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What are childhood home dreams about?

This symbol is identified by words like childhood home and childhood house.

Childhood homes in dreams is a uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 0.6% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 200 dreams.

What are the major highlights of childhood home dreams?

Childhood homes is a normal dream symbol. Having childhood homes in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.

Dreams with childhood homes might be a nightmare

Dreams of childhood homes are frequently associated with nightmares. Of course dreams that contain childhood homes might not be a nightmare. Plenty of dreams with childhood homes are not nightmares. But, dreams of childhood homes are more related to nightmares than 80% of all other dream symbols. Other symbols that are like this include skin, attics, evil, spotlights, torturing, feelings, unconscious minds, zombies, worms, and escaping.

Childhood home dreams are about family

Dreams of childhood homes are more related to family than 90% of all other symbols. In other words, dreaming of childhood homes will increase your chances of dreaming of a family member. Other symbols that are like this include crying, my children, cousins, husbands, uncles, Haiti, vacations, aunts, seeing a dead partner, and abortions.

What are the symbols that help define childhood homes?

The symbol of childhood homes in dreams is highly related to home_towns.

How does the dream symbol of childhood homes affect the different aspects of a dream?

Explore different elements related to dreams of childhood homes

Who is in childhood homes dreams?

Overall, dreams with childhood homes are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of childhood homes are more related to animals, much more related to family, and more related to romantic partners than dreams in general. They are much less related to different roles, less related to fantastic beings, and less related to distant people.

Animals

more than usual

Insects

the same as usual

Different roles

much less than usual

Fantastic beings

less than usual

Distant people

less than usual

Close people

less than usual

Family

much more than usual

Romantic partners

more than usual
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What are the emotions in childhood homes dreams?

Overall, dreams with childhood homes are aren't really related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of childhood homes are more related to fear than dreams in general. They are less related to happiness, less related to embarrassment, and less related to confusion.

Happiness

less than usual

Sadness

the same as usual

Grief and sorrow

the same as usual

Embarrassment

less than usual

Confusion

less than usual

Fear

more than usual

Pain

less than usual

Hatred

less than usual

Fun

less than usual

Love

the same as usual
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Who is in childhood homes dreams?

Overall, dreams with childhood homes are much more related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of childhood homes are much more related to home and much more related to human places than dreams in general. They are less related to work, less related to transportation, and less related to natural places.

Home

much more than usual

Work

less than usual

Human places

much more than usual

Transportation

less than usual

Natural places

less than usual

Magical places

less than usual
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What happens in childhood homes dreams?

Overall, dreams with childhood homes are aren't really related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of childhood homes are less related to friendly interactions.

Aggressive interactions

the same as usual

Friendly interactions

less than usual

Sex

the same as usual

Disasters

the same as usual
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How do childhood homes in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?

Overall, dreams with childhood homes are more related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of childhood homes are more related to nightmares, much more related to recurring dreams, and more related to recurring nightmares than dreams in general. They are less related to sleep paralysis.

Lucid dreams

the same as usual

Nightmares

more than usual

Recurring dreams

much more than usual

Recurring nightmares

more than usual

Sleep paralysis

less than usual

Sleeping

the same as usual

Waking life

more than usual
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How do childhood homes in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with childhood homes are aren't really related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of childhood homes are less related to hearing, less related to smelling, and less related to vision.

Hearing

less than usual

Smelling

less than usual

Taste

the same as usual

Vision

less than usual

Touch

less than usual
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How can you make sense of childhood homes in dreams?

Childhood home dreams are uncommon. Among other things childhood home dreams are normally interconnect, nightmare, and family oriented.

Do you think this is true for your dream of childhood homes? How might your dream of childhood homes be different?

All dreams have meaning

You can gain insight from thinking about any dream, no matter how strange. Only you, as the dreamer, have final say on what your dream may or may not mean. Each dream is unique.

Look for the differences

The DreamWell dictionary provides information on how each dream symbol appears in dreams in general. Finding how experience childhood homes in dreams can be a key to understanding its meaning.

Return to the feelings

Our emotions in dreams can help us understand its meaning. Pay attention to how you felt in the dream. Pay attention to how you feel about childhood homes in dreams. See how you feel about childhood homes now, in your waking life.

What are possible meanings for dreams of childhood homes?

Dreaming about your childhood home can be a reminder of where something in your life began. Where a pattern started. The roots of everything you are now in mind, body and spirit. Thoughts, feelings, perceptions, beliefs, values, principles, morals, personality, character, strengths, weaknesses, and so on.

This is a very important point for understanding dreams. They speak not only to the present, but also to how the present connects with the past. As you dream, new information and experiences are integrated with the existing structure of your psyche, so of course both new information and the old information will be represented.

