I am not sure what this comment box is for but I thought id leave a question for you. I had a second dream about this house. It is very tethered Victorian house, it has a negative energy in it somewhere but I cant yet find it. this time i brought two guys with me one of witch i know personally in real life I am scared to be in the house alone there are many old Victorian things to look threw in the drawers everything is very detailed I am my current age in the dream, I have only gone to two rooms in the house. Its really creepy. So I was wondering maybe you’ll be able to decipher what this dream might be trying to tell me since I have had it twice now.

I am moving from a house and as I am gathering my belongings the house is deteriorating around me…peeling paint, leaking roof..etc. I continue to move things to a waiting truck only to find more and more that I need and want has been left inside the house. The house spans a flowing creek as though built upon a bridge. At some point, I look for my daughter only to find her cell phone on the front steps where she had just been. The moving truck breaks down and my ex-husband is nowhere to be found to help. My ex mother in law shows up in her nightgown to help me get the truck started.

I was hoping if you can help me out with interpreting my dream…
It started with three woman showing up at my house and telling me that they decided that they want to buy the house but first they want to show me something.. So we come out to my front lawn and someone starts digging up the dirt and I see a dead body buried there… So I started screaming and all of the sudden it got up and started running away… I know it was a man but no idea who he was….
FYI my house is currently for sale and I live there with my husband and two children…
Please help!

Hi, I had a dream about my house and it was storming out side. I looked at the ceiling in the kitchen between the sink,fridge and kitchen table A big black spot showed up and water was dripping from it. I took the broom handle and touched the hole it was like water went every where but there was no water on the floor just some black powder. then I went to take a shower and when I stepped into the bathroom there was a weak spot in the floor. Plese can you understand what my dream is about.

-Tony Crisp 2012-01-19 13:52:23

Jane – The storm outside suggests that you have been meeting some rough feelings. And that had led you to feel difficult about your ability to cope. The black powder is feelings probably to do with something rotten in you, or a feeling of depression. And the reference to the bathroom floor sugests that you need to build your life on a more secure foundation, and you need to clean up your actions or life in some way.

Tony

I have recurring dreams about the house I grew up in as a child. Usually it seems as if I’m resuming life, at the age I am now, 17. Sometimes I explore the house and all the details of the house remain so vivid to me as I can rememeber. I’m a little confused about what it could mean though..maybe that I miss my childhood?

-Tony Crisp 2011-12-11 10:06:18

Lacey – A house that you lived in at a period of your life when you were going through so much change and learning so much – and I am not talking about lessons at school but lessons from life – is a wonderful thing so full of you. To quote from http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/the-house-in-your-dream/ “Each dream image holds enormous data, emotional response, and created patterns of behaviour. So in considering the house in your dream you need to remember you are in touch with a full surround databank of fantastic information about you, your past and your possibilities. You can interact with this information by exploring it in the right way. And to help with this let us look at and question some of the possibilities your dream house might hold.”

You see, as you grow you add more to what you knew in the past, so you are not missing your childhood but finding ever deeper insights into yourself. So read the feature linked above and answer the questions as this may help you to see the wonderful depths our dreams show us. But also try looking at the dream house and rooms using http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-in-your-dream/

Tony

Hi, Tony,

In my house dream, I am entering a house relating to a house I saw in real-life that I was interested in buying. It was in a newer, upscale neighborhood, in a good part of town.

When I visited this house in my dream, it was different looking. It was more grand, had ornate, quality details of an older home, and yet was still relatively new. As I was going through the house, I knew it was haunted. I heard a vacuum cleaner and other evidence of that.

My husband and children were in the house too. I was afraid for them in particular and wanted to evacuate. Simultaneously, I discovered some workers painting molding and designs on the ceiling in a calm way, not affected by the haunting because they were not afraid. Their work was beautiful.

As I was making sure my family was out of the house, I saw my youngest covered in a bloody shirt. He was not injured, though. I picked him up and left. Everyone made it outside.

Outside, the neighborhood had leveled ground where new construction would be built. It was sunny, my car was nearby. I saw a sign on it with a woman’s name. I knew she was responsible for the haunting in the house.

