When I was in the last year of high school, our professor from the college prep encouraged me to continue writing my literary book "The philanthropic beggar," and he even told me that he would help me publish it because he knew many editors since he had published three books about the Portuguese (Brazil) language, but I didn't believe he would really help me.

At the afternoon some day, when I was thinking a lot about this matter I even had the idea to see perhaps an answer in a dream if this was possible... What would Mr. Valentim do for my book?

I slept like a log because I was very tired, since I used to stay up late writing. I started to write a very strange romance when I was 16 years old, after suffering a terrible car accident, the already mentioned "Philanthropic Beggar," who wanted to bring peace and happiness to humanity, but couldn't find a way to do so...

That afternoon I saw in my dream the polish of my bedroom and three very dangerous wild birds around it, covering the lamp. This vision was very impressing. There was something very mysterious about it...

When I awake up I understood this was the answer to my question, but I couldn't translate the dream's language.

Only many years later I learned to translate dream messages according to Carl Jung, after testing and trying all the important methods that existed for dream decoding.

The interpretation of this dream is very interesting and it's really something I would be able to understand only a long time after verifying its meaning in real life: three birds are three pieces of news. Since they were wild and dangerous the news they were bringing me were also of the same nature.

These birds covering the light were bringing me news pieces that were related to what I had to do-discover what really provokes craziness, by passing through three different steps.

1. The literary book I was writing would not be published as I thought but it would guide me with its symbolism, so that I would be able to understand the dreams' meanings better than Jung, by using his method.

2. This way I would discover the existence of our wild and violent conscience in the unknown region of the human psychic sphere...

3. ...and I would also discover the unique possible cures for schizophrenia and psychosis, the most terrible psychic diseases that exist and which cannot be cured.

Psychiatrists are not able to cure psychotic and schizophrenic patients and are only able to give them medicines to alleviate their pain, without healing their wound. However, the wise unconscious revealed to me many points I could never have discovered elsewhere.

The dangerous birds represented the dangerous adventures I would experience in my fight against craziness and through all my suffering.

However, the most important part in the interpretation of this dream reveals a positive meaning in the end, because the three wild birds were covering the light of my bedroom lamp. When the light that illuminates us comes from an artificial source like a lamp (and not from the sun) it has the meaning of the false truth. Only the sun's light symbolizes the real truth.

So, the dangerous news would help me understand how false the knowledge of my time was, since I would discover the real reason for the existence of craziness, which is completely different from what most psychiatrists and psychologists of our time believe.

The wild birds were impeding me from seeing the false truth, but showed me the real truth about the human psychic sphere: craziness doesn't come from our unconscious side, because it is wise. It comes from our wild and violent primitive conscience, which is still alive and active in our psyche, always trying to control our behaviour and, therefore, always trying to destroy our human side.