Conference hydra::dejavu

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         MAybe it means you remember taking a tour of either (1) the
    Pentagon or (2) Sarah Winchester's house in San Jose.  ;-)
    
    (Sarah Winchester--daughter of the Winchester rifle founder--attended
    a seance in which she was told she would not die as long as she
    continued to build her house.  So for the remainder of her life,
    workmen worked on her house [on Winchester Blvd. in San Jose] day
    and night, I believe.  The mansion is a historical site and tours
    are available---there are rooms and stairways leading nowhere, etc.
    Anyway, Sarah died despite her efforts.)
    
          Maybe your dream has to do with an unwillingness to find the
    "truth" (of what might be in the room?)  Or it's a reflection of
    procrastination?  Or a way to underscore frustration in your life?
    
    Frederick
    

    
    Houses with hallways and rooms unending often symbolize exploration
    of the unconscious.  Your very participation in this conference may
    point to the reason for this dream; perhaps you are searching for 
    answers to your questions about life, etc.  Also, maybe your desire
    to redecorate the rooms is an allusion to your desire to change or
    update your belief system in some way; or perhaps it only is telling
    you something about your creativity level (too much creativity in your
    life? not enough?).
    
    Just some thoughts...
    
    Guy

    A house/living quarters can commonly be considered a symbol for
    the state of consciousness - perhaps you are finding that you have
    new, undiscovered rooms in yourself - or that you are not limited
    to certain "rooms"?
    

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         How do you feel about these seemingly endless rooms
    and about the situations in which you come across them?
    

    
    
       Actually,  in all the dreams I've had like this, I'm happy about
    finally having enough room for everything I want.  More kids (I
    have 2 now) pets (I have 5) and privacy too for everyone.  Every
    time I've had one of these dreams, its all been positive feelings
    I remember as if I'm delighted that the rooms seem to go on and
    on endlessly.  And they are all either decorated beautifully already
    or full of potential to be decorated by me.  All decorated in the
    way I like too. Kind of old fashioned, comfortable and homey.  Kind
    of like me I guess.  Don't know what all this means, just curious.
    Open to all kinds of ideas.
    
    Debbie

    
    re:.5
    
    Well now that you put it that way....
    
    Have you been feeling particularly in touch with yourself lately?  It
    seems like this dream is saying that you have dug into your unconscious
    - into the deepest, most "you" parts of yourself - and you have become
    quite comfortable with what you have found there.  As an added benefit,
    your creativity (represented by the rooms that are easily redecorated)
    has been heightened.  You now may find that you more easily express
    yourself in a creative way.
    
    
    Guy

    
    Um...Guy,
    
    >Have you been feeling particularly in touch with yourself lately?
    
    Isn't that a rather personal question?
    
    (;^)
    
    Cindy (resident Scorpio)

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    Thank you for answering my question.  I don't have an interpret-
    ation yet; in fact, I'm still asking questions....for example,
    how would you feel if the rooms ended?  What, if anything, might
    you come to at that point?  If you have more than enough rooms, 
    then why do you need to dream the dream again?  Has some external
    event occurred that has made you seek reassurance?  Have you ever
    actually lacked material or psychological space?  Has anyone ever
    severely cramped your style or not given you adequate breathing
    room?  Have you ever been praised so often and so indiscriminately
    that a favorable but unrealistic personality portrait has emerged?
    Have you ever been anyone's pet?  Have you ever had any involvement
    with rumors?  Is this dream catching?  I can't seem to come to the
    end of this entry!
    
    Virginia
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    

transcribed without the author's permission from Robert S. DeRopp's
                     _The Master Game_

Contemporary man, hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgets, has
little contact with his inner world, concerns himself with outer, not
inner space.  But the Master Game is played entirely in the inner world,
a vast and complex territory about which men know very little..  The
aim of the game is true awakening, full development of the powers
latent in man.  The game can only be played by people whose observations
of themselves have led them to a certain conclusion, namely, that man's
ordinary state of consciousness, his so-called waking state, is not the highest
level of consciousness of which he is capable.  In fact, this state is so
far from real awakening that it could be appropriately called a form of
somnambulism, a condition of "waking sleep".

Once a person has reached this conclusion, he is no longer able to sleep
comfortably.  A new appetite develops within him, the hunger for real awakening,
for full consciousness.  He realizes that he sees, hears, and knows only
a tiny fraction of what he could see, hear, and know, that he lives in
the shabbiest of the rooms of his inner dwelling, and that he could enter
other rooms, beautiful and filled with treasures, the windows of which
look out on eternity and infinity.



Larry
FWIW, I think the archetype is valid.

    
    re:.7 (Cindy)
    
    I should've been more careful with Scorpios around....
    
    :-)
    
    Guy   

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    Still thinking...you say you've dreamed this dream for years.  Can
    you remember anything that might have occurred prior to your first
    dreaming it that could account for the "endless rooms" imagery and
    situation?  For example, if a person visited a large art museum or
    furniture store and wandered happily from one room to another, it 
    would be very easy to become temporarily lost or displaced or to go
    around in circles. The situation, if prolonged, could produce feel-
    ings ranging from mild anxiety to panic; or it could be experienced
    as a positive adventure with almost awesome overtones.  The brain
    would categorize the experience and store it in its memory.  Then,
    years later, the dreaming mind, wanting to represent a situation of
    upcoming "displacement" or "change," might chose - from thousands of
    possible images - the image of the "endless rooms."
    
    When you have this dream again, try to connect it to some recent 
    occurrence.  You might also get a clue to its meaning by talking
    about it to yourself out loud, and by listening very carefully to
    anything you say about it that you don't mean to say.  
    
    Virginia