Tony Crisp Interpretation:
a house In general, this may relate to making a decision to change, or wanting a change in your life or circumstances. Purchasing something in a dream also often involves the process of deciding or being uncertain. The decision-making is to do with clarifying what you want, what you would like. See purchasing. roof The philosophy, beliefs, or coping strategies we use to protect ourselves from stress. Standing on a roof: heightened awareness. Mending a roof: developing new coping strategies; feeling vulnerable. Leaking roof: need for new coping strategies. No roof: if not a threatening dream, suggests no barrier between personality and psychic or transcendent awareness; a sense of connection with life or wider awareness. If threatening, feeling invaded by forces outside oneself. Roof garden: mental growth or flowering of new ideas, insights, or abilities. room A particular feeling state—for instance, the room might feel sinister, warm, spacious, cold, etc.—so depicts such; womb. Sometimes a room, because of its spaciousness, represents the amount of potential or opportunity one has. The “containing” quality of a room may also depict involvement in one’s mother or a particular situation. The finding of extra rooms: a common dream theme—recognition or discovery of previously unnoticed aspects, abilities, fears, or traits in oneself. If the discovery is distressing, this may reflect a feeling of a change in one’s status quo that is disturbing. Room without doors or windows: may represent the womb and life in the womb. What is happening in the room may show the state of a pregnancy, or feelings about pregnancy; feeling trapped. Example: “There was a room in my house I had never been in before. It was filled with water and had three kittens submerged in it. While in the room I didn’t need to breathe.” (Zoe W.) The room here represents Zoe’s childbearing function—her womb. The room can therefore depict mother or qualities of mothering. See description of various rooms under house. ruins An old and now useless way of life you led in the past; a particular personality structure that has now broken down; feelings you have about some aspect of your life. The ruins in many dreams are shown as a castle, and this suggests the defenses you used at one time to survive, but are now not necessary.
This often indicates some level of choices being made, decisions faced; there may also be elements of how much or little you are being influenced by internal desires or external sales pressure; one dreamer says when she feels good at work she immediately goes out to buy a new dress. This suggests confidence and social power are involved in purchases. But sometimes we make purchases when things go wrong, as a means of counteracting the down feelings. In some dreams the question of your financial status arises, so purchasing may be dealing with how you are feeling about your money situation. See purchasing a house under house, buildings; sell, selling; shop, shopping.