It occurred to me once upon awaking that I frequently have dreams about houses. I wouldn't call them recurring dreams, because I don't recall them ever being the same - not even the houses in the dreams are the same. In most cases, the houses are ones that I have never seen before, and therefore have certainly never been in. There is often a sense of familiarity or anticipation. Sometimes, the dream is about the exterior of a house, like a camera is panning a street and then zooming in on a particular house that I recognize when I see it with an, "Ah, there it is." Or sometimes I am walking around the perimeter of a house waiting for someone to arrive, looking in the windows, or trying to figure out how to get in. Sometimes I'm just trying to determine, "Is this the right house?" Usually when the dream involves the exterior of a house, I don't get to go in.

Most of the time however, the dreams center on the interior of a house. My favorite ones involve secret passageways or miscellaneous junk - papers particularly - in an attic that are there to be sifted through like so much treasure. The absolute best dreams involve a trip to an attic where I discover the entrance to a slide, and the slide is like one of those red tube slides on a playground but longer...oh so much longer, and the colors are glowing red and black and darkness...but somehow it isn't frightening. I don't recall just now that I've ever come out the bottom of one of these slides. I don't know what is at the end. The more recent dreams about houses that I have had involve large rooms separated by curtains rather than walls. Behind each curtain is a surprising new room, often large and unfurnished.

So, when I came to the realization that so many of my dreams consisted of this recurring theme, I was terribly excited. I felt special. I thought that surely there must be some significance to the theme. I can't accept that having dreams and looking for meaning in them is entirely new age drivel. Do people even say "New Age" any more? It was all the rage once upon a time.

"And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions."