Dream 2 - hidden rooms

About the second week of January I had a really elaborate dream that stayed with me after I woke up...

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I was in my new house, only it was in New England and it was a 2 story Victorian instead of a ranch. The odd thing was the only thing on the first floor was the front door, foyer and stairs leading up. I was disappointed the house didn't have enough storage space, it was just two small bedrooms and a few small closets just like the house I'm in now.

I was walking down the stairs to the front door when I noticed a door I'd never seen. It opened to a bathroom which lead to a small hallway with a bed at the end. The bed was on a platform that stuck out from the house and was all screened in like a pop-up camper. The hallway and bed were all covered in leaves and twigs like a forgotten garden.

The platform bed led to a small narrow office with bad 70's paneling. It had shag carpet, empty book shelves and an old desk. The flooring at the end of the office was soft and as I stood at the end of the room I sunk through.

Below the office was a full finished basement. It was brightly lit with 12 ft ceilings, a fully equipped work bench and more impressively a fully stocked photo studio.

I climbed back up through floor and discovered a small bedroom. This one was decorated like something from the 80's with hot pink walls, cheap shiny black furniture and a small vanity table.

Off the bedroom was a big full bathroom that seemed completely from a different time. The 'toilet' was just a large concrete block with a hole and the shower was a corner of the room with a garden hose. It seemed more like a cell than a bathroom.

Going back into the bedroom I discovered two new doors. One leading back to the foyer and the other to a staircase going down to the basement.

As I left for the foyer again I noticed one last room off to the right with a queen size bed and nothing else.
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I woke up elated that I finally had enough room. I sat there thinking, about the dream and again wondering if it might mean that I actually need more room.

I shared my dream with a few co-workers.

One said dreams of houses are about yourself and rooms are aspects of your personality. She thought the dream was about new year's resolutions and the rooms were things I wanted to work on.

The other said it was more literal. About anxiety over the purchase of our new home, but that our house had hidden potential.

Then I shared my dream with a good friend. She looked at me with a complicated grin and said "A little girl's room huh... I thought maybe that was where this was headed". There was an awkward silence and I can't imagine what my face looked like. It was like she saw right through me - I was embarrassed and excited.

We didn't say any more about it, but that pretty much cinched it for me. I was convinced.

I didn't drink my glass of wine that night - it tasted sour.