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A house nearly always refers to you, depicting your body and aspects of your personality. This becomes obvious if, having visited friend’s houses you judge their character by the condition of the house.
Thus if you take a large house with its many functional rooms, the library would represent the mind; the bathroom cleansing or renewal of good feelings; the bedrooms ones sexuality or intimacy; the roof your protectiveness or ‘coping mechanisms’. But these parts of the building may also be seen as different parts of your body. So going into any building suggests an entering into something within you, perhaps a searching or looking within yourself. So the structure of the building not only associates with your physical age and well-being, but also with the structure of attitudes and viewpoints built in your youth through your relationship with those around you.
In a larger context, a house can represent a family tradition, the class the family is in within the social hierarchy. The house can depict a way you allow the world or people into your life, or exclude it, and the love or attitudes, the pain or hidden secrets of relationships.
But a house is a massive symbol and it can link with many aspects of you and your life. So to really get from your dream house what it refers to you also need to ask yourself what type of house it is. For instance how old is it and how does that refer to your age and what period of social attitudes your were born in and influenced by. What social strata does the house represent and what environment does it stand in? Then, in what way are you influenced by or developed from that social background.
If we then go into the house, what is happening inside, and whereabouts in the house? This indicates things, feelings, past influences you are presently dealing with. As a person you have many facets and possibilities, and the various parts of the house depict these. The interaction between these facets are what make you who you are. Understanding them enables you to find your way through the things you face in yourself and the world.
Useful questions:
What is happening to the house – changing – decorating – exploring – and how does that apply to me?
What does the quality, age and areas of this house describe about me?
If I describe myself as the house what do I say? See Acting in the Dream.
If I am exploring new areas of the house, what am I finding?
Ancient house: A very old house, especially if it is large, can depict what could be called past dwellings, or past lives involved in or connected with your present life. In general it depicts the past from which your present life has emerged, and the influences from which it is lived. See: Ruins.
Attackers or intruders from outside: Social pressures or response to criticisms. In some cases it might point to infections of some sort.
Burning or falling down: Big changes in attitudes; leaving old standards or dependencies behind; sickness.
Buying a house: See: Purchasing a house below.
Ceiling: See: Ceiling.
Chimney: See: Chimney.
Cramped house: Feeling of need for personal change; feeling restricted in home environment or in present personal attitudes.
Damage or structural faults: Faults in character structure; hurts such as broken relationship; bodily illness.
Dining room: Appetites; social or family contact; mental or psychological diet.
Entering house: Looking for something or going inside yourself. It can also suggest entering a new relationship and becoming intimate with someone if the house is not your own.
Falling down or destroyed house: Something that is passing away or has passed. This can refer to a way of life or a particular personality style. For instance you may be very moral and rigid at one stage of your life and then a major change happens and you become more mobile and adaptable. This could be depicted as a building or house that has fallen or been knocked down. The falling house can also indicate feelings about ageing and the process whereby you lose some functioning or sexual attractiveness.
First floor (Ground floor): i.e. the floor at ground level – Your daily everyday self and activities. The facets of you that deal with other people and daily needs. Regarding your body it relates to your sexual functions.
Floor and floorboards: See: Floor; Floorboards.
Front of house: Your persona; facade; social self; face.
Hallway The way you meet other people or allow them into your life and intimacy. The receptive female reproductive function. The connecting link with aspects of oneself.
Example: ‘I find myself in the entrance hall of a very large house. The hall is very large with a curved staircases either side meeting at the top to form a balcony. There is nobody about and I am frightened. I start to walk up the stairs but then find myself hiding in the roof with very little space above my body.’ Mrs. B.
The hall is probably Mrs. B’s childbearing ability and her image of herself as a woman. The words ‘little space above my body’ suggest her main area of life has always been her childbearing function or physical attractiveness as a woman, and she has not developed her mental self. See also: Corridor.
If it is a house created by the dream: Your body and personality in all its aspects.
