Page 4 | To have forgotten areas/rooms in your home

FlyingMonkeys · 2018-03-04T16:24:37+00:00

Off work today cue the tidying up. I've a spare room/dumping ground I've just popped my head in to.. and then promptly shut the door! Possibly in total denial about how to tidy up properly but to be fair mostly can't be arsed! I seem to be one of those folk who create piles that move around the house and never find a proper home. Or mostlyrics I'm just a lazy bitch! [blush]

Loyaultemelie · 05/03/2018 17:39

We have a room of doom! I spent a few weeks days completely gutting it last summer but it's just not looking the best again now thanks to dd1 discovering she could fit in the door now

Pixelpuffin · 05/03/2018 21:32

Read a story whilst waiting in the dentist years back

A chap in his twilight years had to travel back to the city he was born to attend a funeral. He hadn't been back since his childhood. After the funeral he decided to see the house he grew up in. The occupants spotted him staring and went out to ask his business. Once informed they offered him a cup of tea. He told them many stories of the house and local characters long since gone. Out of curiosity he enquired what they did with the cellar. The couple said he was mistaken as the house didn't have a cellar. The gentleman assured them that he remembered the caller from his child hood and offered to show them where it used to be. Although the house was completely decorated the couple were excited and decided to investigate. Sure enough (I can't remember if it was a doorway or floor hatch) - but it was discovered !! The husband wasted no time in forcing it open and there before them lay the concrete steps leading down to the cellar just as the elderly gentleman had said.

Wouldn't that be utterly amazing!

TooManyMiles · 05/03/2018 22:14

That would be amazing, Pixel. That is just like these dreams.

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FlyingMonkeys · 05/03/2018 23:08

Pixel - That's fab! Love it

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tigercub50 · 05/03/2018 23:12

I haven’t got a forgotten room or area but just a big lack of storage space so quite a few boxes & bags around. Going to have to be REALLY ruthless!

snewsname · 05/03/2018 23:20

My forgotten rooms are always haunted in my dreams. I wake up with a beating heart quite often. obviously or I would be dead but ykwim

BitOutOfPractice · 05/03/2018 23:29

@Laiste I very regularly have a dream about forgotten rooms in my house. They are often down a flight of stairs that I didn't know about. Not kitchen though. Usually a bedroom with an en suite. I usually try and convert it into an office but I find the whole thing very stressful

WhatsGoingOnEh · 05/03/2018 23:37

Haven't RTFT so apologies if this has been covered... but dreaming of a forgotten room in an otherwise known house is meant to represent that you have skills, talents and abilities that you're not using.

Which is understandable when you dream of lovely rooms. But I don't know what @Laiste's kitchen with a broken window and sinks full of dirty water means. 🤔

Anyway - I'm off to read the whole thread now. 😃

pallisers · 05/03/2018 23:55

We renovated our house last year and took out a back staircase. I desperately wanted to create a secret room behind the bookshelves in the room next to the old staircases - like desperately. The builder and the architect and just about everyone told me I couldn't do it but it is still a bitter disappointment (there was one carpenter who was shortly afterward fired for drug use and fighting who I think would have done if for me - he was very talented if a bit of a trainwreck).

Look up secret or hidden rooms on Houzz and you'll be hooked too.

We have a basement including a laundry room, a store room, a woodworking area and a big space for me to dump everything else.

Pixiedust1973 · 06/03/2018 00:09

Considering the fact that our tiny shoebox house is bursting at the seams & doesn't have enough room to store a fart. Plus we're at the point of storing crap in our cars for the last year while trying to sell it, I can confirm that we don't have any forgotten areas or LMFAO rooms in our house!

Helsingborg · 06/03/2018 00:13

Join us on the decluttering thread, we're all supporting kicking each other up the backsides each other to declutter our homes.

decluttering thread

Bellamuerte · 06/03/2018 00:15

I have an entire forgotten floor! Our bathroom is downstairs and so is one of our bedrooms (the one we use). Upstairs is a storage cupboard and the other bedrooms. We literally don't go upstairs for months at a time! Though that will change once DS is old enough to sleep on his own in one of the upstairs bedrooms.

