This article delves into the significance of dreams about houses and how they may reflect the dreamer's inner self. By examining the various rooms and features of a house, one can gain valuable insights into their life and self-understanding.
Dreams about houses are a common occurrence and can carry various meanings depending on the specific details of the dream. The house is typically seen as a reflection of the dreamer's psyche, with different rooms representing different aspects of their personality or experiences. For instance, the bedroom can symbolize intimacy and rest, while the kitchen can represent nourishment and nurturing. The living room is often associated with everyday life, while the basement may represent the unconscious or repressed emotions.
Condition and Features of the House
The condition and features of the house in the dream can also provide clues about the dreamer's life structures or what they have created for themselves as a way of life. For example, a new house could indicate a new phase in the dreamer's life, while a deteriorating house could represent a sense of insecurity, lack of self-worth, or unresolved issues. Meanwhile, a mansion could represent a sense of grandiosity or ambition, while a small or rundown house could indicate issues of self-worth.
Symbolism of House Parts
Various interpretations of dreams about houses also touch on the symbolism of different parts of the house, such as the roof representing the dreamer's health, or the basement symbolizing the unconscious. Additionally, the external appearance of the house, such as whether it is in disrepair or newly painted, can provide an indication of the dreamer's present situation.
Relationships and Emotions Reflected in the House
In addition to representing the dreamer's psyche and experiences, dreams about houses can also symbolize relationships with family and friends. For example, a childhood home or parental home can represent feelings and memories of childhood and the relationship with parents. The dreamer's emotional state and personality can also be reflected in the condition of the house, such as a house under construction indicating inner work being performed on the psyche.
Conclusion: Interpreting Dreams About Houses
Overall, dreams about houses can carry multiple meanings and interpretations. It's important to consider the specific details of the dream when trying to understand what it might represent.
See Also: Bedroom, Kitchen, Basement, Roof.
[1]Interpreting Dreams About Houses: Symbolism and Psychological Insights
To be living in a house in your dream, even one that isn’t at all like your home, also represents yourself. Jung once called the house the ‘mansion of the soul’, and most dream analysts believe that houses in dreams become holistic symbols of yourself—your mind, body, spirit, and your past, present, and future.
Buying or Building a House
If you were buying or building a house in your dream, perhaps you are considering making a dramatic change to your life, even to the extent of rebuilding it.
Financial Responsibilities
If your dreams focus on paying the rent or the mortgage, and this isn’t a problem in waking life, they are highlighting a responsibility in waking life that you find burdensome.
Abandoned or Neglected Houses
An abandoned house in disrepair may suggest emotional and physical neglect, whilst a house that is shuttered up might suggest being blind to what is going on around you. Dreams of an unfinished house should motivate rather than be a cause of despair, as life is a constant work-in-progress. A half-built house suggests what you need to acquire to further your personal development, perhaps more windows to give you a better perspective. A damaged blind or broken lock in your dream can highlight lack of privacy or your perceived vulnerability. A house in bad repair can denote the need to heal a family rift.
Bizarre or Fictional Dream Homes
Even the most bizarre dream homes reflect the psychological territory you are living in right now, even if that ‘home’ is a medieval dungeon, a tropical island, a prisoner-of-war camp, or a train station. If you dreamed of living in a bizarre or fictional setting, consider the condition and qualities of that situation. Is it cramped, crowded, or lonely? Your new dream home can give you valuable information about how your current circumstances are affecting you and how you relate to others.
Restrictions and Limitations
If you are restricted or limited in your dream territory, ask yourself if you are creating those restrictions by your reaction or if the situation is creating it. To see an old, run-down house in your dream represents your old beliefs, attitudes, and how you used to think or feel. A situation in your current life may be bringing about those same old attitudes and feelings. Alternatively, the old house may symbolize your need to update your mode of thinking.
Unfurnished or Haunted Houses
If your dream house is unfurnished, this may suggest a bleak self, devoid of feeling; an empty house, however, may indicate new opportunities. To dream of a haunted house signifies unfinished emotional business, related to your childhood family, dead relatives, or repressed memories and feelings.
