Happiedasiy, thank you for sharing your dream(s). What wealth!

I guess I want to know about the when you have one, when the other, or if you have them both the same night, etc. It does sound related to your poignant actual life and the houses you had as a child and the one at the stop sign you have now. I like that the same man ties the two together.

When I look at my dreams, I believe I am all the characters in my dreams as they are my dreams my unconscious is making up so. . . :-) I have never had a truly recurring dream, only a dream "theme" (an apartment I use to live in; often I was cleaning the apartment (I was cited and almost thrown out of the apartment twice by health inspectors) and/or there were roaches everywhere which would seriously depress and defeat me; it was hard to dream I had cleaned everything up and feel that relief and joy only to wake and have it not be true; however, the dreams took place years after I had moved from the apartment and I did not have quite a "mess" problem (and no roaches :-) after I moved).

Anyway, I would concentrate on the man in your dream since he is the person who ties the two "halves"/dreams together. It looks, quickly, like you have the present and the past and then someone/a personal essence tying them together. Is there any sense of competition between the two halves? Do you prefer one dream over the other or get physically tired of battling, or wish to leave with/without the man in the first dream? What wakes you from each dream and what's the emotion right at that moment?

However, it also looks like you have glitter/gold and gems in common in the two dreams? One is "hidden" and the other is fought for. You did sort of fight your past/growing up for your present because you saw hidden meaning (if you could get past the stop sign, you would be happy). It is interesting to me that you bought the house at the stop sign, not one beyond it?

When did the dreams start and/or have they gotten more frequent? When your daughter moved out? After your parent disowned you? If it were me, I would say of course I am not happy there, I have not figured out how to move beyond the stop sign.