As I approached my car, she appeared with her group of a couple friends. She was after me and I wanted to protect my family from her. I told them to get in the car, and I faced her and her friends by myself. We had some exchanges of words.

To my horror, my family left the car as the women were outside it. I thought, I could just drive away (but not without them). My dream ended here.

Thank you in advance for your insights.

I recently had two dreams, with very similar aspects. I live on my own, in a very nice appartment. For some reason I decide to move in to a much bigger house (one case a lovely flat, another a house with an amazing garden and view to the sea) but in both cases I am supposed to share the house with others. In only the second dream I know one of the about to become flatmates (a very good friend of mine). In both dreams I love the new places but from a certain moment on, I begin to stress about how the life with the others will be and if leaving my old flat is a wise choice. – I have no moving plans in reality.

-Tony Crisp 2011-10-21 9:53:03

Izza – One way of seeing the meaning of your dream is that it is about you thinking – long term – about your future. So I wonder whether such thoughts have in fact happened to you.

The dream is in fact saying that a decision is taken which involves the future. In dreaming about that you like the idea of it but are faced with the fact that to afford it you might have to share, and that is not an inviting thought.

Such dreams are experiments in seeing possibilities. So try out different possible life styles.

Tony

I have a recurring dream of a mobile home I am not to familiar with.when I enter the house I recognize some of my belongings, which throws me off. So then I become curious and start to explore. Each time I dream, I find a new room, person, object, or piece of information. Such as dogs in a room, my old tv, my grandmas significant other, and holding conversation about not paying my rent, with fright to be there. I am told not to.worry about rent its mine. I dont dream often so this one is a mystery!!!

-Tony Crisp 2011-09-28 10:05:04

Kristin – The not paying rent is interesting, because it is yours. Everything we dream about is ours. And you are finding new things, new room, etc, because you are exploring yourself. So in finding so much you must be growing in awareness in some way.

You cannot believe it is all yours because you do not realise how big you are and what a huge potential you have. So get used to it and use it. Of course it is partly your grandmas influence because she is an ancestor, and we share more than we are usually aware of. The dogs too are an aspect of you, you can call on.

Tony

The House In Your Dream
When you dream of a house, you are meeting a hugely important and many sided representation of yourself. It is both many faceted and multidimensional.

Each dream image holds enormous data, emotional response, and created patterns of behaviour. So in considering the house in your dream you need to remember you are in touch with a full surround databank of fantastic information about you, your past and your possibilities. You can interact with this information by exploring it in the right way. And to help with this let us look at and question some of the possibilities your dream house might hold.

For instance how old do you feel the house is – and in stating its age, does that connect in any way with your own age and time of birth? If so how?

If the age differs from your own age, what period of time or your life does it coincide with and what relevance has that to you? The style of the house may also suggest something of your attitude to life. As you explore the house in general look for connections to any aspect or period of your life.

Does the house seem to be much older than you are? If so what are your impressions of it and what it contains? What is your relationship with it and are you searching for or finding something in it? Or perhaps this is about an event, a relationship, or an influence you can feel in connection with the house. Try to define the influence or whatever you experience, and see if you can notice how that is active or influencing your current life. If the age differs from your own age, what period of time or your life does it coincide with and what relevance has that to you?

If this is an old house and you gain entrance to new areas, you need to ask yourself what influences from the past – perhaps the long past – are emerging in you at the moment.

Is it a strong house, ore there weaknesses; and what style of house is it? In other words what does the dream house suggest about those things?

If possible write down your response to these questions so you build up information as we go along. For instance any weakness in the house needs to be seen as difficulties you have and of course strengths as signs of ability to cope with life

Is it a strong house, or are there weaknesses? What is the condition of the house, its state of repair?

Is the house well built or weak in some areas. If weak what areas and what can you gather from that? If it is well built, does it reflect any particular skills or strengths you have and does your personality and inner life reflect those skills or lack of them?