Glass Houses and Mansions
To see a glass house in your dream signifies that appearances in waking life may be deceptive. To dream that you are living in a glass house signifies the threatened loss of your reputation. To see a mansion in your dream suggests that you need to grow in some way or other; if servants are waiting on you, this indicates undue vanity. You may feel that your current situation or relationship is in a rut and want to expand and develop your potential.
Cottages and Ancient Houses
If you see yourself living in a cottage, this signifies a longing for a gentler, more spontaneous way of life. An ancient house could refer to a previous life in some way connected with your present existence.
Tents and Mobile Homes
If you are living in a tent or mobile caravan in your dream, do you feel weighed down by the routine of your life? Would you like to travel, move house, get back to nature, or try the life of a nomad for a while?
Skyscrapers and Villages
If you imagine your house is amongst skyscrapers in the city, this suggests a preoccupation with financial matters, perhaps at the expense of your personal life. The opposite is true if your house is in a village in your dream.
Ancient Dream-Lore Interpretations
Ancient dream-lore offers many interpretations for dreams about houses and homes, but here are the most typical:
- Country house: tranquility ahead
- Building a house: you will be self-confident
- New house: a busy social life
- Empty house: low income
- Moving house: worries about money
See Also: Old House, Haunted House, Glass House, Cottage.
[2]Universal Landscape: The Self; self-perception.
Dreaming Lens: Did you know the house in your dream? Was it your current home? Was it the home of someone else? What shape was the house in? Did the house represent a shift up or down in the quality of living from your waking life? What were your feelings about the house?
Personal Focus: Houses in dreams are the symbolic representation of the dreamer’s sense of Self. No matter what other imagery or circumstances may present themselves in a dream, a house is always an unconscious expression of your identity. This applies to any home-like dwelling; such as an apartment, hotel room, trailer, grass hut, or any of the possibilities of “home” that exist in the imagination.
The perspective or view of the house takes on specific meaning. The front of a house connects to the persona—the part of you that you show the world—while the back is what is private or hidden. What you discover on the inside reflects various, compartmentalized aspects of yourself. Side views or alternate angles may connect to presenting yourself in the world in a limited, partial, or inaccurate fashion.
The size, style, condition, and reflection of abundance of the house will play a key role in interpreting this symbol in a dream. You will need to consider both the feelings evoked by the house in the dream itself, as well as what comes up for you when comparing it to your actual waking life home. Whatever shades of meaning you glean from your dream, they must be interpreted as reflecting an unconscious expression of Self.
A mansion on a grand scale may indicate a sense of your life getting bigger or opening yourself up to greater levels of abundance. Conversely, this could also be revealing a level of inappropriate grandiosity, depending on your current level of self-esteem. A moment in life that feels constraining and steeped in lack might evoke a dream image of a house that is more hovel than home. Yet, this same image could be a symbolic representation of deeper levels of humility emerging within you.
A new house might mean a new sense of Self is on the horizon, or needs to be. Adding an extension indicates such an expansion may be occurring on a personal level. An older, dilapidated model could represent an outdated view of Self. A house on fire is expressing that powerful levels of transformation are afoot. Whatever the Dreaming Lens is offering you about a house should be incorporated into an interpretation of your sense of self at the time of the dream.
If you dream of a specific home from an earlier time in your life, you are looking at the person you are today as a direct result of what was going on back then. This can refer to occurrences in the environment associated with the home and the people in it, as well as developmental issues based on your age at the time.
[3]If the house is one we know, live in now or in the past, what is said about home applies.
If it is a house created by the dream: one’s body and personality in all its aspects.
