How should I interpret this recurring dream?

Question

I wasn't sure where else to ask this, and psychology seemed appropriate.

I have been having a recurring dream involving a house. The same house for many years and in the dreams it belongs to me. The dreams are varied and some involve me being chased around in the house...sometimes I'm giving tours. Sometimes I'm doing repairs.

In many ways the house is familiar to me. It's an amalgamation of many houses I've lived in but it's just much much larger. It's a mansion, but it's a run-down mansion in need of tremendous amounts of money and repairs. There are also unknown places in this house that frighten me at times. For awhile I even thought it was haunted.

Lately, it's been getting nicer. Less structurally unsound areas. There's even some really nice rooms now (last week there was a jacuzzi in the bathroom)...but still areas that terrify me. There are doors I dare not open.

A family member suggested that the house represents me. And that this is my journey as a person.

I wonder if anyone else has any insights, and I thank you in advance for any input you care to give. :)

Answer 1

The house is your life and your life has changed so has your dreams. Being chased around your house could be the times life was chaotic. When your where giving tours could be your evaluation of your life. Doing repairs could be the growth and improvements in your life. The mansion could be the feeling of being overwhelmed and things being more than we could handle. Money and repairs could be the many problems in life, that we tend to make bigger than they are. He all have those challenges that frighten us and scare us off. The unknown is scary, but its a opportunity to thrive. Then haunted part could be you doubting yourself on your potential. The nice rooms are the progress you have made and the control in your life. When you are ready you will go through the other doors, just be patient. Live and learn. Enjoy the journey

Answer 2

I agree with your family member. The house is you and the different rooms represent different parts of you. Being chased is when you've encountered something that doesn't belong to your mindset. Giving tours is when you're very happy and content. Doing repairs is when you've had to rethink an older opinion. The fact that the mansion is run-down, is significant, in that you recognize that you don't have all the answers, and may never have them. The frightening places are those that we all have. "The doors you dare not open" are simply those sides of you which you've decided are too scary to attend to at this time. We all have these. Unfortunately, at my age (:)) most of those doors have been opened, and just taken off the hinges. Have a good long look everybody!!
Hope this makes sense.
Blessed be.

Answer 3

I think you're waaay too domesticated! I think you should try going camping for awhile or do something out of the ordinary! you're family member may be right, then again you're mind may just be really really bored, otherwise it's a long complicated explanation about your childhood and houses or some such thing that some physiologist could explain...or not. By the by why were you afraid of some of the rooms and thought it was haunted? Has someone died in any of the homes you previously owned or a former owner that you know of? Perhaps to break the cycle you could in your dreams force yourself to enter these forbidden rooms. Very rarely there is something behind them that are evil...but then I'm no expert! Try changing your routine if you still prefer not to enter these rooms in your dream. Change of diet, change of exercise, change of sleeping times and arrangements might help you to stop having this dream-if that's what you want. Because I doubt very much there are all that many competent dream interpreters on Yahoo Answers!

Answer 4

I'm pretty good at dream interp so let me give this a shot. I'd say this is an interesting one. Usually the car motif is reserved for life pathways. So a person perpetually stuck in reverse feels like they are going nowehere in life, a person whho can't get the car started is really feeling like they are stuck. But the no brakes in reverse. I think this can be one of three things. First you could just be afraid to drive. Second you could be afraid that what you are currently doing today will send you careening the wrong direction your life. The third and what I consider most likely is that you have something shady or bad in your past that you like to keep hidden from others either a guilt or something bad that was done to you. And events prior to the dream stir up memories you'd rather keep locked. And the no brakes i s a thing that you feel if the past is opened you will not be able to stop it from coming out

Answer 5

Since it is a recurring dream there is obviously something in your life, some unfinished business that is bothering you. I think that family member is right. It is a dream in which the house represents you. There has been some dream research in the past that seems to indicate that recurring dreams are due to the psych's own need to thresh something out. Usually something that is currently bothering you on a daily basis has invaded your sleep state to make itself know in another fashion.

I think the thing for you to do now is to examine your daily life and see where the angst is coming from. If it's job related, talk it over with your employer. If its due to relationship problems recurring in your personal life go directly to the people or person responsible and confront them with the issues that are bothering you.

Your dream-state is affecting your emotional health. I think it's time you get to the bottom of it and move on.

Answer 6

I think you have answered your own question. As strange as dreams may seem, they are really very simple to figure out. Sometimes there is no meaning. Sometimes your brain is just playing around and putting waking thoughts together with no particular meaning or significance. After discussing dreams with many people, I have found that everyone tries too hard to find a meaning. I think you are trying too hard. Your waking thoughts are far more important. Focus there!

Answer 7

It may indeed represent your life experience to you. However I do have some concern about the doors you are afraid to open. These could represent some difficult experiences from your childhood. Perhaps you should present this to a counselor who might help you open the doors you are afraid of.

Answer 8

my first thought is that the house represents you; your fears, experiences and growth as a person. start to question your self what those doors are hiding that frighten you so much..

Answer 9

i agree with your family member. houses in dreams usually represent you. the state of it and what is going on inside your house can give you valuable information on what is going well and what needs improvement in your life.