A bedroom as a dream symbol is filled with highly personal content.
Traditionally your bedroom is your personal, private place. As a dream symbol it will reflect these personal aspects of the self.
Dreaming, in the figurative sense, is about your most cherished desires. Dreaming about a bedroom could be a clue that you are dreaming about things which you desire. What do you wish to have, do, or be?
First Thoughts on Bedrooms
In order for a bed and a bedroom to exist they had to have begun in the mind of a human being. The first thoughts about these items are important because they form the symbolic, universal meaning for beds and bedrooms in your dreams. What do you imagine was the first thought that brought a bedroom into being? Was it created for a child, or was it created for the self? What you think those thoughts might have been will help you to understand your own personal symbolism for your dream bedroom.
Let’s begin with the fact that your bed is a soft, comfortable place where you lay your head to sleep. Perhaps the first bed was an animal fur rug placed next to an open fire. Somewhere along the way there was a thought that created the need for a room in which to place your bed.
There was a time when there wasn’t such a thing as a house let alone a bedroom. I imagine a bedroom came into being as a private place to sleep within a house.
Some possibilities for the creation of the first house have already been explored at Dreaming of Houses. When you begin from the point that you are surrounded by four walls and there are as yet no “rooms” in the house, what would make you want a bedroom?
Did you perhaps give birth to a child and need a safe place where the infant could sleep? Maybe you needed to muffle its cries from the wild beasts that would think it was food?
Perhaps you shared your space with 10 other people and you were getting tired of their “crap”, literally!! Your thought would be that you would like your own space within the communal house so you created an area of your own, your bedroom. This is how you get to the basis that a bedroom in your dreams symbolizes your personal, private space.
Asleep Within a Dream
Being asleep in your dream represents not being aware. It means that you are not fully conscious of something going on around or within you. To awaken into the dream action means that you are becoming aware of what you hadn’t been fully conscious of before. The rest of your dream clues will help you determine what this could possibly be.
The Bedroom is Private
Choosing to share your personal space with your significant other is a huge symbolic clue. It is an agreement to share yourself, to share your naked, exposed self. It is a place where you want privacy for being physically close to others. Traditionally we think of sex as occurring in bedrooms. Sex as a dream symbol stands for a deep, tangible, connection to someone or something. Sex can result in new life, physically, mentally, emotionally or spiritually. Your dream bedroom could be symbolizing this closeness.
The Bedroom as a Changing Room
When you are naked in your dreams this means that you are exposing parts of yourself, or you feel that parts of you are being exposed. This exposure can be physical, mental, and emotional. Your bedroom is the place where you can feel comfortable in exposing yourself when you undress.
Symbolically, you can use your bedroom as a comfortable place to explore things that you are keeping hidden from others, but also possibly from yourself. Maybe there are things that you haven’t really wanted to face up to or admit. Maybe there are wonderful depths to you that you’ve always thought to be too good to be true. You could explore these things safely in your dream bedroom.
Beyond the Universal Meaning: The personal aspect.
Your personal feelings and experiences with bedrooms in your conscious life will influence your symbolic use of bedrooms in your dream.
Anything and everything that has ever happened in your personal bedrooms can influence how you use them as a symbol. Perhaps you are bedridden and cannot leave your bedroom. It could be your haven or your prison depending upon your feelings about the situation. Whenever your bedroom shows up in your dreams you are exploring something personal to you.
When It Is Not “Your” Bedroom
I also feel that I should mention that some dream bedrooms are not about you at all. When someone else features prominently in your bedroom dream, it could be about something personal to them.
For instance, I had a dream in which my son was exploring a bedroom in a house. In reality he really was shopping for a house. We looked at many houses, but there was only one that was the exact replica of the bedroom in my dream. In this case my dream was about a future event that was personal to my son.
As always, I hope my thoughts on dream bedrooms can help you in determining the meaning of bedrooms in your own dreams. If you have any questions or comments, please write below or send an e-mail
Thanks,
Michelle
It’s been a while since my last post, but I’ve managed to get some new dictionary definitions together. I wanted to try a new format this time, so here goes:
6 New Definitions added to the Dream Dictionary
- Bed: The piece of furniture that dominates a bedroom. Beds provide a soft, comfortable place to sleep. A bed in your dream will symbolize the degree of comfort you are feeling in a particular situation. The state of the bed will also provide a clue to the situation you are dreaming about. Are you sleeping on Cloud 9(a really good bed) or a bed of nails(really bad) or something in-between?
- Bedroom: A bedroom is the place where you sleep and where you dream. As a dream symbol it represents a personal, private place inside of you.
- Asleep: In a dream, it means not being fully conscious or aware of something. When you find yourself asleep in your dreams it is time to ask yourself if there is anything going on in your life that you are not aware of.
