Dreams about a house: a Jungian reading

A house in dreams tends to be an image of you: the cellar is what is underneath, the attic is what was forgotten, the living room is what you show to visitors. So with a dream like this it matters more WHERE in the house you were than what the house was like.

It depends on how it looked

• a room you do not knowa part of you that has not been used yet
• the cellarwhat has been put down there, where you do not go
• your childhood housesomething old is asking to come into the present
• the house is falling apartan old version of yourself no longer fits

A question for you

Which room inside yourself do you enter least often?

And yours is read symbol by symbol

This is what a dream dictionary cannot do: it reads the dream you actually had. You write it in your own words — a house you had never lived in, a small door under the stairs, a key that did not fit — and each of those images is taken separately, with what it may be carrying for you.

Then comes the archetype the dream is standing in — the Threshold, say — a reflection that ties it to your own chart, and at the end a question to sit with. Not an answer. A question.

A dream reading needs an account, because the dream is stored — that is the point: the meaning shows up when the same image comes back a third time. The account is free and the first readings are free too.