My recurring dream............any dream analysts out there?

by Mulan 11 Replies latest jw experiences

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  Mulan

  I have had a recurring dream for all of 2 nights now. It is so vivid and I am sorry when I wake up because I want to go back.

  I am in a very large house, old and BIG like a manor house. There are lots of wide stairways and dark wood everywhere. I open closets and find huge pieces of furniture stored and tell Rachel (Princess) that we don't need to buy anything because it is all here. The first night I dreamed this, my aunt and my late grandmother came into the room and looked around and grandma asked me if I wanted to talk to the Tinker and that he is right outside, and I could learn a lot about the history of the house, so I run outside and chat with him. Can't remember what he tells me.

  When I go back in, I find another big stairway that is a bit tilted, like the earth has settled and at the bottom is a large entry area where I think the Christmas tree would be perfect. As I feel around on the wall, it opens and there is a large window with two armoires on either side of the window. They look like jewelry cases, but when I open a drawer I find little glass sleeves with photos in them.

  Last night I was back in the same house and a man came into the room wearing all black and he had dark hair too. When he turned around, I got distracted and never saw who he was. I love that house, and keep telling Dave (now during the day) that I miss my house.

  Is it genetic memories, or just a great dream? I can't stop thinking about that house. I see it so clearly..........I could draw the floor plan.
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  StinkyPantz

  Your dream means you need more sex. . .
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  ballistic

  Mulan, seriously, I have had a similar re-occurring dream for 5 years. The house represents your family. The architecture and furniture are your history. If you dream of delapidated rooms or missing rooms, they are the broken or split parts of your family. If you dream of new or unexpected rooms which you didn't know existed, they are new friends you take on as family. There is more, but I am in fact, going to bed now. Let me know the rest of your dream. [email protected]
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  Ravyn

  houses in dreams can also be your inner landscape. the place where you 'live' inside. in a strictly shamanistic sense i would definitely try to talk to that Tinker again....

  you have everything you need, it is all there and you love it. what a happy dream. enjoy it!

  Ravyn
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  Scully

  Perhaps your dreams have something to do with your dad's recent stroke. I heard a saying once, from an elderly Native North American chief: "Dreams are the answers to questions that we don't know how to ask." I thought that was pretty profound.

  I agree with Ballistic about the house representing your family. Obviously from the way you are describing the house you are seeing, the house (ie, your family) represents "everything you ever needed" - as you pointed out to Princess when you are looking around. Then you are seeing photographs.... perhaps these represent memories of your dad when he was in better health, and now you are facing the prospect of his health deteriorating even more.

  It sounds like a beautiful dream. Go ahead and draw the floorplan, and pictures of it. Keep writing about your dreams too. Lots of people keep dream journals. It can be very therapeutic.

  Love, Scully
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  Big Tex

  Shot in the dark . . .

  First thing that jumps out at me is the description of the house. I'm curious as to what dark woods and wide staircases mean to you. Have you ever lived in a house that had either? Or is that a dream (wish) of yours? Was the dream in the day or at night?

  What I pick up is that the house is your family or at least your family history. Your daughter, aunt and late grandmother are there. I just noticed all female. Also you want to learn "all about the house", so do you think you are wanting to touch your roots a bit what with your father's recent stroke? That can shake up your sense of order, both past and present. You love the house, but isn't it fair to say you love your family? Maybe you are missing the past, when your parents were there and healthy and your grandmother was there. You had familial support all around. Dark woods I'm thinking, could indicate age, as if the house (family?) had been there for some time.

  Also there is a man all in black (death?), but you can't see his face. It might be because this is a subject you are not ready to face. At the very least he is someone you don't see clearly, so he is murky and unresolved. In the dream, is he someone you are leery or afraid of or is he someone you are curious about?

  Anyway, just a thought.
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  DannyBear

  Mulan,

  You think your obsessing over a 'big house with dark paneling' ever hear of Sarah Winchester?

  THE WINCHESTER HOUSE!
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  outoftheorg

  Happy dreans Mulan.

  The person best equiped to decipher your dream, is you.

  Don't try to think or reason your way through it. Just enjoy the dream as often as it occurs. Then, describe to your self, the first thoughts that come to your mind. Don't analyze them, just proceed to walk your way through the dream and accept what your mind informs you about the dream.

  Do this several times without any real effort to understand. Just accept what comes to you.

  I was told this and it has worked well for me.

  Outoftheorg
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  Mulan

  I love it! Thanks everyone. All that each of you has said makes perfect sense. Tonight I will try to talk to the Tinker again. By the way, the dream is at night.

  I am a real genealogy buff so my trying to tap into my roots is a good lead too, maybe more on grandma's side. Maybe the Tinker will give me a lead there. I've got a lot already but got stuck on grandma's great grandfather, who lived in York (England). I think I need to go there, don't you? I hear he lived in a Manor House, and his son who came to the U.S. in about 1845, lost his inheritance by leaving England. It would be so wild if that Manor House was like the house in my dream.
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  A Paduan

  I would suggest that the house is you.

  You have all you need, nothing to buy, it's all there.

  'Tinker' is around if you need to know something about yourself, and it would seem that you welcome your aunt and late grandmother as your own.

  The way to the "upper rooms" had some problem, but that's ok, that's how it is with earth - and it's firmer now.

  Some one else came into the house, but he doesn't know who you are.

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  It is suggested that the dreamer will know when they realise.