Inside the house: Within yourself – in your inner attitudes, thoughts and motivations.
Kitchen: Creativity; nourishing oneself; mother role; diet.
Kitchen in woman’s dream: May refer to pride in the ability to create a home and contribute something valuable to the family. See: Cooking.
Larder: Hungers; sensual satisfaction; your store of memories or feelings that satisfy or nourish you.
Living room: This is the mental and emotional space you live in. Your dream will usually give you a pictorial version of what you have created within yourself, what you exist in and its quality, space or despair. It might also refer to personal leisure or ‘space’ to be oneself and everyday life.
Moving house This can either refer to a radical change in your attitudes and feelings, or that you are in process of being changed by circumstances and events. It therefore deals with the difficulties or excitement/plans in facing the change. Certainly it reflects some sort of personal change, most likely to do with the way you live your life.
Nursery or child’s bedroom: Feelings about your children; your own childhood feelings and memories.
Old house – See Ancient house above.
Old House or house previously lived in: A previous set of values or way of life, sometimes even a suggestion of influences from lives previous to your present one. But usually about the difficulties and experiences, or even stage of life such as early twenties met in that house.
This can have very deep meaning, as it can show the influences from your past that are still active in you; it can mean influences from your ancestors and your far past. See Ancestors.
Other people in house: Different facets of yourself, or person or people involved quite deeply in your life. Therefore a stranger entering your house would suggest a new relationship.
Other person’s house: Another person’s life. If you go in the house, it shows you getting involved with that person, perhaps being a part of their life – as for instance entering a relationship. If you are watching someone else go in the house, it suggests an awareness of that person, or an aspect of yourself, being involved in another person’s life. See the entry below on seeing partner go into someone else’s house.
Outside the house and garden: Your more public life and your relationship with environment. See: Garden.
People or things coming from downstairs: Influences, fears, impressions you’re your unconscious. Maybe usually withheld passions or worries.
People or things from upstairs: Influence of your thinking or other people’s ideas. But it depends on what room or area they come from. If they arrive from an upstairs nursery then it is influences from childhood or about your children.
Plumbing May be referring to your internal organs such as the digestive system or circulatory system, or how you direct or release your emotions.
Purchasing a house In general this may relate to making a decision to change, or wanting a change in your life or circumstances. Purchasing something in a dream also often involves the process of deciding or being uncertain. The decision making is to do with clarifying what you want, what you would like. See: purchasing.
Repairs, enlargement or renovation: Reassessment or change of attitudes or character; personal growth.
Room See: Room.
Row of houses: Other people, their way of life, and your relationship or responses to them..
Second and other middle floors (i.e. the floors above the ground level): Internal needs, your more private self and activities. It also relates to rest, sleep, hungers, sexual activity, and the trunk area of your body.
Seeing your husband/wife/partner go in someone else’s house: This suggests your partner has the tendency to move into another relationship. This may be only your fears, but it may show you sense a growing distance in your relationship, and the possibility of your partner going elsewhere.
I was with my husband down some back alley ways – behind houses – all a bit grey looking and maybe evening light. We were looking for a way through and my husband suddenly took off down a very narrow alley and was gone. I tried to follow but I felt my husband went through the house that was ahead. It was a strangers house and I just couldn’t make myself walk up to it, open the back door and go through it. I imagined that the owner was a young oriental woman – and I wasn’t sure IF my husband HAD gone that way or down another alley way. Kate.
Some months later Kate’s husband went to live with another woman.
Shelf Possibly your memories, or something that is a part of your everyday awareness. Something that is accessible in terms of your using it or remembering what it represents.
Study or library: Mental growth, your mind and sometimes information you have gained from within yourself and brought to awareness.
Things in the house: Aspects of you feelings and makeup.
Toilet: Privacy; release of tension; letting go of emotions, fantasies or desires which we need to discharge. See: Toilet.
Top floor or attic: Thinking; the conscious mind; memory; the head. See: Attic.
