Big Dreams, Intergenerational Trauma, and Queer Identity

Using a research study focused on big dreams and the queer self, this paper explores the process in which an epiphanic dream can suddenly and radically end dissociative states induced by intergenerational trauma and oppression. During this experience archetypal material emerges transmuted: the dream heals and empowers the dreamer, revealing unformulated unconscious identities, shifting the dreamer’s worldview, and uncovering a new sense of self anchored in the collective.