- Sleep: Sleep is a time of renewal. Our bodies and our minds are rejuvenated after a good night’s sleep. As a dream symbol a good night’s sleep would point to some type of rejuvenating aspect of your life. Sleeping poorly or unable to sleep would state the opposite, that you’re having trouble renewing yourself.
- Awaken: When you are asleep in a dream and actually wake-up, this is a clue that you are “waking-up” to what is going on around you. This would be something that you were previously unaware of.
- Naked: When you are naked in your dreams this means that you are exposing parts of yourself, or you feel that parts of you are being exposed. This exposure can be either mental, physical, or emotional.
Remember, if you’ve dreamed a symbol that you’re unfamiliar with, you can skim through my dictionary to see if I’ve already defined it. Any symbol that I’ve ever expanded upon in a full-length post will be linked there, too.
Also, if I haven’t covered a symbol yet and you’d like me to define something, send me an email or leave a comment at the dictionary page and I’ll be sure to write one.
Thanks for reading!
Exploring how a house becomes a symbol.
In order for a house to exist, it had to have begun as a thought in the mind of a human being; it was an idea before it was an object. This is a great place to begin when we are defining the symbolic meaning of a physical, man-made item.
Imagine our ancient ancestors wandering the earth without a house. Why might they create a house? Perhaps they are lying under the stars and a huge animal attacks them. After fending off the beast, they think, “Ugh! Me need to keep beast out. Me need to stack stones. Me call it wall!”
While overly simplified, the scenario above could have been the first thought about a house – ever. An ordered series of thoughts would be required to bring that house into being. Something such as the following:
- What can I use to build a wall?
- How can I make it strong enough to withstand a beast?
- Can I do it with only my hands or will I need a tool?
The necessary tools may then be created, after they are imagined up, of course. Perhaps the tools began as simple chopping and carving tools, but they sufficed to build a simple house.
From then on, a house was no longer a thought in someone’s mind, it had become real; it existed.
The Birth of the Symbolism
We build a house around us for our safety, our protection, and our relief from the elements, among other things. Doesn’t it then stand to reason that when we dream of a house, it is our shelter from the storms of life; our protection from predators?
Although we don’t often stop to think about it in our fast-paced world, our hearts and our souls and our minds need protection as well as our bodies. After all, they are the true creators of our lives. As a house protects our physical body, a house in our dreams provides shelter for who we are inside. This is why it is a symbol for the self.
More Symbolism
Rooms in a house represent different parts of you. When you find yourself opening a door into a wonderfully amazing room, realize that you are opening a door into a part of yourself.
When you see a room that’s really messy, realize that it too is a part of who you are; where your inner thoughts and feelings are messy.
Sometimes the house you’re dreaming of actually represents someone else. Perhaps you’re at a friend’s house and having a wonderful visit. You note all the things you like and dislike about their house. In this case, the house in your dream would represent your friend or how you feel about your friend.
In some way, shape, or form the house in your dream is showing you some interaction that you are having with the world around you. On a completely “self” level it would represent how you are personally thinking and feeling about something.
Dream Phenomena and Remote Viewing
Perhaps you are remote viewing inside someone else’s house?
As an example: I was telling my best friend that I had a dream about her in which she was in her closet and there were extension cords and hangers and lights. I told her that her husband yelled something up the stairs to her.
She told me that all of those things actually happened that night. It was like I was in her house “seeing” what they were doing, even if only for a few minutes.
The only way to know if you are doing this is by speaking about your dream experiences. My advice is to share your dream with the person to find out if you were visiting them while you were dreaming.
Additional Notes
I’d like to end by letting you know I have a few posts and dictionary entries you may find helpful in understanding the symbolic meaning of the clues in your dreams with reference to a house.
Are you in the bathroom?
Are you opening a door or sitting in a closet?
A house is also a building.
If you were eating in the dream, you may want to see my post on food.
Did any of the following appear in the dream: kitchen, living room, cooking, eating or laundry? If so, check out their meanings in my Dream Dictionary.
Here’s another round of dictionary updates for you.
There are 6 new definitions this week:
- Alive
- Dead
- Dead-end
- Death
- Life
- Work
I’m closing in on 100 definitions in the dictionary so far!
Remember, if you’ve dreamed a symbol that you’re unfamiliar with, you can skim through my Dream Dictionary to see if I’ve already defined it. Any symbol that I’ve ever expanded upon in a full-length post will be linked there, too.
Also, if I haven’t covered a symbol yet and you’d like me to define something, send me an email or leave a comment at the dictionary page and I’ll be sure to write one.
Thanks for reading!
Always keep in mind that a dream dictionary defines the symbolic use of the things in your dreams. There is a way we dream that is simply reality replayed. In these instances the symbol would be what it represents in reality. A plate would be a plate, a kitchen would be a kitchen, and a donut would be a donut. Maybe you’re on a diet and you wanted a donut, so you dreamed of eating one! No symbolism was involved; simply a very enjoyable dream. These dreams do not need interpretation, they are what they are.