There’s a reason your mind goes back in time. It wants you to understand what underlies your life now, the foundation upon which you are built. Rarely is a dream about your childhood home just reminiscing, though one can be triggered by a recent reminder, such as when you see a home that’s similar in appearance to your childhood home.

Situations related to personal and financial security can spark dreams about your childhood home, such as when your living situation is insecure, or you need support and think of your family because they’re a source of support. Or just the opposite: maybe they’ve never been much help to you, and your childhood home sums up all your thoughts and feelings about it in one image.

A root cause of dreams about your childhood home is unhappiness with your life. Your mind goes back to a time when you were happy as a way of showing you what made you happy back then: a sense of belonging; loving and caring people in your life; freedom to explore; stability, simplicity, close interaction. Dreams want you to understand why you are suffering and where the problems started. For a terrific example, see: Family Home.

A childhood home can be symbolized indirectly in a way that characterizes what yours was like. For example, an orphanage, haunted house, playground, asylum, neighborhood, school, circus, or zoo.

A childhood home is specific symbolism, but you can still get ideas about it from the entries below. After all, if you start simple, a childhood home is a home, so that’s a good place to start understanding the symbolism.

See also: Adoptions, Basements, Children, Family, Family homes, Home, Neighbors, Old friends, Orphans, Psyches

This interpretation is from ""The Dream Interpretation Dictionary: Symbols, Signs, and Meanings" and is provided by J.M. DeBord aka "RadOwl". He is the author of several acclaimed books about dreaming, the host of The Dreams That Shape Us podcast, and is a moderator of r/Dreams, one of the largest dream sharing communities on the internet.

Examples of dreams of childhood homes

Read some real dream reports of childhood home dreams.. These real life dream reports come from the moderated dream sharing communities of Reddit including r/Dreams, r/Nightmares, r/DreamInterpretation, or r/thisdreamihad. Please note that some of these may contain graphic, sexual, or violent images and text. Use the source link for each dream to view and join the discussion of each one.

Time Traveled 12 years back in time.

I woke up in my parents bedroom in my childhood home in Sweden, I sit up and see that my whole family is sleeping in the same bed. My parents and my two little sisters.
I feel like I've experienced this before. I'm sitting on the edge of the bed and turns around and whispered to my mom "what date is it?" My mother answers with a sleepy voice "May 10th.." I ask her right back "what year is it?" She gets annoyed and says 2007.
I have no idea what's happening. I just remembered falling asleep in my bed in Los Angeles May 26 2019.
I'm just accepting the fact that my life has started over from this point.

I'm standing up and tell my mother that I'm going to bed in my own room.
I'm open the door that leads into the kitchen.
It's dark outside and most of the lights in the house is turned off. There is just some light that makes it possible to see where I'm going.
As soon as I'm stepping out into the kitchen I hear the sound of paws on the living room floor.
I feel how my eyes is watering when I understand that our old German shepherd was alive at this time. I'm falling down to my knees and started to cry out of happiness when I see the dog. I start to pet him and tell him that I've missed him.

One of my sisters and my mother comes up to me and quietly and annoyed asks me what's wrong with me.
I look at them both with tears in my eyes and with both of my hands holding the dog. I'm trying to come up with a way of explaining to them that my life has jumped back 12 years in time.

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I dream very often and remember most of them in detail but this one stood out so much from the rest that I decided to make it my first dream post on Reddit.

I woke up in my parents bedroom in my childhood home in Sweden, I sit up and see that my whole family is sleeping in the same bed. My parents and my two little...

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Life is falling apart and I think my subconscious mind is trying to to directly communicate with my conscious self.

A LONG read....
A little background to hopefully give perspective...
Me, (38M) married, no children despite wanting to have some. Wife (35F) is incapable, something unknown at time of marriage. SIL (26F) moved in 3 months ago with her daughter, which I have been stand in father for. These last three months have been the happiest of my life, as I finally get to be a father in some sense, and I'm really good at it.
For reasons beyond my control, I've developed romantic feelings for SIL and on Saturday night at a group outing, we had too much to drink and told her. 🤦‍♂️ She told me that she doesn't feel the same way, but is attracted to me physically, but we agreed that nothing is going to come of it, and to bury it. Yesterday was the most anxious and guilt ridden day of my life, I couldn't keep anything down all day and after many awkward exchanges with SIL, I went to sleep.

THE DREAM....

