Oh, I love, love, love when I have flying dreams. The feelings I have leftover when I wake are great. Not quite as great as I feel in the dreams, but still almost tangible. I never have to do anything physical in the dream to fly- just push off the ground & soar. Sometimes others in the dreams don't notice, other times they are in awe. Can't say why. It's been a few years since my last flight, wouldn't mind taking a spin in the near future.?
Another dream I have had many times is house dreams. Usually I'm in a house, some old Victorian house, and it turns out there are upper floors that are unused, wide and tall floors, sometimes two or more. I'm pleased and surprised at how much space there is. They are often empty, unused, or partially furnished. I see them as possibilities. In one, I sat on the floor since there was no furniture and noticed some torn wall paper, and wondered if the floor would hold. But it looked good. I also wondered if it was haunted. A few other times, I dreamed that there's an annex to this house, a long wide hallway that spans the whole length of the house, often with old furnishings from an era gone by. I get excited in the dream that this house is mine and I can make use of these additional rooms and floors. Anyone had house dreams?
Another dream I have had many times is house dreams. Usually I'm in a house, some old Victorian house, and it turns out there are upper floors that are unused, wide and tall floors, sometimes two or more. I'm pleased and surprised at how much space there is. They are often empty, unused, or partially furnished. I see them as possibilities. In one, I sat on the floor since there was no furniture and noticed some torn wall paper, and wondered if the floor would hold. But it looked good. I also wondered if it was haunted. A few other times, I dreamed that there's an annex to this house, a long wide hallway that spans the whole length of the house, often with old furnishings from an era gone by. I get excited in the dream that this house is mine and I can make use of these additional rooms and floors. Anyone had house dreams?
I have house dreams all the time and they are very similar to how you describe yours, with unused upper floors, and extra furniture, etc. Sometimes the upper areas are haunted, but usually in the dreams I can deal with the haunting even though other people are afraid. Sometimes the houses are supposed to be old family homes. Sometimes they are just random houses. (In real life I actually live in a Victorian-era house that was a haunted fixer-upper when I bought it 30 years ago, and that is another set of stories. LOL )
In my most recent house dream ( a few days ago), my husband was going to set up a newly found, empty room with his stereo, but he needed a piece of furniture of a certain height to hold a speaker. I replied that there was probably something the right size on the upper floors, (the upper rooms were full of antiques) and that the former owners had said we could use what was there. I excitedly ran out of the room to go upstairs and inventory the furniture but as I left my husband complained that I was always running off to do something. (In real life I always feel like it is the reverse-- he is the one always running off distracted.)
According to dream dictionaries, "house dreams" are supposed to be relatively common, with unused rooms representing either newfound possibilities in life, or upper levels of sprituality that the dreamer is discovering.
@jeanne-mayell Some of my favorite dream books describe the house as being the structure of your life, and then the rest of the interpretation is in the details of the dream. I recently had a dream about being in a basement, a scary one with spiders and other creepy things. I haven’t yet looked up the interpretation for that one.
@jeanne-mayell Some of my favorite dream books describe the house as being the structure of your life, and then the rest of the interpretation is in the details of the dream. I recently had a dream about being in a basement, a scary one with spiders and other creepy things. I haven’t yet looked up the interpretation for that one.
The usual interpretation of basements is that they represent the subconscious. The spiders etc could represent either memories you have buried, or things about yourself that you do not want to acknowledge.
@ana Thank you for that. I looked it up in one of my dream books and it said, “You need to be firm about refusing plans which don’t really appeal to you.” In the dream, I remember being uncomfortable with my surroundings, so both interpretations probably have some resonance with my life.
I recently had a house dream combined with a family/Covid dream. The house in my dream was old for the Northwest, maybe 100 years old with big rooms and overlooking the Sound. In my dream, I was having a party, during Covid. Of course, I was. I was busy getting ready for guests and trying to protect everyone from the virus at the same time. The house made me happy, there was room for everyone and I could see the Sound from inside the house. Unlike most of my Covid dreams, my anxiety was minimal.
@jeanne-mayell. What a lucky duck you were to see the Beatles live. I remember, too, being fourteen and discovering the Beatles, the first obsession in life. What joy that was.
I have frequent house dreams often with weird floor plans and a lot of strange people living in them. One I had was before we moved into a new space when i had no idea we were going to move. However, in my favorite one I was on a beam stretching right below the ceiling, I could look down through the three story house which was open with no separate rooms.All was peaceful and quiet with no strangers living there. I don't like heights but I was not afraid.