Jung once said that dreams were involuntary psychological activity, possessing precisely the consciousness we recreated when awake.
Albus did not think this was correct, because he believed dreams were free. Only in dreams could they fully enter a world that belonged to them, swim through the deepest oceans, or soar above the clouds.
Freud believed that dreams retained fragments of consciousness, allowing the emotions suppressed while awake, the contradictions within oneself, and forgotten memories to reveal themselves.
A dream was like a theater. The dreamer was the stage, the actor, the sound engineer, the director, the playwright, and the audience. Yet Jung did not believe every dream contained suppressed emotions and desires meant to satisfy the irrational impulses Freud described. Dreams did not arise only when the id and superego conflicted.
For example, someone might want to become a millionaire, but he would not have the same dream every night. Or someone might have had many experiences of inferiority in childhood, then achieved professional success as an adult. Usually, he was a very confident person, but sometimes, in certain situations, he would "flash back" to memories of his former insecure self. Yet there was a contradiction between his successful present self and the insecure self in his memories. He did not feel those memories of inferiority were real, so his subconscious repressed them.
Such "frozen memories" could also become material for dreams. Handsome men and beautiful women would not be as passionate and forward as they were in erotic dreams. Instead, they would wear mocking or sneering expressions. Such memories were sometimes profound, clearer even than the person making love to you in a dream. It was precisely these "complexes" that drove the subconscious. The subconscious stored more memories than they realized. That was the principle behind the Pensieve: it