The shadow is… conscious personality.
Whether the unconscious comes up at first in a helpful or a negative form, after a time the need usually arises to readapt the conscious attitude in a better way to the unconscious factors, therefore to accept what seems to be criticism from the unconscious. Through dreams one becomes acquainted with
aspects of one’s own personality (that for various reasons one has preferred not to look at too closely). This is what Jung called the realization of the shadow.
