What it means to dream about a house

What the traditional dream book says

The house in the dream books is you and the life you are living. Big and full of light, it promises comfort and enough of everything. In ruins, it warns of change and loss. Somebody else's house was read as a new circle of people around you.

What the dream really reflects

The house in a dream is you. The rooms are your different sides. The basement is what you hide, the attic is memory and thought. An unfamiliar room in your own house is something of yours you have only just found. Look at the state the house was in and you will know your own.

What changes the reading

The same dream reads differently, and here is what shifts it.

Your parents' old house

Something is pulling you back to your roots, to the person you used to be. A matter from the past is asking for your attention.

A house in ruins

Something inside has been shaken. A support you had counted on for years, or your whole way of living, has cracked somewhere.

A new, unfamiliar house

You have found something in yourself you did not know was there. A new room in the house, a new side of you opening to the light.