So I’ve already made a blog about my shadow self presenting itself to me in my dreams (see "The Tapeworm") but I feel I should delve into a more recurrent dream of mine.
I've had quite a few dreams about being in danger from a tsunami and the fear of it as well as the need to escape it. All dreams are messages from the subconscious, and this tsunami dream seems to heed a very important one. The shadow self was what Carl Jung called the repressed subconscious material that one buries and disidentifies with. However just like when you bury garbage in the ground, the smell still rises.
The shadow makes itself known by means of projection and dreams primarily. So with my tsunami dream i think the ocean and tsunami represent my subconscious including my shadow and land represents my conscious. I fear it and run away from it, but i should be identifying it and accepting it.....

I've written a poem about the shadow, specifically about the tapeworm dream, the lovely named "Shadow Sewer"..... please read
Also the conceptual photography "vampiric" "dark" and "Learn To Swim" are based around the shadow.