Dungeondragon15 · 06/03/2018 08:28

Haven't RTFT so apologies if this has been covered... but dreaming of a forgotten room in an otherwise known house is meant to represent that you have skills, talents and abilities that you're not using.

How would anyone know what it means? Someone has just made that up and no one can prove otherwise!

ScreamingLevitation · 06/03/2018 08:53

Well, it's not being laid down as absolute fact, more a possible avenue of interpretations. Interpretation of dreams is not about discovering concrete truths, but about getting to know yourself a bit better. If you know what you're anxious about, you can do something to fix it or try to come to terms with not being able to fix it. And we do tend to dream about our worries (SO many teachers dream of lessons going awry in the few days before term starts).

So @Laiste's scary neglected kitchen could represent a number of different things, but only Laiste will know which might make most sense to her.

Maybe the kitchen represents creativity - possibly she feels stuck in a repetitive routine.

Maybe it represents the domestic sphere in general - perhaps she feels like she WOH too much and wants to spend more effort/attention/time with family.

OR potentially the kitchen itself could represent a place of work, and Laiste might feel she is neglecting her career. Or be worried that her career is stagnating.

Or you can flip the scenario - maybe it is not Laiste neglecting her work, but her workplace (or any of the above) neglecting her.

Or maybe IRL Laiste has a dirty kitchen...

Dream interpretation is usually easier when you have some context of what is going on in the person's life - helps to see where their anxieties might lie. Otherwise it is very much pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey. Still fun though :)

Chienrouge · 06/03/2018 08:58

We only bought our house in September. Moved from small 3 bed with no storage to a large 4 bed with loft/garage etc.
So how on earth are our loft, garage, shed and spare room all full of junk?! How?? Where did I keep it before? I have no idea!

LostPlatypus · 06/03/2018 09:02

My tiny one bed flat (no loft as ground floor) has become my parents dumping ground. They have separated and basically dumped half the contents of their attic on me under the pretense of me somehow wanting barbie dolls and other such crap from my childhood.

I've binned a bunch of it and given a load to charity but I still have loads taking up half my living room and making it look like I'm a hoarder. The latest set of stuff to be dropped off was a whole load of recorders (the annoying musical instrument) and framed school photos. I mean not only is that a bit of an insult that feels like my parents just want to forget my childhood, I certainly don't want a bunch of awkward reminders of it either thanks - school photos are for the parents surely, not the person themselves.

drinkswineoutofamug · 06/03/2018 09:27

As a PP said about taking down their kitchen wall cupboards and just using the base one. That's all I have. When I tarted up the kitchen last year, I sent stuff to the charity shop and had space!
Then did the dining room. It has a cupboard under the stairs. It now only has coats, shoes and bags. The rest went.
Done the cupboard at the top of my stairs , got rid of all sorts.
Done my room.
Daughter did her room when she came out of prison
Son did his and filled 6 bin bags
Cleared most of the shed.
Need to do the loft.
We now live very minimalistic, I stop before I buy anything and question will I need it in 3 months?
That's my rule.
Apart from season stuff, if it's not used for 3 months it goes.

RaindropsAndSparkles · 06/03/2018 09:32

The plastic crate game. An hour before guests arrive all shite is put in a plastic crate and taken to spare room. This happens again the next time guests are due. Even though3/4 weeks may elapse nothing is ever missed. may have recently found four school library books from school child left four years ago

Dungeondragon15 · 06/03/2018 10:21

Well, it's not being laid down as absolute fact, more a possible avenue of interpretations. Interpretation of dreams is not about discovering concrete truths, but about getting to know yourself a bit better.

But if someone is just making things up how does it help in "getting to know yourself better"?

If you know what you're anxious about, you can do something to fix it or try to come to terms with not being able to fix it. And we do tend to dream about our worries (SO many teachers dream of lessons going awry in the few days before term starts).

Alternatively, if someone doesn't know they are anxious, it could be that they aren't actually anxious. Strangers telling them they are anxious about this or that or that they need to do this or that because they have a dream about a topic that isn't even related doesn't seem very helpful.