Secret Room

**Amurehna** · 12-12-2012 07:01 AM

I'm just curious if anyone else has anything like this.
I have had several dreams over the years that I'm discovering a secret room. I even remember one from when I was a kid (I guess that's not so strange, I remember dreams I had when I was 4 but I have trouble remembering things that happened to me in the waking world when I was a kid). The path to the room is always the same, and I always recognize it. I always think "I'm about to visit the room again!"

There's nothing special about it, aside from the fact that it's a hidden room. Here's the path I always take: I'll be walking past a doorway in an abandoned or vacant house, I may have walked past it before in the dream but this time it looks familiar. I become aware that I'm dreaming and I'm about to find The Room again. The interior of this room is a little messy, piles of clothes or junk everywhere. On the far side of the room is a painting, behind which is a small tunnel or crawlspace that leads to another room that is also full of junk. I know that I'm the first one to enter the room in many years. This room is connected to another by a short and narrow hallway, in the next room there is a heavy, wooden double door. I go through it and there is a staircase (usually a spiral) that goes down. I never make it all the way down the stairs, but I'm always trying. I want to see what's in the room at the bottom of them.

**Booney** · 12-12-2012 01:36 PM

Does the dream just end halfway down the stairs or is something stopping you from proceeding?

I have a Secret Room too.
Like you I also have to go through several rooms before I can reach the door to the Secret Room. I never seem to remember how I get in the first one though.
http://www.dreamviews.com/f11/recurr...o-room-130385/

This dream I've had for years, haven't been there for a while though.

**Amurehna** · 12-12-2012 04:05 PM

The stairs go all the way down, but I never make it to the bottom. I either wake up or someone/something stops me.
Actually, I take that back. Some years ago, I had a kind of...extravagant version of the dream. The rooms were part of a mansion, the spiral staircase was polished dark wood with a pale gold runner. When I got to the room at the bottom it was a vast circular room, the walls entirely covered with painted portraits. The ceiling went so high that many of the paintings were obscured by shadow.
That's the only time I made it there, and I didn't get to explore before waking up.

**gab** · 12-12-2012 09:09 PM

According to one possible interpretation, houses and rooms in our dreams represent our mind and it's nooks and crannies. So the secret room could be a long forgotten or supressed memory, or just a memory of something that is for you to discover. Exciting!