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    New House Establishing What We Get to Keep

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    JoannaB
    , 11-04-2013 at 10:21 AM (430 Views)
    My family was moving into a new house, and this dream was all about ambiguities as to what came with the new house and what did not.

    For example, when we first move in, the previous owner's teenaged or young adult son is still there. Are we expected to live with him or not? He seemed friendly enough, mostly watching TV. We though it was an awkward situation, and thought it might not be appropriate to ask the previous owner to clarify.

    Then there were the bunk beds and lots of other furniture and other stuff. Would those remain in the house? The bunk beds would be convenient because even though we do have our own, but these are hard to disassemble and reassemble, so it would be convenient to keep the previous owner's bunk bed. The same is not true though of most of the stuff, since we have a lot of our own, and need space to move in. The previous owner arrived (at first it had been just her son), and her first answer was that everything stays, but then she said she might pick everything up to take with her tomorrow, even the bunk beds. But if something stays we are welcome to use it. I said "As if it were our own?" That ruffled her feathers apparently because no, it appeared the stuff would remain hers even if any staid, and should be treated as such.

    Then there were the kids. At some point the living room was full of kids tumbling with each other, mock fighting, and having a great time. My own were included, but lots more. I said to the previous owner. Your kids and my kids appear to get along well. She said that those were not her kids. They were the neighbor's kids. I said, oh good, so we get to keep them. The answer was no, though, apparently the neighbors were moving too, and the ambiguity there was whether the previous owner and neighbor would be moving together or independently.

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    1. JoannaB's Avatar
      This is an interesting dream in that it addresses the issue of when moving from old to new, how much of the old to keep. It goes from one ridiculous extreme (keeping previous homeowner's teenaged son ) to the other extreme - where one does not get to keep anything, even stuff one expected to be able to keep (even the neighbors shall move).

      As I work toward moving into my new personality, I need to establish where on that scale I shall fall: how much do I change and how much do I keep.

      Both the previous owner and the character I identify with in this dream are me.
    2. Superman1's Avatar
      TEEN
      The teen of course sounds like your previous development, on brink of maturing, mostly watching your vision, and listening. So it must have made you feel awakward to still have the old, and better not to clarify whether to live with it or not.

      BUNKS
      The bunk beds is interesting, where you can have two parts of you in the same space = one higher, one lower. Maybe one newer, one older. Or so you thought.
      Hard to disassemble and reassemble old parts of you.

      LETTING GO OF THE OLD. AND THE NEW
      And apparently you were reluctant to let things go, wanting to hang onto them. That was your first answer when you thought of your whole old self, not just your old assertive part like at first. That all stays.
      Then you thought maybe it all goes tomorrow.
      Then the old you comes in: If some old parts of you remained, the old you wanted it. That ruffled your feathers. No. The new you could not own what belonged to the old, and should be treated as such.

      KIDS
      All the kids can be the new varied new growth in you tumbling around in this change - the old getting along well with the new - having a great time 'fighting' with yourself, between the old and the new.

      NEIGHBOURS
      And apparently, as you change, your relation to others changes.
      But your question is do you beccome indpendant, or move with them? (I like that bit.)
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    3. JoannaB's Avatar
      Thank you, superman1. You did give me some new ideas here, but also I thank you for by posting here encouraging me remember this dream - one of my favorites of the few I have remembered recently. I am still in a bit of a dry spell dream recall wise.