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Dreams as a code language.

João Ereiras Vedor¹

¹Jungian Clinical Institute, Portugal.

|September 5, 2025

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Dreams are coded artifacts of biological, neuronal, and symbolic processes, essential for emotional regulation and memory. Therapists translate these dream codes, a process called psychic codepoiesis, aided by new AI models.

Keywords:

Archetypes Code biology Dreams Large language models Neuroscience Psychoanalysis

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Psychology
Code Biology

Background:

Psychologists have long sought to interpret dreams, but a universal manual remains elusive.
Advances in dream neuroscience and Code Biology offer new insights into dream formation.
Dreams serve vital adaptive functions including emotional regulation and memory consolidation.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose a framework for understanding dreams as coded artifacts.
To reframe archetypes as regulators of dream formation and symbolic imagery.
To explore the role of therapists in translating dream codes (psychic codepoiesis).

Main Methods:

Review of dream neuroscience and Code Biology literature.
Integration of affective neuroscience and Jungian theory.
Analysis of clinical dream interpretation as a translation process.

Main Results:

Dreams are viewed as coded artifacts produced by multiple organic codes (biological, neuronal, symbolic, cultural).
Archetypes are reframed as artifacts of embodied organic codes.
Emotional affects are proposed as archetypal neurodynamic patterns.
Therapists act as "adaptors" in psychic codepoiesis, translating dream narratives.

Conclusions:

Dreams are biologically necessary, serving crucial adaptive functions.
A new paradigm views dreams as the foundational language of subjective life.
Large Language Models may assist, but not replace, human interpretation in understanding dream codes.