It's a wonderful dream and it seems to be a part of your healing experience from a wounding childhood, a dream which I'm happy for you to have. You asked for interpretations, but I think some dreams just are what they are and can be held in memory as a reassurance that there are nice places within ourselves too where one can rest in thought and mind.
The devil in me has a couple of pointers though. You describe the place as a place for tourists. A place for tourists is a nice place to visit temporarily in between the hardships of everyday life. You go up, you work, you come home and do the laundry and so forth, but sometimes you can be a tourist and perhaps stroll the streets of Barcelona without any obligations. But then you got to get back home and do the dishes and earn your money to pay the bills. As I read the dream this is a place you established within yourself where you can rest, but not linger. -- Did you have this dream after a special occasion or happening, which it might allude to?
The second point the devil on my shoulder highlights is that since this is a place where many go, a tourist attraction, it is really not your own place. (I'm not saying it is not your own, I'm sharing my thoughts on the image as a general image.) This is a nice place, and nice places are good, but it is not your particular place, and perhaps you would benefit, in the future, to find your place. I wouldn't worry about it, because I wouldn't see it as something to worry about, but a tourist attraction is not always genuine. I'm not questioning your experience which obviously is genuine, I'm sharing associations.
The third point the devil... oh, who am I kidding, it was me all the time! I was just afraid that I would hurt somebody so I said it was a devil on my shoulder so I didn't have to take responsibility for it. Anyways, the third point I was thinking about, was the waking up. With my experience with dreams, I would say that waking up from a dream is often part of the dream. "And then I woke up", is not seldom the ending of the dream, and when you retell the dream, it goes like this: "But it was my father!, and then I woke up."
It seems to me, but I'm not sure about this, that the dream uses that to wake us up. "Wake up!" it says. "It's your father complex, wake up god damnit!" Or something to that effect.
So what I'm thinking, speculating, without knowing anything about you or your dream, is that your guide wants you to wake up. I'm not saying you are sleeping, but what I'm suggesting is that you want to linger in this tourist trap and examine the deeper meaning of it, and your guide says: "Here it is: Wake up!"
And there you are, in the boring, fantastic reality we all share. So, while this inner room of yours is great, and it is great that you have access to it, and it is great that you have a guide in your inner journey -- not small things, mind you -- it is perhaps not a place where you want to spend the rest of you life, and really, when it comes down to it, there's really nothing there, except the opportunity to rest a little, and the beauty, like strolling the streets of Barcelona a nice November day.
Great dream, cherish it and save it, but don't confuse it with your own inner treasure, which certainly is no tourist trap. You know what the old alchemists used to say: "Our gold is not the common gold."
These are the images, the thoughts, the emotions, which rise within me when I read your dream. You are very fond of this dream, and you should be, so I would be sorry if my rambling in any way is hurtful. I do not wish to take anything away from your dream, but since you asked for my interpretation, I shared my associations freely. I hope good comes out of it for you, and if not, I hope you can flush my post down the nearest toilet.
In either case, all the best.
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