I received a dream from a young professional woman named Suzy. When relating the dream to me, she thought the dream was about her and because of the content of the dream she was very alarmed. After hearing the revelation of the dream, she was pleasantly astonished to find out that the dream was not about her at all, but intended for a close friend she had known for many years.

The dream opens at night with Suzy on the outside of her friend’s house standing on the lawn looking at the front door. After a moment, she slowly walks up the steps, crosses the wooden porch and enters the house. Entering the darkly lit house, Suzy’s friend meets her and together they pass along down a hallway and 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 killed herself in that very same bathroom.

Surprised at the news, Suzy searched around the bathroom looking for any telltale signs of the mother’s suicide: the bathroom was clean with absolutely no trace of a suicide; there was no blood. Her friend watching her looks around the bathroom and tells Suzy that she had cleaned up the bathroom after her mother’s death.

As Suzy quietly listened to her friend explain what she had done, she noticed that the bathroom had somehow changed from her friend’s bathroom to her own bathroom. Though Suzy could see the bathroom changing before her very eyes, she had the feeling that she and her friend were still in her friend’s bathroom. But now, the bathroom had been painted a very bright white.

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 abruptly opened her eyes and woke up.

The Interpretation Of The Dream Using Each Key Word 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, members of the 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 even the death of someone dear to the dreamer or someone the dreamer know, 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, so it is evident that the house is old and therefore represents an old friend, habit, fleshly urges 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 represents hope, revelation and the answer to a problem, situation or a spiritual or emotional concern in your 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 be a messenger of hope and help.

Walk / Hallway To walk slowly or stagger down a narrow place, such as the hallway in Suzy’s dream represents fear, doubt, sorrow, remorse, insecurity, 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 Walls/ Blood/Clean/White Towel and Smeared Blood In Suzy’s dream represents the covering up of her friend’s secret, hidden lifestyle and regaining the memory of how her life used to be. The blood-stained bathroom door represents the guilt she feels for the lifestyle she is now leading; and her efforts to clean the blood off the inside of the bathroom door with the thick white towel, merely smearing 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. A suicide symbolism represents release from feeling guilty in the eyes of her mother.

Outcome Of The Dream:

Unlike many dreams of this type that I have heard over the years, Suzy’s dream had a great ending. Once Suzy had received the interpretation of the dream she went to her friend and told her of the dream. Her friend broke into tears, confessed the affair she was having with a married man and her futile efforts to try and end the affair. But through Suzy’s counseling and standing by her friend, the affair ended and her friend once again began living a normal life.

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