Mansion dream....?

Question

I had a dream that I was in this mansion. It wasn't brightly lit, but it wasn't dark, either. I had to get to the upper level because there were people up there. There were two staircases. One was a plain wooden one, polished but simple and it went straight up. The other was white with gold trim and it spiraled up. I was so confused as to which staircase to take, but I ended up taking the plain one.

Just as a note, I had this around my high school graduation.

Answer 1

Perhaps the choice of stairways "to the top" had to do with a decision you were facing at the time (e.g., college vs. career). The multiple rooms in the mansion might have represented all of the choices you will have once you (fully) reach adulthood. Both potential "paths" led to the same destination (e.g., joining adulthood), but one might involve more time/mini-"detours" along the way (the spiral staircase).

Answer 2

Your dream represents two choices which were offered to you at the time you got out of high school. Plain staircase represents the path that the world takes to get to the top. Other staircase represents the path which God sets you on to get to the top.

Answer 3

I love this, "Just as a note"--and there you tell the most important part! I wonder what else of importance got left out?

You live with an assumption of good things ahead, yet the details of your future are not certain, are not clear. This is entirely normal. We don't know. In that--"it wasn't brightly lit, but it wasn't dark, either"--was a clear description of your assessment of the future.

The thing about the staircases reminds me of Alice in Wonderland at a fork in the road and asking the Cheshire cat which road to take. Should she go this way or that? "Where do you want to go?" the cat asks. Alice says, "I don't know." and the cat so beautifully answers, "Then it doesn't matter" which road she takes.

I suspect your description says you plan on working for someone (the people at the top, likely the people who own the mansion), and you don't expect to be the star who merits the glitzy staircase, so you take the servant's path, the plain one.

There is nothing wrong with taking either one. You have a picture of your place in the world's pecking order and are not likely to be presumptive about taking a higher place.

People have long established themselves in "classes", it isn't always forced upon them. I've been twice married, my first wife came from a distinctly upper-lower class family. My mother came from a family that was in the mid- to lower-economic strata, but they had an upper-lower class mentality, yet mom aspired to a solid middle class place. Instead of marrying a sharecropper, like her dad, mom married a teacher. She was a hair dresser, as she liked to phrase it, for most of her life and was pleased to have coiffed a couple of young ladies that made it to the "Miss [state]" and one that went on to be Miss America--although it ticked her off that at the final event the convention beauticians handled things, so she wasn't invited by the organization for that. To her, she had arrived to where she was supposed to be. To her parents she had become "a little uppity" in their mind. I always pictured myself as solid middle class, but had aspirations for upper class, speaking as an American. In England, particularly of older times, there were the nobles (upper) and the commoners (lower), and the middle class was for the Donald Trumps and Warren Buffetts of their day, the wealthy were middle class.

Americans don't overtly take much stock in these old class issues, but sociologically they never really disappeared. I suspect that you didn't own the mansion, nor were an honored guest, but most likely came to work or ask for a job. But then, not too many poor people hand out jobs. (My grandfather did, as a sharecropper he usually managed to get the landowner to let him manage the other sharecroppers, Grandma said he did it so he didn't have to work so hard himself)

Something for you to think about. I was at an office building to apply for work. A rather young man in a nice suit stepped into the elevator after me and pushed the top button. I smiled and quipped, "Going all the way to the top?" He laughed and answered, "You would be surprised at how little extra effort it takes to do that." From my experience, it seems that folks at the top are pretty selective at who they let do that necessary 'extra effort', nonetheless, it might be worth a thought for you. Me, I take the big stairs at every opportunity. You might try it if you find yourself in that dream again, like after you finish college. Don't be pompous, but that is when you walk through the mansion like it may someday be yours, and then you climb the pretty staircase like you were meant to be there, okay? That just might be all the spark you need to put yourself in the right frame of mind that will help bring it about someday.

Answer 4

The house is you...the upper stories your higher self...thoughts dreams aspirations...the staircases are your choices...a simple, wooden one that went straight to where you wanted to be or on that wound around and was ornate...more complex....your choice was the simple route...and the most direct to connect with your higher self...congratulations...this when you are so young....some of us never get it