Inside the house: within oneself. Outside the house and garden: extroversion or the relationship with environment. Ground floor: practical everyday life; sexuality, hips and legs. Basement : unconscious: see basement, cellar. First, other middle floors: internal needs, rest, sleep, hungers; the trunk. Top floor, attic: thinking, the conscious mind, memory, the head: see attic above in this entry. Front of house: our persona, facade; social self; face. Things in house: aspects of one’s feelings and makeup. Other people in^ house: different facets of dreamer. Windows : one’s outlook! on life; how you see others: see larger entry on window below in this entry. People, things coming from downstairs: influences, fears, impressions from unconscious or passions, or from everyday worries. People, things from upstairs: influence of rational self. Attackers, intruders from outside: social pressures or response to criticisms. Repairs, enlargement, renovation: reassessment or change of attitudes or character; personal growth. Damage, structural faults: faults in character structure; hurts such as broken relationship; bodily illness. House falling down, burning: big changes in attitudes; leaving old standards or dependencies behind; sickness: see last example in falling. Cramped house: feeling of need for personal change; feeling restricted in home environment or in present personal attitudes. Kitchen: creativity; nourishing oneself; mother role; diet: see cooking. Living room, personal leisure; space’ to be oneself, everyday life. Dining room: appetites, social or family contact; mental or psychological diet. Bedroom: pnvacy, sex; intimacy, rest: see bed under furniture. Study, library: mental growth, mind. Larder: hungers, sensual satisfaction. Toilet: privacy, release of tension; letting go of emotions, fantasies or desire which we need to discharge: see toilet. Nursery, child’s bedroom: feelings about your children; one’s own childhood feelings and memories. Floor: basic attitudes and confidence; what supports you, such as health and good will of others. Ceiling: boundary of ideas or awareness. Row of houses: other people.
See Also: room; stairs; wall; attic in this entry.
[4]If you dream of visiting a house you used to live in, and the house is in good condition, it is a very good omen. You will soon hear some very good news and you will find love and joy in your present home.
If you dream of your own house (one you live in now, or one you used to live in) and it is in bad condition, this is an omen that someone close to you might be in ill health.
A dream about “your house” (but you never lived there in real life) symbolizes something you feel you are missing emotionally. Think about what happens or what objects you see in the house, to figure out what you’re missing.
To dream of building or buying a new house means you will make wise changes in your present life.
If you dream about living in or visiting somebody else’s house (whether or not you know the house owner), the meaning is linked to the condition of the home.
If it was an elegant house or mansion, this is a positive omen that you will someday leave your home for a better place and you will be lucky in life and finance.
If it was an old, falling down house, this suggests you are feeling tired, or a project or goal you’re currently working on won’t turn out the way you want.
An old house may also foretell a reunion or renewal of an old friendship or relationship.
A dream which featured a house being demolished - or being in an empty house - suggests you are grieving over a recent loss, broken relationship, or missed opportunity. Don’t despair, time really does heal all things.
If you dream of being kicked out of your house, something you are doing in real life goes against the values that you know are right.
A part of you feels uncomfortable with the way you have been acting.
If you dream that you cannot find your way home, you have lost faith and belief in yourself. This dream may also signify a major transition in your life.
To see your home in your dream, signifies security, basic needs, and values. You may finally be feeling settled and comfortable in a new environment.
To see a glass house in your dream, signifies that flattery is likely to hurt you.
To dream that you are living in a glass house, signifies the threatened loss of your reputation. Alternatively, it suggests that you are being watched. Also see “Mansion”
[5]Symbol: Like a town or temple, a house stands for the center of the world and a reflection of your universe.
Vision: The condition of the house represents your present situation.
The roof of the house refers to the state of your health, the exterior to your external appearance.
The upper floor stands for your forehead (and brain); the middle floor the area of the chest, the first floor the intestines, and the ground floor and base- ment the legs and feet.
If you dream of old houses frequendy, you are afraid of old age. Building a house together with other people: you have good friends at your side. Looking at an empty house: you have missed a few opportunities. Tearing down a house: you are strong enough to deal with the ol>stacles that come your way. Living in a run-down house: pay more attention to your health. Watching a house collapse: you won’t reach your goals—be prepared for losses. In a man’s dream, the house (it does not matter if it is a luxurious villa or a farmhouse) represents ambitions, professional advancement, security, and safety. In a woman’s dreams, the balcony is the chest.
