
Originally Posted by
JoannaB
I am not sure if this is the right interpretation, but I have read that it is often useful to think of a home in a dream as representing one's mind. So maybe the abandoned home with thick layer of dust could be a part if your mind that is old fashioned or ideas which you have had for a long time and wish to abandon. But there is something there that is outside of your conscious control, maybe ideas that you wish you did not have but they are there deep inside your mind, maybe ideas like stereotypes or superstitions or some such ideas which you wish you did not have but deep inside they are there, and they pull you in and scare you? For example, for me such ideas could be the feeling of guilt which is due to my growing up Christian Roman Catholic, and even though I know that the guilt is unhelpful to me, but it is too deep in my psyche, too much a part of me to abandon, for you there may be other such ideas - and because you come from a different religious background and different culture and different family than me, so your deep rooted ideas that are rooted like a tree's roots inside the cellar of your mind where you get pulled against your conscious will, your ideas there will be different than the ideas in my mind in there, but I also have such ideas.
I think you may be repeatedly dreaming of this because you may be actively trying to overcome stereotypes or superstitions or other unwanted ideas, but they are rooted inside you so deeply so that even though your conscious mind tries to overcome, your subconscious keeps pulling you back down there. If so, you may continue having these dreams until one side of you wins this battle that is raging within you. However, this battle may be one that will always rage within you: the battle between your rational and irrational self, between tradition and modern thought.
Of course, I may be wrong in this interpretation, and if so, please disregard if it does not sound right.
Edit: Note even though in your dream you are experiencing this internal battle from one side, if I am right in my interpretation you are experiencing the dream from the perspective of your more rational and more modern thinking, but that does not mean that the other side is wholy evil. Intuition, subconscious, traditions, family values, supernatural beliefs are where those tree roots are (if my interpretation is right), and then it may be that the desired outcome is not so much for one side to win but rather for the two sides of you to be reconciled because there is value to both, and maybe you need to find that balance and not be scared of the less rational older side of your psyche?
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