Ever since I moved out of my parents place I often have this dream where I go into my new attic and find things that are lost, and find extra rooms that hold strange things like a stable and a horse I was supposed to be feeding (i can go into more detail if the rooms are important) Im always looking for my childhood legos but never get very far because im visited by spectral beings that freeze me in fear, I must leave the attic before I wake up and I wake up sweaty every time.I could chalk this up to a reoccurring nightmare but last night on vacation it happened again only this time it was a different attic I was fully able to explore and even found some Legos but they weren't mine.
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the generalized fear of failure of not wanting to go back, and coming to terms with maturity and the new role of adulting and taking care of your own place
The attic is likely the curiosity of exploration in being in a new place, or better put, it is the opportunity for exploration, while representing "lost" things from your past. However, the issue of anxiety from moving out based on searching for your childhood legos, and as >>42804248 said the specters are likely your fear of being unable to return because they freeze you from being able to go back to your childhood, represented as your legos. Just to recap, the fact a new attic came into play the moment you were in a new location helps cement the fact it is also the opportunity of exploration, and not just remorse of losing your childhood.The horse seems to represent an abandoned responsibility (maybe also from childhood) because of how you described it as "supposed to be feeding," but I don't really have a whole lot of information to go on there. Did you have horses growing up? How is it indicated to you that you are supposed to be feeding it?To analyze the rooms further, there would need to be more information in both, your dream and your mindframe/life, specifically in how it relates to those symbols in your dreams.
>>42800954Look at it like literary analysis. Analysing a dream can be done about the same as a story, the only difference is one is made consciously and one unconsciously.Also pay attention to what things mean, to you specifically. The brain latches meaning and associations onto various things, e.g. mine onto the battleship Tirpitz, but you should try to suss out what things represents in your mind particularly. If Tirpitz appeared to you in your dream, she might signify something very different than in mine.If you're not sure, remember as much as you can around dreams, even down to pictures. You can do image analysis in the same way as literary analysis. Both amount basically to verbalising the things your unconscious intuits, e.g. lighting/emphasis (images) or prose.I think many 'analysis' guides are probably BS in the sense that they don't teach this kind of analysis, instead they fire off a buckshot of "well this analogy often means blabla" which may not be true for you. (e.g. emotions are often likened to the ocean, or dying in a dream to having some aspect of you leave.)
>>42805349>I think many 'analysis' guides are probably BS*DREAM analysisalso, word/picture associations can be a quick way to find what your brain thinks about something. e.g. I might say "India" and you might imagine cows' dung.