Depth Psychology: The house in a dream is the symbol for the Body and what happens with the body.
A house in ill repair, destroyed, or even on fire, points to your poor health and should be taken seriously.
The foundation is a symbol for the mental/intellectual “foundation’ on which you have built your life.
The basement is the symbol of the unconscious, where repressed urges and cravings hide.
The kitchen is the place where “life is lived” every day and where diversion can be found.
The bedroom represents attitudes toward sex and emotional connections to other people.
The living room stands for recreation, rest, and relaxation.
The bathroom is the place for moral cleansing and the “washing away” of disappointments.
The toilet stands for “letting go” of emotional ballast, tensions, and the past.
The roof (and attic) stands for your mental/spiritual part, and symbolizes protection from the outside world.
See Also: Door, Furniture, Stairs, Window.
[6](Cage, Dwellings) In a dream, one’s house holds different meanings. One of them is the wife.
If one sees himself entering his house in a dream, it means that he will get married, or have sexual intercourse with his wife. Building one’s own house in a dream means that a sick person will recover from his illness.
If such construction is hard and if it is customary in that family to bury its dead within the compound of the same property, then it means the death of a sick person in the family.
If no one is sick in that house and the construction is accompanied with music and celebrations in the dream, then it means adversities, trials and hardships. Ifunder such circumstance the person in the dream is unmarried, it means marriage, and if he is married, it means that he will marry off one of his daughters. Ifone sees himselftied up and imprisoned inside a house in a dream, it means that he will receive glad tidings, or it could mean good health and prosperity.
If one sees himself carrying a house over his shoulders in a dream, it means that he takes care of a needy woman or a wife.
If one sees his house made of gold in a dream, it means that a fire will burn it down.
If the house has no roof, whereby one can see the skies, sun or moon in a dream, it represents the marriage of a woman from that household. Ifone sees a big house within his own house in a dream, it means that a righteous woman will live their or move into that family to become a blessing for such a house. Ifthere is a tunnel under such a house in the dream, it denotes deception or that a perfidious person is having access to that household.
A house without lights in a dream represents a woman of evil character, and if a woman sees that house in her dream, then it represents a man of evil character. Demolishing one’s house in a dream means a fight within that family.
If one sees grass growing inside his house in a dream, it means a wedding.
(See Also: Cage, Dwellings, Glass house)
[7](Or any place of residence) if we are aware that the house is not empty – that it is furnished in some way – those articles will mirror some aspect of our character or day-to-day concerns. Also consult the individual entry for furniture / furnishings. Being aware of someone else in the house suggests that we may be feeling threatened by an aspect of our own personality.
If there are different activities going on it indicates that there is a conflict between two parts of our personality, possibly the creative and the intellectual. Being especially aware of the front of the house portrays the facade we show to the outside world, whereas going into / out of the house indicates we need to decide whether to be more introverted or more extroverted in our dealings with other people.
An impressive, awe-inspiring house indicates that we are conscious of the self or the soul.
Dreaming of moving to a larger house shows there is need for a change in our lives, perhaps to achieve a more open way of life, or even for more space. Being outside a house depicts our more public side and how we relate to external interests.
Dreaming of a small house, or the house where we were born or grew up, means we are seeking security, or perhaps the safeguards of childhood, when we had little responsibility.
If we find the smallness of the house constricting, we feel we are being trapped by our responsibilities.
If we are aware of work being carried out on the house (cementing, repairing etc.) It implies that relationships may need to be worked on or repaired, or perhaps we need to look at health matters. We should take note of any damage, decay or difficulty that has occurred in our lives.
[8]See Also: Buildings
1- A house nearly always refers to the soul, and they way that we build our lives.
The different rooms and parts of houses in dreams indicate the various aspects of our personality and experience.
