Dream Symbols & Common Dream Meanings

Do recurring dreams or familiar settings visit you night after night, like chapters of an unfinished story?

These vivid nighttime experiences might be more than just random imagery—they could be your subconscious mind’s unique way of sending messages, nudging you toward understanding and growth. Let's explore what these dreams could mean and how they might reflect your inner world.

Dreams can give us insight into our inner emotions, our deepest desires, or Michael Myers chasing us around our childhood home. No matter the dream, the question is always the same... What does this dream mean?

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Dream recalling is not a new practice. Humans have always held meaning to the images and stories that take place in the mind at night, searching for God through our subconscious. Prophecies have been foretold to many in a dream, and temples have been built in order to practice this divination - understanding our dream symbols and common dream meanings.

These days dream interpreters and temples for them are no longer around, but the power to interpret dreams is in each one of us, you only need to focus your attention on a dream to pick up on the symbols being shown to you.

These are the key elements in a dream, symbols that need to be interpreted and meditated on. The listed symbols and interpretations can vary based on where you live, your feelings (subconscious and conscious) during the time you sleep, and your life experience. These elements serve as clues to leading you through what really lies beneath the surface, and can help guide you to areas that you have to 'level up' to serve your Higher Purpose. Keeping a Dream Journal near your bed to jot down these symbols/clues helps tremendously.

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Dream Symbols

House/Visiting a House

Homes are very personal to us, they hold our families, first core memories, and represent safety, security & stability. When you dream of a house, this represents your inner self - your soul. What does the exterior look like? What time of day is it? Who is inside the house? Take note of all of these things, and jot them down in a Dream Journal.

Where you spend time in these rooms inside the house matter and are telling you that something deeper resides in the following areas:

Kitchen

The need for spiritual nourishment. what is on Earth, is in the spiritual. You can't physically feed your Spirit but you can honor, pray & talk to it to feed it. The kitchen also represents changes that are yet to happen. How can you best prepare yourself, spiritually, when dealing with new cycles that occur in life? Who do you lean on during good and 'bad' times?

Bedroom

Your personality and your sensuality. Note what colors are inside the room and if you feel comfortable while inside.

Bathroom

Purification and self-renewal. Cleansing of the mind, body & soul, the bathroom is the ultimate symbol of Purification, and shouldn't be taken lightly when you see this in your dream. A detox of the Spirit is needed, so grab your plant mix, spell candles & set an intention before cleansing the soul.

Living Room

Think of the living room in your dream as the Ascending Star in astrology. This is the area/"image" that you portray to others. Note how you view others - if they are in the room - and their behaviors. This is often how you feel that you are seen by others.

Attic

Intellect, the Higher Self.

Basement

The basement represents the subconscious and shadow self of the soul. Observe the emotions that arise while in the basement, what do you feel? What is down in the basement? Is there anyone (a guide) with you in the basement?

Childhood Home

Dealing with an emotional tide that happened in childhood. Whether this was forgotten childhood trauma or a cycle you have grown up with, focus on the elements playing out while in this house.

Abandoned Home

this is a part of your past that you have left behind. What are you doing there? What emotions are felt during the dream or environment?

Animals

A guide to the subconscious and dream realm, animals appear in dreams as a symbol to guide us deeper into the dream, and a better understanding of the realm we are in. When you see an animal, take note of what the animal is. Are you afraid or instantly buddies with the creature? What we characterize the animal as in our waking life, is what we think in our dream. This animal guide represents our primal desires, what we want but don't say out loud, an untamed version of ourselves. Note what you can do to give into your desires healthily, or what needs to be expressed to control them.

Flying

I personally love flying dreams, but I do not have them often, and when I do, I'm barely flying. Flying represents the aspect of ourselves that is pure motivation. When you are flying, you feel no weight of the physical plane and can clearly get to your objective, this is your soul unleashed. What you have in mind will get accomplished, and you are free from the worries of life. Note where your flying journey takes you, and what colors are the most vibrant

Water

In the spiritual world, water is the veil between the physical and the supernatural. In the dream realm, this is no different. Dreaming is a spiritual practice, one that takes time to cultivate if you are going to interpret its meanings. When you see water in your dream, observe how the water is. Is there a fast current? This represents the motions that lie within, emotions may be at an all-time high. If the water's current is steady, this can represent the state of emotions that you are experiencing at that moment. Water controls everything around us, including our bodies.

If you are drowning in the water, this can represent the feeling of being overwhelmed by something in waking life you feel is taking over. We can't allow our emotions to control us, it will only drown us. Balancing the waves of emotions and how steady our reaction is to it will be our life raft through hard times.

Fighting

To dream of fighting and you cannot fight, represents a sense of fight that you have within that needs to be heard. You feel that you are not heard, and are "fighting" for that right. The lack of being able to land a punch (or kick) while fighting in your dream can represent the idea that you feel that people do not understand your deepest self. What are you always fighting for in life? In what ways can you deliver your message - the right to be heard - in a way that people can receive?

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The more you begin to see these symbols stand out in your dreams, the more you can become in tune with what your subconscious mind is relaying to you during the day. To go even deeper into the dream realm,

Sleep Affirmation: "Guide me safely in my bed as I dream, as my mind wanders and my body rests."

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Cited Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_interpretation#:~:text=Dream%20interpretation%20was%20taken%20up,of%20Dreams%20by%20Sigmund%20Freud.

http://www.dreammoods.com/dreamdictionary/h3.htm