Windows: Your outlook on life and how you see others and the world. See Window.
See: For fuller insight into house – House in Your Dream; Basement, Stairs, Window, Glass, Door, Furniture.
Comments
Hello Tony I am puzzled by this recent dream as it seems so at odds with my conscious understanding :
I return to my home town ,a small seaside place and find that where the Church I used to attend, which was close to my mother’s retirement home, stood, my Mother had had it demolished and built a small supposed to be luxury but, actually in places ,a bit over the top modern hotel.
I went into the new place looking for my room but it was a new hotel room full of sports- wear.. in the dream it had the name of my second son …Roddy’s room. Although the space the hotel took up was large the 3 bedrooms were close almost crammed together at the end of a long hallway.
The hotel also fronted the main St and was being used as a venue for the student Prom .I looked around it and saw the two women in charge wearing maid type outfits …there were large openair spaces and a swimming pool and a part where the owners and their families could live. My actual mother was not in the dream but it definitely was her business venture. She is dead in outer reality.. I discovered they had also demolished a beautiful medieval building to build this
As I explored I came upon people building a strange boat type ark .It was ready to go to sea and after some indecision involving a man who said I could not go, I leapt on but all the doors were shut so I sat right at the front on a sort of step .The boat was on the promenade and then turned sharply onto a slipway and began to move quickly down the slip-way. I looked at the sea hoping it would be calm as I was on this exposed bit and as I looked I saw that the sea was a massive wave, tall as a skyscraper very dark and huge and we were racing towards it. I realised there was a young woman beside me and as I frantically thought how to escape she said” what a sadist to send us this wave.”
I woke myself up very frightened.
Shona – First of all thank you for posting the piece about the house. I think most people do not realise how much dreams offer if we really explore them.
Now, your dream. Like the house it has a massive background of associations personal to you – such as the demolished church. So all I can do, ever, is to give an overall view that might be helpful.
I have the impression of a transformation having taken place in your life, may be started by your mother. And I have to guess here and ask was she a woman who loved the ‘good’ things in life? I ask this because she – in your dream – demolished old attitudes and built a new over the top luxury place. This suggests an involvement with the current attitude of a society bend on getting everything at the cost of beauty and life principles. Maybe you are not deeply involved, but you can see it happening all around you.
Also you see that despite all the promised luxury your actual living space is diminished – the three rooms at the end of a long hallway.
The ark suggests a way out of the mess, based on old ideas of religion. But in fact the door is closed to you and as the young woman remarks, “What a sadist to send us this wave.”
Yet I feel that the wave is the way out, even though frightening. This may not seem a very good idea, but you have to remember that when we dream we are creating images that clothe feelings and emotions. If you can see that facing what is an uncomfortable feeling and going through it frees you from it.
Either that or you could visualise other alternatives.
Anyway, do not give up.
Tony
Dear Tony,
So many thanks for your interpretation and help with my dream.I am a psychotherapist with a Jungian /Transpersonal leaning and can usually get to the bottom of dreams but this one seemed so at odds with my conscious mind that it baffled me.I will take on board what you suggest and let you know in due course.
With appreciation
ps have had your book of symbols alongside my Coopers book of symbols for many years insightful and reliable resources
Very well understood.
Tooshima – Thanks.
It made me look at the entry again and I updated it by fixing some of the links that are now live.
Tony
I have posted this dream in Yahoo answers and in my quest for more more explanations to my dream, I have tried to ask your explanation as well.
I was dreaming before of little houses. I was a bit worried of what it means but it just went off after few nights of dreaming of same house. The weird thing is that it happens a few minutes passed three a.m. no matter how early or late I may sleep.
Now, recently in two days, the same theme of house dream happens again in the same time-frame. The other night I was dreaming of seeing the house of my cousin which was newly-renovated with all the assess around. Then my sister went out of the house and we had a small conversation about what happened to the house. Then last night I was dreaming of exactly the same house but of different angle. Nobody was inside this time and I was meticulously looking at it. Finding out that I had the same dream the other night, I woke up worried of what is the meaning of my dream. I don’t know if I can get a more vivid answer that I have been looking.
