{"id":125491,"date":"2026-03-26T10:07:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T10:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jungian.directory\/fcxfougk\/?p=125491"},"modified":"2026-03-26T10:07:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T10:07:33","slug":"%f0%9f%8e%99%ef%b8%8f12-dr-erik-goodwyn-who-creates-the-dream-the-invisible-storyteller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jungian.directory\/fcxfougk\/%f0%9f%8e%99%ef%b8%8f12-dr-erik-goodwyn-who-creates-the-dream-the-invisible-storyteller\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\udf99\ufe0f#12 Dr. Erik Goodwyn: Who Creates the Dream? The Invisible Storyteller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lClA3VIj0ds\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n\ud83c\udf99\ufe0f#12 Dr. Erik Goodwyn: Who Creates the Dream? The Invisible Storyteller<br \/>\n March 25, 2026 at 12:30AM<br \/>\nDr. Erik Goodwyn is a practising psychiatrist with a background in neurobiology who bridges the worlds of neuroscience, Jungian psychology, and fantasy. Erik is co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Jungian Studies and has written dozens of academic papers along with books on the neurobiology of the gods, dreams, and archetypes. Last year he published his first fantasy novel, *King of the Forgotten Darkness*, which won the Literary Titan Golden Book Award.<\/p>\n<p>In this return visit, we dive deep into who actually creates the dream \u2013 the Invisible Storyteller that isn&#8217;t your conscious self. We explore the neuroscience behind this, discussing the Default Mode Network, Salience Network, and Executive Control Network, and what they reveal about dreaming, meaning-making, and the deeply non-egoic nature of consciousness. Erik shares clinical insights into Dissociative Identity Disorder as evidence of an underlying organising principle, we tangle with what it means for consciousness to be &#8220;non-egoic,&#8221; and we work through his groundbreaking definition of archetypes through Cognitive Metaphor Theory. It&#8217;s a conversation that challenges everything you think you know about who you are.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd17 Links<br \/>\n&#8211; Erik&#8217;s website: https:\/\/erikgoodwyn.com<br \/>\n&#8211; Erik&#8217;s YouTube: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@theimaginarium<\/p>\n<p>\u23f3 Timestamps:<br \/>\n00:00 Intro &#8211; The Invisible Storyteller<br \/>\n01:39 Greeting and reflections on James&#8217;s reading<br \/>\n03:35 What is the Invisible Storyteller?<br \/>\n06:01 Jung&#8217;s avoidance of reductionism through mythic language<br \/>\n08:16 The Default Mode Network and dreaming<br \/>\n10:27 The three networks: default mode, salience, and executive control<br \/>\n15:27 Memory consolidation, identity formation, emotional regulation, future planning<br \/>\n18:29 Is the Invisible Storyteller the unconscious?<br \/>\n22:18 Deeper processing independent of conscious ego<br \/>\n25:58 Recurrent dreams and the role of conscious engagement<br \/>\n28:40 The Invisible Storyteller as meaning-making<br \/>\n31:07 Dreams versus storytelling: memory Olympics and metaphor<br \/>\n36:58 The role of the right hemisphere and symbolism<br \/>\n41:04 The Invisible Storyteller as process or personality?<br \/>\n44:18 Dissociative Identity Disorder and organising principles<br \/>\n50:33 DID as evidence of an organising intelligence<br \/>\n55:43 The specificity of dissociative amnesia<br \/>\n58:22 Non-egoic consciousness and emergent properties<br \/>\n1:02:14 Consciousness arising from complex systems<br \/>\n1:05:44 AI image generation as analogy for dream creation<br \/>\n1:10:56 The Invisible Storyteller as personality versus ancestry and genome<br \/>\n1:15:32 Jungian vision and updating Jung&#8217;s theory<br \/>\n1:18:40 Archetypes through Cognitive Metaphor Theory<br \/>\n1:22:37 Spontaneous thoughts and universal challenges<br \/>\n1:25:58 Primary metaphors and innate mappings<br \/>\n1:29:20 Danger and darkness as innate mappings<br \/>\n1:32:17 Definition of archetype and falsifiability<br \/>\n1:34:47 Building on Gary Clark&#8217;s work and Anthony Stevens<br \/>\n1:36:25 Gratitude and future conversations<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lClA3VIj0ds\">View on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83c\udf99\ufe0f#12 Dr. Erik Goodwyn: Who Creates the Dream? 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