Any weakness in the house may represent difficulties you are facing – and of course strengths are signs of your ability to cope with life. Does this link in any way with either your health, or the condition of your inner or outer life? What is it saying about you?

In the dream how are you relating to the house? Are you arriving, leaving, repairing it, pulling it down, exploring it? Whatever you are doing, or in whatever way you are relating to the house, what does that suggest about what you are doing to your body, your personality, or your way of life? For instance if leaving, are you leaving a way of life behind? If renovating, what attitudes or part of you are you changing?

If the house is weak in some areas, examine these areas to see what you can gather from them. If it is well built, does it reflect any particular skills or strengths you have and does your personality and inner life reflect those skills or lack of them? Is the house showing you some aspect of your life that is calling out for attention/maintenance/repair?

Is this a house you once lived in, or does it remind you of such a house or dwelling?

If so what was your way of life in that house? What happened to you there – were you going through puberty; were you in or leaving a relationship; was success or failure experienced there; was it a move to or achievement of independence? Whatever you remember or define about it, how is that relevant now and in what way is it active in your life?

Also, what was the environment or atmosphere like in that house? Sometimes it is easier to see this looking back as you are often too immersed at the time, so take time to describe it to yourself.

In the dream how are you relating to the house? Are you arriving, leaving, repairing it, pulling it down, or exploring it?

Whatever you are doing, or in whatever way you are relating to the house, what does that suggest about what you are doing to your body, your personality, or your way of life? For instance if leaving, are you leaving a way of life behind? If renovating, what attitudes or part of you are you changing?

Does the house give you an impression of great age?

Is it older than you are? If so what are your impressions of it and what it contains? What is your relationship with it and are you searching for or finding something in it? Or perhaps this is about an event, a relationship, or an influence you can feel in connection with the house. Try to define the influence or whatever you experience, and see if you can notice how that is active or influencing your current life.

Does this house belong to somebody else and how are you relating to this house?

Are you entering or leaving this house? Sometimes such a house can suggest your relationship with someone else. If not that then a new or different way of or situation in life. So can you connect with any of those suggestions, and if so in what way?

Consider how you are relating to this house, your movements and feelings here. Are you comfortable here, are there aspects of the house that you would like to change? Is the house familiar, or are you drawn to explore further? What feelings does it evoke? Are you coming or going? Sometimes such a house can represent a new or different way of living or situation in life.

What social status does the house suggest?

Do the surroundings of the house suggest wealth, poverty or some level of social status? If so try to define it and how you relate to it now or in the past.

Has a new area of the house been discovered?

If so what is in it? What atmosphere or feelings does it arouse? What do you find, feel or discover in this new area? In what way does this reflect discovery of new attitudes, talents or self discovery in yourself.

If this is an old house and you gain entrance to new areas, you need to ask yourself what influences from the past – perhaps the long past – are emerging in you at the moment.

Now see if you can summarise your responses to see what they suggest of the things you are meeting, feeling or growing into at the moment.

Is this a house you once lived in, or knew well?

If so what was your way of life in that house? What happened to you there? – were you going through puberty; were you in or leaving a relationship; was success or failure experienced there; was it a move to or achievement of independence? Whatever you remember or define about it, how is that relevant now and in what way is it active in your life?

Also, what was the environment or atmosphere like in that house? What feelings does it evoke in you now? Sometimes it is easier to see this looking back as you are often too immersed at the time, so take time to describe it to yourself.

Now see if you can summarise your responses to see what they suggest of the things you are meeting, feeling or growing into at the moment.

I have RECURRINg dreams that a CLOSE female friend’s house is on fire…or a fire in the house. I need to know if my subconscious is trying to tell ME something or is she and her children in danger???

Hello Tony,
I have had this dream probably 30 times. I have bought a very large old wooden home. When you enter the home through the foyer you walk into what is a very large dark ballroom. The only furnishing is a very small round table in the far left corner with a oil lamp on it lit. I don’t enter. Instead I walk up the stairs to the right which are above the kitchen. When I reach the landing there is a very long hall way with a rail running the lenghtof the hall. On the right there are many, many doors lining the hallway that I have no interest in opening and I never have. What I truly love is standing at the rail and just looking into the ballroom. I long to sit at the table and read in a long black dress. I am incredibly happy there and don’t wish to share the home with others. Sometimes I will allow people to see one room with incredible old paintings in it. I do enjoy telling people this is my home. I am the age I am now. How I wish I could find she home to buy it. I look for it all the time. Thank you for taking the time to read this.

