Thread: Recurring dream

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***Moved to Dream Interpretation***

This isn't about opening doors, it's about locking them. And how i interpret my own dreams is to read my own dream journal precisely and ask myself questions, like, "am i feeling this way in real?" do i feel locked in? alone? does anyone really listens to me? am i afraid of new opportunities? (which is opposite of opening doors)

[QUOTE=Jazzpants;1975904]Hello,
I hope this is the appropriate place to post a recurring dream I have had for awhile in hopes someone might be able to provide some further insight on what may be underlying:

I dream I'm in a very large house, I don't know whose it is and I'm alone. The house is not always the same however but it's always large and I'm always alone. There's nothing significant about the house, it's very plain and neat/tidy. The part of the dream that is consistent is that I am going from room to room of this large house locking doors, sometimes the doors won't lock and sometimes I go back to check the doors and they've been unlocked and/or are ajar. I'm always frantic in that the doors are supposed to be locked and when I find they're not there's a sense of anxiety and A feeling of impending doom. There is usually a basement in the house and that door will never lock, this fact always frightens me in the dream. Sometimes I see a light coming from the basement which disturbs me as the house is seemingly empty.

I have been researching symbolism of dreams lately and the only thing I cannot connect with the theme of the house and the doors is the frantic ness of locking and rechecking all the doors. What I've read makes it sound like dreams about open doors are about good things, but This recurring dream is more of a nightmare and when I recall it, the emotion it evokes is fear.

Any thoughts and insights are welcome, thank you for reading.

Jessica[/QUO
The house in a dream represents our current state of mind or consciousness. To dream of a big house shows you have at present an expanded state of awareness and have an unlimited mindset and possibilities for growth. Seeing rooms neat and tidy suggests that you like things just so, explainable, neat and tidy, nothing confusing...explainable. Going around locking doors on rooms could say that you are afraid to explore parts of life, or knowledge that you don't understand. You may want everything wrapped up , just so with a tidy bow. If you venture into areas of life that make you wonder, or study, gain more understanding etc. it makes you uncomfortable.

I think you are having this repeat dream to show you that there's a lot more to life to explore, to understand and you should not be afraid to open the mind to new ways of thinking, new knowledge and put yourself out there.
just my thoughts.
TL

Thank you all so much for your responses, this gives me a lot to think about.

I do like travellight27's.

Here's another option, Jessica,

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LARGE HOUSE:
A very large house in this case can mean you are aware of how big you are inside, and maybe how alone you are.
That it's not your house and you don't know whose it is means it is not the real or true you, and strange.
You are not always the same inside.
You are plain, neat, and tidy. So you like things that way, and can connect with wanting to lock the doors.

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LOCKED DOORS:
You are going from one part of you to another locking something out of yourself that is undesirable or scary. And do you know what? Because the house is always large (that bit didn't make sense to me unless it is a dream of expanded potential and there is no sign of that), I think you might be trying to make it smaller, because it's big and lonely in there.

But, you cannot close this part of you off. It's always ajar, in your consciousness, that you feel this way.
It makes you frantic (easy way to correlate what the dream is about:- Where in yourself, when alone, do you recurringly feel frantic? Why?)

These parts of you are supposed to be locked but that they are not makes you anxious, and feel impending doom.

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BASEMENT:
The basement, of course, is your subconscious, or what is under your surface, that will never lock, which frightens you. Because you have least control, or no control, over that part.
The light you see coming from there is the beautiful bit ~ your light within. But even that scares you! You didn't say scared though, but disturbed, which is different. Because you think you should feel lonely. And seeing the light and ending that despair is disturbing. It disturbs or unsettles the status quo. And probably scary anyway!
So, not only are you afraid of your own shadow (as we all are) but your own light. {Sorry. Couldn't resist that one.}

Could that be accurate? Loneliness is probaby the top human condition.

Thank you so much superman1, I appreciate your insight. I can't thank you all enough for helping me interpret this dream and getting me more excited/interested in journaling my dreams and learning more about myself.

Jessica

Originally Posted by Superman1

I do like travellight27's.

Here's another option, Jessica,

____________
LARGE HOUSE:
A very large house in this case can mean you are aware of how big you are inside, and maybe how alone you are.
That it's not your house and you don't know whose it is means it is not the real or true you, and strange.
You are not always the same inside.
You are plain, neat, and tidy. So you like things that way, and can connect with wanting to lock the doors.

