Home dreams are more related to peers, much more related to family, and more related to romantic partners than dreams in general. They are less related to fantastic beings.

Dreams of home

Dreams of home are more related to work, more related to human-made places, and more related to transportation than dreams in general. They are less related to natural places and less related to magical places.

Dreams of home

Dreams of home are more related to recurring dreams and more related to bad dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams and less related to good dreams.

Home dreams are less related to taste.

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.

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

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 home in dreams. See how you feel about home now, in your waking life.

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. Home is one of the most common dream settings, which makes sense considering how much time the average person spends at home and the ways it closely ties together with the life you build for yourself, both physically and psychologically. Home is where the heart is. Home is where you invest your emotional resources. Home is where you are comfortable, loved, accepted, nourished, connected. Home is wherever you want to be, which is not necessarily the physical place where you reside. It’s a metaphor, and dreams love to use metaphors. Home is the life you build for yourself, represented as a building. You “construct” your life, and your life has areas and divisions like rooms, floors, and walls. See: Buildings Of course, when a dream wants to address something that is happening at home—your literal home, not a figurative one—it can use the place where you live as the setting. However, when a dream presents a place as home but it’s not the place where you live or have ever lived, you know it has to be symbolism. The details about the home and the story involving it reveal the meaning. Dreaming about living in warm, cozy home can mean you’re in a good place in your life. Living in a cold, drafty home can symbolize being in a bad place in your life. Inviting someone into your home can symbolize a new friendship. On the other hand, keeping someone out of your home can symbolize trying to keep someone out of your life. See: Doors References to returning home can symbolize the desire to be in a good place in your life. This theme pops up most frequently in the dreams of people who are unhappy, unstable, or disconnected from their roots, or who are starting a family and wish to create for their children the same sort of happy home they grew up in—or avoid recreating their unhappy childhood home. Returning to your childhood home can symbolize revisiting the past in search of the roots of something affecting you in the present. The childhood home is where patterns form, ideas take root, and the foundation of your character and personality are molded. See: Childhood homes The idea of returning to a place in life that’s been left behind carries over to dreams about homes or places where you used to live as an adult. For example, if you were depressed while living in a certain place and sense depression coming back again, you can dream about it as revisiting that place where you used to live. The same idea applies to returning to places you lived where you felt happy, loved, comfortable, and so on. When you dream about places where you used to live, think of the overarching themes and big picture of that time of life and what that place means to you. For example, a man has recurring dreams featuring the first place where he lived after leaving college, a setting his dreams use whenever they want to refer to the decisions he made that form the basis of his career. Home is where your mind is. In that sense, home is your head. “You” see out of your eyes, and your eyes are in your head. When people are asked where their consciousness or soul resides in their body, the most common answer is that it’s right behind the eyes or forehead. See: Attics A home can symbolize the mind’s structures and layers. The roof or attic represents the highest layer of the mind, the thought centers. The ground level represents feelings, and lower levels represent emotions, instincts, and stored memories. Farther down are the base layers, such as your hereditary roots and the collective unconscious. Carl Jung said that a home can represent “the Self,” the complete picture of the person you are, even the parts that are unrealized or unconscious. See: Attics, Basements, Collective unconscious This stretching of the definition leads to interesting symbolism. For example, feeling harmonized with yourself and calm can be depicted as living in a peaceful garden or on a beautiful stretch of beach. Turmoil can be depicted in a dream as a house battered by a storm. A mind “in the gutter” can be depicted as a sewer or garbage dump. Living in the clouds can symbolize detachment from reality. A home can symbolize your body. Areas and features of a home can symbolize areas of the body, such as plumbing to represent the bowels, windows to represent the eyes, and electrical circuits to represent the nervous system. See: Body parts A home collapsing or falling apart can symbolize illness—your house, your body, is in disrepair, or your life is in disarray. See: Illness A home-improvement-store setting in a dream can be used to tell a story about making improvements to your body through exercise, diet, and beautification. For example, a man dreams about battling another man, someone overweight, up and down the aisles of a home-improvement store. The dreamer shoots a mixer tong at the man and knocks him down, then comes over to finish him off with a grilling fork. The man asks for a last request, to be fed meatballs from a can lying nearby. The dreamer agrees. The dream is about the dreamer’s struggle to lose weight. He’s dieting and thoughts about food are taking over his mind. The man he battles is the part of himself that wants to eat freely, and the home-improvement store setting is perfect for telling a story about improving his body. Finding new or secret rooms in your home is an analogy for discovering new aspects of yourself, or opening up new areas of your life. You are changing. Changes in you or your life can be symbolized by remodeling a home, constructing new rooms, or buying a new home. For example, a person makes big changes by quitting an addiction and joining a spiritual community. He dreams about adding a new room onto his home, representing this new phase of life. Then temptation to return to a former lifestyle creeps in, and he dreams about a storm buffeting the home. See: Discovering Dreams about something invading a home can symbolize difficulties, problems, or other sorts of disruptions to your peace of mind or your routine. It can symbolize invasion of privacy. See: Back doors Locking doors and windows can mean you want to keep someone or something out of your life. See: Doors Rats or roaches in a home can symbolize a decrepit emotional life, or living in squalor. See: Rats, Roaches Snakes or spiders getting into a home can symbolize bad influence or someone bringing personal problems into your space. For example, your troubled child gets involved with the wrong crowd and you suspect he or she is hiding drugs in his or her room. See: Snakes, Spiders Robbers breaking into your home can symbolize loss of privacy, or insecurity—especially material insecurity—or the feeling that you’re being robbed of something immaterial, such as robbed of opportunity or energy. See: Burglary, Thieves Intruders in your home can symbolize loss of privacy, or anything else that feels intrusive. An intruder can represent an illness or virus that invades the body. See: Intruders A dream about a home destroyed or in ruins can symbolize a breakup, divorce, or other situation that breaks up a family or disrupts a living situation. See: Family A vacant house can symbolize missing the comforts of home. It can symbolize a time of life you miss, especially the people who were part of it, and related feelings. It can symbolize something you vacated or gave up, such as a long-term project or a plan for your life. A house isn’t built overnight, and neither is whatever is symbolized by a vacant house. An empty house or building can symbolize feeling lonely and empty. See: Emptiness See also: Attics, Yards, Barns, Basements, Body parts, Buildings, Burglary, Castles, Childhood homes, Chimneys, Collective unconscious, Colors, Constructing, Destruction, Dinner, Discovering, Doors, Egos, Elderly people, Emptiness, Fences, Fires, Garages, Ghosts, Illness, Intruders, Kitchens, Neighbors, Psyches, Rats, Roaches, Snakes, Spiders, Thieves, Trees, Trespassing, Wallets