Dreams - can anyone help me interpret a recurring dream?

[MrsAyrtonSenna]

Over the past few months, I have had a similar dream a number of times and wondered if anyone could help shed any light on its meaning.

I dream that I am at home, (although the house I am in is not the one we are living in now)and I know that I am not particularly happy in it, although it has all the right numbers of rooms we want/need/use and that as I am walking around in it, it seems a little dark although it is daytime outside.

I then find a door in an upstairs corridor and it is not one I have come across before, so I open it and go through. On the other side of the door is a massive new room, which is not designed or decorated in a style I would choose and is not in the style of the rest of the house which is more traditional build, but it is a very light & sunny room with huge floor to ceiling windows with huge panes of glass and thin strips of metal between all across the front and I feel happy and excited that it is a new part of the house I didnt know existed.

Looking out of the room, we are not overlooked and the garden is huge with lots of grass rather than trees/shrubs/flowerbeds and is surrounded by a medium height wooden fence, and beyond the garden it is fields and in the distance trees.

As I explore further, I find other rooms of a more practical type, like bathrooms and I find another 'hidden' room. I soon realise that we can move our furniture and belongings into this new part of the house to live here as the massive room is big enough to make open plan living of lounge, kitchen and dining area and once decorated and tidied up we can leave the old part behind and I feel really happy and excited at the thought of it.

I have had this dream a number of times now - the house I am originally in changes, but is never the house I currently live in - but there is always this discovery of an unknown part of the house and from the new part I can look back and see the old and I know I dont want to go back there.

I used to have a really good book to interpret dreams, but loaned it to someone I worked with and didnt get it back and have been unable to find a replacement copy, so would be grateful if any of you MNers out there could shed some light on the meaning.

I have this recurring dream too, there always appears to be extra rooms/space appear through some kind of hidden door. Dont know what it means, probably wishful thinking on my part!!!

I found this for you.

I think/hope it pretty much explains it. :)

I've had a version of this myself. I don't place much faith in the interpretation of dreams in general, I think the interpretation that's often suggested for this one is that houses represent the self, and the new rooms or spaces you discover in these kinds of dream represent new aspects of your self and new opportunities that will allow you to leave the past behind if you choose to. A nice dream about new chances, basically.

I don't interpret dreams in the 'magical mystical' sense, but I can sometimes work out what's going on, psychologically. Well, with your help.

What's going on in your life? What change is happening? Or are you stuck? You seem to be dreaming of a new way of living, without major change - seeing a way to live better, with what you have. (Are you having therapy, or going through some other significant life change?)

New rooms are like an extension of ourselves. Just because a house is built does not mean we need to move out when we need more space, we can extend and build to make the house accommodate our growing and changing needs. So too can we extend our own personality, to embrace new ways of living. Dreams of new rooms invite us to look at what we thought were our limitations, and to recognise that we can move beyond them.

Does that part click with you?

I used to have this type of dream frequently until I changed my life. I was working full time in a good job but also bored and frustrated that I couldn't spend more time with my children, so we moved house to a cheaper area and dh took over the provider role and I went to uni. I now no longer have these dreams, or the anxiety dreams I used to have.

Thanks everyone for your replies - AllyoursBabooshka's link was the perfect answer, many thanks for that as it seemed to sum up the meaning of it all

OP, are you happily married? I took it to mean there was another home out there for you, one that was full of happiness.

I started to have a similar kind of recurring dream (discovering a new part of my house and garden) a few years ago, and I recently discovered that my sister began a similar series of dreams at around the same time. It strikes me as a kind of "mid-life" dream, one in which we review the place in life that we have settled for and encounter possible alternative versions of that life, and possible further explorations of the life that we do have. We run up against feelings of lost chances, or continuing hope that all chances are not in fact lost.

Your inner badger is trying to make herself felt.

Each room represents another tooth in her mouth, she is waiting for a complete set.

At this time she will blossom into a weasel, which will manifest itself as a seemingly infinite number of burrows that you will need to tidy.

At this time you will finally realise that you are, in fact, in love with a tree.

hth

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