Carl Jung believed that dreams were the psyche’s attempt to communicate important things  to the individual, and he valued them highly, perhaps above all else, as  a way of knowing what was really going on. Dreams are also an important  part of the development of the personality – a process that he called individuation. The basic idea behind Jungian dream theory is that dreams reveal more than they conceal.  They are a natural expression of our imagination and use the most  straightforward language at our disposal: mythic narratives.