Note: In my previous dreams I cannot recall what happened to my life but it was a bit different since, before, I was entering an old house, twice of a haunted house then another of passing by an old-gypsy home. And I cannot recall if it was part of my dream that I was informed before that house represents the soul. Does this new dreams represents the death of soul? Does this means the death of my business plans? Does this means the death of my work?
Your answer is greatly appreciated, thank you.
Jose – I cannot find any mention of death in any of the dreams you describe, so do not be anxious about that.
The small houses are a reflection of yourself feeling that you do not have enough space and opportunity in your life at the time of the dreams. The dreams occur at regular patterns so this explains the time of the dreams.
After approximately an hour and a half from falling into deep sleep, an exciting change occurs. We return to level two and REM’s occur. Suddenly the brain is alert and active, though the person is asleep and difficult to wake. This level has been called paradoxical sleep because of this fact. Voluntary muscular activity is suppressed and the body is essentially paralysed. Morrison has pointed out that although the brain is transmitting full muscular activity messages, these are usually suppressed by an area of the brain in the pons. But bursts of short actions occur, such as rapid eyeball jerks, twitches of the muscles, changes in the size of the pupil, contractions in the middle ear, and erection of the penis. It may be that similar excitation occurs in the vagina. Also, ‘autonomic storms’ occur, during which large erratic changes occur in heart rate, blood pressure, breathing rate, and in other autonomic nervous system functions. These are the changes accompanying our dreams.
If we slept for eight hours, a typical pattern would be to pass into Delta sleep, stay there for about seventy to ninety minutes, then return to stage two and dream for about five minutes. We then move back into Delta sleep, stay for a short period and shift back to level two, but without dreaming, then back into level three. The next return to stage two is longer, almost an hour, with a period of dreaming lasting about nineteen minutes, and also a short period of return to waking. There is only one short period of return to stage three sleep that occurs nearly four hours after falling asleep. From there on we remain in level two sleep, with three or four lengthening periods of dreaming, and return to brief wakefulness. The average amount of body shifting is once every fifteen minutes.
At the end when you are viewing another house from different angles it shows you ulooking at yourself trying to understand who you are and what you abilities are.
Tony
Hello Tony,
I do not remember dreams for the most part, but this one stuck.
I dreamt of a desolate, empty house. The doors and windows were open and swinging a bit in the wind, really like in a horror movie. Out of the house I could sense coming a scary darkness and emptiness. The “garden” was surrounded by a stone-wall. The sky was heavy with dark clouds. I was totally scared of the house in my dream. I was just looking how to get away from that place. Looking around I saw that the entrance into the garden was standing open, swinging lonely in the wind like the windows and doors of the desolate house. I started running towards that garden-door. Then I woke up.
I may add that Im going through a very difficult period in my life for some month now.
Im not sure whether I want to hear what you have to say, but I felt led to ask.
Thank you for your time and effort!
Regards,
Andrea
Andrea – Many years ago I was present at a therapy session and had what amount to a waking dream/vision. The man who was the subject was lying on the floor and I could see he was dying – psychologically. This so drew my attention I went closer to him and saw that his whole American culture was plastered on him like so many layers of veneers. When I looked at it and saw how dead he was it scared me, so I went in search for anything alive.
And there is was, like a small flame that had been covered but not extinguished. I saw that his culture had been learned and taken on without any of it being given to the small flame of life. Without the transformation life could bring, any knowledge was deadening rather that enlivening. I saw also that that flame needs to transform knowledge or our culture into life that grows. Like a plant take u0p nourishment form the soil and turns it into the living ti0ssues of its body, so we need to expose all of our experience and learning to the process of life, otherwise we start to die – as a plant does.
This death we call depression, fear, loneliness, and all the other forms of disorder we see in our society.
