If anyone has any ideas or can shed any light on this I'd be grateful. Could it be something to do with a past life? (I am a sceptic but beginning to think there is more to this)? Cross posted as not sure where best to post.
For more than 35 years I have variations of the same dream most nights.
They involve the house and garden that I spent a lot of time at when I was growing up (a relative's house but not our family house). The house had been converted into flats and sat in large, mainly overgrown, but once stunning, parkland type grounds (I've only recently found out about this).
Usually the garden or house appear differently to how they do in real life. I dream that the house had various outbuildings and the grounds are landscaped differently (first when I was very young). Recently I've found that the house used to be a school in the nineteenth century and have seen photos for the first time that are spookily very similar to the images in my previous dreams. Not like the house appears in real life currently.
My dreams also involve another house not far away (Georgian). There was/is another I was unaware of that is closely connected with this house (recently been to an archive to look this up)! Again I have seen images in my dreams that match up to this other house.
The house often appears to be under threat, developers? The garden is sometimes ploughed up. My dreams take me far into the future - where mankind has almost died out and the garden is some sort of portal to another world/time travel portal thingy - and far into the past before man was on the planet almost. There's a disaster coming and people gather there as a place of sanctury, a last hope? There is a sense of fear and pain but magic and hope at the same time in the dreams.
I dreamt that there is something buried in a specific part of the gardens called a 'satanic arc' a sort of metal disc thing that is dangerous/powerful? (So vivid I could visit and dig)! In one dream I dug it up and there was an ominous rumble of thunder. I also dream that there are Victorian children's toys buried there (interesting as I only found out it was a school at this time very recently)! There is usually some sort of puzzle to solve in terms of the toys, that I don't understand. Usually about how to reach/find them in the garden, underground.
I see 'symbols' from the grounds that crop up in other seemingly unrelated dreams (the well, an urn, a statue). No real emotional pull about them though, just the house and garden dream breaking in on another dream.
It's as if I feel I am supposed to 'do' something about the dreams but I don't know what that is?
Often there are shops or a road flanks one side of the house. Often the garden has been destroyed in some way. Last night I dreamt the garden had been turned into a sort of beautiful marble mausoleum type/Taj Mahal type thing but did not exist in it's previous state. I often find that I drive along what is essentially a broad path in real life. The landscape changes, sometimes it is tennis courts or shops or the taj mahal type structure more recently!
The gardens are massive and unused and over grown but still lovely. I fear, in real life, that they are bound to be developed and built on sooner or later given where they are. A reason for dreams?
The road layout is always the same and runs by the house in a different way to how it does currently (again I think it did previously when I look at photos from the archive).
The house and grounds in real life have a very strange atmosphere. My brother and I used to remark as children that the atmosphere would sort of shift from day to day? Feeling almost sad or happy? Very hard to explain.
Another thing to mention is that there are unusual statues in the grounds. Unusual in that they depict ordinary type people - think they date from the 17th Century! One is a man with a cloth type cap, a dagger or scythe in his belt, hair over his collar at the back, boots and baggy trousers, a knotted hankerchief type tie at neck, and interestingly an arm bandaged up in a sling? A sort of peasant? Not usually the sort remembered as pear a statue at this time? A similar woman statue with hair scraped into a bun and a laced corset type dress with a sort of shrug type cape - not long - over the top.
When my relative lived there these were in pieces under the bushes but more recently someone has pieced them together so they look rather comical. I had always assumed they'd be greek mythical figures (like you see in 18th Century Parkland) but obviously not.
I found that there was once a prize winning gardener there who was featured in a nineteenth century article, his rhododendrons were the best in the world or something! Even now these survive and the colours are amazing. He left suddenly and the school closed quickly. No information available as to why it seems. This gardener shares the same surname as my mother's family who we didn't know but this is probably a coincidence.
In real life the house was built in the late 1700s (with later additions)but there has always been a building there of some sort it seems. Again only just found this out! What's interesting is my dreams are jumbled architecturally jumbled in this respect.
If anyone can suggest what's going on I'd be grateful. P.S.
Am entirely sane, or at least I think so!