The House – Week 3
Have you ever had a dream where you are in a house, and suddenly you discover a room you didn’t know existed?
It can feel strange, or exciting.
To understand it a bit more, it helps to start with a simple idea of how the Psychiatrist, Carl Jung, saw the mind.
He said there is the part of you that you know well. This is the ego. It is your everyday identity. Your name, your role, your personality, the part of you that says “this is me.”
Then there is a much bigger part of you that you are not fully aware of. This is the unconscious. It holds memories, emotions, patterns, and parts of yourself that you haven’t fully seen yet.
Together, these make up your inner world. Jung called this the psyche.
And then there is something deeper that includes both and holds it all together. Jung called this the Self. Not just the version of you that you show the world, but the whole of you. The known and the unknown together, moving towards balance and wholeness.
Psyche is everything you are. Self is the most whole, integrated version of you within that whole system.
This is where the house comes in.
In dreams, the mind often uses images to represent complex ideas. A house is one of the most common, because it has many rooms. Some are familiar. Some are hidden. Some are used every day. Others are closed off or forgotten.
In this way, the house becomes a picture of your psyche, your full inner world. Not just your surface identity, but everything within you.
You don’t have to analyse every detail. What matters more is the feeling and what is happening in the dream.
Now think about discovering a new room.
From a Jungian point of view, this often means something new is emerging within your psyche. A part of yourself that you didn’t fully know before is coming into awareness.
It might be a strength, a creative side, or a feeling you have not fully allowed. Sometimes the room feels exciting. Sometimes unfamiliar. Both are part of growth.
Here are some of the creativity for this week:
What resonates with me is that the circle window in my home represents the wholeness of my life. Growing our family and gaining that ultimate state of happiness and balance.
The various colours represent all the emotions that come with life and how it all fits and shapes together to form who we are and how we do life.
Medium: Watercolour Paint 🎨
Ek sit op die bank (in my huis) en dis donkernag. In die pikdonkerte sit ek stil en staar, vanaf my rusbank. Die nag is lank. Na ’n rukkie staan ek op om te gaan kyk of die kombuisvenster gesluit is. Alles lyk presies soos die huis waarin ek tans bly. Ek sluit die kombuisvenster, en die droom eindig dadelik daarna.
Internet-interpretasie:
Om op die rusbank in jou eie huis te sit, dui op ’n gevoel van vertroudheid, rus en ’n veilige persoonlike ruimte waar jy kan stil word en waarneem.
Om stil in die donker te sit en dit waar te neem, dui op introspeksie en bewustheid van iets wat nog nie volledig verstaan word nie.
Die venster simboliseer ’n grens tussen die innerlike en uiterlike wêreld. Om dit te sluit kan dui op die behoefte aan emosionele of psigologiese grense, beskerming en innerlike stabiliteit. Die feit dat die droom onmiddellik eindig nadat die venster gesluit word, dui moontlik op ’n innerlike gevoel van voltooiing.
Duisternis kan ook verband hou met onsekerheid of die onbekende, terwyl waaksaamheid en die bewaring van die hart belangrike geestelike temas is (Spreuke 4:23; 1 Petrus 5:8). Hierdie temas oorvleuel met die psigologiese interpretasie in die idee van waaksaamheid en innerlike beskerming.
Kiekies geneem: vanaf bank; vanuit kombuisvenster. Reghoeke duidelik, sirkels daar maar onduidelik
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* Carl Jung – *Man and His Symbols* (1964), Aldus Books.
* Freud, S. (1913). *The Interpretation of Dreams*. Macmillan.
* The Holy Bible, New International Version (2011), Zondervan.
Spreuke 4:23
1 Petrus 5:8
Dream House
I wandered in a dream many nights
To find a house of shape and light.
The walls stood tall, a rectangle frame,
Holding the quiet, holding the flame.
Above, a triangle met the sky,
A sharp, bright roof that caught my eye.
And in the hall, a window spun —
A circle catching moon and sun.
The shapes all sang in soft refrain,
Then faded as I woke again.0
Very recently I dreamt about three rooms. First I was in a room with a closet and I remember I had to be careful on how I moved because there were bees on me🐝. They were not aggressive but I had to slowly take some off me. Through a corridor I entered a vast hall. Wooden hall with wooden floors. And in it were hundreds of Worlds! Beautiful, large worlds. They were the colour and texture of an ostrich egg shell. The last room was smaller and vintage. High ceilings (pressed and with intricate detail). There was an old tv playing scenes in sepia. I remember girls dancing.
💭If I break down the symbols, there are many meanings. But still not sure what it means as a whole. I can still see the large worlds towering over me. Weaving through them. It was truly remarkable.