How to know the difference.
In a reality replayed dream, when you wake up, you will understand the dream and what it meant to you personally.
In a symbolic dream, in most cases, your dream will make no sense to you. This is the type of dream that needs interpretation. You were obviously making use of the symbolic meanings for the physical items in your dream.
Why do we dream in symbols?
Many people theorize that we do this when we aren’t consciously connected to the information. This implies that the language of the subconscious is one of a symbolic nature. Dreaming is only one medium through which the subconscious becomes conscious and in order to understand the information being sent, you need to learn the symbolic dream language.
A problem with the dream language is that it is personal to each individual, and may be hard to decipher.
I have written Dream Journaling posts to help you in your understanding of your personal dream symbols. Also, see my post on Creating a Dream Dictionary.
Does dream information come from any other source?
There are many dream things that defy explanation. Some examples are:
- Dreaming an event that hasn’t yet taken place.
- Dreaming of an event that has taken place that you were physically unaware of.
- Remote viewing in dreams; spiritually traveling to a location which exists in physical reality and bringing back information while you’re dreaming.
- Talking to another person in your dreams and comparing notes the next day to find they talked to you too.
- Receiving information in a dream from someone who is deceased that you couldn’t otherwise have received.
In answering the question, “Does dream information come from any other source?”
I would have to answer, “Yes!”
Exploring these dream capabilities and how they could possibly work is something I find very exciting. How could they possibly come from your subconscious when they weren’t there to begin with? Where did they come from?
Although I love every aspect of dreaming, these unknowns are my favorite areas to ponder. Theory after theory abounds within my head as to why and how these things can occur! If you’re interested in anything of this sort, you can look forward to many more posts on them in the future.
Or, for more information on things of an unexplainable nature, see my posts in Dream Phenomena, or read an example dream near the end of my post Building.
As always, thanks for reading,
Michelle
I’m still continuing the process of adding new definitions to my dream dictionary, and as usual, I’m highlighting the changes here.
There are 5 new definitions this week:
- Highway
- Home
- Paving
- Road
- Street
The total number of definitions in my dictionary is now over 80!
Remember, if you’ve dreamed a symbol that you’re unfamiliar with, you can skim through my Dream Dictionary to see if I’ve already defined it. Any symbol that I’ve ever expanded upon in a full-length post will be linked there, too.
Also, if I haven’t covered a symbol yet and you’d like me to define something, send me an email or leave a comment at the dictionary page and I’ll be sure to write one.
Thanks for reading!
In reality you use your teeth to eat your food, and speak your words. Teeth also figure prominently in your appearance.
Here’s some information about teeth as per Wikipedia – Your ability to chew food affects the quality of your life. The teeth play a major role in speech. Lack of teeth can result in “social insecurity”.
The basic meaning of teeth in your dream is to take good care of them, they’re very important!
Teeth Chomping into Dreams: The symbolic meaning.
A good set of teeth may represent:
- How well you can nourish yourself, both mentally and physically.
- How well you are speaking.
- How well you look.
A poor set of teeth could represent:
- Being unable to nourish yourself, to get what you need.
- Being unable to speak and be understood properly.
- Concern with not looking good.
Teeth falling out:
This is definitely a message from your subconscious saying, “Let me have your attention please!”
When the dream is about words in some way, shape, or form it signifies:
- Regret for words you said, and perhaps wish you didn’t.
- Words you didn’t say, and perhaps wish you did.
- Anxiety about speaking your mind or public speaking.
- Being unable to speak the way you’d like to for some reason.
- Perhaps you’re having trouble speaking what’s on your mind to someone, although you’d really like to.
- Misunderstanding: Is something you said creating problems because it was totally misunderstood?
When this dream is about nourishing yourself mentally, physically or emotionally:
When you don’t have any teeth you are unprepared to nourish yourself. Perhaps you aren’t getting everything you need in order to present yourself properly to others? This is about the ability to do what needs to be done, and do it well. You might be subconsciously worried that you’re going to look really bad, or you’re going to sound really dumb.
When the dream is about appearance:
There are many ways to look bad. How you appear to others involves your whole persona, not just your physical looks. When you lose your teeth in a dream and you believe you’re worried about how you look, remember to take the best care of yourself that you can. Who you are on the inside is way more important than how you appear on the outside.
An example dream:
I watched someone’s dentures fall out as they were speaking to me. The dentures landed in an ugly brown mud puddle. In reality I found out that this person was in the habit of not telling the truth. Their word was “mud”, not worth much. Also interesting that I dreamed “false” teeth to symbolize falsehood. In reality they are still in possession of their natural teeth.
As always, I hope I’ve given you something you can sink your teeth into that will help you understand your personal dream messages. Happy dreaming!
