Recurring dream - being in a friend's childhood home?

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I know that someone is going to look into their dream codebook and tell you it’s about loss or loneliness or something like that. But you know that. So, as always, I’ll offer my therapisty Jungy approach. Try it if you like. Just sit quietly and ASK THE HOUSE to talk to you and then let it speak through your mouth, or in your mind. The house “is information”. Then ask the absent parents. They too have knowledge and may be willing, even glad, to share it. Ask the “you” in those rooms to talk to you and listen. Ask the friend whose parents aren’t there. Ask any dream element you want to. You can ask a window, you can ask dust, you can ask emptiness. And listen. It may seem goofy, but give it a shot and see if something arrives. The theory is, of course, that all these pieces are yours – you have the information already, but it’s being offered to you in visual code. Ask to be given it in verbal form. Usually works.

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