Places & Settings
Houses, rooms, and the places a dream puts you, read by the space and what it holds.
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Desert Dream Meaning: Emptiness With or Without a Purpose
Dream dictionaries read a desert as loss and loneliness. The wilderness traditions read the same emptiness as a place you pass through on purpose. Both are worth having.
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Island Dream Meaning: Escape or Abandonment
An island in a dream means one of two opposite things, and one detail usually tells you which: whether you went there, or whether you ended up there.
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Basement Dream Meaning: The Room You Did Not Furnish
Everyone says a basement stands for the unconscious. That is the starting point, not the answer. What your basement was like is where the real reading is.
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Quicksand Dream Meaning: Sinking, Stuck, and Struggling Harder
Quicksand dreams usually reflect feeling stuck in something that worsens the harder you fight it. What the image means, its variants, and the beliefs around it.
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House Dream Meaning: Rooms, Doors, and the Shape of the Self
What house dreams mean: the house as a picture of the self, what Jung actually dreamed, room by room conventions, unfamiliar houses, and the childhood home.
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