often i've read that one cannot interpret the dreams of others, only the dreamer can say what it means. to that i say "pish-tosh." i love to interpret other people's dreams! just now i am puzzling over a friend's dream involving an aggressive scary nebulous thing in an attic.
we all know that the cellar can represent a trip into your darkest hidden self eeeewwwwwwww! and discovering new unsuspected rooms on your house...that's always fun!
but an attic?
we all know that the cellar can represent a trip into your darkest hidden self eeeewwwwwwww! and discovering new unsuspected rooms on your house...that's always fun!
but an attic?
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in this dream the dreamer is helping out a friend whose house is haunted. our dreamer climbs the stairs alone to the friend's attic to take a look around and perhaps help. but instead of getting an idea of what sort of boggart was haunting his friend's house, he entered the attic and was immediately rushed by a formless threatening something-or-other -- it INSTANTLY RUSHED TOWARDS HIM!
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well of course he screamed and woke up. too bad!! i'd be curious to know what happened next. was this cloud-like thing going to cloud his mind? or maybe envelope him entirely. or maybe just pass right through him in an escape down the stairs through the door he just opened!
maybe the attic's a place of dryness and reasonableness, the higher thoughts of humans.
perhaps our dreamer tried to help his friend, using logic and reason, only to find himself attacked by something he can't grasp nor make no sense of?
and at the same time, the attic is the repository of someone's past. all locked up in trunks and stored safely out of the way where it can be forgotten and ignored.
in which case he has entered his friend's past, which attacks and terrifies him, or he has entered his own past -- there's the fun of dreams, because in a dream, they say, you play all parts, and he is the friend, and the helper, and the house, and the SCARY THING too!
or is that more pish-tosh?
funny ... I used to dream repeatedly about a scary nebulous thing in an attic, when I was very small. The attic may have been in a windmill, in a field somewhere.
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