It is common to dream about a house. They usually symbolise your emotional and psychological self or centre. All of your
experiences, stages of development, and parts of your conscious and unconscious life may be represented by that house.
The house may be representing issues concerning a particular dilemma in your life, or it may be more general and comprehensive;
the individual will have a better knowledge of how to interpret its meaning. For most people the place where they grew up
is the most common dream house, the home that is most often revisited in our dreams. There may be little changes to the structure
of the house, there may be people there that you hadn’t met when you lived there; but you know that house more intimately
than any other. It is the true reflection of your soul and the storehouse for all your emotions both positive and negative.
A close analysis of your dream house can go a long way to help you down the road to interpreting your dreams. The house
you grew up in always has a huge influence on your psychology. Your house gives you boundaries and it keeps unwanted entities
ou. It is the place where you go to feel safe, its every corner is a reflection of your mind.
In deep contemplation of our childhood homes we can find clues to help us examine our personalities. What kind of house/home
did you grow up in? Was it a large house, did you think it was large at the time? Was it a small house, did you think it was
small at the time? Are you still living in the same house? If so, do you think you are a better person for it or not? Were
your friends’ houses bigger or smaller than yours or did you all live in very similar houses? How many floors did it
have? How many windows? What was its shape?
Most of us live in square houses with corners, but some peoples’ house are round with no corners. Some suggest this
may have a profound effect on a person’s psychology because of circles representing infinity and less restrictions.
Can you remember what colours your house was painted in; how do those colours affect your feelings now? If something good
always happened to you in a certain room, the colour of that room may still make you happy for the rest of your life and vice
versa. Was there a place in your house where you went if you were miserable, or a place where something bad happened? What
were the colours and shapes that were involved? Is it a dark place or a light place?
You probably already consider some of these things if you have children yourself; did you think carefully about the colours
and shapes for your new baby’s room, crib, blankets, toys and everything? We know that these things affect our development
when we are born, but why do many think they don’t matter so much as we get older? What makes us choose our wallpaper
and furniture? With each new generation we restart the cycle of developing a new person’s psychology; just as your personality
has been shaped by your parents and the house you grew up in, your children’s personalities are being shaped and honed
by you and the choices you make for their environment. Not just in their rooms, but the entire house is going to mean different
things to them just like it does/did to you.
You are in a privileged position in that you can remember exactly all the colours and shapes in their childhood home because
it was you that put the colours and shapes there. You will be able to help interpret your child’s dreams because you
will know what some of the colours and images may mean to them even if they have forgotten.
You may want to ask your own relatives to fill you in on some of the details you may have forgotten. You may even be able
to proactively affect your children's future psychology through the way you design and lay out your home. Do the different
rooms in your current home have hugely contrasting colours and shapes in them or is there a common design that flows from
one room to the next? How do you think these different styles might have an effect on a developing personality? How do they
affect/reflect your own personality? Who in your household decided on the shapes and colours and what can this tell you? The
subject of the house in dreams is huge, its effects are huge.
There is an enormous amount to think about when deciphering the meaning of the house in your dreams.
