Anyone wanna take a shot at my dream?

I don't know what this dream I had last night might mean. Any ideas?

We were moving into a house. It was an old house, not in very good repair, but it had a lot of character. It was four stories high, and had lot of stairs. At least two indoor staircases, and a lot of the rooms had balconies with stairs up to them from the outside too. The living room (on the second floor) had a balcony on either side of the room, with stairs and ramps up to them. There was a room on the fourth floor that was impossible. It had sections of the floor cut out and there was a tree growing up through the floor from the ground, but the room was above the other three stories of the house, and the tree didn't go through the rest of the house. Usually when I notice that something in a dream is impossible, it changes, but this time it didn't. That room was my favorite. You would think that with the open floor it would be cold and drafty, but it wasn't. The house had a lot more rooms that I didn't see - I wanted to sleep some more so that I could explore more of that house. Mark and I were each setting up our computers in the living room (although I was thinking about moving mine up to the room with the tree). The other thing throughout the dream was that I couldn't fine my digital camera and I kept wanting it. I was sure that I just had it but it just was nowhere to be found, and I didn't know if I had misplaced it or someone had run off with it. Mark had his own digital camera and was taking pictures a lot. When I got up I was surprised that my digital camera was not lost, but was right where I left it.

The things that stood out to me as I woke up were all the staircases and not being able to find my camera.

Oh, I found a jumprope! (not related to the dream, but I've been looking for a jumprope to help release some of the extra energy from all the chocolate the last couple of days.)

My thoughts- The special room with the tree was the deepest part of yourself. It is warm and open once you get there, but to get there it takes a lot of work and effort climbing so many stairs. The many rooms are the various aspects of yourself, you want to capture all of them with the camera, but because it is lost, the parts of yourself are illusive, and you cannot see them all or preserve them all as a whole. I think your dream demonstrates a respect for your inner self, and a desire for wholeness.

-Ariel

Whatever you can do,
Or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic, in it.
-Goethe

Like I've said before; buildings, houses, vehicles are supposed to represent our life. In my recurring nightmare there are always staircases but most of the time, they are dead ends... and worse yet, I can't find the door to get out. I agree that the stairs in your dream is the effort that you have to put into getting from one place in the house to the next. The room with the tree in it, although the floor was tore up, seemed beautiful to me. The tree, I think, symbolizes Life, hope, fulfillment of dreams.

Your effort to capture the rooms in pictures and not being able to, maybe means that everything is still in motion, changing. It needed repair so it couldn't be captured as it was.

In my nightmare I'm also looking for something besides the door. The lost article or person changes with the theme of the dream, but I'm also looking for something else while I'm looking for the door so I can get out. Maybe it's the answers to the questions yet unanswered.