Recurring Dream House

[nzguy]

Been a couple of years since I have posted here *waves* I need some help with interpreting one of my dreams. For the past year or so I have had this recurring dream every month or so. I dream that I am in this large house - not a mansion, but nice. maybe 3 or 4 bedrooms. It is not a house that I recognize ever being in in RL. Now here's the weird part. I will be going about my life in the house (sometimes alone, in some dreams I live with others), and suddenly I will remember this room in my house that I haven't visited in over a year. In my dream, I have lived in the house for several years, and as a minimalist in RL, it is an odd concept to me to have a completely abandoned room in my house. Anyway, the thing that gets me is the euphoria I feel when I remember this room. It is like I have been living in this house for years, and just remembered the attic / basement / back room (it takes many forms in different dreams), and I am completely overcome with excitement. The best way I can think to describe it is imagine that you just realized that you had an old room in your house full of old artifacts, toys and good memories. You'd be happy, right? The recurrence of the dream makes me think there is some meaning to it. Is it a part of my own mind that I have forgotten that I have? Does my self-conscious resent my minimalism? Any ideas or suggestions appreciated - would love to get to the bottom of it!

[Mar2000]

As I understood: In the dream, you are in a house that has 3 or 4 bedroom but there is an abandoned room there. Is that right? Second question: Can you describe precisely what you were doing in the house? (Cleaning, sitting, watching TV, cooking, etc.) Third question: Before starting to have the house dream, had any acquaintance or family member died?

[nzguy]

As I understood: In the dream, you are in a house that has 3 or 4 bedroom but there is an abandoned room there. Is that right? Yes, sorry I should have made that clearer. Second question: Can you describe precisely what you were doing in the house? (Cleaning, sitting, watching TV, cooking, etc.) It really varies from dream to dream. I don't always recall this part, as it is not as captivating as discovering the extra room. I recall one time I was just wandering aimlessly, another time I was washing dishes, and most recently, I had just got home from work. Third question: Before starting to have the house dream, had any acquaintance or family member died? No, no one has died that I remember. I recall in one dream, the house was surrounded by ghosts of people I now know, who are all alive in real life. They could not get inside (and I had no intention of going outside for some reason), except to that one room. It was the attic in that dream. I don't recall feeling fear, as I would expect in a dream of a haunted house. More a feeling of reunion and happiness.

[Mar2000]

The overarching theme of your dream is safety and security (the house symbol). If there are no people inside the house or that you prevent them from entering your house, then perhaps it is reflecting your personality as a person who would prefer solitude to mixing with people. This is logical by your interest in the abandoned room. Discovery and curiosity are salient here and are perhaps driven by a desire in real life to escape from hard or awkward experience. The driving force that helps you with difficult situation is nostalgia, that is the feeling of loving to go back to the past and live in it. I do not mean, however, that you are living in the past. I am saying that nostalgia is driving you into a specific direction. Here, the direction is to get into the depth of things. It seems that you are a sort of person who would not leave a subject matter unless you have mastered it completely and got to the depth of it. If you work, you want your work to be well made. No matter what the activity you have is, you want to do something that makes you temporarily forget a hard situation. Since people cannot understand you completely, you find it useless to let them enter into your own world. You might be not keen on sharing with them your thoughts, because previous experience showed you that they are shallow. Your analysis and understanding are getting deeper and more mature, but if people remain shallow, there is a gap between you and them. Back to the word "solitude". You might be living with them working with them, having fun with them but still you think they cannot understand you. This makes you lead a solitude life as an accomplished fact. Back to the issue of "safety and security". The house symbol represents safety and security in your dream. Its interpretation still differs from one person to another. Think about that source of security and safety that "house" you. Is it a woman's love for example? Is it your work or hobby or religious practice? If that source of safety and security is a human being, is he/she that important to you to the extent that it is worth leaving all people around you for him/her? Think about it along those lines then you can get a clear interpretation of this recurring dream. Good luck.