The Dream Book of Self-Knowledge

Gymnastics

  • as a physical exercise: relates to the dreamer's body and his inner desire for more beautiful forms; training therefore sometimes turns into sexuality or vice versa.
  • together with music, musical accompaniment to gymnastics: the desire to lead the instinctual body to an emotional experience since an exercise falling out of the music's rhythm recedes from feelings and inevitably falls into sensuality and sexual desire.
  • mental and spiritual exercises have a much higher value in the unconscious (see Training).