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.

Although you cannot see it, your mind, along with your beliefs, has a particular structure or form. If the shape of your mind could be built into a three dimensional model, such as a house, you would probably be able to see that your mind has as unique a shape as your fingerprints. But at the same time there would be features of your mental ‘house’ that were very much the same as most of the people within your own culture. If there were a museum of the mind you would see in it that the human mind has altered its shape in an evolutionary fashion just as the human body has. The model of minds of even a few centuries ago would have a much larger area devoted to religious feelings and thoughts. The area dealing with personal identity would be much larger in the modern mind.

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. See Techniques for Exploring your Dreams

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, or are 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?

Is it a house you have never known before – a house new to you?

This is a situation you have not known before, an experience new to you. So it could represent a different way of seeing or relating to yourself.

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 achievement or 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.

Was a ghost involved in the dream?

This usually about something that happened there, or a childood event that caused fear, and the memory is still hauntung you. See if you can feel the feelings and ask yourself what caused them.

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.

Comments

-Kei 2017-02-04 15:15:04

Hello,
I keep having a reoccurring dream at my grandmother house for some reason. Like i have a dream being at her house atleast 1 or 2 + a month. She stay in the country btw. Lately I’ve been having a dream about a snake in her house, a baby one that occasionally I’ll pick up and play with, but in her masterbedroom there is a medium sized beige snake with something in its neck (looks like someone attempted to chop its head off) under the bed. Everytime i go to the room the snake looks like it changed position and sometimes it stares at me. I freaked out because my sister was recently visiting and she seen a snake in the room and my granny supposedly killed it. Can you help tell me what this means?

    -Tony Crisp 2017-02-05 13:16:03

    Hi – I am stopping from answering your posts fully – but will try to give hints; sometimes long ones because I quote from masses I have already put online. Also I need to take time to update the site – dreamhawk.

    It would help you to understand your dreams, if you would read – http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/questions-2/#Summing also http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/features-found-on-site/

    Nothing can replace your own ability to understand your dream. With a little effort you can do it by practicing what is described in – http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPersonOrThing

    Tony

    Dreams are created by what you have heard – what you have been told – I freaked out because my sister was recently visiting and she seen a snake in the room and my granny supposedly killed it – and of course what you are convinced of. And reams mix it up to illustrate something, probably that you are scared.

    The house refers to what you experienced while staying there at your grandmother. Was it pleasant, exciting, scary, or what. Why not find out for yourself by using Being the person or thing.

-Patrick 2017-01-16 12:18:21

I have had this dream several times but not in a while and this time it was much more in depth. There is this big old house that is behind the one I live in. It is in bad repair but at one time must have been a lavish mansion. In previous dreams there was an old woman living there but she died. In previous dreams I would only go inside the house up to the attic but could not bring myself to go into the attic. We’ll last night was the first time I have drempt of the house in years. I was actually inside the house with people I know and in different rooms. It was a terrible dream and I woke very frightened. I have many details of this dream. Any ideas? If so I can explain the dream in detail. Any help I would greatly appreciate.

    -Tony Crisp 2017-01-17 10:59:44

    Hi – I must take time to upgrade the dream dictionary, so must halt from answering your posts – I started revising the dictionary in 2006, and haven’t neared the end yet. I believe someone else may start giving interpretations.

    So, for a while I urge you to read http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/i-am-no-longer-interpreting-dreams/ – It describes ways that can help you. And often it would help too if you looked at http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/questions-2/#Summing

    Tony

    A very important dream. The old house refers to the heritage you bring with you. It indicated your ancestral influences. These can also link with deeply buried tendencies we have unconsciously inherited from the long past. Sometimes they point to the karma we are dealing with – the difficulties or traits that arise in our life, that we cannot honestly see have been developed or collected in this lifetime.

    The fear is a natural feeling when we meet the huge past we carry with us. Also the attic is often in a fearful place because we begin to be aware of our past and a huge awareness.

    But we have to remember that having a personality with self awareness is a very new thing and has only existed for a short time. Before that we were like animals that lived only in the Life Will – what we usually call instincts. So the development of self awareness was an immense step, and left us very vulnerable, and still does.