For example, Attic Dreaming of being in an attic is to do with past experiences and old memories. Interestingly, it can also highlight family patterns of behaviour and attitudes which have been handed down. Basement/cellar The cellar most often represents the subconscious and those things we may have suppressed through an inability to handle them.
A basement can also highlight the power that is available to us provided we are willing to make use of it. We may not have come to terms with our own sexuality and prefer to keep it hidden. Bathroom In dreams our attitude to personal cleanliness and our most private thoughts and actions can be shown as the bathroom or toilet. Bedroom The bedroom portrays a place of safety where we can relax and be as sensual as we wish. Chimney As a passage from one state to another and a conductor of heat, in dreams the chimney can indicate how we deal with our inner emotions and warmth. Hall The hallway in a dream is illustrative of how we meet and relate to other people. Library Our minds, and how we store the information we receive, can appear as a library.
2- A house represents security and safety, and therefore signifies protection and the Great Mother.
3- The house Is popularly known as the seat of the soul, and in spiritual terms links us to the way we are in the world.
[9]For the psychologist Carl Jung, building a house was a symbol of building a self. In his autobiographical Memories, Dreams and Reflections, Jung described the gradual evolution of his home on Lake Zurich. Jung spent more than thirty years building this castle-like structure, and he believed that the towers and annexes represented his psyche. In dreams therefore, houses may represent your life structures or what you have created for yourself as a way of life; for example, values, attitudes and goals, or things you feel ‘at home’ with, or feel you can be yourself with.
When interpreting dreams of houses, how you feel about the house is of particular importance. Houses can be forbidding places, and if you feel anxious in your dream, this suggests that something about your personality is bothering you. That you noted a particular part of the house in your dream may offer a clue, and the different rooms and everyday things in the house are also important as they represent different aspects of your feelings and make up. It is common to dream of returning to a house from your past that you knew or lived in. This dream may be nostalgic or it may reflect a longing to return to the innocence of childhood.
If you dreamed of leaving a house, the message is that you are ready to move on in waking life.
If the house in your dream felt like it was your home, see also HOME.
[10]Houses bear various meanings, from comfort, privacy, and safety.
To dream about different parts and states of your house reflect different depths of feelings, and various emotional and mental states.
The attic refers to your intellect and mind, while the basement describes the subconscious.
If the house is empty, it connotes feelings of insecurity. Shifts and changes in the house indicate change and progression of your personality and beliefs.
To dream that you are cleaning your house suggests self-improvement. It further refers to getting rid of old limiting beliefs and adopting new progressive point of views.
If you have a crowded house and you dream that your house is empty, it indicates a need to break free and live your live independently. Old beliefs and attitudes are represented by old houses.
To dream of a new house represents a new era of your life.
If you dream that someone broke into your house, you have a sense of being violated. Your personal boundaries has been crossed by someone.
To dream of a house also indicates that your subconscious is reminding you of something long forgotten, such as good traits you are no longer using.
To dream of a haunted house refers to unfinished business from the past.
A missing house suggests a feeling of being uprooted.
[11](1) A house or other building may be a symbol of yourself. Going upstairs may mean going into the ‘head’ - that is, the layer of mind where (rational) thinking takes place. Cellars may represent the unconscious. Different parts of the house may be of different ages, the modem representing the conscious ego, the oldest the deep layers of the unconscious - what Jung called the ‘collective unconscious’.
If the house feels cramped, this might indicate frustration. Is some part of you not yet developed, not yet integrated into consciousness? What is keeping this or that instinct or emotion repressed?
If the house is cracked or crumbling, this could indicate either anxiety concerning your life, or the breaking down of an old image of yourself, to give way to a more accurate or larger view of your potential.
(2) A house may represent your self-image: how you see yourself, or how you want to be seen by the world, or what you want from life.
(3) If the house is your parental home, what you feel in the dream may say a lot about your childhood feelings - about your parents, for instance.
