As I've commented elsewhere, for the past year or two instead of nightly metaphors in dreams I tend to get most of that in waking life. So here are a couple of images I would like interpretations for. I'd put this in inner-sanctum but it appears that almost nobody reads that, in large part due to its location, so I'll throw in a couple of recent astral/paranormal thoughts at the end of the post if anyone wants to discuss those also.

My wife and I just bought a house. On the left side of the front door entry there is this:

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And on the right side is this:

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Between these objects there's also a round stone design/symbol in the floor, maybe like something you'd step into if you wanted to conjure up a demon, except pretty rather than creepy. I forgot to take a picture of that. Maybe I'll add it in a couple of weeks if it seems relevant.

If you dreamed of these images, how would you interpret them, aside from thoughts along the lines of "somebody with bad taste has too much money to spend on art"?

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In some descriptions of 'higher worlds', the so-called astral plane is the unmanifest side of the physical plane. Lately I'm thinking that any accurate description that someone might come up with, in terms of higher states of vibration or whatever, probably needs to accommodate that idea. In some sense the astral plane is not 'real', and yet that's an important part of its power.

In dreams that I have been having lately, it seems that there is a dragon-like spiritual counterpart to each one of us that's sort of like a higher self and sort of like a familiar spirit. I guess this isn't a new idea for me, but my dreams have been more like that lately. It seems that if you believe in yourself, and don't hide for yourself, it empowers both you and that other part of you, which you may then become more conscious of.