Phaze wrote:I just noticed the bent telephone pole, that setting appears a lot. Aside from the already mentioned, that is also where Sachiel was swimming in the first episode.

aranami wrote:The picture you see durring the credits is of one of the lakes with the sun over the mountains and one of the mass prod. Evas.

It appears that the sun is setting. Is this a picture of the morning after EoE?

What are your thoughts about what this picture represents??

3. Hypnagogic Visual Impression:

By the sea shore. The sea breaks into the land, flooding everything. Then the dreamer is sitting on a lonely island.

The Sea is the symbol of the collective unconcious, because unfathomed depths lie concealed beneath its reflecting surface.(7) Those who stand behind, the shadowy personaifications of the unconcious, have burst into the terra firma of conciousness like a flood. Such invasions have something uncanny about them because they are irrational and incomprehensible to the person concerned. They bring about a momentous alteration of his personality since they immediately consitute a painful personal secret which alienates and isolates him from his surroundings. It is something that we "cannot tell anybody." We are afraid of being accused of mental abnormality--not without reason, for much the same thing happens to lunatics. Even so, it is a far cry from the intuitive perception of such an invasion to being inundated by it pathologically, though the layman does not realize this. Isolation by a secret results as a rule in an animation of the psycheic atmosphere, as a substitute for loss of contact with other people. It causes an activation of the unconscious, and this produces something similar to the illusions and hallucinations that beset lonely wanderers in the desert, seafarers, and saints. The mechanism of these phenomena can best be explained in terms of energy. Our normal relations to objects in the world at large are maintained by a certain expenditure of energy. If the relation to the object is cut off there is a "retention" of energy, which then creates an equivalent substitute. For instance, just as a persecution mania comes from a relationship poisoned by misturst, so, as a substitute for the normal animation of the environment, an illusory reality rises up in which weird ghostly shadows flit about in place of people. That is why primitive man has always believed that lonely and desolate places are haunted by "devils" and suchlike apparitions.


(7) The sea is a favourite place for the birth of visions (i.e., invasions by unconcious contents). Thus the great vision of the eagle in II Esdras II:I rises out of the sea, and the vision of "Man" -[illegible--Xan]-in 13:3, 25, and 51 comes up "from the midst of the sea." Cf. Also 13:52: "Like as thou canst neither seek out nor know the things that are in the deep of the sea: even so can no man upon earth see my Son..."