HUNGER / HUNGRY
[12]The self. Where you are in the house and what is going on provides insight into the many facets of your life. Walking into darkened or unknown rooms is exploring unknown parts of self.
If rooms are cluttered, get organized and clean out old, useless habits and ideas. Furniture and people in house are aspects of yourself. Note especially colors and shapes. Different rooms are different aspects of self:
Upstairs or attic - spiritual awareness.
Ground floor - daily living situations.
Basement - sexual awareness and unconscious.
Kitchen - work area, cooking up plans and schemes, preparation for nurturing.
Bedrooms - rest, dreams, unconscious, sexual feelings.
Library - intellect and learning.
Living room - daily interaction with others.
Dining room - sustenance, nurturing, fellowship.
Bathrooms - cleansing, elimination of the old.
Porch or patio - extended part of self, enjoyment, relaxation.
Foundation - inner strength and groundedness.
[13]Environment you are residing in.
The structure the spirit is trapped in or resides in harmoniously. Particular rooms represent particular patterns controlling or playing out in the environment. Bedroom – rest, sex, Bathroom – waste receptacle and cleaning, kitchen – nourishment, living room – general conditions, others involved in your life, closets – holding tanks, hidden or put away patterns, basement – subconscious patterns.
It is common to dream about houses. They usually symbolize our emotional and psychological selves. 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. Either way, if you pay attention to the details in this dream, you may learn a thing or two about yourself.
See Also: Kitchen, Bathroom, Attic
[14]The emotional and physical constitution, characteristics, and body of the dreamer.
A place of protection and security, the shelter of the soul. Individual rooms symbolize the different emotional functions.
It is important to determine if Door and Window are open or closed and what the condition of the house is.
The house is also a universal female sex symbol.
Compare this to C. J. Jung’s 1909 dream in which— while exploring a house—he finds a flight of stairs that leads to the basement, where he discovers bones and human skulls. This dream was important because it led to Jung’s idea of the collective unconscious: Attics and basements are places that hold what we repress; rooms in the upper part of a house provide perspective and vision; bedrooms indicate sexual content; the kitchen is the place where alchemy provides transformation; the bath is the place for cleansing; a workroom is the place for everyday situations.
[15]Anything that is a home in a dream connects to your sense of self.
A house is a clear reflection of identity at the time of the dream.
The sense of identity that the dream is trying to express relates directly to the qualities of the house as it appears in the dream.
A house from your past and / or childhood relates to your identity as it was generated at the time you lived there.
A house from your imagination also relates to your sense of self, and you must use the context of the dream to inform you of the meaning to associate with it.
A mansion is an expanded sense of self, while something small or more rundown is asking you to look at issues of self-worth.
A house under construction is the self being built up, whereas one that is being destroyed takes on the view of deconstruction or reinvention.
The same ideas should be applied to any living space, from an apartment to a hotel room, a great big house or a hovel.
[16]Building a new house means that the dreamer will make many changes in present plans.
To dream that you are in a very elegant house, a castle, even a palace, you are subconsciously longing for more wealth than you possess, a higher plane of living or better social status.
If your dream house is falling apart it is a warning that your finances need bolstering.
If the house is disagreeable to you, family life may be unharmonious or frustrating, although you may not be aware of it.
The house is a symbol of the human body; hence any action connected with the house can be interpreted in terms of sexual conduct. This includes other people and their actions toward the dreamer as well as storms, fires, vehicles, furniture, and so on, in relative importance.
[17]The house symbolizes the personality, the current situation, and the emotional or professional relationships. Therefore, to find out the meaning of this dream you must analyze all aspects. The interior of the house is your body; the dining room and the kitchen represent the digestive system; the bedroom, rest and sexual activity; bathroom, kidneys and cleanliness, both physical and spiritual; the upper floors, the mind; and the cellar or basement, the unconscious. (See Also: HUT, CAVE, BALCONY, CELLAR)
Nomadic gypsies believe that dreams in which you are forced to leave your home indicate that you expect a favorable opportunity.