-Tony Crisp 2010-10-20 10:59:54

Ellen – This is quite a lovely dream; and thirty times means it is very important to you.

I sense that you have a very rich and varied inner life, which you only let some people see or share. But you have so much more, all inherited from the past, which you do not open the doors to. And I am wondering if the reason is that you have not met the mystery of your house.

Now I have to go into something I feel but it may be right off the mark. It is that you cannot have the house because you cannot allow yourself to fully inhabit it/you.

I stand as you in the doorway I cannot enter the room that means so much to me. It feels like an invisible barrier stops when. And when I ask why, at first I cannot even let myself know. But when I persist I know that if I go into that room I would met a great loss.

Now I am out of role, and I feel that if you dared enter that room you would own the house and solve a very old mystery that has been hanging over you. And as far as ‘I can see it isn’t an awful thing. So take my hand and walk with me into that room in your black dress.

Tony

I have dreamt many times of being in my house although the house looks different every time. Each time, I am in a room that does not exist in each house and I am conscious in the dream of this room that is not supposed to be there. In the dream I am exploring this room, feeling surprised of the realization of its existence.

-Tony Crisp 2010-10-16 12:58:11

Hilda – This is a common dream theme – and shows recognition or discovery of previously unnoticed aspects, abilities, fears, or traits, of new talents or possibilities in yourself. If the discovery is distressing, this may reflect a feeling of a change in ones status quo which is disturbing. Here is an example of such a dream.

I am at my original flat but come across an extra room or sometimes part to the flat no one knows about. I am always surprised when I find it, but inside myself I know of its existence. It is as though it belonged to me although I am unaware of ever having used it. It is usually a bedroom but sometimes a lounge with a bed in it. It’s obviously lived in. The bed is unmade and it’s a little untidy but comfortable. I feel very familiar with it but recognise none of the contents as mine.

The dreamer explored this dream and discovered it held her artistic abilities left by her former father’s influence. So it is worth imagining yourself in the room and take on the attitude of watching television programme. Do so with a blank screen in mind without expectations, and see what images or feelings arise.

Tony

Am in the car with my brother and we are in British Countryside – Not the country am presently living! – We arrive at a curb where stands a very imposing, romantic, with lots of windows, colonial style house. All the doors/windows are open, with curtains floating with the breeze. I see an old man sitting inside the house looking in my direction. My brother gets out to open the gate, and tells me it will be good for me to stay here fpr a while and that I do not have to pay rent, but instead help around the house. The old man stands up and walk to me to welcome me, I get out of the car and look up to this house which looks old but not run down.

Scenery changes, am in an alley, talking to my dad ( yet seems like another country) and there are thick high shrubs surrounding the gardens, perimeters of thoses houses. My dad tells me to go see this house which is at the end of the road, and that it shall suit me, the proprietor is leaving soon and I could get the house. So I walk there and enter a garden, then a house with a big living room, quite messy. Only man’s belongings in the house. I pull curtains to a very small room where only a double size bed fits in with a closed window behind the bed, a closed closet with men suits hanging from the door of the closet. I move on thinking it could make a nice office and would need new paint on the wall instead of this burgundy color.

As I move further I see a door opening on the sea. The house stands at the beach but there are mainly rocks leading to the beach. I feel the wind and go back inside when I hear someone asking if I need any help. As I look I see a maid. She says she has been asked to give me the keys to the house, but I say that I dont even know or have yet made my decision, and she insists… I get out of the house, and my Dad is standing in front of what looks like his house ( a new one ) and I tell him that I really like the house though there are few things I would change first. At this moment a man appears talking on the phone and saying she loved it ! Thanks man ! And the guy gives me a belt!?? And ends the phone call…I cannot see his face, he is tall, and we cuddle while he says that he is happy I like the house, as he got it for us. !?