I feel certain you understand your dream. As for what you can do about it, it is difficult to communicate because people are so out of touch with Life.
What I can suggest, and might be difficult for you to believe in it at first, is that living flame is there in everybody and can transform all our experience. But it doing so it burns through it, bringing it all to consciousness and making it alive. And when that happens it is wonderful thought it may take some time to complete.
There are several ways to start. I think the simplest is as follows:
This is not about a belief, such as a belief in God. Remember that dreams arise, your existence arises, from a process you may label in some way but barely know about. You do not have to believe in your existence. You are convinced of it because you exist.
Do you think you know everything about whatever it is that causes you to exist? For instance although we now know a great deal about life processes in biological science, that science still sees life as a mystery. Can you take that attitude to your own origins? Can you accept that at the base of your being is a mystery?
Try this simple approach to get closer to this. Sit quietly where you will not be disturbed for a minute or so. Close your eyes, become aware of your breathing, then put your hand under your clothes so you can feel your heart beating.
There you have it. The conscious you is touching and directly experiencing in a quiet moment how that mystery we call life is right there in every moment of your being spontaneously giving you existence. You are touching the unconscious you. You can feel it moving right under your hand. You know it is not your conscious will, knowledge or beliefs that are pulsing that beautiful movement. Right now life is breathing you and beating your heart. And that is just the very evident surface signs of what it is doing. Feel it! Do you really fully understand that? Isn’t that an amazing miracle and mystery? Wouldn’t it be wise and wonderful to get to know that mystery directly and more fully?
So open to that mystery that you are, without any preconceptions. Of course you will feel that nothing is happening. But it is an amazing moment, and journey has begun.
Read also http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/the-lifestream/
Tony
Andrea – Sorry, I got carried away with what I was trying to say in my last post and forgot an important point about your dream.
It is that an empty and deserted house is representing feelings about or fear of death. Please remember that change is coming and so do not enter that house without a friend beside you. And if you can get any help from what I mentioned then you will pass through that house; it is a necessary part of our growth toward understanding who we are.
Tony
I have been dreaming the same dream for several months now. I dream with buying a beautiful house and by the time we are going to be moving in the house is not the same, it is falling apart, it looks like an old house. My husband of 30 years passed away 9 years ago, and in all of my dreams he is always present, he is always leaving me or he is upset with me. I remarried, and I never dream with my new husband. I also dream with my dad (he also passed away 9 years ago). I wake up very depressed, and it seems that these dreams have some kind of message that I cannot understand. Please help me understand the message…Thank yu
Gypsy – Your dreams show a complicated dream life. The dream of the house that is beautiful but never becomes yours is about hopes you have for a better future, hopes that you never materialise. Dreams need to be materialised by making them real, by living them as fully as you can.
Then the dream about your ex husband is something you have created out of your mixed feelings about him. It does not reflect him being dead. The dead do not leave anyone and feel upset by you. There is nowhere for the dead to go as they are constantly here in a timeless environment. So why do you still feel the anguish of him leaving you. Are you still feeling things relevant to the past?
Tony
I had a strange dream last night and I cant really make out the meaning of it..
In the beginning I was at a supermarket with a friend of mine, I bought a candlestick (that looked like it were made of gingerbread) and eggs, 29 to be exact. the number of eggs was very important. I dont know why I just needed to have 29 eggs.. And on the cardboardbox was a BIG 6 written. As I bought these idioms I went to a house that looked like it was a mixture between old and new, most of it were quite modern. Anyway it was a big house with large windows. It was black paint around each and everyone of them and small pumpkins lay on the winsowsill.. My mother told me I could not keep them cause it wasnt good for me but she said it was ok to keep it until halloween. Then I place myself in a chair an thought to my self, so, this is were im going to live,,, I wanted to get back to my real house but at the same time i knew i could never go back there.. What does the blackpainted windows mean? And the eggs, I cant understand it…
Hi i wonder if you could give me some guidance as to what me dream means, i have been looking at buying a house and i really quite like 1 house in particular although my mum doesnt like the area so would rather i didnt take it.
