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Subject: Got a Few For You

donna

19:43 18/11/2000 

We inherited a house from some old man I don't actually know. It was very old and run down, but I liked it because there were lots and lots of little drawers and cupboards and hiding places where he kept lots of interesting, personal things.

It also turned out that there were 'little people' who looked after the house. They were about six inches tall and living in weird places in the house.

Note:

I often dream that my family and I are looking at buying or moving into a different house. These houses always seem to have dozens of different rooms in them, all quite large and many quite fancy, although sometimes there are a few daggy rooms. I always keep looking until I find the room I like, which usually has lots of hidey places, secret compartments and stuff like that.

I have two other recurring dream themes:

One is about public or school toilets.

They're always quite big, with dozens of stalls, but the stalls aren't arranged very neatly, and the rooms are absolutely filthy. I wouldn't dare use them. These things really reek! Often, there are other girls in there who have a threatening aura about them. I rarely have any actual contact with them, though.

The other is being back at school.

Quite a common dream, at least once a week! Nothing much interesting happens there, but I do see a lot of people I haven't seen for a long time, and a lot of the time they seem a bit stand-offish.

Dream edited for easier reading - JT, 2005

Jane Anderson

15:21 20/11/2000 

Hi Donna,

Welcome to the Dream Forum and thank you for posting. Keep checking in as others will add their replies here too.

You've listed some of the most common recurring dream themes. I'll look at one with you and I'm sure other people will give their interpretations, suggestions, questions and personal experiences on the others you've mentioned.

You'll also find plenty of general information on why dreams recur (and much more) on the FAQ page here:

http://www.dream.net.au/library/faq.cfm

Okay, I'll go for the house dreams with the hidey-secret rooms:

If the houses in our dreams are not houses known to us in waking life, they tend to symbolise our mind.

The many 'compartments' of the mind become the many rooms of the dream house. For example, the dark basement of the dream house can represent the unconscious, whereas the higher levels of the house can symbolise the higher levels of the mind (higher intellect, spiritual levels and so on).

The various rooms can reflect the various areas of the mind: the kitchen often symbolising nurturing, the bathroom tending to represent emotional cleansing and so on.

A common house dream is to find an extra room in a house, or a house with many rooms crying out to be used. This dream often comes up when the dreamer is beginning to acknowledge extra room for growth (unused potential).

House-hunting tends to symbolise the dreamer's search for new ways of thinking, being and expressing. In your dreams you are attracted to hidey-secret places, suggesting that you have a desire for more privacy or a need to hide from some aspects of life ... or from some aspects of yourself.

Our dreams show us where we're at. They are reflections, not judgements.

Your hidey-secret places dream could be explored to see why you feel drawn towards secrecy, privacy or hiding from something in your waking life. This is a process you can explore yourself. The more detailed your dream report is, the more likely an interpreter can help you to discover the motivations behind the hidey-secrets within the dream itself.

Anyway - that's a starting point, Donna. Over to others ...

Jane Anderson

andrea

22:38 28/11/2000 

Hi donna - I'm another 'house' dreamer....although I rarely remember dreams recently - I too had another 'house dream' last night. Not quite sure what it was all about - but it was about 'going back'. In my waking life I've had many changes ovr the last few years - and although it's been very transformative - sometimes I long for the days when life was I was a bit less 'aware'. But in my dream - goign back - was an unpleasant arrangement - complete with diry kitchen.....so I felt more 'in tune' today.. I tend to agree with Jane that house dreams tend to reflect diferent 'compartments' of our self. Loving houses in real life - I actually love my house dreams....

One thing I'd like to add - making a dream journal is a VERY useful thing. Because dreams - and the content often 'unfold' or reveal mutiple meanings over time.

So - you can review your dream in 6 months or a year - or more - and find that the meaning becomes even clearer - sometimes precognitive even.

That helps also to develop your interpretative skills- and pretty soon you find the symbols - not just in your dreams - but all around you in synchronicity also .