    Many people as their awareness reaches beyond what they feel is their normal self feel scared. Such resistances cause us to create awful dreams and fears as a means of avoiding our own inner world and its wonders. We feel that we will be swallowed up and we will die. It is important to say that when we meet the experience of powerlessness through becoming aware of the hugeness of your Life, which we are usually unaware if, it feels like something alien or attacking, and it is a shock. See http://dreamhawk.com/approaches-to-being/opening-to-life/

-I'm Blue 2017-01-15 12:55:54

The house is strong and new and very modern and big. (Could mean a situation new to you) (strong house, good omen)
I’m exploring the house. There were a mixture of known and unknown people in the house. (Is an aspect of my life calling out to me through the house?) (Is there an influence or relationship I feel a connection with the house?) (I’m drawn to explore further)
The backyard has no fence, its just yard and a street at the end. In the dream I just got out of a relationship and a stranger suggests that I give my current boyfriend a chance. He drives up in the backyard in a yellow jeep with two of his friends. I leave to another room where my sister is stealing a razor.

-Ricky 2017-01-11 3:40:28

I’ve had countless dreams where I “remember” a house that was mine. The house is in a downtown settting that is seamless to the buildings next to it on both sides. I have never been to this house in real life. In only one of these dreams I’ve made it inside and it felt structurally unsound, with the feeling it was going to collapse. I’ve had other dreams where I’m trying to find this same decrepit house too, actively seeking it out in places that feel familiar in the dream but in reality I’ve never been to. I’ve had these dreams for years and years, and honestly the familiarity of this dream is so strong I almost am disappointed when I wake up not having reached the house. I’m so confused to what it means.

-K white 2017-01-06 23:41:14

Hi, I had a dream about this house at least 2 or 3 times. In the dream, whoever lives in it always moves out. Then it’s just an old empty house. The outside looks ok. I explored the inside, and its ragedy, dusty, old, and empty. All the wallpaper and paint is torn up on the walls. It is in dire need of a paint job, carpeting, and flooring. Besides that though, it’s interesting because there are many different interesting rooms, areas and compartments. I feel a sense of eerieness, but not too much. Almost like there are spirits around. The last dream I had of the house, it looked the same. I looked around briefly and walked out. As I was walking out, I was staring at a rocking chair that was sitting in a room. I also heard faint whispers.

-Angel 2016-12-23 17:44:36

I have this dream off and on that me and my boyfriend live in a trailer but then my boyfriend moved to a new house which was a couple blocks up. I can see me leaving my parents at the trailer and running up the street to find my boyfriends house. I find it and go in with him but I don’t remember anything after that? What does that mean?

-Amy 2016-12-20 10:43:09

I dream of my grandmothers house nearly every night … I return there to move in the house in really bad way but I’m going to make it nice again it’s a big house with lots of room and I’m scared of my kids in the area as it’s east London . What does this mean please it’s every night nearly

-Shelly 2016-12-04 13:15:20

Hi, I dreamt I moved into a big house with man bedrooms and a new boyfriend and how happy I was and in love.

-Farah 2016-10-24 17:01:09

Hi, I would much appreciate if you helped me understand my dream
I have seen this particular house in my dream multiple times. I have never seen this house in real life. In my dreams, I only see the inside of the house and I really love this house, it is not a fancy house but instead a warm cozy type of house. I particularly love the structure of the house. My room is located in an inner part of the house that you don’t expect there to be a room, and I love it being that way.
Thank you

-Ajay 2016-10-07 22:46:04

I keep dreaming of my childhood home. Particularly about a part in the roof where I used to hide whenever I was disturbed/bored. I can’t understand why I keep dreaming of the same place/house again & again. And I always am a kid in my dreams. Its as if in my deep consciousness I have never grown old.

    -Tony Crisp 2016-10-09 11:50:00

    Ajay – In dreams we are all ages, and also dreams are linked with our associations. Your associations are of being disturbed or bored, and so your dreams create the same feelings and age – please don’t mix up the rules of the waling world with the extraordinary world of dreams.

    You need to ask yourself why were you feeling disturbed?

