Same House, different dreams

[minnesotaqueen]

I have had this certain house in many dreams over the years. It is not a house that I have ever been in. Sometimes the house is in different locations, but always the same inside. Sometimes I am alone, sometimes with people I do or do not know. It's not like it's a scary dream each time. Mostly the mood of the dream is casual. It has three levels and a basement, but I rarely go to the 3rd floor. The third floor is not scary, just a mostly open space with hardwood floors and a few smaller rooms off of it. It looks like it was built anywhere from 1900-1930. I'm not doing the same thing in every dream. I just don't get what this house represents. I see the kitchen in almost every dream. Any thoughts?

[jamesjr191]

May represent nothing, just a starting off point. I often dream of the same homes or buildings with a different situation occurring, sometimes the same dream again. I just don't tend to read as much into dreams as some do. except for two that became reality.

[Hugh]

I have a similar type of experience with several houses in my dreams... which have appeared in many dreams over many years...

I don't feel they represent anything other than a setting in which the dreams can occur.

Some of the houses at times morph during the dream into familiar places, for example, out the back door of one sometimes leads into a stairwell leading to a mall that I know. Another house sometimes has a familiar lake shore out in front. Another one leads to parts of my sister's former house on the top floor.

One's brain just uses what it knows and adds in new places periodically to make things interesting in our dreams.

You know what, this thread has really got me to think of all the different houses I've dreamed about and it's really fascinating to relive them in my conscious state! Thanks!

[danielost]

i have a house that the insides and outsides change. i even found an abandon casino in it in one or two dreams. in that dream the expansion dwarfed the actual house.

[Starhunter]

A house or houses, rooms and buildings represent mind space and what the mind has to deal with. Compartmentalizing is part of it, segments of our life, priorities, how we view the outside world, what we let in and share with the environment etc.

The rooms represent compartments or aspects of our selves. The kitchen usually represents what you have to do to function normally like a job or domestic duties and eating.

How we relate to those around us, especially familiar faces like relatives will pop up in the house, sometimes in specific rooms..

In regards to a particular building which keeps coming up, if it occurs in the very first part of your sleep, it is likely to be passed on memory of an ancestor. If it occurs late in the sleep towards morning, it is belongs to your own constructions and experiences.

One of the most important clues to interpreting dreams is, what the dream made you feel while dreaming, and then how it makes you feel when awake. The feeling is what you have experienced or are likely to experience due to your attitude about something in real life, and the symbol that the brain has chosen for that issue may not be related at all. That's because the brain constructs things from whatever is associated with any similar experience.

While awake, the brain does this more accurately, due to habitual electrical impulses overruling the hormonal communication system. Say for example, a particular smell evokes a whole memory. It is because the brain has summarized the event down to its simplest notion, like a trigger point, which then starts a construction process we call memory. This can all be done in less than a second.

During dreaming our mind does not make too many distinctions between what is truly related and what is randomly generated, and another factor besides all of the above is the health of your body and what it has to deal with while sleeping. Poor health conditions and incomplete digestive processes will cause disturbing dreams.

Bad dreams can be avoided by making sure your evening meal is completely digested. Avoid meat, cooked cabbage, yellow or highly matured cheeses, NUTS, FRIED foods, because they take a long time to digest. Digestion is work, and if the body is trying to go to sleep, the work going on aggravates the body and mind.

In regards to the house, if the details are consistent, try doing some research into your family history, there is a possibility that it actually exists, or once existed.

[Likely Guy]

I liked everyone's posts because I often have a dream that I'm in a building not unlike the Winchester Mansion... doors that don't open, doors that just lead to another door, staircases that don't even lead to a door, hidden panels, crawl spaces.

Like minnesotaqueen said (by the way, welcome to the forum ) I'm not apprehensive at all as to what I might find, I just feel like it's a mission to get through it. I never do, but that doesn't seem to be the reason. It's about the search, or the discovery, I suppose.

Edited November 2, 2014 by Likely Guy

[Hugh]

I liked everyone's posts because I often have a dream that I'm in a building not unlike the Winchester Mansion... doors that don't open, doors that just lead to another door, staircases that don't even lead to a door, hidden panels, crawl spaces.

I've had similar experiences while dreaming... things kind of getting smaller, like into crawl spaces... more smaller and difficult etc... then when I wake up, I realize that it was my brain's way of getting me scared enough to wake up because I'm in an uncomfortable position and can't breathe properly or circulation is cut off to an arm for example...

[Crabby Kitten]

Well I keep dreaming that I'm still living in the same house where I grew up. Apart from the house, which was a real memory full of happiness, the dream of houses usually mean something. One of the most significant things about houses in dreams are that they tend to mean your present mindset, or a part of your thinking. Houses are a state of comfort and safety. If they're the same in each dream, your thoughts (ideals, goals, ect) that are belonging to you appear like homes.

I often dreams of the same "town" which I've never lived in, and it's got the same streets and shops. I've visited those same places in dreams for years.

[jamesjr191]

Heres a twist, ive many times dreamed of the same houses or buildings that have morphed once your inside. Mine almost always have a room, hall or a doorway I avoid. Theres something bad behind it, im sure its a phobia or an unsolved issue in my life is what im actually looking at. On occasion <Lucid dream, maybe> I will decide im going in there and I go. Odd part is I never remember what has transpired in the room. In Dreams after that point the room has moved to another spot but there is always that certain room. I figure ive conquered one fear or issue and its time for the next. any thoughts on this?

Edited November 2, 2014 by jamesjr191

[jamesjr191]

Now that I think about it. It could be I have still refused to deal with the trouble and it just moved to a new location?