Indulge me
briefly my friends--this is a survey for all of you.
I would like to
ask y'all about your dreams. Specifically, I
want to know about houses.
For every home
in which I have ever lived, there is an alternate version that exists in my
dream-brain. Sometimes the dream version is only slightly different than the
real life house, sometimes there are really huge differences--either way, these
dream houses remain consistent from one dream to the next.
My current apartment
for example: the dream version is larger, and set in a completely different
location. Same with Mumsy's condo when I was living in the basement: my
basement space looked almost exactly the same as it did in real life, but the
backyard outside the sliding doors was totally different (flat fields/farmland
instead of the fenced in moss-and-grass). The dream version of my old apartment
had a whole section of rooms behind the kitchen that did not exist at all in
real life. The dream version of my childhood home had a crazy huge attic space
that also did not exist in real life.
Do any of you
readers experience this with your homes and your dreams? If you dream of your
homes, are they different than real life? What about them is different? I want details.
And now the
second half of this survey......
Lil Bro#2 and I
had this discussion last weekend and it has made me very curious. Do you guys
have a house--NOT a house that you ever lived in outside of your dreams--that
shows up in your dreams over and over and over again?
I do. Lil Bro#2
does as well, and for some reason both of our Houses remind us of my step-grandparents' old house, and both of our Houses have a whole section of
rooms (living room, bedroom, bathroom) accessible only via a secret hidden
door.
Idk why my House
reminds me of my step-grandparents' house, because my House is freaking
enormous. Like complete with a belltower (the interior of which is only accessible
via secret door) and a massive ballroom/library with two big curving staircases
that lead to a balcony that encircles the entire room. I wish I could do like
architectural drawing, but I'm pretty sure there are parts of the House that
defy physics, so that might be kind of hard to illustrate...
This House has
existed in my dreams for as long as I can remember, and it has not changed. Lil
Bro#2 said the same of his House.
I've tried
looking up what the *experts* have to say about houses in dreams, but of course
everyone has a different explanation. Lil Bro#2 and I thought that the most
likely explanation of the House is that it is basically a visual representation
of everything you have ever retained in your mind. Like if someone took your
brain with all of its knowledge and memories and weird personality traits and
turned it into a building.
Which brings me
to the second question--do any of you have a House that shows up frequently in
your dreams? What is it like? Has it changed, or does it stay the same? Details!!!
Inquiring minds
want to know.............
I have a house that does recur in dreams from time to time. It is always the same and yes in a similar place. Large and lots of rooms with a semi-secret wing and close to the ocean with a stream running by that leads to the ocean.
ReplyDeleteCurrently this house would be too big for me, but back in the day...
I don't remember my dreams very often. Rarely, rarely. Old houses from my childhood turn up, looking like something out of an MC Escher sketch, but always initially based on real homes, it seems.
ReplyDeleteNo. My dreams vary. I'll end up in familiar places or unfamiliar places. My current home may appear as it is or with modifications. But there is no consistent place I return to time and again.
ReplyDeleteSo on q1, I think the dream rendition of my childhood home is pretty faithful to what it was. Except that the cornfield out back usually becomes a lake of some sort.
ReplyDeleteOutside of that home, some may have enough features that I know what my subconscious is getting at, but no real similarities. In fact, every time I dream about being at Laurie's sister's house, it's a different house in a different place, usually with a room that you have to "jump through some hoops" to enter.
I do get variations of the trailer I used to live in, with the side hallway running through the middle and rooms on both sides. And I have a vague memory of THINKING (not sure it was ever a dream) that there was a hidden room in my childhood home between my room and the kitchen. Once I could figure out how many windows I'd need to make that happen, I went outside one day and disproved it. Prolly around three back then.
the dream version of my home always come with the smell of coffee and warm bread. i see the house more or less as it is. more flowers outside. pink and white roses. no red. maybe blue sometimes, even though i know that's not likely. i walk inside, and the gate leads to the yard which sucks and it still sucks. maybe a plastic chair and a little table (it isn't there in real life but i do imagine it sometimes.) which means nothing because i hate sitting there. walk inside the house, and the rooms are nondescript. my room is nondescript. there are violet underpants in my drawer and polka dotted bras for some reason. there's also a lamp. even though i hate lamp and never use them. i wear fluffy pyjamas. there's dark wood furniture and the smell of... something. something that smells like my mother on the days that she's away.
ReplyDelete"Do you guys have a house--NOT a house that you ever lived in outside of your dreams--that shows up in your dreams over and over and over again?" weirdly enough yes. and i don't know what my house reminds me of. i think it's reminiscent of my grandfather's house. which is creepy knowing what you just said.
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- Sam Lupin
I havent lived in many actual houses...the house where i grew up showed up quite a lot in dreams in the past, and it was a lot about people being nosy, forcefully entering it and i cant do anything about it. it looked like the real place most of the time. sometimes bigger, sometimes mixed with my grandparents home.not long ago i dreamed someone is breaking into my house when i had a bad time and felt threatened an anxious in general.i think houses may stand for "an inner house, inner space, the self"
ReplyDeleteI've lived in quite a few houses. Some of them show up in my dreams with part of one house combined with part of another house. For example, I might see the family room from my house in Illinois with the kitchen from my house in Maryland. I don't see any other houses in my dreams--at least not that I can recall.
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Janie
I've never dreamed about a house that I've not lived in before. That's pretty interesting. There's probably all sorts of psychological and spiritual implications there. I have found myself dreaming about living in my old houses, and even my friends houses, but it's always been a house I know and it generally looks just the same.
ReplyDeleteMy houses get mixed up in my dreams. The one I grew up in gets combined with the first one I bought on my own and the one I live in now. Sometimes they even have an unknown room pop up. It's strange.
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Elsie Amata
It's hard to remember details after I wake up, but yea some houses do make return appearances. I seem to use one the most, but 2 or maybe 3 others pop up. My fave was a huge palace with stained glass, almost church like. It shows up rarely though. Mostly I live in a combo of various houses I've seen in real life.
ReplyDeleteWhen I dream of a house, it's the one I grew up in on Long Island. It's always the basement. Just last month I dreamt that there were bodies down the basement of mafia guys. The floor was soft and mushy and the bodies wouldn't stay down. Next, mafia wives wanted to come over to do yoga. I kept pushing the bodies down but they kept popping up like the game, wack-a-mole. Finally I put a hardwood floor down and the yoga class happened without the women knowing what was beneath them. So...now you know how weird my dreams are...and me.
ReplyDeleteSo my house, when I dream of it, is always my house. Never changed. But often I do dream that I'm in some completely random house, and I know it's not mine. It's never the same, either. Always a completely different house and layout. Not sure what that means.
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