9 Grimmauld Place

[changeling67]

I was talking to a friend about the nature of dreams and the unconscious.  We touched on Jung and the 'House Symbolisation.'  I rely on dreams as a source of creative influence as they are often random,varied and absolutely bizarre.  Whenever I am in an unsettled dream state, I repeatedly return to a house that I rented for nine years of my young adult. It has a unsettling story to tell; a past history of failed businesses, divorces, malefic squatters, domestic abuse and suicide. I too, was on the receiving end of unfortunate experiences and I wonder if there was some kind of stagnant energy or haunting of some sort that overshadowed it.  It certainly wasn't on the 'Shady Side of the Street' - it was a plain 2 up/2 down, at the top of a hill that overlooked a seaside resort.

Anyway, said friend recommended that I retrace my steps back to the unconscious.  Why did I return there and not my childhood homes/other rented properties or indeed the home I have lived in for the past twenty three years? I thought about what he had said and managed to locate a pattern within these dreams, where tokens, songs and poetry played a part. I hadn't realised that I had other repetative dream cycles - just that my psyche was most upset on the place that it had settled.  I jokingly refer to it as '9 Grimmauld Place' as a nod to the sinister building pre HP5 OOTP (although the OOTP place was number 12).

What he said made me think - "You return there because this is a place that a lot of damage was done." I was jolted; for some reason I hadn't seen it as that - but he was right.  You know when that is the case, because is strikes at the core and resonates like a temple bell.  Sometimes it takes another person to point out the obvious.  In seeing this, I think I am part way understanding myself a bit more.

I owe that guy breakfast (or at  the very least a steaming pot of tea).

Comments

[calico-pye.livejournal.com]

I am no dream guru and I know that dreams are wholly personal to the dreamer - however, it does strike me that you maybe looking for natural products that are for your own healing - a dreamstate 'top up' spa if you like. When I have dreams like that, I wonder why it is in a specific place - has Colchester have significant resonace for you?

[bethnoir.livejournal.com]

Well I was at university there for 3 years and had a lot of interesting experiences there, so yes, but not the town so much as the univeristy campus which I never dream about! I love the weirdness of dreams.

[calico-pye.livejournal.com]

I do, too. I used to keep a dream diary a few years ago, but gave up. This year, I have been cataloging them and I find the random stuff that comes up is fascinating!

[bethnoir.livejournal.com]

I try to note down particularly significant dreams too, I love reading them back after I've forgotten them, they read like someone else's life :-)