    Example: I was sleeping in an attic. A large dog was with me – a wolfhound like I used to exercise a few years ago. I and the dog would go out together. The dog was wild and free. I enjoyed being with it. Together we did things like hunting which felt very real in the sense of not being artificial behaviour. Although I never washed I felt clean and healthy. Leon.

    When Leon explored his dream he felt the attic was a place where he could exist but not be involved with people. The attic reminded him of the attic in a childhood house in which he slept, where his mother never went because of the steep ladder. So he could go there and be alone, free of other people’s presence and influence.

    Tony

-Kimberly Jeltema 2016-10-01 11:50:06

My dream was a big old barn type house that in my dream I thought was a renovation of my childhood home. The outside neighborhood had lots of bright colors but inside the house was dark. It was comfy dark dimly lit with candles and a fireplace. It was cozy and I loved it, my husband was with me as we wanted to buy it but the person with us said it wasn’t for sale and too expensive to rent. I was disappointed. My father-in-law showed up and was jumping up and down on some floor boards to break enough away to show us what was underneath, I was afraid he would fall through and hurt himself

-Sc 2016-09-13 8:40:16

I keep having a dream of me and my girlfriend at my grandmas house. Which she has passed away a year ago. But this dream I just now woke up from me and my girlfriend was kissing and the home had been redone. Any ideas as to the meaning behind me dreaming I’m always in my grandmas home ?

-Odi 2016-08-30 19:13:49

I keep having similar dreams about escaping a house where someone is trying to cause harm to me and others in it. Some people I recognize others are just blurs. It’s about 10 floors high with many rooms in each long hall. I have made it to the topbefore and escaped that way just to end up being chased in a small town by the owner of the house who seems to have control over the town people. Several times it ends up surrounded by water and we end up gettingchased by alligators. Last night there was a power outage and the inside was completely dark with a few lights being shined through the Windows. Some escaped by breaking the Windows and using ropes to jump out such a high floor. I wasn’t able to escape at first, I had stayed and tried to helped as many as possible get out. Once I was outside water had surrounded the once dried yard. The waterwas up to my ankle and i saw gators heading my way. This is all I can recall from Last night.

-Christi 2016-08-28 15:31:07

I have had this dream a few times now. I inherit an old Victorian era mansion that hasn’t been touched since the original owners death. This is a house I have never been in before. I’m told in the dream it was left to the first born girl in the family (which oddly enough would be me) from president Lincoln or Jackson. I know this because I am shown the will and or deed. The house is structurally perfect although I never see the outside. It’s very dark and dusty but I feel at home. I spend most of the dream exploring and looking through rooms. Every room is full or historical items: paintings, sculptures, furniture, clothes and nick knacks. The windows are covered with heavy drapes that hardly let any light in and I do not have a flashlight or anything but can still see most rooms-supposing they have Windows. At the end of the dream I’m followed by an angry ghost of a man I don’t recognize that is telling me I am not welcome there and that it is not my home. Im not scared of him but try to tell him it is now my house and he is no longer welcome. He tries to trap me In every room I enter after that point and I spend the rest of the time trying to rationalize with him to let me go or to let me take ownership of this house.
Every time I have this dream it feels all to real, like there was a point, in this life or the last, that this truly happened to me.

-Leona 2016-08-28 6:06:49

I keep having the same house appear in different dreams, everytime the house is modern and wealthy as well as neat and tidy to begin with, itso welcoming and nice with a broken staircase to the left and a broken door to the playroom. The first dream was me and my familyou were moving in and discovered the house didn’t feel right and there were lots of dolls *which I am incredibly scared of*. We ended paYong the 2 month deposit and staying though but from there things get worse and it becomes more apparent the house is being haunted. The next dream was similar but set around christmas and my sister *who moved away from our country around that time* was also with us. The most recent dream was me and my parthere looking after the house. Again the house starts off looking so neat and tidy but by the time the dolls and teddies and “haunting” begins it scares me to the point of making us move, so my family pick us up ad we pack everything away ad as we leave the dolls and teddies from in the window of my room place themselves back how they were when we arrived at the house and we drive away in fear.

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