[18]To build one, profit; to be in a strange house denotes change (Gypsy). Schemer contends that the dream phantasm of a house has its representation in the entire organism. Under some conditions a single organ would be represented by a whole series of houses. Long rows of houses symbolize intestinal excitements. On other occasions particular parts of the house would represent particular parts of the body. In one headache dream, the ceiling of the room which the dreamer sees is covered with disgusting reptilelike spiders —the ceiling represents the head (Freud).
[19]An old house signifies a reunion or renewal of an old association.
A new house predicts financial security.
Building a house or seeing one under construction forecasts unexpected gain, possibly through a legacy; buying a house indicates a short but exciting love affair; selling a house augurs a release from pressing responsibilities.
A dream which featured a house being demolished or being in an empty one suggests you are grieving over a recent loss, broken relationship, or missed opportunity; don’t despair, time really does heal all things.
[20]Your inner being, inner sanctum or your physical body, houses in dreams often serve to guide you to a specific period or feeling within your life.
If your dream house is a home from the past, or a specific room within the home, the dominant memory or feeling from that time or place will provide further interpretational clues. The most common room in the house to appear in dreams is the bathroom; this represents purification or refreshment. A messy bathroom may suggest an area of your life that requires attention or cleansing.
[21]Dream houses have little to do with our real homes. Instead they represent our psyches; the attitudes and beliefs that create our individual personalities.
• The features of your dream house will reflect different aspects of the inner you. Each room relates to the different aspects of your personality and character.
• Bedrooms indicate issues of intimacy; the kitchen issues of nourishment and nurture, the living room relates to your daily life and the bathroom reflects emotional issues.
[22]Symbolic of your life or the place where you live or work, Matt.12:43-44.
A person tearing down their own house is symbolic of a fool, Prov.14:1. A crumbling house is symbolic of a wicked person, Prov.14:11. A house filled with good things is symbolic of a wise person, Prov. 21:20.
A house made of cards or flimsy material is symbolic of folly.
A house on top of sand is symbolic of disaster, Matt. 7:26.
A house on fire is symbolic of judgment, Ezek. 16:41
[23]To dream of building a house, you will make wise changes in your present affairs.
To dream that you own an elegant house, denotes that you will soon leave your home for a better, and fortune will be kind to you. Old and dilapidated houses, denote failure in business or any effort, and declining health.
See Also: Building.
[24]Dreams of a house represent your self, your life, your body, and how you see yourself.
If your house is clean and in order, then you are on track and healthy.
If you house is in disrepair and cluttered, then you’ve got some sorting out to do, people to forgive and amends to make.
See Also: Home.
[25]With their many unique features, floor plans, and structural designs, houses represent the complexity of the soul and the boundanes of the personality. Living in a in a dream may signify living with about sexuality. Living in a Spanish-style need for extended family.
[26]Dreaming of houses, especially specific rooms in a house, are doorways into different aspects of your personality, emotions, and feelings towards family and friends.
The feeling you sense while in the room will usually explain the meaning of the room.
[27]1. Yourself/ An individual;
2. Church;
3. Ministry;
4. Business;
• Clean house
- Delivered from a demon
• Unclean home
- Demon-oppressed or –possessed;1 Pet. 3:3.
• Interior renovation
- Spiritual renewal; 2 Chron. 24:4;
[28]Because a house is a personal dwelling place, a house under construction shows inner work is being performed on the psyche.
The condition of a house—whether it is in disrepair or it is fixed up and newly painted—is also symbolic.
[29]You clear up your house and courtyard: you’ll have guest(s) coming from afar; • You enter a dilapidated house: you enter an unfortunate phase in your life; • You find no one in a house: you’ll hear news of death; • A beam
[30]The house is popularly known as the seat of the soul, and in spiritual terms links us to the way we are in the world.
A house represents security and safety, and therefore signifies protection and the great mother.
