A young woman named Suzy asked me to interpret a disturbing dream she had experienced that had both scared her and confused her because of the content and details of the dream, she thought the dream may have been for her. After describing the dream to me and hearing the interpretation, Suzy was relieved to learn that the dream was not about her at all, but for a close friend she had known for years.
The dream opens at night and Suzy is outside her friend's house standing on the lawn looking at the front door. After a moment, she slowly climbs the steps, crosses the wooden porch and enters the house. Upon entering the dimly lit house, Suzy's friend meets her and they walk down a hallway into her friend's bathroom. When inside the bathroom, Suzy asks her friend how her mother was doing and her friend tells her that her mother was dead; she had committed suicide in the bathroom they were standing in.
Hearing this, Suzy looks around the bathroom for some sign of a suicide, but quickly noticed that the bathroom was very clean with no physical signs of blood, absolutely no trace that anyone had committed suicide. Her friend seeing what she was doing quickly spoke out and said that she had cleaned the bathroom up and removed all signs of her mother's death.
As Suzy quietly listened to her friend explain what she had done, she noticed that the bathroom had somehow changed from her friend's bathroom to her own bathroom. Though Suzy could see the bathroom changing before her very eyes, she had the feeling that she and her friend were still in her friend's bathroom. But now, the bathroom had been painted a very bright white.
Suzy's friend walked over, closed the bathroom door which now revealed a blood-stained door. Not responding to the blood covering the inside of the door, Suzy's friend picked up a white towel, walked over and joined her in the middle of the bathroom. Uneasy seeing the blood, Suzy stood in the center of the room and simply continued to stare at the bloody surface of the door.
After a few moments, Suzy's friend turns to her and says, "I have to clean this up." Then turning away from Suzy, she walked back over to the door and with the towel, began to try to wipe the blood off the door. But no matter how hard she tried, the blood remained and she was only able to smear the blood across the surface of the door. As Suzy watched her friend's futile efforts to clean the blood off the bathroom door, she abruptly opened her eyes and woke up.
Dream Interpretation Using The Key Words: Night/Darkness represents uncertainty, fear and the unknown for Suzy in regard for her friend. Outside the House represents freedom, escape and safety. Suzy standing on the lawn of the front yard represents her willingness to help her friend. Old House represents memories, family and old friendships. Old house also represents the mending of old problems and disputes. To see an Old house in a dream also represents sickness, failing health, and possibly the death of someone dear to the dreamer or someone the dreamer knows, especially if the old house is run-down or in need of repair.
Steps and Wooden Porch, In Suzy's dream, the house has steps and a wooden porch, making it evident that the house is old and therefore represents an old friend, habit, fleshly desires or temptation. The house also represented an old friend, who is in spiritual and emotional distress. On the outside of the house are several steps leading up to a wooden porch and the front door.
After standing outside the house for a few moments, Suzy climbs the steps, walks across the porch, opens the front door and enters her friend's home. The Steps Leading Up To the Porch represent insight, understanding, revelation, decision, and the answer to a situation or problem that seems to have no answer. Steps also represent change and a new beginning. In Suzy's dream, the steps represent a decision that will lead to a fresh start and a new beginning for her friend.
The Porch, especially an open, unenclosed front porch represents the revealing of hidden secrets that are suddenly put on display for all to see. Closed Front Door represents a problem or obstacle in the natural preventing the dreamer from achieving a goal or completing a project. It also represents a dead-end job, broken marriage, relationship or a serious illness. A closed door also represents secrets, lies, idolatry, fear, treasure, private matters and the unknown. In Suzy's dream, the closed door represents a secret lifestyle that is driving her friend to emotional and spiritual disaster.
Dimly lit light represents hope, revelation and the answer to a problem, situation or a spiritual or emotional concern in one's life. In some dreams, light, even the light of a candle also represents a messenger. In Suzy's dream, the dimly-lit home represented deep-rooted spiritual and emotional problems in her friend's life, and it was for this reason that she was brought there to encourage and act as a messenger of hope to be a helper.
Walk / Hallway To walk slowly or stagger down a narrow place, such as the hallway in Suzy's dream represents fear, doubt, remorse, disorder, the unknown and confusion. To walk in a humble or lowly way represents depression, persecution and bondage. To have difficulty walking in a dream represents trials and emotional or physical problems.
