Can anyone here interpret dreams, please?

ginny

I believe your dreams are the brain sorting and making sense of whatever has been going on in your life.
I think if anyone tried to interpret mine, I’d probably get locked away!

I meant to ask if anyone else has dreams that I would actually call nightmares?
About 2 or 3 times a year, I wake DH up shouting and thrashing about. It takes several minutes to calm me down and in those few minutes I’m never sure if I am dreaming or if it is actually happening. It really is scary.

That’s quite funny Babs03.

I’m fascinated by how many people have the extra room dream
I haven’t had it for a while but when I woke up I always felt really disappointed that it was a dream. Nobody has mentioned the loo without a door dream. I haven’t had that recently either but I gather it’s quite common.

Am I alone in having really stupid dreams, though I can’t remember them often thank goodness. The last one I had was so daft, I was at a bus stop with John Major, and other people kept saying ‘that’s John Major’ but I kept telling them they were wrong even though I knew that it really was him.
🤔😂

Until I started to read this thread I had forgotten about a dream I had on many occasions
In a dark hall goodness knows where and not always the same place There was a moveable panel and behind the panel a spiral staircase leading to a little room in the eaves with a comfy couch and tiny windows and it was always dark out side
Some might suggest it was my escapism and safe place and it probably was

gentleshores

I've tended to find with dreams there is often an element of what you were doing/watching/reading/thinking about the night before :-) Other types are "anxiety" dreams where you're worried generally and all sorts of worrying things come out in dreams. I did used to have a recurring one for years, from childhood about being in a lift that went up faster and faster and wouldn't stop and just when you think aargh it's going to smash into the top of the building, it would just shoot up in the air out of the top of the building and float down to earth.

I just put it down to my fear of lifts!

Your dream sounds quite deep - I wouldn't like to speculate - but what did you read/watch the night before? :-)

I watched that drama about the serial killer - Until I Kill You, and then read The Gallows Pole in bed before going to sleep.

The dream wasn't scary (the TV thing was), and the book is a historical story (a bit grim).

I'm going for the spiritual awakening, or at least the need to find peace in your life.
This is based on absolutely no knowledge at all, on such matters.

I've tended to find with dreams there is often an element of what you were doing/watching/reading/thinking about the night before :-) Other types are "anxiety" dreams where you're worried generally and all sorts of worrying things come out in dreams. I did used to have a recurring one for years, from childhood about being in a lift that went up faster and faster and wouldn't stop and just when you think aargh it's going to smash into the top of the building, it would just shoot up in the air out of the top of the building and float down to earth.

I just put it down to my fear of lifts!

Your dream sounds quite deep - I wouldn't like to speculate - but what did you read/watch the night before? :-)

Perhaps you are having a spiritual awakening, or need to.

It's a recurring theme for me, in some form or another.
A new home, with little rooms, staircases, and nooks and crannies.

I've never known if it has any particular meaning, but I have seen somewhere the biblical saying about God's mansion having many rooms (something like that, anyway)

I think dreams are just us clearing our caches.

Doodledog

I had a vivid dream last night that I found two extra rooms in my house. They weren’t hidden- they were at the top of a clearly visible flight of stairs - but I didn’t know they were there. I have had different versions of this before, sometimes almost like going through a portal to series of ‘new’ rooms and getting lost in them.

Has anyone else had similar dreams, or can anyone suggest what they might mean, please?

I have had this dream several times and I would love to know what it means.

I am glad to know that others have the extra rooms dream! I used to have those dreams constantly, about houses we had sold and revisited finding extra rooms. Dreamed many times about a house we bought sight unseen but couldn't access it. In some cases we found relatives (long dead) living in the extra rooms!
for years I dreamed comical dreams and would wake myself laughing!

I believe your dreams are the brain sorting and making sense of whatever has been going on in your life.
I think if anyone tried to interpret mine, I’d probably get locked away!

Go on Paddyann, research it!

travelsafar

This a dream I had last week....I fell into a pot hole, it was so deep and full of water up to my armpits. I could see myself struggling to climb out. I woke up bathed in perspiration!!!! What is that all about!!!

You are feeling overwhelm but you managed to keep your head above the water?

As for the 2 new rooms, you are currently adapting your house for the future and you have some rooms that you never really use but now you have given it a new purpose.

I have a,ways had very realistic dreams,I once dreamt a man’s whole life story. From the day and place he met his wife,his work as a war photographer through Europe and his life in Glasgow after the war right up to his death I was convinced my newly born son was a reincarnation of the man who had a version of the same name and had a member of our staff go through records in the local library to see if he had existed.
Sadly she couldn’t find anything and I was busy with our very prem son so it was pushed aside.
I,ve never forgotten his story even now 37 years on I can tell you his wife’s maiden names d about his son who died in a motorcycle crash
Now there’s the internet I,m wary of looking again .I,d prefer it to be just a strange dream

Haha Doodledog not you as well as DanniRae 😄

I’ve never had an extra rooms dream tho it’s surprising not to have had as my house is very small and more rooms would be great, but I do have a recurring dream that we bought and moved into a new house and I hated it and was scared living there.
That may mean that deep down I don’t want to move and your dream may mean that you hanker for a move?

This a dream I had last week....I fell into a pot hole, it was so deep and full of water up to my armpits. I could see myself struggling to climb out. I woke up bathed in perspiration!!!! What is that all about!!!

Iam64

I see dreams as the place we process and begin to make sense of our waking world. Having said that - houses do represent ourselves, unknown rooms, doors opening into rooms yiu didn’t know were there does sound like the possibility or yearning for new experiences

That's my view, Iam. I like to make sense of things, too, so whereas the dreams may be making sense of the waking world, I like to make sense of dreams😵‍💫

Is it any wonder I sleep badly?

Oreo

DanniRae

The other night I awoke from a quite delightful dream and I totally know what it was all about!
It's best that I don't say any more.....

Oh not that old George Clooney one again! 😂

Oy! He can't be in two places at once, and he's due in my dreams very soon

Nobody knows why we dream but they obvs have a purpose.
Dogs and cats dream too, they twitch and whine and growl until poked in the ribs.

DanniRae

The other night I awoke from a quite delightful dream and I totally know what it was all about!
It's best that I don't say any more.....

Oh not that old George Clooney one again! 😂

I see dreams as the place we process and begin to make sense of our waking world. Having said that - houses do represent ourselves, unknown rooms, doors opening into rooms yiu didn’t know were there does sound like the possibility or yearning for new experiences

Shelflife

I have weird and wonderful dreams sometimes, I prefer not to analyze them .

My thoughts exactly…

That one sounds good, DanniRae . May you return to it for many nights to come.

I'm baffled about the extra rooms, but in another context it has been suggested that I might take a course of study or look at a change of career. The politest way I can respond to that is to say firmly that I have no such plans. I suppose it ties in with the idea of doors opening, though.

I would love a beach house, so maybe if it is a prophesy my ship will come in and I'll be in a position to get one of those. I won't hold my breath, though.

The other night I awoke from a quite delightful dream and I totally know what it was all about!
It's best that I don't say any more.....