Posts Tagged ‘house’

Bedroom: To sleep perchance to dream.

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

Dreaming of Houses

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.