My dream was me going back to the house to see it again and buy it but when i got there there was a little lady in the house going about her business, i asked had she bought the property? she replied yes it was a good investment and went about her business.
My mum also had the same dream only there was a old man in the property he had a string vest on and she aasked are we too late have you bought the property? and he replied yes it was a good investment.
Can you tell me what these dreams mean?
Much appreciated
Stephanie – Remember that any character in a dream is your own mental process creating the image to describe something. So the old lady and old man are you, not someone else. The fact they are old is saying they have a lot of life experience. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/characters-or-people-in-dreams/
So it seems your dream and you mother’s dream are advising you that it is a good investment.
Tony
Hello, I hope you can give me some insight on a recent dream….
I dreamed that I owned a very large home and the entry way was enclosed by a black wrought-iron fence however, I could not lock the door to the gate. People could come into my house even and there was no way for me to secure my home. A homeless looking couple came into my house and told me I could not be there because they lived there and my rebuttal was that I bought the house and all my belongings were in it. Not sure what happened to the couple in the dream…
I began to explore the huge home and discovered that I had people living underneath my home however, the floor plan was exact to an old church I attended as a child. As I walked down the hallway I observed families living in each room and I do not think they could see me walking in the hallway. At that point I realized what the couple meant that they lived there.
At that point I no longer wanted to lock the wrought-iron gate.
Please help me understand what this means
Trena – An interesting dream.
I think the meaning is very simple. You must have come to a new feeling about yourself, or are just about to. It is that your body is the church, and with that understanding you do not need to shut people out of your life.
Here is a dream sent to me: I was looking at a clear river. I could see the different coloured stones on the bed. The water was running out of a cave in the rock face. I was surprised to see a warm glow or light coming from deep in the cave, as if the sun was shining inside the mountain. Then I saw a big stone carved bust, head and shoulders of a woman, like a Buddha.
I replied: One of the first things early human being worshipped was a woman with a baby in her arms. This was because seeing a woman produce a new person from out of her body produced great awe. Because of this some people believe that temples and churches represent this mystery of co-creation with life. The inside of the temple is the hidden mystery of the sexual organs. Your dream has similar symbolism. Thus the light shines from within the cave, showing how your body has the mystery of life and creation in it.
So your dream is saying that you are the mystery which the church was built around.
And within you is a hugeness you are only just becoming aware of, and there is within you much that needs accepting, with all the wonderful variety that is your potential.
The people living underneath your home are probably links with your ancestors and your long past.
Tony
i still need help with my dream it been long time ago i say 15 year ago my house got burn down now in my dream last week i dream me and my mom when back they and the house was still they only half of it we when to back yard i saw my old cats they had kittens and they remeber me i need help with dream it some about i cant get out my my mind
I have a reoccurring dream. I see myself as an adult, with a desk in the middle of the playground that was adjacent to the childhood home I grew up in. In the background, I can see that my father is home, truck is in the driveway. I am busy managing my work responsibilities successfully, and interacting with colleagues and after a period of time he leaves. My father has been deceased for ten years now.
I have this dream often, where I am in the park in some capacity, with my childhood home / father home for brief periods although the activity that I am participating in , in the park changes and is not always work related.
Im not sure how to interpret this. I know that I am comforted that he is there when I wake. I never leave the park , or enter the house in this reoccurrence. However, when I do dream other times about things happening in my life, the events always unfold in this childhood home.
Any help appreciated? !
Michelle – I see your dream as showing the good feelings you have about your father. And I see them as something that gives you support in your everyday life. That is probably because you learned a lot of skills from him that you still use.
