Dream (can anyone tell me what it means)

[LiverpoolLou]

Hi all, I had this really weird dream the other night and it played on my mind all day. I was about a house that I lived in, when I was younger, I lived there from when I was born until I was seven. In the dream, I went back to the house, but it had been extended, and my cousin was going to live in the extended bit, only the front of the house looked the same but inside it looked completely different. There where all different rooms in the house, and I remember saying in the dream, well wheres the living room, because my cousin was moaning that she didn't have one. In the dream, I ended up going down a corridor and up a flight of stairs to find a room with a 3 peice suite and a table and chairs, it looked really nice and I realised that this was my cousins living room and thought oh good she has got a living room, i went out of the room and got lost and ended up in some sort of pub, but it was part of the house, i remember turning around and seeing a sign that said, something like, family rooms, and i opened the door that had this on it and went back along the corridor and found myself back in the house.

I know this probably sounds really weird, but can anyone analyse this dream for me and tell me what it means. I got up the next morning and felt really odd all day as I have never really thought about this house because I was so young when I left it. Thanks

[Hippy]

Here's a try. The house is safe place strongly connected with your relationship with your parents, and the dream is an attempt to resolve something that is troubling you in waking times, possibly a conflict with a parent or someone in authority. You try to return to your earlier safety but to your horror this has changed and is now dangerous. In waking life your safe haven is threatened. Your cousin, a familiar person, is a reflection of you. You are looking for a living room, that is somewhere to live, relaxation, comfort. This is what you fear is missing or about to be taken away in waking life. You find this after a perplexing journey. Down the corridor, so things are going to get worse before they get better, and up the stairs, so it is going to be a struggle or effort to get "safe" again.

You are doing this for your cousin in the dream but she is another version of you. Happier now that you have found the safe place you wander off and find yourself in a pub. You say "got lost" meaning that even though the safe living room is nearby you are unsure of how to get back. The pub is a place where you arrive having "got lost" so the social boozing scene makes you vulnerable. You leave by a door (Alice in Wonderland?) marked "Family Room", not unusual in many Northern pubs. This is more an indication of what the pub represents rather than where the door leads. Do your family spend a lot of time in a pub? Is there an issue of someone's drunkenness or reckless abandon that is at the root of the waking troubles? You say that the door lead you back to the house, rather than the safe living room, and yet the pub was somehow still in the house. The danger is close, in the close family, and even though you might struggle to get "safe" you fear that it could be lost easily as you or someone very close to you becomes intoxicated or swept into danger under the disguise of enjoyment, putting you in extreme peril.

[LiverpoolLou]

Wow, Hippy, that was brilliant, there is someone around me at the moment, my sister to be exact, that I have been having problems with of late, and it's to do with her drinking, I have had loads of arguments with her lately, all to do with that, I got into a really big argument with her lately, and called her a liar, I had told her something that was really personal and she spread it around, I confronted her with it and she lied through her teeth, but called her bluff and she couldn't deny it. Thanks Hippy, that goes a long way to solving this really odd dream.

[LiverpoolLou]

Hippy, something I forgot to say in my last post, the cousin I am talking about I haven't seen her for years, but the sister that I have had the arguements with, her and my cousin are really close. Everything you have said is making sense. Thanks.