Can anyone here interpret dreams, please?

I think the only person who can really interpret your dreams is yourself. No-one else knows exactly what has triggered all the objects and events that you are dreaming. It is all very well saying that A represents B and X represents Y, but in your life and previous experiences, maybe for you A means Y and B represents X.

Perhaps you should sit down, preferably after a glass or two of something that will relax your grip on absolute logic, and run through the dream again, asking yourself at each step, "What does that make me think of?" and letting your mind wander. Your wandering mind may come up with some conclusions and some links to what hidden worries or expectations were at work to produce the scenario that your subconscious/unconscious mind was presenting to you in sleep mode.

I had a dream about extra rooms for years and years and one day, after my Dad died, we decided to get a small beach house. We looked round and when we came across one I had a real shock because I recognised the rooms as the ones in my recurring dream. Really, really weird. We bought it and the dream just stopped. There are some strange things in life, quite inexplicable.

I often have this dream! Good to know others have it too.

I think dreams are just messages to ourselves and that's why we remember some of them.

I agree with those saying this symbolises an exploration of a new element in your life that's just beginning, or something you love having been neglected for a while.

Go explore- who knows where it may take you?

Moithering! Autocorrect.

I dread to think what anyone might interpret last night’s dream for me! I put it down to indigestion and general mothering about life.

grumppa

Has somebody recently suggested that your house might benefit from a loft conversion?

No .

There are just two of us in the house just now, so we don't need more space.

I do wonder about something deep seated, hollysteers, which is why I posted, really. It was so vivid that I would be interested to know what was going on.

I believe that dreams come out of the filing cabinet of the brain as it were. During the day, we generally try to keep our thoughts in order, but through the night, the filing cabinet bursts open and our hidden worries etc. fly out and take strange forms.

I’m often amazed at the vivid and intricate dreams I have, the brain is amazing, we dream all through the night and only remember the final dream as we wake. Not all dreams mean something, but deep seated worries hopes etc. can come through.

Caleo

I agree with Mumof Three. The extra rooms are a sign that your consciousness has recently expanded .If you were one of these people who can revisit dreams and decide how to act then you may want to open the doors and explore inside the rooms.

Oh, I was in the rooms last night. They both had curved walls (unlike any in the real house) and had peeling floral wallpaper and worn carpets. One had lots of nick nacks on shelves, including a glass stylised cat which would match a Wedgewood collection of similar animals I have. The others were what I would call 'tat', in styles that were fashionable before my time, but the sort of thing I remember much older relatives loving. They were on a wooden shelf unit that sat in the corner of the room, and there was a rocking chair.

The other room was similar but smaller, and just had a basic wooden chair in it. I can't remember windows, but they may have had them - I don't think I noticed that they didn't.

They were right at the top of the house, and could once have been for maids? The house was build around 1920, so that would fit, if they'd been real.

I can't deliberately revisit dreams - the ones that I go back to on the same night are usually nightmares that I want to avoid.

I’ve had similar dreams, usually it’s been a hidden room in a house we had years ago that I never really liked.

I consider my dreams as Monica succinctly puts it, a form of ‘housekeeping’. I dream a lot, most nights, though I usually forget them quickly the next morning.

Has somebody recently suggested that your house might benefit from a loft conversion?

RosiesMaw2

I’ve often had that one Doodledog I’m always disappointed to wake up and find they don’t exist!

I was, rather😀. The rooms were very much in the style of the house when we bought it - ie desperately in need of TLC, but with lots of potential. I felt a mixture of disappointment at being two rooms down, and relief that I didn't have to go through that again.

Thanks for the replies. I don't know what to make of dreams and meanings. I agree that they are doing 'housekeeping', but also think that they access thoughts that we may have suppressed, so can have 'meanings' in that sense. I don't think I believe that they are predictions of the future, but who knows?

I don't dream often, but when I do the dreams tend to be vivid and come in bursts. I can have no dreams for years, then a couple of weeks of feeling like I've been to the cinema every night. Ones that recur in different forms are this one, ones about tidal waves, and ad odd one where I am happily going about my business until I realise that I am barefoot, at which point I panic and can't do whatever it was I was doing.

mum2three (error)

I agree with Mumof Three. The extra rooms are a sign that your consciousness has recently expanded .If you were one of these people who can revisit dreams and decide how to act then you may want to open the doors and explore inside the rooms.

I’ve often had that one Doodledog I’m always disappointed to wake up and find they don’t exist!

I do not believe in dreams having meanings, in the sense that Doodledog's dream has been interpreted.

i see dreams as being the overnight housekeeping of the mind, processing the activities of the day andin doing that accesses the momory. Last night I had worrying and disturbing dreams, none of which I can remember and every time I surfaced from sleep I found I was hyper-ventilating. I have no difficulty interpreting it. DH is not at all well at the moment and i am very wrried about him, hence the disturbing dreams and the hyperventilating, something I am prone to when stressed.

Doodledog I had a similar dream many years ago. I suddenly noticed a new door on the landing and it opened up into a room I never knew was there.

A spiritual friend said pretty much the same as mum2three above - that the dream was showing me there was an aspect of my personality that I needed to explore.

She thought it was such a significant dream that she asked me if she could use it at a workshop she was hosting.

The dream came true in a way I could never have predicted. I developed a rare illness and now I run an online support group for others who are overwhelmed by this illness, which I find very satisfying. We have over 10,000 members worldwide.

I wish you well.

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

Houses usually represent people. I would say that this dream is telling you that there are aspects of your personality which you haven't yet considered.
We all put on a bit of an act in order to fit in with other people. Perhaps it's time to explore your true self a bit more?