When we are young we take so much from our parents to build our behaviour. But often we are unaware of it. And I think the dreams about your father are about drawing on all you got form him. That is why the dreams take place in or near the childhood home. So I would suggest you integrate all those good things. Try doing this by taking the dream images of your father and pulling them back into your body. Yes, literally making him one with you. Do this slowly and allow any feelings that arise. This may sound strange but all the images in our dreams are projections from us onto the screen of our sleeping mind; so taking them back into you is like owning them and integrating them. It is called honouring our father and mother.
Tony
I dreamt of I was in a small town and felt comfortable in this small town (which was completely unfamiliar). A blonde male, about my own age, came and spoke with me and I felt I responded with wit. I remember walking away thinking I must move to a small country town again. Not long after this, I was in this same male persons house, I was running through the hallway. I remember there being wooden floors, it was dark but very homely. We were rushing to escape something, and we got out just in time. I knew the male was near me, but I did not see him. I then was aware I had a baby in my arms. I was comforting the baby, and the baby spoke to me ( I cannot recall what the baby said ) but I remember feeling so surpised that this baby was talking so clearly and rationally at such a young age. I was proud. I had to change the baby’s nappy and found a change room, a woman followed me in there. There was a change table and I placed the baby on a plastic sheet on top of the table. I wanted to provide softer comfort but the nearby blanket was dirty. I changed the baby, although it did not need to be changed. I left the room and heard my mothers voice saying how odd it was that the woman had come in there with me. It hadn’t felt odd, but then I realised it was.
Tony, i dream that i was playing with two old houses and i explain to my family that the hosuses where very old so they can fall at any time. I play with the roofs (im bigger than the houses) and i see that they are very fragile. The houses where like the houses of the united states like the normal houses in Coneticut, but im from South America i just visit CT a year ago. I feel that the dream is about complex that are in the family tradition but i dont understand why im bigger than the houses and why i can play with them
Fish – The house usually depicts the personality structure, all the habits, abilities and struggles you build into yourself. But as there were two of them it suggests it is not just yourself. They are fragile because the personality is not built strongly and so, according to your dream, can fall or fail at any time.
The fact that you play with the houses and you are bigger, shows how you have grown beyond what they stood for, are what they are. Explore the dream by using http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/
Tony
Last night I dreamt that I went into a dead man’s house. He had been living there with a girlfriend and the house had been reposessed. I obtained the house some where through the reposession and had first dibs on all the property left behind. I went from room to room rummaging through all kinds of weird spaces and closets. The only thing i kept was money that was stashed throughout the home and jewelery. I searched through that whole house and found many disturbing items that belonged to this man. Mostly items that portrayed a secret sex life. When i was done the house was a complete mess from me looking through it. I let his family and girlfriend go in after me to take what they wanted. Any comments or interpretations on THAT????
Marie – Well, let us look at this a part at a time.
The dead man and his house – this is not an external man you are dreaming of but a part of you that has been denied life, and so is shown as dead. See http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/what-we-need-to-remember-about-dreaming/ to remind you of that.
His house is his way of life, even his body – your body that part of which has been repressed.
Going through his house is a natural thing that goes on in our dream life – when we have the courage to look at what has been killed out of our waking life. We want to see if there is anything of value that we can integrate into our waking life. And what you found was that you have repressed a lot of your sexual longings. It is shown as belonging to a man because this represent the most active side of you – see http://dreamhawk.com/dream-dictionary/male-man/
The thing is that the dream shows a lot of what is found is money and jewellery. Those are precious things that are found, so the looking into yourself found a lot of value, which might be linked also with the secret sex life. From the dream it seems it was only secret and probably slightly ‘off’ because it was repressed. If you can admit it into you waking life it will become healthy energy and value. That is where the word devil comes from; it is lived spelled backwards – in other words repressed life.
So think about accepting it all and making it whole. Maybe that was why the house was a mess when you left it. Our dream self has a very holistic view.
Tony
Wow Tony. Thank you!
Dream i moved into my own home
Crystal – the dream could mean you will move to a home of your own, but it is more likely to mean that this is a move toward independence, toward being at ease and not having to be influenced by other people’s needs or influence.
Tony