Hotels, apartments, parking lots, hallways, etc...

ScarletBegonias

Dagobah Resident
I keep having dreams I'm in hotels/apartment complexes that look like hotels. None of these are ever places I've been before and in my dreams I always arrive there and end up there. These days they are musty and mostly bluish...paint deteriorating, carpet needing to be vacuumed. I'm always looking out the windows, searching through the hallways. Sometimes I am escorting my mother to the hotels. She clutches to me as I pull her along to find a place to reside. When I get her to the hotel room I always get lost and can't seem to find my way back to the right room where she is.

I've also had dreams of the most lavishly decorated mansions and fascinating structures that would not be able to hold up to gravity in real life. I've walked on slanted floors and numerous unstable decks built on top of narrow steep buildings that seem like they're going to fall over sometimes. I've found secret doors that lead to hidden rooms, stairs that take me to basements and bathrooms. All of the houses I've been in have many rooms and I am constantly exploring them.

I've also wandered the streets, but never seem to end at a destination. I'll be in parking lots too, and grocery stores, wandering from building to building on college campuses. It seems like all my dreams involve me walking down hallways trying to get places, but always just searching. There is also often a water source around, like fountains, rivers, the ocean, pools. It's usually nighttime in my dreams too.

If anyone can offer any input regarding my reoccurring dreams, I am curious to hear it!
 
Scarlet,

It has been my experience that houses and buildings often represent our psyche. Perhaps try to look at it from that perspective and see what you come up with.

These days they are musty and mostly bluish...paint deteriorating, carpet needing to be vacuumed. I'm always looking out the windows, searching through the hallways.

For example, perhaps here, it may represent that old programs are deteriorating, there is debris that needs to be cleaned etc. You are "searching" through your psyche for clues.


Sometimes I am escorting my mother to the hotels. She clutches to me as I pull her along to find a place to reside. When I get her to the hotel room I always get lost and can't seem to find my way back to the right room where she is.

Perhaps this is an indication of trying to separate emotionally from your mother in some way, and your fear of it, or perhaps you sense her fear of it as well.

I also find it interesting that hotels and apartments are rentals- not something that is permanent and that you own. So perhaps it could be an indication that much in your psyche is " not your own"?

I've also had dreams of the most lavishly decorated mansions and fascinating structures that would not be able to hold up to gravity in real life

Perhaps this could indicate unrealistic ideas and fantasies?

I am just giving you ideas as food for thought here.

Another thing that you can do is look at each part of the dream as a part of yourself. What does each individual thing represent to you?
 
EmeraldHope said:
Scarlet,

It has been my experience that houses and buildings often represent our psyche. Perhaps try to look at it from that perspective and see what you come up with.

These days they are musty and mostly bluish...paint deteriorating, carpet needing to be vacuumed. I'm always looking out the windows, searching through the hallways.

For example, perhaps here, it may represent that old programs are deteriorating, there is debris that needs to be cleaned etc. You are "searching" through your psyche for clues.
Thank you, EmeraldHope! I read this somewhere too and recently the structures have been places I would rather not be. This makes sense, I think.

EmeraldHope said:
Sometimes I am escorting my mother to the hotels. She clutches to me as I pull her along to find a place to reside. When I get her to the hotel room I always get lost and can't seem to find my way back to the right room where she is.

Perhaps this is an indication of trying to separate emotionally from your mother in some way, and your fear of it, or perhaps you sense her fear of it as well.
This part baffles me the most and I wake up with a general concern for my mother's health each time. :( But maybe the dreams are the "motherly" I that I created inside me? Maybe I'm showing myself how weak I've become, because now I need to virtually drag my motherly "I" to safety...but safety is not a hospital, it's a hotel in a random city and we have no purpose for being there other than to just get here.

EmeraldHope said:
I also find it interesting that hotels and apartments are rentals- not something that is permanent and that you own. So perhaps it could be an indication that much in your psyche is " not your own"?

Wow, I didn't even realize that, but it's true! Hmm. There are just so many rooms, so many hallways. I'm never there but always searching...

EmeraldHope said:
I've also had dreams of the most lavishly decorated mansions and fascinating structures that would not be able to hold up to gravity in real life

Perhaps this could indicate unrealistic ideas and fantasies?

I am just giving you ideas as food for thought here.

Another thing that you can do is look at each part of the dream as a part of yourself. What does each individual thing represent to you?

Maybe these ARE like fantasies my mind makes up. They are fun to explore in my dreams, but they would never hold up in this world. Hmm...maybe my mind prefers the clouds to the ground. I think my father is like that. He likes to think of how things could be, not just how they are. His talents and dreams have carried him so far as to earn the title of inventor in his life, in addition to many others...

Thank you for this "food for thought" here! In my dream last night I was stuck at school working with another teacher preparing items for our students while fending off male invaders and it was not fun! It makes me think of how California is trying to rip off my classroom by cutting the budget to nothing....

I didn't always have these dreams. I think they originated when my anxiety reached peak levels a decade ago when I was in college...They are like bad reruns and I want them to go away.
 
Now that I am taking melatonin and getting more of the right kind of deeper sleep I seem to be dreaming less and it's a lot harder to remember my dreams. However, I still remember parts of them and last night I had another reoccurring dream that I would like to share.

I was in a large office building and in the restroom hiding in a bathroom stall. A handful of women were there checking their makeup and hair in the mirrors and talking about having sex and drinking alcohol in the office building late at night. I remember being disgusted by their statements and wondered how such perversion could be so common.

Over the years I've hidden in so many different kinds of bathrooms in my dreams. They have been in houses, apartments, schools, hotels, office buildings, palaces, mansions, cabins, etc. I don't remember using the room for any reason, but just stopping, standing there and hiding. Sometimes the bathroom stall won't lock, which makes me frustrated and other times people have opened the door which makes me scared.

Maybe this is me trying to hide from the world? I have viewed these buildings as me before, so maybe this is me trying to hide from other parts of me? Or maybe retreating to the restroom is an attempt to work on strategic enclosure and having boundaries in my life? Well, I wanted to post this in case someone has another take on it, because I don't know of anyone else who had dreamed of being in the bathroom so much and I always did fine it quite odd, lol...thanks.
 
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