I was in a house, I didn't recognize it, but when I turned on the lights, they would flicker and go in and out. My dad who is a master electrician appeared and told me that we needed to get into the attic and have a look, so we did. When I was I'm the attic, dad began to point out that all the wiring was cut and damaged.
When I said that I could start trying to splice them back together my Grandfather, who passed away in 2004 appeared at the bottom of the attic stairs and told me that it wouldn't work, and that I had to rewire my house. My Dad agreed and I sat there looking around, then a door appeared that exited up through the roof. It had no handle, only a deadbolt style lock. When I asked where it went, my grandfather said it was the reset door and that only I could open it.
My Dad warned me that of I did, everything below would pass through it, but not everything would come out on the other side.
A small stairway appeared leading to the door and when to it, when I touched the door, I heard it unlock and I passed through it.
Everything went bright white and I was in a park that is near my childhood home. I was sitting on a bench and there were people enjoying the day. A man I didn't recognize walked up and sat next to me on the bench. He asked me to look over towards the playground and I saw a seemingly more mature, yet far healthier and younger looking version of myself playing with three children. Two boys and a little girl. All <10 years old. I asked the man on the bench who it was and he said it was me, but happy. I asked him how long it was going to be for me to become him and the man told me that I'll never be him. That my chance for that life has passed and that where I am is where I will always be. I woke up and now I can't get the sound of the man's voice or his words out of my head.

I'm suffering a lot with all of this, and I have nobody that I can confide in with this in RL that won't pass judgement.

A LONG read....
A little background to hopefully give perspective...
Me, (38M) married, no children despite wanting to have some. Wife (35F) is incapable,...

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My sister and I had the same dream, saw different parts, and woke up at the same time. We live in different states...?! What does this mean?

Both my sister and I moved from our home state. We both live in the South now, but in different states.

Our dream took place at our childhood home, a big horse farm. We were all outside finishing up feeding the horses. My sister asked if she could close up the barn, and I said yes. I just needed to put a horse in a pasture.

I noticed that a bunch of Amish-looking people parachuted into the pastures I was walking toward. They seemed to be landing and walking away from the farm, so I didn’t think anything of it.

The mare, J, was roaming freely. I was going to put her in a pasture with another horse, F. J and I would meet up on different sides of the gate. I had to walk through one pasture to get to the pasture J would go into. As I approached, I saw a bear fighting with the F. I called F and she came. I got the gate closed in time, but when I turned around, somebody knocked me out.

My sister remembers walking into the house and downstairs to her bedroom. She heard a lot of noise and my dad yelling at someone and the phrase, “Put the gun down.” My sister was scared so she waited downstairs until everything quieted down.

When she went upstairs, my parents told my sister that I was gone and they were filing a missing persons report.

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How do two people have the same dream, and actively participate in different scenes? We woke up at the same time. She texted me right after I woke up. It was really unnerving.

Both my sister and I moved from our home state. We both live in the South now, but in different states.

Our dream took place at our childhood home, a big...

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Dream Interpretation: Accidentally murdering two orphans in my sleep during a disability flare up.

I have an undiagnosed disability that causes outbursts. Now I can control them to some extent, but I've hurt people, even those I've loved dearly during them.

I was lost in somewhere based on my childhood home (where I was living with my abusive dad, was bullied and excluded from neighbors' kids and discriminated for because it's in a rich neighborhood). I exclusively searched for a small shop that sells bags (it was named something really generic but I don't remember the name). A teenage orphan was operating it, but I'll learn later that he has no parents.

Timeskip. The guy is now walking me condescendingly and trying to search my parents with me. I feel so ashamed and infatuated and my disability flares up, like it does IRL with bulit up stress. (Think Mob Psycho 100)

Timeskip again. I hurt the guy and another minor. My mom assisted them to the hospital but they died there since they don't have parents (most likely because medical treatment requires parental consent). My mom is very pissed. I yell at her "You only care about to those poor kids!" and plan to suicide out of guilt, despite being very afraid. I think that my victims did not want to die either and were also afraid o convince myself to suicide.

I wake up before suiciding. The dream feels very real so I ask my mom if I ever killed someone in the morning.

I have an undiagnosed disability that causes outbursts. Now I can control them to some extent, but I've hurt people, even those I've loved dearly during...

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I have a short, but challenging dream that I'm dying to get feedback on.

Jumping right into the dream, I find myself outside near my childhood house(located in northern Pennsylvania, very woodsy and vegetative as in real life), walking along a familiar narrow path, but this path is now heavily flooded on both sides, and teeming with shallow aquatic vegetation. I encounter a snake of which I have no previous regarded interest or experience encountering before - a vietnamese Rhinocerous Ratsnake. It's almost anatomically perfect (having researched the species shortly after waking) except for it being the size of a python. It lies there in the flooded vegetation having eaten it's own tail, and presumably has been dead for some time. I feel relatively uneasy and quickly move along from fear of it coming alive or encountering more. I then come across two more that are well camoflaged, but nonthreatening, for it was me that was imposing into their territory. They seemed aware of my presence and wary, but it was just two oversized Ratsnakes accompanying each other, lying still along the flood-bank with noses touching. This was my last instance before waking up. I've tried to interpret this for some time today, but it's difficult. Any further interpretation is welcome.

Jumping right into the dream, I find myself outside near my childhood house(located in northern Pennsylvania, very woodsy and vegetative as in real life),...

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