In Suzy's dream, even though they both walked down the hallway together, Suzy followed behind her friend as she slowly walked down the hallway and into the bathroom. In Suzy's dream, walking and hallway represent fear, doubt, remorse, insecurity, disorder, confusion, depression, persecution, the unknown and bondage because of something that had entered or re-entered her life.
The Bathroom represents escape, refuge, repentance, prayer, admission something and creativity. Bathroom also represents surrender, lust, sexual desires, guilt, secrets, deception and betrayal. In Suzy's dream, the bathroom a place of escape to think and ponder in her guilt because of her sexual desires and the secret sexual affair in which she is involved.
Death / Dead / Suicide represents failure, to give up, surrender or to escape. In some dreams, death represents a refuge. In Suzy's dream, the suicide of her friend's mother in the bathroom did not actually happen in the natural, but in the dream it represented her friend shedding the emotional and physical security she had known all of her life depicted in the portrayal of her mother's suicide; and as a consequence, she was able to surrender to her own fleshly desires. This was something she could not have done as long as she thought of her mother as being alive.
The White New Bathroom Walls/Blood/Clean/White Towel and Blood Smudges In Suzy's dream represents the covering up of her friend's secret, hidden lifestyle and regaining the memory of how her life had been. The blood-covered bathroom door represents her guilty feeling for the lifestyle she leads; and her effort to clean the blood off the inside of the bathroom door with the thick white towel, only further smearing the blood over the surface of the door represents her inability through her own strength and will power to change her lifestyle, end the affair, lessen her guilty conscience to get her life back to normal.
Suzy's friend's mother in the dream represented the guilt the friend felt that her mother knew about her daughter's secret. Suicide symbolism represented release from feeling guilty to the eyes of her mother.
The Outcome Of The Dream
Unlike many dreams of this type that I have heard over the years, Suzy's dream had a great ending. Once Suzy had received the interpretation of the dream she went to her friend and told her of the dream. Her friend broke into tears, confessed the affair she was having with a married man and her futile efforts to try and end the affair. But through Suzy's counseling and standing by her friend, the affair ended and her friend once again began living a normal life.
The dream opens at night and Suzy is outside her friend's house standing on the lawn looking at the front door. After a moment, she slowly climbs the steps, crosses the wooden porch and enters the house. Upon entering the dimly lit house, Suzy's friend meets her and they walk down a hallway into her friend's bathroom. When inside the bathroom, Suzy asks her friend how her mother was doing and her friend tells her that her mother was dead; she had committed suicide in the bathroom they were standing in.
Hearing this, Suzy looks around the bathroom for some sign of a suicide, but quickly noticed that the bathroom was very clean with no physical signs of blood, absolutely no trace that anyone had committed suicide. Her friend seeing what she was doing quickly spoke out and said that she had cleaned the bathroom up and removed all signs of her mother's death.
As Suzy quietly listened to her friend explain what she had done, she noticed that the bathroom had somehow changed from her friend's bathroom to her own bathroom. Though Suzy could see the bathroom changing before her very eyes, she had the feeling that she and her friend were still in her friend's bathroom. But now, the bathroom had been painted a very bright white.
Suzy's friend walked over, closed the bathroom door which now revealed a blood-stained door. Not responding to the blood covering the inside of the door, Suzy's friend picked up a white towel, walked over and joined her in the middle of the bathroom. Uneasy seeing the blood, Suzy stood in the center of the room and simply continued to stare at the bloody surface of the door.
After a few moments, Suzy's friend turns to her and says, "I have to clean this up." Then turning away from Suzy, she walked back over to the door and with the towel, began to try to wipe the blood off the door. But no matter how hard she tried, the blood remained and she was only able to smear the blood across the surface of the door. As Suzy watched her friend's futile efforts to clean the blood off the bathroom door, she abruptly opened her eyes and woke up.
