One of the primary ways we know our unconscious is through dreaming. Sometimes in a daydream or lucid dream it is even more real to us.

One of the most significant researchers and geniuses that influences SPoR is C. G. Jung (https://antilogicalism.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/memories-dreams-reflections.pdf ). I have written on Jung before (https://safetyrisk.net/c-g-jung-on-risk-and-safety/ ).

However, if your worldview is Behaviourist, Positivist or Scientist, Jung will just sound like mumbo jumbo. If you want ‘hard facts’ (that don’t exist) or the myth of scientific method (https://safetyrisk.net/safety-and-the-myth-of-scientific-method/ ), then you won’t find it in Jung.

When myths compete, in SPoR we determine value and significance through our Ethic. If one’s ethic empowers the dehumanisation of persons then it’s not a worldview SPoR finds attractive, professional or helpful.

What Jung does is provide SPoR with a framework for understanding the human unconscious, decision making, being, personhood and Ethics.

I read a great book recently on the Neuroscience of Sleep and Dreams (https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9781009208871_A47731391/preview-9781009208871_A47731391.pdf) that gives such extraordinary insight into such things as: fatigue, sleep deprivation, biological rhythms, dreaming, lucid dreaming, lack of awareness and disorders related to sleep.

You would think that anything like this research would be critical for an industry that loves to talk about ‘lack of awareness’, complacency and mindfulness (https://safetyrisk.net/sleep-dysfunction-dreaming-and-safety/ ). Alas, no. None of this research on neuroscience of sleep and dreaming can be found anywhere in the safety world globally (https://safetyrisk.net/dreamers-dreaming-and-decision-making/).

On page 3 (pxvi) of this book, you will find an amazing semiotic of physical manifestations associated with dream reports (see below).

What an amazing map of dreaming and embodiment. What we see in this semiotic is an extraordinary connection between physical disorders and dreaming.

Even when you are asleep and dreaming, your embodied self is hard ‘at work’ and active. Even the persistent dreaming of something can make you sick just as depression, anxiety and PTSD influences dreaming. It is well known that in sleeping we often ‘work through’ in our unconscious, matters that pervade our conscious life. Why should this matter for safety?

Well surely wellbeing and psychosocial health should include what we can learn from sleep and dreaming? Not so Safety, where psychosocial hazards (https://safetyrisk.net/what-is-psychosocial-safety/ ) holds to a fixation on shifting objects NOT the nature of human being. This is the stupidity of the linguistics of ‘hazards’ on full show. And the reason why? Well. This is because the industry is consumed by Scientism, Positivism and Behaviourism and the myth of measurement. This is how worldview (Methodology) determines method.

• In safety, if it can’t be measured, it is of no consequence.
• If performance can’t be quantified it’s of no interest.

This is why the language of ‘performance’ is so attractive to HOP and hence why it is no different than traditional safety.

For those who want to step outside the bounds of traditional safety and its fixation with measurement (https://safetyrisk.net/the-seduction-of-measurement-in-risk-and-safety/; https://safetyrisk.net/measurement-anxiety-in-safety/) here is some great research for you:

But don’t let lucid dreaming bother you when you can have Safety masquerading as neuroscience (https://safetyrisk.net/behaviourist-neuroscience-as-safety/ ) feeding you rubbish about complacency (https://home.hellodriven.com/articles/neuroscience-of-psychosocial-risks-and-safety-impacts-benefits/ ) and have Safety telling you how the Mind works (https://www.safetydimensions.com.au/whats-the-neuroscience-behind-safe-behaviour/). Why do research when a word from safety on neuroscience (https://www.stratleader.net/neurosafety ) will do.

All of this safety-goop (https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2023.1190995/full ) is brain-centric and has no expertise in neuroscience.

The only thing that’s going to change after engaging with any of this stuff is your bank balance.

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