Joker

The joker is the dark side to your personality often called The Shadow. What might make jokes on behalf of other people’s suffering the shadow archetype belongs in every person, often rearing its ugly head in unconsous ways. The mask is unusually the dreamers persona or how they appear to others.

The psyche often uses humor when difficult ideas are being explored. A Joker or comical character can appear in your dream as a way of poking fun at your tendency to be too serious or too rooted in fear. As an Archetype, these characters can 'trip you up' in order to lead you out of habitual behavior or routine thinking. Often this character is challenging you to see the same old situation in a new light. See Trickster.