I myself recently dreamed that a UFO came speeding towards me which turned out to be the lens of a magic lantern whose projected image was myself; this suggested to me that I was the figure, himself deep in meditation, who is produced by a meditating yogi.

C.g. Jung
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The allusion to a magic lantern is that the projector of the images is also the object of the images. This is a telling and quite interesting detail, and it suggests that visual and mental perceptions and the images they produce are not only different but represent different aspects of our existence, which can be seen as a double-sided coin.

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