Remembering your dreams after you’ve wakened can give insight into yourself, a situation that you are perplexed about, a problem you are trying to solve, solutions you are attempting create and even guidance into your personal or professional lives. We might even have a dream in which a person or pet who recently died comes back to “visit” us. Dreams are loaded with symbolism. A house is a symbol for the physical state of a person. If you see a sprawling mansion, you have multiple talents, skills and abilities you are currently utilizing to be happy and successful.
Dream Journals
When writing down your dreams, it is suggested to have a dream journal by your bedside. Write down in great detail, everything you remember. If it was day or night, the color of the house, how many levels, if there were any doors or windows, any decorative items, if the dream was in color or in black and white, or if parts were in color. Note any numbers, phrases on walls or papers, if you recognized others or if there were strangers, things that are out of the ordinary – such as black furniture stacked on its end in one room. The size, weathered appearance, material and color of the front door is significant, and if there is a gate or fence around the property. If you can remember, recount how you felt in the dream – were you at peace, lost, afraid or feeling relief? Note the type of house – was it Victorian, gothic, a farmhouse, a church?
The Levels of Our Consciousness
Different types of houses, the number of levels and the many rooms all have different meanings and interpretations. The house itself – the basement/crawl space, the first floor, second floor and attic represent respectively, your subconscious, your consciousness, and higher consciousness or intuition. The basement represents repressed memories from childhood, your secrets or how you truly feel about people. Floors in between the basement and attic represent present day. The attic space, if brightly lit will teach you that they are learning new things about yourself, are exploring or living up to your potential. Dealing with current issues or resolving problems are addressed effectively here.
The kitchen represents who you love or who loves you. If you are alone the whole time in the dream and no one is in your kitchen, it can represent heartbreak or a lack of emotional and physical nourishment. If you see others in your kitchen, they love you. If you are a man, and see another man, you may possibly be gay.
The formal living room represents social situations, and the people you spend time with – neighbors, coworkers, volunteers, friends, and church goers. A family room or den is a more intimate setting and represents people that you spend the most of your time with. Both these rooms can overlap in a dream depending on the depth of your connection. A best friend might be in the formal living room, while a spouse is in the family room.
If you have a sunroom or porch, this can represent getting in touch with your higher self, your guardian angels or spirit guides. When insights come, it may show deceased relatives, shadow people or ghosts coming to give you a message from the afterlife. If you have an outside area of your home, such as a grassy area, patio or deck this can represent people that you meet in your neighborhood, while you are out and about or a random stranger. If you have a garage, it can represent money making opportunities, business opportunities and partnerships. The laundry room is where you think about things, where you process situations, thinking about how to do something, what has happened, how to move forward.
Bathrooms represent the need to let things go, holding onto something that is no longer healthy for you. This can represent people, an idea or belief about yourself, a rush of negative emotions. Sometimes, it can represent detoxing from an unhealthy person or situation, releasing the need to control others, getting rid of something or someone that is causing you pain or illness.
If upon your exploring in the home, you discover more rooms in a house with dust covering the contents in the room, you are discovering aspects of yourself that have been hidden. They could be new or different personality traits that are pushing through due to a circumstance, illness or death, another career you hadn’t considered, a creative pursuit, determination, a head for business, confidence, a knack for chess, riding a unicycle, etc.
Upgraded or remodeled rooms indicate a fresh view, letting go of the old ways of thinking and behaving and bringing in new ideas and concepts. There could be better ways of handling changes, such as refining how you express your emotions, and purifying your character to maintain composure under trying circumstances. The creativity that blossoms materializes to new, innovative and original ideas. It can also represent new relationships coming into your life that are healthier. The result is an undeniable and unshakeable confidence. A remodeling indicates you have found a better way to handle deep emotions and feelings, harnessing them into a lasso of strength and security to fight, and solidarity when needing to stand alone. This upgrade is reflected in a grand, posh, marbleized upper class bathroom, with glass walls.
Haunted house dreams can be an example of unfinished business. Such as getting something off the chest, to clear the air, to clear a misunderstanding or to confront an issue or liar. It can also represent the fears and worries, even rage associated with your childhood family, dead relative or repressed memories. Abandoned or neglected homes represent the status of how you see yourself after an abusive relationship. An abandoned church may indicate your current views on spirituality, religion, the universe, karma and anything you are unsure about, or on becoming an atheist. Either a revamping, a returning, reflection or repentance is needed.
If the home that was once a façade of shingles, aluminum siding or wood, but is now upgraded to brick – something very significant has occurred in the dreamer’s life to present themselves – in certain situations – with tremendous grit, toughness, influence, power, and dominance. It’s the quality that describes arse licking.
If ice is found frozen in long icicles, with massive sheets hanging off the gutters or frame of the house, this indicates that something was done to a person to make them go emotionally cold – one or many massive and tremendous betrayals, such as a romantic evening disguised as a rape, a planned robbery by a known assailant, a planned assault, poisoning of a pet, behind the scenes extortion, cheating a business partner out of $100k+ in clients, vandalizing their house or vehicles, blacklisting them in an industry, attempting to plant drugs in a person’s car, claiming a tenant is incompetent and attempting to gouge them on the rent or get them evicted or falsely accusing a spouse of having affairs. You get the idea.
Large windows show our openness to new opportunities or big dreams, while small and narrow windows mean you are not open to opportunities. Dirty windows suggest misleading information or dishonesty. A window that is open in the kitchen suggest a new love interest. However, if the open window is in a tight corner, you may need to make a major decision – such as to leave a spouse for someone else. Tinted windows can mean a person is private in how they conduct themselves and their goals. The desire to be ambiguous. Neither are wrong or unacceptable, the dream represents where you are at this moment in time, what you look like to others and how others see you.
Ergo, you see the reason for recounting the details of your dream, as many facets have different meanings. Your dreams are your mind’s way of working through challenging problems, your anxieties and visualizations you have for future events. The dream, idea or epiphany that wakes you up is sometimes the answer you are looking for, the rewording of a role play that you were practicing, the solution to an argument, an idea or sales pitch, and even a phrase that has meaning for you or someone else. There are many interpretations of dreams on the internet that resonate with you, and some that do not. If you meditate, set the intention prior to the session to ask your subconscious what the meaning is or set the intention when you go to sleep. Answers may appear that night or a few days later.
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PC: Austin Hodges
