I have a recurring dream about a house with a thousand rooms...

I have this sort of dream only about once or twice a year, but it's always the same theme: I am in a house with endless rooms, each one very unique and some containing its own dangers. The layout is always puzzling, with entryways that go nowhere and walls where walls shouldn't be. Sometimes the rooms look like standard suburban West-Coast-beige-y rooms, probably because I spent a large chunk of my childhood in a home like that.

I remember reading about the Winchester mansion and feeling a connection to it in some way; I hope I am able to visit it in the next few years. Maybe I'll get mad deja vu?

Interestingly enough, my dad also has a lot of dreams about homes (specifically his grandmother's house).

I have my own thoughts on these dreams, but I'd love to hear yours--the more peculiar the interpretation, the better!

 

if i had been born with more money then good sense i would have spent my entire life, building one in real life.
i wouldn't call any of my dreams "recurring", but there are certainly what i would call fixed geography settings.
such a house is one of mine. not just houses. another is a kind of casino hotel with elevators that go more directions then up and down.
most fun are of course concealed panels that lead to dusty disused stair cases, sometime there are old newspapers laying on them, and yes you can read the print.
then there is one that is constantly being rebuild. multi-story with materials stacked here and their to squeeze past,
and upper floors only partially there where you can see several floors down.

lots of houses and for me fun exploring them.

for me, i prefer to just enjoy exploring the strangeness then all this stuff about interpreting, which to me is perhaps arbitrary and even to some degree culturally conditional.

 

The Majority of My dreams take place in large compounds in many ways resembling the house you're describing. Not so much that it is in a house, but rather that it is a seemingly endless and puzzling interior setting.

They vary widely, at some times being more domestic, other times more like a stacked urban center, other times like a school of some kind, other times dusty, bare bones industrial compounds. When I was younger, I went though a years long phase when it was all in a set of tunnels and basements.

My favorite book about dreaming is Carlos Castaneda's 'the Art of Dreaming' which is one of the most technical of all the Don Juan books, in my opinion. The worldview which appears to be expressed by Don Juan, relating to dreams, is that they are not symbolic in nature, or at least that is not their primary purpose. Rather, he asserts that your 'soul' (not the word he uses but it suits the purpose) actually goes places in a literal sense. It is also my impression from the book that what we see in dreams is like a skin that we can recognize placed over the unrecognizable true landscape we traverse in our dreams.

I highly recommend it out of all the Don Juan books by Castaneda, but I'll warn that it is a bit unsettling on a metaphysical level.

Anyway, I say all this because in that book, the glimpse we see from the main character, who is learning how to lucid dream from a Yaqui shaman, of the landscape of dreams behind the veil, seems to describe an interior portion and an exterior portion. It was no doubt oversimplified, and in general, to be taken with a grain of salt. But it's interesting to think that perhaps the mind is drawing between the lines during dreams, percieving an interior and conjuring something familiar, a house, a school, a parking garage, etc.

That's my take on the subject. There is much to be said about why, in our dreams, emotionally charged events may take place, often in those familiar places, but that is a whole other many paragraphs.

Thanks for sharing about your experience!

 

When you finally find your room after a few hours, is their someone else asleep in your bed and you have to sleep on the floor.
Perhaps it is the same building that we are all dreaming about. I got asked to fix the boilers, that are similar to those in a power station and each larger than a building.
For some unknown reason, I had 5 days to fix them, a job that would have taken months.
I went back to my room to work out what to do, but needless to say, I had forgotten where it was. Now the rooms were like shacks in an open field, but I did not question why they needed those vast industrial boilers.

 

I've had many reoccurring dreams but i've never been able to figure them out!

 

It seems like they are describing what they call "the backrooms." Although I've never dreamt anything like that myself. I try to have lucid dreams, and being a psychonaut also helps a lot.

 

Do you think their is a possible link between dreams, reincarnation and ghosts. One thing that I have noticed is that my dreams seem to have more connection to the past than to the future.

 

But then again, you do hear crazy stories every now and then of someone dreaming something and it coming true. Hard for me to explain that at all!

 

I've never heard of the concept of the backrooms before, at least pertaining to dreams. Tell me more about that; it sounds very interesting!

 

I have heard of that, but since we all dream, possibly every time we are asleep, statistically, for every dream their will be an event that broadly matches it somewhere in the world. In addition, a lot of our dreams are about something that is worrying us, so that likelihood becomes even higher.
What puzzles me, is that I can vividly remember dream when I wake up during them, but all recollections seem to fade, often within minutes. Within the last 30 years, only a handful of dreams have stuck in my mind and they were all very confusing. We accept that we inherit both looks and personality from our parents, so what else is locked in our brain at birth.?