[JustAnotherNutter]

So I've had this recurring dream where I find a hidden door in my house. I've lived in the house for 10 years and there are definitely no hidden doors. I often think while having the dream "oh it's this dream again". Anyway in the dream I find this hidden door and open it only to find my house has an entire other floor or wing I've never seen before, except in the prior dreams of course. Many of the rooms are filled with interesting and enjoyable things, and sometimes I can vividly interact with objects in those rooms, but as I proceed I find a sense of danger and foreboding. In particular there is one door I will stop at and not have the nerve to open because it feels so terrible. Sometimes I will open the door and then everything goes blank. The last time I had this dream I was dreaming lucidly and stopped to think about it. When I did I heard stomping and snorting on the other side of the door. I immediately starting locking all the locks on the door, deadbolts, police locks, anything it had. Then I woke up to hallucinate a creature standing over me sniffing at me. I'm used to sleep paralysis hallucinations but it was very unnerving to see it slink back to the dark corner of the room and disappear.

I hate to interpret my own dreams, but it clearly tells me most of all that there are various mood states I move through (the rooms) but more concerning that there is a malevolent spirit visiting me and I have no idea what to do about it.

[shabur]

I think you are correct about your dream representing different moods. I wonder if the one room you fear is something you either have repressed or don't want to think about.

I have had similar dreams. They are usually lucid, but at times I can't convince myself in the dream that it is just a dream. I've also had sleep paralysis hallucinations.

In one dream I hear someone at my bedroom door, but I can't move. I can't even turn my head to look. Each night the dream progresses until one night I feel a hand pressing down on the center of my back to the point I'm in a lot of pain. After I wake up I feel as if I was hit by a car. A memory I had repressed about being raped in college came rushing back. After going though all the emotions and sharing it with my tdoc, I thought the dream's purpose was to bring this memory back because it was time to work on it and the only way I would was if my subconscious brought it back.

Just a thought.

[yumi]

I recently had a dream of a door this past week. I'm at a motel with no adjoining doors between the rooms. Anyway, my dream was so vivid with this new door. A man handed me a cap and dark glasses thru the door. He was silent. There was also a very thin elderly lady standing next to the main door inside my room. It was so realistic, I had to get up and make sure the second door was secured and locked...only in reality there was no 2nd door. Very weird.

[Thunder Bow]

The hidden door is the door into your inner self. Thus that creature-wolf was you yourself. Other things in the room are other aspects of yourself. Looking into one self can be scary! You cant shut them out!

[niceguy]

I agree with thunder... It is a secret part of yourself. You are not confronting. You are scared of what is behind it. The laughter and that is probably your fear of what will happen if you go through it.
As for recurring dreams in general... Until you face it in waking life- you will keep having it- as your subconscious is trying to tell you to face it.

All the best

[Cannablissfully]

I have had those OH so many times,hidden door,hidden room,hidden stair case..
I think it either means you're feeling trapped and want a new way out
or that you want something to change you want to find a new escape
to go too. well that's what they meant to me at least I had them when I was living
with my parents I always felt trapped being around them they never gave me any space
to just be me.

[Faking sane]

I have had the same recurring dream! So much the same that I had to look at the date to make sure I hadn't written the post years ago under some long-forgotten screen name. Until I got to the door. Mine is not a door. It's a box and we call it the monster box. And it's in the farthest away, dustiest part of the new section. I was told (in a new-agey self help online group) that those extra wings are unexplored parts of the self (inner child), and those monsters are whatever caused that child to be wounded and forgotten.

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[happiedasiy]

Originally Posted by Faking sane

I have had the same recurring dream! So much the same that I had to look at the date to make sure I hadn't written the post years ago under some long-forgotten screen name. Until I got to the door. Mine is not a door. It's a box and we call it the monster box. And it's in the farthest away, dustiest part of the new section. I was told (in a new-agey self help online group) that those extra wings are unexplored parts of the self (inner child), and those monsters are whatever caused that child to be wounded and forgotten.

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Dear Faking sane,
How long ago was the first dream of this monster box?
You said it was years ago and had forgotten about the original dream.
I think the final message was correct " we call it the monster box " and childhood fear correlates with a trauma being furthest away the dustiest part of this new area (your inner child).
Now this dream is recurring again but now you are a person of adult age and can face what's inside that box. It is fear that keeps recurring but you are safe now and have more self power this is why your subconsciousness is allowing it through.
Know that only you can bring that inner child to safety/peace. There is no monster inside that box, just a frightened little child.
H.

[Faking sane]

I first started having the dreams after my 2001 TBI that was said to break open my chronic stress PTSD. I do feel like I'm in a much better place to deal with things now. Our "baby" is 17. I've given up on trying to work because every time I break down it's another bridge burned and I'm not getting any younger. I started therapy so I can have real stability in my life for the first time. I feel sorry for my husband who has to hold things together when I'm falling apart. I am SO ready to find my own strength!

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