Places & Settings
Houses, rooms, and the places a dream puts you, read by the space and what it holds.
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Dreaming About Your Childhood Home
Dreaming about your childhood home again? Here is why the dream returns, what the changed rooms might mean, and how to read it without guessing at fate.
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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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