Dream Interpretation Using The Key Words: Night/Darkness represents uncertainty, fear and the unknown for Suzy in regard for her friend. Outside the House represents freedom, escape and safety. Suzy standing on the lawn of the front yard represents her willingness to help her friend. Old House represents memories, family and old friendships. Old house also represents the mending of old problems and disputes. To see an Old house in a dream also represents sickness, failing health, and possibly the death of someone dear to the dreamer or someone the dreamer knows, especially if the old house is run-down or in need of repair.
Steps and Wooden Porch, In Suzy's dream, the house has steps and a wooden porch, making it evident that the house is old and therefore represents an old friend, habit, fleshly desires or temptation. The house also represented an old friend, who is in spiritual and emotional distress. On the outside of the house are several steps leading up to a wooden porch and the front door.
After standing outside the house for a few moments, Suzy climbs the steps, walks across the porch, opens the front door and enters her friend's home. The Steps Leading Up To the Porch represent insight, understanding, revelation, decision, and the answer to a situation or problem that seems to have no answer. Steps also represent change and a new beginning. In Suzy's dream, the steps represent a decision that will lead to a fresh start and a new beginning for her friend.
The Porch, especially an open, unenclosed front porch represents the revealing of hidden secrets that are suddenly put on display for all to see. Closed Front Door represents a problem or obstacle in the natural preventing the dreamer from achieving a goal or completing a project. It also represents a dead-end job, broken marriage, relationship or a serious illness. A closed door also represents secrets, lies, idolatry, fear, treasure, private matters and the unknown. In Suzy's dream, the closed door represents a secret lifestyle that is driving her friend to emotional and spiritual disaster.
Dimly lit light represents hope, revelation and the answer to a problem, situation or a spiritual or emotional concern in one's life. In some dreams, light, even the light of a candle also represents a messenger. In Suzy's dream, the dimly-lit home represented deep-rooted spiritual and emotional problems in her friend's life, and it was for this reason that she was brought there to encourage and act as a messenger of hope to be a helper.
Walk / Hallway To walk slowly or stagger down a narrow place, such as the hallway in Suzy's dream represents fear, doubt, remorse, disorder, the unknown and confusion. To walk in a humble or lowly way represents depression, persecution and bondage. To have difficulty walking in a dream represents trials and emotional or physical problems.
In Suzy's dream, even though they both walked down the hallway together, Suzy followed behind her friend as she slowly walked down the hallway and into the bathroom. In Suzy's dream, walking and hallway represent fear, doubt, remorse, insecurity, disorder, confusion, depression, persecution, the unknown and bondage because of something that had entered or re-entered her life.
The Bathroom represents escape, refuge, repentance, prayer, admission something and creativity. Bathroom also represents surrender, lust, sexual desires, guilt, secrets, deception and betrayal. In Suzy's dream, the bathroom a place of escape to think and ponder in her guilt because of her sexual desires and the secret sexual affair in which she is involved.
Death / Dead / Suicide represents failure, to give up, surrender or to escape. In some dreams, death represents a refuge. In Suzy's dream, the suicide of her friend's mother in the bathroom did not actually happen in the natural, but in the dream it represented her friend shedding the emotional and physical security she had known all of her life depicted in the portrayal of her mother's suicide; and as a consequence, she was able to surrender to her own fleshly desires. This was something she could not have done as long as she thought of her mother as being alive.
The White New Bathroom Walls/Blood/Clean/White Towel and Blood Smudges In Suzy's dream represents the covering up of her friend's secret, hidden lifestyle and regaining the memory of how her life had been. The blood-covered bathroom door represents her guilty feeling for the lifestyle she leads; and her effort to clean the blood off the inside of the bathroom door with the thick white towel, only further smearing the blood over the surface of the door represents her inability through her own strength and will power to change her lifestyle, end the affair, lessen her guilty conscience to get her life back to normal.
Suzy's friend's mother in the dream represented the guilt the friend felt that her mother knew about her daughter's secret. Suicide symbolism represented release from feeling guilty to the eyes of her mother.
The Outcome Of The Dream
Unlike many dreams of this type that I have heard over the years, Suzy's dream had a great ending. Once Suzy had received the interpretation of the dream she went to her friend and told her of the dream. Her friend broke into tears, confessed the affair she was having with a married man and her futile efforts to try and end the affair. But through Suzy's counseling and standing by her friend, the affair ended and her friend once again began living a normal life.
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