Then I see my niece, arriving with a new hairdo, and decide to have the same. From my long hair I decide to chop off the most of it and have a short kind of hairdo… Dad seems happy to have suprised me and I feel set up by him as he knew my what looks like boyfriend was looking for a house. !

Thing is I felt single when I entered the house !! So…mystery …! Woke up and had a tough pain in the upper back, and had slept for more than 12 hours !

-Tony Crisp 2010-10-12 8:58:19

Natacha – You certainly pack a lot of information in one dream. Now all I have to do is make sense of it. 🙂

To start with your brother takes the lead in driving. So I would like to have known what he means to you, and why your dream creator chose him. Is he an outgoing person for instance?

The house and the old man: Any old man is a fatherly figure, or even your father. He represent wisdom and life experience – from your unconscious. And the house is similar in meaning. It suggests the qualities you have carried into this life from the past.

Then you move into exploring what you want in the present. Have you grown up in a male dominated family – the men’s clothes and you want to redecorate. The maid is the helpful side of your nature, telling you that this is your house. (How could it not be – this is your dream and you own everything.) And the sea view is about being in touch with life within you. And you Dad is a very good to you and it is shown in the way you dream about him.

Then you realise that you want a different image, less of a young girl maybe. The man is possible a new form of your brother. I do not mean he IS your brother, only that you got a lot form him and so want someone like him.

Tony

My dream..: I own a house. Its a big old I guess Victorian place and I love it. But there is a place “in” the house that I try to forget exists. You get to it through a hidden door and go down a corridor which takes you under the road outside into another house and a sort of separate studio room, which is light and bright and
its a kind of arty place where people (me?) work. I feel I’ve been there before in reality, and I don’t know why I’m frightened of it. I just don’t want to know about this room. Its actually more than a room, it’s more like a second house that I’m not very familar with. The house reminds me of the1st place I worked after school, a family run photo developing business in a big old house. Anyway, I sold the house to someone and never told them about the door that leads to this room. And I was thinking that they own this house now, but they actually own more than they realise. But I don’t want to tell them about the room. I remembered living there and while I was there I kept forgetting about the “other room”, I didn’t go there for ages and used to think that I should go and clean it but didn’t want to. The feeling reminds me a bit of a recurring dream I used to have, where I’d have a pet dog or cat, and I kept forgetting to feed it and give it water…I could never remember when I’d last given them food or water and it was horrible.

I lived in the house and everything was fine but I’m very scared when I think about this other room / house, even though I don’t know why its scary.

When I woke up this morning, it was like I’d had a really familiar dream – I haven’t had a recurring dream for a long while, and I
can’t actually remember having this dream before, but part of my brain is telling me that I know this house, I know the room very
very well. Even thinking about it now I can almost “feel” the house. I’m still racking my brains to think about where it is, because
it feels like I’ve been there, it exits and I know it.

Its so spooky I can feel it… I DO KNOW THIS PLACE its driving me mad..and the feeling the “other room” gives me is a sort of dread and
foreboding… horrible. Any light you can throw on this much appreciated!!

-Tony Crisp 2010-09-29 8:55:42

Gill – There is a lot of ground to cover to reply to your dream. Because I have not simply interpreted dreams, but through various methods I have entered the unconscious and explored it, and I have to say over and over that people do not understand how the mind works. Even the clever researchers who try to understand who use only their intellect have it all wrong. And one of the big things that needs learning is that the dream state produces a fantastic virtual reality. Yes – a realty – because dreams are not ‘dreams’ or fantasies, they are expressions of very real territory of the mind and spirit.

So of course you ‘know’ the room, because the house you own is your own being, and it is real, but real as a very important part of your experience. Please see http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/what-we-need-to-remember-about-dreaming/ and http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/the-magical-dream-machine/ if you want to understand more fully. We get dreams and waking life completely mixed up. For instance people run in terror from a threat, but nothing can hurt them in a dream. All that possesses us is our emotions, fears and ideas about who we are and what the world and the mind is. And it is dealing with those that can mature and enlarge us.

