Friends In Dreams

Monday, June 28th, 2010 at 8:39 am

A friend of my daughter named Suzy asked me to interpret a dream that she had had that greatly disturbed her. Due to the content of the dream, she believed the dream might be intended for her. But after receiving the interpretation of the dream, Suzy was not surprised but pleased to know that the dream was not for her but intended for a close friend she had known for most of her life.

The dream occurs at night with Suzy outside her friend’s house standing on the lawn staring at the front door. After a moment, she slowly climbs up the steps, walks onto the wooden porch and enters the house. Entering the dimly lit house, Suzy’s friend meets her and both walk down a hallway into her friend’s bathroom. Inside the bathroom, Suzy asks her friend how her mother was doing; to which her friend replied that her mother was dead, and that she had committed suicide in the bathroom.

Taken aback by what she had just heard, Suzy looked around the bathroom for signs of a suicide. But after glancing over each wall and seeing the bathroom spotless and clean, there were neither signs of blood anywhere, nor any evidence of suicide. Seeing Suzy looking around the bathroom, the friend said, “I cleaned the bathroom after my mother’s death.”

At this point in the dream, the bathroom suddenly changed from the bathroom in her friend’s house to Suzy’s own bathroom. Yet, even through this unexpected transition, Suzy said, she had the feeling that she and her friend were still standing in her friend’s bathroom. The only difference between the two bathrooms was that the bathroom where they now stood was painted a bright white and the bathroom door was opened against the wall, hiding the inside surface of the bathroom door.

Looking around the bathroom, Suzy watched her friend walk over and close the bathroom door revealing blood stains that covered the entire interior surface of the bathroom door. Unaffected by the blood-covered door, Suzy’s friend picks up a clean white towel walks back over and joins Suzy in the middle of the bathroom. Surprised at the sight of the blood stained surface of the door, Suzy stands there, not knowing what to do.

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 unexpectedly 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 a 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 and creativity. Bathroom also represents surrender, lust, sexual desires, guilt, secrets, deception and betrayal. In Suzy’s dream, the bathroom is a refuge, 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 real life, 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 her mother was alive.

The Freshly Painted White Bathroom Wall/Blood/Clean/White Towel and Blood Smear In Suzy’s dream represents the covering up of her friend’s secret, hidden lifestyle and regaining the memory of how her life once was. The blood-covered bathroom door represents the guilt she feels for the lifestyle she is now leading; and her effort to clean the blood off the inside of the bathroom door with the thick white towel, only able to smear 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 feelings and 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.

Outcome Of The Dream:

Unlike many of the other dreams of this nature I have heard, this dream had a happy ending. After Suzy had the dream, she went to her friend’s home and told her of the dream. Her friend burst into tears, and confessed the affair she was having with a married man and her futile efforts to try to end it. Through Suzy’s counseling and standing by her friend, the affair soon ended and her friend is once again living a normal, healthy life.

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