Dream meanings: the hidden room

Years ago, I had a small corner in a magazine in which I used to analyse people's dreams. I'd forgotten all about it until I read Jacula's comment on my dream of hidden rooms. Turns out she has similar dreams. I started mulling it over properly and remembered that dreams are not straightforward but end to cloak their meanings in symbols. If the 'house' represents ourselves, what the dream could be trying to tell us is that there are neglected parts of our psyche that we are not exploring. Perhaps we have hidden talents, or secret wishes.

There is a wonderful clairvoyant medium in Fulham, London, called Peter McDonnell (I think that's how his surname is spelt). When I consulted him around ten years ago, he told me, "I have your mother here. She has a guitar in one hand and a paintbrush in the other and she says you're not doing enough of either of these two things." Once, I loved both painting and creating music and over the last ten years, I have not heeded Peter's/Mum's words at all. Oh yes, I have loads of excuses: I'm living in someone else's house and haven't the space or peace of mind; I have had too much work to do; I've been too depressed to feel creative. All true. But perhaps the dream shows that if I were to open up and dust away the cobwebs inside these creative rooms inside my brain, and start to live in them again, I'd feel so much better.