You go back to the room and forget it because, like with the forgotten dog, you do not want to know. Yet the thing you avoid is an important part of you, which if you met it would enhance your life. Of course you would have to meet and pass through the feelings of fear. Those feelings are a wall constructed to keep you away, a wall made at a time when you needed it – perhaps because you couldn’t face it at the time. But recurring themes are an important healing process. They are trying to move you on to greater understanding of yourself.

Most of us are about a hundred or even two hundred years behind in our understanding of ourselves. And it would take a lot to give you all the information. But perhaps a couple of examples will help.

A young woman told me she had experienced a recurring nightmare of a piece of cloth touching her face. She would scream and scream and wake her family. One night her brother sat with her and made her meet those feelings depicted by the cloth. When she did so she realised it was her grandmother’s funeral shroud. She cried about the loss of her grandmother, felt her feelings about death, and was never troubled again by the nightmare.

One woman wrote to me that she dreamt the same dream from childhood. She was walking past railings in the town she lived in as a child. She always woke in dread and perspiration from this dream. At forty she told her sister about it. The response was, ‘Oh, that’s simple. Don’t you remember that when you were about four we were walking past those railings and we were set on by a bunch of boys. Then I said to them, ‘Don’t hurt us our mother’s dead!’ They left us alone, but you should have seen the look on your face.’ After realising the dread was connected with the threatened loss of her mother, the dream never recurred.

Recurring dreams such as that of the railings, suggest that part of the process underlying dreams is a self regulatory process that tries – again and again to present troublesome emotions or situations to the conscious mind of the dreamer to resolve the trauma or difficulty underlying the dream.

But one last thing that might be helpful. A woman wrote to me about a recurring dream in which she discovered a door in her house she had never seen before. Beyond it was a whole apartment she has never known or used. It was obviously an area of her life she had never lived in, but she had no idea what. So I suggested to her to use her imagination and enter the room and allow any spontaneous feelings and images to arise. A soon as she imagined entered the apartment she began to remember and feel again things that had happened in her childhood. Her mother and father had separated when she was very young, and her mother had constantly presented her father as weak and of no value. But the feelings that arose were of the love of beauty and art that her father had shared and helped unfold in her. But she had kept that part of her closed because of what her mother had said. Now it was open to her again and she could allow it to unfold further in her life. An important point here is that the woman did this working alone on her dream, not with professional help or supervision.

Tony

I live in an apartment. But lately I have had many dreams of living in a house. I am always happy because I know it’s mine and no rent. Sometimes I have to rebuke nasty smelling demons. I feel free. I have many gardens in my yard. And many people come to see me. I also don’t have any worries about money. What does this mean?

-Tony Crisp 2010-08-30 11:57:15

Carla – This is your ‘dream house’ – something that is uniquely you, and something you would love in reality. I believe that you could make I real, not by simply dreaming about it, but moving towards in by doing things that take you toward it. I mean setting out to work toward it in a real way.
Sometimes demons are an expression of your anxieties – things that can undermine the good things in your life. But sometimes they are a sign if illness. As the house can be your body it can make sense to watch out for them. Here is an example of this.
We were trying to cross the hall diagonally toward the exit, but were constantly attacked or haunted by black demons or ghosts. I was fighting them off, but the struggle went on and on as they came back. Then toward the end I had a large pole and I was smashing them aside shouting, “By the power of God within me, I dismiss you” – or words to that effect.

The dreamer says of this dream, “I felt a slightly sore throat as I became semi awake wondering about the dream. I remembered that yesterday I had a flu injection, and what I arrived at was that the blackness depicted serious illness that I had been fighting off. As I was looking at this the black demons became very real for me and I felt I could not really dismiss them as an influence. I struggled and struggled with this, as I had in the dream, but now semi awake. But gradually I became aware of peace, a solid unmovable peace – a steadiness of consciousness – and the steady peace seemed to dissolve any threat I felt. Also the sore throat went.”
Tony