recurrent dream, n.All

A Recurrent dream (n.) keeps ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a forgotten childhood alive — a yellow lion that prowled a man's sleep for thirty years turned out to be his lost favourite toy.

A Recurrent dream (n.) keeps ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠coming back because it has never been understood — it repeats until consciousness reorients itself to the compensation it brings.

A Recurrent dream (n.) Jung ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠had for years, of an unknown wing of his house with an old library, stopped for good the week a sixteenth-century alchemical book arrived in the post.

The Recurrent dream (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠rarely the same: people claim to dream it again, yet on a common background now one detail, now another stands out.