[31]Psychological / emotional perspective: In psychological terms, the house also signifies the life we live, the protections we create and the ‘structure’ we present to other people.
[32]1. Represents your life;
2. Your church life;
3. Your spiritual condition;
4. Old House; childhood home issues from your childhood, family of origin issue; Luke 11:24
[33]Material aspects: In dreams, the different rooms and parts of houses represent the various aspects of our personality and life experiences.
[34]A most fortunate omen to see a House being built, but take warning if you see one being pulled down.
[35]1. The dreamer: psyche, soul and physical self.
2. Financial security.
3. Woman.
[36]Building a house, or causing one to be built, predicts a long and happy family life.
[37](See Also: Apartments, Buildings, Castle)
[38]Oversoul/personality.
[39]See “home”
[40]See Also: Cottage.
[41]To dream of building a hoŒse is a good omen; in love, that your sweetheart is good-tempered and faithful, and will make you very happy; to dream you see a house on fire, foretells hasty news. If it be your own house that is destroyed, the news will be bad; if your enemy's house, it saill be good.
[42]Interpretations of House-Related Dreams: What They Reveal About Your Life
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Dreams About House Structure
Arranging Things: Desires will not be realized.
Back Door: Using the back door symbolizes a wish to return to childhood candidness.
Beam (Rotten or Old): Resolve the core problem before proceeding.
Building Being Torn Down: A short, mad love affair will ruin your marriage.
Bricks (Setting): Build on your intellectual talents.
Building a New House: Honor without joy through a wise change.
Foundation of Own House Sinking: The basis of your faculties needs constructive support.
Roof Shingles (Leaking): A crack in your security, leaving your domestic bliss incomplete.
Walls Giving Way: You have taken on too many responsibilities.
Water Flooding a House: Feeling overwhelmed with tears for a sadness from long ago.
Dreams About House Ownership
Owning a House: Your finances are secure enough to start your remodeling job.
House Sold Out From Under You: Return to your house of worship.
Lost Through Bankruptcy: You will have arguments about money and material objects.
Foreclosure: Your demands on your energy exceed your supply.
Dreams About House Conditions
Empty House: Low income brings loneliness and trouble.
Fine House: Have proper regard for yourself.
Old House: Considering the alternative, aging is OK.
Odd House: Be the black sheep no more; problems must be sorted out.
Emotional and Psychological Associations
Baggage Inside a House: A trip is canceled.
Burning House: You are blaming the wrong person.
Owning a Burning House: Wild parties damage your soul.
Car Crashing Into a House: Plans for the future will be changed at your impetus.
Changing Houses: Apply for your mortgage, then find the right house.
Crowded Out of Your House: Relief will allow ventures to prosper.
Dreams About House Activities
Cleaning a House: You will receive news from an absent person.
Decorating a House: Have confidence in your own abilities; use them.
Wallpapering a Room: Design the whole space first, all walls.
Trapped in the House: You need to seek some counseling.
Dreams About Surroundings and Events
Commercial Buildings Around Your House: An important decision will change your emotional situation.
Earthquake: Lack basic support structure to present your venture.
Insects in a House: You are allowing petty annoyances to destroy your peace.
Wind in a House: Your sanity is at risk from wild thoughts.
Tree Falling on a House: Have a health check-up by your physician of choice.
House Under Attack: Your mind is being threatened by those who want what you have.
Other House-Related Dreams
Gazebo During a Rainstorm: Others can read love in your silence.
Shanty House: Live simply and sufficiently but do not disregard your health.
Lintel Under a Door: You will move to a larger home for greater protection.
Missing Part of Your House: You have unfinished business with a parent.
Symbolic Interpretations
Damaged by Animal Invasion: Abandon old habits that failed you.
Full of People in a House: Good relationship with family and friends.
Looking at a House: Physical security is at a premium.
Many Houses: Changing your image must come from within.
Something Wrong with the House: Take back control of your life.
See Also: Anxiety, Childhood, Instincts, Finances, Security.
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