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Water in our dreams represents our emotions. Are your emotions overwhelming, freeflowing, blocked?

Remember to relate every adjective that you would use to descibe the water to yourself.

Is it a tidal wave or a trickle?

A calm stream or a raging torrent?

Frozen or fluid?

Clear or murky?

Do you have blocked pipes?

Is it boggy?

A house in a dream represents our self. It's really important to note the condition of the house and how you feel about the house as well as ask yourself the following questions.

What kind of house or building is it?

Is the house decrepit and falling down?

Is it a house you have lived in?

Is it large and grand?

Does it have secret rooms?

Is it tidy or messy?

Where are you in the house in your dream?

The loft? The loft or attic represents your mind.

The basement? The basement represents your unconscious.

Who is in the house? Unknown people usually represent parts of ourself.

Are there parts of the house you are scared to go into?

What's the garden like?

Where is the house situated?

What are the decor and furnture like?

You can use the page on the 4 Step Technique or another way to understand a dream symbol if you are having trouble diciphering it, is to have a conversation with it.

Close your eyes and see the symbol in your minds eye.

What words come immediately to mind as you look at it?

Scary? Powerful? Disgusting? Friendly? Warm?

If it's a person or animal you can ask it,

"What do you want to tell me?"

Ask questions and listen to the answers

no matter how surprising.

A good dream dictionary can really help us in our journey to understanding our dreams messages to us. If you're serious about interpreting your dream and you're feeling stuck try my recommended Dream Meanings Kit.

If you are driving or are inside a vehicle, again this relates to your self.

What kind of vehicle is it? Car, plane, bike, boat?

What kind of condition is it in?

Is anything broken?

How fast or slow are you travelling?

Where are you going?

What colour is it?

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When you dream about another persons' house that usually relates to how you see them. Use the same technique of relating each adjective you would use to descibe their house to them.

I very often dream of being in a different house but its now mine and all the contents in the house arent mine and in my dream i am going through all thats in there throwing some out and keeping some ...moving furniture etc in this dream....most of the time it has been different house the one i dreamt of last night i have never seen this house and why i was in it i was thinking that i need to paint plus going through the contents. I have no plans to move has we have only been in our home for two years...hope to hear some feed back regarding these dreams.

An Example of a Common House Dream

The symbol of the house is one of the most common that appear in our dreams. This is because it represents "the self" and since one of the reasons we dream is to aid self development it's no wonder it occurs frequently.

Your dreams at the moment sound very much like you are going through a process of self discovery and change. If you replace where you have written "house" with "self" and look at what you are doing to your "self" in your dream you will find out what this dream is telling you.

You are rearranging things, throwing out unwanted bits, keeping bits you like, thinking about giving it a makeover (painting it). This represents changes you want me make within your self and discovery of what's in your self.

The fact that you don't recognise the house/self is important. Maybe you have been on a big learning curve lately, quite likely precipitated by a big life change or event and during that process your self has changed. During the dream you are becoming aquainted with the changes and new discoveries you have made about yourself - reorganising and putting yourself back in order.

The Interpretation

A House or Building

Water

Vehicle

How to Connect to Any Dream Symbol

Dream Dictionary

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Some symbols turn up in our dreams so frequently that it's really worth taking the time to understand how to interpret them. Once you can interpret the following symbols you'll be well on your way to understanding the language of dreams and it will no longer seem so mysterious!

The three most common dream symbols