in destroying my argument.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Some \u201ctypical\u201d dreams long studied for their figurative meaning\u2014such as dreams where you fly under your own power, or where your teeth fall out\u2014don\u2019t occur nearly as often as people think (flying dreams, for example, make up only about one-half of 1 percent of all dreams). But many people dream about being naked, or about physical journeys that might stand in for fraught everyday dilemmas, such as being thwarted in a quest for success. \u201cWe are walking down hall after hall,\u201d one of the dreams in Domhoff\u2019s database reads. \u201cWe are looking for a restaurant. We climb laboriously up ladders and get to a top floor to find out the restaurant is closed. I am upset and afraid of going back down.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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