Synopsis: Captain Janeway is knocked unconscious and repeatedly has visions of her death.
This episode can be seen as an illustration of what happens when an individual’s rational conscious ego experiences a journey to the unconscious.
In “Coda” Captain Kathryn Janeway is knocked unconscious when the shuttle Chakotay and she are in crash lands on a planet. And while she is unconscious, she has multiple different visions of her death and a conversation with her dead father.
What Janeway experiences while she is unconscious can be compared to what we have an opportunity to experience every night in our dreams. Dreams can be seen as messages from the unconscious to the conscious ego. Sometimes dreams repeat the same theme, similar to Janeway’s reliving her death in different ways over and over. Other times dreams can contain messages from individuals we know, including those that are dead. Janeway also experienced this. Sometimes, the conscious ego is a character in the dream, much as how Janeway was portrayed in her visions. Whatever forms dreams take, they contain some information for the conscious ego, some more important than others. Working with dreams can be a valuable tool in trying to integrate messages from the unconscious into our psyches in order to become more whole.
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