______________
LOCKED DOORS:
You are going from one part of you to another locking something out of yourself that is undesirable or scary. And do you know what? Because the house is always large (that bit didn't make sense to me unless it is a dream of expanded potential and there is no sign of that), I think you might be trying to make it smaller, because it's big and lonely in there.

But, you cannot close this part of you off. It's always ajar, in your consciousness, that you feel this way.
It makes you frantic (easy way to correlate what the dream is about:- Where in yourself, when alone, do you recurringly feel frantic? Why?)

These parts of you are supposed to be locked but that they are not makes you anxious, and feel impending doom.

~~~~~~~
BASEMENT:
The basement, of course, is your subconscious, or what is under your surface, that will never lock, which frightens you. Because you have least control, or no control, over that part.
The light you see coming from there is the beautiful bit ~ your light within. But even that scares you! You didn't say scared though, but disturbed, which is different. Because you think you should feel lonely. And seeing the light and ending that despair is disturbing. It disturbs or unsettles the status quo. And probably scary anyway!
So, not only are you afraid of your own shadow (as we all are) but your own light. {Sorry. Couldn't resist that one.}

Could that be accurate? Loneliness is probaby the top human condition.

Sorry to interrupt this thread; I was going to set up my own but then these suggestions came up and so thought I'd comment to save using another forum place thing... (Sorry I'm new here and new to using forums in general, so please bear with me and don't think me rude).

I don't usually have recurring dreams but when I do there's usually a significance to them. When I was little I used to have a recurring dream of falling down the stairs past my parents in front of me as if they were ghosts etc, looking back at the time it was prominent because my parents had a turbulent relationship and a few years later broke up so it makes sense that I was clearly picking up on it all and was feeling unstable about their relationship.

The next time I had a recurring dream was a few years ago when my uncle passed, he died in a particularly bad way (don't really want to share the entire story) but the dream was almost like it was giving me a clue to something, I remember it felt particularly significant.

As I say these recurring dreams don't usually happen in the sense that nothing changes, I have similar dreams but something changes but if I have a recurring dream and nothing changes it freaks me out because it rarely happens to me.

Recently I've been going through some hard times, and I've got a few big choices coming up and I'm very confused of these choices for emotional and other reasons (kind of head vs heart situation), and I keep having this recurring dream which only lasts a short while of me walking to my garage at home (as in family home not Uni home), the door is open, I walk out in the garage, the garden door in the garage is open as is the main garage door, but the car that's usually always in the garage is no longer there and the garage is immaculately tidy (which would be a miracle if it were like that in the real world, it hasn't been tidy for years let alone immaculate) and my nan always walks in from the garden back door to say something positive but nothing is ever said there's just a feeling of positivity if that makes sense.

In terms of emotions, the dream makes me feel calm, I certainly don't wake panicking or crying or worrying or upset etc, it's almost like the answers there or been answered, like a weight has been lifted, yet nothing in the waking world has changed I still have to make the choices I am still just as worried, upset and confused about those choices and feelings faced in the real world too.

The dream is just bothering me because usually I look back at recurring dreams and see the point but I'd quite like to maybe know the meaning now, it's one of those dreams that's a bugging one if you see my drift, not bad feelings regarding it just annoying you don't know.

Anyways sorry for butting in here and any help would be much appreciated, many thanks. Wendy.

Wendee, this is a perfect recurring dream to begin practicing or continue practicing lucid dreaming. When you have this dream again try to take it a little further, take time to look around and notice something new. This dream is trying to tell you something, you just have to look a little deeper.

Maybe you know the door is always open at home. Everything is immaculate and tidy or in order there, despite other troubles or that you may not know the way forward yet, or be able to drive in your life in this desired state.
And the growth or establishment you have so far in you is always there, and open to you. And you know how positive and calming that is and maybe gives a basis or blueprint for that in your new choices.

Maybe that's the answer you got.
But this is the home in you, feeling at home in yourself, in these new challenges.
Like a matter of faith of the inevitable good outcome you can look forward to if you choose that.

Hey, thanks for the help.

Two of the decisions at the time that were bothering me have now entered my life as such, one of them was taken out of my hands and at first I wasn't happy but I seemed to calm relatively quickly, the other was again sort of taken out of my hands but the choice I made was already known I guess, it was something I knew I would do deep down, my heart was set on it...

So coming back to what you guys said I think you are both right, home is where I can turn to when things are hard away from home, the stability of my family and so on, where as the decision I already knew I guess, it was one of those situations where I struggled to make a choice but I knew deep down what decision I would make, even my best friends said 'I knew you'd do that' so maybe that was the reason I kept having the dream as a reassurance thing

Thanks for your help Wendy.